GOP conservatives assail Bush… Spending is out of control, they say

[pruner]

WASHINGTON — President Bush is a "fraud" and a "disaster." He’s betraying the Reagan Revolution. He has turned the Republican Party into the "the new welfare state party."

Those are Republicans talking. And that rage from Republicans who favor small government and fiscal restraint, in Washington and the heartland, could mean trouble for Bush’s re-election.

"This administration has presided over one of the most massive expansions of the federal government in history," said Phil Heimlich, a Republican who is a Hamilton County, Ohio, commissioner. He grades Bush a D.

"Conservatives feel betrayed," said Brian Reidl, a federal budget expert at the conservative Heritage Foundation.

"As far as this fiscal conservative is concerned, I’m doing everything I can to expose Bush for the fraud that he is," said Jim Urling, a Cincinnati lawyer and chairman of a local group that fights government spending and taxes.

http://www.detnews.com/2003/politics/0312/10/a04-3999.htm

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. "...betraying the Reagan Revolution?"

He's carrying it to it's logical conclusion.

[Skittles]

2. that's exactly what I was thinking

this rewriting Reagan's history has got to f***ing stop.

[bluestateguy]

3. I wouldn't take any joy in this if I were you..

The more the Right bitches about "spending" (and we all know what kind of spending that means; I'll give you a hint, it does not concern that big, giant pentagon shaped building in Virginia), eventually * will have to respond. If you think the Republicans were ferocious in 1995 under Newt Gingrinch, the next time Republicans decide to care about the deficit could result in literally life-threatening budget cuts for many people.

[pruner]

5. I take joy in this because…

if he's turning off the conservative base they're less likely to actually vote for him (not that they'll necessarilly vote for the Dem… they might just sit it out).

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4. Hard to have friends

while those body bags keep coming home.

[JackSwift]

6. Non-activists are pissed beyond measure

and would readily vote for a Democrat who will balance budgets. But the right wing press doesn't care, they will savage whomever we put up for a candidate.