Republican Spending -- from FoxNews no less

I know it's not widely popular here to say that the Republican party represents anything other than "small government." Nevertheless, check out this article....FROM FOXNEWS....and see for yourself.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166682,00.html

 

I'm surprised by the lack of a real backlash amongst Republicans in the US regarding the spending. I guess it could be because of very good marketing by the politicians, or the fact that the Democrats are such a mess in terms of what they purport to stand for. It just seems odd to me that the fiscal conservatives aren't speaking out more.

Anybody have ideas? I'm guessing the national security concerns and the War in Iraq are pushing people to avoid skepticism of OTHER policies, for fear of being labelled unAmerican, but that's just a guess.

 

Republicans have worked really hard the past 5 years to eliminate the label of less government ... and that makes me sick. All I have left to hold onto is less taxes. And I'm not sure how long they can continue to hold the line on taxes with their massive domestic spending habits.

I've never had faith in the Democratic Party ... and I'm quickly losing faith in the Republican Party. I can't imagine that I'm the only republican voter out there that is unhappy with the current spending habits of Republicans.

The Republican Party may get a very loud message in the 2006 mid-term elections...

 

You aren't.

Not if the opposition continues to come up with morons like John Kerry and Howard Dean, while sending candidates like Wesley Clark off into the sunset. They also need to disassociate themselves from the Hollywackos and orgnizations like PETA and ACLU.

 

I think that is exactly it. The demagouery [sic] propogated by Rove and Co. have driven many of them so deep into such fierce party loyalty that they have become willing to accept anything that the right proposes.

Again, I think that is exactly it. Candidates like that play right into the lowly ideal that many moderates have of Democrats.

Although this administration has gotten flat out ridiculous with their spending, I don't think the Democrats would exactly have all the answers, unfortunately. Same thing goes with immigration. Thus our overwhelming need for the rise to power of a 3rd party (can anyone guess which one I'm referring to?:hihi: ).

 

I disagree, we need to continue to find diamonds in the rough that have new ideas and aren't afraid to challenge norms like Howard Dean if the Democratic party is ever going to show the nation what morons the Bushies are and to have any shot in 2008, whatsoever. Clocks ticking and time is running out though.

 

Howard Dean is a diamond in the rough???

 

I think part of it is the Democratic party basically allowing it. Let's see, do I want higher taxes & higher spending, or just higher spending without higher taxes... Democrats need some more economic issues that a majority can back. Right now, I think a large percentage of their voters are voting based on social issues (although the same's true for the right wing).

The fiscal conservatives aren't speaking out more because we don't know the side effects of having a huge budget. Republicans realized that people don't actually care whether the government is big, but rather care if they are PAYING for it to be big. They found a loophole, in a sense.

I think the Iraq War etc may be playing a part, but this is something that's been going on for quite a while & I'm not sure that it has that large of an effect.

 

diamond in the rough = an ole chunk of coal

does that answer the question ? :grin: