Is Bushes Neo-Conservative Ideas destroying this country?
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You're obviously very worried about the future of the US, and I think your concern is wellfounded.  The key potential danger posed by the actions of the Bush regime has to do with its threat to the "balance of powers" within the US constitutional system.  The idea touted by the Bushies that the Executive branch can do whatever it deems necessary to defend the country from terrorism, without *any* oversight by or accountability to the Legislative or Judicial branches, is a direct assault on a fundamental underpinning of the freedoms we all hold dear.  \n\nThe key to the future of the country is the 2006 elections.  If the Republicans are able to hold on to the power they have now, they will be able to cement that hold by gaming the system beyond recovery, and ordinary working folk will be steamrolled by powerful economic interests.  If they lose some of that power, we may yet be able to salvage our democracy.\n\nMy suggestion to you is that you register to vote, and get as many of your friends to do so as possible.
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There is merit in your statements. Research into todays Neocons will reveal a lot of former Democrats. People like Wolfowitz and Kristol are more simpatico with Democrats then with traditional paleocon Republicans. Point of fact, Neocon Republicans today despise old style Republicans. Folks like Buchanan and Tancredo are anathema to Neocons. Rove and Tancredo within the last year actually had a shouting match at the White House. November 7th could portend a split within the Republican party.
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I have to agree with you BUT, the NEOCONS, don't call them selves neocons, they call them selves Conservative. I do not think in any sense of the word 75% of normal republicans from pre Bush days agree with that. Most of them are normal caring people who were Republicans because they believed in small government, financial responsibility and less interference from the government who are very disillusioned right now I just feel the present Administration of Neocons teach this what you list, They target uneducated, unhappy and unguided people and tell them the liberals are why they are so unhappy, and because they are so misguided and unhappy to begin with they believe them. Look at all the blanket hate messages you see against anyone against Bush, its sad, people need to look at this as a right vs wrong thing, not a us vs them thing. Its just sad to see our own TV teaching us hate, how many times do you see the term liberal used in a negative way, on TV, was NEVER like this till Bush and the Neocons got here and sad to say so many closed minded ignorant people who follow blindly  No wonder why many people think were ugly americans. Just wish people would look at facts and whats right or wrong instead of sides no matter what
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Hey hey fuck you man. In case you didnt notice, its a bunch of right-wing Neo-cons running this government, not peaceful, bud-smoking, lovable people like the ones youre talkin about. Besides, who really cares who fucked up this country...I mean, besides Bush, cause hes just gonna keep fucking up...But seriously, look forward instead of backwards. And quit pointing the finger at everyone else for how messed up the world is, cause in the end its all your fault you conservative nazi! hahaha\n\n\nPeace
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First off, I will tell you why the liberals are crushing the country into smoldering ashes of corruption.  I will also tell you who else is trying to destroy the country as well.\n\nTo begin with, my good and honorable friends, liberals are NOT good in their own sense.  Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION.  Why do I say that?  Okay, let's talk about the conservatives on the political level.  You say the conservatives are destroying America and the world.  You may think they're extremist religious nuts bent on imposing strict laws that say no to liberalism.  For one, they may be destroyng the country but they are also looking at the widening gap of seperation of nation from God.  For this, men and women, NO NATION can survive without God.  Explain to me why Africa is rife with turmoil and warfare?  Explain to me why the Belkan slave trade is alive and well?  Explain to me why other countries force their politics on citizens and restrict their rights?  Explain to me why the world is SO unstable right now?  Can you really do that?  This would, heck, take years and years of explaining.  Just a fiery speech washed down a filthy drain all because nobody cares to look at the reality.  Conservatives are trying to tell you to be mindful of God but are you?  The majority of Americans are offended by the conservatives more than the liberals.\n\nSecondly, why did I say Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION?  It's an excellent equation to speak of liberalism.  Look up the definition of liberalism.  