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FISCALLY TIGHT: Strike.


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Please point out a single Republican IN OFFICE who was fiscally tight? Conservatives talk economic conservatism when out of power but do not walk the walk in power. And yet you Repubs keep voting for them thinking that "this guy will be different", when he/she is probably no better fiscally than a democrat of a decade ago at any point in time. I jumped ship from the lying bastards on the right years ago and have never looked back. Repubs really should look into the Lib Party if they mean what gthey say about wanting smaller govt and fiscal conservatism. Otherwise, you're just pretending to support those beliefs. Until the Repub Party fears it will lose its base, they'll do whatever sells once in office just like any other lying politician, and they know they have you by the balls because you think "anything's better than a democrat." Let them see 10% or more of their base vote Libertarian and lose them a big election and then they'll have to take fiscal conservatism seriously, until then its pure b.s. out of their mouths. Perot could have taught a lesson in '92 -- tighten the govt belt or lose due to 3rd party swing voters. Instead the wrong lesson was learned by the Repub voters -- don't vote 3rd party or risk a 2-term democrat. Well, based on the budgets I've read, looks like we have another 2-term democrat named Bush.

After 9/11, a call for "global war on terrorism" was made, and under a Repub Pres, House, and Senate, the funding for the NEA went up to higher levels than even the 1990s. The silence on the right was deafening.