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GOP is in 'deep funk' over Bush spending
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 3/12/6
| Carolyn Lochhead
Posted on 03/12/2006 7:51:39 AM PST by SmithL
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To: MNJohnnie
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:36:27 PM PST
by
185JHP
( "The thing thou purposest shall come to pass: And over all thy ways the light shall shine.")
To: georgia2006
Bruce and other ill informed conservatives, including some here, were so anxious to get past the Clinton years, that they rallied to GWB simply based on his 1998 re-election numbers (65% of the female vote, 50% of the hispanic vote, 35% of the black vote), that they didnt bother to actually listen to what GWB was saying on the campaign trail. Bush PROMISED to free drug progam to seniors in 2000. Bush never claimed to be the heir of Reaganomics, thats where compassionate conservatism came from. These jilted conservatives are simply upset because GWB has followed thru on his 2000 campaign promises...next time pay attention Actually, I did listen to a lot of the rhetoric in 2000 and 2004. W scared the hell out of me in 2000 and did not get my vote. JEffin'K scared me worse in '04 so W got my vote then.
Doesn't mean i'm happy with his performance.
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:37:01 PM PST
by
sauropod
("All you get is controversy, crap and confusion." Alan Simpson defining the WH Pimp Corps.)
To: 1035rep; 185JHP
Actually the ones "drinking the koolaid" and living in their sad little bubble world here are the Mike Savagites who cling to the notion that only their rabidly paranoid delusional world view is "Conservative". Actually the Savagites aren't Conservative at all. They are merely Big Govt Reactionaries.
The "real Conservatives" would have NO problem massively increasing the size, scope and reach of the Federal Govt in the areas of Trade, Border Security, Economic Nationalism and Cultural Policing. The Whine All The Time Choir continually whine about Federal Spending but really are just pissed because the Govt isn't spending on what THEY want. The Bubble World pseudo Conservatives, would spend trillions to "protect" themselves from all those nasty "wogs" living in all those nasty foreign places. Like any of the "Wogs" would be stupid enough to want to live in the same trailer parks as these clueless drones.
The Whiners have no more interest in Limited Government then the Deaniac Leftists. They merely want the Fed Govt to do different things FOR them and to their illusionary "enemies".
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:45:18 PM PST
by
MNJohnnie
(Are you not entertained? Are you NOT entertained? Is this not what you came here for?)
To: Soul Seeker
You know and I know that Republicans have wanted to eliminate the Dept of Ed since it was created by Jimmy Carter and never would have DOUBLED its size if Bush had not used his pulpit to force it down their throats. He did the same with Bush-Care (the prescription drug boondoggle). Republicans fought adding prescription drugs to Medicare when Clinton wanted it. Bush the Elder fought them on it. But Lyndon Baines Bush joined his left wing big government buddies in both parties and pushed for it.
Bush pushed for reversing the gains Republicans made under Clinton in the Farm bill, and welfare reform just to name two. He believes in big government and in throwing other peoples money at problems.
One cannot honestly give Bush all the credit for the tax cuts and none of the blame for the spending increases. If they are his tax cuts, they are his spending increases.
Of all his big spending Bush-Care is the worst. That alone puts him in the category with Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter.
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posted on
03/12/2006 5:45:26 PM PST
by
SUSSA
To: SmithL
smoldering conservative dissatisfaction
Borders and Spending. Mr. President you have the power to fix this.
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posted on
03/12/2006 6:32:53 PM PST
by
trubluolyguy
(I don't hate Arabs. But I wouldn't trust a muzzie as far as I could throw Ted Kennedy.)
To: kjo
Vote Libertarian. They are the only sane choice
Yeah but I hate pot heads.
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posted on
03/12/2006 6:34:22 PM PST
by
trubluolyguy
(I don't hate Arabs. But I wouldn't trust a muzzie as far as I could throw Ted Kennedy.)
To: sauropod
I have never once said it is all congresses fault but to conveniently forget the whole process just to get some cheap one liners against Bush is a bit disingenuous. I would expect that from the Democrats in order to avert attention from their faults but Republicans have always been the party of solutions.
