[Map Kernow]

Of course the dirty little secret, is that red meat types only get REALLY upset about government spending on stuff that they cannot relate too. I haven't read anyone getting upset about below market rate lease rates to ranchers who rent land from the feds for cattle grazing. I really haven't read much about government spending on the big ticket items either, ie medicare, medical subsidies, and social security, that made any sense. I haven't read any rants about spending on ethanol, and agricultural subsidies in general. I haven't read much about the maintenance of wasteful domestic military bases.

What makes you think we like that stuff instead? Haven't you heard??? Conservatives are mad at Bush over OVERALL OVER-spending. You want us to cherry-pick so we don't look "uncultured"?

This isn't about spending. It is about folks' splenetic over-reaction to a culture war they want to fight, with targets that prove so ever elusive, that they really can't get satisfaction from the fight. So they seek enemies anywhere that they can possibly be found, and then go ballistic.

Garbage. Why the HELL is a Republican President coming out now and increasing the budget for this particular boondoggle? You don't think there's political calculation behind it, however bone-headed? And yet you want to begrudge conservatives the right to react politically to this Clintonesque, Dick Morris inspired "mini-intiative" designed to appeal to the cultural and political left---you think it's going to appeal to conservatives or that it's meant to???

[Torie]

It appeals to me, because I think I got it right. It is not meant to persuade those that are not subject to persuasion. It is meant as commentary. I appreciate you don't like it. Fair enough.