Summer is over for America

Worldnet Daily ^ | 9/7/05 | Pat Buchanan

[Dog Gone]

Pat hits the nail in his head with this one.

[NeoCaveman]

I'll tell you summer's over. When the Pats took the field, the Red Sox were switched to the small TV at my club.

Well football is the king of all sports.

But right now it's (Cleveland) Indian Summer.

[Pretty Boy Floyd]

Because Bots like you buy into the corporate propaganda every time.

The facts are that Pat was right and the rest of the GOP wrong on nearly every issue. Illegal immigration, the Culture War, the Iraq War and interventionist foreign policy, etc etc etc.

The GOP can smear Buchanan all they want. But Pat's predictions are all laid out in black and white, in case anyone tries to deny the facts.

[kevao]

More b#$hing from Pat but he offers no solutions.

Well, let's see. He talks about outrageous pork spending, a $400 billion federal deficit, a $700 billion trade deficit, an anemic personal savings rate of merely 1%, burgeoning Medicare and Social Security obligations...

Hmmm, I think one implicit solution in his article is STOP SPENDING SO DAMN MUCH MONEY!!! Or did you miss that one?

[John Lenin]

Pat can kiss my arse, he's a dim witted moron.

[OpusatFR]

Oh, Bull.

An area the size of a small country gets innundated and trashed and two weeks later the kids are going to school, families are relocated and the cleanup begins.

I remember WWII. Thank God these people weren't around.

[BJClinton]

You should put a Patsi Alert! on threads like this.

[listenhillary]

So why bother with Free Republic? You'd be better off spending your time at your Buchanan shrine.

[kevao]

I disagree with PB on a whole lotta things, but he's right about our current spending rates being unsustainable. Anyone who doesn't recognize that fact is the dim-witted moron.

[John Lenin]

All he does is throw bombs, thats why Ralph Nader got more votes than he did. It's amazing that such a failure gets so much air time.

[nikos1121]

Does the bridge have anything to do with future oil exploration?

[Artemis Webb]

"I refuse to read anything PB says"

Yet you don't hesitate to write about it?"

That is correct.

If Jimmy Carter writes about foreign policy I don't read it...I've seen enough.

If Hillary Clinton writes about health care I don't read it...I've seen enough.

If Michael Moore writes ANYTHING I don't read it...I've seen enough.

And if Patrick "they won't let me be President so I'm just gonna pout" Buchanan writes a column I don't read it...I've seen enough.

[Darnright]

>Yet, make no mistake. Summer is over for America – and George Bush. That unifying image of Bush atop the pile of debris in lower Manhattan days after 9-11 has been displaced by ugly accusations and recriminations over who lost New Orleans. Katrina has exposed the limits of federal power and the absence of a serious set of national priorities.<

I'm not sure I understand Buchanan here. I would have thought he of all people would have an understanding of the limits of federal power. In the wake of Katrina, it's my hope that more Americans get a better understanding of both the role of the federal government and the role of each state's power and responsibility.

>Had half that sum been spent fortifying the levees of Lake Pontchartrain, New Orleans would not be underwater today.<

I seriously doubt this statement. And, let's be realistic, had the Feds given Louisiana an additional 1/4 of a million dollars for the levees, there are even odds the funds would have ended up fueling the corruption of the state's greedy politicians.

I am disappointed in Mr Buchanan, but not surprised that he would take this opportunity to bash Republicans yet again, in a period of crisis.

[Artemis Webb]

The truth?

I'll give you the truth.

Patrick Buchanan is a loser.

[Kozak]

Had half that sum been spent fortifying the levees of Lake Pontchartrain,

... every politician in Louisiana would own a mansion in the Bahama's and have a nice fat Swiss Bank account, and the city would still be underwater.

[Pretty Boy Floyd]

Very intelligent and deep comment.

[GOP_1900AD]

Well Pat, W is coming on strong. In charge, decisive, doing what is needed, being a good manager. That's what I wanted when I voted for him. Sorry Pat, you're out to lunch on this one.

[VadeRetro]

With 9-11, we got a wake-up call. With Katrina, the smoke alarm went off. America needs today an authentic conservatism that will end our Asian wars, shed this empire, bring the budgets back into balance – no matter the political cost – and make demands on us all for sacrifices.

I don't want out of that "Asian War" until I know that ending there won't just move it back here.

[Penner]

With Marines and Army troops headed for third tours in Iraq, and the Guard and Reserve reaching the breaking point, how would we fight another war in any of the 50 countries we are committed to defend? And what are 37,000 U.S. troops still doing on a DMZ defending South Korea from a country with one-half its population and 3 percent of its economic wealth?

Go Pat Go!

[GreenAccord]

Pat hits the nail in his head with this one.

ZING!!!

That's priceless!