This might be appropriate for your GenX ping list.
I don't like Bob Barr. He has a few points but for the most part he's just seems to be a big, loud troublemaker.
Barr would have alot more credibility if he hadn't become a paid ACLU prostitute upon leaving Congress.
BTTT
Bob Barr, you got beat in an election by a weak opponent. Go STFU please.
I am suprised given the last paragraph this is even allowed on FR.
Of course the night in young!
Revenues are decreasing? Why didn't I get that memo?
Music to Hillary's ears.
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IMO, that means he has NO credibility at all. NONE
That's right, Bob, you don't work in Washington anymore. You and your friends at the ACLU spend your time making it as difficult as possible for the president and Republicans to achieve anything. Nice work.
FreeRepublic: Yay! Bob Barr is teh man! Barr PWNED U Clinton!
(FreeRepublic hands Bob Barr a totally 31337 award.)
2005:
Bob Barr: The Emperor has no clothes.
FreeRepublic: Unnngh! STFU, Newb!! Bob Barr is teh sUx0r!!
Spiff: <---Rolls eyes.
Newt pretty much exited stage right and said talk to the hand.. Could be these two Newt and Bobby.. admitted we have a government that exactly matches the Americas people.. when if not drugged or Shiite faced are looking for that government check.. and say "show ME the money" especically if over fifty.. say sixty..
In the early ninetys these two were fire breathers.. currently they just burn "farts" for a living... and I'm not amused..
Bob Barr is dead on accurate. The Republican at any cost crowd here can say what they want about him, but that doesn't make him an LESS accurate.
I'm not a republican first. I AM an American First, I AM a Conservative Second and if the Republican Party leaves MY position of smaller government and more fiscal responsibiity, for more Tax and Spend, then to hell with them too! They are no better than those people on the other side of the Aisle.
When you're being robbed at gunpoint, it doesn't make a hill of beans difference if the man who is robbing you has an R or a D by his name.
It's STILL strong armed robbery.
Bob Barr - a true patriot and the last True Conserative to leave Washington - I miss you.
I watched Greenspan testify before the House Budget Committee this morning. According to Congress, mandatory spending is now at 55% and at this rate we'll be at 67% within, I think, 20 years. W made a start with the cut of 150 programs for FY06 but that's just a start and more needs to be done. I think we can all disagree on certain points and still like and support the President. I certainly do.
But Greenspan knows what he's talking about and mandatory spending needs to see real net reductions. NOW. I don't think anyone here on FR is saying that we should cut back on the War on Terror or hold national security hostage to a budget. But there are just too many pork projects on both sides of the aisle that have nothing to do with the War on Terror. W's NCLB Act is focusing on education at the wrong level. State and local levels need to be revitalized to get our school students back at the top of the industrialized nations. Greenspan saw that as a major problem. I agree. It's embarrassing!
I've never really forgiven Barr for helping Clinton out. If Barr hadn't shot his wad prematurely and started calling for an impeachment looooong before it was time (like well over a year) then Clinton's "witch hunt" defense wouldn't have had near the credibility that it had.
"Here we are in 2005. Like an out of control consumer who cuts up his credit cards, pays off his debt, and immediately digs a new, deeper hole, the federal government is back in the red - big time. We're spending on everything from B-2 bombers to Viagra for Medicare recipients to indoor rainforests in Iowa.
The deficit is back with a vengeance, Social Security is slowly going bankrupt. And, once again, we're leaving our kids to pay the bill."
Doesn't he mean that the booming economy that started booming well before then grew the economy to the point where the government's tax revenues outstripped their spending? That and they raised taxes while the economy was booming, becuase they couldn't control their spending.
They balanced the budget? Only by ignoring the implied debt of future Social Security payments which our government is committed to paying out, but haven't figured out how to pay for yet.
The other way the helped "balance the budget" was to gut the military and not give the soldiers cost of living increases so they ended up earning less than the poverty level. THis resulted in us having to spend obscene amounts of money now to fix the mess they made of our military.
The Congress exibited very little fiscal responsibility 10 years ago, but were able to look good because the economy was growing. The trend of the economy growing started well before many of them were in office, and they have little evidence that they did much to help it on it's way.
However many of the significant reasons we are not dramaticly increasing our national debt are due to things they handled poorly during that time.
He's taking the credit for the actions of others, and pushing the blame for his actions on others. He should be ashamed.
To whatever extent the revolution is sputtering, which it isn't in the larger sense, it's because of failed leadership.
Bob totally lost my respect when he showed up in Iowa in '02 in support of the RINO Greg Ganske who was running in the U.S. Senate primary against one of the finest young conservative candidates I've ever seen, Bill Salier.