Bush's Shrinking Safety Zone

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by tw

Nixon also promoted and Cheney currently promotes same totalitarianism that Urbane Guerrilla promotes.

This is true -- in that I promote no totalitarianism at all. My mind, tw, remains clearer than yours at all times, at least those times when I am awake. Keep this in mind -- to the degree possible in yours.

It is remarked, from the National Review quarter, that Nixon was no conservative -- and I think with justice, taking the quickly-failed wage-price regulation as just one example. The Bush Administration's fundamental political instinct is more in line with conservative Republican thinking: minimize tax burden (though in the typical Republican/Beltway/Democrat fallacy, don't minimize the burden by cutting government services and staffers of agencies, hence being vulnerable on the score of deficit spending), don't monkey with the Bill of Rights even where it might be convenient (a besetting sin of the Clinton Administration, which never gave a tinker's damn about the BoR and perennially worked to subvert it, though they were more successful at subverting the Department of Justice), and if a war comes, and come it did for certain on 9/11, try and win it rather than do the Dem Party thing -- make a half measure and call it "unwinnable."

This is what they try for, and they keep trying, even if they don't achieve it in the press of circumstance and the roar of war. The previous occupant of the Oval Office never even tried, and was an inept cypher at foreign policy. What can you say of a President who never recognized he had a war to fight? Glad I never voted for this -- this indescribable Ol' Possum Head.

[Ibby]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

... don't monkey with the Bill of Rights even where it might be convenient ...

Oh my fucking god. You have got to be kidding me. Bush has unabashedly trampled every amendment but the second.

Oh wait, thats what you meant by the Bill of Rights. Nevermind then.