Jim Webb "US Veteran's for truth"
2007-01-24 11:20:33 · 12 answers · asked by Chi Guy 5 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
....the nation has been saddled with tax cuts that have turned a budget surplus into a big deficit, education reform that has been badly managed and underfinanced, far-right judges with scant qualifications, the dismantling of regulations in order to benefit corporations at the expense of workers, and a triumph of ideology over science in policy making on the environment and medical research. All along, Americans’ civil liberties and the constitutional balance have been trampled by a president determined to assert ever more power.
Now that the Democrats have taken Congress, Mr. Bush is acting as if he’d had the door to compromise open all along and the Democrats had refused to walk through it.
Oh, yeah…Jim Webb had something much more inspiring and honest to say that Bush did last night….
2007-01-24 11:45:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 2⤋
Jim Webb, you mean the robot guy that spoke after the President. I know he's a veteran, and I have blasphemed because I don't automatically kneel down in praise for him. Jim Webb was a Republican before he was Democrat, sounds oddly familiar doesn't it. His little soliloquy was the same old thing we have heard for six years, dissent without initiative. All he had in his half-truths was opposition, there was nothing substantive in anything he talked about. He sounded like your typical self help book, "this is why you're so screwed up" but nothing in there to fix it. How do you find that inspiring, is it merely because it came from the mouth of a Democrat. Is that it, all they say is right and good and all Republicans say must be bad? George Bush did a state of the union address in front of a severely hostile crowd and carried himself with dignity and respect, and you people can't even give him a bit of either. He is your President for god sake, you may not like him, that's OK, but at least show him the respect of his station.
2007-01-24 11:33:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
I like Jim Webb,he likes to write books about fathers sucking thier sons penises.
I am Jerry Studds,I infected White House underage Pages with Aids.
2007-01-24 11:53:30 · answer #3 · answered by rosierotnass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think so.
Another person brought up Veto power. In this country it takes 2/3rds of Congress to override a Presidential Veto. Bush can become truly frusterated if the parties reach across the aisle.
2007-01-24 11:54:40 · answer #4 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It was nice, but in the end it really means nothing. As long as Bush has that VETO power, there is little to nothing the democratic congress and house can do to make him see things their way.
The country will be run as he likes as long as he is in office, because in the end the only opinion that has any value these days is Bush's.
Sad but true, maybe next time we choose our leader a little more carefully!
2007-01-24 11:26:45 · answer #5 · answered by answerman 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
There is nothing inspiring about sedition to cause dissension during a time of Congressionally approved War!
It is called TREASON, and Webb's father is rolling and doing headflips in his grave!
The handling of the war effort is the Executive's job, not an opinionated Partisan Hack Congressmans!
2007-01-24 11:27:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 4⤋
Oh hell yes it was much more inspiring than GWB's speech. Bush talks like a scared robot.
2007-01-24 11:46:47 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
YES!!! Wasn't he wonderful!!! He was short and to the point. Almost like a knife in the gut.
2007-01-24 12:16:18 · answer #8 · answered by CyndiDrum 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Yes.
2007-01-24 11:24:40 · answer #9 · answered by Third Uncle 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
please tell me what inspired you in his speech? what did he propose that made you feel like he had an idea to fix anything?
2007-01-24 11:29:07 · answer #10 · answered by sociald 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