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Bush: A Democrat in Republican clothing?
Source: Washington Times ^ | 07/28/2002 | By Nicholas M. Horrock

Posted on 07/28/2002 6:24:02 PM PDT by Lazamataz

Edited on 07/12/2004 3:55:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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.


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To: Lazamataz
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.

Has it really become too late for honest accounting?

61 posted on 07/28/2002 7:47:16 PM PDT by ned
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To: Jhoffa_
Unionizing them is. Uncle Fed is now the largest union employer in the nation. (And it's hard enough to fire a bad cop or teacher, can you imagine how tough it's going to be with screeners?)

Unionizing does indeed qualify as socialism. But that's not the issue.

The issue is spending money to hire them as a security measure. That act--hiring--is not socialism.

62 posted on 07/28/2002 7:47:33 PM PDT by Gelato
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To: astudent
Inability to reduce --or make an effort to reduce government spending --- Thhis is a tragic mistake that likely will end up costing him the election as the government reduires more funds and the deficit grows.

I believe Bush cut the discretionary budgets of all departments except two -- education (not good) and defense(good). That's about 25 or more other departments.

63 posted on 07/28/2002 7:48:26 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Lazamataz
Good old conservative Zell Miller with a 60 ACU rating for his first year in the Senate!

If you don't believe, go check it out!

http://www.acuratings.com/acu_doc.cgi?ACT=3&STATE=GA&YEAR=2001

Maybe next time you should check on who you consider a conservative before spouting such tripe. Even John Mccain has a 68!
64 posted on 07/28/2002 7:51:02 PM PDT by PhiKapMom
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To: WhiteKnuckles
"But that aside, Clinton was an amoral self-centered narcisstic nihilist. When we voted for Bush we were de-electing sleaze"

So how is Bush sleazy? Just because you don't agree with him 100% of the time he is a sleazy guy?

Your reading-comprehension skills need work.

Come back when you can parse my sentences correctly.

BTW - I thought you were a Libertarian. WTF do you care about conservatives?

Your reading-comprehension skills have apparantly been inadequate for an awfully long time.

65 posted on 07/28/2002 7:52:22 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Lazamataz
I've had a bad two years. I was promised a conservative President and all I got was this lousy t-shirt.

LOL!

I understand what you mean. Bush's stem cell decision, the waffling on the ICC, and the signing of the CFR bill did it for me. Nonetheless, this particular issue--defense spending--is not something that qualifies him as a Democrat.

66 posted on 07/28/2002 7:52:35 PM PDT by Gelato
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To: SamBees
Is it me, or does it seem that no matter who is in office (lately), a certain agenda continues to be advanced????

You are not alone in your observation.

67 posted on 07/28/2002 7:53:25 PM PDT by Lazamataz
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To: Gelato
Agreed, hiring alone isn't..

But after all the problems we have been forced to sholder over the unions and their constant, endless whining and bitching, stealing money from their members and funneling it right to the rats, class warfare smear campaigns, etc, I was very dissapointed when they were "federalized" Unionized.

And all these people who are hired are going to be union. That's just something we didn't need.

68 posted on 07/28/2002 7:53:31 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Lazamataz
Senator and former Governor Zell Miller, GA. There are a whole slew of Conservative Democrats in Texas and other points south that would totally out-conservative President Bush.

The top D in the senate is Zell Miller. He has a ACU rating of 60. In the house, Stenholm of Texas has a rating of 74. Very few other D's are near these ratings and I would not call these ratings very conservative.

69 posted on 07/28/2002 7:56:59 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: Lazamataz
Your reading-comprehension skills need work.

Yeah, so, they need work. I ask you again: How is Bush sleazy?

I see a guy doing the best he can against commie liberals and all-or-nothing conservatives. What should he do?

I await your enlightenment. Or are you MoDo in drag?

70 posted on 07/28/2002 8:01:57 PM PDT by WhiteKnuckles
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To: Diverdogz
Yes, Bush acts on principle ONLY WHEN and worse, EXCEPT WHEN it is politically expediant for him to do so.

Nonsense. The Kyoto, arsenic, ABM, and ICC decisions have gotten him clobbered in the world press and in Europe. The expedient thing would have been to go along with the status quo.

Good Lord, what an abject whine-fest this thread is. We're at war. Sorry, but I don't give a flying about the farm bill.

71 posted on 07/28/2002 8:03:06 PM PDT by denydenydeny
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To: WhiteKnuckles
When we voted for Bush we were de-electing sleaze"
72 posted on 07/28/2002 8:03:34 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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To: Lazamataz
"... took away all the Democrat issues - preempted them, by God we did by enacting all of them, - so they wouldn't have any talking points with the electorate come November, ... and although the House and Senate were lost in 2002 and, ultimately, the presidency in 2004, nevertheless ... ."

- fragment of old print newspaper article found floating in space, newpaper and author unknown, discovered in 3012 by junior high school children loitering on their way to a picnic on Calisto.

73 posted on 07/28/2002 8:04:09 PM PDT by Bounceback
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To: Gelato
Who should replace Bush in your humble opinion?
74 posted on 07/28/2002 8:08:46 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: gcruse
Oh, c'mon folks.....stock option information is already reported in reports from companies......and, now, as my husband says, they'll put the information in BOLD so the "stupid, effing morons can find it" .......
75 posted on 07/28/2002 8:09:01 PM PDT by goodnesswins
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To: Lazamataz
Well, even some Bushbots are starting to get it, finally. Remains to be seen if anything productive will come of it.
76 posted on 07/28/2002 8:09:04 PM PDT by Jesse
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To: Lazamataz
We ignore this editorial at our own peril.

Why? Because the author compared Bush to a democrat (you guys do that daily, doesn't make it so) or because he used words like draconian, or Roosevelt's New Deal? Hit piece by any other name is still a hit piece. Intellectual honesty is a terrible thing to lose. The author wrote all of that to once again keep the connection of Cheney to Halliburton and Bush to Harken still in the public arena.

Concerning the Aug 14th deadline, that was needful. What other way would have satisfied the fact that we needed to know what corp's books were legit in a timely manner? If surgery needs to be done, the cutting can be swift and immediate or strategic and accurate. My hope is that after it's all over my investments and 401k is not at zero after profit revisions.

77 posted on 07/28/2002 8:09:22 PM PDT by swheats
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To: Jesse
Well, even some Bushbots are starting to get it, finally.

Let's take your fantasy as true and then follow that with who should replace Bush in 2004 barring his being impeached by all of these disaffected conservatives.

78 posted on 07/28/2002 8:11:27 PM PDT by Texasforever
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To: goodnesswins
Didn't Coca-Cola cause a stir by saying they were going to start expensing stock options?
80 posted on 07/28/2002 8:18:06 PM PDT by gcruse
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