Posted on 09/25/2005 10:56:29 AM PDT by Uncle Joe Cannon
CONGRESS controls spending.
Andrew Sullivan: 'Nuff said.
I actually agree with you, words like socialists, communist, Marxist, etc. etc. have lost most of their meaning.
But what's weird is the fact that "Marxist" is still tossed around with such regularity when, in fact, there are so few Marxists.
And Bush doesn't have the balls to stop the REPUBLICAN-CONTROLLED congress and their profligate, obscene spending orgy.
If he doesn't veto spending, then he supports it.
Very true, amigo.
So you're blaming ALL Republicans for their drunken sailor behavior. Well at least we're getting somewhere now. BTW ever heard of the word "veto"? Didn't think so.
"Borrow and spend" is a completely different animal than "tax and spend". Tax and spend is what Clinton did by raising marginal income tax rates, corporate taxes, et al. Once the government puts a new tax in place, it never goes away. Bush is using temporary deficit spending to fix problems his predecessor allowed to fester and worsen. Granted, nobody here wants to see 3+ trillion federal budgets, but would it have been better if the Democrats were in charge and allowed to implement their SOCIALIST health insurance policies, retirement ponzi schemes, and progressive income taxes to punish acheivement and success?
Bush = socialist. Nuff said.
He would have tried, but Republicans in Congress would have stopped him. If Kerry had proposed anything like Bush's prescription drug giveaway, the GOP would have correctly shot it down. Gridlock is the best hope for fiscal discipline, but the Democrats are too dangerous on foreign policy to let them anywhere near the White House.
Amen...
Pathetic.
Two heroes emerge from the Katrian debacle ... the first is obvious, Lt Gen Russel Honore - not stuck on stupid. The second? Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani ... Leadership.
In my entire time in NYC, the so-called liberal capital of the world, I have only met one (count'em, one) Marxist. The guy actually read Marx, so it was a fascinating experience.
I hear that! At college I think I knew several hundred, though! :-)
---This was one reason I found myself forced to endorse John Kerry last November. He was easily the more fiscally conservative candidate. ---
How can anyone take seriously anything this person writes?
Probably not, most college kids don't actually "read Marx." They read "about Marx." Ask them about the Grundrisse etc. and they look at you as if you had bugs on your eyes. Mostly, I think, they do it to upset their parents in Scarsdale.
I agree with you, but I was talking about the faculty of Vassar College, not the students!
Then again, your observation probably applies to many of those top-shelf minds, too! :-)
Good point, we should be pissed at the gop congress too!
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