Posted on 05/13/2002 3:12:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
On Monday's show, the Doctor of Democracy made a sad diagnosis: "If the Reagan Revolution is not dead, then it's dying." If there was a model that the Bush administration used in establishing itself, it was the Reagan presidency. But now Bush is advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda items - something particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.
Many of you have been critical of Rush's reactions to Bush's actions on spending over the recent months, and we took more calls of this sort on Monday - people who'd convinced themselves that the farm bill made sense or that Bush had some grand strategery at play. Now, Rush could throw his beliefs out the window for a day or two and say things that you might want to hear - like when he endorsed Clinton back in 1992 - but that's not what he does.
Rush can only give you his honest reaction, even when he doesn't like those reactions. That's honesty, folks, and it goes to disprove a key criticism many of the nation's liberals have made of Rush over the years. They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. They charged that the EIB Network was simply a tool, that we were in daily contact with the powers that be to get marching orders. Well, that has pretty much been dispelled here: Rush is disgruntled.
sddp
I have a better idea... why not help Rep. Ron Paul and likeminded Libertarians repeal the income tax so they don't have those dollars to waste in the first place. Many (even quite a few Freepers) will say that's a pipe dream but it has the added advantage of being both the right thing to do and the most practical way to prevent government abuse of our money. After all it's not the abuse of power that's the problem it's the power to abuse.
That's a specious argument as he may be more visible to some but the hundreds of elected Libertarians in local office are making a difference in ways that we may not see for awhile but are every bit as significant as what Rep. Paul is doing. And of course I very much appreciate what he's doing as a Libertarian Republican.
Absolutely.
To be honest, the coup that happened when Jeffords bolted the GOP would have caused civil wars in a lot of countries around the world. No matter what they say, Tom Daschle is the ILLEGITIMATE Senate majority leader. His position was not attained by the will of the people but by the treason of one. Now, if Jeffords would have resigned and Vermont would have held a special election and he won as an Independent, that would be different. But Jeffords is America's 21st century Benedict Arnold.
Would Judge Pickering's nomination been voted on the floor if the GOP lead the Senate? Without a doubt.
Would all of Dubya's judicial nominations be voted on if the GOP lead the Senate? Without a doubt.
Would CFR been initially brought to the floor for a vote if the GOP lead the Senate? Without a doubt it would not have.
Would we be drilling in ANWR right now while the caribou made love by the warmth of the pipelines and multiplied if the GOP lead the Senate? Most assuredly.
Bush, like any human being, can be criticized. However, my criticism of him will be held to those things in which he had total control over. I can't criticize him for living with the current political landscape that was formed by Jeffords' selling him out.
It shocks me that the coup d'etat of the Senate isn't talked about more among conservatives.
I don't know if you consider the Senate to be one of the "minority factions" but 50 RATs, 49 Pubs, and 1 Independent is not a minority.
"I was deeply concerned about the drift toward a more powerful federal government. I was particularly outraged by two pieces of legislation, the Natural Gas Policy Act and the Fuel Use Act. It seemed to me that elite central planners were determining the course of our nation. Allowing the government to dictate the price of natural gas was a move toward European-style socialism. If the federal government was going to take over the natural gas business, what would it set its sights on next?"
George W. Bush - Source: “A Charge to Keep”, p.172-173 Dec 9, 1999
Way to go jr.
More Lies.
BUMP
You should criticize Bush for recreating this landscape for the 2002 elections as he sides with RINOs and left-wing Republicans in primaries around the country. He's setting himself up for another Jeffords-type disaster by helping these bottom feeders (Ganske, Alexander, Riordan, etc.).
You wan't to know why? I believe that there is quite a few RATS in FReepers clothes posting articles from every liberal rag they can get their hands on, and then we have every single one of the 2%rs here frothing at the mouth everytime Bush doesn't tow their party line. Anyone who thinks because Bush is the President now, we can count on him overturning 40 years of liberal policies is dreaming. the only way he will be re-elected is to take the stands that are critical and bend on those that are not. Anything else and we will see Hillary or worse in 04.
No matter what they say, Tom Daschle is the ILLEGITIMATE Senate majority leader.
And that's a great way of putting it.
You totally missed what I was talking about.
Let me ask you a question: Does the coup d'etat in the Senate factor in to your criticism of Dubya?
"The whole creation groans and travails, waiting for the manifestation of the Sons (plural) of God."
Don't believe it...it makes me sick to realize that the spineless GOP would rather lose that seat to a Democrat gun grabber than stand up for its professed principles. Every broken promise from the Republicans creates opportunities for Libertarians, Constitutionalists and others so don't blame the victims, blame the victimizers.
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