http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20060515/cm_thenation/1583772
Mon May 15

Crybaby Conservatives

As George W. Bush's poll numbers plummet, influential conservatives
have diagnosed the cause of his misery:

he's not conservative enough.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051002040.html

Bush is just a softy moderate masquerading as a right-wing Christian.

He won't push hard for a constitutional amendment to ban gay
marriage.

He won't send illegal immigrants back across the border.

He's never met a spending bill he didn't like.

"I can't tell you how much anger there is at the Republican
leadership," direct mail pioneer Richard Viguerie told The New York
Times today.

"I have never seen anything like it."
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/washington/15dobson.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

This not-conservative-enough claim is revisionist history at its most
absurd.

Yes, Bush has spent recklessly, compromised on immigration and
flip-flopped on nation-building.

But he is where he is today precisely because he listened to the
conservative movement too often.

He let neocons hijack our country's foreign policy.

He let oil execs determine our energy policy.

He appointed two Supreme Court justices beloved by the religious
right.


He gave Grover Norquist virtually every tax cut he wanted.

He used a so-called "base strategy" to win re-election.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/architect/rove/2004.html

Bush is the farthest right president in recent memory--and possibly
ever.

Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush raised taxes.

Richard Nixon created the EPA. Dwight Eisenhower took on the
military-industrial complex.

So forgive me, James Dobson, but I don't feel your pain.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/15/washington/15dobson.html

According to his spokesman, Dobson is "on a fact-finding trip to see
where Republicans are regarding the issues that concern values voters
most."

Maybe he can search for those missing WMDs in Iraq.
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It's fun watching weeping right wingers try to waltz away from their
Albatross.


Harry

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