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Title: The Bush Massacre of the Reaganites (must read history of the Bushes)
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URL Source: http://www.conservativehq.com/node/19518
Published: Jan 23, 2015
Author: Chairman Richard A. Viguerie
Post Date: 2015-01-23 09:12:56 by A K A Stone
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Views: 4530
Comments: 15
This week marks the twenty-sixth anniversary of the “massacre of the Reaganites” by newly elected President George H.W. Bush that effectively ended the prospect of institutionalizing Reaganism as the governing principle of the Republican Party and America. We call it the “massacre of the Reaganites” because, in a well-thought-out and carefully crafted purge, on Inauguration Day 1989 practically every conservative who remained in government at the end of President Ronald Reagan’s second term, and certainly any conservative of any political consequence, was fired or forced to resign from their post in the federal government. Even those who had worked tirelessly to elect George H.W. Bush President in the expectation that a Bush presidency would be effectively the “third term of Ronald Reagan” were dismissed. Within hours of Bush’s inauguration establishment Republicans, such as James Baker III, who had opposed many of Reagan’s initiatives from within the administration, were promoted. But throughout the government Reagan’s conservative appointees, many of whom were loyal Republicans who had supported Bush, were forced to resign, were stripped of their duties, or were summarily fired by a new administration that wanted no part of the relatively few movement conservatives left in the government on the day Ronald Reagan departed Washington for California. The few that were left were relegated to the dim reaches of various federal office building and given a few months to find another job or left on the payroll, but given no responsibilities in the new administration. Their in- boxes filled with only magazines and with nothing substantive to do they soon left. While Bush partisans argued that the new president was justified in putting his own people in place, the 1989 “Inauguration Day Massacre” firings were more akin to political executions; lists of those to be “executed” were drawn up, and they were fired before sundown of the first day of the new Bush administration in a well-planned agenda to replace conservatives (be they Bush supporters or not) with establishment Republicans. While most conservative critiques of George H.W. Bush tend to focus on “Read my lips,” and Bush’s abandonment of his pledge not to raise taxes, the result of the “Inauguration Day Massacre” firings were with no conservatives left to say “hey wait a minute,” Bush quickly walked away from conservative principles on a long list of policies and decisions. • Bush reversed himself and imposed a temporary ban on semiautomatic rifles— so-called assault weapons—after first opposing the idea. • He signed and advocated the Americans with Disabilities Act, creating a whole new realm of litigation nightmares for businesses large and small. • He bailed out the troubled savings and loans banks. • He signed the Civil Rights Act of 1990, making it easier for employees to sue employers. • He bought into global warming by signing the Framework Convention on Climate Change. • He created a “no net loss of wetlands” policy out of whole cloth, with little legislative authority, outraging farmers and landowners across the country. • And, in what was perhaps his most lasting and damaging betrayal of conservatives, he appointed an obscure state judge, David Souter of New Hampshire, to the Supreme Court. The “massacre of the Reaganites” should serve as a caution to conservatives who look at Jeb Bush and listen to his “right to rise” rhetoric and think “he sounds pretty good, how bad could a third Bush administration be?” During Reagan’s presidency conservatives frequently said, “Personnel is policy,” and Bush’s Inauguration Day massacre was a sure sign that he intended to abandon Reagan’s policies, and his principles. Despite all of Bush’s rhetoric about “the transformative power of conservative ideas,” Jeb Bush is the “great white hope” of the Republican establishment. No one else in America, save Hillary Clinton, starts the 2016 political season with a larger Rolodex of Washington insider supporters than does Jeb Bush. In addition to supporting all of their major policy goals from Common Core to amnesty for illegal aliens, a Bush candidacy will send millions of dollars in consulting business and lucrative lobbying contracts to a small, but powerful, coterie of Bush family supporters and acolytes. We limited government constitutional conservatives must recognize up front that a successful Jeb Bush campaign would ensure that the Republican establishment stays in power for at least another decade, and it would also ensure that, no matter if Jeb or the Democrat wins, Big Government will continue to get bigger.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Otherwise known as the defeat of conservatism by left-wing authoritarian collectivists
Spook Daddy's own Night of the Long Knives.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The...Oligarchical_Collectivism
Excellent find. I've bookmarked it. Thank you.
