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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (25035)	8/10/2003 6:39:45 PM
From: lurqer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Establishment Republicans, says Korb, are "very alarmed. What they see, basically, is us spending more than we have and not putting the money away to deal with the coming burst of baby boomers who will be retiring." It's not just so-called moderate Eisenhower Republicans like Korb who worry about Bush. Some conservatives are also fearful. In addition to the Iraq war and the economy, they were already troubled by the USA PATRIOT Act's erosion of privacy rights, and they're angry at Bush's new Medicare prescription drug entitlement, which they see as an intolerable expansion of the federal government. "At the grass-roots level there is not a great deal of anxiety yet, but a lot of conservative leaders are quite apprehensive," says Don Devine, vice chairman of the American Conservative Union and former director of the Office of Personnel Management in the Reagan administration. "All of this disturbance [in Iraq] was predictable and predicted. As long as the administration doesn't believe its own rhetoric on trying to create a Western democracy there and gets out before they get too involved in nation building, it probably can be handled. If the strategy is to stay there until we turn it into a Western democracy, it would be a disaster." As you can tell from earlier posts, I've been wondering when I was going to here from true conservatives about the radical domestic and foreign policies of this Admin. Surely, conservatives usually exhibit more "party discipline", but the serious consequences of not speaking up when they should, are remembered by those familiar with Nixon debacle. Where are the fiscal conservatives when the country is being bankrupted? When did "conservatives" become foreign "adventurists"? Goldwater, we need you. lurqer