From: "Robert Comer" 

> A pretty good list I would say!!!

As do I!

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Bob Comer


"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
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>
> A pretty good list I would say!!!
>
>
> http://realclearpolitics.com/Commentary/com-10_26_05_TB.html
>
> First, withdraw the unfortunate nomination of Miss Miers. Not only is
> there
> almost no enthusiasm for her nomination, I have never seen as much
> outright
> hostility and even anger at an appointment from a president's own party.
> Replace her with a highly qualified, full-blooded, proven conservative
> nominee (any number of his appointments to the courts of appeal will do).
>
> Then he can have a principled fight between conservatives and liberals (a
> debate that should break in his favor at least 60 percent to 40 percent
> nationally on the judicial issues), rather than the current idiotically
> unuseful fight between blind presidential loyalists and sighted
> presidential
> loyalists.
>
> Second, he should delay pushing for guest worker law changes -- and
> instead
> move full speed ahead with legislation and policies to secure the border.
> This must be more than symbolic actions and rhetoric. It should include
> serious proposals to dramatically render the borders non-porous.
>
> It should include tens of thousands more border guards, sensor technology,
> structures and stiff (i.e. criminal prison terms) employer sanctions
> against
> hiring illegals. When, as now, Democratic governors and Hillary Clinton
> have
> flanked a Republican president to the right on secure borders, it is
> manifest that both principle and political sense is not being exercised in
> the White House.
>
> Third, he should rally his base by fighting for serious budget cuts to
> offset the necessary increases in defense and disaster relief spending.
> While many congressional Republicans will not like this tough love, it
> will
> be good for them -- and for the national fisc.
>
> Fourth, political expediency requires him to get on the right side of gas
> prices. When the eye-popping third quarter oil company profits are
> announced -- he must jawbone the oil executives to start re-investing that
> money. If he doesn't, Republicans in Congress will. Regretfully (though
> incorrectly), even a majority of conservatives and Republicans around the
> country use the word price-gouging to describe current conditions.
>
> If the president were to make these four bold corrections, virtually his
> entire base would snap back to his side to do noble and fierce battle on
> his
> behalf. He would not only be substantially true to his party's principles,
> but he would move from about 40 percent to about 48 percent in the
> polls --
> a critical increase.
>
> Oh, and one other thing. As I write this column, Washington is waiting "in
> hope or despair, depending on party affiliation -- for the special
> prosecutor to announce his indictment decisions. I truly hope that none of
> the president's aides have done anything to deserve criminal indictment.
> Some of them are my friends.
>
> But if any of their actions warrant criminal conviction, the president and
> his allies would be grievously ill-advised to minimize such criminal
> conduct
> or disparage the prosecutor. Perjury, if that is the charge, is a very
> serious felony. All the more so when committed by a person in high office.
>
> Neither the president nor conservatives generally should raise the Clinton
> defense. Any Republican who measures his integrity by the standards of
> Bill
> Clinton (and his disreputable apologists) is unfit for public office.
>
> If the worst happens, the president should make a clean break with such
> conduct -- and such people. He has three years left in his office. He owes
> it both to himself and to the country to take such actions as to make
> those
> years highly ethical and productive. The world is too dangerous for
> anything
> less.
>
>

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