Then get  back here and read what I will say.  Liberalism is based on the intellectual right to do whatever you want without arbitrary government.  That it is based on the goodness of the individual.  Hmm...  getting immoral every minute.  Why?  Okay, take an example.  Pornography is a problem in this country that chip away at America through sin.  All of the content visited by men, women, or young children are sexually oriented.  Now think of the equation I put here: Liberalism + America = CORRUPTION.  Now, if the conservatives or "religious nuts" as you call it, are bent on banning pornography, premarital sex, and advocating marriage before sex, think of liberalism as the other way around.  No man can be good without God in their lives.  No one can be a good individual, drink away alcohol, have sex with other women or men, or look at porn, and still be a good individual.  Now, with liberalism and pornography a bad equation, if it ever becomes that in reality, child pornography will become available to everyone, and every bad stuff that is banned will be readily available thanks to liberalism.  Think of the religious nuts having an agenda to oppose sensitive matters that relate to sex, crime, hate, homosexuality, etc. and liberalism the other way around.  Yes, liberalism would be BEING DESENSITIZED AND ACCEPTING THE BAD STUFF AS GOOD!\n\nThirdly, having said what would happen if liberalism had its field day, I will tell you who else is destroying this once glorious country FOUNDED under God.  Atheists, liberal activists, homosexual activists, polygamist activists, ecumenism, pornography, alcohol, guns, you name it!  Yes, I am making everyone mad by saying this but this is really true if you open your eyes to it.  Does it really make sense if you had two homosexual fathers, a teacher would explain to you that one of them is your father and the other is your mother?  What a bunch of crock.  They're two sickly men who think they love each other when they actually are blindsided into lust and worse perversion unto their eyes.  Are celebrities in love?  No.  They're in lust, in full red-hot forbidden passion that God abhorred. And after what I said, this is true.\n\nI'm telling you, men and women, LIBERALISM DOES NOT EQUATE GOOD.  LIBERALISM EQUATES GOOD/BAD STUFF ALL MIXED UP IN THE WORLD AND ACCEPTED AT FULL VALUE.  Don't believe me?  Heck, try your hand at politics and tell Bush to pass liberal laws about alcohol,
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Bush is no conservative in the way Barry Goldwater or Eisenhower were. I did not think much of Reagan but even he was better, hell for that matter Nixon was better and never did I think I would be saying this.
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False, but VERY close...\n\nThe real Bush legacy:  "Ask not what you can do for your country; ask what you and your country can do for me and my rich buddies."
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Kudos to this question.  You are correct, not crazy. I bet you knew that though.  Moreso, his miserable failure to secure our border.  Reagan said "A nation without borders is not a nation."  \n   Also that he caved on his social security plan, which is capitulation to the left, if not just plain leftist.  Making gov't the sole arbiter of that desicion is NOT the act of a conservative.  \n    Republicans will lose seats this election and sadly they have no one but themselves to blame.  They were given government on a silver platter.  The House, the Senate, the executive, and the SJC.  What a mandate! And how abyssmally blown.  \n   He's no Reagan, that's for sure.
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Limbaugh is a school drop-/flunk-out, an idiot, and a partisan hack. He does not care about America. In fact, he is ignorant of American history and government, and detests the ideas of America’s Founding Fathers.  Like all modern religious and political conservatives, he accepts no responsibility for mistakes. \n\nBy now it is completely clear that invading Iraq was illegal, immoral, stupid, and doomed to failure. Yet Bush and all of his most ardent supporters do not seem to loose any sleep over the hundreds of thousands of innocent people who have died as a result of their actions. They should be praying that there is no God, because if there is, they are in a world of trouble.\n\n---------------------------\nAlex B. Ph.D. -\n\nSo did the Republicans and the media. Have you ever been in DC? It is as small socially as it is geographically. There are no secrets. Everyone knows everyone's business. \n\nAnd, they are all in it together. It is their club and they do not give a sh!t about the rest of us - or the country. Their two primary concerns are: 1) personal wealth and power, and 2) party power and wealth.\n\n------------------------------------\ntok h -\n\nFox News is a conservative PR firm. The White House refers to it as 'White House West'. Hannity flew on Air Force One with Bush during the last campaign. By your logic, why shouldn't Yahoo ban all references to them as well?
