BUDGET INCREASE FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS

The Drudge Report ^ | 01-28-2004 | Matt Drudge

[Captain Peter Blood]

BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS... Laura Bush plans to announce the request -- for the largest increase in two decades -- on Thursday... Developing...

[Texasforever]

Ah I just like messin with their minds.

[Sabertooth]

Good grief man...I am just stunned that he is actually doing this. Beyond despicable.

I generally will stand by him on anything, even the friggin' immigration plan.

But this. This is over the line

Look, I hate the NEA, but a few extra million there ain't nothing compared to what's in the Amnesty and "any willing employee" plan.

I'm not going to get into it on this thread, but I'm just scratching my head that this is the thing that is setting some folks teeth on edge.

On the other hand, if this is what gets folks to reconsider believing that every Bush misstep is strategery, I'm not gonna complain.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

IMO you commentary was not well reasoned. First, I don't believe I came across as "Kerry, Dean...", whatever THAT means. Second I don't believe in "Raising taxes on the rich will pay for schools, healthcare, etc etc." or 2+2 doesn't equal 4 there. And maybey I agree that guns in the cockpits could be had for far less than I suggested.

But I was merely drawing loose comparisons to make a point regarding NEA funding vs national security issues. Could you really be so dense that you missed that altogether? Jeeez.

[nopardons]

Says you! But he'll get THEIR vote, he can't count on your's,and that, dear, is the whole point.

You numbers are , thankfully, not nearly as large as you assume/would like. You guys make a whole lot of noise on FR,but not in the REAL world. But, if you did/do, then the ONLY thing you'll accomplish, is getting Kerry or whoever elected.

Some people see the glass as 1/2 full, some see it as 1/2 empty, you and your pals see NO glass at all and are dogs in the manger. Go read some Aesop.

[The Old Hoosier]

Sabe, it's the fact that this is a slap in the face. I mean, sure, $20 million is a drop in the bucket. But the NEA is the epitome of everything conservatives hate. It's like he's just begging us to stop supporting him. It's an insult!

[hobson]

That's right. They overturned the will of the voters with their ruling on Prop 187. Yet, I don't hear these people screaming about judges, just Bush.

[nopardons]

Yeah, the sky REALLY and truly is falling...yet again.

[The Old Hoosier]

To repeat:

Boosting the NEA, with a major announcement to boot, is the best way for Bush to tell conservatives to go f##k off. Well, if Bush wants it that way, I can tell you right now that millions will go do that on election day instead of voting for him. That's not my opinion, that's fact.

All sorts of Bush defenders are posting on this thread that they have changed their minds--take William Creel, for example, or rwfromkansas. I, for one, have never even thought of advocating sitting the election out until now, even if I have been rather hard on Dubya in recent weeks.

The posters here are a microcosm not of the country, but of the conservative movement. Their lack of enthusiasm and now outright antipathy may just doom Bush in what should have been a slam-dunk election.

[Sabertooth]

Well I see that the "dump Bush" gaggle is still in their "dump Bush" orgy with yet another outrage against humanity.

Just the usual unappeasables.

[gatorbait]

I think they got 7 Senate seats in 1994 and 50 House seats also. 2002 was 5 Senate seats, and a half dozen House seats, IIRC.

You sort of left out 1996,1998 and 2000. Oops, stepped into your ranthole again..

[Hillarys nightmare]

I'm gonna wait and see on this one, before commenting.
I don't know what he's up to, but I refuse to believe that he's stupid!
Time will tell.

[Capitalism2003]

How much more folks? How much more are you willing to take? Answer: NEVER, unless we (YOU) put fear into the GOP and let them know that we will not stand for these outrageous policies. We will not stand for victory after victory for socialism and advocates of massive government. Bush may be a good man but he is sacrificing EVERYTHING he (supposedly) believes in to pander to special interests and try to by the votes of the left. He has done more to advocate and promote socialism than Bill Clinton could have even dreamed about. A 37% increase in NON DEFENSE SPENDING over the past three years...massive farm subsidies...supporting Ted Kennedy's education bill...practically BEGGING congress to pass a new multi-trillion dollar medicare entitlement. These are HUGE victories for socialism! HUGE losses for the cause of freedom. When will the compromising end????

"And what country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that the people preserve the spirit of resistance?" --Thomas Jefferson

[Mo1]

EXACTLY .. and with a few of the justices talking about retiring? .. if it's Kerry picking them .. God help us

[Mulder]

A couple of things.One, you indulge in serious transferance

Whatever.

Two, It would be spelled Clintonian

Lot's of folks around here spell it with a "K", since that implies a Soviet twist.

Anyway, the fact that you're picking on a perceived misspelling of mine speaks volumes about your argument (or lack thereof).

I can't attack something that is non existant.

So I have no character since I correctly stated the results in the 1994 and 2002 elections, which you had erroneously stated?

Ignorance is strength, right?

[Sabertooth]

Sabe, it's the fact that this is a slap in the face. I mean, sure, $20 million is a drop in the bucket. But the NEA is the epitome of everything conservatives hate. It's like he's just begging us to stop supporting him. It's an insult!

Hey, I'm all for hating the NEA, and it is a slap in the face.

I'm just not sure if this would make my top five or ten things this President has done that I like least. Maybe it'll bother more more tomorrow.

[nopardons]

No it would not! WHY ? Because the likes of me, will remember who helped put a Dem POTUS in office and will go after those so-called Conservatives; WITH A VENGANCE AND MAKE THEIR SORRY LIVES A LIVING HELL !

[woofie]

I should come out of the closet...I am a USDA certified artist and I was once a recipient of a (gasp) NEA grant ..I actually had to work for it. I will be happy with this as long as I get some of the the money.


I have no idea what Bush is up to. but I love the fact that he is f^%$ing with people's heads...The left will be just as confounded with this as the right is.

[Capitalism2003]

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."

--Barry Goldwater, the LAST Libertarian Republican

[My2Cents]

OMG! Almost 800 posts on the NEA!? I'm sure glad you placed this item up here tonight. It's kept all the naysayers off the streets.

The leftists want to surrender to the terrorists in a spasm of self-doubt, and they want to take over the courts for the next generation, and the naysayers ooze about the NEA! The lack of perspective among the naysayers is absolutely breathtaking.

[Sabertooth]

If I recall .. the liberals judges is part of the problem we have with illegals

You trying to hijack this thread?

This is about piss and elephant dung, not Illegals.