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Truth hurts for some but I see this as dead on from a fiscal perspective.
Good editorial. I agree wholeheartedly.
Stop eating ourselves! Remember that we shouldn't have won without people like Rove and DeLay! We also have a lot of ideas. The problem is that our Congress hasn't realized our conservative agenda. The faster the better on taxes, justice (trials...), defense.
Maybe I haven't followed matters closely enough, but I don't think DeLay's very unfortunate comments on the Katrina spending are typical of his usual behavior. Also, it's one thing to be conservative but another to publicly attack the leadership.
On balance, I would have said that DeLay has been a reliable force for conservative values over the years, and I don't feel happy about shooting him down over one episode.
I thought we were not supposed to have ideas other than what the constitution says. Ideas means government programs. Conservatism is defined by an ideal, not an idea.
Ex. But even when Mr. Bush has pressed for reform, as he did this year on Social Security, Republicans on Capitol Hill have whined and resisted. If Mr. Bush failed to mobilize the country, it was in part because Congressional Republicans were so vocal in their caterwauling.
And therein is the real problem. The GOP is not short on ideas. It is short of will in the Legislatures.
The WSJ should be embarrassed by this column, they could and have done far better in past.
And, btw, I'm resistent to forces in the base behaving as immorally as Dems because Delay committed one, apparently on their parts, unpardonable error. Delay has been effective, he is a conservative. He has been responsible for conservatives successes on whole in past. And I denounce any that seek his head on either aisle. Delay and Pence can co-exist in the Party and I am fond of BOTH.
It was time for Dick Armey to go when he dismissed the idea of eliminating the Federal gas tax because the Oil companies would only "raise the price" of gas, instead of passing the savings on to the customer.
Au contraire, the republican leadership deficit is not a matter of ideas as much as it the default elevation of apparatchiks to positions of power.
Both DeLay and Frist are reliable "conservatives" and this excuses most of their excesses and all of their vapidity. Both are "good party men". In this regard, the republican party is becoming more like the democrats every day; it doesn't work except for those who know how to manipulate the party system for their own benefit.
If you require proof of this, then ask yourself this question: how is it that DeLay and Frist, both mediocre personalities and talents, can be elevated to such high levels of leadership, yet a Rudy Guiliani cannot be considered for the republican nomination for President? Aren't we supposed to be the defenders of the maxim "the best man available for the job?".
We have ideas aplenty, what we lack are men willing to risk their positions to fight for them.
Democrats have ideas??
Jeesh!
But what it really means is, "same old, same old".. and George Bush is really Bill Clinton with family values and a classy wife.... that resembles Alfred E. Neuman(Madd Mag.) a lot..
Not a very conservative statement, true, but then, I'm no conservative..
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)