From: Adam Flinton 

Monte Davis wrote:
> Another straw in the wind, from those notorious welfare-staters at
> National Review Online:
>
> "I now believe that the best we can hope to do is make incremental
> improvements to the existing tax system and hopefully prevent it from
> getting worse. Unfortunately, because the current President Bush and
> the Republican Congress have allowed spending to get totally out of
> control, I believe that higher taxes are inevitable. In particular,
> the enactment of a massive new Medicare drug benefit absolutely
> guarantees that taxes will be sharply raised in the future even if
> Social Security is successfully reformed.
>
> "Too many conservatives delude themselves that all we have to do is
> cut foreign aid and pork-barrel spending and the budget will be
> balanced. But unless Republican lawmakers are willing to seriously
> confront Medicare, they cannot do more than nibble around the edges.
> With Republicans having recently added massively to that problem, and
> with a Republican president who won’t veto anything, I have concluded
> that meaningful spending control is a hopeless cause.
>
> "Therefore, we must face the reality that taxes are going to rise a
> lot in coming years..."
> http://www.nationalreview.com/nrof_bartlett/bartlett200505120918.asp
>
> Of course, all good Republicans know what to do when that happens:
>
> 1) If GW Bush has been succeeded by a Democrat, shake your head and
> say with a roguish but loveable twinkle: "There you go again..!"
>
> 2) If GW Bush has been succeeded by another Republican, proclaim as
> you did with GHW Bush that -- shock horror! -- he's not a REAL
> Republican.
>
> 3) *Whatever* happens, clap hands and sing: you're the party of fiscal
> restraint and small government.
>
> -Monte 


Tis humorous to try & work out how long it will take the US right to
regain any of their prior positions. Can last a long while too. e.g. in the
UK the tories were seen as the economically competant party till black
wednesday & even now it still haunts them.

Adam

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