Republicans aren't mad at Bush for the same reasons that Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and the devotees of MoveOn.org are; there's no new anti-Bush consensus among left and right. No, conservatives are unhappy because the president allied himself with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) over an immigration deal that leaned too far toward amnesty for illegal immigrants. Full Story »
Posted by Kaizar Campwala
So is it "abandon ship" - or "man overboard" for the Republican Party? I found this article overly simplistic as to the reasons the party faithful have for wanting to distance themselves from this President. If they are to have any political capital at all for the '08 election do they really have any choice but to try to pin the blame on the lame duck? How convenient for the Republicans in Congress who could have acted as a check against this President, to now blame him for the problems they helped create! This article is written by Byron York, writer for the conservative National Review. I've downgraded it for balance, fairness and context as this seems to be the first dash at a PR campaign to rehabilitate the image of the Republican Party after 6 years of neo-con dominance. One can hope the public won't be so easily duped.
