Posted on 10/19/2005 7:27:19 AM PDT by Rodney King
Time to dump the prescription drug benefit.
c r i t i c i s m w i l l n o t b e a l l o w e d .
s p e n d i n g i s i r r e l e v a n t .
f e d e r a l d e b t i s i r r e l e v a n t .
b u s h g o o d .
y o u b a d .
c r i t i c i s m w i l l n o t b e a l l o w e d .
s p e n d i n g i s i r r e l e v a n t .
f e d e r a l d e b t i s i r r e l e v a n t .
b u s h g o o d .
y o u b a d .
To me this is the biggest factor in my disdain and mistrust of Bush.
I don't understand how anyone who doesn't care about this, or even those who supposedly do but are willing to excuse it, can call themselves conservatives.
And to those of you who care more about republicanism than conservatism, the fiscal legacy of this administration is eventually going to assure you a back seat ride for at least a decade - if not a generation.
Bush and our pubs in congress have ruined the republican party.
Can't we just get along ???
Clinton moved a ton of spending from Welfare to Social Security. He took guys that were pumping heroin into their veins and declared that they were not druggies, they were victims of their addiction and therefore eligible for SSI disability.
He took obese women with 8 kids and no father and said they were disabled because they were so fat, therefore, SSI disability.
Lets face it, the federal government is out of control. A long time ago, I think it was Jefferson who recognized that once people realized they could vote to take money from one group to give it to another, the system would fail.
We are in the middle of the collapse right now.
It no longer matters which party is in power because the party is made up of politicians. To get re-elected, they have to bring pork back to their communities. Its a 3 card Monty game. Take your $$ in taxes, and bring a portion of it back.
Bush is a DEMOCRAT. He has managed to do more damage to our beautiful America than any single President in history.
"When confronted by its spendthrift ways, the Bush administration argues that much of the increase in nondefense spending stems from higher homeland security spending. It's true that most homeland security spending is tallied under nondefense discretionary spending. Yet when homeland security spending is separated out, the increase in discretionary spending is still huge: 36 percent on Bush's watch.
So only a part of recent increases are related to 9/11. And that's leaving aside the real question of whether even homeland security money—which has gone to pay for items such as Kevlar vests for police dogs in Columbus, Ohio—is being spent wisely. A substantial portion of Bush's increase in discretionary spending stems from new domestic spending initiatives. For a ready example, look no further than the Department of Education, one of three departments targeted for elimination by Republicans in 1994, when Tom DeLay and his budget-cutting friends first took control of Congress. In the last five years, Education's budget has grown by a stunning 79.9 percent."
I know the GWB defenders might have a hard time getting through those two long paragraphs, but if they do, they will see that it's not just defense and "homeland security" resulting in the overall spending jump.
Moreover, the only excuse they have on prescription drugs is that the Dems had Bush over the barrel, it had to be done, and he did it better and cheaper than the Dems.
Then in that context, Bush gives us Miers and they expect all fiscal conservatives to rally to his defense and all social conservatives to be awed by the fact that she is (undoubtedly) a sincere Christian.
Good grief what have we come to.
"Clinton moved a ton of spending from Welfare to Social Security. He took guys that were pumping heroin into their veins and declared that they were not druggies, they were victims of their addiction and therefore eligible for SSI disability."
Its doubtful those guys would have been getting welfare anyway. Welfare (AFDC) is almost the exclusive domain of females.
"Moreover, the only excuse they have on prescription drugs is that the Dems had Bush over the barrel, it had to be done, and he did it better and cheaper than the Dems."
I won't even stipulate to that excuse. What ever happened to leadership? Think Reagan would have sat back and swallowed that?
Bush is a DEMOCRAT. He has managed to do more damage to our beautiful America than any single President in history.
Clinton? Nixon? Grant? LBJ?
Bush-bashers would be more credible if they toned it down a little and just used the facts. They ARE on your side, you know.
The Bush presidency is a dismal failure to conservatives but a great victory for socailist liberals. The GOP has lost any claim of being even a slightly conservative party. It is time to dump the GOP and start a new conservative party.
I agree. The question will be who arises from the ashes to take the reins and fix it.
Bush is a rockerfeller republican.
If you take a look through this thread and most other here on FR you will see the "facts" several times over. As far as the "hyperbole" getting bad since Mier's -- You must not have noticed, Bush bashing has been the routine here at FR for a long time. The BushBots are just now catching on to how bad the problems with Bush the Democrat really are.
Your pic says it all.
TXBSAFH;
I am what I call a "Common Sense Conservative" and that term was coined to refute the concept of Compassionate Conservatism so I am definitely not a Bush Robot.
The issue is, Conservatives make up about 35% of the population. By ourselves, we can not win anything except some local elections. I supported McClintock in the California recall election, but when it was obvious Schwarzenegger was going to get the nod, I supported him. Not because I like Arnold, but because Cruz Bustamante would have been an even bigger disaster.
Would you prefer that Conservatives did not align with "Rockefeller Republicans" and have John Kerry for president?
A 3rd party, especially a conservative one, would only guarantee the Democrats, and the most liberal ones at that, a long-term lease on the white house.
The only pragmatic solution is to support Republicans and work within the party to position conservatives where we can get wins in the bigger picture. When we lose to a Rockefeller Republican, we should stay in the party and work on getting a real conservative in next time.
Pragmatic. Common-Sense.
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