seattle.politics

On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 19:41:06 -0500, Al < @ >
wrote:

>In article <13gld0jdbeuvj7e@ >,
> "Curt" wrote:
>
>> "Sanders Kaufman" wrote in message news:
>>
>> > But to refer to the spend-crazy government expansionists as "conservative"
>> > is either very dishonest, or very very stupid.
>>
>> I'd give you that, except that the meaning of the word has changed over the
>> last couple decades.
>>
>> "Conservative" no longer means "doesn't spend like a drunken sailor on all
>> manner of stupid projects". It used to, but no longer. And that's a sad
>> thing.
>>
>>
>
>You're all mixed up.
>
>The repub's got nailed for abandoning conservative ways, especially
>spending.

Not so much. The spending problem just sorta went along with the
usual sort of Supply Side idiocy:

/2007/10/09/opinion/ ?_r=1&th&emc=th&oref=slogin

>They seem to have gotten the message though, as they did on immigration.
>Whether it'll do any good in '08 remains to be seen.

Spending is comparatively unimportant to the Deficit issue. And
deficits are not a function Only of spending, but a combination of
spending and revenue decisions.

And the Rs have consistently managed to get that one wrong.