| Pauken Assails Bush/Rove in His Latest Book |
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| by Tom McGregor | Tue, Mar 2, 2010, 10:01 AM |
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Mr. Pauken certainly did not hold-back any punches in his critique of George W. Bush and his political strategist, Karl Rove. He argues that neo-conservatives and the Bush/Rove Republican establishment put the U.S. on the wrong path, and are deserving of blame just like the Democrats for the problems of this country. The Houston Chronicle quotes Pauken as writing that, "George W. Bush might have made a terrific Major league Baseball commissioner, but he was lousy president of the United States." Pauken added, "the Republicans need to become, once again, a party guided by basic conservative principles. We need to think about more than just the next election - or what the polls say we should do. Instead, we need to make decisions based on what's good for our country in the long term." Mr. Pauken's book entitled, "Bringing America Home: How America lost her way and how we can find our way back' is coming out at the same time as Karl Rove's memoir is due to hit bookstores. The Houston Chronicle posts a 17-minute interview with Pauken, and the author will appear at a booksigning on Wednesday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at The Twig on Grayson in San Antonio. To read the entire Houston Chronicle article, link here: To learn more about the booksigning, link here: To purchase the book, 'Bringing America Home,' link here: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it
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written by Courage and Consequence , March 03, 2010 interesting to see a Republican who actually gets it. Karl Rove is definitely being answered to, even as he goes on his book tour. http://www.karlrovebook.net The grassroots is still hopping mad at turdblossom.
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written by Paul Barnes , March 03, 2010 Why are we only now hearing Republican criticism of the Bush/Cheney fiasco? Critics of the disastrous war in Iraq were labeled unpatriotic. Fiscal "conservatives" cheered unfunded tax cuts, two wars fought on credit, asleep-at-the-wheel regulators on Wall Street, and massive federal debt. Now they blame Obama for the mess he inherited from them. Why do Republicans put party before country? Pathetic.
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written by Steve Heath , March 04, 2010 Paul -- Traditional conservatives like pauken and Buchanan were critcizing the Iraq war and warning everyone of the dangerous influence of the neocons well before the war started. Tom is a Vietnam vet who took a principalled stand and suffered a lot of abuse from those who supported the Neocon Christian Zionist agenda for endless wars. People like Buchanan and Joe Sobran were publicly accused of anti-semitism for opposing the Neocons and their wars. By the same token, these same anti-war traditional conservatives were hardly cheerleaders for the Bush administration on these other issues you reference. The amazing thing to me is just how many Republicans were so easily duped into accepting the false ideologies that became so prevalent during the Bush/Cheney years - crony capitalism, "compassionate conservatism" Big government corporate conservatism, and Neo-conservatism. If your comment is suggesting Tom is a new convert and was silent in his opposition to these perversions of conservatism, you are mistaken. Maybe Hutchinson would have fared a little better in the Governor's election had she not been so closely allied with the Bush Cheney crowd. I notice that in her concession speech she gave special thanks to George Bush, Cheney and Henry Kissinger. Write comment
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Texas Workforce Commission Chairman Tom Pauken, a former chairman of the Republican Party of Texas, has written a new book, 'Bringing America Home,' explaining that Goldwater and Reagan had their prominent gains in American political thought unceremoniously set back by the George W. Bush presidency.
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