President George W Bush is facing mounting anger from the conservative Right who accused him of letting government spending run out of control.Forty Republican Congressmen have formed a rebel group committed to curbing federal spending.
The move followed an attack on Mr Bush and the Republican-dominated Congress by six conservative think-tanks and pressure groups in Washington over the surge in spending projects. (via the Telegraph)
The icon of compassionate conservatism is still trying to be all things to all people. All he's succeeded at is making just about everyone unhappy.
Didn't "W" drive a couple companies into the ground before he was prez by using this same fiscal strategery?
Posted by: aaphilip on January 23, 2004 12:13 PMHe just might have. It's more worrysome about what happened to the economy, and our "jobless recovery."
Posted by: Zog on January 23, 2004 05:10 PMit's utterly sad that the economy is in shambles, Iraq is NOW the terrorist haven the Bush team claimed it was before we invaded, millions are jobless, every other statement out of the "President's" mouth has been proven to be a blatant, unabashed lie, the precedent for preemptive war has now been set by the most powerful country in the world, the US is more hated than EVER before, even our allies resent us, all sorts of new and 'usable' nukes are being developed, government spending has gone far overboard, civil rights are being removed under the guise of security, tens of thousands in Iraq have no electricity water plumbing food jobs or schools since their 'liberation,' Iraqi citizens and US soldiers are dying in the handfuls per day, etc etc etc the list goes on and on and on, yetdespite all this, Bush's approval rate is up near 50% and the democrats are still fumbling around with medicore campaigns.
i cant believe that despite the unbearble blatant failure of this awful mockery of a presidential administration that most Americans are still as of now planning on re-electing Bush.
This must be the proof that the US is really the most politically ignorant first-world country on Earth. God, it's depressing.
Posted by: e on January 24, 2004 07:11 AMFrom the pen of the amazing Ms. Molly Ivins, who knows the Shrub 'bout as well as anyone in the media:
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"When Bush took office, the national debt was $5.7 trillion and his first budget proposed to reduce it by $2 trillion over the next decade. Today, the debt is $7 trillion. Last year, Bush predicted a deficit of $262 billion. According of the CBO, the deficit is currently $480 billion. Bush plans to cut biomedical research, health care, job training and veterans funding, and that still leaves a projected deficit of $450 billion.
"It is unclear to me why anyone would believe anything the president says about our fiscal situation. Keep in mind, this is a man who took three Texas oil companies into bankruptcy."
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