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...

[Pubbie]

I agree - I'd rather not have to make that decision either.

[yonif]

No matter who is in power, government increases in size. Both parties are on the road to socialism - but have different rates of movement.

[GeronL]

#285...

I'm lost... ask mhking about what?? =o)

[gatorgriz]

If this report is true; and thats a big if...

Well I've got ask the burning question... When are our Republican representatives going to start representing the folks whom elected them? Omnibus spending bills loaded and larded with pork barrel craziness ain't gonna cut it.

Neither are hare-brained immigration and prescription drug schemes...

Big budget increases for the National Endowment for the (F)Arts? Give me a F'ng Break!

The folks we elected need to come to terms with these facts:

No matter how much you pander to the Dumbocratic constituency it won't ever, ever, never in a million years be enough to keep you in power, or ever in a million years get their vote...

Pandering quite simply gets us no where... This, if true, is disgusting... When are our elected Republicans going to start acting like Republicans? They look more like a bunch of drunken sots on shore leave in Manila...

This is absoultely insane... The RNC gets zippo from the kid this election cycle...

[browardchad]

I am unhappy about this however - if he reduces it or tries to eliminate it, he hands a weapon to the liberals to attack him.

Right, it's a hot campaign issue. (/sarcasm)

[Johnny_Cipher]

How about going back to under $100 million???

How about 0$? I need to see more bread and fewer circuses from this administration.

[jgrubbs]

...Lynn Cheney as the director for the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts...

You mean the same Lynne Cheney who claims to be a vociferous opponent of "political correctness". In Cheney's illustrated children's book, "America: A Patriotic Primer" however you will find a little bit of "political correctness"

On the page for the letter 'H' (for Heroes)...is a drawing of a famous FDR photo which showed him smoking a cigarette in a cigarette-holder. However, in this drawing he is not smoking. Gone are the cigarette and holder.

Lynne Cheney expressed in a September 2000 interview with the Washington Times, that "political correctness" is "a real threat to free expression, the open clash of ideas, to all those things we've valued in this country."

From a Christian perspective, the most ridiculous example of "political correctness" is on the page for the letter 'G' (for God), opposite a drawing of "Main Street USA" that includes a mosque and a Hindu temple.

[FreedomCalls]

That's not my argument with you. I agree with what you just said. What I don't agree with is your claim that "triangulation worked like a charm for Clinton." It didn't. He won re-election because of Perot. Ignoring Clinton's impeachment and proclaiming how wise he was is a DU-style tactic.

[Mo1]

It only takes about 20 posts to go from "if this is true" to "WE ARE DOOMED!"

Since we are all doomed .. has Drudge put up more then a head line yet?

[yonif]

Tom Perrault
Crosswalk.com Weblog Editor
Wednesday, January 28, 2004

Bush to Boost Arts Funding

Tonight, Matt Drudge is reporting that President Bush is poised to announce Thursday a huge budget increase for the National Endowment for the Arts.

Say it ain't so, George!

According to Drudge, Laura Bush will be announcing the proposed budget windfall, which would represent the largest amount for the NEA in two decades.

What is the president thinking on this one -- that the Left will suddenly stop calling him names and instead embrace him if he supports the "art" sponsored by the NEA? Bear in mind that we're often discussing such less-than-artistic endeavors like crucifixes in urine and similarly "enlightened" displays.

Clearly, as some nutballs in the arts community would suggest when such horrific works are attacked by critics, I "don't get it." Still...a gigantic increase for the National Endowment of the Arts?

Also, let's not forget the little matter of out-of-control spending, including huge increases in virtually every budget area -- resulting in a painfully swollen deficit.

Now, an enormous stipend for the NEA...authored by none other than George W. Bush.

Stay tuned.

[Joe Hadenuf]

Good post. And that's exactly what is happening. Unfortunately, some hard core party people will help drive this country into the ground, all for the sake of thier little candidate or party.

IMHO, these types are the worst and are down right, politically dangerous.

[FreeReign]

Oh my how the Republican Congress has changed!! ... They really went after it back in the mid-1990s:

They really went after it just one year. And by the end of that year Newt was all but gonzo.

[WOSG]

BGC(*): "I'm not opposed to 'government' I'm opposed to left-wing government."

PaleoCon: "Am left speechless."

The oxymoron of the 'big Government Conservative' lives.

Frankly, I'd prefer they go and TAKE OVER THE DEMOCRAT PARTY. There aint no such thing as a big govt conservative. If you are a conservative, you dont beleive that it is proper for govt to try to be all things to all people. I think what has happened is the Democrats have become so socialist, assinine, peurile, and plain self-contradictory, some pro-big-govt people have filtered into the Republican party. We are back to the days of the Rockefellar Republicans. blech, that is some thing but it sure isnt Conservative!



(*) BigGovtConservative

[yonif]

I agree. If President Bush is reelected, I do not believe any of the stuff we didn't consider conservative he pushed for will be called back.

[babbabooeyToYall]

This administration is really trying my patience. If Drudge's story turns out to have legs, Mr. Camel's about to meet Mr. Straw and Bush-Cheney is about to lose one Virginian's vote to the benefit of Gary Nolan. Maybe with a Democrat in the White House, the GOP will remember that it's supposed to be a conservative party. I'm pining for '94.

[jgrubbs]

No, it was Ronald Reagan

[Joe Hadenuf]

Er, "their".....