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Bush Is Said to Seek More Money for Arts [$15 million to $20 million for NEA]
New York Times ^
| January 29, 2004
| ROBERT PEAR
Posted on 01/28/2004 8:29:35 PM PST by yonif
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To: Miss Marple
I don't suggest this site to many people anymore, unless I am certain they understand the high number of grumps on this board, and what their motives are.
You should reread this thread from the beginning and tally up the number of personal insults. This board has been infested with low brow "bush bots".
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:22:28 AM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: Dane
Higher standards for schools is popular. Or are you against high standards for schools. Higher standards?
What a pantload.
Public schools stink.
Throw more money at them.. they get worse..
Is there ANY leftist tripe you won't rationalize for this socialist president?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:23:58 AM PST
by
OWK
To: Dane
Your examples(mapplethorpe etc.etc.) were all funded during the Reagan administration.Mapplethorp continues to be funded by the NEA. Just produced a play in 2001 on NEA (IE TAXPAYER) funds.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:25:01 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: OWK
Ive been having fun with the bushbots myself lately. What a bunch of wussies.
324
posted on
01/29/2004 4:25:44 AM PST
by
ovrtaxt
(Sick of big government Republicans, but you have nowhere to go? Visit www.rlc.org)
To: Texasforever
Because Laura wants something to advocate. Then let her advocate something that doesn't cost me money.
I'm sick of socialists.
325
posted on
01/29/2004 4:25:51 AM PST
by
OWK
To: kristinn; Miss Marple
the tag-team bullying I agree - this site is becoming increasingly bitter and unpleasant, particularly with relation to certain topics(immigration, and in fact, any Bush domestic program).
The tag team nature of it is what makes me suspect that some of it is probably being conducted by Dem plants who are essentially trying to keep the more suggestible folks on this site in a state of anti-Bush hysteria.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:26:08 AM PST
by
livius
To: RiflemanSharpe
Single issue you say? Let's tally them, shall we? 1) Most rapid expansion of government debt in history (yes, he's cut taxes in the immediate term, but someday this horrendous debt will fall due), 2) bone-headed amnesty-by-installment-pander plan for 20 million new illegal alien
cum Democrat voters, 3) willful and knowing signing of unconstitutional criticism-stifling incumbent-protecting CFR legislation, 4) trillion dollar Medicare boondoggle pander for the elder vote, 5) increased funding for the National Endowment for the Arts (proud and defiant sponsor for such fine works of art as "Christ Piss" and Mapplethorpe's homoerotic photography). That's five big issues--and that's just a quick once-over.
You need a math tutor.
Bush is busting the bank trying to prove to the loony left with our money and patience that he is a "compassionate conservative."
These debacles were and are Bush's initiatives. He has proposed them in a cynical gamble that more leftists will be won over to him than he will lose in conservative voters who have been betrayed. If Bush loses, he will bear responsibility for making a very, very bad bet. Please remember that when you are grumpy and raging over a Kerry presidency.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:27:03 AM PST
by
Kevin Curry
(Dems' magnificent four: Shrieking Nikita, Frenchie La Lurch , Gen. Jack D. Ripper, and Lionel Putz)
To: Miss Marple
Regardless of whether or not it is a budgetary wash, there is a principle here. They need to hear from supporters.
President@whitehouse.gov
To: 88keys; Akron Al; babyface00; Badray; Bikers4Bush; boxerblues; Captiva; Commiewatcher; ...
My friends in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York, and across the country. Gary Marx from BC'04 told me at CPAC the Bush43 would be rolling out some things that would surprise the conservative wing of the party. Looks like he was right.
At one time the Republican Party wanted to drive a stake through the heart of the National Endowment for the Arts, now it appears that Bush43 is not listening to Van Helsing and is actually breathing life back into the monster.
It appears that Bush43 and BC'04 is standing there, with there hands on their hips, saying:"I double dog dare ya to not vote for me. I can do anything, and you will put your tail between your legs and lick my fingers because you hate the alternative so much."
I ask you: Is this the man who ran four years ago as a conservative? Would you have voted for him four years ago if you knew that this administration would turn out this way? Is the tax cut and the war on terror enough to make up for all the things that are coming forward now?
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In God We Trust
..Semper Fi!
To: Kevin Curry
Pains me to say it.. but "well said".
(did I just say that?)
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:30:23 AM PST
by
OWK
To: Kevin Curry
Making great sense, Kevbo.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:34:06 AM PST
by
RJCogburn
("That's you, Cheney. You lost the horse.".....Lucky Ned Pepper.)
To: Kevin Curry
332
posted on
01/29/2004 4:34:22 AM PST
by
OWK
To: livius
There may be some of that, but there's also a campaign to keep conservatives on the Republican plantation. Immigration and President Bush's domestic programs are what conservatives are rebeling over.
To: livius
If Bush loses, will you ascribe any responsibility
at all to him for his loss?
You are enabling a raging social-spending alcoholic and pander-addict and blaming the world for not making his life easier. He and Rove need to be figuratively kicked in their quasi-royal posteriors--not worshipped or excused--for serving up this crap. As his simpering, handwringing, ever-excusing enabler, you--not I--are his worst enemy.
Is Bush your king or your elected servant?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:36:38 AM PST
by
Kevin Curry
(Dems' magnificent four: Shrieking Nikita, Frenchie La Lurch , Gen. Jack D. Ripper, and Lionel Putz)
To: Kevin Curry
Single issue you say? Good list, but you forgot his stated support for the Feinstein semi-auto ban - a fine conservative stance (not).
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:37:17 AM PST
by
from occupied ga
(Your government is your most dangerous enemy, and Bush is no conservative)
To: Kevin Curry
BTTT
To: kristinn
Did you read the Dem's proposal for immigration reform, which just came out yesterday? It's pure and total immediate amnesty.
Bush was doing a preemptive strike on that one, and on many of his other programs.
I think this arts suggestion is actually quite good - I'd love to see classic American theater taught in the schools again, to replace the "Vagina Monologues."
My feeling is not that all Bush's proposals are perfect, but that they have potential and are a genuine attempt to deal with genuine problems. They are certainly open to discussion. But irrationally rejecting any change to the status quo is going to bring back the Dems, and then we're really going to be hurting.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:45:11 AM PST
by
livius
To: Kevin Curry
If Bush loses, he will bear responsibility for making a very, very bad bet.
You are presuming that Bush actually wants a second term. Perhaps the real payoff in presidential politics is at the end of the first term?
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:45:53 AM PST
by
ARCADIA
(Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
To: from occupied ga
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One can't forget how he let Bubba and his fellow crooks off the hook. They should have been brought to justice.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:46:34 AM PST
by
KantianBurke
(2+2 does NOT equal 5)
To: livius
A fine a job at excuse-mongering as I've seen in some time.
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posted on
01/29/2004 4:47:30 AM PST
by
OWK
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