[AAABEST]

Eeesh. I DIDN't put this in breaking.

[riley1992]

Although I agree with many points, you know this has the shelf life of a rotten tomato, don't you?

[Sir Gawain]

User #2729? On a forum with 77,235 (minus the banned) registered members, that carries weight in my book. This should be interesting.

[Sir Gawain]

Fun time.

[AAABEST]

A ping to my personal friends who know me for real.

[incindiary]

Thank you for this!!

Prepare to be called an America hater.

[Zviadist]

Naughty boy, you're not allowed to tell the truth about the Republican Party.

[Major Matt Mason]

Yep, there are a few purple Kool-Aid drinkers at this site. The time for "we're glad he isn't Gore" statements has come and gone. Bush has been President for a year, now, so the euphoria over the hard-fought victory of the 2000 election should long since have dissipated for conservatives.

I'm willing to hold my fire a little until I see the actual budget, but last night (and this month) wasn't very encouraging. While W didn't present the laundry list of items that Clinton did in his last couple of SOTU speeches, it was still enough to make any true conservative cringe.

[Sir Gawain]

What it boils down to for any true conservative, is how we roll back governmental largesse. The Repubs scream that the Libertarians are just helping get Dems elected and that Libertarians can't win a big election (which has been true) because their ideas are not mainstream. The Libertarians scream that electing Repubs just helps continue the cycle of bigger government and that the Repub argument of incremental cutbacks is nonexistent (which is true also).

Realistically/pessimistically, I don't think it can be rolled back. The experiment failed.

[A.J.Armitage]

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[TLBSHOW]

you do not have to serve it is not a law here

[DLfromthedesert]

YES!!!! And many of the newly Federalized Airport workers who are patting our bodies down and going through our personal stuff are not even citizens!!! But we're supposed to smile like good little sheeple and thank them for keeping us safe, even if they don't have any idea what they are doing!!!

[AAABEST]

Carnivore bait Friends.

[Sir Gawain]

hehe

[kdf1]

Ping from another conservative who votes Republican...I would like to vote for a principled conservative if the opportunity should arise.

[seattlesue]

One of the more worthwhile and thoughtful vanities. I would like to add, Bush did not rescind Clinton's last minute land grab EOs. I actually felt crushed when he refused to rescind them. I feared then the writing was on the wall as to his conservative credentials.

[seattlesue]

One of the more worthwhile and thoughtful vanities. I would like to add, Bush did not rescind Clinton's last minute land grab EOs. I actually felt crushed when he refused to rescind them. I feared then the writing was on the wall as to his conservative credentials.

[blackie]

Judge GWB after he has served eight years.

[DoughtyOne]

Well bud, our choice in 2004 will once again be, unacceptable, unavoidable and unelectable. Which will you vote for.

[Southack]

"We're working to roll back decades of governmental largesse, to root out political fraud and corruption, and to champion causes which further conservatism in America. Above is the Free Republic mission statement. After his first year, would anyone say that GWB has worked towards this end?"

Yes, I would.

President Bush completed the first top-to-bottom review of our military just prior to 9/11. This review pointed out waste, wrong directions for future expenditures, and that our most pressing security threats were asymmetric attacks from nations and trans-national groups.

President Bush put together the first Energy Plan that our nation has had in place in decades. Part of getting rid of waste in government is managing with a comprehensive plan in the first place, rather than shooting from the hip in some sort of Clintonian, hyper-reactionary style.

President Bush enforced the Supreme Court's Beck decision that had been illegally unemplemented by the Clinton Administration. That decision permits workers to reclaim all funds used by their unions for political purposes for which they disagree. If you want to get rid of waste and corruption in society, one of the things that you have to do is give workers more control over their money rather than letting fat-cat union bosses have those funds.

President Bush repealed Clinton's OSHA ergonomic rules that were about to destroy 90% of American home-based businesses. That rolled back government - no matter how you want to view it.

President Bush cancelled Clinton's CO2 regulations that were driving up electricty prices and causing shortages in several states. Again, that reduced the influence of government.

As for reducing government, President Bush signed into law the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history. Frankly, I rest a little easier at night knowing that refund checks went to citizens rather than into Tommy Dashcle's pockets.

Also, the federal budget is set to automatically increase funding for most major programs each year. Until conservatives can dig up so much popular support that those automatic spending increases are stopped, every President is going to preside over a budget that is the largest in history and obviously bigger than the last year's budget and bigger than the last President's budgets. It is disingenuous to somehow imply that the current President is automatically responsible for those automatic budget increases, and it will be an ENORMOUS achievement to finally get them out of our budget one day.