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Bob Barr: An agonizing choice - Conservatives have plenty of cause to abandon Bush
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Oct 12, 2004 06:54pm |
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| Category | Opinion |
| News Date | Thursday, October 7, 2004 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | All Bush had to do was resist the urge to spend, and he had to exert some pressure on Congress to resist its natural impulses to do the same. Had he done that, he might have gone down in history as the most fiscally conservative president in modern times.
Instead, what we got were record levels of new spending, including nearly double-digit increases in nondefense discretionary spending. We now have deficits exceeding those that the first Republican-controlled Congress in 40 years faced when it convened in January 1995.
The oft-repeated mantra that "the terrorists made us spend more" rings hollow, especially to those who actually understand that increases in nondefense discretionary spending are not the inevitable result of fighting terrorists. It also irritates many conservatives, whether or not they support the war in Iraq, that so much of defense spending is being poured into the black hole of Iraq's internal security, while the security of our own borders goes wanting. |
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