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Posted on 03/12/2006 7:51:39 AM PST by SmithL
All well and good to talk about overspending, but how do these politicians defend their voting for all that overspending? It wasn't just Bush doing it. They all are guilty. And where were these voices while the money gushing was occurring? Just because of an election they come up with their criticism. How cynical.
so they can say I told you so..
also there are a nubmer of completely delusional conservatives nad libertarians who think if only thinks get really really bad, then the sleeping american voter will wake up and vote for a true conservative...wont happen!!
For 25 years all I hear is that the PRESIDENT is spending too much, well CONGRESS is at fault they CONTROL the PURSE!!!
Grow a set GOP!
you miss the point.
the point is that the LP is not and will not be taken seriously until they abandon their legalized drugs position.
""Federally financed elections - citizen government, not corporate elections, that's what solves this problem.""
oh yes, the only free speech can be govt funded speech...wonderful!!!
You are fighting a tough battle against a collapsing FR gene pool. It's the "things aren't going my way, therefore I'll mutilate myself" theory.
Sounds more like leftist wishful thinking to me. To be sure, we aren't thrilled with many of Bush's RINO policies but, to describe it as a "deep funk" is to push the limits of hyperbole.
BTW no where in the constitution does it mention citizen government. we are not a direct democracy, we are a representative republic...
"YOU guys keep bashing the only hope that we have, and we are going to see floundering of Biblical Proportions"
If republicans would simply try to be conservative they'll win - that's really the only hope.
That the democrats will continue to be incompetent is a false hope, one that puts the onus on things that we, as republicans cannot control.
So if the democrats win in 06/08 and any items on your laundry list of doom occur, it won't be because of conservatives (who know the formula for sustained political success)
It's the folks who think conservatism can be successfully compromised (GWB foremost among them) for sustained political gain that will have lost.
The economy caught fire after the Republicans won the House and Senate in 1994. For 6 years, they wanted to cut spending and say no to the XXX-42's requests for spending. If they worked the same way in the last 5 years I would be happy. Instead, they caught Potomac Fever and took President Bush's requests for increases in spending and added even more. We need the 1994 Newt pit bulls back in Congress, not the 2006 neutered lap dogs.
If congress sent a REAL SPENDING CUT bill to the President, he would sign it in a NY second. Congress is to blame far more than the Executive branch. Especially when they tie pork into bills that must pass for the Nation to survive.
LLS
"Well, where could money be saved?"
How about shutting down the department of education? Maybe we could shut down HUD and auction off the property. How about the department of Mohair Studies? The Feds are really, really bloated.
Line Item veto was already struck down as unconstitutional back in 1995 I think.
"One small problem ... the Legislative branch spends, not the Executive"
Two bigger problems though:
1. Congress is majority-GOP.
2. Bush has yet to cast a single veto of anything, much less a veto of an increased-spending bill.
"This is one I don't really lay at Bush's feet...
Think it's been as much Senatorial pork, as anything else."
But it's called a "veto" and Bush refuses to use this power.
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