An Ode to Small Government
Written by Mike on December 14th, 2005Jonah Goldberg writes on the problems facing the modern version of the GOP. Worth a full read but here is a sample:
Presidents have been just as bad, including George W. Bush. He campaigned against the proposed McCain-Feingold campaign-finance “reform” in the 2000 election. At the time Bush argued, rightly, that the legislation violated numerous constitutional principles. When the bill wound up his desk, however, in a more egregious form than the earlier versions, Bush signed it. If his erstwhile “serious constitutional concerns” had been justified, the president explained, then, heck, “the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions.” But when the law went before the Supreme Court, Bush’s Justice Department defended it and the justices in turn upheld it, out of deference to the “government.” It’s all so tawdry.
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A concise and to-the-point article that helps shed light on the unfortunate turn that our federal government has taken over the years from a limited, small body exercising Constitutional duties to a giant behemoth of an organization filled with endless beaurocracies and politicking politicians who pay no mind to the Constitutionality of their actions. As Goldberg says at the end, reform in the Gop is absolutely necessary for any of this to change.
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Ken is a moderate chicken hawk
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intresting article by goldberg, at the end of the article he almost gives an arguement for conservatives to vote for democrats arguieng that atleast they are consistant in they belive in big gov and tax accordingin, republics tax cuts but no real change in size of gov, an intresting read.