"Tonight I'm proposing $1.2 billion in research funding so that
America can lead the world in developing clean, hydrogen-powered automobiles."
- George W. Bush during the January 28, 2003 State of the Union address

Or...is this Al Gore?

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I divided this page into two sections:

Republican or Democrat?
Minimum wage increases, trade barriers, welfare, socialized health care, national I.D. cards...well, at least the Republicans are the "lesser of the two evils," right?

All hail the God of War
Republican politicians and their radio talk show apologists spout off about liberty and the failures of the State. Somehow basic economics don't apply to state-sponsored warfare, military spending and conscription.

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Republican or Democrat? [top]

• How Big Is Bush's Big Government?
  - Mark Brandly, April 18, 2006 [Mises]

• Franklin Delano Bush
  - Andrew P. Napolitano, September 24, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• President Discusses Hurricane Relief in Address to the Nation
  To carry out the first stages of the relief effort and begin rebuilding at once, I have asked for, and the Congress has provided, more than $60 billion. - September 15, 2005 [George Bush addresses the nation]

• A Week of Bush Is Like A Year of Clinton
  - Anthony Gregory, May 27, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• U.S. Limiting Chinese Clothing Imports
  - Jeanine Aversa, May 19, 2005 [Guardian UK]

• Desperately Seeking Virtue in the Bush Administration
  - Karen Kwiatkowski, May 12, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Clinton, Gingrich Team Up on Health Care
  - Kevin Freking, May 12, 2005 [The Washington Post]

• The party of unlimited government
  - Dimitri Vassilaros, May 8, 2005 [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review]

• Conservatives Say and Do the Darndest Things
  - Charles H. Featherstone, May 4, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Republican Welfare State (Yet Again)
  - Laurence Vance, April 14, 2005 [Mises]

• Rule of Law Damaged by Schiavo Bill
  - Sheldon Richman, March 23, 2005 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Conservative Welfare State
  - Anthony Gregory, March 15, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Deficits Make You Poorer
  - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, March 15, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Reagan’s Real Revolution
  - Bill Bonner, March 12, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Is Bush Now a Budget Cutter?
  - Grant Nülle, March 11, 2005 [Mises]

• So Much for the New Bush Economy
  - Paul Craig Roberts, March 10, 2005 [Counter Punch]

• Rep. Senators Vow to Protect RFID
  - Jonathan Collins, March 10, 2005 [RFID Journal]

• The Intellectual Incoherence of Conservatism
  - Hans-Hermann Hoppe, March 4, 2005 [Mises]

• Sean Hannity Is a Great American
  - Paul Servodio, March 2, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush's Budget: The Welfare State Lives
  - Larry Elder, February 18, 2005 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Power By Any Other Name
  The true state of the Union is unfortunately that its chief executive fails to grasp the profound truth that central planning by political elites can never match the results of decentralized planning by the general public. - DW MacKenzie, February 4, 2005 [Mises]

• A Party Without Virtue
  - Paul Craig Roberts, January 25, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Fundamental Flaw of the Neocons
  - Robert L. Johnson, January 21, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• House GOP Conference is Porker of the Month for January ’05
  - Tom Finnigan/Lauren Cook, January 13, 2005 [Citizens Against Government Waste]

• Bush Rhetoric vs. Reality
  - Patrick J. Buchanan, January 5, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• What Became of Conservatives?
  - Paul Craig Roberts, November 16, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Neoconservative Animus
  - Paul Gottfried, November 24, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Virtuous Violence Is Upon Us
  - Paul Craig Roberts, November 19, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Who Loves Big Government Now?
  - J.D. Tuccille, November 8, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bread, Circuses, Tax Cuts, and Debt
  Now that Bush has been reelected, and has comfortable majorities in both the House and Senate, we will have at least a two-year unambiguous test of Republican fiscal policies. My prediction? Massive spending and massive deficits. - Robert P. Murphy, November 5, 2004 [Mises]

• Bush's Fancy Finance
  A recent NRO article by Larry Kudlow illustrates the absurdities to which analysts can be driven in order to defend a political party. - Robert P. Murphy, October 27, 2004 [Mises]

