{"id":1001,"date":"2004-01-05T13:24:34","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T20:24:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/uncategorized\/conservatives-against-bush\/"},"modified":"2004-01-05T13:24:34","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T20:24:34","slug":"conservatives-against-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/conservatives-against-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservatives Against Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Republicans and conservatives need to recognize Bush is NOT one of them. He is either the leader of the Radical Right or their <b>dim-witted tool<\/b> &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t matter which is true. He is changing everything as fast as he can. mjh<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Bush's Budget for 2005 Seeks to Rein In Domestic Costs\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/01\/04\/politics\/04BUDG.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=\">Bush&#8217;s Budget for 2005 Seeks to Rein In Domestic Costs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As he completes work on his budget, <b>Mr. Bush faces criticism from conservatives<\/b>, who say he has presided over a big increase in federal spending, and liberals, who say his tax cuts have converted a large budget surplus to a deficit.<\/p>\n<p><b>Total federal revenues have declined for three consecutive years, apparently the first time that has happened since the early 1920&#8217;s.<\/b> But in those years, from 2000 to 2003, total federal spending has increased slightly more than 20 percent, to $2.16 trillion last year.<\/p>\n<p>Brian M. Riedl, an economist at the conservative Heritage Foundation, said: &#8220;President Bush is not focusing on his fiscal conservative base right now. He&#8217;s trying to position himself in between conservatives in Congress and the Democratic Party. <b>It may be good politics, but it&#8217;s bad policy<\/b>, a lost opportunity to get runaway government spending under control.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans and conservatives need to recognize Bush is NOT one of them. He is either the leader of the Radical Right or their dim-witted tool &#8212; it doesn&#8217;t matter which is true. He is changing everything as fast as he can. mjh Bush&#8217;s Budget for 2005 Seeks to Rein In Domestic Costs As he completes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/dump-duhbya\/conservatives-against-bush\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Conservatives Against Bush<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dump-duhbya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}