Re: Bush asked his boss...
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It's no wonder so many voters think they have no original ideas.
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Given that Bush is the least popular President since Nixon, perhaps you meant voters "thought"?
The common denominators of GOP policies have remained the same at least since LBJ: unburden and subsidize the rich, increase military spending, increase the use of military force, repress dissidence. (The same period also coincides with the permanent stagnation of worker incomes).
Economic boom, budget surplus and peace? Then cut taxes and increase defense spending. Recession, terror and two wars? Then increase military spending and cut taxes. Indeed, the core of rightist prescriptions has remained tediously unoriginal since Cato the Elder and can be summarized as "more for the fewer."
The only thing "new" about these Republicans are Bush's cowboy constume and accent (the only Bush sibling who talks like a Texan) and a greater willingness to leverage social tensions and dumb guy credulity.
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