[TLBSHOW]

Well there you have it. Rush and his reason for being upset with the President.

[jbstrick]

I'm upset at him too. The the farm bill is a damn joke. Paying people NOT to raise crops is nonsense.

[nunya bidness]

Rush talking about Rush sounds like Rush likes Rush too much.

[demlosers]

...farm bill...

So what type of pork is in the farm bill?
oink oink!

[finnman69]

The title of this thread is misleading. I expected to see ana rticle stating that Bush as in favor of abortion, raising taxes, taking your guns away or expanding welfare.

I did not see any of those things mentioned here.

[seanc623]

The thing that amazes me is how conservative Republicans resemble that pledge in Animal House. Every time the country club establishment backhands them they come back and say, "Thank you, may I have another?"

[Sub-Driver]

he thinks he's Karl Rove

[Tribune7]

Dubya pulled us out of Kyoto and the ICC. That's worth the price of admission right there.

[Redcloak]

[This is] particularly frustrating at a time when Bush's popularity would make it easy for him to recruit new conservatives.

So when is W going to spend some of this political capital that he's amassed? It won't do him much good 9 years into his administration.

[Southack]

"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..."

Nonsense.

GWB killed the Kyoto Treaty on Global Warming, for one. GWB pulled the U.S. out of the CCCP-U.S. ABM Treaty, for another (something Reagan never did, btw).

GWB backed and got our National Missile Defense program funded.

GWB Killed the International Criminal Court.

GWB repealed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off electricity production in California and causing electricity rates to spike.

GWB repealed OSHA's new ergonomic regulations that were about to put every home-based business in America out of commission.

GWB appointed Ashcroft and Ted Olsen, who just wrote to the Supreme Court that the 2nd Amendment is an INDIVIDUAL right, not the "collective right" that liberals have maintained for decades.

GWB signed the bill into law that gives pilots the right to arm themselves with firearms, a pleasant pro-gun victory on a national level.

GWB killed the Left-Wing ABA's role in vetting federal judges for Congress (again, something so Conservative that even Reagan himself wouldn't do).

GWB instituted the first top-down review of our military in years, which concluded (prior to 9/11), that asymmetric attacks were our biggest future threat.

GWB killed the $11 Billion Crusader artillery boondoggle.

GWB killed federal funding of foreign "family planning" activities.

GWB ordered the Justice Department to finally enforce the SCOTUS Beck decision, giving union workers the right to recover any of their union dues that are used for political purposes with which they disagree.

And Rush? Rush Limbaugh said that Hillary Clinton wouldn't run for the Senate.

Well, Southack said that she would, and Southack was RIGHT about that, not Rush.

Rush seems to think that killing the Kyoto Treaty is somehow "advancing the Democrats' most liberal agenda" (Rush's words, not mine).

Nonsense. Killing Kytoto would NOT have been done by a liberal, and certainly NOT by Mr. Earth in the Balance Gore.

Gore wasn't going to pull the U.S. out of the Soviet-U.S. ABM treaty, either.

Perhaps Rush has forgotten what a liberal looks like, but Southack knows that liberals like the ABA vetting federal judges for Congress and passing CO2 regulations for electricity power plants, both things that President Bush has killed in little more than a year in office.

Hey Rush, what's your new prediction about Hillary? Care to match it up against mine?

I didn't think so...

[ex-snook]

"They've said that Rush is a party hack, and that he'd support the Republican Party no matter what they did. "

Well Rush won't support the Republican Party if they disagree with Bibi. You see Rush is a neo-con, big time.

Republicans are for tax cuts first and will never criticize Bush.
Neo-cons are for Israel first and will never criticize Bibi.
Conservatives for for American first and will criticize both Republicans and Bibi.

[Spiff]

You know, I'm starting to like Rush again. Sounds like he finally woke up. I may start listening to him again now that he's not just a shill for the Republicans.

[galt-jw]

as long as it is YOUR gang who steals your liberty, while occasionally throwing you a bone to pacify, its a-ok.

[Uncle Bill]

Why Democrats should draft George W. Bush in 2004

The surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government."
George W. Bush - Source: Presidential debate, Boston MA Oct 3, 2000.

Gore offers an old and tired approach. He offers a new federal spending program to nearly every voting bloc. He expands entitlements, without reforms to sustain them. 285 new or expanded programs, and $2 trillion more in new spending. Spending without discipline, spending without priorities, and spending without an end. Al Gore’s massive spending would mean slower growth and higher taxes. And it could mean an end to this nation’s prosperity."
George W. Bush Source: Speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota Nov 1, 2000.

