BUDGET INCREASE FOR THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT OF THE ARTS

The Drudge Report ^ | 01-28-2004 | Matt Drudge

[Captain Peter Blood]

BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS... Laura Bush plans to announce the request -- for the largest increase in two decades -- on Thursday... Developing...

[billbears]

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public liberty

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

Bingo, baby.

And a humongous ditto to you, sir.

I'm voting Conservative. I have a beef with the Libertarian pro-abort policy. I know that far from all Libertarians are pro-aborts and that in any event most of them at least would return the issue properly to the States (where it belonged all along), but still I think I have more in common with the Conservatives than with the Libertarians.

I'd be interested in hearing you opinion of the Conservative Party.

Heartbreak

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

Oh, I'll hold my nose and vote for him in November ONLY because the best Demoncrat is unacceptable for national security.

This no-choice "choice" of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum is exactly the way the elites that control both parties manipulate us into supporting their positions. Heads they win, tails we lose.

The trick is to see that they're the same at the top.

I say the fist step is to see through the ruse and to stop supporting either of the two socialist parties - the Democrats and the Repubicans are both essentially Marxist in orientation, and they're run at the top by the same Marxist-Trotskyite infection.

I urge you to consider voting for a third party, especially the Conservatives, which as far as I can see is the only party out there with genuinely conservative positions.

[jgrubbs]

Are you aware that the "size of government" has not changed one bit. In order to create for the Department of Homeland Security...

I never said anything about the Department of Homeland Security, so your arguing that point for no reason.

As far as increasing spending, the budget was brought before congress for an 87 Billion $ increase to help fund the War. Other than that, the budget allotment for this year is the same.

From 2001 through 2003, the federal budget expanded by $296 billion. New defense spending accounted for $100 billion of that amount, and other 9/11-induced spending on homeland security, international aid, and domestic rebuilding totaled $32 billion. That leaves $164 billion in new spending completely unrelated to defense and the 9/11 attacks.

Like I said, you make these ignorant statements without having a clue about what you're talking about.

Every statemen I have made can be backed up with facts and figures. Take your BUSHBOT arguments elsewhere. I'm not anti-Bush, I am just against his policies. I organized a rally to support Bush over Gore in 2000, I wish he would move back to the right and work to restore conservative order to the GOP.

[JesseHousman]

Well, let's wait to see what exactly is in it.

By that time the current administration will have succeeded in overendowing the Endowment For The Arts.

Your comment that the biggest increase in twenty years migiht amount to a few million dollars.

A million here, a million there. Pretty soon that adds up to real money.

Of course, for us paupers who have scrimped, invested and saved in order to become petty millionaires, a million here and there is indeed more than chump change. Especially when we consider just what this "conservative" president is bent on endowing!

[jgrubbs]

Michael Medved said that the Republican Party was never a third party.

Michael Medved doesn't know his history does he?

[jgrubbs]

The answer is simple if you look at what the voters claim as their major issues going into the election. Healthcare, education, social security/Medicare and jobs. All issues that prove this country is not in the least interested in spending less money. In every one of those issues democrats hold an edge because they have promised to spend more. Why in the world anyone thinks that a red-meat conservative agenda stands a chance is beyond all logical explanation.

So if you can't beat them, join them?

Since the "conservative agenda" dosen't stand a chance, then we should all just accept that, and pursue unconstitutional liberal agendas.

Not only the POTUS and every Congressman takes an oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States", but so do voters when they sign their name on the voters registration form. The problem is that most voters are so uneducated about the Constutiton, that they don't know how to "preserve, protect and defend" it.

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

Thanks for posting that "Contact with America."

That really takes me back. My how time does fly.

There were certainly some good ideas in there, but let's face it, even had it succeeded it wouldn't have been much more than a speed bump in the way of the socialist steamroller.

I forget who said something to the effect that the Democrats would propose a bill to tear down all monuments in D.C., the Republicans would respond oh no, not so fast, only over a period of ten years and based on vouchers payable to faith-based organizations.

You get the picture.

Nobody in the GOP leadership has seriously proposed a repeal of the 16th Amendment and an end to the FDR welfare state.

And that, I respectfully submit, is what we must do if we are to preserve the last vestiges of Jefferson's Republic.

We need a third party, and we need it now.

Leave the GOP, my conservative friends. These neo-cons and their statist ilk are Trotskyite infiltrators. Let's stick to our principles and leave the results up to God, into Whose Hands Washington himself committed our nation.

[Mulder]

I must have hit home.My ,thou doth protest too much. I almost feel sorry for you. Almost. Look ,why don't you and the dead enders go on over to Liberty Post and save the world over there. You'll be relatively more happy, a term I think does not apply to you, but, it'll be a start. Maybe you can all get a good PAt Rant going there and pick up a book or or two from his presidential library.

Is that your best argument?

Did you 'copy and paste' that from a thread 3 or 4 years old?

[Mulder]

Maybe so, as the two of you probably can't afford it on your combined incomes

Here we go again with your homo fantasies....

Ain't this sort of stuff against the rules here?

Not that it matters, since the rules really don't apply to the Bush supporters.

[Mulder]

Just what makes one a 'real republican' or a 'true conservative'?

Basically the following:

Limited government and individual Freedom.

Those concepts are as foreign to Bush as the concept of virginity is to Madonna.

[plain talk]

My theory is that he is not pandering to the liberals. Me thinks he's pandering to his wife.

[KantianBurke]

[HRoarke]

I know exactly what you were doing. My point is that the Dems use the line of reasoning all of the time that there is a trade off between taxes and spending on their favorite programs, or more directly that if taxes are cut, we must automatically be looking to starve orphans or throw old folks out into the street. I'm tired of hearing it, no matter what the favored project is or how loose the comparisons.

Your post clearly didn't go that far, so a Kerry and Dean comparison may have been harsh on my part. My point is only that funding any one thing doesn't necessarily mean we are lacking in another or that the White House is neglecting it. Everyone has a particular axe to grind (I for one think it's not wise to spend 100 million to promote marriage...let parents and churches do that, not the government) but I'm also willing to hear what the details of this plan are before bashing it.

As far as my intelligence, I submit that I know FAR more about military and national security issues, and from personal experience, than you might suspect.

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

Hah!

You rock!!!

[Fester Chugabrew]

The N.E.A. is bad for art.

Thanks for the reply.

I do not know much about the NEA's history, so I am unable accurately to assess its merits or lack thereof. How direct is the correlation between the NEA and bad art? Is it correct to assume they are the cause, the promoter, or both?

I believe there is a place for government to participate in the second option you mentioned, namely public art that is highly visible.

Maybe a better way to put the question is: What has the NEA accomplished of value that could not have been accomplished through private means? At any rate, I prefer to treat this with an open mind. There may be a proper use for these kinds of funds.

Gotta hand it to you for working full time and writing plays. I'm doing the same while trying to start a record label.

[Heartbreak of Psoriasis]

Here's an interesting article that says it better than I can:

http://www.etherzone.com/2004/sees012904.shtml

[swampfox98]

Oh great. The Bush's have endeared themselves to conservatives even more. Now we'll be financing a new round of "P.... on Christ" bottles, and calling it "Art".

[Enterprise]

It is not exactly a "hot" campaign issue. Still, it is one less thing he has to contend with in a campaign where liberals will look for anything to attack him on.

[Don Joe]

The road to reelection is not paved with the pissed-off bodies of the core conservative constituency.

That's not what the party line bots believe. See my tagline for an example of the newthink.