Fiscal Conservatives Challenge Bush

[Rose Siding]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites), who accuses his Democratic rival of keeping his budget plans secret, has yet to offer plans of his own for funding his campaign promises and cutting the deficit in half, fiscal conservatives said on Friday.
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But even fiscal conservatives, traditionally allied with the Republican White House, were skeptical of Bush's plans.

"While it's true that Kerry hasn't provided a detailed plan, neither has the president," said Heritage Foundation budget analyst Brian Riedl.

William Niskanen, chairman of the Cato Institute, said Bush's warnings about Kerry's spending plans were "inconsistent" with his own proposals. "There's no way to accomplish (Bush's) major new measures, including tax reform, without substantial increases in spending," Niskanen said.

Stephen Moore of the Club for Growth, a group that raises money for conservative political candidates, said Bush was not being "very forthright" about his plans......

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040910/ts_nm/campaign_promises_dc

[Gin]

1. actually he does have a plan........loot the treasury....rob the poor and

give to the rich. A reverse robin hood.

The lesson with this group of thugs is...pay attention to what they do...not what they say.

[barb162]

3. exactly

I really believe these rich people are already buying real estate in other countries because they want to be out of here when the country falls apart into a real depression from which it will never recover. What's going on right now and the last few years is "Barbarians at the Gate" multiplied a thousand-fold.

[PurityOfEssence]

2. Yeah, but they'll goosestep along with him when the time comes

The core agenda of the right remains the same: fuck the poor, dominate the world and take away all regulations that restrain the greedheads.

Cultural issues are important, but plenty of wingers would happily have the weirdos doing it in the street and frightening the horses as long as they could make as much money as possible and keep it all.

[struggle4progress]

4. kick for infighting

:kick:

[susanna]

5. about time n/t