A brilliant piece and sadly accurate; it will go nowhere.
Bush is farther to the left on spending than Bill Clinton was during his Presidency. And whoever succeeds Bush will be even farther to the left. If it's a Democrat, I'm not sure the Union will survive. We may have our own little 21st Century Boston Tea Party.
First of all I would ask if it is important to spend the money in rebuilding the gulf coast....answer to that is YES with hands down.
Next I would ask, is all the aid to china, france, germany, russia, and the rest of the world worth it and my answer to that is NO with hands down...
So that is how I justify helping our American people BEFORE we help the ungrateful world....
Well that speech back in 2000 about "Compassionate Conservatism "and "On the Backs Of the Poor " told you all you needed to know about Bush's social affairs position
Awesome point! Spend, spend, and spend. If taxes are being cut, then the government is cutting other programs to pay for the aid to Katrina (soon Rita too) and the Iraq war right? No! Where's the conservatism in that? Whatever happened to simply protecting our borders, building a national defense, and providing truly free enterprise? Bush has tried to appear as a compassionate conservative on so many situations, but his hopeless attempts have molded into what seems to be inexpedient liberalism. I witnessed the night when McCain stood up in the Senate and went off on the highway bill's unacceptable pork. You could just see Murkowski, acting as presiding officer, squirming in her seat while piercing McCain with a gaze of disdain and greed, and Stevens, boasting in his chair as the Pro Tempore, exuding a slight smirk and chuckle as he hears McCain cite that most of the pork is going directly to his state. The pork is superfluous and must be stopped somehow!
Peggy's once sharp analytic abilities are certainly slipping. There is nothing arguably shrewd about destroying any credibility, you ever had. Those of us, who in our times--mine many years back--fought the Leftist Collegiate establishments, with success, can well attest what use the Leftist Collegiate establishments are going to make of Mr. Bush's "Compassionate Conservatism," over the next generation. It will be an Albatross around the necks of the Campus Conservatives.
No, it is not shrewd politics. Nor, of course, as Peggy recognizes, is it shrewd sociology, economics or anything else. The Republicans in Congress who understand these things, and care about the future of the Party, had better find ways to distance themselves from these policies--and yesterday is not a whit too soon.
William Flax
Bridge to Nowhere: Is that a SUNY Stony Brook reference?
can't we donate the poor and the blacks to some other country---if you can think of one that will take them that is--- hey their welfare checks would make them rich in Zimbabwe
I can't help but think that the country would've cheered a full frontal attack on the race hustlers. Though Hispanics are now a larger minority than blacks the racial angle polling from the MSM was strictly Black vs White views. Wha?
Anyway whites overwhelmingly dismiss the racial angle. Yet Bush comes out as a racial apologist. It's pathetic and out of touch with his base. And actually the populace as a whole.
What a waste. You can't buy good race relations, Chief.
Peggy Noonan gets it. You gotta decide if you are a Conservative or a Republican. Way to put it Peggy.
From the opening bell, Bush and Kennedy became buds on education and the spending race was on.
I always thought it meant liberal about everything except big business.