Re: The Incredible Shrinking Dems

As delightful as Mr. Bush's victory, and so many Republicans' wins were, the problem of "political-speak" remains the primary impediment to real success. While the President connects on a visceral level, he still falls victim to the Democrats' ability to frame the issues to their benefit, hence he is foeced to respond with similarly couched rhetoric.

Mr. Bush allows himself the identical vehicles of speech when he should reframe the argument in his own common sense language. For example, abortion is not the issue, it never has been. The issue was always birth control, but no one asked the question properly. Another example, Irag's weapons of mass destruction was one sixth of the war rationale. Genocide of the Kurds, imprisonment of children, women's rights, regional war-fostering, international bribery, and general homicide were the real reasons, but did our Man in the White House hammer them home?

Mr. Bush's pick for DOD is pummeled right, left, and center, and once again, the response is short and resolute, but not set down in memorable terms. The same has happened with the court appointments and will continue until somebody in the White House resets the talk button on the main mike.

Border control is underway, as is illegal entrant foreclosure, but someone has to explain fully the hows and whys in Presidential terms. And now with the Tsunami induced awfulness and potential collapse of foreign markets, our national policies have a slender window of opportunity to press America's propensity for plain old goodness to the people of non-aligned and enimical regimes like never before in history. This could make pale any other humanitaran effort.

Mr. Bush is a terrific CEO. He decides, he acts, he follows through, but he consistently fails to beat America's drum loud enough for the world to hear it, either on the international front or in his own back yard.

A good job is always trumpeted and resold on a daily basis. After all, the guy we hired works for us, and we could sure use better reports. We're not ever going to get them from Old Gray Media. Every problem mentioned in this missive is a ninety day problem, save perhaps the Indian Ocean tragedy. Our President knows that, but unless he moves his home front ground troops into action, the Democrats and their allies in the press will keep hectoring until they find the niche they need to erode his support.

Mr. Bush needs to find a new venue from which to speak first. The standard way doesn't get the job done. Then, he needs to use his own voice to reframe the agenda, asking the right questions to Americans. If he wants a groundswell, he has to get right down on it...the ground, that is.

Re: God and Good Government

How absurd it is that our military must parse from its conversation or reportage any reference to the Lord lest it be taken as a reference to the crusades. It does not appear that the followers of Allah were anywhere in sight to defend when the Taliban had its collective foot on the Afghani neck, nor did they deign to show up when Saddam, et al, were busy imprisoning ten year olds, tossing citizens into chippers, and stealing girls off the streets.

Why on earth should we worry about a simple statement of faith when these cowards can only rise to bullying of the weak and unarmed? Our people obey the Lord by daring to help when no one else will, and we find that many of our staunchest allies respond under the same rigeur.

There is no sense in masking it. We know, for fact, that eight Christians lived in Afghanistan prior to the invasion, unforgettably daring missionaries. Their reports stated clearly that they actively prayed on behalf of the nation. With the invasion, arguably two thirds of the force were believers, ergo the presence of Christians vaulted ten-thousandfold overnight. Pretty interesting. The current force in Iraq could number as many as 100,000 Christians who daily do the Lord's work.

Islamics are not stupid, they see it firsthand, and they must wonder why the boots aren't talking about it. The Lord said He would write His law on men's hearts, should we not state what we so readily observe?

Maybe the Iraqis will ask. What then?