Joking Aside, Is Karl Rove In A Coma?
Someone please explain this to me:
President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, Administration officials said on Wednesday.
What's that Andrew Sullivan? You have some advice?:
The lesson for Republican presidents: you will never get credit for spending, so don't do it. Cut taxes; reduce spending. It's the only governing philosophy that conservatives ever have a chance of winning with. But they never learn, do they?
It’s OK though – it’s not like religious social conservatives have a history of punishing Republican Presidents through depressed turnout. I mean, the NEA? The NE @#$#@ A? The go-to cover for every conservative fundraising pamphlet for the last two decades? Just baffling.
UPDATE: Everyone over at The Corner is in a tizzy about this proposal, as if it's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I don't particularly care about this from a fiscal standpoint (it's a drop in the bucket), I just think that it's a complete sellout of the base, an angle that Instapundit is on. I mean, in terms of political symbolism to Christian social conservatives, is there anything more odious than the NEA?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Heh. He also caught and linked the "no, it's worse for this reason", "no no, it's worse for this reason" discussion going on over at the Corner.
President Bush will seek a big increase in the budget of the National Endowment for the Arts, the largest single source of support for the arts in the United States, Administration officials said on Wednesday.
What's that Andrew Sullivan? You have some advice?:
The lesson for Republican presidents: you will never get credit for spending, so don't do it. Cut taxes; reduce spending. It's the only governing philosophy that conservatives ever have a chance of winning with. But they never learn, do they?
It’s OK though – it’s not like religious social conservatives have a history of punishing Republican Presidents through depressed turnout. I mean, the NEA? The NE @#$#@ A? The go-to cover for every conservative fundraising pamphlet for the last two decades? Just baffling.
UPDATE: Everyone over at The Corner is in a tizzy about this proposal, as if it's going to be the straw that breaks the camel's back. I don't particularly care about this from a fiscal standpoint (it's a drop in the bucket), I just think that it's a complete sellout of the base, an angle that Instapundit is on. I mean, in terms of political symbolism to Christian social conservatives, is there anything more odious than the NEA?
ANOTHER UPDATE: Heh. He also caught and linked the "no, it's worse for this reason", "no no, it's worse for this reason" discussion going on over at the Corner.
