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Originally posted by Zamunda
You quote these under unifying, but his prescription plan to seniors is a crock and his long term Mars objective flies in the face of his supposed effort to recoup the debt. Otherwise I agree with astrocloud that whatever he's done in America, he has certainly divided America from the rest of the world, and that's not what we need in this world.
Oh, and I almost forgot, his effort to work with the dems for unity? how about those hardline judges he tried to nominate and the dems filibustered... The republicans were arguing that no one had ever filibustered a judge nomination before... the truth is that no one had ever successfully prevented a nomination because when the democrats nominated reasonable candidates. Bush's blatant disregard for the senate and their role as an advising body by nominating judges according to his ideology doesn't sound very unifying to me
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Talk to the seniors who have been shouting for prescription plans for years. Seems unifying to me. Don't believe the crap being fed to you about it. Having a prescription plan is better than not having one.
And, as stated, the Mars mission unifies people under a commong goal. The Mars mission is far from a big budget item at this point. Take a look at how much NASA will see their budget increase in the coming several years, it's not that big of a price tag.
As far as uniting with the world, no one can unite those who don't want to be united. France and Germany have an agenda to build their influence within the EU and challenge the US for influence on a global scale. And that was one hell of a list Bush threw out there in the SOTU of those countries who participated in Iraq but get no recognition as being "international". I'd have to say what he's done is far more unifying than ignoring the dozens of countries that worked with us because a few chose to guard their wallets rather than do what was right.
The hardline judges? Well, did you happen to get a sense of how much the Dems wanted to work together in the memos that the Republicans got a hold of? Yep. Gotta love the unity.