• Bush’s Socialist Disaster
  Republicans have long dabbled in socialism, and our current president is no exception. His Medicare bill, his farm subsidies, and his enormous expansion of federal education spending all amount to "third-way" economic programs that constitute the injection of socialism into a capitalist economy. - Anthony Gregory, October 20, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Brownshirting of America
  Bush’s conservative supporters want no debate. They want no facts, no analysis. They want to denounce and to demonize the enemies that the Hannitys, Limbaughs, and Savages of talk radio assure them are everywhere at work destroying their great and noble country. - Paul Craig Roberts, October 16, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Where Have All the Fiscal Conservatives Gone?
  - W. James Antle III, August 10, 2004 [FEE]

• Hail the Great Leader!
  As for the spiritual cult surrounding Reagan, it is no different from that which surrounded Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Napoleon, or any forgotten Egyptian pharaoh. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 11, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Neocons’ One-Trick Pony
  Still, predictable attacks on those who calmly and honestly critique the administration’s foreign policy continue, even as neoconservatism’s star travels the path of Ahmad Chalabi’s own career, from crook to liar to statesman wannabe to liar and crook. - Karen Kwiatkowski, June 11, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush’s War on the Bill of Rights
  - Anthony Gregory, May 14, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Braindead Conservatives
  There is a large contingent of neocon brownshirts who believe that Americans have let the millennium-old crusade against Islam go unfinished for too long. - Paul Craig Roberts, May 11, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• George Will: Conservative Champion of the Welfare State
  - Tibor R. Machan, February 5, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush, Marriage, and Iraq
  After having committed the United States to spending hundreds of billions of dollars to transform Iraq into a democracy, President Bush wants to spend another $1.5 billion to strengthen the institution of marriage here in America. - Thomas Kearney, January 23, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Republican Spending Explosion
  Nondefense discretionary outlays will increase about 31 percent during President Bush's first three years in office. Congress has failed to contain the administration's overspending and has added new spending of its own. It is clear that Republicans have forfeited any claim of being the fiscally responsible party in Washington. - Veronique de Rugy, January 23, 2004 [CATO]

• A Bush-Clinton Ticket Would Be Unbeatable
  Think about it: Bush and Clinton share the exact same philosophical vision for the role of government in society. - Jacob G. Hornberger, January 21, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Mask Is Off
  The Bush administration has won a major political victory: the biggest expansion of Medicare in the 38-year history of that jewel of the Great Society. The details are complex; the cost will be staggering — ultimately, trillions of dollars. - Joseph Sobran, December 11, 2003 [Sobran's]

• Ireland and Big-Spending Republicans
  Spending has actually increased more rapidly under Bush than it did under Clinton. - Benjamin Powell, December 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Anti-Freedom Conservatism
  Big-government conservatism, or its synonym, neoconservatism, stands for a powerful state in pursuit of “conservative ends.” - Sheldon Richman, December 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Bush's Budget Betrayal
  It wasn't supposed to be this way. Did anyone who voted for Bush think that he would far surpass Clinton in expanding the Leviathan state? - Christopher Westley, November 19, 2003 [Mises]

• Bush's Medicare Plan Is Hillary Clinton's Triumph
  This week, at President Bush's urging, the GOP-controlled Congress is likely to approve a bill that severely restricts seniors' freedom of choice in health care. - Scott Holleran, June 17, 2003 [Heartland Institute]

• Unconstitutional Conservatives
  So-called conservatives profit from unconstitutional programs. They buy votes with unconstitutional subsidies for everything from roads and farms to education, foreign aid and birth control. - R. Cort Kirkwood, May 10, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• Upset gun owners set to dump Bush
  Shooters angered with White House support for firearm ban. - Jon Dougherty, April 17, 2003 [WorldNetDaily.com]

• Republicans Who Love Taxes
  - Stephen Moore, February 23, 2003 [CATO]

• Republican governors say tax hikes unavoidable
  - Christina Ling, February 23, 2003 [Yahoo! Financial News]