"People need more money in their pocket, as far as I’m concerned."
George W. Bush - The Tampa (FL) Tribune Oct 26, 2000.

"I think the economy has grown really in spite of government. This is an incredible period of time when productivity has been enhanced, not because of any great initiative of government, but because of the ability for entrepreneurs to stake a new claim."
George W. Bush - Source: Ronald Brownstein, LA Times Aug 13, 2000

I was deeply concerned about the drift toward a more powerful federal government. I was particularly outraged by two pieces of legislation, the Natural Gas Policy Act and the Fuel Use Act. It seemed to me that elite central planners were determining the course of our nation. Allowing the government to dictate the price of natural gas was a move toward European-style socialism. If the federal government was going to take over the natural gas business, what would it set its sights on next?"
George W. Bush - Source: “A Charge to Keep”, p.172-173 Dec 9, 1999

Un El día En El la vida de Jorge W. La arbusto

"Immigration is not a problem to be solved, it is the sign of a successful nation."
George W. Bush - Source: Speech in Washington, D.C. Jun 26, 2000.

"In September of last year, I welcomed my good friend, the President of Mexico, to the White House. Standing together on the South Lawn, President Fox and I spoke of building a hemisphere of freedom and prosperity and progress."

Foolin' them is easy isn't it? Heck yes.

A UNICEF-funded book being passed out at the United Nations Child Summit encourages children to engage in sexual activities with other minors and with homosexuals and animals

Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, not once, but twice

"That’s why I’m for instant background checks at gun shows. I’m for trigger locks."
George W. Bush - Source: St. Louis debate Oct 17, 2000

[Willie Green]

Rush is disgruntled.

Battery on the golf cart run low???

He oughta use one of those propane models.

[quidnunc]

On 9/11 the world shifted on its axis and the mindset of much of middle America changed.

Now we are more worried about security, the Middle East, Europe and a whole host of things which we barely acknowledged previously.

But Rush is largely singing the same tune as he started with in 1988.

To my ears his riff is sounding old, tired and boring and Rush is beginning to get on my nerves.

When I've been listening Rush has never mentioned the political and social mess in Europe, which is having and will continue to have consequences for us here in the U.S.

Nor has he mentioned the problem of Muslim infiltration of the U.S.

Or the rising anti-Americanism and anti-Sematism on American campuses.

Or the growing signs of an alliance between Islamists, anarchists and other extremisdt groups worldwide.

Rush is like a prehistoric insect frozen in amber, forever trapped and ossified by his immediate environment..

He needs to broaden his horizons, but he seems increasingly oblivious to anything beyond domestic partisan politics, the culture war, golf, cigars and the lovely and gracious Marta.

I'm very much afraid that Rush's time has come and gone.

[jackbill]

I voted for President Bush, hoping that he would stand by what he promised during the campaign. I, like Rush, would like to give the President some "slack". Perhaps he is doing what he is doing in order to ensure a second term, or get a Republican House and Senate.

However, I am contunually wondering just why it is important to get another term and a Republican House and Senate if the end result is just more big government! I freely admit to being conflicted.

If Algore had been elected, we would have 30,000 more government employees in "airport security", we would have had Campaign Finance Reform, we would have had a massive government give-away in a Farm Bill. We would have effectively had "open borders". We would have had "steel tariffs" to prop up the steel unions. We would have had a massive influx of funding into "public education".

We voted for George W. Bush and guess what?

[thucydides]

Bush is President of all the people, and it is a sad fact that most of them have no real problem with bloated government or high taxes (as long as they think someone else is paying more than they are). He has to carefully pick his issues, just as Reagan did. Reagan lost ground on government spending, but he did get extremely high tax rates down, he gave the economy an enormous boost, and he ended the Cold War with the collapse of the Soviet Union without a shot being fired. Bush is out to make our lives safer, and to repair some of the enormous damage to national security done during the Clinton years. Meanwhile, he is going along with a lot of nauseating stuff because he really has no choice. If he gets a better Congress in the Fall, he will improve.

[don-o]

Yawn.

sddp

[uncbob]

I onjly wish Rush had gotten on board earlier when the GOP congress was rolling over for Clinton

Then he was saying we need a GOP president

[Russell Scott]

Jesus and His Army of super-annointed saints is the ONLY answer to the ills of the world. I like President Bush, but he was born of a woman. We need 100% born-again from the incorruptible seed of God leaders. Then we will see the earth filled with incorruption, not corruption. With eternal life, not a constant procession of funerals. With perfect health, not doctors and hospitals in every community.

"The whole creation groans and travails, waiting for the manifestation of the Sons (plural) of God."