[abclily]

What's everybody whining about? Bush said from the beginning he was a compassionate conservative. You guys don't like the compassionate part?

[PBRSTREETGANG]

You guys don't like the compassionate part?

Sure, it's compassionate with an emphasis on the "ass". Which is right where this one will kick us.

Bush's proposal is so utterly unworkable that the only thing it would accomplish is to impose yet another level of beauracracy on American businesses and taxpayers.

[lentulusgracchus]

Bush said from the beginning he was a compassionate conservative. You guys don't like the compassionate part?

Read your newspapers; David Brooks (of Weekly Standard editorial staff) recently wrote in the Grey Lady that "compassionate conservatism" is on the way out. Bush and Rove are looking for a new Republican paradigm. Brooks suggested "reform" (as in, Fighting Bob LaFollette?!), which would turn Dubya's McKinleyite administration into a Bullmoose one.

But "compassionate conservatism" is supposedly a dud. (Don't get mad at me, I'm just telling you what some connected journo wrote.) And the Bush people are going to junk it.