Bush: A Democrat in Republican clothing?

Source: Washington Times ^ | 07/28/2002 | By Nicholas M. Horrock

[Lazamataz]

WASHINGTON, July 28 (UPI) -- When President Franklin Roosevelt, a member of one of the most wealthy and prominent families in America, was constructing the New Deal, which brought forth the Securities and Exchange Commission, strong banking regulation and labor protections, he was excoriated as a traitor to his class. Even one his own family members wrote him to complain.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Very litle of what Bush has done could be labled as conservative. "Compassionate" conservative apparently equals "liberal".

[Jhoffa_]

I think allot of the criticizm leveled at the administration over Wall Street is completely undeserved. they even admitted that Bush's case was dropped over 12 years ago and my understanding is that Klayman had to recruit his clients against Cheney.

I think it's trendy November window dressing for the most part.

The expansion of government and it's powers are what worry me, not old hat that even the SEC admits isn't actionable.

[RAT Patrol]

A democrat says one thing just to get votes and then does another to enrich himself. In many ways, that describes Bush precisely. Admittedly, he's great on faith issues and I was getting pretty sick of the Christian bashing done by the previous WH occupants. I'll always be grateful to Bush for that. Sure would be nice if he'd act like a conservative too. I voted for him because of his stand on the issues. Like a sucker, I believed he meant what he said. (Maybe he did mean it but when push comes to shove he just always gets pushed--I don't know. Sellout or pushover--the results are the same either way.)

[Kaslin]

Well said

[gcruse]

" The expansion of government and it's powers are what worry me, not old hat that even the SEC admits isn't actionable."
Agreed. The stock market isn't the economy. The economy is strong but won't be for long if bloated government, and tax and spend, continue as a characteristic of both major parties. There was no excuse for the agriwelfare or continued funding of the NEA.

[RAT Patrol]

If Bush is such a Democrat, why are the Democrats attacking him? sink, I'd love nothing more than to rejoin your bushbot side, but I cannot deny what I see.

FYI, Democrats always attack when they don't have control. Bush is too trusting and believes his goodwill will purchase political capital--HA! RATS are rats! He's being playing for a fool by the masters of deception.

[PolishProud]

GW is "Son of Wimp."

[agrandis]

Bush a Democrat in Republican clothing?

Naw, he ain't quite that bad. That's a John McCain, or Liddy Dole. Bush is just a Bush, and the modern-day, mainstream Republican, which makes him too dang liberal in my book.

[section9]

But last week, as the accounting bill was in final debate, no less a supply-sider than Jude Wanniski sent a warning to House leaders that forcing firms to report stock options as a business expense, where the investors would see it, would have chilling effect on the entrepreneurs who built the boom of the dot.coms.

Okay, some might be quick out of the gate to criticized the President, but I don't see an alternative to his signature on the Sarbanes bill, and neither does he.

Face it; character is what we see when an individual does the right thing on his own. A group of folks gamed the system so they could enrich themselves at the expense of their shareholders. This is fraud. It is a crime. People like that should go to prison, for they have brought disrepute on to the tens of thousands of honest businessmen who trade in an honest dollar.

It does not matter that Bill Clinton took campaign money from these people to look the other way, or that Robert Rubin set up a sweetheart deal for Goldman Sachs and other investment banking houses after he left the Treasury. These men are Liberal Democrats. It is expected that they are sleazy from the getgo.

However, it does not follow from a condition in which the Chief Magistrate of the Republic lies to a federal judge that those in the business world have, therefore, a right to do the same.

We as Republicans must invest those who have great power and influence with great responsibility. Republicans must be the party that looks out for the common shareholder. We must be ready to act in their defense against those who would fleece the shareholder of his wealth by outright fraud and accounting manipulation. This manifestly does not mean that shareholders have a right to be stupid and maintain their entire portfolio in a single stock. People whose entire portfolio consisted of Enron shares were quite willing to ride the Tulip Market of 1998-2000, but are now unwilling to shoulder their part of the blame for their own loss because they failed to diversify.

We must recognize that just as the Liberal Democrat is ready to loot one's hard earned dollar at the point of the bayonet, the corrupt businessman needs only a pen and a sly accountant to accomplish something almost as sinister. Each individual, the corrupt businessman and the Liberal Democrat, seeks to line his pocket with the wealth of the producers, not to create new wealth.

Anyway, I say bravo to Bush for making this action, draconian as it is, his own. He will deprive the craven and hypocritical Liberal Democrats of an issue once this gets to his desk and will campaign on it. You'll start to see the political results when Worldcom execs start taking the Perp Walk. The wealth of a company belongs to those who are shareholders in that company; not to a few corrupt executives who fail in their fiduciary responsibility to the shareholder. The Augean Stables must now be cleaned so that the vast majority of honest CEO's, men such as Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, may reassert themselves and bring stature and direction to a confused and dispirited market place.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[WhiteKnuckles]

GW is "Son of Wimp."

Wrong. Typical liberal smear.

[maxwell]

Bwahaha! I know where you got this article, dude...

[Jhoffa_]

The economy is strong but won't be for long if bloated government, and tax and spend, continue as a characteristic of both major parties. There was no excuse for the agriwelfare or continued funding of the NEA.

Yes, I wonder if we gave up trying to win the Senate on Conservative principles and are now going to try to just flat buy it.

I hope that's the case, because that means we will see a policy shift after November. Otherwise Dubya is acting on "principle" and we can expect many, many more dissapointments in the years to come.

[TLBSHOW]

Have you had a bad day?

Lets add and bash the one WHO IS to blame Mr. Rubin and the Clinton Treasury. If Bush wants to let them go scott free, well, like YOUR opening line said.

They say there are only 100 days to the election so don't get fooled by the rats smear of Bush. This should be a good thread to catch rats on. Ready set go.........

[Jhoffa_]

Are you always this perky?

[TLBSHOW]

Clinton is a commie rat!

[Tauzero]

"I think allot of the criticizm leveled at the administration over Wall Street is completely undeserved. "

Agreed. But life ain't fair.

[admiralsn]

I cannot deny what I see.

What, exactly, is it that you see?

Is it that the President killed the International Criminal Court?
Is it that he repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California and causing electricity rates to spike?
Or maybe that he appointed, and backed, John Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an indivisual right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades?
Or that he killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming & backed and got our National Missile Defense program funded?

I could go on and on. The point is that he didn't create the new Homeland Security Office just to create a bigger government. He realized, sadly, that in order to adequately protect the nations interests, in this case a bigger government is necessary. There is your difference between a democrat and a Republican on this issue. The rats create bigger govt. because they like it and it pleases them. Bush is doing it because he recognizes it as a necessity.Give him a Republican House and Senate and he can begin to cut much of the wasteful spending imposed by the rats.

[harpo11]

What a job American presidents have, approximately 270 million critics and that is just in the homeland.

[TLBSHOW]

I think I am leaning that way.

[Lazamataz]

If Bush is such a Democrat, why are the Democrats attacking him?

Because they want his job?