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The White House released budget figures yesterday indicating that the new Medicare prescription drug benefit will cost more than $1.2 trillion in the coming decade, a much higher price tag than President Bush suggested when he narrowly won passage of the law in late 2003.
1.Republicans and Bush passed tax cuts with 90% of Democrats voting against them.
Again the GOP fought for smaller government (tax cuts) while Democrats/Marxists fought for larger government. More tax money in the hands of politicians means more government programs.
2. Democrats opposed Bush’s and Republican efforts at social security privatization and private school vouchers. Again the GOP fights for smaller government (privatization of trillion dollar government programs) while Democrats/socialists are for larger government
3.Republicans and Bush appointed some conservative judges even in the face of stiff Democrat opposition. Blameless Democrats are still obstructing appointments of some judges to the appellate courts.It will be harder for Hillary to take more of our freedoms away with chief Justice Roberts, Justice Alito on the Supreme Court and Janice Brown on the appellate court.
All this bashing of the GOP by the liberal media just helps Democrats/Socialists lead America and the world on the road to socialism ,totalitarianism and economic failure as happened in the USSR.
There were close to 200 Democrat congressmen in the House. Republicans had only a narrow majority. If the GOP majority was overwhelming then I could understand Liberal media's constant criticism of the GOP. It only took a few McCains , Chafees,Collins to side with Democrats for Democrats to have victory. And these RINOS did side with the Democrats on several occasions. But Democrats get a pass even though they all had a vote and influence on policy especially when they allied themselves with RINOS, and the liberal MSM to DRIVE big government policy.
Republicans did some good:
1. tax cuts that have stimulated the economy,
2. conservative judges: Janice Brown, Roberts,Alito , huge accomplishments.
3, invasion of Afghanistan
4. attempting social security privatization
5. not giving in to pressure for Amnesty for illegals.
6. attempting private school vouchers.
7.Not giving in to pressure for socialized government control of health-care
8.The deficit has been cut in half three years ahead of the president's 2009 goal
9. not giving in to global warming taxes and regulation.
10 cutting discretionary domestic government spending
11. Medicaid cuts
12. low unemployment
Democrats opposed all these measures and will drive America the other way on all these issues toward socialism, economic decay, and totalitarianism
I don’t agree with any government involvement in health-care at all. But Bush’s Medicare drug benefit program does allow private companies to compete in it. That is not perfect but much better than the Democrat plan to have the government's Health Care Financing Agency to manage the new benefit. Republicans favor private health insurance options. Again Democrats are for government not private businesses managing Medicare prescriptions.
That's difference is important, because competition is the key to reforming Medicare's antiquated benefits and its highly bureaucratic structure as well as containing its costs as the massive baby boom generation retires.
Bush did make some bad policy decisions . But he is only one person and doesn’t speak for all Republicans.
Is the GOP perfect? Far from it. What is? The party does need some reform There are several RINOS like McCain that need to be kicked out of the party for starters. the Democrats are just socialists and need to be opposed. And by supporting the GOP the Democrat party can be stopped.