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There is a lot in this Slate piece that deserves comment. First, by the end of the speech John Dickerson notes that Democrats “looked a little sour.” Of course they did. Bush stands in their way of a communist “utopia” where government controls everything.

Not a perfect president, but since the liberals hate him so much he has clearly been doing something right (photo from when congress was under better management…)

I’m surprised- given Bush’s inability to control spending and curb the growth of government you would think they would like him better than they do. Ah, but as to the other things they love so much; keeping American weak, allowing the existence of mass-grave creating madmen with little or no comment, and unquestioned hand-outs to people who don’t work Bush hasn’t been so easy to work with.

The best line in the piece follows: “The kicker for Democrats was that Bush made it clear that while they may want troops out of Iraq quickly, he’s not going to bend to them in the least.”

But there is other golden nuggets to Bush’s presidency. His use of signing statements to ignore some of the worst parts of Congressional mistakes has been a Godsend for conservatives. Further, Bush promised to veto new spending bills with congressional earmarks (pork projects that steal from taxpayers to build Alaskan bridges to nowhere or superhighways to nowhere in West Virginia- among many other wasteful projects congressmen on both sides love to send to their districts to get reelected).

This is all good news- if Bush can hold back the tide of liberal idiocy until the more responsible party regains control (and, we hope, no socialist loon takes the White House; be it Hillary, Obama, or Edwards) we can at least keep the country at the edge of the abyss of socialist destruction rather than plunging headlong into what will be a new dark age. For that is what the end result of ultra high taxes and having no responsibility will be.

But one part that stuck out was Dickerson’s comment that:

“This is the first part of a standard GOP refrain: We trust the people; Democrats trust the government. If you oppose Republican policies, it is because you don’t have faith in the American people.”

That’s not exactly how I would word it (I believe in true conservatives- not Republicans) but, generally, it gets the point across and it is, despite how Dickerson puts it, the truth.