If you want to review the play list for this administration, if you think everything that shrub says sounds canned, planned and contrived- you are right.
Check out the link below. The very titles are a tour of neoconnie thinking- going way back in time when the only white house shrub knew was the governors mansion in Texas.
You’ll thrill to the Clinton bashing.
You’ll marvel at how predictive saddam’s fall was to be.
You’ll vow to the bashing of singles, gays, abortion, and sexual harassment.
If you go to the link you can read a thumb nail sketch of each article by simply clicking on the year at the top of the page. there are other articles too that I didn't mention to save space/time.
Kind of eye opening isn’t it?
http://www.davidfrum.com/archive.asp?YEAR=19961996
Privatization of social security.
THE BANKRUPTCY AROUND THE CORNER
October 16, 1996, Wall Street Journal
Some 76 million Americans were born between 1946 and 1964. Starting in 2008, 12 years from now, they will begin to retire. In "Will America Grow Up Before It Grows Old?" ( Random House, 237 pages, $21), Peter Peterson argues that America is utterly unprepared for this immense and imminent social transformation.
Here, in a nutshell, is Mr. Peterson's case.
-- By the year 2020, there will be 25 million more people receiving Social Security than receive it today. Paying their retirement benefits will add some $232 billion (in today's money) to the annual federal budget...
1997
U.S. THE LOSER IN IRAQ CONFRONTATION
Weak-willed diplomacy simply postpones the inevitable
November 25, 1997, The Financial Post
SHOWDOWN WITH SADDAM SHOWED UP A HOBBLED U.S. MILITARY
Clinton's horror of shedding blood causes more suffering among Iraq's civilians than a war would
November 22, 1997, The Financial Post
ISLAM AND DEMOCRACY DON'T MIX WELL
New book has interesting insights into Muslim world
August 19, 1997, The Financial Post
1998
WAR AND IMPEACHMENT
December 28, 1998, The Weekly Standard
THE TRIUMPH OF CLINTONISM
December 1, 1998, The Weekly Standard
TIME TO GRAB THE THIRD RAIL
The Political Case for Privatizing Social Security Now
June 22, 1998, The Weekly Standard
THE CASE OF GAY RIGHTS VS. THE MAJORITY
Social revolution has occurred with no democratic sanction
April 14, 1998, The Financial Post
CLINTON'S PERSONAL MISCONDUCT BEHIND BUNGLED IRAQ BUSINESS
Another president in his situation could have rallied support for his cause
February 28, 1998, The Financial Post
THE BETTER CHOICE IS ALL-OUT WAR
Policy of threatening Iraq is ridiculous and pointless
February 3, 1998, The Financial Post
HOW ROE VS. WADE CHANGED OUR LIVES
U.S. case introduced a new approach to human rights
January 20, 1998, The Financial Post
1999
PUTTING SEXUAL LIBERATION FIRST
To Clinton's defenders, something more important than the rule of law was at stake
October 25, 1999, The Weekly Standard
ARAFAT'S WAR OF CLINTON'S MAKING
October 15, 2000, Chicago Sun-Times
LEARNING TO LOVE THE NATIONAL DEBT
Devoting the surplus to paying it down could be bad for the economy
February 21, 2000, The Weekly Standard
BANKRUPTCY REFORM AS A MORAL ISSUE
February 11, 2000, Wall Street Journal
TERRORISM AND LIBERALISM IN THE '70S
A decade of spinelessness helped pave the way for the election of Ronald Reagan
February 7, 2000, The Weekly Standard