Being accused of obstruction is nothing new for Democrats under the leadership of Howard Dean and Harry Reid. So, a report that Bush made that accusation again at a fund raiser last Tuesday flew under my radar.
Bush Denounces Democrats as Focusing on Obstruction
By RICHARD W. STEVENSON
Published: June 15, 2005
WASHINGTON, June 14 - President Bush spent Tuesday replenishing his party's coffers and, in the face of resistance to his Social Security plan and much of the rest of his second-term agenda, struck an aggressive new tone by accusing Democrats of standing for nothing but obstructionism.
Mr. Bush was the star attraction at two fund-raisers, one in Bryn Mawr, Pa., for Senator Rick Santorum that brought in $1.5 million, the other in Washington on behalf of his party's Senate and House campaign committees that yielded $23 million. It was his most concentrated day of fund-raising since his re-election, and was evidence of the vital role he will play in Republican efforts to hold onto the party's majorities in both chambers of Congress in the 2006 elections.
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/15/politics/15bush.html?oref=login
Most people who read this report were probably distracted by the mention of Santorum and the $23 million that's supposed to be evidence of Bush's vitality (and viability?)
It took the alert editors at the Boston Globe to highlight what he actually proclaimed--that the Democratic leadership has "the philosophy of the stop sign and the agenda of the road block."
To which all I gotta say this morning is:
"way to go Georgie!"
Every once in a while he gets it exactly right! His brain makes him tell the truth.
Why else would he say that? Who's he trying to appeal to? Teenagers speeding through the neighborhood, bashing mail-boxes and upsetting the dogs? Or maybe he identifies with the bank-robber, who's about to be stopped by a hastily assembled road-block, lucky if he doesn't get shot by trigger-happy cops.
Yes, indeed Georgie. We're about to enforce the law. You may be able to run stop-signs in your motorcade, but the Constitution you'll not evade.
Listen to your brain. Sometimes it actually tells the truth--even makes accurate predictions.