[EggsAckley]

What? No Barf Alert?

[Republic If You Can Keep It]

I'm still hoping the prescription drug bill falls apart in conference committee.

With only a 216-215 margin in the House, the conference bill can't move much toward the Senate version & still pass the House.

At least that's what I'm hoping.

[billbears]

The Republican Party's conservative wing stands to lose the most from this. Some conservatives credit Mr Bush with an ingenious plan to starve the government beast: the huge tax cuts will eventually force huge spending cuts. But this is rather like praising an alcoholic for his ingenious scheme to quit the bottle by drinking himself into bankruptcy

I've heard this argument myself before and the assessment of it is quite true. Meet the 'new' Republican Party, Democrat-lite. Boy howdy, I sure I'm glad there was that big push back in '02 to 'win back the Senate'. The changes between the government before and after are so evident < /sarcasm>

Oh, I suppose we're going to have to wait for the second term for Bush to get up the steam to actually do something conservative huh?

[SC Swamp Fox]

yup.

...and next November, I will consider my options and vote for Bush.

[GaConfed]

It's looking more and more like the top section of my ballot just might be left blank in November, 2004.

[yooper]

"Every year Mr Bush has either produced or endorsed some vast new government scheme: first education reform, then the farm bill, now the prescription-drug benefit. And every year he has missed his chance to cut federal pork or veto bloated bills."

I have a hard time arguing with that statement. Anyone care to try?

[Brilliant]

They are obviously confusing him with Clinton.

[liberalnot]

contrary to popular misconceptions, the bushes are from the northeast liberal establishment.

they never were fiscal conservatives.

and since dubya has taken over the democrat agenda, according to rush, expect more spending.

[jws3sticks]

Learning every day, hopefully, here is the MS Word Thesaurus alternatives for Profligate, new one for this writer.

Extravagant

Wasteful

Reckless

Spendthrift

Squandering

Decadent

[ForOurFuture]

The following Republican Representatives voted against the socialist expansion of government that is the recently passed Medicare Prescription Drug bill :

Burr
Burton (IN)
Buyer
DeMint
Flake
Gutknecht
Hostettler
Jones (NC)
Miller (FL)
Moran (KS)
Musgrave
Norwood
Paul
Pence
Ryun
Sensenbrenner
Shadegg
Smith (MI)
Tancredo

They should be congratulated for their stands. If one represents you, send them a letter.

[Jesse]

"The second is that they are almost completely indifferent to the basic principles of sound finance. ...Bill Frist, the no-gooding doctor who replaced Trent Lott as Senate majority leader."


The GOP is worthless.

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

The elderly seem to become mostly socialists who demand as much help from the government as possible. The elderly are more active voters than are young people. Because of this reality, politicians have to become socialists and give as much to the elderly as possible.

It's painfully ironic that the people with the shortest time left in society are the cause of the backbreaking tax burden upon those young people who will be around much longer and suffer from today's (unsustainable) massive wealth transfer to the elderly.

[q_an_a]

There is a pretty interesting story going round about the money that will go into the US tresaury as a result of the taxes on 401K and other "deferred" investments. Beginning in 2010 they will pay out 4 trillion dollars over a very short period...according to former Republican finance managers. All the red ink and the debt is going to disapear.In the next Republican presidents first term.