• Mr. Bush Neglects the Constitution
  It isn’t entirely encouraging that the top man of the political party theoretically dedicated to the Constitution, limited government, and individual liberty thinks the government he runs should cure AIDS in Africa, create a hydrogen-powered car, pay for retirees’ medicine, and provide mentors to troubled kids. - Sheldon Richman, February 7, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Bush budget contains $10 in new spending for every dollar in tax cuts
  If you think President Bush’s tax cuts will save you money, guess again, Libertarians say, because the long-term spending increases in his new budget outnumber tax cuts by a ratio of 10 to 1. - released February 5, 2003 [LP Press Release]

• Welfare for the Left, Welfare for the Right, Welfare for the World
  The State of the Union speech delivered last week showed little enthusiasm for the kind of real spending cuts our nation so desperately needs. Instead, it outlined a federal budget that grows at a rate of 5 to 7 percent each year, and in the twilight zone of Washington this is deemed to show spending restraint! - Rep. Ron Paul, MD, February 4, 2003 [LewRockwell.com]

• State of the Union speech laid out agenda of 'global welfare and global warfare,'
  The real lesson from Bush’s speech is that big government causes more problems than it solves, both overseas and at home. - released January 29, 2003 [LP Press Release]

• Iraq: The Last Republican Hurrah
  Bush finds it easier to go to war than to deal with the attacks on American identity at home. - Paul Craig Roberts, January 26, 2003 [VDare]

• Bush to Chavez: Just Ignore Your Constitution
  President Bush’s recent advice to embattled Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez reflects Bush’s cavalier attitude toward constitutional restraints. - Jacob G. Hornberger January 22, 2003 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Bush & Bakke: Déjà vu All Over Again
  Many on the Naïve Right are exulting over the first paragraphs in President Bush's remarks on Wednesday siding against the University of Michigan for using a racial quota admissions system. - Steve Sailer, January 16, 2003 [VDare]

• Is the Worst Yet To Come?
  As the economic downturn moves into its third year, making it the longest in the postwar period, the White House announces yet another economic "stimulus" package. - William L. Anderson, January 13, 2003 [Mises]

• The Righteous Right Fouls Up
  Great going, guys. Thanks a Lott. - Steve Sailer, December 22, 2002 [VDare]

• Sour Grapes
  Jonah Goldberg, recently-fired chief of NRO, was quoted last week as follows on C-Span’s Washington Journal: "The people on LewRockwell.com are a bunch of strange people who call themselves paleolibertarians, and a definition of that is hard to come by." - Brad Edmonds, December 16, 2002 [LewRockwell.com]

• Vacant Lott
  Trent Lott, the Republican Party's eternal Maalox moment, has given the Beltway's liberal pontiffs on race exactly what they crave: a big, fat excuse to extract legislative payoffs to ease their collective "pain." - Michelle Malkin, December 13, 2002 [VDare]

• Republicans Losing Libertarian Support
  In 2000, I cast my presidential ballot for George W. Bush. It wasn't my proudest moment. But it seemed to me that I didn’t really have another viable option. - Radley Balko, November 21, 2002 [Fox News]

• Do you know what you're voting for?
  The Republicans talk about economic freedom, fiscal responsibility and gun rights, but vote for every new boondoggle the Democrats want – as well as the Brady Bill and other restrictions on your ability to defend yourself from thugs. - Harry Browne, November 21, 2002 [WorldNetDaily]

• The Spoils of Victory
  The GOP has been running on a platform of cutting taxes in nearly every election since World War II. During that time, the overall tax burden on the American family has risen from 17 percent to 40 percent. What will the GOP do now? - Jeffrey Tucker, November 18, 2002 [Mises]

• Now that GOP controls Congress, hold onto your wallet, Libertarians say
  According to figures from the Office of Management and Budget, Bush is now running a $106 billion deficit, Getz pointed out. - released November 7, 2002 [LP Press Release]

• W, as in 'Wolf in Sheep's Clothing'
  Republicans say they are moving America in a different direction than Democrats, but, as Rush Limbaugh would say, this is just symbolism over substance. - Doug Newman, October 24, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Bush, You're Busted
  Poor little Shrub Bush, destined for the scrap heap of history. I could reserve a small amount of pity for you, if I did not pity the innocent victims of your monstrous actions so much more. - John deLaubenfels, September 17, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Should Americans laugh or cry at Bush's 'fiscal restraint'?
  ...it's time that he stops relentlessly expanding the government, while paying lip service to economic freedom. - released August 14, 2002 [LP Press release]

