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The Republican spending orgy
Boston Globe ^ | 7/20/2003 | Jeff Jacoby

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]

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To: e_engineer
YOU didn't read my comments did you!

Go back, get a clue!

21 posted on 07/20/2003 6:32:09 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: RJCogburn
If there is a war going on, why not drastically reduce domestic spending? I don't get it. Where is the conservatism?
22 posted on 07/20/2003 6:33:59 AM PDT by Eternal_Bear
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To: Gore_ War_ Vet
Please name a (1) spending bill Bush has vetoed!

Please name another time in history where we had THREE commercial jetliners be taken over by terrorist, killing more than 3,000 people and destroying a center of commerce, and part of the pentagon?

You don't know what Bush's pre 9/11 plans were and you still have no clue what will happen in the future.

If you don't like Bush don't vote for him and go grab on to some Libert. who might get .000000001% of the vote and give the election to one of the now current plethra of Lib/Socialist!

Maybe Al Sharpton will float your boat!

23 posted on 07/20/2003 6:41:40 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: RJCogburn
Be prepared to get flamed. Bush is sacrosanct to many on this site and Freepers musn't cricicize He Who Walks On Water.

Here, have some Kool-Aid.

24 posted on 07/20/2003 6:44:35 AM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis R. LeMay School of International Relations)
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To: Sir_Humphrey
Un-friggin-belivable!

Sir your post duplicates authentically my sentiments, and as it was exquisitely extrapolated, I say I am extremely honored to be associated with you on this unpopular thread of illcontempt.

25 posted on 07/20/2003 6:47:39 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: sirchtruth
Well,

It would certainly be inconsistent not to hold our "represenatives'" feet to the fire.

If they will not heed to our will we have a duty to replace tham.

They work for US.

If you had an employee whom you trusted with your financial affairs and the future of your family, who spent you into bankruptcy, what would you do?

Thats right, Fire Him.
26 posted on 07/20/2003 6:49:27 AM PDT by WhiteGuy (Deficit $455,000,000,000 + MY VOTE IS FOR SALE)
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To: RJCogburn
Pointing out the truth will get you savaged by BushBots.

Good luck.

27 posted on 07/20/2003 6:52:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (PROUDLY POSTING WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE SINCE 1999!)
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To: nonliberal
Here, have some Kool-Aid.

Bring it on!

I don't have a problem with anyone critizing Bush for spending, but to outright give the election to the other side because of it is ridiculous and irresponsible.

Do you penny pinchers think for one second a Caroyl Mosley-Braun would be more up to your standards. Maybe Howard Dean, who loves Hillary's presciption for Healthcare....

HELLO!!!!

28 posted on 07/20/2003 6:54:27 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: Lazamataz
....and where have you been hiding?
29 posted on 07/20/2003 6:55:54 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: WhiteGuy
Thats right, Fire Him.

Go right ahead, see what YOU get!

30 posted on 07/20/2003 6:57:39 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: sirchtruth
I don't have a problem with anyone critizing Bush for spending, but to outright give the election to the other side because of it is ridiculous and irresponsible.

I think the point is "we have met the other side...(and it is starting to look like) ...."he is us" The democraps want to drive the bus off the cliff at 100 mph and the repubs have decided to drive it off the cliff at 35 mph imo

31 posted on 07/20/2003 6:59:41 AM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
The problem at the bottom of all of this is a Republican Congress who will send spending bill after spending bill laden with home-district pork to the WH, who always signs it. And then they don't stick up for the WH when it comes to judicial nominees.

On the farm bill: agreed. But don't forget the steel tariffs, either. The prescription drug bill is a disaster.

It used to be that the Dems were the tax and spend party. Where oh where is Reagan's spirit now?

32 posted on 07/20/2003 7:01:13 AM PDT by austinTparty
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To: Eternal_Bear
"Where is the conservatism?"

Being overwhelmed by the "compassion."

33 posted on 07/20/2003 7:04:02 AM PDT by Ed_in_NJ
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To: joesnuffy
The democraps want to drive the bus off the cliff at 100 mph and the repubs have decided to drive it off the cliff at 35 mph imo

That is a great point, but I think the Repubs and Bush will slam on the brakes before we get near the edge.

Eventhough Bush is spending like a pissin' drunk racehorse gambler, I don't think the plan is to continue.

He will cut the spending on other things that don't work at all.

34 posted on 07/20/2003 7:05:17 AM PDT by sirchtruth
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To: sirchtruth
When the economy is weak you have no choice but to stimulate. Tax cuts and spending increases. To do otherwise is economically depressive. If military spending had been cut instead of increased, that industry would have collapsed, at a very bad time.
35 posted on 07/20/2003 7:08:49 AM PDT by Owen
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To: RJCogburn
And this "orgy of spending" is precisely what is turning a lot of fiscal conservatives off with President Bush and company.

Yes, people will make excuses for him, but that is what they are: excuses.

There is nothing "conservative" about the pork coming from D.C., "compassionate" or otherwise.

36 posted on 07/20/2003 7:09:38 AM PDT by dfrussell
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To: joesnuffy
The democraps want to drive the bus off the cliff at 100 mph and the repubs have decided to drive it off the cliff at 35 mph imo

It is sad to realize, as the suthor...not I, I'm just posting and commenting...points out, the repubs are actually driving that bus faster than the dems.

Now that's unbelievable.

37 posted on 07/20/2003 7:10:24 AM PDT by RJCogburn ("A drinking man's half a man."........Eula Goodnight)
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To: sirchtruth
Please name a (1) spending bill Bush has vetoed!

Can't name ONE, can you? You don't know what Bush's pre 9/11 plans were and you still have no clue what will happen in the future.

Pre 911 he was going to buy another term with liberal socialism. Post 911 he's trying buy another term with fear (looks like you might of got a little more than your share there) and the blood of our sons and daughters. Leaving a promissory note of slavery to be paid by our grandchildren.

Maybe Al Sharpton will float your boat!

In your search for truth you might consider that even Al Sharpton couldn't have done the damage I fear Bush is doing to this country, he is after all just a SMALLTIME crook. Hey! Do you know Al is black, I thought you might.

38 posted on 07/20/2003 7:12:40 AM PDT by Gore_ War_ Vet ("The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted." -- James Madison)
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To: austinTparty
Ronald Reagan signed spending bills, too. The deficit increased during his tenure, and those were relatively good economic times.

Bush has to grow the economy. He is trying to do that by stimulating. One stimulates by cutting taxes and increasing spending. There is little choice in the matter if you want to try to retain some semblance of morality in the WH and deny it to the Democrats.

39 posted on 07/20/2003 7:13:04 AM PDT by Owen
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To: austinTparty
Where oh where is Reagan's spirit now?

Speaking of Reagan....

Reagan could not get rid of programs that he wished to, which is a comparison some of the Bush diehards like to point out in defense of Bush's failure to do the same.

One of the really great things about Reagan, though, was the way he changed the nature of the debate from 'what is the best way for government handle whatever' to 'should the government be involved in handling whatever'.

Bush has completed turning the debate back to the first question and in that way is arguably not just a big government, big spending President, but dangerous to the very ideaof small, limited, Constitutional government. That may in the long run be even worse than his big spending party.

40 posted on 07/20/2003 7:16:46 AM PDT by RJCogburn ("A drinking man's half a man."........Eula Goodnight)
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