BRUCE BARTLETT WRITES BUSH OUT OF THE CONSERVATIVE MOVEMENT. HE'S FIRED

Bruce Bartlett is an old fashioned conservative, a pillar of the Greed and Selfishness wing of the Republican Party. In the 1970's he worked for Loonietarian Ron Paul (R-TX), Jack Kemp (R-NY) and Roger Jespen (R-IA). He's never been one to keep company with the KKK end of the party or with the now dominant Know-Nothing/snakehandlers wing. In the 80s he was a Senior Fellow at the rightist Heritage Foundation and then a policy functionary in the Reagan White House and at George I's Treasury. He wrote several books trying to justify voodoo economics, including REAGANOMICS: SUPPLY-SIDE ECONOMICS IN ACTION. Now he writes for the Moonie Times and is often touted by clueless wing-nuts as their Krugman.

Lately he has become more and more vocal about how far Bush has strayed from any semblence of actual conservatism and is about to publish a new book savagely taking BushCo apart from a right-wing perspective, THE IMPOSTOR: HOW GEORGE W. BUSH BANKRUPTED AMERICA AND BETRAYED THE REAGAN LEGACY. Monday he was summarily fired as a senior fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis after that Bush propaganda operation's president John Goodman saw an advance copy of the book.

Bartlett's columns have shown a distraught and confused conservative growing increasingly disenchanted with BushCo's catastrophic fiscal policies. And he has been articulate and less than flattering in arguing that BushCo is on a madcap federal spending spree, not making government leaner and smaller but bloating it beyond all reason.

Today's column found Bartlett writing Bush out of the conservative movement! Referring to conservatives, Bartlett wrote, "George W. Bush is not one of them and never has been," attacking the BushCo positions on education, campaign finance, immigration, government spending and regulation. Although Bartlett has apparently grown to distrust and even hate the Regime's policies over the last couple of years, today he seems to say that the last straw was Bush's choice "of a patently unqualified crony for a critical position on the Supreme Court." (He didn't mean Roberts.)