His vetoing of the health and education bill Democrats sent to him, which supposedly had “strong bipartisan support,” is obviously welcome from conservatives, considering the significant amount of pork ($10 bil) attached to it. Sure would have been nice to see him rein in spending from the Republican Congresses he had just as much as he has the Dem Congress, tho.
(I’m filling in for ST through today. You can see more of my writing at Liberty Pundit.)
Those of you who are long time readers of this blog know I have defended the the President on issues many conservatives have felt like there was no defending Bush on – most noteably, the illegal immigration issue, but there have been others, too, like the UAE port deal. On another controversial issue, the Harriet Miers Supreme Court nomination, I didn’t support the President but I didn’t come down too harshly on him, either. My view of the President has generally always been that even though he sometimes may be wrongheaded about things, I believe his heart is always in the right place – as much as it can be for a politician. I don’t look at him as being a cold and calcuating individual, as I did Bill Clinton. When he advocates for something, or lobbies against it, I believe he’s got solid reasons for doing so.
The leftosphere is erupting in predictable outrage after the publishing of a transcript of a conversation between the President and then-Prime Minister of Spain José MarÃa Aznar, a conversation which took place about a month before the war in Iraq began. Spain’s El PaÃs daily newspaper published it, and the Editor and Publisher has a translation of it, which is, as you’ll soon discover a very poor translation.
The mediots and the leftosphere jumped all over remarks made by the President which seemed to suggest that he mistakenly believed that Nelson Mandela was dead:
