BUDGET INCREASE FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS

The Drudge Report ^ | 01-28-2004 | Matt Drudge

[Captain Peter Blood]

BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS... Laura Bush plans to announce the request -- for the largest increase in two decades -- on Thursday... Developing...

[tubavil]

Is bush a closet socialist?

[pollywog]

Sick.....just sick!!

[Boiling point]

Talk about welfare for the rich! N.E.A. Is nothing but funding to allow the rich to indulge their hobbies at the expense of the taxpayers. At least that is what the left will call it now that a republican wants to fund it.

[victoryovertheleft]

That might well be better spent here, if it is spent well.

It won't be going to fund a Crucifix in Urine, or anything like that.

As some of you might recall, Ken Burns' film The Civil War was partially funded by the NEA and it, IMHO, is the one piece of patriotic filmmaking of recent years which will be long-remembered.

[dts32041]

Yup the pubbies are sure conservative aren't they big education increases, cfr, now this.

Oh well where are the conservatives going to go, conservatives have become the demo rat blacks of the pubbie party.

[ovrtaxt]

But, if it goes to fund patriotic art- what's wrong with that? A good use of money, so far as I'm concerned.

Wouldn't you rather keep your own money and buy or create your own patriotic art with it? Government has no business doing this.

[faithincowboys]

I think he is trying to soften them, but he needs to understand that it's appeasement.

I actually think the libs will say this is irresponsible in a time of deficits. In some ways, I see the intelligence of this, but I think he could have put the money towards Pell grants.

[GeronL]

That must have been a trial balloon that went nowhere.

[Beck_isright]

They need more money for the illegal alien undocumented worker artists to create more perverted art. Just doing the preverted things normal Americans don't want.

[eddie willers]

If this story is accurate, it's a strategic error on the part of the White House.

Damn right.
No more Andrew Cunanan musicals!

[victoryovertheleft]

Give me a break folks, you're going to give your tacit support to the Party of Treason over a few million? How stupid are you?

[Amerigomag]

And the apologists just keep posting the mantra over and over and over again.

Welcome to the RNC edition of FreeRepublic. The vast middle conspiracy.

[MamaLucci]

They are either so far removed from the grassroots that
they don't see the very real anger out here
(particularly over the immigration proposal) or they just don't care.

[Merdoug]

Just be a good little Bushbot and keep repeating:
"Bush can do no wrong,...."
"Bush can do no wrong,..."

[Captain Peter Blood]

It's a government outfit that dispenses funds all over the country for the so called Arts, like museums, acting, etc.
It's a waste of money. They give money to a lot of controversial projects that really need to be handled by private money not taxpayer funds.
Republicans have been trying to put this agency out of business for along time. Finally had really cut their budget down to the bare bones and now Bush wants lots of new funding for them. Unreal!

[RaceBannon]

Because Bush is not a Conservative. He is a republican.

[victoryovertheleft]

Governments thoughout history have funded patriotic art and memorials. The NEA designed the Vietnam Memorial, for example (or, rather sponsored its design).

And, while I'd happily pay for patriotic art- it's rather clear that a lot of other people won't. Therefore, government should encourage it.

[GeronL]

Many Republicans are statists... just a little less than Democrats

Very few seem very conservative