The conservatives are outraged -- about Bush (CPAC ArticleBarf Alert)

Salon ^ | 27 Jan 04 | Michelle Goldberg

[Warrior Nurse]

The conservatives are outraged -- about Bush At the annual Conservative Political Action Conference, foot soldiers of the right rail against the big-government, free-spending ways of the White House By Michelle Goldberg

[ex-snook]

"WE ARE AT WAR!!!...get your heads out of your arses! "

Then I would expect taxes to be raised to pay for it, the draft to be started, and stop exporting our factories to China. War should not be a half-arsed. It should be a National effort not just for the few and the brave.

[CyberAnt]

This whole thing is a moot point. There is already a thread on FR about the fact that the repubs in congress will not support the President's immigration policy.

End of Story!! There is no argument. If the immigration hawks would just tone it down .. they would have heard that there is not enough support to get the legislation through congress .. it's already DOA.

[dixiepatriot]

>>Yep.......so much so that I wouldn't be surprised to find some moles in these groups. After all, many are working against the re-election of Bush - translation - for the election of a Democrat.

Who cares? Bush has embraced so much of the Democrat's agenda that it's getting more and more difficult to tell them apart. I actually look forward to the days of gridlock when one party controls Congress and the other party controls the White House. With gridlock in place, it's more difficult for politicians to spend my money. Furthermore, Bush has even surpassed Slick Willie in the area of spending and expanding big government. I'm certainly not voting for Bush because of his efforts to give amnesty to illegal aliens, his signing of "campaign finance reform" into law, his Clintonian Medicare bill, his creation of vast new government bureaucracies such as the "Homeland Security" department, his support for the so-called "Patriot Act", his support of the pork-ladden farm bill, his support for the reauthorization of the "assault weapons ban", his lies about WMD in Iraq, etc. To hell with Bush!

[tuckrdout]

You know, some of us feel that we have been lied to and used....which is very clintonesque.

The President had better start listening to those of us who put him into office.

[HalfIrish]

If the immigration hawks would just tone it down .. they would have heard that there is not enough support to get the legislation through congress .. it's already DOA.

I hope you're right. But I place little credence in what Bush apologists say. For example, they said that Bush would veto the CFR bill. Then, when he caved we were told it was "strategery" since the SCOTUS would declare it unconstitutional. Surprise, surprise - now we're stuck with it. There are lots more examples of the same pattern but some people turn a blind eye to it. Don't be one of them.

[Howlin]

OK...so let me get this straight. "Conservatives are outraged at Bush" and not at the prospect of a President Kerry or name-your-favorite Dem????????? *sigh*

That about sums it up, including the *sigh*

[Mike Darancette]

And it takes a RAT to tell us?

[tuckrdout]

I believe in fact, that many voters were turned off from the elder Bush because of Ruby Ridge. This is one of the events which propelled clinton INTO the White House.

Bush 2 better take heed. We fought with our friends and relatives supporting this man. We prayed hours on end for him to win the Florida mess...I was there in the crowd on Inauguration day, freezing, but thrilled that Bush was President.

Now, I find out that the man sent a congratulatory letter to a gay church in California, saying they were "doing the Lord's work"....He proposed and imposed the largest entitlement program since FDR...he stopped giving praise to Jesus Christ and started praising the "religion of peace": islam, saying we share the same god, then brought muslims into the White House to pray....and now for some insane reason, the man wants to give our nation to the Mexicans!

Also, I hate to say it, but as for me, I feel lied to about WMD's in Iraq. I really, really believed that Iraq had them, and now I must eat crow to lots of people.

I hate the fact that Bush has validated the Dixie Chicks and the "not in our name" group.

I wanted a guy in the White House that I could trust to always tell us the truth. If he didn't actually lie, he twisted the truth, and played word games with us. This is not what we thought we were getting when we stood in the freezing rain cheering him on as he took his oath of office.

[tuckrdout]

""Conservatives are outraged at Bush" and not at the prospect of a President Kerry or name-your-favorite Dem?????????

Some believe that having a Republican House and Senate is more important than a Republican President.

[The Toll]

You nailed it.

[RiflemanSharpe]

I sadly agree.

[RiflemanSharpe]

Some believe that having a Republican House and Senate is more important than a Republican President.


That sadly looks like our best hope, since the president is a RINO.

[Southflanknorthpawsis]

Some believe that having a Republican House and Senate is more important than a Republican President.

..............and some don't. Some want all three.

[RiflemanSharpe]

So do I, to bad GWb will not govern like a republican.

[kaktuskid]

Is Al-Queda a country? (hint-you have to declare war against a COUNTRY not a group!)

[tuckrdout]

If we vote out a President who doesn't follow the desires of his base, then the House and Senate are more likely to try and please that same base, instead of taking it for granted!

[kaktuskid]

Apparently there were a lot of liars about WMD...Clinton, Bush I, the Dems before 2001, the French, the Germans..a lot of liars there!

[kaktuskid]

They were wimps during the Clinton years!! (remember the Congress today is basically 50/50 due to RINOs)

[tuckrdout]

The POTUS is going to have to do some drastic things to pull this out.

How about biting the bullet and appointing some of the fillabustered judges? Appoint long suffering Miguel Estrada and Priscilla Owen. How about even appointing BORK?!

[RiflemanSharpe]

He will have to move hard to the right to get me back.