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Bushwhacked, Part III
Stay home, Jeb. Narconomics 101. Mimi outclasses Elizabeth Alexander. Three cheers for GWB. Plus more.
THE LINE ENDS HERE
Re: J.T. Young’s Only Qualified to Be
President?
Ugh.
Haven’t we had enough Bush in the White House? (No jokes here…please)
Please note: I was/am a Bush (W) supporter on national defense, but not his onerous domestic agenda.
Assuming Jeb is planning a run in 2012, what…we can’t find a more bona fide conservative Republican for 2012?
How is it that we sat by while liberal Democrats and moderate Republicans defined who our candidate was for 2008? Is this starting already? Jeb in 2012?
We (Republican Party of the conservative bent) need more fixing than another middle of the road Bush.
One man’s opinion.
— Bill
New Jersey
Are you nuts? Conservatives have been conned by two Bushes already, why risk another? Reagan’s worst mistake was putting Bush on his ticket. Remember voodoo economics? Both Bushes are big government guys who have spent most of their adult life at the government teat. W’s slogan ‘compassionate conservatism” itself is saying conservatism is not compassionate and admitting W is not a conservative. Conservatism is based upon fiscal responsibility. Why have we let the media define W as a conservative?
Why would anyone want to chance another country club republican
like Ford, Dole, McCain or both Bushes? Both parties have failed
us. The present financial disaster was started by Dems but Reps
held all branches of government in first four years of Bush and
failed to defeat Barney and his socialist grifters. Bush often
said he thought everyone should own a home: pure insanity. Sounds
just like Barney to me. We are at the point where only a
revolution can save the Union. Our federal government is the most
corrupt institution in the world, worse than the South American
and Central American countries we all used to make fun of. Our
federal government is Enron. Another Bush will just complete the
total debasement of US conservatism.
— JP
PRICES GET HIGH
Re: George H. Wittman’s Following the Afghan Drug
Trail:
I have long advocated a policy of buying out the poppy farmers, paying them a high premium over the market price for their crop. In this way, we can drive the Taliban broke trying to compete, while at the same time giving Afghan farmers the opportunity to get into another line of business.
Following the example of the USDA, we would pay Afghan poppy farmers anything up to twice the market value of their crop NOT to grow poppies. They would not have to let the land lie fallow, but could grow other crops (saffron is turning out to be a popular cash crop that pays more than poppies). This would cost us a fraction of the cost of “eradication”, and we should be prepared to keep it up for a decade or more, until a new agricultural economy emerges in Afghanistan.
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Michael L. Hauschild| 1.26.09 @ 6:55AM
I marvel at the eloquence of Broker and Erbe. “Walking a mile in someone else’s moccasins,” implied by the former and stated by the latter is the most profound form of communication available. Hogue had the best line though, “The truth seems to be intolerable to those who do not practice even a pretense of honesty.”
frost| 1.26.09 @ 7:48AM
Yup. Mr. Bonn nailed it, then Mr. Broker. Michael's response (above) acknowledged a fine quote; the morning has, at least, started in a positive fashion. Now, think I'll move on to the fondling and media masturbation from the so-called "conventional" (AKA cheerleading) press accounts, along with the Pabulum Puke glad-handing accorded our Marxist-leaning president and his socialist congress...
No, on second thought, perhaps I'll bypass those sheep and retain my optimistic feelings while walking the dog and cooking some breakfast....
Life is Good.
Thomas| 1.26.09 @ 12:01PM
Mr. Bonn is correct in his assessment of the current financial malaise and the means necessary to correct it. But, there may be historical forces at work here that will make any other course than the one we are presently on impossible.
Though many argue, correctly, that the current economic downturn is not analogous to the Great Depression, there are striking similarities.
First, we are in a worldwide recession that is forcing much of the free world toward socialism. The trend toward increased socialism has been underway for nearly half a century, but this situation is providing the impetus toward near totalitarian socialism in the western democracies.
Add to that the fact that China has been building up a military capability many times greater than is necessary to protect its national interests and foreign defense responsibilities [of which it has virtually none], a resurgence of military chest beating by Russia and the close alliance of both with Iran, a destabilizing nation in the Middle East who is making moves to give it a strategic advantage in that region, and you get a picture of the world in the 1930's.
Hopefully, steps can be taken to forestall a repeat of history from the 1940's. But, the prior and current administrations and their Congressional allies are not doing it.
Appleby| 1.26.09 @ 1:02PM
On the day when the world, including Kanukistan, as playing 14 year old girl to King O's Jonas Brothers imitation, I took time off from work to do a bunch of things I needed to do and keep away from any of the relentless shrieking, fainting, throwing up and seizures going on all around me including at my office. I walked into a pub I had been wanting to try, at lunch time. I was the only person in the place, and the teevee was filled with shrieking and fainting and falling about. When the waitress came up I asked, "Can we turn that off?" She refused, and I told her that I could not eat in a situation that made me nauseous and walked away.
About 3/4 of my church believe that this sock puppet is the antichrist and he proves it every time he opens his mouth. Now they aer publishing his Little Book of Quotes to go along with it.
I hope when the shrieking, fainting and seizures are over, the people who discover what they have done will repent and turn away. Anybody who does, see you at Galt's Gulch.
ruth| 1.26.09 @ 7:40PM
Mr. Broker, do you have compassion for the millions and millions of perfectly healthy babies who have been aborted since Roe v Wade became law? They didn't get to choose, someone else chose for them.
Alan Brooks| 1.26.09 @ 10:43PM
Jeb or Neil Bush
Joe Heathen| 1.27.09 @ 12:10AM
Palin - Blagojevich 2012! Because you know they're already mavericks!
David Govett| 1.27.09 @ 12:18AM
Move the White House to the precise demographic center of the U.S. Since that point moves continually, better make it the Mobile White House.
jhhg| 11.19.09 @ 10:22PM
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