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Box A Rox
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1) There have been two presidents who were members of the modern conservative movement, Ronald Reagan and George W Bush, and they both presided over massive increases in both present and projected deficits.

2) The major deficit reduction packages of the modern era, in 1990 and 1993, were both uniformly opposed by the conservative movement.

3) When the deficit was temporarily eliminated in the late-1990s, the mainstream conservative view was that this showed that the deficit was too low and needed to be increased via large tax cuts.

4) Senator Mitch McConnell says it’s a uniform view in his caucus that tax cuts needn’t be offset by other changes in spending.

5) The deficit reduction commission is having trouble because they think conservative politicians won’t vote for any form of tax increase.

I remember Fiscal Conservative Republicans...
but today, I can't find one.


The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral
philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Box, do you really expect to convince people that GW Bush was a fiscal conservative, you're kidding right. Bush was not a conservative just look at how much the debt went up under his administration and no balanced budget. You're going to see a lot of politicians who have never been very conservative get conservative very quickly now the the whole country is up in arms about our huge rising debt, just look how conservative McCain got since the Tea Party movement was formed.
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