Novak's article on Bush

[RobertFrancisK]

Very interesting. Conservatives are getting pretty pissed also.


http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/09/11/column.novak.opinion.storm/index.html

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Bunning was joined by Sens. Jeff Sessions of Alabama, James Inhofe of Oklahoma and Jon Kyl of Arizona in complaining about lack of information on how much Iraq is going to cost. The senatorial attitude was not improved Sunday night when President Bush requested an additional $87 billion, well above what had been hinted. What's politically significant is that these four Republicans are hard-core conservatives and Bush loyalists who believe they have been misled by the Pentagon.

Amid such complaints, Republicans on Capitol Hill were stunned last Saturday when the Zogby Poll reported that Bush's national approve-disapprove ratio has slipped into negative territory for the first time (with only 45 percent saying he is doing a good job).

That couples with continued job losses across the country and the rising cost of Iraq, in blood and treasure.
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Those senators get an earful about Rumsfeld from the uniformed military, whose criticism in private echoes what retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni has declared publicly. The unconfirmed rumor mill from the Pentagon to the Senate has Rumsfeld leaving early next year.

The jobless recovery has bothered the Republican senators much more since getting home and talking to their constituents last month. That was shown at their first luncheon last week, when Chief Deputy Whip Robert Bennett gave one of his regular reports on the economy. He was optimistic about revival of the stock market.

That did not please Sen. George Voinovich, who has been elected statewide in Ohio four times and is up for re-election there next year. Characteristically blunt, Voinovich told Bennett: "I don't give a damn about the stock market. But I do care about jobs."
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[chiburb]

1. It was called: GOP Facing Perfect Storm in Chi Sun-Times

See this thread for a discussion:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=103&topic_id=10583

[janekat]

2. Novak, Buchanan, McLaughlin - not Bush fans

There's a lot of them who started to really turn on him about the war in Iraq.

Don't get me wrong - they would vote for the guy because they are Republican through and through BUT they were vehemently against the war in Iraq. The one thing I can say for Buchanan and Novak is that they do not "tow the line" for the Repubican Party.

Both Novak and Buchanan have ripped Bush apart several times about Iraq. They snipe at him about other things every so often. In my opinion, Novak does NOT like Bush personally and seems pretty disgusted with him a lot of the time. Buchanan wrote one of the best columms I've seen written about the war. Dick Armey was speaking out against the war (until he got "slapped down").

There's been a couple of Pubs who have gone on Buchanan and Press who have made comments to Buchanan like "Pat - I remember when you were on the right." He gotten a lot of disparaging comments from Pubs.

Bob Novak is kind of a loose cannon and will say whatever he wants. He ended up getting fired from the McLaughlin Group for that (pissed off John McLaughlin). He gets slapped down on the Capital Gang all of the time.

There's several other Pubs who are p.o.'d about the Patriot Act - Bob Barr is one of them. He goes around talking about it.

There's a lot of them who can't stand him in Congress because he's been so arrogant and has been treating them like his "prison bitches." A lot of them would turn on him in 2 seconds - if it weren't for their jobs.

This is GREAT for our side that these guys speak out because when people see Pubs like them speaking out - they know something is REALLY wrong. It's not just us liberal commies who disagree.