Drunken GOP Sailors

Wall Street Journal ^ | January 20, 2004 | Masthead Editorial

[neverdem]

Even Bill Clinton and a Democratic Congress didn't spend like this.

In tonight's State of the Union address, President Bush can claim credit for a rebounding economy spurred by two rounds of tax cuts. He can take further credit for pushing those cuts despite opposition from the deficit hand-wringers--including, we now know, his first Treasury Secretary.

[Moby Grape]

What difficult times we are in. We are faced with voting, on one hand, for a man who does have the courage and conviction to take the fight to an enemy who would come to our shores with intent to kill us all, but who on the other hand SADLY is putting into place programs (or growth of programs) that will sometime in the near future assure an ecomonic meltdown.

And economic meltdown will end the American experience.....we die now, or we die later.

Our votes are putting-our-fingers-in-the-dyke votes.....with a democrat the dyke would be BLOWN up...with Candy Man George, the dyke will eventually collaspe from the pressures upon it....and the flood will be great.

[Lazamataz]

What difficult times we are in. We are faced with voting, on one hand, for a man who does have the courage and conviction to take the fight to an enemy who would come to our shores with intent to kill us all, but who on the other hand SADLY is putting into place programs (or growth of programs) that will sometime in the near future assure an ecomonic meltdown.

And economic meltdown will end the American experience.....we die now, or we die later.

Our votes are putting-our-fingers-in-the-dyke votes.....with a democrat the dyke would be BLOWN up...with Candy Man George, the dyke will eventually collaspe from the pressures upon it....and the flood will be great.

Articulately and cogently put!!!!

[cynicom]

Amen brother and an Amen.

[MEG33]

I want them to get spending down.Have you seen what the dems are proposing..?

[RJCogburn]

I am a conservative,not a dem or a pub. Pubs here do not want to hear from conservatives, they just want our votes.

Yes, cyni, you have that right.

What is the difference between Blacks on the Dem plantation, and conservatives on the Repub?

[RJCogburn]

That about nails it.

[neverdem]

As a former drunken sailor I resent being compared to congress.

I regret to inform you that an admission like this could form the basis of a denial of a right to self-defense.

[cc2k]

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President Bush can help shore up his conservative base and appeal to many moderate voters by exercising his very first veto here.

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A veto of this all-you-can-grab porkfest would certainly help his re-election prospects. Don't believe everything you read about 91% support from conservatives, many will stay home if Bush continues to lead this fiscally irresponsible spending binge.

[BlackbirdSST]

When the MASTHEAD in the WALL STREET JOURNAL is cussing out the Republicans in general --and Dubya in particular -- it is time to sit up and take notice, people.

Good Luck. Blackbird.

[neverdem]

President Bush can help shore up his conservative base and appeal to many moderate voters by exercising his very first veto here.

What a threat W is making, his first veto. His new tone only enabled his enemies.

[Your Nightmare]

BTTT

[Kenton]

Speaking of being smashed and John F'ing Kerry, what on earth was Kerry's wife on when they interviewed her the other day, heroin?

[Bronco_Buster_FweetHyagh]

Haha. Great article title. It's true - Bush and the congressional republicans are spending our money like a bunch of drunken sailors.

[leadpenny]

She is kind of a space cadet. I've heard that he met her when she worked at the UN and that she has been to the Interpreter's School, I believe, in Switzerland. Is she French or something?

[LN2Campy]

another nugget -- the 23 million for high school piss tests.

"IT'S FOR THE CHILLLLLLLDREN!!!"

[cynicom]

I am tired of the whining and sniveling by pubs that if the ignorant conservatives do not vote for their man, we will get a nasty democrat. Other than war on terror, I voted for Bush and got a huge increase in government size and spending. Somewhere along the line three quarters of my vote got in the wrong bin.

I wonder if this year I could just vote 1/4 for Bush and withhold the other 3/4????

[af_vet_rr]

Anyone that voted republican expecting smaller government needs a reality check. A professional politician has one thing in mind, "RE ELECTION". These lifetime politicians perpetuate their job via the U.S. Treasury.

Amen to that.

[Texas Federalist]

Anyone that voted republican expecting smaller government needs a reality check. A professional politician has one thing in mind, "RE ELECTION". These lifetime politicians perpetuate their job via the U.S. Treasury.

According to the article, the real annual rate of spending decreased under Reagan and increased by about 2% annually under Clinton, yet they were reelected. How is it we need a reality check to hope that Bush keeps spending in check as much as Clinton did with a Democrat Congress?

[cynicom]

Clinton had a surplus, remember? I don't think pub congress and prez gonna do that. Drunken sailors they are.

[RiflemanSharpe]

My wife is a school teacher, if they do wiz quiz these guys they will find chemical compounds that dupont does not know about. Trust me.