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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: maried. who wrote (265719)	6/20/2002 8:17:02 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

RANT & ROLL: THE MOOSE ON THE LOOSE -THANK HEAVENS AN HONEST CONSERVATIVE APPEARS marie, Hey, I'm so delighted that I can post some "conservative thought" that isn't fraught with lies, deception and self-dealing as the only purpose. Other than terrorizing the population and stripping the rights of citizens before their very eyes. This fellow Bullmoose, is my kind of thinking conservative. Danged if he doesn't sound remarkably like Theodore Roosevelt who hated the Big Money Repuglicans of his age with an equal fervor. Too bad we have Big Money's Lapdog sitting in the fetid, paid-for Offal Office. conservativereform.org Thursday, June 20, 2002 (9:07 AM ET) Weather Report. The Moose notes that you don't need a weatherman to know which way the political winds are blowing. If a picture speaks a thousand words, the photo on the front page of yesterday's New York Times was a multi-volume tome. The caption tells all: "Senators Trent Lott and Daschle, Representative Dick Armey, Tom Ridge and Representatives Richard A. Gephardt and J. Dennis Hastert, left to right, in a bi-partisan show of support for the security department." My, how far the Gingrich revolutionaries of yore have traveled! They conquered the House with the intention of eliminating Departments and Agencies. Now, they have joined hands with Daschle and Gephardt to build the bureaucracy. The "leave us alone coalition" is truly an orphaned step-child. Hear their cries and lamentations! The right is on kvetch overdrive about the Bush Administration's neglect of the conventional cons. One, Congressman Tancredo, was even so bold as to be quoted on the record in the Washington Times disparaging their supposed in-White House protector, "I'm hoping Andy Card is setting the stage for us to say goodbye to Mr. Rove," said Mr. Tancredo, who wants Mr. Rove out "not just because he calls me nasty names and tells me never to darken the door of the White House, but because he is the guy that all administrations, I suppose, have to have - but I wish they didn't." One brave soul that Congressman Tancredo. Unfortunately, he has probably consigned himself to the Republican equivalent of the Charleston Navy Brig where the Al Qaeda suspect Padilla currently resides! Haven't the conservative faithful gotten the memo? As evidenced by farm bill and the steel tarriffs, the Bush Administration is not about free market, limited government conservatism. This is the big government corporate conservative crowd with a splash of compassionate noblesse oblige for the masses. The real task for the GOP is to be the handmaiden for their corporate funders. Last night, the PhRMAGOP (the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America Grand Old Party) had a big fund raising bash with much of the tab picked up by the drug companies. They are counting on their friends in the PhRMAGOP to put a halt to the Democratic prescription proposal that forces the drug industry to reach for the antacid. Consequently, the Washington Post informed us, "Pharmaceutical companies are among 21 donors paying $250,000 each for red-carpet treatment at tonight's GOP fund-raising gala starring President Bush, two days after Republicans unveiled a prescription drug plan the industry is backing, according to GOP officials." Financial security firms also bellied up to the bar with cash to join in last night's merriment. You see they are counting on the SIAGOP (the Securities Industry Association Grand Old Party) to derail investigations into the securities industry by state attorneys general. Hey, what ever happened to the Tenth Amendment that used to be brandished by the old Federalist Society faithful? And who says the GOP is bought? Leasing is clearly the way to go! Outside of the war against terror (which enjoys bi-partisan support), what is the great moral purpose for the GOP besides comforting the comfortable? Increasingly, today's Republican Party resembles the old Whig Party with blow dryers. On the other hand, the Democratic Party is like the Natural Law Party without either the transcendence or the potency. Alas, the Moose is getting antsy. The Moose Meteorologist suggests that this may just be the calm before the storm in American politics. """""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" In England the slogan is God Save the Queen. Here in the land of the free and the home of the brave, we need a new one: God Save Us From The Pretenda-King!