August 06, 2005

Try and try again...

By JANE NORMAN DesMoinesRegister.com

August 3, 2005
Washington, D.C. - Personal accounts must be included in any Social Security changes developed in Congress, President Bush said Tuesday, and indicated he's looking at what could be a very long haul for the battle over the nation's retirement program.

"I know it took at least five years for an energy bill," Bush said while discussing Social Security during an interview at the White House with The Des Moines Register and seven other newspapers.

As for personal accounts, he said, "It needs to be part of the bill." The president said he stated his support for the voluntary personal accounts for younger workers during his campaigns in 2000 and 2004 and "I meant it."....

Yep. He means it. If he says it, it's true.

Think about it. All those liberal Democrats sitting around hugging themselves because they've defeated reform, and have managed to keep workers poor and weak and dependent on government and trapped in a rotten system. And next year, it's all to do over again! Ha ha ha.

It's just so cool having an honest straightforward guy as President. Remember Clinton? How he was supposed to be a "New Democrat?" Except for free trade, all that New Dem stuff just fizzled away. Campaign promises? You got to be kidding.

Whereas Bush is not only still pushing much of what he promised in 2000, he's also continuing with promises made when he was running for Governor of Texas... He doesn't always get what he hopes for of course, but he gets a lot more than most presidents, because he choses a few goals and sticks to them..

Posted by John Weidner at August 6, 2005 09:20 PM | TrackBack
Comments

Had Clinton a congress as favorable to him as this Congress is favorable to Bush, we’d have had a national heath care system...

Posted by: Andrew Cory at August 7, 2005 12:32 AM

::shudder:: What a horrible thought!

Posted by: Andrea Harris at August 7, 2005 06:40 AM

People from Canada or Britain or other places come here, if they can afford it, to escape "national health systems." But where would we flee to? I know, India!

"Freedom has been hunted around the globe. Europe regards her like a stranger, and the DNC hath given her warning to depart..."

Posted by: John Weidner at August 7, 2005 10:36 AM

Andrew writes:

"Had Clinton a congress as favorable to him as this Congress is favorable to Bush, we’d have had a national heath care system..."

.....with the cost-consciousness of the Defense Department, the efficiency of the Postal Service, and the compassion of the IRS.

No thanks, Andrew.

Posted by: Hale Adams at August 7, 2005 04:59 PM

I love that you say things like "it's just so cool having an honest straightforward guy as President". I agree! When he speaks I listen to what he says and don't have to try and figure out who he wants to placate . . . or what he really means. It's positively relaxing. Thanks for saying it out loud! (What's wrong with people like my offspring who think the opposite??!)

Posted by: Anne at August 9, 2005 10:42 AM

I feel the same way. I love the guy. And the best part is the Left still can't figure him out, because they're always looking for the trick. It's hilarious. Say what you mean? Inconceivable!

Posted by: pedro at August 11, 2005 05:49 AM

I wonder if it is because he didn't want to be President, but is doing it because it is the thing he should do. Arnold is like that also, using power, rather than hoarding it like Gray Davis.

Posted by: Presbypoet at August 15, 2005 06:40 PM
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