Gingrich says Bush expands contract

Washington Times ^ | 5/16/02 | Donald Lambro

[kattracks]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says President Bush's agenda is an expansion of the Republican Party's Contract With America, but he wants the president to get tougher on spending.

The former Republican leader expressed some irritation yesterday over newspaper stories suggesting that Congress and Mr. Bush were beginning to undercut or dismantle the contract by restoring food-stamp benefits to legal immigrants, expanding farm subsidies and presiding over a return to deficit spending.

[Uncle Bill]

What was afoot was the droll duo of ex-Marxist Alvin Toffler and Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, both posing as Thomas Jefferson back from the dead, preaching about some evolving, nebulous, revolutionary new democracy whose name keeps evolving too; from futurism, to anticipatory democracy, to 21st Century Democracy, to the Third Wave, to the Third Way. ....This was no passing comment by Mr. Gingrich. His commitment to futurism, or the Third Way, the same fascist/socialist oriented Third Way that Clinton, Gore, Blair, and Schroeder are converted to, has a significant history. Gingrich told his fellow Congressmen: "For a long time, I have been friends with Alvin and Heidi Toffler, the authors of Future Shock and The Third Way.(3)

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The term "third way" also found its way into Mr Blair's interview. Neither leader appears concerned that the term is associated in the minds of many with the 1930s - when countries hovering between communism and fascism claimed to have found a third way.

Ever since the 1990’s, when the Republican Party embraced the politics of the Third Way, Republican’s have become convinced that their really is something as crazy as a safe middle-ground, no, a superior, progressive, avant-garde middle ground between Communism and Capitalism, a middle ground the Party strategically renamed in the year 2000 – “Compassionate Conservatism.”

Despite the fact that the Republicans control the White House, the House of Representatives, and 30 governorships, the nation is now in the midst of the biggest government spending spree since LBJ. Incredibly, the domestic social welfare budget has expanded more in just two years ($96 billion) under George W. Bush than in Bill Clinton's first six years in office ($51 billion).

Socialism, alas, is alive and well in the United States. If you doubt this, check out the farm subsidy bill that Congress passed last week. The 2002 farm bill subsidies carry a $170-billion price tag over ten years. That’s twice the cost to taxpayers of any other farm subsidy bill that Congress has ever passed. Most of the loot will be carried off into the grain bins of some of America’s largest and richest agribusinesses.

BUSH SPENDING BILL LARGEST EVER

Why Democrats should draft George W. Bush in 2004

[freethinkingman]

"because you have a lot of Senate seats up in the farm states."

I think Rush is right. All the advances made for the Dems agenda are being done in order to take the Senate back.

[hchutch]

No Senate, and the Dems will thwart Bush. I don't like some of the compromises, but if we get the Senate and fill the vacant judiciary seats, then it is worth it.

[RLK]

The third way is little more than the old socialist way. It is touted by two classes of people.

1) Leftists seeking to repackage their program.

2) People too deficient in courage, drive, or intellect to refute the left.