Who says George W. Bush has done "nothing" for conservatives?

WhiteHouse.gov; various news sources ^ | 1/27/04

[maica]

And I would rather have a new Lexus, but I actually drive an old Cavalier. It still gets me where I want to go.

[Austin Willard Wright]

I expect we can see a lot of rationalizations like this on FR for our spend-thrift, pro-affirmative action, pro-Medicare socialization, pro-farm subsidy, pro-campaign reform president as the election draws neare

[RiflemanSharpe]

If you are tired of politics as usual then why keep voting for the same usual politicians? nI we truly want a conservative anf fiscally responsible government then we have to vote for it. I can no longer in good conscience keep voting for the lessor of two evils.

[Bikers4Bush]

Maybe I have already done it. I don't vote to make myself relevant, if you do that is telling. I vote to put the right people in office.

[Doohickey]

Nice try

Case in point. :)

[BureaucratusMaximus]

Truly series?

Yes.

[RiflemanSharpe]

He could veto the spending bills, he doesn't.

[RiflemanSharpe]

And I would rather have a new Lexus, but I actually drive an old Cavalier. It still gets me where I want to go.


That is part of the problem, GWB is taking the domestic policy of this country to the left. I do not want it to go there so I will no longer support him.

[Bikers4Bush]

Aaaah, the fear mongering starts early. How predictable.

"Name one candidate who has one scintilla of a chance to get elected, who is closer to your agenda."

And that is exactly why we as voters and this country are in the position we are in. People only voting for who they think will win as opposed to who should win or would be the best person for the job.

Pathetic.

[PhiKapMom]

How many years did we have huge deficits before Republicans took over Congress and the economy boomed?

But then on September 11, 2001, something happened that changed the budget outlook. After years of the military being cut after the cold war ended and the wall came down, we were suddenly faced with a choice. President Bush could either lead and go after the terrorist with our military or go to the UN and demand they do something. That choice was easy for this President -- no organization is going to be asked to defend this Country! That meant huge amounts of money had to be appropriated to repair the damage done by Clinton.

Our military and CIA were both gutted during the Clinton years. Any money added on by Armed Services was fought tooth and nail by Bill Clinton. When President Bush took office our military morale, weapons, and personnel were at a very low ebb.

A lot of the deficit is due to the fact that we had to increase the budgets of Defense, CIA, FBI, Justice Department, and the new Homeland Security in order to fight the terrorists on their turf not on ours.

At the same time the economy that was going south in Clinton's last year, took a real nose dive after 9/11 which added further to the deficit. Without tax cuts, the economy still would not be rebounding. You have to put money back in people's pockets so they will spend the money to buy more goods which improves the economy. All you had to do was watch the rebound in buying when the child credit checks were sent out to taxpayers.

The funding increase for Education was a drop in the bucket to the upgrades that are necessary in DoD. It is obvious that you have absolutely no Defense Department experience or you would know how bad the situtation in DoD had become under Clinton and how much money it has taken to get us back to where we could fight a war in Iraq.

Next time you talk about deficits at least have the courtesy to acknowledge there have been extenuating circumstances and a lot of the problem goes back to Clinton for gutting our National Security agencies that have had to be rebuilt!

[The Old Hoosier]

You have listed several real accomplishments, but the fact that you consider No Child Left Behind, Jobs for the 21st Century, and scores of misguided grant programs to be "accomplishments" does not give you credibility as a conservative.

Don't forget one of the most important accomplishments right now: a $500 billion deficit, thanks mostly to new, wasteful social spending this president--not his predecessor--has initiated.

[Mo1]

You felt alientate and belittle by my post???

[b9]

Excuse me, but why do you call yourself Bikers4Bush?

[Valin]

Uh..WhiteHouse.gov. That makes it totally unbiased.

Well of course it's not unbiased! You say that like it's a bad thing.

[Doohickey]

LOL, no but the "Nice try" was a classic "your comments have no merit" dismissal that was meant to alienate.

[George W. Bush]

We have people now posting from the RAT campaigns as well as our usual Bush is a RINO crap posters.

I don't think FR management is as gullible as you're painting here. They have a Secret Sauce for detecting and ejecting disruptors. Their Perl scripting exhibits signs of considerable sophistication in this regard.

My own observation is that we have far fewer liberal disruptors here than we've had in a long time. The moderators do a very good job with that, one of the biggest improvements in the moderation since JimRob expanded staff and stopped trying to do it all by himself. Not saying JimRob failed. But the disruptors get shown the door very quickly, IMO.

[PhiKapMom]

Give it a rest! Maybe you put the domestic agenda ahead of national security but after spending most of my adult life around the Air Force, I do not.

National Security is my #1 issue -- even on the AOL poll recently it was the #1 issue by far. You are hiding your head in the sand if you think that domestic policy is going to trump national security.

Not to mention the DemocRAT candidates want an ever larger piece of the pie for domestic programs and less for national security. Some of you seem to forget that fact when attacking the President or do you?

[Bikers4Bush]

You aren't the first and you aren't the last.

It's a double entendre. There was a time when I was a big W supporter so that was one half of the double.

And before you bother, spare me the "why don't you change your screen name".

[RiflemanSharpe]

I will agree there are many items that need attention. But, there has been an awful lot spending not related to this see the pill bill. We are spending money we do not have on things we do nt absolutely need.

[LucyJo]

Thanks much for the ping, d-lady.

Wolfstar, Thank you and Southack for doing yeoman's work to provide this service. The facts can't be laid out much clearer than this. I'll consider it an honor to pass it along at every opportunity - here and elsewhere - with credit and praise to each of you...with your permission, of course.