First, all should recognize that the establishment of both parties has to be decimated! How, I do not know. But as long as they are intact, big government will continue. Everyone keeps talking about "taking over the Republican Party, but that is not going to happen. I do not even think a 3rd party can get up on its feet. I will not vote for jebbie, I will vote for anyone else in the primary, in the general election, I will vote 3rd party. I think on Judgement Day that the Bushes will be in the line going toward the lake. The nation is toast!
If Jeb wins the Democrats do win. The Bush family has been wonderful for the Democrats, enacting much of their agenda, and importing millions of Democrat voters.
I always wonder just how it is that McCain came to be known as the maverick? He is the biggest pro establishment guy out there, I guess in the other side of the looking glass that defines you as a maverick.
Some campaign adviser / marketing guy thought it would sell good. The reality is that he is practicing demonrat with a R after his name. Too bad the NV did not keep him.
Don’t be fatalistic and hold a belief that events are determined by fate and that you have to accept the outcome of events because nothing will change the outcome. Fatalism is bad. A basic flaw in fatalism is that it can become a form of nihilism which causes you to believe that nothing has meaning and nothing makes any difference. Nihilism is bad.
" Don’t be fatalistic " I m not. You are entitled to your opinion, and I am entitled to mine. I believe on this matter that I am being realistic, based on a multitude of factors. For example: A passenger standing on the deck of the Titanic after it hit the iceberg, and the water is starting to pour in says " I think we are going to sink" Is that passenger being "fatalistic", or is he being "realistic"? The facts are that he was being realistic. It is not productive to engage in fantasy.
Don’t be fatalistic No, the term is "realistic". Take off your rose-colored glasses sparky. This ain't your grand-daddy's America anymore.
When you say: "The nation is toast!"....you are not being "fatalistic?" Hmmmmm.... :) I believe you are confusing the realism and fatalism. Realism is the belief that some aspects you hold to be real are ontologically independent of your conceptual perceptions. Therefore, the nature of realism is so controversial that the plausibility of realism remains that no account of it will ever satisfy. Fatalism is a belief that events are determined by fate....we have to accept the outcome of events because we cannot do anything that will change the outcome. I think you are saying that events are determined by something over which we have no control. That is fatalism.
I believe you are confusing the realism and fatalism. Realism is the belief that some aspects you hold to be real are ontologically independent of your conceptual perceptions. Therefore, the nature of realism is so controversial that the plausibility of realism remains that no account of it will ever satisfy. Fatalism is a belief that events are determined by fate....we have to accept the outcome of events because we cannot do anything that will change the outcome. This ain't your libertarian's America....and it will never be!
And never was.
"The biggest mistake that libertarians make is the way they view government and private sectors. Government is the root of all evil, and the private sector is the source of all good. Libertarians have never figured out that people are the same whether in the government or in the private sector." --Paul Craig Roberts
And never was. Amen!
The Bush Massacre of the Reaganites
#2. To: A K A Stone (#0)
#3. To: Fibr Dog (#1)
the defeat of conservatism by left-wing authoritarian collectivists
There lie they and here lie we, Under The Spreading Chestnut Tree
Same ol'
#4. To: VxH (#3)
#5. To: A K A Stone (#0)
" We limited government constitutional conservatives must recognize up front that a successful Jeb Bush campaign would ensure that the Republican establishment stays in power for at least another decade, and it would also ensure that, no matter if Jeb or the Democrat wins, Big Government will continue to get bigger. "
#6. To: A K A Stone (#0)
...no matter if Jeb or the Democrat wins...
#7. To: Stoner (#5)
First, all should recognize that the establishment of both parties has to be decimated!
#8. To: nativist nationalist (#7)
" I always wonder just how it is that McCain came to be known as the maverick? He is the biggest pro establishment guy out there "
#9. To: Stoner, A K A Stone (#5)
The nation is toast!
#10. To: Gatlin, A K A Stone (#9)
" The nation is toast! "
#11. To: Gatlin, Stoner, A K A Stone (#9)
The nation is toast!
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: Stoner (#10)
#13. To: Deckard (#11)
#14. To: Gatlin (#13)
This ain't your libertarian's America....and it will never be!
#15. To: Palmdale (#14)
This ain't your libertarian's America....and it will never be!
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