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Conservatives are not only bitter towards Democrats, but they’re angry at them.  They really thought they had a plan when they manipulated the Florida elections in their direction only to find out their leaders didn’t have clue on how to run this country.\n\nIn June of 2001 Cheney requested a study of Iraqi oil fields and began planning his attack on Iraq three months before 9/11.  The plan for the attack was linked to boosting the profits Halliburton who without a war doesn’t make nearly the money they make during peace.\n\nAlmost immediately after taking office, the economy started going south and unemployment went from a record low to a record high.  Then the administration ignored warnings from the CIA and FBI about a planned attack on the US which allowed 9/11 to happen. \n\nFor seven minutes, while thousand of Americans were dying, their wonderful leader sat mouthing the words to a children’s book.  Bush said he didn’t want to upset the children.  I’m not the brightest bulb on the tree, but couldn’t he have said, “Boys and Girls Uncle George has to take an important phone call.”\n\nThe blundering and mishandling of America spiraled out of control. Ignoring all the options, Bush started bombing Afghanistan.   Bombing Afghanistan was like blowing up a house to catch a rat; the house is destroyed, but the rat simply runs down another hole.  Now the battle front in Afghanistan is warming up again. \n\nUsing a mandate built on patriotism and a sense of duty, Congress enacted the Patriot Act which was a tool for conservatives to stifle American liberties.  Liberties which the Democratic Party still believes should exist for all Americans.  \n\nIn an attempt to divert attention from his failures on the domestic front as well as his inability to catch Osama, Bush and Cheney ordered the CIA to leak misinformation about Iraq.  When Bush was asked about these leaks, he deplored them.\n\nBush used this misinformation to form a coalition of Democrats, Republicans and countries from around the world who believed his lies and deceptions about weapons of mass destruction.  Not yet completing our mission in Afghanistan, Bush started the war in Iraq.\n\nIn the meantime, America’s economy plummeted and our national surplus which he had inherited from his predecessor became an ever growing deficit.   Domestic issues which both parties agreed needed to be addressed fell to the floor.  Healthcare which President Clinton fought so hard for was abandoned; school districts around the country were closed and caught up in court battles, poverty grew, crime rose and all the while American soldiers were being killed because he lied to the American public.\n\nIn an attempt to line the pockets of his corporate friends, he attempted to privatize Social Security which would have left thousand of Americans in a black hole.\n\nHis closest buddies, “Kenny boy” of Enron and Tom DeLay are crooks; my mother told me, “You are the company you keep.”  Donald Rumsfeld is a failure and what happened to Colin Powell?\n\nFor the eight years former President Clinton was in office, Republicans refused to join the call for bi-partisanship and used their time in office to do their best to discredit the Clinton administration.   Unable to discredit Clinton on his political achievements, they began attacking Mrs. Clinton and former President Clinton’s personal life.\n\nThese days we hear no calls for bi-partisanship.\n\nThey appointed a “special prosecutor” and began one of the most deplorable witch hunts in American history.  In the end and millions of dollars later, White Water was nothing more than a Republican whitewash and yes they caught former President Clinton with his pants down.  He lied, but his lies didn’t cost this country thousands of lives.\n\nRepublicans refuse to acknowledge the facts and statistics of the Clinton White House successes, but those achievements are already forever embedded in the history of our country.\n
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Starting shortly after Bush, Sr. was booted from office by vote, the Republican party underwent a very quiet split.  Old school conservatives gave up the reigns to what have become known as neo-conservatives (neo-cons) with a very different agenda than your regular Republican joe.  To ensure the votes though, the party is still the same "Republicans", but with all neo-con leadership.  Old school Republicans (Reaganites) still in politics didn't wish to lose their backing so publically support the party line while providing unquestioning backing to the neo-con agenda.\n\nThe list of Neo-Cons can be found at their public website along with an outline of their very scary agenda that little resembles classical conservatism.  Through control of corporate media firms, the neo-cons have managed to make politics into an emotional issue where facts are no longer an issue.\n\nLabeling women's rights advocates as "baby-killers" and propogating gay rights movements as "threats to the family", as well as focusing attention away from domestic issues with a wholly manufactured "war on terrorism", they have duped part of the population into becoming something akin to the good folks in 1930's Germany.\n\nI see kids come on here with hate speech straight from emotional neo-con propoganda and I get reminded of that scene in Schindler's List where the little girl is screaming "Goodbye Jews!" as her neighbors are marched away.  Neo-con values are NOT patriotic American values by any stretch of the imagination.  If you change your thinking to the ideal of an American Empire, then the neo-cons are for you...I guess you could say the neo-cons are "conserving American power" at the expense of "American values".
