Posted on 05/13/2002 3:12:19 PM PDT by TLBSHOW
On Monday's show, the Doctor of Democracy made a sad diagnosis: "If the Reagan Revolution is not dead, then it's dying." If there was a model that the Bush administration used in establishing itself, it was the Reagan presidency. But now Bush is advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda items - something particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.
Many of you have been critical of Rush's reactions to Bush's actions on spending over the recent months, and we took more calls of this sort on Monday - people who'd convinced themselves that the farm bill made sense or that Bush had some grand strategery at play. Now, Rush could throw his beliefs out the window for a day or two and say things that you might want to hear - like when he endorsed Clinton back in 1992 - but that's not what he does.
Rush can only give you his honest reaction, even when he doesn't like those reactions. That's honesty, folks, and it goes to disprove a key criticism many of the nation's liberals have made of Rush over the years. They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. They charged that the EIB Network was simply a tool, that we were in daily contact with the powers that be to get marching orders. Well, that has pretty much been dispelled here: Rush is disgruntled.
You just made a great case to vote AGAINST Libertarians! How any conservative could brag about putting Cantwell in office is beyond my comprehension. Your vote is a gift to the Liberals just as a vote for the Green Party is a gift to the Conservatives.
My nomination for Qoute of the Day!
Right on the money. You da man!
Easy... I'm not a conservative, I'm a Libertarian. I wasn't bragging about getting Cantwell elected, I was bragging about costing Gorton the election because he flip-flopped on guns. One of the reasons I became a Libertarian is to punish Republicans like him for pretending to be something they're not. Since the only language they seem to understand is brute force, that's the way we'll communicate with them. I'm sure he never thought a lowly Libertarian like Jeff Jared could cost him reelection; well now he knows better. Save your tears for the hunters and sportsmen of his state, you know the ones he sold out so he could appeal to the left-wing gun grabbers who wound up not voting for him anyway.
I've tuned in, every now and again, over the ensuing years, only to find that Rush had gotten worse. This incesant Bush Bashing, is boring, counter productive, and isn't doing Rush any good either. He has more people complaing about this, than he has comlmentary E-mails. He hates this, and lost it, on air, several times in the past few weeks. His bloated ego can't take it. The emperor has NO clothes at all, now.
Unlike fringers and political naifs here, Rush actually does know that NO president is Emperor , with unilateral / complete power to do whatever he so desires to do. There are THREE branches of government, and the president doesn't make laws, nor is he able to repeal whatever was done prior to his administration, my saying so. So, this new act, that Rush has instigated, is a losing one, for him, as well as for those few ( who used to hate him / call him names here ) who are now suddenly championing him.
O'Reilly has NOTHING at all to do with this. Rush is a lazy man, who is pompous, arrogant, out of the political loop ( Newtie is no longer feeding him stuff ) , and long ago lost the " fire in the belly " , which made him not only interesting to listen to, but made those who listened to him, feel part of a group of similar , right thinking people. FR, and the FOX CABLE NEWS channel, have made Rushs's show , and Rush, far less relivant and important.
Nope...I wasn't referring to them.
George Bush is a B I G disappointment. As usual, Rush is right. GW deserves to be bashed.
The Republicans under the leadership of Newt passed that smaller Farm Subsidy Bill. Then the Mississippi or Missouri flooded and the whopping supplementals started. There was no way the Republicans could withstand the media chorus directed by Daschle and Gephart: "You can't be meanspirited enough to turn your back on suffering flood victims." And they piled huge supplementals onto the flood relief bills, and probably every other bill that went through congress after that.
Newt tried to say that what the Dems were doing was wrong and against the spirit of the Farm Subsidy bill that had just been passed. He might as well have been shouting in a hurricane. No one listened when he tried to hold down the spending.
Well! There you have it, folks!
A vote, not for principle, but for punishment. Well, at least you're honest.
My goodness! I agree with you!
Well, here's a ping to da boss. I'm sure he'll tell you his view on this.
Of course it does... the coup d'etat couldn't have happened without him. Like his father before him who supported Jeffords for reelection against real conservatives (especially in '86) Bush II has made and is making the same mistakes. The big tent is a death sentence for Republicans (at least those who are Constitutionally correct instead of politically correct).
Oops! Should learn to spell Quote!
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