Pitty poor Mr. Bandow. Pitty your inaccurate read--this article is about Bruce Bartlett's analysis of Bush, not Doug Bandow's opinions.
The points raised are all glowing examples of what conservatives find wrong. Bartlett is correct about the Medicare Drug Bill. There was total dishonesty to how this was presented. No independent think tanks were commissioned to detail the cost of the program before the vote on the bill, and the cost went to mult--TRILLIONS as soon as the ink dried from the Bill signing, after it was represented as a $400 billion program.
You can "yawn" all you want, but true conservatives do not "yawn" as Republicans go liberal and lie to us about costs and budget numbers. Bruce Bartlett has been a true conservative for many, many years. Bush has been a liberal (fiscally) for five years. Bartlett has a far more respected track record of conservatism than most commentators.
Your "yawn" signifies your apathy to surging socialism, and your blind eyes toward the fact BOTH parties are the culprits.
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Your "yawn" signifies your apathy to surging socialism, and your blind eyes toward the fact BOTH parties are the culprits."
My yawn signifies more of the feigned surprise that GWB is somehow not what he puported to be. That suddenly his record from two terms as governor of Texas was kept in a secret vault.
" Five years later, the traditional conservative agenda lies in ruins. Government is bigger, spending is higher, and Washington is more powerful. The national government has intruded further into state and local concerns. Federal officials have sacrificed civil liberties and constitutional rights while airily demanding that the public trust them not to abuse their power."
Those are Doug Bandow's words, written as though he was blindsided and having no idea of the mechanics of why.
As far as my apathy to surging socialism, and my blind eyes toward the fact BOTH parties are the culprits" goes, you are rather presumptuous.
On the otherhand, you best be getting some troops mobilized to take back the federal government from those culprits, as it will only keep getting fatter and larger, [now hang on to your hat] because that is what the people want.
