Comments on: The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together? http://www.cato-unbound.org Big Ideas for a Better World Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:24:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: indi.ca » Oversea Change http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-limited-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/comment-page-1/#comment-7940 indi.ca » Oversea Change Fri, 10 Nov 2006 08:44:35 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-small-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/#comment-7940 [...] Republicans have been quick to latch on to the ideology of Conservatism, mainly because it is solid. However, like organized religion, they have taken admirable ideals and corrupted and perverted them beyond recognition. Reagan was their posterboy, but George W. Bush has taken what was left of Conservatism and sucked the soul from it. On the most obvious points, his Department on Homeland Security and convoluted expansion of Medicare have been the biggest growth in government size, cost and bureaucracy since the New Deal (discussion via Cato Institute). He has also attacked individual freedoms by demanding warrantless wiretapping, detention of people without charges, and basically suspending habeas corpus. I read Rush Limbaugh cause people listen to him and even he is fed up, There hasn’t been any ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism, for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. [...] [...] Republicans have been quick to latch on to the ideology of Conservatism, mainly because it is solid. However, like organized religion, they have taken admirable ideals and corrupted and perverted them beyond recognition. Reagan was their posterboy, but George W. Bush has taken what was left of Conservatism and sucked the soul from it. On the most obvious points, his Department on Homeland Security and convoluted expansion of Medicare have been the biggest growth in government size, cost and bureaucracy since the New Deal (discussion via Cato Institute). He has also attacked individual freedoms by demanding warrantless wiretapping, detention of people without charges, and basically suspending habeas corpus. I read Rush Limbaugh cause people listen to him and even he is fed up, There hasn’t been any ideology in the Republican Party, any conservatism, for at least two to maybe four years. You could argue Bush was more of an ideologue in the presidential campaign of ‘04, but in looking at what happened yesterday, it wasn’t conservatism that lost. Conservatism won when it ran as a Democrat. It won in a number of places. Republicanism lost. [...]

]]> By: redneckin http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-limited-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/comment-page-1/#comment-349 redneckin Mon, 15 May 2006 12:42:12 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-small-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/#comment-349 <strong>I get a little amused</strong> when I read about the big boy’s of bloggers having a conversation and posting things like “That Bruce is posting on the issue is a good sign that I am succeeding in one of my goals, which is... I get a little amused

when I read about the big boy’s of bloggers having a conversation and posting things like

“That Bruce is posting on the issue is a good sign that I am succeeding in one of my goals, which is…

]]> By: Abulsme.com http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-limited-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/comment-page-1/#comment-343 Abulsme.com Sat, 13 May 2006 20:11:04 +0000 http://www.cato-unbound.org/issues/the-gop-and-small-government-do-they-have-a-future-together/#comment-343 [...] Some more... Fired for Blogging? -- Extraconstitutional Speech Protections (Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy) Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit (Ryan Singel, Wired.com) The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Bill Attacks New XM2go Devices (Orbitcast) via Digg Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die (LiveScience) via Digg The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together (David Frum, Bruce Bartlett, David Boaz, Reihan Salam, Ross Douthat - Cato Unbound) via The Daily Dish [...] [...] Some more… Fired for Blogging? — Extraconstitutional Speech Protections (Eugene Volokh, The Volokh Conspiracy) Feds Go All Out to Kill Spy Suit (Ryan Singel, Wired.com) The Perform Act: Anti-Satellite Bill Attacks New XM2go Devices (Orbitcast) via Digg Walk a Quarter-Mile or Die (LiveScience) via Digg The GOP and Limited Government: Do They Have a Future Together (David Frum, Bruce Bartlett, David Boaz, Reihan Salam, Ross Douthat – Cato Unbound) via The Daily Dish [...]

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