Bush Must Go (Part 4)
The Cato Institute has a page that contains all of Bush’s most recent budget charts. So much for the Republican party being the party of small government and fiscal responsibility…
Posted: February 12th, 2004 under DeepThoughts.
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Bush Must Go (Part 3)
From the Feb 3rd USA Today - Running the political numbers:
Cutting many of the vast number of social programs is a good thing. but:
- He wants to greatly increase the levels of funding for defense and homeland security.
- The $230B surplus his term started with is now gone, and we have a $521B deficit.
- He wants to increase spending for poor school districts by $1B and provide an extra $1B for disabled students. Good ideas, but you know this money will be wasted. It always is.
- Superfund cleanup funds increase by %9.9. Many of these Superfund sites are EPA boondoggles.
- $270M to convince kids not to have sex. C’mon…
- $240M to promote marriage to limit out-of-wedlock births.
- $50B for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The list goes on…
Posted: February 4th, 2004 under DeepThoughts.
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Bush Must Go (Part 2)
From today’s Reason Express newsletter:
A WMD panel would be in addition to the 9/11-review panel that’s still at work. Thus, Bush is looking at two potentially embarrassing reviews underway as he campaigns. Democrats, for their part, will be able to use the very existence of these panels to question the administration’s handling of foreign policy and national security, even though they failed to oppose much of anything Bush did when he sought to do it. This is extremely lucky for them.
On the domestic front, Bush faces intense anger within his own base regarding trade, immigration, and rampant spending. The cynical manipulation of the true cost of Medicare drug benefits has conservative activists particularly upset; the White House repeatedly assured them that fears of a price tag above $400 billion price was just silly talk. Now with the number at $540 billion, conservatives are too mad even to mutter I-told-you-so.
It remains to seen whether Bush can rope his party back together and fend off the various probes without expending so much political capital that he has little left for the stretch run. What looked like blowout election is looking closer.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A3980-2004Feb1?language=printer
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=486951
Posted: February 3rd, 2004 under DeepThoughts.
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Bush Must Go (Part 1)
Being a libertarian can really suck, especially when you have to decide who to support for President. What are my choices?
1) The Libertarian Party candidate (to be decided at the LP Convention in May). I know I should vote LP, but they don’t have a chance in hell. The LP needs to do some quality marketing to the general public to convince Joe American that they are a viable party and not a bunch of “right-wing crackpots who smoke pot”.
2) The Democratic Candidate (i.e. Kerry). Too liberal for my taste, but at least he’ll defend civil liberities and replace Ashcroft with a more reasonable AG. I’m just concerned that he’s too pro-Union, pro-environment - hell, too pro-special interest. Yes, Liberal America - Unions, Environmental Activists, the NAACP, etc. are all special interest groups concerned about their limited views of the world that generally have nothing to do with the average citizen or even reality as a whole.
3) The Green Party candidate. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Oh, please…
4) Bush. While I agree with some of his policies, I simply cannot vote for a man who has a terrible record with respect to protection of civil liberties and government spending/growth. How can he call himself a Republican when he has allowed spending to rise to unprecedented levels? Hell, Clinton was a spendthrift compared to Bush.
I think the answer is ultimately going to be #2, with #1 a possibility.
Posted: February 3rd, 2004 under DeepThoughts.
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