• The Neocons and the Nazis
  - John deLaubenfels, June 20, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Republicans Spurn Base On Affirmative Action, Immigration
  Are Republicans acquiescing to the liberals’ morality that the only just policy is to redistribute income and power to the oppressed? - Paul Craig Roberts, June 4, 2002 [VDare]

• Shrub Junior Lectures Fidel Castro
  Like father, like son, I suppose. Different year, different generation, same statist hypocrite who can see everybody's crimes but his own. - John deLaubenfels, May 17, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Bush Swells the State
  Among the most odious of single ticket items is the $500 million that the Bush administration is planning to spend on rebuilding the destruction wrought by expensive U.S. bombs on Afghanistan (millions of which have already been wasted). - Jeffrey Tucker, April 24, 2002 [Mises]

• Dubya, Heal Thyself
  In its continuing quest to further lower the bar on government hypocrisy, the Dubya administration is insisting that once and again Venezuelan President Chavez embrace democracy. - John Bottoms, April 24, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Why I Could Never Be a Conservative
  Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free. - Aaron Biterman, February 26, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Republicans and Big Government
  George W. Bush's State of the Union address must have baffled anyone who voted for him based on his pledge to cut the size of government. - James Ostrowski, February 25, 2002 [Mises]

• Bush the Next FDR?
  Is Bush just preparing the American public for the aftermath of this war on terror when he calls for the USA Freedom Corps? Is this the first step back to conscription or is it going to be expanded into a FEMA disaster response backup of the home guard? - SARTRE, February 2, 2002 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Decoding Bush's Newspeak
  - Rick Gee, September 23, 2001 [Strike-the-root.com]

• Slow is not enough
  Conservatives aim to preserve things as they are...this is not enough in a time when we are constantly moving leftward. - Yuval Levin, April 30, 2001 [liberzine.com]

• Bushwhacked in Timber Country
  President Bush didn't sound like ultra-protectionists Pat Buchanan and Ross Perot during last year's election campaigns, but he certainly acting like these gentlemen now that he is president. - David N. Laband and Daowei Zhang, August 20, 2001 [Mises]

• Oh Shrubbery, My Shrubbery: Six Months of Dubya
  - David Dieteman, August 6, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Jeffords, McCain and the GOP
  - David Dieteman, June 4, 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush's Baseball Tax Fetish
  With Republicans cheerleading for these crummy corporate welfare pay-offs, who needs big-spending Democrats? - Michelle Malkin, April 4, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Government as Parasite
  The Republicans still don’t get it. Keynes is dead; let’s leave him that way. - Sheldon Richman, May 2001 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Compulsory Compassion
  The sophistry used to justify a government-- faith partnership reveals more about the intellectual confusion, and lack of principle, now reigning on the American Right than about the shortcomings, real or imagined, of religious charities. - Carl F. Horowitz, April 2001 [Mises]

• Bush's Education Plan
  Like many well-intentioned reformers, Bush doesn' t seem to understand the dangers of power. We don' t need another reform. We need an end to what has been called the "twelve-year sentence," also known as compulsory public schooling. - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., March 2001 [LewRockwell.com]

• Republicans Genuflect to Karl Marx
  - Paul Craig Roberts, January 24, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Look Who Supports Americorps
  Thanks to Republicans, Clinton's legacy of waste and cynicism has achieved political immortality. - Michelle Malkin, January 20, 2001 [Capitalism Magazine]

• GOP Revolutionaries Head For The Hills
  How do Republicans remain in congress? They outspend Democrats. So much for the revolution. - Michelle Malkin, November 1, 2000 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Why I Am Not Voting for George W.
  Republicans need to look at the big picture. George W. is not the noble savior that they make him out to be. As far as I’m concerned, a vote for Bush is a vote for Gore. - Bob Murphy, October 2, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• Exactly how much longer must we have to wait for Republicans to walk their supposedly libertarian talk? - Gene Trosper, September 22, 2000 [liberzine.com]

