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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Friday, February 24, 2006

Borders policy and "Portgate"

It is not just fringe groups who take umbrage at the president calling Minutemen border patrol groups "vigilantes." A large segment of conservatives remain mystified about the president's border policy and consider it the Achilles' Heel in his GWOT policy.

David Limbaugh

It is important not to understate the point David Limbaugh is making here. Bush's immigration (non-)policy threatens to bring his entire position on his war on terror down in a tumbled heap. It becomes increasingly more difficult to ignore the fact that these border policies seem to favor Bush's oil buddies on an all-too-frequent basis.

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