Jeb Hensarling Fights The Good Fight (Again)
While I was away, House Republicans pledged to renew their devotion to smaller government (good for those campaign direct mail pieces), then promptly voted to overridge the President’s veto of the bloated, ethanol-soaked, and pork-laden Farm Bill. But Dallas Rep. Jeb Hensarling never gives up. Once again, he’s trying to prevent the party’s suicide by imposing a one-year moratorium on earmarks. Good luck with that, Jeb. I figure that when the GOP loses 40-50 seats in November, whoever’s left might finally begin to see your point.
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I can’t figure it out, Wick. You praise Hensarling for his commitment to the conservative principle of limited government, and, at the same time, you support Obama (a traditional, big government liberal, whatever you think of his oratory skills).
I’m left to conclude you’ve either altogether abandoned your conservative sensibilities (not that John McCain is particularly inspiring) or you’re temporarily intoxicated by His Righteousness’ eloquent inanities.
Perhaps you think Obama is secretly a conservative when it comes to free trade, etc., but if that’s true (and I doubt it, given what little we know about his political past), it makes him at the very least dishonest for taking protectionist, populist positions on the campaign trail.
Sorry for the rant – I’m just perplexed.
“overridge” over dale, may the porkies ever fail.
What is more conservatively insensitive than a $800 billion totally elective war with no end in sight, courtesy of this nation’s “conservative” party’s leadership?
I’ve got more confidence in the labeled liberal’s fiscal soundness than Senator McSame.
Party purity is never a good thing. Congress is designed for compromise
microdermer, our country does not have a conservative party at this time. And the guy who ran as a conservative in 2000 and 2004 really isn’t. It wasn’t conservatives calling for this war (neo-cons, yes; conservatives, not so much) or for these ridiculous Federal budgets. Conservatives aren’t happy with the McCain choice either, by and large, but an Obama Administration would take us out of the frying pan and into the fire in a way that would be far, far worse than did the Carter Administration.
Wrong, wrong, wrong – there is a true conservative party and it goes by the name “Libertarian”. Quit lamenting the lack of true conservative values on the ballot and study up on Republican congressman Bob Barr’s platform (yes, he’s their candidate). Furthermore, don’t buy that BS that a vote for a libertarian is a wasted vote. Do the math, your vote for them is more valuable than it is for either of the machine candidates where your vote is one in several million where as a libertarian you can be one in several thousand!
Libertarian isn’t conservative. It’s, well, libertarian.
Legalization of prostitution and illicit drugs doesn’t really fit well into conservative theory.
It does fit will into smelly-hippy theory though.
Hensarling is opposed to earmarks until some of his contributors want to build a suspension bridge in his home town.
People who insist that Wick is a Judas to support Obama…saying he has deserted ‘conservative principles’ …need to look in the rear view mirror. He did not ‘desert’ conservative principles; in this century, they deserted him. Anyone missing that blazingly apparent ‘duh’ will find themselves drinking cough syrup in November.
Republicans’ stated aim is to destroy “government”–make it small and then drown it in the bathtub, some idiot once said.
Why would anyone expect successful governing from a party out to destroy government?
“I heartily accept the motto,— ‘That government is best which governs least;’ and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically.” – Thoreau
“Hence the less government we have the better—the fewer laws and the less confided power.” – Emerson