Posted on 01/24/2008 5:26:23 AM PST by rellimpank
The presidential campaign trail is not the only place where conservatism is being routed this month. We're also being shoved under the desk in the Oval Office.
President George W. Bush has begun his final year in office by moving sharply leftward. It's as if he is finally vying for the Strange New Respect Award from the liberal East Coast elites. The effort, of course, is futile -- not to mention wrongheaded and potentially disastrous for the country.
How doth the president shaft us? Let us count the ways.
1) The "stimulus" package. What Bush is proposing is sheer nonsense. It is likely to be not just ineffectual but, quite likely, counterproductive. They might call the developing proposal a "tax cut," but if the government is sending checks to everybody, they can call it macaroni if they want and it still won't change the reality that it's just another big spending program.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
If the Spectator is after him, the knives are out for Jorge. Can’t wait.
I’m not even going to watch his state of the union speech this year.
I already know the state of the union: deplorable.
Neither of the two criminal syndicates... I mean political parties... who “govern” this country has ANY intention of respecting any part of the Constitution of the United States. They may as well go ahead and use the original copies of it as toilet paper at this point. They’ve been figuratively doing it for decades. They ALL (executive, legislative and judicial) care about NOTHING except enriching themselves and their cronies and maintaining totalitarian power over the suckers... I mean citizens. They are willing to destroy the greatest political experiment in the history of mankind in order to maintain their wealth and power.
George W. Bush is just another (highly) disappointing Chief Executive in a line of disappointments stretching back at least a century at this point (with one or two exceptions... maybe).
I fear our nation is doomed.
PS - Now that I re-reconsider, criminal syndicates IS a more accurate description of the two anti-U.S. organizations known as the “Democrats” and “Republicans”.
...and I think suckers works well in place of citizens too.
I'm not sure the "stimulus" package is any good, but sending people back their own tax money should NEVER be called "SPENDING". NEVER. It's my own money. It's a REBATE, or a RETURN, not "SPENDING".
"Honey, I only needed $10 for lunch, so I'm spending the change back to you".
I never thought Bush was a conservative. The only two good things he did as president were his tax cuts and his Supreme Court nominations. His tax cuts were very early and he would have nominated Harriet Myers to the Supreme Court had he been given his first choice. For the most part he has abandoned his supporters and governed as a big spending liberal Democrat.
El Presidente Jorge Bush is the most destructive RINO in history. The ONLY saving grace is that after much kicking and screaming we eneded up with two decent justices on the SC. Frankly less damage would have been done if he had lost to Kerry and caused a unified Republican opposition in Congress.
We would not have had either of those justices if Kerry had won. We would have two liberal activists instead for the next 30 years.
I said I didn’t think Bush was a conservative. I NEVER said he was more destructive than Kerry would have been. Kerry would have been much worse than Bush.
Don’t worry, so did our Founders.
Nonsense.
The first two sentences of the post are NOT nonsense.
I can’t say the same about the third, though.
They are not. I won't be getting one. Only those who never paid taxes to begin with get this 'rebate' (huh?) and lower to middle income people. If you made too much money last year you won't get a rebate.
He's basically saying to conservatives, "I'm not running in 2008... I have no designated successor... It makes no difference to me if Hillary Clinton or John McCain is the next president...Therefore, Conservatives, I have no more use for you. You've been a thorn in my side for the last 7 years, but I had to go through the motions to keep you happy. But since you killed my amnesty bill, I going to do everything in my last year to make sure you get NOTHING you want either.
But don't just blame President Bush, this has become the attitude of entire republican party establishment since the 2006 elections. They don't think they NEED conservatives anymore and would rather go after moderates. Basically telling conservatives, "You'll better shut up and vote for whatever RINO we put on the ballot and we MIGHT toss you a bone every so often..."
The stimulus package should be left in the bedroom.
Sad. But, I think, true.
Bush would never have been elected in the first place without conservatives. The moderates supported McCain in the 2000 primaries and Gore and Kerry in the 2000 and 2004 elections. Many of the problems in the Republican Party now came about because Bush betrayed his supporters.
“We can hope, and only hope, that his State of the Union Address next Monday night will do the former — that it will contain bold and politically effective proposals for a reformist, conservative agenda to end his presidency on a series of high notes.”
It is still a free county. Dream on.
There is no way I am going to listen to The State of the Union Pompous Blather. I haven’t for several years. I already know the mess we are in. (Sorry for ending the sentence in a preposition.)
(Gawd, I loath that pretentious idiot.)
Anyway, 11 months and 27 days left, and we about to get something even worse (and I am looking at both sides).
Couldn't agree more. I remember during the 2000 campaign, he said he didn't want to be the Superintendent of Schools, and that he didn't believe in "command and control from Washington DC." He gets elected and in no time at all we have this billion dollar boondoggle called No Child Left Behind that was the handiwork of the White House and Ted Kennedy.
His Education Dept appointees didnt even have the cohones to put an end to the insane rules that are causing universities to do away with men's sports in order to even up the number of females and males playing sports on campus. A conservative can easily grasp that this is not a problem of discrimination that needs federal govt intervention; women are just not as interested in sports as men.
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