[Perdogg]

More like a Bruce Barlett Barf alert. Any man that sucks up to Lou Dobbs has no credibility.

[OldFriend]

Guess Bartlett forgot that Reagan spent #1.50 for every dollar he took into the treasury.

Guess he forgot too that Reagan signed the 1986 Tax Reform bill that left his successor in a recession.

Guess he forgot that Reagan raised taxes on corporations.

Guess he thinks that educating the poor by forcing testing on students and teachers won't make America stronger.

Guess he thinks that paying for preventive medicine won't help Medicare and Medicade in the long run.

Yup, IMO, he's an opportunist with no vision for the future.

[MNJohnnie]

Guess no one pointed out to Bruce that the Admin HE was part of ran larger deficits both in dollars and as a % of GDP. Just another senile old RINO selling out to the Junk Media. Republicans on Kneepads rejoice, you have a new caucus member.

[Do not dub me shapka broham]

A statement that bears repeating:

Once Republicans lose the votes of those who are only voting against the Democrats, and not for them, they will be in serious political trouble.

[Albion Wilde]

ping

[StopGlobalWhining]

Here's my favorite things about George W. Bush:

1. Tax relief

2. Rejection of the Kyoto Protocol and it's underlying assumptions.

3. Support for the Second Amendment

4. Rejection of the UN as an organization for Global Government.

Although he is far from perfect, these are big things that mean a lot to me.

I continue to support Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield and Rice and like minded members of the administration.

[MJY1288]

I listened to this Bruce Bartlett guy the other night and all I see is an opportunist using the main stream media to promote a book he wrote. To me he is in for it for the money, he wont get mine and every Author that has adopted this strategy only draws in the haters of this world, and that's not a winning strategy.

As far as spending goes, every President spends more money than the last, and Ronald Reagan (My personal hero) spent more than his share, and I agreed with most of it. Just as I do with most of GWB's spending. GWB started out with a 2.0 Trillion Dollar budget, it's now 2.6 Trillion and that includes all the spending after 9/11, except for actual funding for Military Operations. This means GWB has increased spending by roughly 25%. Ronald Reagan increased spending by well over 200% while he was in office and nobody can look back and say he was a failure, we all complained as it was happening, but most of it was needed to fight and win the cold war. The same thing is happening today. We Must win this War against radical Islam and I don't see anybody more capable of making sure that happens than George W. Bush.

We will miss him terribly in 2009, especially if all the people on our side get hysterical over things like how quickly the Federal Government responded to an event Like Katrina, Cheney Hunting accident, Lease sales of Port Terminals to one of our few Allies in the Middle East and pave the way for a Hillary Clinton or Russ Feingold to become our next President

[LowCountryJoe]

What cracks me up about this book is that Bartlett will no doubt get the Bush-whackers from the Left and the Far Right to read it. When they're forced to slog through some of the more fiscally libertarian views that Bartlett [likely] has mixed into his Bush-bashing, they'll no doubt be disappointed.

Bartlett is a free trader...[/shock, gasp]

[Dave Olson]

It's worth remembering that Republicans took control of Congress in 1994 not because more Republicans voted, but because fewer Democrats did.

Odd. I thought it was because the Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, offered the Contract With America. The Democrats offered nothing, and they still don't.

Once Republicans lose the votes of those who are only voting against the Democrats, not for them, they will be in serious political trouble.

I don't buy it. If these people were merely dissatisfied with the Democrats, they could have just refused to vote at all. But, by actively voting Republican only as a means of voting against Democrats, that says their vote is unaffected by Republican behavior. Therefore, there's no reason to believe that the Republicans will lose these people's votes.

[goldstategop]

I agree with Dr. Bartlett... there isn't much to like about Bush's policies on spending. In that respect he's more like Nixon than Reagan. He's done everything the Left wanted and they hate him because they don't get the credit. That's not Reaganism in my book. And I think we need a debate in our party over the direction we want to take in the future.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie. Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[StoneColdTaxHater]

I love Bush for what he done against terrorism but I beleive that Mr. Bartlett is dead on correct. GWB has betrayed the Reagan legacy. In 6 years he has not issued 1 veto.....NOT 1! Yes, spening increased under Ronaldus Magnus, he was saddled with a RAT congress. He tried his best and stuck to his conservative priciples. I personally think the Contract with America was a goiod idea, virtually none of the programs marked for closure ever died. As soon as real conservatives realize you just can't vote AGAINST something or someone forever, it will come back to bite us in the ass.

[ex-snook]

"I wrote my book so that Republicans and conservatives can start a debate about the future of the party and the movement. "

It has now started on the security issue. The neocon 'bomb the world' group versus the 'free trade is God' group. A plague on both their houses from American worker citizens.

[trubluolyguy]

Last week, I published a new book, "Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy." A lot of my friends are not happy with me for writing it, and I have been embraced by a number of people on the left whom I would ordinarily consider my political enemies. Both are mistaken about why I wrote the book and what I hope to accomplish with it.

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I don't know about "bankrupting America, but I think one should be able to disagree with the policies of ANY President and not be labeled a traitor.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Reagan is viewed in such high esteem by conservatives not only for the principles he believed in but also for his enormous patriotism and love for country. People like to see that no matter how passe today's politicians may think it is.