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Are the neocons losing it? Pat Buchanan
WND ^ | 3-24-2006 | Pat Buchanan

Posted on 03/25/2006 12:38:33 PM PST by rcocean

Are the neocons losing it?

William Kristol of the Weekly Standard now demands the firing of Donald Rumsfeld. William F. Buckley, whose National Review branded the anti-war right "unpatriotic conservatives" who "hate" America, now calls upon Bush for an "acknowledgement of defeat."

But it is a March 20 essay in the Wall Street Journal that suggests the neocons may be coming unhinged. Written by Weekly Standard executive editor Fred Barnes.. calls on Bush to fire press secretary Scott McClellan, chief of staff Andy Card, political adviser Karl Rove, National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, Treasury Secretary John Snow – and Vice President Richard Cheney.

"The trickiest issue is how to handle Karl Rove," says Barnes.

That Bush is in trouble is undeniable. But his people are not Bush's problem. His policies are. It is these policies, not his advisers, that have given us huge deficits, 12 million illegal aliens, a trade deficit running at $800 billion a year and a no-win war that is bleeding our country.

If Bush should follow Barnes' advice and throw his most loyal people to the wolves as a PR stunt, he will have earned their lasting contempt, and that of the country. For all will know he was scapegoating them for his own failures – failures that come of having listened to the neocons who are even now slipping out of camp, rehearsing alibis and blaming Bush for not heeding their brilliant advi

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To: Beagle8U

Uh, hating Bushs policies like huge deficits, increased spending on social programs, new entitlements, ignoring the border, impositions on political speech, ad nauseum does not make one a liberal.


61 posted on 03/25/2006 1:13:24 PM PST by Sometimes A River (http://www.theonion.com/content/node/46031)
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To: bkepley
Hope you aren't armed or familiar with bomb-making.

Why are you planning to nullify our poltical process, and declare a Bush dictatorship?
62 posted on 03/25/2006 1:13:45 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: rcocean
Buchanan is obsessed with the neo-cons; he's providing aid and comfort to our enemies in Iraq and Iran. Too bad he's got this obsession and even is an apologist for Hitler, whom he believes we should have never fought.
63 posted on 03/25/2006 1:14:44 PM PST by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: bkepley

My feeling is he governs more like his daddy than any other President.
He seemed to govern much better his first term.


64 posted on 03/25/2006 1:15:06 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: rcocean
his people are not Bush's problem. His policies are. It is these policies, not his advisers, that have given us huge deficits, 12 million illegal aliens, a trade deficit running at $800 billion a year and a no-win war that is bleeding our country.

100% true.

65 posted on 03/25/2006 1:15:29 PM PST by WhiteGuy ("Every Generation needs a new revolution" - Jefferson)
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To: Acts 2:38

--impositions on political speech

I guess you mean the campaign finance thing.


66 posted on 03/25/2006 1:15:42 PM PST by bkepley
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To: Petronski
He fell out of the guard tower.

It's time he falls on his pitchfork.


67 posted on 03/25/2006 1:16:20 PM PST by onyx (Elections are in November, 06 ---- 08 can wait!)
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To: tennmountainman
Pat was right when he quoted someone in this article who said We won the war, but lost the occupation. I knew the minute we won the war, but let all those Iraq's loot and plunder, without stopping it, it set the tone for the poat war management and it has not been good.Pat is not right, and neither are his lib pals who say the same thing. They pretend that one can wave a wand or put enough soldiers into Iraq to just miraculously stop the drive-by terrorism, when we can't even stop drive-by violence in American cities. I know Pat believes if you just kill enough brown people whitey can sip pina colladas on the front stoop morning noon and night but there are realities of hostile environments he knows nothing about, probably because the information isn't widely available in German translation.
68 posted on 03/25/2006 1:17:23 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (No respect for conservatives? That's free speech. No respect for liberals? That's hate speech.)
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To: Acts 2:38
I didn't say you were a liberal, I just think hate is a very strong word to define even disagreeing with President Bush's policy's.
69 posted on 03/25/2006 1:19:06 PM PST by Beagle8U (John McCain, you treasonous bastard)
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To: Beagle8U

Did we hate the Supreme Court when we forced Harriet Miers to withdraw
and got Alito instead?

Did we hate America when we forced Dubia to drop their port deal?
(By the way, I have not heard Dubia tell us to get out like many of u said they would do)

Do we hate America because we want to stop spending like drunken sailors?

Do we hate America because we want to close the borders?


70 posted on 03/25/2006 1:20:15 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: ARCADIA
Hope you aren't armed or familiar with bomb-making.

Why are you planning to nullify our poltical process, and declare a Bush dictatorship?

Why no, I was just going to say that I am in favor of free markets and I was afraid you might try to find out where I live or something.

71 posted on 03/25/2006 1:20:42 PM PST by bkepley
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To: rcocean

72 posted on 03/25/2006 1:21:18 PM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: Petronski
His mother went down on the Bismarck... took her a couple of days.
73 posted on 03/25/2006 1:21:59 PM PST by johnny7 (“Nah, I ain’t Jewish, I just don’t dig on swine, that’s all.”)
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To: rcocean

Where's Pat...up in a tree kissing Eleanor Clift.

He's been hangin' with Lefties too long. Easy to understand when one considers the past meldings of extremes.


74 posted on 03/25/2006 1:22:49 PM PST by eleni121 ('Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!' (Julian the Apostate))
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To: bkepley

I am in favor of the free market capitalism too. I just think our President should be more concerned with the health of the economy on our shores rather then in China, India, or Mexico.


75 posted on 03/25/2006 1:23:01 PM PST by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: 1rudeboy

Hah hah! Buchanan takes the Kevin Phillips seat.


76 posted on 03/25/2006 1:24:06 PM PST by bkepley
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To: 1rudeboy
Pat quit the Republican Party long ago, yet because he bashes Republicans the MSM likes to call him a Republican. He's really just an egotistical buffoon. There is a Russian proverb that when a man's only tool is a hammer he tends to treat everything like a nail. Pat is like that. But maybe he has two tools - anti-Semetic and anti-Latino.
77 posted on 03/25/2006 1:25:21 PM PST by elhombrelibre (The MSM is "the propaganda arm of our enemies." - Jack Kelly)
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To: ARCADIA
Why do you hate President Bush? He is an anti-American socialist

Do you go with the "Ronco General Patton Official Replica Helmet", or did you just glue a bowling trophy onto a hardhat for your official militia headgear? ;)

78 posted on 03/25/2006 1:26:16 PM PST by Darkwolf377 (No respect for conservatives? That's free speech. No respect for liberals? That's hate speech.)
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To: rcocean
Re: neocon

neo-
pref.

  1. New; recent:

    con·ser·va·tive   Audio pronunciation of "conservative" ( P )  Pronunciation Key  (kn-sûrv-tv)
    adj.

    1. Favoring traditional views and values; tending to oppose change.


      I'm proud a new Conservative.


79 posted on 03/25/2006 1:26:32 PM PST by ChadGore (VISUALIZE 62,041,268 Bush fans. We Vote.)
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To: ARCADIA

-- I just think our President should be more concerned with the health of the economy on our shores rather then in China, India, or Mexico.

I think the evidence that he is, is all around me. Don't know how things are where you live but even the AP can't seem to knock a dent in the US economy. Wages are up, employment is up and unemployment is down. Suits me.


80 posted on 03/25/2006 1:27:19 PM PST by bkepley
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