Posted on 09/10/2005 9:41:07 AM PDT by rcocean
"The tax cuts, or the welfare-warfare state, or the New American Empire has to go. We cannot afford them all."
Let me explain what Pat is saying. Bush cannot keep increasing the federal budget and justify tax cuts at the same time. Although government is the most wasteful form of "business", Bush believes that government is the answer to all our problems. What happened to the old republican mantra of "smaller government"?
"I disagree with your position. This is a CONSERVATIVE FORUM not the George Bush Fan club. You remind me of all those idiots I knew as kid during the Vietnam War. The dummies would attack anyone who criticized LBJ/Nixon because "we must support our commander-in-chief."
I voted for GWB because he was supposed to be a conservative and I will criticize him when he breaks his promises and acts like a liberal."
Amen! I consider myself very conservative. Quite frankly I might question some of the Bush supporters on how conservative they are on issues like the border, government spending(huge increase in "social" programs),
and Bush's low interest national loans(pre Katrina) targeted in his own words towards "brown and black" people.
Mr. Buchannan makes some very good points.
This article is incoherent. Pat uses Katrina as a hook for all the usual litany of complaints. He's lost whatever modest edge he ever had--now he's just old news.
The best line in an article filled with factual truth, but in a tone not worthy of a Reaganite. Where's the optimism Pat? Granted, life in America today is not what it use to be and of course, government isn't the solution to our problems, government is the problem. So be it. When Americans face a challenge, we respond with total effort and overwhelming confidence. After everthing is said and done, Katrina will be an historical footnote and America will remain the best hope for the future of mankind.
Pat's cried wolf before and he's been proven wrong more times then I'd like to remember. But when you look at the entire picture Pat paints, an honest viewing shouldn't be set aside.
Another great hand-wringing moment from Pat.
Of course. Like some others, Pat is one of the house slaves of the leftwing plantation. Sometimes they even let him eat with the liberal media stars in the main dining room. He just has to do a little stepn'fetchit for the Left once in awhile to keep his place.
Pat Buchanan was twice a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination and the Reform Party’s candidate in 2000. He is also a founder and editor of The American Conservative. Now a political analyst for MSNBC and a syndicated columnist, he served three presidents in the White House, was a founding panelist of three national TV shows, and is the author of seven books.
What is it about getting "brown and black" people into the ownership, capitalist economy, that you object to? As a conservative, it sounds like a fine idea to me.
This may be hard for some of you but try to picture a huge ocean going ship making a turn in course. The helmsman spins the wheel and nothing happens for about five miles. Then, slowly, a gradual shift appears and almost imperceptibly, before you know it, you are heading in a new direction. If you expect instant results, all you will see is some turbulence, no change in course, and wonder WTF is going on.
If Mr. Bush would end continued (and dangerous IMHO) US foreign policy which annually gives billions of US Tax Dollars, technology, and other aid to foreign countries and dictators who openly despise the US... I would gladly give my tax cut back WITH interest!
Well then, Jim should change the name of this forum from "Free Republic" to "Whatever the President Says"
...so nice, it had to be posted twice...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1481284/posts
who'll post it again tomorrow?
I suppose Buchanan's beef with the Republican party is the same as mine: its much-touted conservative image is just that: image and nothing more.They talk conservative while acting liberal:expanding government role in eduction(No Child Left Unbrainwashed), want to fight on behalf of other countries,while leaving our own borders inadequately defended from the illegal alien flood,support a President who attacks same-sex "marriage" with one side of his mouth and supports civil unions with the other. Need I go on? Just one of these is enough to make any one disgusted with the GOP.
LOL!
"A nation that will never die"? Never say never. The signs of national collapse are all around us, sad to say:abandonment of God, moral rot, porous borders,continued erosion of national sovereignty, the approaching police state, etc. And these horrors will continue because Americans refuse to turn the TV off and face reality. Sad.
"Stand beside her, and guide her, through the night with the light from above." The next time you mouth those words, think of them as a prayer.
I know these great documents acknowledge God. I know this country was founded on Biblical principles. This doesn't change what I said. My point is that this country is abandoning God by abandoning these principles.Politicians swear an oath on the Bible to uphold the Constitution,but don't give a hoot for the Bible or the Constitution.They betray their oaths by the socialist agenda they impose on us. And We, the People let them get away with it.
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