Where are you Taft?

[Plane]

What is progressivism? For our purposes, let's just say it's the belief that the government "runs" the whole country, imposing its values on the group, the way a teacher runs a class or a drill sergeant runs a platoon (this actually describes the differences between Wilson and T.R. quite nicely).

Bush-haters — you know who you are — seem to think that Bushism is all about war. But they forget that Bush didn't initially become a war president by choice; 9/11 was thrust upon him. He was a "compassionate conservative" who didn't want to leave any children behind. The strategy that he and Karl Rove (a T.R. groupie) concocted was to create a GOP version of "feel your pain" Clintonism.

'Big government conservative'

The 2000 GOP convention's theme was "Prosperity with a Purpose," and in Bush's acceptance speech he insisted that "American government was made for great purposes." In some ways, Bush was ripping off Sen. John McCain of Arizona, whose campaign was a homage to Teddy Roosevelt and the need for Americans to unite in a "cause greater than themselves."

And while the war gets most of the attention, it has hardly escaped notice that the president is a proud "big government conservative" championing everything from government-funded marriage counseling to a new prescription drug entitlement to the federal government's intrusion into education.

In 2003, Bush declared that "when somebody hurts, government has to move." More recently, he explicitly rejected William F. Buckley's dictum that conservatives should yell "Stop" to ever-expanding government, saying instead that he believes conservatives must "lead." This makes for an interesting prologue to the 2008 election.

http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/04/post_10.html#more

[Xavier_Onassis]

. But they forget that Bush didn't initially become a war president by choice; 9/11 was thrust upon him. He was a "compassionate conservative" who didn't want to leave any children behind. The strategy that he and Karl Rove (a T.R. groupie) concocted was to create a GOP version of "feel your pain" Clintonism.

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Bullcookies!

Juniorbush, through towering and unprecedented incompetence, allowed 9/11 to happen. It might have been jusitfiable to attack Afghanistan over 9/11, but there was absolutely, positively NO way that 9/11 justified the conquest of Iraq in any way.

There was no way that Iraq would have been attacked unless 9/11 had not put the sheeple in a scared and vengeful mood, either.

Juniorbush set out to reap great profits for his family and friends, and the war just made itr easier to do this without adult supervision.

He could give a shit about the country or its sheeple.

[Plane]

Generally, I don't think you know what is going on .


But on this point I agree.

"There was no way that Iraq would have been attacked unless 9/11 had not put the sheeple in a scared and vengeful mood, either."