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[Hater Depot]

Many Republicans are angry at Bush. Why?

His ballooning of the federal budget and deficit? Despite being a continuing 5-year fiasco, no.
His massive expansion of the welfare state? No, despite lying repeatedly about its true cost.
Staining the honor of the US military by allowing torture? No.
Screwing the pooch on a once-in-a-century magnitude natural disaster in a major American city? No.

Oh, he made the wrong Supreme Court nomination. Lying to the American people, sending our reputation into the toilet, fiddling while citizens died.... no big deal. Betraying conservative principles, spending like a drunken sailor at Score's and passing the costs on to our children and grandchildren.... hey, stuff happens. But not doing everything possible to get Roe v. Wade overturned? To the ramparts!

[Ya-ta Boy]

Excellent point. Excellent post.

[Kuros]

There's more than one way!

Remember Grover Norquist? That abominable little small government fanatic who doesn't want to get rid of the government, but only wants to make it small enough to strangle in his bathtub?

Well, seems he made a cardinal GOP sin!

[Hater Depot]

I saw that. I was going to link to it but then I thought it could be too much dumbassery for one post.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[desultude]

The average Republican in a position of leadership cares f'all about life- that of a fetus, a soldier, or a woman in a vegetative state. They care about the votes ahd money from people committed to such issues.

They have to tend to "the base"- rabidly conservative, ultra-orthodox right to (unborn)-life pro-gun voters (who never seem to experience a moment of cognitive dissonance over these positions).

Not that most Democrats aren't sluts themselves, but they at least have to sell themselves out to some degree to a more rational constituency, in addition to the usual special interests that have bought out both parties.

I have a bit of a theory, by the way, about Miers (sp). I think she is a sacrificial lamb put out there to make every other dumb ass appointment made by this band of theives look actually good by comparison. That is all that can explain away the way his appointment of the man who has advised Bush as he led the U.S. economy into the trash heap has been so positively received by seemingly everyone. I feel sorry for her- surely no one but Bush himself could have expected her to be confirmed.

[Pligganease]

[Pligganease]

[desultude]

[wannago]

[desultude]

Hmm, sometimes even the hint of bait works so well, you don't even have to put the worm on the hook to get a strike.