Bush is even alienating his conservative right base

[AgadorSparticus]

I found this very interesting. He is having to reach out to his base because they are upset with his uncontrolled spending. Here are some snippets from that article:

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Bush Reaches Out to Conservatives to Quell Revolt
Fri Feb 20, 3:45 PM ET

By Adam Entous

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House has been reaching out to conservative groups to quell a rebellion over government spending and budget deficits, hoping to shore up President Bush (news - web sites)'s political base in an election year.

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The White House is used to being attacked by Democrats, but it came as something of a shock when fellow Republicans broke ranks over growth in government spending, hurting Bush at a time when his job approval numbers were already falling.

Conservatives from the Cato Institute criticized the president for overseeing a nearly 25 percent surge in spending over the last three years -- the fastest pace since the Johnson administration of the mid-1960s.

Others singled out his failure to lay out concrete plans to reduce the federal budget deficit, projected at a record $521 billion this year. Even some of Bush's Republican allies in the House warned of a backlash against his budget priorities.

[MurikanDemocrat]

1. Got a link to the rest of the article?

[pnorman]

2. Here's one:

http://www.forbes.com/markets/newswire/2004/02/20/rtr1269822.html (Thank God for Google!)

pnorman
STAND UP, KEEP FIGHTING http://shows.implex.tv/wellstone /

[AgadorSparticus]

3. yup, here's the address:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040220/pl_nm/bush_conservatives_dc_3

[TXDemGal]

4. Well, he threw his so-called "conservative right base" a bone on Friday

with the recess appointment of William Pryor to the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.

'Graph from a NY Times article about Pryor's appointment:

Mr. Pryor is also known for defending the right of high school athletes to pray "spontaneously." And, in a brief before the Supreme Court, he argued that if a law in Texas outlawing sex between homosexuals was overturned, it would open the way for legalized "prostitution, adultery, necrophilia, bestiality, possession of child pornography and even incest and pedophilia."

[izzie]

5. Yes he is giving the right wing Christians a lot but......

They help to put him in but not all the voters he needs.I am going nuts reading Free Republic, I know it is the really hard line GOP on the site but they are going nuts over their. Fun to read.They are starting to bring up the same things we did about the man.Now that MacDonald's Freedom fry may be counted as production item I can not wait to go there today.

[Hammie]

6. Of course he is.

Most true conservatives are honorable people with a different view of the proper function of goverment than us. Expansion of police powers, massive govt. growth, nationalizing airport security, and a gigantic expansion of the Medicare entitlement program have got to have them absolutely livid. I bet a lot of them stay home on election day. Bush is a republican, not a conservative, I'm not sure there is really a word that accurately describes what sort of creature he is unless it is authoritarian.