Conservatives already playing the Blame Game

[DeepModem Mom]

NYT: Republican Woes Lead to Feuding by Conservatives
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK
Published: October 20, 2006


Ex-Congressman Mark Foley and George W. Bush

Tax-cutters are calling evangelicals bullies. Christian conservatives say Republicans in Congress have let them down. Hawks fault President Bush as bungling the war in Iraq. And many conservatives blame Representative Mark Foley’s sexual messages to teenage pages....(A)lmost regardless of the outcome on Nov. 7, many conservatives express frustration that the party has lost its ideological focus. And after six years of nearly continuous control over the White House and both houses of Congress, conservatives are having a hard time finding anyone but one another to blame....

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In recent weeks, (Dick Armey, the former House Republican majority leader) has stepped up a public campaign against the influence of Dr. James C. Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family and an influential voice among evangelical protestants. In an interview published last month in “The Elephant in the Room,” a book by Ryan Sager about splits among conservatives, Mr. Armey accused Congressional Republicans of “blatant pandering to James Dobson” and “his gang of thugs,” whom Mr. Armey called “real nasty bullies”....In an interview this week, Mr. Armey said catering to Dr. Dobson and his allies had led the party to abandon budget-cutting....“The Republicans are talking about things like gay marriage and so forth, and the Democrats are talking about the things people care about, like how do I pay my bills?” he said....

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Mr. Armey, who identifies himself as an evangelical, said he was tired of Christian conservative leaders threatening that their supporters would stay away from the ballot box unless they got what they wanted.

“Economic conservatives,” he argued, were emerging as the swing voters in need of attention, in part because they had become more likely to vote Democratic in the years since President Bill Clinton was in office. “A lot of people believe he brought us from deficits to surpluses, and there is a certain empirical evidence there,” Mr. Armey acknowledged....

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Many blame neoconservatives who argued most vocally for the invasion of Iraq. “The principal sin of the neoconservatives is overbearing arrogance,” (David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union) said. Neoconservatives, in turn, blamed Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld’s insistence on holding down troop levels for the fouling up of the war....(David Frum, a former Bush speechwriter) and others blamed the Republican Senate’s support for the president’s guest-worker immigration proposal for angering the grass-roots talk-radio crowd. But Mr. Norquist, who favored the immigration proposal, argued that the election would provide a verdict on “restrictionism” in the fate of Randy Graf, a Republican candidate in Arizona running on calls for tighter borders. Polls show Mr. Graf faces long odds....

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/us/politics/20conserve.html?hp&ex=1161316800&en=b1b937b467b8fa0b&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[liberal N proud]

1. They ALL voted for the regime not once but TWICE

They have no one to blame but themselves.

:rofl:

[cui bono]

2. Good news. Would this be happening if the fix was in? n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

3. Good point! nt

[CAG]

4. "“A lot of people believe he (Clinton) brought us from deficits to

surpluses, and there is a certain empirical evidence there,” Mr. Armey acknowledged"

OMG, a repuke almost directly acknowledged evidence.

Yes, Mr. Armey, that "certain empirical evidence" is something called PLAIN FACTS. Maybe you repukes can start relying on facts occasionally.

[Gman]

5. Armey was the House Majority Leader

he can't deny what Clinton did because he cut the deals with Clinton to do it.