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YES WE WILL SAVE AMERICA FROM THE NEO CONS\n\nIMPEACH BUSH
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Absolutely! Traditionally, marriage laws are determined by the states, and even though the conservatives often say that they want less government on the national level and more on the local level, Bush certainly took it upon himself to address the issue. But then again, I think that even Tucker Carlson said that Bush isn't even really a conservative. He may claim to be a conservative and spout conservative rhetoric, but his spending habits and many of his policies have been anything but conservative.
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No, neo-cons are smiting America.  If they weren't doing the smiting, someone else would be.
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Great Post, thanks for putting it up! By the way, you're 100% right. As for the neocon, who said that thanks to the repuklicans terrorists aren't blowing us up. Here's a news flash...9-11 happened while the repubs were "protecting" us and Bin Laden (the guy behind 9-11) is still running free laughing at us while we spend all our resources (tax dollars) in Iraq!
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that's what the media says.\nbut honestly that just being nice to republicans.\nit should be a referendum on the coruption we've seen ( including the war)\npeople need to ask themselves what did the repulicans promise us when they came to power.\nhas there " conservativeness" really saved the country money?\nBill Clinton had a surplus at the end of his second term, do you think bush will be able to claim the same?
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No... Neo-Liberal economic policies, combined with crippling western-backed wars (Congo, Iraq, US bombings in Nigeria, Western intervention in the Balkans, etc.), senseless economic blockades (like those imposed on Cuba or Iraq), have led to a wide increase of poverty and unemployment world-wide, this having, as a consequence, the rise of crime, radical ideologies such as fundamentalist islam, and terrorist movements.\n\nThe Bush decision to invade Iraq and Afghanistan has actually increased terrorism exponentially, by creating more poverty and desperation among the Arab populace, while Bush's imperialist expansionist foreign policies have propped rogue states like Iran or North Korea to adquire nuclear weapons to defend themselves, and to become more radical themselves. (such as Iran's election of Mahmud Abdinehab)\nNeo-liberal economic policies are also causing industries to close in the first world, under the guise of this so-called globalization, so that production can be moved to sweatshops in Asia, under dictatorial or weak governments that allow bussinesses to pay less than 15 cents per hour to their workers. This is causing the slow destruction of the middle classes, worldwide, increasing poverty, social-inequality, and reducing economic security.\n\nIn politics, the so-called war on terror has led to a widespread reduction of civil rights, in the US (with the PATRIOT Act and domestic eavesdropping), in Europe (shoot-to-kill policies, and other examples) and in dictatorial countries like China or Pakistan (who are using the "War on Terror" to crack down on their resistance groups, like the Ughiur or the Tibetan independence movements).\nIn addition to all this, neo-liberal policies have implicated the reduction of healthcare and education budgets in many countries, reducing the education level of its populaces and the access to proper healthcare for the poorest segments of their societies.\n\nSo, no, the world is not safer than in 1996. Terrorism, poverty, social inquality, crime and uncertainity have increased, while our civil rights, economic and physical security, health and education levels, have decreased.\nThe world is becoming more and more a dangerous and competitive place, a jungle, if you will, for us commoners, while those in the upper half of society become richer and more powerful each day at the expense of the rest.\n\nVery good question, by the way.\n\n\n\nEDIT: To answer "The Wise One": I am Latin American, and let me inform you that the process of democratization happened during the 1980's, not during the 1990's.\nThe latin american countries that were democracies in 1996 are still democracies now (Including Venezuela and Bolivia, whose governments were democratically elected and, in the case of Venezuela, ratified by a referedum.)\nAlso, the "banana republic dictatorships" (a very offensive term, by the way) you are mentioning were in most cases implanted and backed by the US government, (like, for example, the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile, Videla in Argentina, Fujimori in Peru, The toppling of Arbenz in Guatemala, "Papa Doc" Duvalier in Haiti and many others.\nSo, please learn your facts before opening your mouth.\nAs an Argentinian, we have a democracy that, albeit its dictatorial interruptions, has been in existance since 1912. A term like "banana republic" proves to be very bigoted and offensive.\n\nDon't fool yourself, Oh Wise One... when all serious ONGs and international organizations in the world say that famine and social inequality are increasing worldwide, when the UNESCO says that education levels are decreasing, when millions of people are starving in Haiti, Congo, Sudan and elsewhere (in a situation WORSE than 10 years ago), when the number of terrorist attacks per year worldwide has multiplied iself by 8 or more, the world cannot be a better place.