GOP Congressman Says Bush No Reagan Conservative

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GOP Congressman Says Bush No Reagan Conservative

By Marc Morano
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer
September 23, 2005

(Capitol Hill) CNSNews.com - He may still be the darling of cultural conservatives, but President Bush's budget decisions have prompted one of his allies in Congress to assert that conservatives have no business comparing Bush to one of the most popular conservative presidents ever - Ronald Reagan.

"Some of us came here (to Washington DC) to reduce the size of government after the model of Ronald Reagan or others who tried to cut out government programs that weren't necessary. Others came here to streamline government or to make it more efficient, or to reflect more traditional values," U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) told Cybercast News Service Wednesday.

"President Bush isn't here to cut the size of government, he's here to perhaps have government more reflect the values of the people," Rohrabacher explained, following a Capitol Hill news conference sponsored by the 110-member Republican Study Committee aimed at promoting federal spending cuts to offset the costs of Hurricane Katrina.

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Rohrabacher dismissed the Sept. 13 remarks of House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas), who argued that the federal budget was running at peak efficiency. "Yes, after 11 years of Republican majority, we've pared it down pretty good," DeLay said. "I am not sure what Tom had in mind, but I know that anybody who can't see that there is still fat in the federal budget probably can't tell the difference between a pig and a race horse," Rohrabacher said.

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U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.) said the proposed hurricane recovery spending plan offers Congress the opportunity "to actually start whittling away at the size of government and our budget" in order to afford those unexpected expenses. He also disagreed with the notion held by many supply side economists that "deficits don't matter.

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Members of the conservative National Taxpayer Union were also on hand with signs reading "Compensate for Katrina, Cut Costs," "Rescue Taxpayers from a flood of red ink" and "Deficit Spending is a Disaster Pending."

http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewPolitics.asp?Page=/Politics/archive/200509/POL20050923a.html

[tk2kewl]

1. reagan wasn't much better

same underlying philosophies, bush has just taken stupidity to the next level

[Vinnie From Indy]

2. And he "ain't" Jeezus Neither! n/t

[Tace]

3. Interesting -- Just Thought I'd Point Out The Source Of The Story

CNS is run by the Media Research Center. Here's a description of the center from the center's web site:

The mission of the Media Research Center is to bring balance and responsibility to the news media. Leaders of America's conservative movement have long believed that within the national news media a strident liberal bias existed that influenced the public's understanding of critical issues. On October 1, 1987, a group of young determined conservatives set out to not only prove - through sound scientific research - that liberal bias in the media does exist and undermines traditional American values, but also to neutralize its impact on the American political scene. What they launched that fall is the now acclaimed
--- Media Research Center (MRC).

http://www.mrc.org/about/aboutwelcome.asp

It's interesting to me that such a group has turned on Bushco, probably in an effort to salvage some credibility.

[question everything]

4. Indeed. Let them eat their own (nt)

[dajoki]

5. i hate both of them!!

[trotsky]

6. These fools really think Ray-gun shrunk the government.

Pathetic.

[ingac70]

7. Isn't "Reagan Conservative" another word for overspender?

Yeah, right. Reagan was frugal. NOT.

George is just carrying on the very agenda Clinton interupted.

[Salviati]

8. Yes he is, and that's exactly the problem...