Bush

"I'm Willing to Give President Obama the Same Fair Chance as the Left and MSM Gave President Bush":

If Obama wins, the left (and media) will declare that now is the time to rise above partisanship.

I will answer the same way they did to Bush's similar call in January 2001.

Of course, their definition of "rise above partisanship" has always been "agree with the Democrats."

The Bush strategy would be to sign the appropriations bill, fund the troops, and fund the government, but knock out those corrupt earmarks. The point to this strategy is to keep the GOP on its recovery path from the electoral setback a year ago, when independent voters punished republicans for over-spending, over-earmarking and over-corrupting.

ScrappleFace:

Modeled after the success of the Plan B anti-pregnancy drug, which itself has surged in popularity since over-the-counter sales began last year, Mr. Bush’s ‘Plan B Surge’ calls for pulling troops out now, then waiting until al Qaeda has established a Muslim caliphate headquartered in Baghdad.

At that point, the Bush plan prescribes a massive introduction of U.S. troops to bring down the Qaeda government.

Peggy Noonan:

Barack Obama thinks the fighting will stop if we just go home and leave the jihadis alone:

“We are one signature away from ending the Iraq War. President Bush must listen to the will of the American people and sign this bill so that our troops can come home.”

This either stunning ignorance or cynical posturing. What happens when we go home and leave 24 million people to the mercies of Al Qaeda and Mad Mookie al Sadr?

James Taranto:

At some point, I think President Bush flinched and lost faith in the American people. I think he thought if he explained the scope of the struggle ahead and the sacrifices that are going to be necessary to prevail, the American people would have blanched and turned to a different leader, perhaps even one as lame as John Kerry.

The inescapable fact is that Bill Clinton, for all of his strengths, gave the country an unserious presidency, and it turned out (not surprisingly) that we needed more. Clinton savored the popularity that came with that presidency, but now he must live with its unfortunate and unflattering legacy. [John Hinderaker:] That's right. I'd go farther in defense of President Bush, too.

John Hinderaker takes on on GWB's call to continued inaction on illegal immigration: