BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE (from Drudge)

[buff2]

BUSH TO SEEK BIG BUDGET INCREASE FOR NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS... Laura Bush plans to announce the request -- for the largest increase in two decades -- on Thursday... Developing...

[DS1]

1. Wow, is he ~trying~ to piss off his base

I mean, speaking of piss, wasn't it Piss-Christ that caused the last major conservative slash job on the arts?

[buff2]

2. I don't understand these morons

They are pissing off everybody. Bu$h needs to be impeached. This bunch is insane.

[lancdem]

6. Obviously an effort to win over moderates

Too bad it won't work. This is so transparent.

[mouse7]

3. Is Bush aiming for lowest vote % gathered in a 2 man race?

Hannity, Rush, and Imus are gonna blow tomorrow. That'll be fun.

[InkAddict]

4. Naw, say it isn't so

$$ for Bollywood, Calcutta-style.

[papau]

5. NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS.BUDGET IS TINY -double is easy

and you can say " I doubled Arts for a few million- and only a 30% increase on the 400 billion going to daddy's defense friends."

[Beaker]

10. that doesn't matter to his base- they want it to be $0.00

and the blue-collar out-of-work repukes, and the out-of-work tech industry conservos are going to have heart attacks, and then spin in their graves...

[aquart]

7. Is this April 1?

What happened to that budget freeze he was supposed to be proposing?

And when Georgie say "arts" is he talking Elvis on velvet or what?

[JusticeForAll]

8. Cool!

Will they now pay someone to disrobe the veiled statues that offend John Asscroft's tender virtues?

[rooboy]

9. Those big Iron Eagle statues cost lots of $$$....

Need to have lots of visual effects in time for the rally in Nuremberg - er - convention in New York.

[Lorien]

11. So does a big iron "W"

Even though the NEA is a tiny portion of the budget, the repugs I know resent every penny. They would rather spend $500 billion tax dollars getting our soldiers killed in Iraq for Halliburtan profits than see $100,000 go to the Arts (though I'm sure they would find a Saddamesque statue of Dubya a bargain at any price).

[drscm]

12. So is he going to rename it Endowment for Propaganda? eom

eom

[Moderator]

13. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=336207