Conservatives to challenge Bush

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-19-conservatives-bush_x.htm

Emboldened conservatives in Congress say they will oppose the White House next year on at least a half-dozen issues where they say President Bush has strayed from Republican values.

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The points of contention conservatives plan battles over:

•Immigration. Hard-liners oppose Bush's plan to give guest-worker status to illegal immigrants. They prefer to see amnesty laws tightened.

•Abortion. Conservatives such as Sen. Sam Brownback, R-Kan., say they'll oppose Supreme Court nominees friendly to abortion rights. Bush opposes a "litmus test" on nominees.

•Spending. Conservatives will seek deeper cuts in non-defense spending than Bush is expected to request.

•Education. Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., says Congress "must undo" Bush's signature No Child Left Behind Act, which sets national standards for education. He says Washington should stay out of schools.

Conservatives welcome 'new day'

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2004-12-19-conservatives-new-day_x.htm

Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., was beaming over a cup of Capitol bean soup in the House of Representatives dining room one recent afternoon.

"The election was a mandate for conservative leadership in Washington," declared the new chairman of the House Republican Study Committee. The conservative caucus has grown from 40 members in the late 1990s to about 100 in the new Congress — not including five conservative former House members who are moving to the Senate.

Exit polls indicate social conservatives voted in about the same proportion as in 2000. But Pence and others credit them with President Bush's margin of victory over Democrat John Kerry and say the election was a referendum on conservative values.

"It's a new day," Pence said, "and a new Congress."

[hippiechick]

1. Dear Goddess, we're doomed.

:scared:


:hippie:

[Ganja Ninja]

2. It's the old "good cop/bad cop" routine except

it's more like bad cop/worse cop.

[Benhurst]

6. LOL! nt

[TexasLawyer]

13. GoodCop/Bad Cop-- Exactly! n/t

[Vincardog]

3. Funny how the Conservatives only seem to come out for cuts to social

programs. Where are they when the Executive is expanded beyond all limits? Where are they when they are looting the treasury in he name of defense?

[byronm]

4. So an education

has no merit on the federal level?

[RobertSeattle]

5. Here's my counterspin

•Immigration. You know are a Republican if you rant against illegal immigatrion but hire one to do you nanny duties or you groundskeeping.

•Abortion. You know you are a Republican if you rant against abortion but are rich enough to travel or a "right to choose" state or country "Just in case".

•Spending. You know you are a Republican if you rant against federal spending while insuring your district or state gets as much "Uncle Sugar" as you can write into the legislation.

•Education. You know you are a Republican if you rant about Federal control over education but then think Congress should regular the District of Columbia schools.

[eleonora]

7. How much more freaking backward can they get?

What a bunch of selfish, uncomprehending, backward, zealot bastards. Conservative? Over my dead body. I vote we give them a good PAY CUT.

[roguevalley]

8. Repigs love war. they love killing people and making suffering.

its part of their soul-lessness. <new word alert!>

[damntexdem]

12. Oh, I'm sure they can get much worse.

They're certainly off to a running start, but who knows how far they'll run?

[PunkPop]

9. God these are scary times.

The fundies battle it out with the fascists. Will America wake up before it is too late? Stay tuned.

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. Jeebus. These people are truly, F-ing INSANE

They want to make things even WORSE than Bush claims to want to make them...but would doubtless like to make them.

I agree with another poster on this thread -- this is a staged Good Cop/Bad Cop game. I'm betting these beetle-browed idiots asked Bush for all these things and he basically said, "Sorry guys, I'd love to help ya out here, but I gotta be careful about creeping out the non-psycho repubs too much." With much mutual winking and know-what-I-mean-ing, it was set up. Bush could be safely "moderate" (the word will never be the same after such abuse) and they could push for the ultra-Nazi angle. He won't veto whatever they manage to get into legislation.

[Megahurtz]

11. I fear the worst

is yet to come. :scared:

[montana_hazeleyes]

14. I blame the "supreme" court

for getting bush** in there in the first place and the "pro bush** all the time" media and especially right wing hate talk radio that is all you can hear in so much of the country.

They have kept the people brain washed (many of them willingly) so that these selfish, murdering bastards feel so empowered now.

It is very scary.:scared: