THE GEORGE W. BUSH RECORD 2000 - 2008

AN AMERICAN NATIONALIST CONSERVATIVE VIEW POINT

10/04/07  The President properly vetoes the attempted 5 year $35 billion increase in spending for SCHIP (State Children's Health Insurance Program).   This pre-election year trojan horse for universal socialized medicine had nothing to do with either "the children", or "the poor".  This precursor to universal Stalinist medicine was actually Nurse Ratchet, aka Hillary Rodham, running around loose, and says everything you need to know about those who supported it, Democrat and "Republican".  JES

09/29/07   Mr. President, the options regarding Iran:

1)  You can wait for reformers to overthrow the current regime.

The information available to me indicates that this cannot happen before nuclear weapons capability has been       achieved for a lengthy list of reasons.

The real problem with this idea is that even if the reformers were successful, their opposition (defenders of the current regime) would still be powerful, with attendant political instability going forward.   What guarantee is there that such a political stew, however configured, would actually choose to accommodate us with a credible change of direction on Iran's nuclear program and ambitions?  At the very least, we would be confronted with a new, and additional, Pakistani dilemma.

 2).  You can continue to wait for others, through various proposed schemes of economic coercion to "force" a change in Iranian attitude on the issue, which completely underestimates and misunderstands the Iranian attitude on the issue.  Continuing to wait for a miracle to happen is wasting time while allowing the situation to continue to deteriorate.  There is the further unsatisfactory consequence of allowing others to operate our own foreign policy and oversee our own national security interests.  I would remind you that similar dithering in late 2002 and early 2003 bought the time Saddam Hussein and his Russian pals needed to apparently squirrel away probable WMD and to prepare for the insurgency that began to unfold in April of 2003.  You should have learned by now that you just can't play around with these people, or Democrats, a distinction too frequently without a difference.  

3).  The hard fact of the matter is that the military option is the only responsible option available to the United States, in behalf of not only our own security interests, but that of the rest of the world as well.  I know that the planning and preparedness are largely in place.   And I speak not of something tentative, but the full bore plan to knock out their entire military capability.  You know of which I speak.   Do it.  Soon.   And worry not about your critics; they are beyond being mollified, and you have already spent too much time and effort in that regard.  Do this thing now, let the world squeal, and leave office in January of 2009 knowing that you, in fact, did the right thing.  In the years ahead, you will come to be honored.  JES

08/28/07  Regarding Alberto Gonzales.   So he resigns, and I'm not so sure the timing was an accident.  What we have here is a political incompetent; a fact widely recognized.  What we have here is a victim of the Peter Principle, which says that there is a tendency for people to rise in an organization to their own level of incompetency, set up by a President who has repeatedly demonstrated his inclination to promote loyal friends over qualified candidates, e.g. Harriet Miers,  et. al.  Unfortunately, in the matter of Alberto Gonzales, the matter had gotten out of hand, with Senator Upchuck Chucky Schumer and his fellow Democrats frothing at the mouth about the forced departure of 8 U.S. attorneys, who by law simply serve at the President's pleasure.  The issue of the 8 attorneys has been politically fabricated out of whole cloth, and everyone in Washington DC, and a complicit Leftwing mainstream press, knows it.  The real game is to find any way possible to dismantle the Bush Administration, and the focus on Gonzales has been to achieve his resignation so as to set up an approval of a replacement on condition of the appointment of a new Special Persecutor.  The Democrat target is not Gonzales, or the reasons for the firing of the 8 attorneys; never has been.  The real target is Bush, his Administration, the GOP, and any chance at all of a Republican presidential win in 2008.  Anybody with a lick of political sense knows all this.

Now it so happens that the ultimate outcome of all this political pushing and shoving remains to be determined.  I would point out that the administration has options to undercut the Democrat strategy.

1).  Nominate a new Attorney General who is actually qualified for the job; perhaps tough at this stage of the presidential cycle and given the hostile political climate that clearly threatens a nominee's name and career.

2.)  With or without a nominee, stall off until the end of the year, and then make a recess appointment of a "care-taker" to get to the end of the President's term.

3.)  Some combination of the above, all designed to not be forced to swallow a Special Persecutor.

With some adroit political management of the situation, the entire Democrat plan could come to be viewed by the voters as reaching too far, and the real source of the divisiveness that has paralyzed Washington.  And so it goes.  JES

07/25/07   Is George W. Bush a Conservative?  Hell no, and Conservatives have known it for some time.  He is what this political analyst calls center-right.  The Left pejoratively calls him a cowboy; I wish, non-pejoratively, that it were true.  He makes great speeches and then walks away from his own words.  This has happened repeatedly throughout his term in office.  The Mountain Observer would have always preferred Dick Cheney in the driver's seat, with a couple of advisors from Halliburton on the White House staff, and a spinal expert over at the Surgeon Generals' Office to administer to the American people.   General David Petraeus, carry on.  JES 

07/03/07  The President does something right, and puts the squash on jail time for "Scooter" Libby.  As I reflect on it, the full pardon, at this time, would have deprived Libby of the opportunity to fully clear his name on appeal.  The pardon option remains available in the future if the courts on their own prove incapable of correcting for themselves this outrageous miscarriage of justice and subversion of both the legal system and the political process by the Left.  The fact of the matter is that I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby is a true patriot.  Help him out.  Go to http://www.scooterlibby.com   JES

06/29/07  Yesterday, in the Senate, the great McCain/ Kennedy/ Bush Amnesty "compromise" plan of 2007 for illegal wetbacks and terrorists of various heritages came to a halt.  Finally.  Mr. President, now go and enforce the law.  Shut down the circus on the border.  And I want to see some employers go straight to jail.  You have the tools to do this, and have had all along.  Now just go do it and quit protecting your corporate, Democrat and RINO friends.  JES, American Nationalist Conservative.

