[NutCrackerBoy]

I don't know how many votes GWB thought this would buy him but I'm getting very disenchanted with my president. He's either taking the conservative vote for granted or decided he doesn't need it.

I'm a major BushBot, but I acknowledge that your sentiment is inescapable. True conservative principles should continue to be voiced, developed, argued over, studied; the more the better. I can only say that this NEA thing is entirely analogous to Faith Based Initiative, which I support whole-heartedly. It is even more so from a PR point-of-view.

Based on this move, I think there is good reason to expect that NEA is safe from a takeover by arch-liberals in the forseeable future. What do you expect would happen if W moved to abolish the NEA?

[Spok]

"What do you expect would happen if W moved to abolish the NEA?"

He'd get my respect back.
I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1972 and this is the first time I've had doubts. If GWB abandons the Second Amendment, I may sit this one out.

[NathanR]

Based on this move, I think there is good reason to expect that NEA is safe from a takeover by arch-liberals in the forseeable future.

Since there will be a new president in 5 years, if not sooner, you don't forsee very far. Are you sure there won't be a Democratic president in the next 13 years? (3 elections) If so, NEA would shortly after his election revert to status quo, ante.

[Hillarys nightmare]

" What do you expect would happen if W moved to abolish the NEA?"

I think that his conservative base(who elected him in the first place) would be ecstatic!
While the libs (who never supported him and never will, regardless of how hard he tries to get them to like him) will site him as the insensitive and socially destructive fool they have always said he was!
Do you honestly believe that liberal Democrats are going to vote for him because of this?
If you do, then you must also believe that pigs do in fact possess the ability to fly!