?), and I understand everything except letting Eddie Willers die (I suspect) on the train. Why didn't Ayn have him join the Gulch at the end? What'd he do or not do to deserve his fate?
Posted on 09/03/2003 4:08:24 AM PDT by GraniteStateConservative
RUSH LIMBAUGH read from one of our editorials yesterday, and a lot of people have asked if what he said was true. It is.
The editorial was titled GOP, MIA and it was printed in last weekend’s New Hampshire Sunday News. Because of all the interest, we have reposted it on the Web site.
We wanted to take this opportunity to assure Rush and everyone else that the editorial was and is 100 percent true. Over the course of an hour-long meeting with Ed Gillespie, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, we took great care to give him every opportunity to explain himself fully so that nothing could be misunderstood. The result was a surprisingly frank admission that the Republican Party defines “fiscal responsibility” as increasing the federal budget at “a slower rate of growth” than the Democrats (his words).
We asked him three times to explain why President Bush and the Republican Congress have increased discretionary non-defense spending at such an alarming rate, and why the party has embraced the expansion of the federal government’s roles in education, agriculture and Great Society-era entitlement programs.
“Those questions have been decided,” was his response. The public wants an expanded federal role in those areas, and the Republican Party at the highest levels has decided to give the public what it wants.
We were fully aware that publishing those comments — all made on the record — would mean we would never be invited to any $1,000-a-plate Republican dinners in Washington. But the rank-and-file Republicans, the men and women who vote GOP because they believe in federalism and limited government, deserved to know what we knew. Now they do. And they can use the information as they see fit.
You think gleefully voting for a new unfettered prescription drug entitlement for all is an example of "slowing down the growth"?
SD
Face it, the Dems have become the Socialists, and the Republicans have become what used to be the Democrats. Between the two there are only a handful of real "conservatives" left.
More compromise of the type you seem to like will only make this situation worse. Your idiot cheerleading is nausating.
Naw you're sycophant cheerleading of a paper with an agenda, that doesn't even use quotes or prints the uneditied interview is what is nauseating.
I guess it doesn't bother you that the Union-Leader is practicing NYT/60 minutes journalism.
Even that's BS. Socialized Medications are a giant step to full socialized medicine, a greater step to HillaryCare than the 'Toon's could have ever hoped to take.
And, one in the White House. It just dawned on me that GW went to Yale, one of the most liberal universities in the country. It's no wonder he acts like one some of the time.
?), and I understand everything except letting Eddie Willers die (I suspect) on the train. Why didn't Ayn have him join the Gulch at the end? What'd he do or not do to deserve his fate?
Quit dodging. It only makes you look even more guilty.
You're confusing me with Ralph Reed. ;-)
The religious right has failed to learn that while our faith should influence our politics, our politics should not be our faith.
I am confident we will win on Social Security; the only question is how long it will take. Health care will be tougher, but we're still in the game. On education, I am among those who argued for years against any expansion of the federal role. We have lost that argument decisively in the court of public opinion, and it is pointless to lose elections over it. We need to outflank the liberals with a full court press on school choice, and turn federal aid into our lever for moving recalcitrant local bureaucracies. In the long run, we're going to win this one too.
When I got out of college, I did not expect to see the Berlin Wall fall, the budget balanced, or inflation tamed. (Yeah, yeah, but we balanced the budget once, and we'll do it again.) Those were tougher issues than the ones we face today. In fact, if the opinion polls are to be believed, we already enjoy majority support on the big three I mentioned above. We just have to translate that into voting behavior.
On these issues, the dems are not just wrong. They are visibly dishonest, and increasingly only the stupid are fooled. I think the time is ripe for a major Democrat to break loose and move his Party out of the swamp on these issues. It will start with school choice, and investment options for Social Security will be next. Maybe not this cycle, but within the decade ....
Sounds like you to me. :>)
How did the LogCabinRep's gain entry as a caucus within the Rep Party? Is there a process?
HOW does one repeat that process?
Granted, I know it wouldn't be very big to begin with... :-)
It wouldn't be very big...but...most of it would be religious conservatives.
What is their agenda?
Then show us the transcript, please. This story is too big to rely on statements quoted out of context.
These guys ought to know better.
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