March 21, 2006
Not everyone at Cato is still drinking the KoolAid
Wow. Bruce Bartlett, an ex-Cato think-tanker, recently made a post to his NYTimes blog all about how he tried to be a glass half full conservative for the first term, but has come to realize that our President is not a conservative at all.Frankly, I completely agree and have been stating as much since before the '04 election. If President Bush was half the conservative he pretends to be, he would have never let the PAYGO rule lapse. The fact that John Kerry was the more fiscally conservative candidate never seemed to emerge as a meme in the American political consciousness. I guess the Delay era "my team" approach to politics had something to do with it. Love him or hate him for other reasons, my bet is that Newt would have never allowed paygo to lapse. In that vein, it is interesting that Cato, a supposedly libertarian organization, fired Bartlett for breaking the pro-Bush groupthink.
If you don't have TimesSelect (required for the link above), I have a local pdf available.
Posted 4 years, 10 months ago on March 21, 2006
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