[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Calling Bush "shrub" appears to be the central attack of most of his opponents at
> the moment, actually
Geeze, Gautam, it wasn't an "attack".
> and thus witness his 57% approval ratings, vastly
> higher than those of his predecessor at the same point in his Presidency.
Well, let's see how much higher they get with the CBO projection that
we're already going to have to hit up Social Security. If you follow
the informal polls on CNN you may have noted that they normally favor
the conservative viewpoint (as do most internet political polls that
I've seen), but in today's quick vote "Do you think President Bush's tax
cut was beneficial?" the result was No by 59-41%.
> It is, nonetheless, uncivil, and the defense of civility has been one of
> the major tenets of conservatism since at least Edmund Burke, and really
> (given conservatism's virtual definition as the defense of the norms and
> behaviors of the status quo) a very long time before that.
>
OK, I catch your drift now, and if I knew you (or anyone else) would
have been so offended by the nickname I would have left it alone. I
considered it relatively innocuous, but now I know better.
--
Doug
http://www.zo.com/~brighto
