Posted on 05/13/2002 3:12:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
On Monday's show, the Doctor of Democracy made a sad diagnosis: "If the Reagan Revolution is not dead, then it's dying." If there was a model that the Bush administration used in establishing itself, it was the Reagan presidency. But now Bush is advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda items - something particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.
Many of you have been critical of Rush's reactions to Bush's actions on spending over the recent months, and we took more calls of this sort on Monday - people who'd convinced themselves that the farm bill made sense or that Bush had some grand strategery at play. Now, Rush could throw his beliefs out the window for a day or two and say things that you might want to hear - like when he endorsed Clinton back in 1992 - but that's not what he does.
Rush can only give you his honest reaction, even when he doesn't like those reactions. That's honesty, folks, and it goes to disprove a key criticism many of the nation's liberals have made of Rush over the years. They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. They charged that the EIB Network was simply a tool, that we were in daily contact with the powers that be to get marching orders. Well, that has pretty much been dispelled here: Rush is disgruntled.
I've stopped listening to Rush because of all his Bush=bashing. Forget the honesty business, Rush is up to something. Either he is trying to get a gig on CNN or he hears O'Reilly barking at his heels.
It's just entertainment, folks, but keep on bashing Bush and we'll have a Clinton back in the White House soon.
Well Rush won't support the Republican Party if they disagree with Bibi. You see Rush is a neo-con, big time.
Republicans are for tax cuts first and will never criticize Bush.
Neo-cons are for Israel first and will never criticize Bibi.
Conservatives for for American first and will criticize both Republicans and Bibi.
The better question is: will I blame Bush? The answer is no. If we had a GOP-controlled Senate, it might be different.
He also said "no" to cloning, stopped funding for international abortion clinics, is in the process of stopping funding for sex-education, to name just a couple of additional life-or-death issues.
I know one family who is about to lose a large farm because of death taxes. I need to read up on this farm bill, but if it keeps food-producing land in the hands of private property owners instead of defaulting to the government, I'm for it.
Maybe they can get some libertarian Sheriff and grow poppies and pot instead. We are letting the Afghans do it these days for geopolitical purposes, why can't we do the same??? Better export it than import it after all.
Great points.
The farm bill was signed. Now we move on to prescription drugs, and then we'll move on to taking more money from one group of taxpayers to buy votes from another group. The days of Reagan dropping that giant federal budget on the podium during the State of the Union, and using it as a prop for intruding on your freedoms, are gone. The Christian Science Monitor has a story about the first George Bush's influence on his son, and about the disappointment among conservatives over all this spending.
Bush could create an army of supporters who would do whatever they could to recruit more and more supporters, and the Democrats couldn't hope to beat him. We'd be looking at picking up a handful of seats in the Senate, instead of reading that Senator Bill Frist (R-TN) thinks that only a single seat will change hands - and not necessarily for us. Dr. Frist lashed out at Tom Daschle, who he said has become a rallying flag that symbolizes obstructionism of this president's vision of America. Imagine if Bush mounted this kind of offensive.
We have nothing to show for the prosperity of the '90s - except bigger, more intrusive government. Grover Norquist, president of Americans for Tax Reform, lists the goodies that the White House has doled out. But Karl Rove (whose expanding role is causing some in the White House to "grumble" according to the New York Times) doesn't buy this criticism from conservatives - maybe he's in that camp that figures the base won't go anywhere else.
Folks, we have a man in the White House who has developed a huge bond of loyalty with the people. He has them in the palm of his hand, yet never uses them. He's never dishonest. He has an opportunity that doesn't come along very often - an opportunity to expand the number of people who believe as he does. Instead, we're giving in on things like the farm bill, and people on our own side, like Congressman Tom Tancredo (R-CO), are criticizing Bush over immigration policies.
We have an obligation to pass this nation on to our children with the same opportunities and freedom we enjoy. I don't care what tax rates the rest of the world pays - taking this money away and raising taxes reduces our freedom. Our government wasn't built to make us all wards of the state. That just doesn't work, yet it's what we're getting. If we can't cut taxes and limit spending now, when can we?
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051302/content/stack_b.guest.html
HOT DAMN!!! Somebody else remembers that TOO!!! lol...
Well, even under Slick Willie, we managed to start cutting farm subsidies (1996 Freedom to Farm) and Dubya has just completely reversed that trend, started by a Democrat. But I guess the idea of limited government gets thrown out when, as you say, "the farmers went ballistic on him".
Imagine being someone with Rush's giant, fertile brain, and being told that you should accept the agenda of the Idiot-American lobby. Patrick set off an avalanche of calls on the farm bill in which Rush pretended to play the Idiot-American. When David in Hopkinsville, Kentucky called to demand Rush, "get off President Bush's back about the farm bill" because "It's not welfare. It's farmers." Rush "agreed," thrilling Dave.
See how seductive liberalism can be? All you have to do is feel! You don't have to be consistent or stick to your morals. If it feels good to say farmers should get money from other taxpayers, you just say it should be so! Next up, Rush talked to John in Clayton, Indiana. Like so many callers lately, he had concocted an elaborate Bush strategery by which all this spending somehow, someday will lead to smaller government. Although he had no evidence of this happening, John was sure it would.
Advocating the Wel-farm bill required Rush to tie his entire brain behind his back instead of his usual half, so it wasn't long before he just couldn't take it anymore. History has proven that price controls and subsidies don't work, yet apparently we must listen to Idiot-Americans who don't care about facts. George W. Bush is president of them, too, so he has to listen to them - even though he's smarter and more educated than them, and even if he could bring them over to the right way of thinking in two seconds.
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_051302/content/fruited.guest.html
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