06/18/07  At the behest of the President, and likely unknown pressures on the congressional "leadership", the grand scam immigration amnesty package is reappearing for reconsideration by the Senate.  The tenacity of this effort to instantly legalize millions of illegals raises the suspicions of the Mountain Observer as to what exactly the pro passage forces may be trying to cover up.  We need to take a harder look at the money trail.  Aside from struggling house contractors, spinach growers and grass cutters, who is it, really, that has such a huge stake in all the cheap labor?  Why is it that the Social Security Administration and the Homeland Security Administration can't, or will not, talk to each other?  What is the depth of big corporate America's role in this controversy?  The Mountain Observer does not approve of fueling wacko conspiracy theories, however, neither was he born yesterday.  Something in this whole matter just does not smell right, or add up.  We need to keep digging, wherever it leads, however insisting on verifiable and documentable facts.   Selling out the country is a serious matter.  JES

06/18/07   Now I understand that Senator Trent Lott considers talk radio to be the problem.  Of course he has this exactly backwards: it is the multiple Senator Lotts in the Senate (and the House) who are the problem, And yes, we of the new alternative media, through whom real citizens (the People) can actually speak, will have to deal with that, and in particular, Senator Lott.  Frankly, I have never been a fan of Senator Lott, and was not among those who enthusiastically attempted his rescue after the birthday party fiasco.  You can look me up on that.  JES

06/11/07   Mr. President, enforce the current law, and no amnesty.  JES

06/11/07  Regarding Attorney General Alberto Gonzales ,who I, I believe, I have not mentioned since the Harriet Miers fiasco.  (The president has always been tempted to offer up Gonzales as a court candidate).  I have always regarded the man as a fly weight, and in Washington only as a consequence of old Texas loyalties.  I have complained repeatedly from the beginning of the Bush 43 presidency that the biggest problem with George W. Bush has been, and is, that he is a nice guy; not really a qualification for the job of President.   A sub-text to this complaint is that Bush has repeatedly allowed personal loyalties to trump competence, and this has cost him, and the country, dearly, on several occasions.  So it came to pass that these Presidential habits led to the elevation of Alberto Gonzales to the office of Attorney General of the United States.  Predictably, for this observer, it has become apparent to those close to the scene that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is not up to the challenge of his office.  Now the President has a problem.  The Gonzales tiger has got the President by the tail, and the President can't let go.  The liberal (Democrat) establishment, seething with rage against the President, sees the political opportunity to possibly bring the President down by finding any way possible to ditch Gonzales and then demanding a special persecutor as a condition of Congressional approval of Gonzales' successor.   The legal outcome of any such persecution, guaranteed to be highly political, is not the priority; tying up the Administration in knots, with the possible added utility of forcing our surrender in Iraq, is the real political objective of this matter.  Democrats really don't give a damn about the 8 fired attorneys.  They see the perfect opportunity to go straight at the President; to hell with the American national interest in conducting the War against IslamicFascism for which they prescribe defeat anyway.  So it is that the President, irrespective of the incompetency of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, is forced to stick by his man, and Conservatives just need to stand by and swallow hard.  What's best for the country has come to this.  JES

06/08/07   Finally, thankfully, the inside brokered deal in Congress over amnesty for illegal immigrants falls apart in the Senate.  We have just witnessed Congress at its worst.  In the opinion of this observer, passage of this legislative monstrosity would have been fatal to the continued existence of the nation.  George W. Bush, you are now on your own.  In the course of this process, you have stabbed us, your own base, in the back.  This came as no surprise; we have watched this storm approaching for a long time.  I do not doubt your honesty and sincerity, and never have.  Your recognition of the threat of the international threat against the West after 09/11, and your decision to preemptively target Afghanistan and Iraq as you did were absolutely correct.  However, in the execution department you are an absolute bumbler, both foreign and domestic.  I am too disgusted at the moment to write the list here now, and in any event I would just be repeating myself anyway.   This matter of your ideas about border security and amnesty for illegal aliens however, just pushes everything over the top.   General David Petraeus, who is now running the show, carry on.  I look forward to your forthcoming report  in September.   For Iraq, it will be determinative.  It is ironic that your boss in the White House, by his own actions and operational decisions, has done as much to undermine the War on IslamicFascism in several ways as all the Democrats and RINOs in Congress, and those Americans who elected them.  This observer fears that another 09/11 event, perhaps nuclear, will be necessary to get folk's heads on straight.  JES   

06/04/07   On what's wrong with the "compromise" immigration proposals currently being debated in Congress, go to http://www.heritage.org/Research/Immigration/misc/index.cfm#research for an examination of the details.  JES

05/30/07   Throughout his presidency, George W. Bush has had an repeatedly bad habit of throwing his own political base under the bus.  (The "where else can they go" theory coming from the political middle.)   However, yesterday, on the subject of border and immigration policy, the president crossed a bridge too far.  Go to GEO. W. BUSH - IMMIGRATION 05-29-07   He has now become the Texas Democrat I predicted he would shortly after last Falls election.  I repeat some of what I said at the time:

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