Bush Presidency is Advancing the Progressive Agenda

Sierra Times ^ | 6-17-03 | John Bender

[Dane]

President Bush signed the Campaign Finance Reform bill into law. Conservative Republicans in Congress are still quietly seething about how he steamrollered them on this.

It was the other way around. Bush said he would not veto a CFR bill and the House had a petition that went over the head of the House leadership. Bush quietly signed the CFR biil.

Like Democrats who refused to believe that President Clinton was capable of doing any wrong, there is a group of Republicans who would support President Bush no matter how far left he governs. They attack anyone and any group who points out that President Bush is not conservative

Uh no Mr. Bender, some just question the "if my glass isn't 100% full, then the glass is automatically 100% empty" crowd.

Bush has pushed through tax cuts, a prtial birth abortion ban will be signed, kyoto is dead, and he also rejected the internatiopnal court.

Of course that is the "silence" in Mr. Bender's column.

[TLBSHOW]

Great thread maybe the good folks here at FR will wake up!

[G.Mason]

The normal response to a person being caught in a rip tide is to swim directly toward the shore.

Many who do so die in that attempt.

The wise, or rather more knowledgable swimmer, swims to the side, and eventualy away from the rip tide's influence, thereby winning the struggle for life.

I would suggest that, in essence, GWB is doing just that, and will survive, as will we all.

[Dane]

Although Mr. Bender cites the sins of Nixon, there is nary a peep of the sins of Reagan, such as signing a tax increase in 82 and signing a raise in the capital gains tax rate to 28% in 1986.

[TLBSHOW]

Rush pointed out the good he has done yesterday too and how we should never elect a democrat. He gave a list. but the botton line is...

Bush needs some big time slamming but Good!

[sauropod]

Bender is right. Some of them are on this very same forum.

A stopped clock is right twice a day re: rejection of the ICC, Kyoto, etc.

W. is no conservative.

[Destructor]

"George Bush increased government size and spending more in his first two years than Bill Clinton did in his first six years."

Bill Clinton didn't have to deal with a crappy economy, and fight a war. Clinton was the one that drastically cut military spending, and burned up a lot of the "smart munitions" blowing up tents and camels (to cover up his various scandals). Remember?

[TLBSHOW]

George Bush has not only silenced the conservative wing of the Republican Party, he has ground them into pulp and made them toothless tigers.

From the story above...

[TLBSHOW]

That is beacuse Bush is a Socialist like his pal Blair

[dennisw]

GWBush took Clinton's triangulation strategy and does it even better. Dick Morris invented triangulation strategy

[A Vast RightWing Conspirator]

I hope that more begin to understand that W is the enemy and he works for the enemy.

This article doesn't even mention his pro-Mexican immigration policy, to match his pro-Israel foreign policy and pro-Communist education policy.

If anyone asks the the 'would you rather have had Gore in the WH' idiotic question again, I'm afraid the answer will have to be 'yes'. Gore's attempts to inflate the state would have been opposed by the GOP. He would have been the lesser evil.

[the gillman@blacklagoon.com]

You're upsetting the moonies.

[TLBSHOW]

. Gore's attempts to inflate the state would have been opposed by the GOP.

bttt

that is a good answer because right now Bush is screwing us royal!

[Dane]

W. is no conservative

Really, just make a blanket statement and a cliche to make your point. How intellectually stimulating.

Look, this is very popular with the senior citizens, you may not like it, but that this is the truth you have to face, and the senior citizens are the biggest voters.

Rant all you want but that won't do anything constructive. Also this is the Senate mucking things up, why don't you balme them. It is their constitutional duty to craft legislation.

Of course they are hoping Bush would veto it, so that they can have the cover of saying, "I voted for a prescription plan, but Bush vetoed it, blah, blah." Bush is not going to play their game.

Get back to me when you stop the rants and can debate the modern politcal machinations of the US Senate.

[RJCogburn]

No president since LBJ has been as successful in expanding government and increasing the size and scope of social programs as this president.

Our victories are slowly destroying us. Nixon, the anti-communist, went to China. Bush, the 'conservative' grows the goverment like crazy.

[ActionNewsBill]

No president since LBJ has been as successful in expanding government and increasing the size and scope of social programs as this president.

Presidents Carter and Clinton didn’t even come close to matching President Bush’s accomplishments in expanding government social programs.

George Bush increased government size and spending more in his first two years than Bill Clinton did in his first six years. By the end of this year, he will have expanded government more than Bill Clinton did in his entire eight-year administration.

How can any conservative defend this?

[xrp]

Of the increased spending on government, less than 25% of the funds is going to war-related items. The rest is going to more government pork. So you're saying that in a bad economy, the government should spend more and more???

[TLBSHOW]

the fake ones that have infiltrated us.

[SUSSA]

You spend an awful lot of time attacking Reagan. Is it because Reagan is too conservative for your taste? Or is it because you can only defend Bush by trying to tear down Reagan?