Sunday, August 29, 2004
Of Naked Emperors and Failed Promises
Senate GOP Majority Leader Bill Frist and another Republican in New York trying to place blame for the very uncertain economic forecast.
The buzz is that Bush is planning on making the enshrining of his tax cut schemes as permanent a centerpiece of his rhetorical strategy to win re-election. This despite the fact that neither of his major tax cut schemes generated anything close to the numbers of new jobs that Bush had promised they would. The main thing the Bush tax schemes seem to have accomplished has been to squander the budget surplus Clinton left him and put the nation deep into debt. But don't expect him to talk about that aspect of it. He's trying to convince us to vote for him, not remind us of the painful legacy of his fiscal policies.
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