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Bully Pulpit

The term "bully pulpit" stems from President Theodore Roosevelt's reference to the White House as a "bully pulpit," meaning a terrific platform from which to persuasively advocate an agenda. Roosevelt often used the word "bully" as an adjective meaning superb/wonderful. The Bully Pulpit features news, reasoned discourse, opinion and some humor.

Thursday, August 18, 2005

There in lies the problem....

Tucker Miller responds to Andy:

"...Conservative government is limited & frugal government. ... Trust me, Bush isn't building a conservative government…."

If you mean fiscally conservative- no the Bush admin certainly isn’t that. Socially, however, this administration aligns themselves with the most conservative elements or our society.

I couldn't ask for a better example of what is wrong with the conservative/Republican party today.

-45% of self labeled conservatives are "fiscal" conservatives

-another 45% are "social" conservatives

-and the other 10% are an extremely wealthy (& greedy) group who take advantage of the 1st 90% by paying lip service to both fiscal and social conservatives.

Bush, and his bosses in the administration, are not fiscal conservatives, and probably not social conservatives either. They fit into that elite 10% who are just in it for the money and the power. But Bush, with his low tax talk, hokey accent, and in-your-face religiosity plays both sides of the conservative fence so well, that middle classers wanting tax relief and born again Christians alike think that he actually has a desire to help them.

I hope and pray that sooner, rather than later, reasonable and intelligent conservatives (fiscal & social) will stop allowing themselves to be used as pawns by the real corporate elitists who are currently involved in the greatest money & power grab the US has seen since the gilded age.

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