More On That CATO Meeting
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Economy, MoneySounds like a tough crowd for Bush.
Honestly, I don’t see how any fiscal conservative could be happy with the way Bush has handled the economic policy in his 6 years, so if you’re a fiscal conservative, please…let’s hear a defense. And by the way, I know there are quite a few of you on here, so if I hear silence then I’m assuming you don’t like Bush’s policy.
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March 8th, 2006 at 3:37 pm
There is no defense for how the Bush administration has let the budget run up deficits like it has. Fiscal conservatives should be quite angry with the Bush administration.
March 8th, 2006 at 5:18 pm
No, Bush is terrible on the deficit issue.
Hopefully the Dems will get serious about national security again, and I will be able vote for a candidate who is better on the deficit.
March 9th, 2006 at 8:16 am
Good luck finding a fiscal conservative who will defend this administration. You made such a sensationalist headline out of this, that you may actually seem to be expecting to find one.
Here’s a little secret…”we” have been disappointed with this administration (on these grounds) since around mid-term elections of his first term. If you’d open up your circle of friends and acquaintances a little more, you’d have known this four years ago. =)
That being said, his accomplices in the congress share an equal amount of the blame. Hopefully, with the Abramhoff deal, the usurpation of Delay and the fiscally conservative wing of the party finally starting to flex its muscle, maybe…just maybe…there’s been a Perfect Storm achieved for fiscal responsibility to be reintroduced. They’re scared, and I have no doubt that their internal polling is telling them they’re not in so great a shape for this November.
Which is good.
If not, I have no problem relegating them to minority status so they can get some time to think about it.
Of course, I’ve been saying for years that the best thing going for the Republicans is the Democrats, who never miss an opportunity to blow.
March 9th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Wow, LF, your math is a little confusing … If there were serious issues about the handling of the bucks at mid-term of why did he get so much support for re-elect? If the conservatives sre right in their thinking they would not have wanted him back, but instead proffered another candidate. I know that it is SOP to run the incumbent but if all the repubs are good and all the dems are bad then it should have been a no brainer. Coming from the center (with leanings to the right on most issues) I was very disappointed in the Republicans during the last election.
I am so hopeful that the left and right will somehow recognize that they can’t keep pissing on one another and move judiciously toward the center so we can all move on (a little humor). This was the guy who ran on the idea that he would bring the parties together, and he seems to be doing just that when the conversation turns to money.
March 9th, 2006 at 6:16 pm
My math is just fine. :)
During the last election, had the Donks given me a Joe Lieberman, Harold Ford Jr, Barak Obama, or Bill Richardson to choose against W instead of a John Kerry, it’d have been a no-brainer.
But they didn’t, and my party at the time (R) didn’t even hold a primary. I’m one guy in a downstream state (NC) whose primary election results are a footnote anyway (candidates are determined by the time South Carolina’s primary is over, sadly…that’s another issue that sticks in my craw, hehe).
All that being said, having supported W for the past two cycles does not mean that we’d be tickled pink to support something completely different next time around. Or, in mutual-fund-prospectus-speak, “Past performance is not a guarantee of future gains.” :)