"Big Government Conservatism"
This is the second of three excerpts we'll be publishing from Bringing America Home: How America Lost Her Way and How We Can Find Our Way Back (Chronicles Press, 2010). Pauken is the chairman of the Texas Workforce Commission and was the chairman of the Republican Party of Texas when George W. Bush was governor.
Fred Barnes, the editor of the leading neoconservative magazine The Weekly Standard, described the Bush philosophy of “big government conservatism” in a article in the Wall Street Journal in the summer of 2003. According to Barnes, the Bush administration believed “in using what would ...
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JackTar
Tom could be a lot more honest about "fiscal conservatism." You conservatives have a record on this. Reagan - he cut taxes and hiked deficit spending. When a Democrat became president, you became "deficit hawks." W gets in power, and it's cut taxes, soaring deficit spending again. And what do you know? A Democrat's in the White House and the conservatives are soaring on the wings of fiscal righteousness again. You can fool your own party members, but real Americans aren't buying it.
Gritsforbreakfast
"Yet back in 2003 none of these spending excesses seemed to trouble Barnes or his fellow neoconservatives."
And where, pray tell, may we read Tom Pauken's strident 2003 criticisms of the GOP Congress or Bush Administration spending excesses?