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Originally posted by sgtclub
I am at my wits end on this ridiculous spending spree. I simply cannot believe what I am seeing. The republican congress needs to smack some sense into itself and then into the Admininstration. If only there were a viable alternative that I could stomach . . .
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I think we're seeing the Nixon in China dynamic at work. Nixon could come to an accomodation with communists while the Dems could not because Nixon could withstand an attack from the right.
Bush spends money to win an election because he knows the right can't abandon him. But, while no Dems will propose to cut anything specific during the primary season because they don't want to offend anyone, I think a different dynamic will emerge in the general. During the general election, a Dem can push a more fiscally conservative approach, because the left can't abandon them. Given the way Bush has been spending of late, I think this is where the Democratic strategy is likely to go.
And for credibility, we'll hold up the Clinton years, and compare them favorably for fiscal restraint to the Bush years.
More like the Kennedy/Nixon race, where Kennedy took out Nixon by moving right of him on foreign policy.
