Comments on: Jeb Hensarling Fights The Good Fight (Again)

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:08:39 +0000

“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

By: julie

julie — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:35:09 +0000

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?

By: Rawlins Reality Realty

Rawlins Reality Realty — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 02:58:21 +0000

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.

By: Nathan

Nathan — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:30:11 +0000

Hensarling is opposed to earmarks until some of his contributors want to build a suspension bridge in his home town.

By: Dallasite

Dallasite — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 23:17:44 +0000

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.

By: Gastronome

Gastronome — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 22:57:52 +0000

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!

By: Wes Mantooth

Wes Mantooth — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:48:09 +0000

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.

By: Bubba

Bubba — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 21:42:51 +0000

Party purity is never a good thing. Congress is designed for compromise

By: microdermer

microdermer — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:54:44 +0000

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.

By: Reg

Reg — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 20:31:08 +0000

“overridge” over dale, may the porkies ever fail.