Posted on 12/25/2003 10:05:29 PM PST by Mudboy Slim
"Dubyuh's Stand!!"
(To be sung to Bruce Springsteen's "Jungleland")
(Mudboy on pie-anny...somebody strokin' the fiddle....gently!!)
Our soldiers'll have their Homecoming...in DeeCee, 'cuz it's Right!!
And the DemonRats'll queue their DeanMachine...but we're ready fer the Fight!!
Braindead Libs frettin' 'gainst what's Good and our God...
Left promotes Fear...their loss's the Country's gain!!
The Rats fight 'gainst our own...seditious stance...
Dem Lib'rals, they lust fer Power like Ol' France...
But can't escape Bill Clinton's scum stain!!
Well, that Ashcroft Lawman runs 'bout "flamin'" not chasing the RATS or Ol' Slick Willie!!
And the Libs round here look just like shadows...always scair't of takin' stands!!
FReep the churches...give RATS Hell!! FReedom is the A.N.S.W.E.R. fer the World!!
Patriots, join our band...Join in Dubyuh's Stand!!
The FReeper gang's assembled...Forum's a rendezvous fer the Right!!
They'll meet `neath that giant Exxon sign that brings this fair DeeCee's blight!!
Folks, there's an opera out on the Turnpike
Fer less Guv'ment, we in the RightWing shall rally!!
Then the Limbaugh troops--DittoHeads--join our holy fight!!
The street's alive as secret debts are paid
Contacts made, they vanished unseen
Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades hustling for the record machine
The hungry and the hunted...explode into rock'n'roll bands
That face off against each other out in the street...Join George Dubyuh's Stand!!
(Guitar jammin')
In Left's Medyuh Pit, the luminaries fret 'cuz they ain't the rage.
My FRiends, the "Hate Bush" dweebs are out there...but their Hatred is the Brain-Dead Way!!
Power-hungry Lib'rals struggle 'gainst our Country...
Desperate as the Right moves on...RATS're kooks but they'll splinter, then they're gone!!
(Big Man on saxaphone)
In DeeCee City, Bold Hearts FReep...
Soul engines running through a night so tender
in a bedroom locked In whispers of soft...refusal and then surrender
in the tunnels uptown The Rat's own dream guns him down
as shots echo down them hallways in the night
No one watches when the ambulance pulls away
Or as the girl shuts out the bedroom light
Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz
Between what's flesh and what's fantasy
and the poets down here Don't write nothing at all,
they just stand back and let it all be
And in the quick of a knife they reach for their moment
And try to make an honest stand
Left'll wind up wounded...BigGuv'ment's DEAD!!
The Right is Dubyuh's Land!!
HOOOOOOOO-HOOOOOOOO....woah-ah-woaaah...woah-ah-woaaaahhh...
FReegards...MUD
FReegards...MUD
"I don't want to look smug. But as I mentioned to Slim, we would have had the 4% or greater increase if we conservatives hadn't started raising literal holy hell about the spending."
Smugness be damned, the fight's far from won!! We've gotta continue to raise holy hell 'cuz you know the Big-Spending Lib'rals will be!!
"In a budget this size, we're talking tens of billions, probably hundreds of billions of dollars over the next 5-10 years."
Yep...that's the main reason we gotta continue to insist that we address the outta-control spending in generalities, 'cuz otherwise the Lefties will deride every cut as "You're only saving $1 Billion here or half-a-billion there" when us lowly taxpayers know that $500 Million does actually natter!!
"That's pretty worthwhile if all we had to do was rattle their cages."
We must continue to rattle their cages...in fact, we oughtta be bracing ourselves to pick up the pace in said rattling, or else the pro-Big-Spending special interests will end up drowning us out in this debate!!
"As far as the real import of Bush's announced 0.5% budget increase, I think it shakes out like this: Bush's budget was already in some trouble with top House and Senate budget folks. They didn't like the smell. He was already promising them behind the scenes that they could cut spending next year. But they weren't happy with that, nervous about the base. Still, they were willing to go along with it if there was no opposition."
Even amongst the most loyal Pro-Bush folks on this Forum, I've detected a distinct displeasure with his willingness to grow the Federal Leviathan at such an undisciplined pace. Many have been unwilling to "undercut" a man they genuinely respect and want to see succeed, but they are still uncomfortable seeing BigGuv'ment grow soo fast under a Republican Administration.
"Rove was strategizing, telling them that Bush would take all the heat off them by having proposed the budget and they'd get off scott-free with the voters. But they remember past elections and how conservatives ejected the Dims in '94 and they also recognize that Clinton got more popular and more secure in his position with the Congress in enemy hands."
Rove may be too smart by half, IMHO.
