Posted on 07/20/2003 5:29:31 AM PDT by RJCogburn
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:10:31 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
AT THEIR national convention three years ago, Republicans pointed with pride to the GOP's record of fiscal rectitude.
''In the four decades from 1954 to 1994,'' the Republican platform declared, ''government spending increased at an average annual rate of 7.9 percent, and the public's debt increased from $224 billion to $3.4 trillion.'' Those were the profligate years, when Democrats usually controlled both houses of Congress.
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JMO, MDC, you are being the appeaser, especially with your showing off your summa cum laude status of the Clinton Correspondence School of Parsing as shown in my reply #138.
It will be funny watching your following temper tantrum, just like any good demo.
I didn't vote for 41 because of his fiscal policies. Bush 43 doesn't appear to have paid attention to what happened to 41.
Fiscally, Former President Clinton wasn't too bad... not that you'd trust him with your dog or daughter. I don't care if President Bush is a nice guy, I care about the $ that he's pouring down ratholes trying to suck up to people who aren't goint to vote for him.
And spare me your screeds about DU and closet democrat, as I've pointed out previously, my voter registration and donation are public records.
????? Methinks you have me confused with another poster. I never said that. In fact, I agree with your assesment of GWB. We conservatives at least have a chance with the GOP. We have none at all with the jackass party and vote for a third party is a throw away vote which means advantage jackasses. One thing about the left that the right hasn't figured out- they were willing to take thier gains in incremental steps. We conservatives haven't quite figured that out yet.
Sorry, I didn't mean you specifically... it was a general comment.
Consider for a moment that we switched the names of the parties in power and it were a democratic house, senate and president.... who would be supporting President Bush and their Rep?
And after all that BS, you're putting forth the he's better than a Democrat argument? That's it? That's the big peg on which you hang your hat?
I'm so underwhelmed
The fact remains that you and your ilk sold us down the river. Do you guys FEAR the Commies/Socialists/Democrats? Is this embrace of mediocrity born from fear, or just an unwillingness to accept the fact that you backed the wrong horse? I backed him too, but I made a mistake. I'm over it.
The problem is that the job growth from all the spending and stimulation is in China.
The method is to find things Bush has done that are less than antiseptically conservative and present them to conservatives. They are in trouble. This is a reasonably good response.
Like I said in my reply #141, you are now in temper tantrum mode.
You came up with 4 demos with good ACU ratings, and ignored the other 200 demos in the House with bad ones.
But what the hey you are in the motions to hang yourself and I will follow the old adage of when a political enemey is hanging himself, I get out of the way.
I am getting out of the way, post(hang yourself) away.
True observation.We have a Republican President , a Republican Congress and a Republican Senate and we have given the Democrats every thing they could dream of.
I intend to stay home in 2004 or to vote 3rd party. I can not in good conscience support the bloated socialist government that is blooming in Washington. Too bad I had hoped it would turn out otherwise.
Look at the numbers again.
The Pubbies are pushing 80, and trying like hell to get to the cliff BEFORE the Dimocraps.
You know that process was actually tried here in NC on our last election. But almost a year before the primary, the RNC 'chose' the carpetbagger we were to have. There were two other good men running but the money behind our illustrious gun grabbing, power hungry, government knows better than you do current Senator was too much to compete with at the 'local' level
Gee whiz, and here I thought that I was endowed by my Creator with that right...didn't know it was you.
So, I guess if I vote for the Constitution Party, or maybe the Natural Law Party, I'll get my right back?
So far as 'respect', well, I just gotta respect myself...which means doing what I consider right, even if nobody else in the whole world agrees. And I'm okay with that.
Oh but don't you know that the malcontents orgasmically swooned over Perot in 92, saying to CNN Larry King, almost every night.
"Larry, not a dime's worth difference between them both".
Whew talk about a cult of personality, the "conservative" malcontents took it hook, line, and sinker.
While stimulation is good--look at what we get with those dollars. More NEA members (Education bucks), more Gummint bureaucrats (Pharmaceutical bill), and more Corporate Farmers (the Ag. Bill.)
I'd like to find a couple of bucks to stimulate INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION!!!!
True.
And even then, they are not ALL that conservative.
Ryan of Wisconsin voted for the prescripdrug bill--thank God, Sensenbrenner did not.
But if you look at the geography, you understand.
Ryan's district includes a large GM plant. The scrip drug bill will reduce GM's retiree-health-care costs. GM, Ford, Chrysler (and many other similarly situated employers) NEED this bill--or they will have to wipe out profits just funding healthcare for retirees.
Truly a dismal picture.
Really?
Did you forget about the VETO?
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