Yep. The intellectual conceit is disgusting here, as you have summed up nicely.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
Posted on 09/19/2005 7:47:44 AM PDT by hinterlander
As some may have recognized in my last column, by my use of the words “disgusted, ”unburdened by principle,” “Big Government,” and “tartar sauce,” I was not very pleased with President Bush’s address to the Nation regarding the coming long-term response to Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath.
My disappointment focuses around several distinct points. Primary among these is that I have had about all I can afford of “compassionate conservatism.” Unnecessary deficit spending is neither conservative nor compassionate, and if someone discovers the budgetary difference between a compassionate conservative and a bleeding heart liberal, please, let me know. So far, my best guess is that the government would not grow nearly so quickly under the liberal as it has under the profligate conservative.
My concern here is not just financial or economic, although only a fool would ignore all such concerns. My concern is Freedom. Money is power; and power is the source of all freedom. Without it, you have none. When more money is controlled by government, and not by individuals, we are all made less free. This sort of thinking is what was once known as plain “Conservatism,” and it is pretty darn compassionate, since it seeks to . . .
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Excellent -- wow, would that have been a moving speech!!!
LOL!
Exactly.
The federal government is going to spend the money no matter who is President, so it is better to spend our "free market" way i.e. benefiting businesses, and individuals, rather than the liberals "socialist" way i.e. massive welfare program that keep the poor as they are now, "poor".
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. One speech, not given, does not make or break a legacy. Actions do. The vast majority of people are not sufficiently stirred by a speech, but a lot more are motivated by looking at the pictures of the devastation left in the wake of this disaster. At any given time, there is rarely a majority that DO something, but by that minority who feel compelled to alleviate the burden of their fellow man, great things are accomplished.
President Bush is being modest in extolling his own efforts toward the relief of the hurricane victims, and there are those who mistake this reticence to toot his own horn as being somehow "uncaring". They should do so much for the constituency they claim to represent.
Oh puleeeezee....Leadership opportunity lost? Is this guy a dim bulb or what?
President Bush has been a leader from day one. He has not lost anything. Stop the whining and stopy the cry baby business. If this person did their job half as good as the President then he would be meaningful. But....
"My concern here is not just financial or economic, although only a fool would ignore all such concerns. My concern is Freedom."
That view, alas, is not the majority opinion even here at FR, let alone the GOP, let alone the USA.
Dear Mac,
Why not run for office?
Sincerely,
Sick of listening to Whining about Bush, instead of getting out there and attacking the left, their MSM, and being an activist for your cause.
This must be in response to the ABC interviews - where all those black people said they believed the President.
ROTFLOL!! These liberals are so funny.
Fineman and IMUS kept referring to Maureen Dowd who rebuked Bush for the disaster in NO with her "brilliant" column "Bush Should Stop Looking For That Bullhorn Moment".
Well IMHO "Dowd Should Stop Looking For That Bull$hit Moment" that every member of the MSM has been looking for since Bush was elected in 2000.
In 1794, when Congress appropriated $15,000 for relief of French refugees who fled from insurrection in San Domingo to Baltimore and Philadelphia, James Madison stood on the floor of the House to object saying, "I cannot undertake to lay my finger on that article of the Constitution which granted a right to Congress of expending, on objects of benevolence, the money of their constituents." -- James Madison, 4 Annals of congress 179 (1794)"Congress has not unlimited powers to provide for the general welfare, but only those specifically enumerated." --Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Albert Gallatin, 1817
How many votes do you think a "Do nothing" plan will get in Congress?
What do you think a "Do nothing" plan will do to Republican electoral chances in 2008? Keep in mind what supposedly happened to Bush's approval numbers during all the "too little too late" media generated hysteria the 1st Week of Sept. Classic Country Club Republicanism posturing as "conservatism". We got ours, as long as we don't need anything Govt should do NOTHING. Funny how quick their "limited Govt" rhetoric gets jettisoned once the topic changes to Gas Prices, Immigration or trade. Then these same "Small Govt Conservatives" start screaming for the most massive, federal Govt imposed Big Govt solution they can think of.
Yep. The intellectual conceit is disgusting here, as you have summed up nicely.
If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.
They're going fast!
" I was not very pleased with President Bush’s address to the Nation regarding the coming long-term response to Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath."
You know what? Go suck a lemon you jackass.
Yeah, I'm sure those 350,000 people with no place to live and no job really care about what some dead white guys said in 1794 and 1817.
Regardless of what Bush does about this and regardless of whether or not it is successful, the MSM will be successful in their attempts to paint him as a failure, as far as the sheeple go. Considering that, why not act like a conservative in this situation as opposed to an LBJ democrat?
When that is proved to be effective, get rid of it for everybody else.
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