"Being smart politicians, they recognized that Bush may no longer need them at all after he is re-elected. And he'll be lame duck next year anyway so he'll be of less use to the GOP Congress than he has been up to now. Now, add all that up, and you can see that the fury over this budget gave the House/Senate a good reason to do what they already wanted to do. So they called up Rove and politely told him the 4% increase version of the budget was DOA."
I pray you are correct in yer assumption, my FRiend. However, I believe it is more likely that the POTUS got a feel fer the general displeasure of the voting populace before the Congress even had the opportunity to weigh in!!
Rove, alarmed, cut it back to 0.5% but, given the level of anger over this from the fully roused conservative base (led by Rush and some neo-cons and with Liberty Caucus plotting at a private location), Rove came up with the idea of pledging these spending limits to try to placate the base and keep the GOP Congress from really hacking into this bloated budget. One of Rove's primary objectives is to make sure that Bush is seen as leading the party, not that the party is leading him and, to Rove, this leadership focus is politically more important than the actual size of the budget."
You could be right, 'cuz when yer talking about a $2.3 Trillion budget, you'd be hard-pressed to make the case that any budget priority is "under-funded"!! As to the PowerOfRove, it'll be interesting to look back a genertaion from now and discern exactly how much power the dude has over Dubyuh, but I'm much more inclined to think President Bush can read the tea-leaves himself and sees that losing the RightWing will never serve his ultimate purposes!!
"Seen in this light, the pledge for the spending caps is an attempt to persuade the GOP Congress to at least keep the 0.5% discretionary spending increase in and not cut it by more than that."
You are a cynical one, my FRiend...LOL!! Dubyuh's not his daddy, despite recent evidence to the contrary!!
"More importantly, it keeps Bush 'leading' the party. Not being led by the Congress, or by Rush, or by the conservative base."
Hoo cares who gets credit fer it as long as fiscal discipline is instituted?!
FReegards...MUD
Oh, I can tell! I think I am in love from afar.
And not a word of this to Missuz Sultan, Please.
LOL...have fun tonite...me?! I'm workin' on taxes...SHEEEESH!!
Ahhhhhh! Taxes!!! That's the one good thing about having a nerd for a brother! He's the accountant in the family! ;-)
Oi, oi, oi!!!! I'm a good Catholic girl I am ~grins widely~. I couldn't be havin' that on me conscience! I'd have to rub sparks off the rosary beads for a week!!! (And God knows, that plays havoc on the knees! *S*)
I'm surprised you have any inclination whatsoever to revisit the US after picking such non-representative locales to visit...you need to aim fer south of the Mason-Dixon line if you wanna have any fun!!
SHEEESH...Irish chicks, will they ever learn?!
LOL...MUD
Yes, a very interesting thread JimRob started. I'm slowly weeding through it. Some good dialogue.
Well, you really haven't seen America yet. (Actually I'd like to see Alaska myself.)
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'Tis one of my goals as well...in fact, I'd like to see all 50 of our states afore I die, and I've seen most of them 'cept fer Alaska, the Dakotas, Arizona, New Mexico, Idaho, Wisconsin, Michigan, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts...actually, I've got no real desire to see any of the Northeastern states, 'ceptin' fer to say I've seen all 50 of 'em...LOL!!
FReegards...MUD
YEEEE-HAAAAWWWWW!!! Keep the pressure on and Dubyuh can be like Reagan!!
FReegards...MUD
I agree...I sincerely believe Dubyuh appreciates this agitation from the Right!! You know he's gettin' pressured to continue spending unabated from the Left, and it's only those of us on the Right who are demanding fiscal discipline!!
"Seriously, Slim, I don't think Bush really likes all this big spending. I really do blame Rove and I think Rove is using a huge budget to sell a political strategy here. He's trying to buy votes again even though pandering has never yet worked with core Dim constituent groups."
Fer all I know, Rove's to blame fer all of Dubyuh's fecklessness, but that don't make Dubyuh any less feckless if he refuses to buck Rove's fecklessness!! Rove serves at the pleasure of Dubyuh, so Dubyuh need sto take responsibility fer his actions!!
"Remember back when the Right would complain about Reagan's advisors and say, "Let Reagan be Reagan"? It's the same thing here. We wouldn't see as much high spending and pandering if Rove would "Let Bush be Bush". Our president, I think, does have pretty conservative instincts."
I harbor similar dreams and expectations...but it's up to Dubyuh to make them a reality.
FReegards...MUD
The real question *is*...do you REALLY want us to? ;-)
Bet, I've seen more of America, than most American's have seen of Europe! *LOL* ;-)
As for my soiree in Alaska, well...it wasn't prolonged, just an over the border trip from Canada. But what I saw was visually stunning - as is that part of Canada.
When I walked on a glacier, that's as blue as a bubblegum ice-pop, I saw a part of nature, that never thought existed. Quite amazing. Stunning in fact.
And the people are nuts! *L*
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