Mr. President,
You want us to trust you that Harriet Miers will make a good Associate Justice of the Supreme Court? I’m sorry Mr. President, you’ve lost my trust.
- I trusted you to win the peace in Iraq, but you failed to supply enough troops to do the job.
- I trusted you to reduce the size of the deficit, but you’ve sat watch over the largest budget increase since LBJ.
- I trusted you when you wanted to reorganize the federal government to better respond to terrorists and disasters, but the Dept of Homeland Security failed miserably and actively hindered private efforts in responding to Katrina.
- I trusted you to be a good steward of our Constitution, but you’ve detained American Citizens without trial or habeas corpus, signed a campaign finance bill you said was unconstitutional, pushed for and signed laws that eviscerate the 4th Amendment, and prosecuted cases which have make a mockery of states rights.
- I trusted you to veto pork-ridden spending bills, but you haven’t.
- I trusted you to use our Law Enforcement wisely to protect the citizenry, but you’ve decided porn is more dangerous than terrorists.
- I trusted you to further the GOP revolution of 1994, but instead of abolishing the Dept of Education – you’ve expanded it.
- I trusted you to not expand the welfare state, but you not only signed, but actively pushed, the Prescription Drug benefit.
- I trusted you to execute the Doctrine of Preemption – something I support wholeheartedly, but you failed to make the grand strategic case, relying on WMDs and “Saddam is a bad man” as your arguments for war.
- Finally, I trusted you to put good, qualified people in charge of vital government agencies, and guess what? You failed us again.
Mr. President, I fear your legacy will be creating the conditions that elected President Hillary Clinton. As the leader of your party your actions define that party. You have successfully defined the party of Reagan and Goldwater as a party of fiscal irresponsibility, cronyism, bungled military operations and big government. If I had wanted that I’d have voted for another Kennedy.
You and the Republican controlled congress have alienated the fiscal conservatives in favor of appealing to the left-wing voters of this nation. Perhaps Karl Rove didn’t mention this to you, but the left hates you. You could institute the revolution of Karl Marx and the left will hate you. Stop trying to buy their love with my tax dollars and dance with the people who brought you to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
update: Turns out George Will agrees
