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19.06.04, 19:57
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www.capitolhillblue.com/artman/publish/article_4705.shtml
Even Bush?s father, former President George H.W. Bush, refuses to publicly endorse his son?s Iraq war and an increasing number of prominent Republicans and Conservatives are straying off the reservation.
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Among these is Bob Barr, a staunch conservative and former Republican Congressman from Georgia. However, Barr has teamed up with the American Civil Liberties Union to fight the USA Patriot Act, which he says infringes on rights of Americans, and is a frequent critic of other Bush policies, including immigration amnesty and the proposal for a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage.
?The political right and left in America share one unfortunate habit,? Barr says. ?When they don't get their way in courts of law or state legislatures they immediately seek to undercut all opposition by proposing an amendment to the Constitution.?
Barr isn?t the only Republican to jump the GOP ship since Bush took the helm. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey says the Justice Department under Bush has ?become the biggest threat to personal liberty in the country.? Armey has joined Barr and the ACLU to fight the USA Patriot Act and a number of new Bush proposals to increase the powers of the Justice Department. So has conservative Phyllis Schlafly, head of the Eagle Forum.
Pat Buchanan, the firebrand conservative who ran against both Bushes in GOP primaries, joins the Bush bashers with his new book, Where the Right Went Wrong. Buchanan?s book, scheduled to be released just before the GOP convention this summer, blasts Bush for ?igniting a war of civilizations.?