• Why I Am Not Watching the Republican Convention
  That is why this current Republican Convention is yet another crappy tribute to statism, and that is why I plan to do anything but watch this dog and pony show. - William L. Anderson, August 3, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• A Reply to Jonah Goldberg
  And now you are all joining hands and shouting "Bomb Iraq" again. How many foreigners must be murdered before you folks are satisfied? What is the difference again, between you all and the liberals? - Michael Peirce, March 5, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]

• Crack Down in the War on Drugs... or End It?
  In a proposal termed SABRE (Substance Abuse Resistance Effort), Virginia Republican governor James Gilmore III is asking the Virginia legislature to get tough in the state's war on drugs. The governor's proposals include harsher penalties for drug users and drug sellers. - Jacob G. Hornberger, January 2000 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Bush's Compassionate Conservatism Will Undermine the Republicans and Capitalism
  What once distinguished Republicans was their commitment to limited government. The politics of “compassion,” however, is the politics of liberalism and statism. - Andrew Bernstein, July 15, 1999 [Capitalism Magazine]

• The Republicans Fail Freedom Again
  During the debates over the recently defeated McCain tobacco bill, Republicans again demonstrated why they're incompetent to defend freedom. - Joseph Kellard, July 13, 1998 [Capitalism Magazine]

• Guess Who Paved the Road to Socialized Medicine
  - Sue A. Blevins, July 1998 [FEE]

• Treating Us Like Children
  The Republican-controlled Senate recently voted 90-10 to outlaw gambling over the Internet. - Sheldon Richman, July 1998 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Tax Cutting, Washington-Style
  The House Republicans' proposed tax cut, which looks doomed in the Senate, is an outrage. It's so small it would barely show up on the budget radar screen. - Sheldon Richman, July 1998 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Why Republican politicians keep selling out freedom
  - Jo Jorgensen, May 1997 [LP News]

• Socialized Medicine, Take Two
  The only mystery is how the Republicans got away with this. - Jeffrey Herbener, July 1996 [Mises]

• When To Cheer
  George Wallace's famous contention that "there ain't a dime's worth of difference" between Democrats and Republicans has received ample corroboration since the 1994 elections. - Thomas Woods, March 1996 [Mises]

• Green Republicans
  - Thomas Woods, October 1995 [Mises]

• Some Revolution
  The Republican leadership and their advisers are confirming Murray Rothbard's doubts. Writing in the Washington Post, Rothbard noted the vast ideological divide between the voters and those who control the Republican Congress. - Jeffrey Tucker, March 1995 [Mises]

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All hail the God of war [top]

• Situational Totalitarianism
  - Anthony Gregory, August 16, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Memorials for Dead Soldiers Violently Destroyed by Bush Worshippers
  - Alex Jones, August 16, 2005 [Infowars.com]

• Conservative Media Smearing Cindy Sheehan
  - Russell Moore, August 12, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Conservative Euphemisms for State Aggression
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., May 27, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Roly-Poly Empire
  - Bill Bonner, May 27, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• War on His Mind
  - Laurence M. Vance, May 14, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Was George Bush Right?
  - Harry Browne, March 12, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The neocon 'war with no dimensions'
  - Alan Bock, March 10, 2005 [Orange County Register]

• In Seeking War, George W. Bush Held True to Form
  - Robert Higgs, March 10, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Blessings in Disguise
  - Karen Kwiatkowski, March 10, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Jihad for Jesus: Faith-Based Imperialism
  - Doug Newman, March 9, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Bush’s New Defense Budget
  - Robert Higgs, March 5, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• The Aggression Hit Parade
  - Gordon Prather, January 25, 2005 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush Abuses the Military
  - Robert L. Johnson, January 5, 2005 [Strike the Root]

• Libertarians and the Warfare State
  - Anthony Gregory, December 24, 2004 [LewRockwell.com]

• Bush’s Imperial Echo of General Maude
  - Jacob G. Hornberger, April 14, 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• The Neocon War on Peace and Freedom
  - James Bovard, April 2004 [The Future of Freedom Foundation]

• Top Ten Bogus Justifications for the Iraqi War
  - Christopher Deliso, March 5, 2003 [anti-war.com]

• True Republicans Don’t Love the Bomb
  - Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., June 1, 2000 [LewRockwell.com]