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To: alloysteel
Perhaps people are missing the strategy here.

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Now there is a subtle difference in the "big-government" spending plans that are put forth by the Republican majority and those that are put forth in years past by Democrat majorities. The Republican program is designed to actually engage and mitigate the problem it is supposed to address, while the Democrat programs only built constituencies amd propagated the problem into eternity.

If you can't stop the locomotive, at least switch it onto the tracks you want it to follow.

The strategy is to grow a smaller government by making it bigger, trusting that it will all work out in the end.

The GOP motto ought to be "never seize a victory today, when there are empty promises to be gained for tomorrow."

Back-end promises to conservatives are never kept.

Or did I get the Supreme Court's CFR decision wrong?

The strategy of squandering the goodwill gained by the President's performance on the War on Terror an a government somewhat less rapid than the Democrats might wish, is bankrupt and has been from the start, the very persuasive handringing about getting "beat up by the media" notwithstanding.


46 posted on 12/28/2003 11:25:34 AM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Sabertooth
Or did I get the Supreme Court's CFR decision wrong?

But you gotta realize that the CFR and the SC decision wasn't among conservative promises. It was just all Bush apologists (bushbots, if you will) making up an excuse for Bush's actions.

I have a hard time trying to pin down exactly what 'conservative promises' have actually been made (and kept) by this administration. I'm sure someone will point out some, but I'm still kept wondering for the most part.

116 posted on 12/28/2003 12:18:24 PM PST by templar
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