Impostor:How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy

writersreps.com ^ | April 2006 | Bruce Bartlett

[jmc813]

Actual results mean nothing to you. Kinda of like a liberal, it's the ideal that is uber alles.

I see you are willing to bypass the Constitution when you feel the ends justify the means. I must respectfully disagree. If crime dropped in an area with recently passed gun laws, I certainly hope you would not support continuation of such laws.

[fallujah-nuker]

"...there is a strain within conservatism which neurotically resents being a majority, and hankers for the "good old days" of the 1950s when they could howl at the moon, promote a wacked-out negative perspective on things, and represented no more than 20% of the electorate..."

Interesting that you have such a low opinion of the fifties, I myself think the Eisenhower years were pretty good for America. He secured the border, a task bushbots today maintain is impossible. Government spending as a percentage of GDP was lower, but produced better results with a larger share being spent on defense and infrastructure such as the Interstate Highway System. The economy grew at a faster rate and millions of people were able to afford homes and cars for the first time and an American family could do all of this with the father as the sole breadwinner.

Today the average American family requires the incomes of both parents to stay afloat, with the mothers labor being removed from her own home to earn extra income. Consider that in the average family the wife earns 40% of the income, which approximates the averages families tax bite. When RINOcrats lavish social services on the welfare class and illegal aliens they are transferring income away from working families. But they love to proclaim how pro-family they are.

Eisenhower made some mistakes, such as appointing Earl Warren as Chief Justice, which he freely admitted afterward. But there is no doubt that his efforts were focused on the best interests of the American people. He was a nationalist, a secure and prosperous America was the ends he worked for. With Bush it is obvious that he has no such interest, he is merely using America as a means.

[Pelham]

Bush has sycophants to lick his boots, he doesn't need Bartlett.