Is the Bush budget a Rovian ploy to help Republicans running in 2006?

[cantstandbush]

Think about it. Is this is a political strategy to throw something out there for the Rethugs to vote AGAINST to make them look caring and compassionate to their constituencies?

Well, Dems should grab it first and tie all of them to Bush policies and especially this budget. Do the Dems even know how to fight anymore?

[Eric J in MN]

1. I don't think so.

I think it's that the Grover Norquist wing of the party demanded spending cuts, and so Bush proposed cuts in health care for the poor and things like that.

[yurbud]

2. I'm not sure if they are that nice. I think it's something for them to

vote FOR to appease their hardcore constituents, the rich and toothless (not the same person).

[jody]

3. IMO it's not about Republicans, it's a corporatist plot to bankrupt the

U.S. so the handful of families that own perhaps 50% of our financial wealth and control every significant multinational corporation can establish a corporate state.

Benito Mussolini said "Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of State and corporate power."