Bush's Trouble Ahead

NY Times ^ | November 7, 2004 | LYN NOFZIGER

[MNJohnnie]

" meaning the Reagan Regiments). Of course Noonan is one of Bush's biggest supporters now and it is clear that W has won the heart of the evangelicals just as Reagan did before him. Now he needs to work more on the fiscal, small government conservatives (redundant) and he will truly be Reagan's heir apparent.



Why is it that no one remembers that Reagan DOUBLED Federal Spending between 1981 and 1988? Reagan passed the 1986 Tax HIKE? That Reagan passed an Illegal Alien Amnesty in 1986?

The Ronald Reagan you all worship never existed ok? CONGRESS not the President holds the reigns. When are you people going to wake up that the KEY is not to hyperventilate about Bush and spending. The KEY is to get Congress to re implement the 1995 Budget Rules that requires NEW spending to be off set by spending CUTS. It's the STRUCTURE of the system, not any one person IN the system, that drives the spending. So let's stop looking for some mythic magic bullet and get busy doing the hard work of LOBBYING CONGRESS for the necessary changes

[streetpreacher]

Savage, this is not a Times guy. It's Nofziger. Sheesh.

He's always had this tendency to try to wax poetic.

Have you read his inane Blog site?

[MNJohnnie]

Nofziger only said wake up and get real


No what you guys are saying is "he might as well surrender, their is no reason to fight for what we believe in because it is all hopeless."

Same old Grim Freepers club. It's all over, no reason to fight for what we believe in. I have to wonder why you guys even bother coming here? I mean to listen to you guys it's all hopless nothing can be done. The Dims might as well as won since everything is hopless.

[MNJohnnie]

If they get their way, the president's major successes may amount to little more than getting a permanent extension on his tax cuts and making progress toward modernizing Social Security


Which is 2000% MORE then anything we got under Clinton.

[Savage Beast]

No. Do I hafto?

[neverdem]

With comment# 41, I thought you were catching my drift. After comment# 43, I see that I was wrong. I'm not saying it's hopeless, implying hopeless pessimism. But unwarranted optimism can cause unnecessary pessimism when a hope is not realized. I just want folks to keep an even keel. We're in a long, hard slog.

[MNJohnnie]

We're in a long, hard slog.

Yep. No one ever said it would be easy but I want you to think about this.

What great achievenments in Science, Engineering, Art, Governance etc etc was ever achieved by people who started out saying

"Oh man there are all these problems. We have to overcome this and that. These people and those people will be opposing us. Then there are these problems. Whine, cry bitch......

Sorry but I think too many Freepers use their excessive negativity to rationalize inaction. I would much rather fight and fail then spend all my time complaining about how hard the fight is.

[ketchikan]

This is exactly why Bush doesn't waste his time reading the papers. Notice how he didn't even have a majority last time and governed the way he thought best which was to immediately start out with tax and education reform.

[clee1]

Somebody once told 'em the World is gonna roll 'em,
They ain't the sharpest tools in the shed.
They were lookin' kinda dumb,
With their fingers and their thumbs,
In the shape of L's on their foreheads.

PACK 'O LOSERS tm.

[I_dmc]

Only one thing to say.  A leader leads!

[fivekid]

Sheesh...sounds like he should be writing for Ron Reagan...


And that spitting wipe the drool off your face matheeeeews.

[Max Combined]

"you should show a little respect for your betters."

I am an American citizen. I do not have any "betters".

If Lyn Nofziger does not want to be called a lapdog of the New York Times, he should not write articles in the New York Times that prove that he is a lapdog of the New York Times.

Without conservative voters like me, there would be no Republican revolution, Bush presidency or mandate. Remember that.

[Max Combined]

"what happened to Lyn?"

Remember how Goldwater went senile in his dotage? Must have happened to Lyn as well.

[jammer]

You are correct in your assessment of the NYT, but the author is not one to be so lightly dismissed. He was fighting the battles with us, effectively, for a long, long time.

[jammer]

Thanks, Nick! I thought I was the only one who noticed.

[leprechaun9]

Well, Well, Well!

The NEW YORK SLIMES, branded as the Jayson Blair Gazette, still thinks they are formulating public policy, instead of reporting the news.

This fish wrapper is working to take its rightful place on a rack next to the cash register at the local Quik Mart!

[agincourt1415]

Democraps PLEASE THINK THAT HILLARY HAS A GOOD CHANCE TO WIN in 08!

You talk about THERMO NUCLEAR REPUBLICAN MOBILIZATION, Demos have not seen nothing yet!.