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Swallowed By Leviathan: Conservatism versus an oxymoron: 'big- government conservatism'.
"We have a responsibility that when somebody hurts, government has got to move." -- President George W. Bush, talking to union workers on Labor Day
Franklin Delano Roosevelt's rhetoric was more high-flown, and less therapeutic in emphasis. "Governments can err, presidents do make mistakes," said FDR, "but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm- hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." Both presidents' statements are, however, close enough in ...
- Jekyll & Hyde? The two faces of Bush conservatism: public opinion--including...
- Magazine article from: The New American Grigg, William Norman July 10, 2006 700+ words
...Americans would name President George W. Bush. But a growing number of self-identified...conservatives have belatedly concluded that Mr. Bush isn't a conservative in any sense. Some have even concluded that the Bush II presidency has deviated so radically...
- Can't last; George Bush's big-government conservatism.(George W. Bush)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) January 10, 2004 700+ words
...first three years as president, George Bush has cut taxes three times and yet orchestrated...greater or lesser degree, to repeal Mr Bush's tax cuts. Yet they aim to use the...but to expand public programmes. Mr Bush's own new legislation to pay for prescription...
- Leviathan on the Right; how big-government conservatism brought down the...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News May 1, 2007 700+ words
...Right; how big-government conservatism brought down the...traditional small government conservatism of Friedrich Hayek...policy of George W. Bush and the curtailments...the rise of big government conservatism, finding it to...
- For heaven's sake: religious accommodation and other openings for...
- Magazine article from: Reason Olson, Walter December 1, 1997 700+ words
"If I were Fortune - which I'm not," the trio in The Mikado very scrupulously begin their reflections on fate. If I were Yale University, I might try to accommodate students who don't want to share dorm facilities with persons of the opposite sex. But of course the real issue in the Yale Five case
- Toughest Bush-bashing happening among conservatives.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service Polman, Dick March 27, 2004 700+ words
...writings rarely deviate from the Bush administration perspective. He says, in effect, that small-government conservatism is uncool and obsolete and that Bush's "big-government conservatism" is the wave of the
- Bush's new conservatism: its internal contradictions start to show.(THE...
- Magazine article from: National Review O'Sullivan, John February 27, 2006 700+ words
...philosophy of the Bush presidency as "strong government conservatism" and shown that...to like in the Bush years--the...concept of "strong government conservatism" (a.k.a...as follows: "Bush and his aides...
- George Bush, big-government conservative.(Pres Bush's policies and his ideas...
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) April 21, 2001 700+ words
...growing signs that George Bush is a different kind of right...active government. "Big-government conservatism is the animating principle of the Bush presidency", argues Marshall...t the centrepiece of Mr Bush's legislative agenda a...
- Admirers draw parallels for Reagan, Bush.(PAGE ONE)
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Times June 10, 2004 700+ words
...White House. But some of Mr. Bush's conservative supporters...Education Department, while Bush has increased federal spending...the principles of "limited government conservatism," while Mr. Bush was into "expanding government...
