Bush Says, "Suck On It Grover Norquist! Big Government Is NEEDED!"

[DistressedAmerican]

No more of the Norquist "starve the federal government until it is small enough to drown in a bathtub" crap.

Norquist and his kind were drowned in the New Orleans "soup bowl"!

Oh my what a freakshow we are about to watch!

[despairing optimist]

1. Not so fast, I'm afraid. This is big government on more borrowed money

The debt is already ruinously high. Piling on more debt is just what Norquist would want. The government will go broke when the market for US debt dries up.

The way to get rid of Norquist would have been to vow to restore the taxes on the rich that were cut and to add new taxes to fund the expenditures. What you're seeing now is the opposite of what would save the country, not just the Gulf area.

[VaLabor]

2. You don't get it.

He's not expanding government programs. Just government spending. And it's going to private contractors, who will do a sh*tty job and no longer have to pay prevailing wages (thanks to Bush's suspension of the Davis-Bacon Act) and no longer have to develop affirmative action programs to ensure minority recruitment (thanks to Bush's suspension of affirmative action rules for federal contractors).

It's not big government. It's big contractor. It's big profits. It's pumping taxpayer money into the coffers of Halliburton subsidiaries and Bechtel.