Conservatives Restive About Bush Policies

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13027-2004May9.html

After three years of sweeping actions in both foreign and domestic affairs, the Bush administration is facing complaints from the conservative intelligentsia that it has lost its ability to produce fresh policies.

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Conservatives have become unusually restive. Last Tuesday, columnist George F. Will sharply criticized the administration's Iraq policy, writing: "This administration cannot be trusted to govern if it cannot be counted on to think and, having thought, to have second thoughts." Two days earlier, Robert Kagan, a neoconservative supporter of the Iraq war, wrote: "All but the most blindly devoted Bush supporters can see that Bush administration officials have no clue about what to do in Iraq tomorrow, much less a month from now."

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"It's the exhaustion of power," said a veteran of conservative think tanks who spoke on condition of anonymity. "Ideology has confronted reality, and ideology has bent. On the domestic side, it has bent in terms of the expansion of the government embodied in the Medicare prescription-drug law. On the foreign policy side, it has bent because of what has transpired in the last few weeks in Fallujah."

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Richard W. Rahn, a prominent Republican economist, excoriated the administration's telecommunications, antitrust and international economic policies in a Washington Times column April 30 along similar lines. "From the beginning of the Bush administration, sympathetic, experienced economists have warned its officials about the need to avoid some obvious mistakes," he wrote. "Unfortunately, these warnings have gone unheeded."

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are widening... FAST

I am sure george will is having a problem defending the undefensible...

From Merriam Webster Online Dictionary:

Main Entry: res·tive
Pronunciation: 'res-tiv
Function: adjective
Etymology: Middle English restyf, from Middle French restif, from rester to stop behind, remain
Date: 15th century
1 : stubbornly resisting control : BALKY ?
2 : marked by impatience : FIDGETY ?
synonym see CONTRARY?
question marks are mine :)

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Ralph Fiennes plays a chilling Amon Goeth in the movie, and plays him to the point that some
people have had trouble distinguishing him from the real thing.

Poldek Pfefferberg, one of the Schindler Jews, famously said, "When you saw Göeth, you saw
death."



GENERAL MYERS TRIBUTE TO AMON GOETH



THIS IS GOING OVER REAL WELL IN EUROPE



In the end, the jingoistic hicks and brainwashed sheeple will still support the chimp.

Welcome to DU! :hi:

Thank you Angel .. I like it here :)

ideas and people dragged back from daddy and unca Reagan's days

plus, his campaign is based on "staying the course" (also recycled from reagan) -- question: how can you get "NEW" ideas when you are sticking to the same course -- assuming that you even have a course to follow?

KNOWN *CRIMINALS. I just don't get it.

Maybe they'll settle down when they get some new PICTURES to look at!

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dbt

their policies from the start, nothing but taxcuts, terra, taxcuts, terra.