Posted on 07/11/2004 9:26:00 PM PDT by goldstategop
An important and serious argument is going on in Washington about whether taxes on Americans' incomes should stay where they are or dramatically rise, and whether government spending should continue its accelerating growth. We know what Democrats think. They despise tax cuts and believe government spending should be higher. Washington Republicans, on the other hand, are unsure of themselves. They used to be for lower taxes and smaller government; now they seem to want bigger spending even if it means higher taxes, abandoning Reagan conservatism for '60s liberalism. In other words, this is a battle for the heart of the Republican Party; the outcome matters, and it seems to be in doubt. With the help of three liberal Republicans (Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island), and one who should know better (John McCain of Arizona), the Senate, with 51 votes, adopted a rule that if passed in the House will end all the Bush tax cuts and ensure that no new ones are enacted.
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Oh, glorious... a Bush-bash fest in the middle of a critical election season.
1992 redux...
Hey, do us all a favor, go flush yourself down that toilet bowl.
I would like to direct you to a book, "The Creature From Jeckyll Island." And, there is another book which whose title I can get and post.
We are being ripped off; ownership of the nation's assets is being transferred to large organizations, while the citizenry is becoming a debtor class. This is only possible because banks themselves have an endless supply of money to lend out, being stuffed with fictional "deposits," created at will by the Federal Reserve. This fictional money, lent at low rates to the population, encourages the population to assume too much debt. Only a winding down of the actions of the Federal Reserve "Bank", a non-governmental entity created to circumvent the Constitution and print fictional money, will stop the process.
We have a choice to make. Either we support the principle that the money system can't be rigged, and fight out way out of this rat hole, or we go into debt slavery. I don't know whether 100 years is what it would take, but the fight has begun.
A new right should be added to the constitution: The right to declare bankruptcy. Because when the government itself is in default on its obligations to uphold the constitution, and maintain a sound currency, then bankrupcy becomes a simple, unalienable right, like all the others the government studiously ignores and fails to uphold.
I guess I drew some blood...
How would you propose taking the GOP back from the Country Club RINOs, who now apparently own the whole thing lock, stock and barrel? Would a conservative caucus operating within the Republican Party be a possibility? It could function much as the embryonic Republicans did within the Whig Party of the 1850s, ultimately leaving the dead shell (of RINOs) behind once critical mass was achieved.
Reagan's 11th commandment is dead. The Country Club RINOs stabbed it in the heart in 1998 during Clinton's impeachment. There were numerous prior attempts upon its life from the same gang starting in the inglorious reign of the ultimate empty suit, George Herbert Walker "Read My Lips" Bush. I think it is high time (actually way past high time) to realiize that the Country Club RINOs are mortal enemies of Reagan's legacy every bit as much as the Dhiimicrats are and behave accordingly.
While it is most likely not in conservatives' best interest to dump Bush this year by voting third party - unless you're in a hopelessly Dhimmicrat state - voting against Senate RINOs like Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, McCain, Hatch, Specter, and their counterparts in the House might help send a message to Rove and the gang that they should start paying attention to their base instead of bending over to please folks who will rape them at every opportunity. Bush and Rove are rank amateurs compared to any Dhiimicrat when in comes to pandering. I wonder why so much time and money has been spent doing so. As furious as I am with Bush 43 and his outright liberalism, I would expect a Kerry regime to end the republic altogether - with the Partriot Act being used to root out any opposition from conservatives, shut down churches, etc.
As you mentioned in a previous post, there are a huge number of people who are receiving more in government largesse than they pay out in taxes which, as Toqueville warned, is the harbinger of doom for the American republic. Eventually Atlas will indeed shrug, and the whole miserable house of cards will tumble into chaos.
This isn't a Bush-bash fest, pinhead.
It's a discussion of important issues related to the future of the GOP and political conservatives in general. I understand why you object. You're not a conservative. You're a self proclaimed pragmatist.
Throw a stick into a pack of dogs and the one that yelps is the one ya hit...
Some conservatives learned from 1992, some are begging for Clinton Reloaded.
I did that a few years ago, M1 : 8200 tons in Ft Knox. It worked out to something like $420,000 / oz.
You have a serious problem. People are going to criticize PresBush. Grow some thicker skin, or try posting at Lucianne.com. Might be more your speed.
Watch out, nopardons is on the loose. Woohoo!
Ronald Reagan was a principled conservative and a pragmatic politician. He was da man!
What is your problem?
Ahhhh, I see.... and here I thought it was just an old-fashioned "I'm The Most Conservative Guy Here Cause Look At How Loudly I Whine" pissing contest ;-)
I'm not the one with a problem,pet. :-)
Yes, his nick is a sham.
No, you just interrupted their little bitch fest. Another day, another rag-on-Bush thread on FR...
Do I need to come in and supervise? ;-)
Has been one for a very long time. :-(
If Bush deserves to be bitched at, it's ok for people to bitch at him.
For growing non defense spending at 300% the rate Clinton grew it, I'd say he deserves it.
And the little "dears" don't like being hit over the head with facts. hehehehehehehehehe
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