Rush Calls Bush Like Nixon. Republicans cannot claim to be for small government.

Rush Live broadcast ^ | 11/25/03 | rushy

[Mark Felton]

Rush has spent the last several minutes likening Bush to Nixon. Nixon gave us OSHA and the EPA. Bush is giving us Prescription Medicine benefits for seniors.

Rush says the Republican party cannot claim to be the party of smaller government.

This sounds likme the OLD Rush of 10 years ago!

Go Get Em Rush!

[Sam Cree]

A quandary for the Bushbots who are Rushbots.

[tomakaze]

I'm listening right now.
It's obvious and he's 100% right. I'm just amazed he's stating it out loud.

[JohnGalt]

Feith memo? LOL

Clearly, there was no reason to be so hysterical about Iraq as to support a $200 billion debt financed war fought by teenage girls from West Virginia. The hysterics surrounding the build-up were in retrospect unjustified, and conservatives should have demanded that the war be paid for not with debt but with cash.

But there is a reason the Beltway "Conservatives" preferred hysterics, because with heavy debt, what's another $400 billion over 10 years?

If it was so important, the President should have gotten funding for it, not simply floated ever more debt. Welfare and warfare have gone hand in hand in this country, for Rush to act surprised is less than compelling or a sign that he doesn't really get how the DC-tax regime operates.

[Mudboy Slim]

"They'll turn on ya', here!! ;-)"

I got yer back...MUD

[gimmealewinsky]

I know the circumstances, but the last # I saw had the Gov't spending up 27%(!!!!) in less than two years. NOW we're going to add another 400 bill. over the next ten.?! Unbelievable.
It is also laughable to believe that # won't quadruple or more as more people age, take these drugs to live longer to consume more drugs, and with the working americans picking up the tab there is little incentive to keep prices under control.
Not to mention NO MEANS TESTING??? The wealthiest segment of our society leaning on younger people trying to make a go of it is downright UN-American.
Forcing the younger generations to pay the tab for something the elderly never paid into is nothing more than big gov't theft. Pay for their drugs or we can take your house, fine you, even deny you your liberty. Yep this is great. (fuming).

[BibChr]

Blah blah blah blah.

And still there are only two viable political parties, and only one of them is home to pro-lifers, pro-1Amdters, pro-2Amdters, etc.

If the Demo party en masse switches and becomes pro-life, pro-Constitution, then I'll go back to being a Democrat.

Meanwhile, there are two viable choices, and the GOP is the better of the two. Still by a wide margin.

Dan

[KDD]

A quandary for the Bushbots who are Rushbots.

LOL

Rush is right.

[Ron H.]

Newt has had a different take on it.

Newt? Newt who!?

[JohnGalt]

Agreed. Rush is just trying to keep up the masquerade that he is a radical conservative, when really he is just a Republican "Approved" Conservative.

[Mudboy Slim]

"Rush is his old self, politically naive and politcally bombastic."

Yes, the Rush-bashing commences...still, can you make the case that Bush's spending spree is NOT Nixonian?!

FReegards...MUD

[Archangelsk]

And the Republicans are fiscal conservatives exactly how?

[BlackbirdSST]

'bout time! Blackbird.

[epluribus_2]

Hey Rush, Love ya but ain't Compassionate Conservatism a B*&^ch! This is what he said he would do - and he did it. Good Texan. He is so damned smart it's killing the Dems. Makes Clinton blush. And it can be tuned (fixed) later.

[billbears]

Are you competent? To not engage in the war would have been disastrous for the world economy and western civilization in general.

With what? WMDs? That's rich. Not to go off the point of the thread but Iraq financed terrorists no more than the Saudis (who actually have ties to terrorism), and 'we' call them an ally.

Back to the point of the thread, I have to give credit to Rush at least on this. While he did not have the same vigor on the incursion into Iraq, at least he is willing to call the Republican party on this big government waste.

[dts32041]

"Rush is right. And, I'll probably get flamed for saying this, but I'm beginning to believe my John Bircher friends know what they're talking about re: the fact that Bush is no limited government conservative."

What gave your first clue, do you suppose it might be the increase in NEA funding, or imposing tarriffs on steel, his emergency farm bill, or his wanting to give amensty to 3.5 million illegals?

[Ff--150]

Rush says the Republican party cannot claim to be the party of smaller government.

The myth of the two-party system, or The Emperor's New Clothes. Oh, the snickering and wit in donning tin-foil hats...

[epluribus_2]

This IS for the WAR. By getting W another four years, we will WIN it. Now Florida is a LOCK. Let the junior bin ladins and saddams of the world quake in fear. They won't have a Dem president to kick around in 2004.

[Mudboy Slim]

"...there are two viable choices, and the GOP is the better of the two. Still by a wide margin."

Granted...and Rush has reiterated that he is most certainly going to be voting fer Dubyuh next November. Yet the comparison between Bush and Nixon on domestic policy remains...unrefuted!!

FReegards...MUD

[Protagoras]

If indeed he thinks this, he is correct.

Now the Bush/bots who are also Rush/bots will run around screaming and pulling their hair out. What's a hero worshiper to do?

[tomakaze]

re: conservatives should have demanded that the war be paid for not with debt but with cash
 
... a formal declaration of war by congress would have been appreciated as well.