GOP Congressman Says Bush No Reagan Conservative

GOPUSA ^ | September.23,2005 | Marc Morano CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer

[Reagan Man]

NO fan of Dana Rohrabacher am I.

But on this one, he's right.

[Phantom Lord]

Phantom Lord <--- Freeper who says Bush is no Reagan conservative. Or a conservative at all for that matter.

I repeat, BUSH IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!

[Reagan Man]

Btw fellow FReepers, if you post on this thread, please lets keep it civil. Okay guys.

[schaketo]

He's spot on. This is going to haunt the GOP moving forward. The party is morphing into Democrats Light.

[Dane]

Uh Ronald Reagan actually raised taxes(1982).

[yarddog]

I think the budget grew even under Reagan but at least he did try.

Bush is not only not a conservative, he would have been called a radical leftist maybe 100 years ago.

[nuffsenuff]

I won't be voting for Bush again. That I can guarantee.

[Phantom Lord]

I think the budget grew even under Reagan but at least he did try.

Reagan at least knew which drawer his veto pen was in. Bush has not used it a single time. Not once!

[Dane]

Bush is not only not a conservative, he would have been called a radical leftist maybe 100 years ago

And you would still be called a right wing tinfoiler(equivalent of the much larger kook left/democrat black helicopter crowd) today.

[dead]

Well, duh.

[kevkrom]

NO fan of Dana Rohrabacher am I. But on this one, he's right.

For someone invokign Reagan's name, however, he seems to have forgotten the 11th Commandment.

[Russ]

Many Republicans in both the House and Senate are using Bush as a cop-out and an excuse. They have the power of the purse. They can cut whatever they darn well please and then see what happens. The fact is that too many of their fellow Republicans in congress agree with the President and are not interested in fiscal responsibility. All that you have to do to see the problem is to watch Mr. fiscal conservative himself, Ron Paul. How many billions is he going to want for his district after Rita passes through?

We taxpayers are screwed and that's the bottom line...

[Ron in Acreage]

The military budget grew to fight the cold war against the Ruskies. It has paid off big time! Bushs social spending makes Clinton look like a tightwad.

[ilgipper]

Reagan at least knew which drawer his veto pen was in. Bush has not used it a single time. Not once!

Exactly. That is probably the biggest criticism I can think of for this President. Signing crap like McCain-Feingold, pork-filled transportation bills, etc, etc are the one place he needed to show leadership.

He needed to take a leadership position on spending restraint long ago. That fact, and his immigration stance are two blemishes on an otherwise fantastic Presidency.

[Reagan Man]

This is about PresBush`s liberal spending habits, Dane. How about addressing the increases in social spending under Pres Bush and the majority GOP Congress. PresReagan was't fortunate to have a solid GOP Congress behind him in his day, yet Reagan was successful in cutting non-military discretionary spending in his first term and he reduced welfare and entitlement spending over the course of his eight years in office. Both have gone up significantly under Bush43.

Cong Rohrabacher, Franks, Tancredo and the other Congressmen in the 110 member Republican Study Committee, want to get federal spending under control. NOW!

[Sometimes A River]

Master of the Obvious.

[Phantom Lord]

I still believe Bush signed McCain-Feingold because he and his advisors thought it was what the American people wanted and Bush and his advisor further thought that without question the Supreme Court would strike it down as an unconstitutional violation of the 1st amendment.

I sided with the right thing to do from the beginning. Vetoing it.

[jbwbubba]

THis is crap, under Reagan the budget exploded not only defense spending but ever dept increased greatly. and yes Reagan used the Veto, some because he had a Democratic control Congress for the most part. Last time I took a civics class it is the congress that passes the budget, you want to be pissed, be pissed at the republicans in congress like Rohrabacher. Yes, Bush has taken the easier political route of not vetoing bills so he won't be accused of starving kid's school lunches or having the media scream about the "split republican party" by not vetoing bills from a republican controlled house.
One thing is true the Republican Party is no longer the Republican party it is fast becoming the Donner party.

[yarddog]

And you would still be called a right wing tinfoiler(equivalent of the much larger kook left/democrat black helicopter crowd) today

Go ahead, get it all out, you will feel better.

[Das Outsider]

Reagan at least knew which drawer his veto pen was in. Bush has not used it a single time. Not once!

It would be nice to at least see some line-item veto--at the very least!--going on with some of the nonsense Congress tries to slip through:

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