"Compassionate conservative" - just another size XXL lie to cover social darwinism

there was never the slightest intent to be "compassionate" or to address social needs... the agenda from the get-go was to do the norquist shrink job so that any social compact, explicit or implicit, was small enough to "drown in the bathtub..."

George W. Bush ran for office as a "compassionate conservative," arguing that Americans did not have to choose between huge tax cuts and a government that would do its part to address social needs like education and health care.

Now into his sixth year in the White House, Mr. Bush offered a budget on Monday that showed more clearly than ever the inexorable limits of that political promise.

Mr. Bush is asking Congress, first and foremost, to make his tax cuts permanent and to increase spending on national security, while looking for savings in popular domestic programs like Medicare and vocational education. The tradeoffs, to his critics, are achingly clear, and unfair.

if you aren't well-to-do in the u.s., tough shit... you obviously don't have the right stuff or are just plain lazy or both... get out of the way of those who are smart, smart enough to claw their way to the top and amass riches on the backs of everyone else...

To many Democrats, he appears intent on extending and expanding his tax cuts precisely to create the situation the government faces now, leaving it to choose between tolerating large deficits or cutting into domestic programs in a way that begins to alter the social contract.

c'mon, nyt... "begins to alter" is putting it mildly... it's being lobotomized, deliberately and completely and there's not a goddam thing compassionate about it...

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