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posted on
03/12/2006 6:45:06 PM PST
by
Wasanother
(Terrorist come in many forms but all are RATS.)
To: raybbr
We would have spent the hundreds of billions demanded by MeeMaw within seconds of the request after Katrina.
268
posted on
03/12/2006 7:12:02 PM PST
by
Galveston Grl
(Getting angry and abandoning power to the Democrats is not a choice.)
To: MNJohnnie
The Whiners have no more interest in Limited Government then the Deaniac Leftists.
So the massive increase in the budget and size of the federal government by a Republican white house and Republican congress is merely to placate the whiners?
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posted on
03/12/2006 7:32:47 PM PST
by
hedgetrimmer
("I'm a millionaire thanks to the WTO and "free trade" system--Hu Jintao top 10 worst dictators)
To: SmithL
270
posted on
03/12/2006 9:07:43 PM PST
by
ChicagoHebrew
(Hell exists, it is real. It's a quiet green meadow populated entirely by Arab goat herders.)
To: WoofDog123
Right you are, but Congress needs to start the process by offering the amendment to the Constitution. I believe it would take 2/3rds of the States to ratify the amendment.
I doubt if Congress will do that. They like spending our money too much, and besides, it is too much fun for them to attach pork and set asides to the Presidential budget.
I do not blame the President for this mess. As it stands now, he'd have to veto the entire bill, and hope his veto isn't over ridden. Way to risky, especially since a lot of the pork and set asides are added to military appropriations bills. In a time of war, the President doesn't want to play politics with the military being in the middle. I can hardly blame him. I wouldn't want that to happen either.
Shame on Congress!!
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posted on
03/12/2006 9:36:24 PM PST
by
Pragmatic Warrior
(Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal!!)
To: MNJohnnie
Well said!!
Your post sums it up very accurately!!
272
posted on
03/12/2006 9:47:55 PM PST
by
Pragmatic Warrior
(Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal!!)
To: Nowhere Man
Sorry to disagree, but I truly believe Savage is in the same reactionary ilk as his name sake, Michael Moore. Both are very dangerous, using emotions, half truths, and clever editing.
In my opinion, Michael Savage is the Pepto Bismol for the intellectually challenged.
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posted on
03/12/2006 9:53:18 PM PST
by
Pragmatic Warrior
(Grow your own dope. Plant a liberal!!)
To: Don Corleone
Without new ideas the dims are still floundering.
Well said. If we hold Congress next year, it will be due to the Dims' incoherence, not the conservative agenda. Strangely, the Dims seem content to wait for the ascendance of Hillary! or voter boredom with the GOP to return them to power.
To: raybbr
I think that's a rhetorical question, but it's difficult not to think the worst of our current crop of bend-over Republicans.
275
posted on
03/13/2006 4:47:00 AM PST
by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: Doohickey
I think that's a rhetorical question, but it's difficult not to think the worst of our current crop of bend-over Republicans.Okay. Let's do the converse. If Bush was president and we had a democratic congress?
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posted on
03/13/2006 4:55:20 AM PST
by
raybbr
To: raybbr
Oh, then we'd have been treated to higher spending and taxes.
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posted on
03/13/2006 5:01:57 AM PST
by
Doohickey
(If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice...I will choose freewill.)
To: johnny7
I hear you Libertarians got the best pot. Great post! You really elevated the intellectual level here and contributed to the forum. Your statement is the last refuge of the intellectually bankrupt.
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posted on
03/13/2006 9:12:46 AM PST
by
jammer
To: jammer
Great post! You really elevated the intellectual level here and contributed to the forum.Thanks... I put a lot of thought in my posts. I deleted your last sentence in order to preserve whatever credibility you have left here. ;)
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posted on
03/13/2006 9:38:18 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“Iuventus stultorum magister”)
To: Sir_Ed
free speech is now considered anything that is pornographic and not people gathering together to express their disagreement with our government, its policies and the politicians who create those policies.
Great point!!! I totally concur!!
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posted on
03/13/2006 10:16:29 AM PST
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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