Posted on 12/14/2013 4:15:11 AM PST by Kaslin
Bush is being criticized unfairly for breaking his "read my lips no new taxes" quote . In an attempt to get the raising deficit under control he made a deal with the dems for two dollars in future spending reductions for every one dollar of tax increases. Not only did the spending reductions never occur the fact that he raised taxes (at their urgings) was used against him by the dems to defeat him on the next election.
I agree. Judgeships should also be term limited. Absolutely. I don't buy at all the idea that there is ‘accumulated wisdom’ from entrenched judiciary. BS. As regards the rest of the bureaucracy, several rules need to be put in place. First, if you are a government employee, you cannot contribute directly or indirectly to any political party or movement. Second, if you are a government employee you cannot participate in political activism. It's a conflict of interest to do so. For the privilege of working off of the taxpayers money you get your job, a pension, and the right to vote. But NO ACTIVISM, of any sort. Constitutional? It should be, and I would be in favor of an amendment that specifically addresses this.
Further, we should do everything we can to move all jobs that can be moved from the government sector to the private sector.
a good article right up until they said that the solution is not to leave the gop. Essentially conservatives should continue to be the battered wives of American politics. While I have no doubt that many if not most conservatives will continue with the metastatic tumor that is the gop, its really a shame.
Club for Growth didn't have much credibility when they were campaigning for amnesty as a conservative policy. They may have moved away from that position, but the groups Boehner was talking about are as "elitist" as anyone else inside or outside the party. Unless I missed something, he wasn't talking about your local tea party chapter, but about inside the beltway advocacy groups.
"And then, he says, the next president, whoever he is, 'would have to call a truce on the so-called social issues. We’re going to just have to agree to get along for a little while,' until the economic issues are resolved." -- Former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels suggested we blow tens of millions of social conservatives who make up part of the core of the GOP base.
Quite a project.
Who would do all that blowing?
Sorry. I don't kick my dog, and that's what the Republican Party needs right in its nether regions. I'm not bopping anyone's nose any more.
Thank you for posting that.
I wish I knew the reason why fighting for a constitutional government isn’t more acceptable.
If the Tea Party Movement were fighting for favors from the public treasury, they might be more acceptable to the Republicans. Perhaps if they could evolve some lofty noble cause to improve man’s station in life they might be more acceptable. What can be nobler or more beneficial to all men than the Constitution?
I wonder why Graham thinks the Constitution is not a coherent vision for governing America.
Not true.
I worked the phones for that election and all I heard was that Bush broke his promise and they would not vote for him.
And all I was calling was Repubs.
I have been working for Republican candidates on the local level since 1996. I am losing the gusto to try to keep most of them in office.
I still trust Rand Paul, and his father Ron Paul who is no longer running for office, Ted Cruz, and Mike Lee. That’s about all....
The rest can just go ahead and admit to being flaming liberals
#10 should be #2, at least.
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