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Thursday, July 31st, 2003Various reports from the media, take your pick of any of the number of sources, reported today that the economy has been showing definite signs of speeding of up…
What? The economy is improving? After Bush’s huge tax cuts nonetheless?!?!?!
Well, this isn’t unfair to the Democrats running for President?
Some key quotes for you from one article:
“The economy seems to be shifting into a higher gear and we should start seeing that in the numbers,” said Lynn Reaser, chief economist at Banc of America Capital Management.
This is quite interesting and exciting isn’t it? I mean, who would have though the economy would improve after those big, scary, and evil tax cuts?
That confidence is expected to get a further boost as Americans start benefiting from a new $330 billion tax cut package passed in May. This month some Americans started seeing fatter paychecks and some families got checks in the mail from a $400 per child increase in the child tax credit.
What was that? Are they suggesting that once Americans start getting back more of their own money that they’ll start spending it, and pumping money into the economy? Sounds a lot like what Bush has been saying doesn’t it?
For the economy to mount a sustainable rebound, Americans will need to turn around and start spending that money. Most economists believe that will happen, giving a good boost to retail sales in coming months.
So it’s in our hands now isn’t it? Americans now have a choice. Spend your tax cut, and help our economy recover, or do nothing with it, and contribute to inflating the egos of Democrats.
It all comes down to whether or not you want to help America, or let it suffer all for the sake of political gripes.
By giving Americans more disposable income, the tax cuts are also expected to help lift consumer confidence. Analysts believe that Tuesday’s report on consumer confidence could show a gain to around 85 for June, up from 83.5 in May. That would be the highest reading since last fall and an indication that consumer optimism is rebounding from the jittery days before the Iraq war.
It just keeps getting better doesn’t it? The simple, common sense rationale behind tax cuts is being explained once again by economists, and we’re soon going to see the beauty of having more of our money in our wallets, and less of it in Washington.
Democrats point to the rising unemployment rate and soaring budget deficits as evidence that Bush has bungled the economy.
But many forecasters believe the July unemployment report, to be released Friday, will show that the jobless rate dipped slightly to 6.3 percent last month as businesses stopped cutting jobs and actually added as many as 15,000 workers to their payrolls.
Prediction 1: The Democrats, who have wet dreams about blaming Bush for the economy, will find themselves shooting blanks on the economy issue once things show dramatic signs of improvement. They will never give Bush or his tax cuts credit for improving the economy.
Prediction 2: The Democrats in congress are going to try all they can to increase spending to further contribute to the deficits, and to intentionally weaken the economy before the election.
Prediction 3: The Democrats are going to find anyway possible to advocate people bank their tax cut, not spend it, so they can’t contribute to economic growth.
Mark my words.
Even with growth improving, it will still take time to make much of a dent in unemployment rate. Mark Zandi, chief economist at Economy.com, said the country isn’t likely to see a significant rebound in employment until next year. But the improvement should still come in time to give Bush a boost in his 2004 re-election campaign.
“It is much easier to run a campaign when you are creating jobs than when you are losing them,” said Zandi. “If everything sticks according to script, we should be getting some substantive job growth by next spring.”
Oh the sweet sound of Democrats’ sorrow. Good news for America is bad news for the Democrats. The economy is improving, the tax cuts only stand to benefit the situation, and the Democrats are finding themselves further and further away from the Oval Office in 2004.
What Are You Scared of Dean?
Thursday, July 31st, 2003Drudge had an interesting story today: VT GOP Chair Calls on Dean to Open Record To Public.
Montpelier, VT - Vermont Republican Party Chairman Jim Barnett today called on former Governor and presidential candidate Howard Dean to open his gubernatorial record to public scrutiny. Dean has sealed his papers for a decade.
A decade. That’s long enough for him to run a campaign for President, get elected (God forbid) and get reelected (God forbid), without having his record as Governor see the light of day.
Eerie coincidence isn’t it? Even when Dean loses the nomination and the Democrats fail at getting the White House in 2004, Dean would have another shot to run without us seeing his dirty laundry.
“If Howard Dean plans to run on his record in Vermont, he needs to share that record with the public” said Barnett. “The American people should not just have to take his word for it.”
Dean seems to cite his “record” as Governor of Vermont quite often… He certainly seems proud of it… So what’s with the secrecy? Democrats are pissing themselves over 18 pages of the 9-11 Intelligence Report, and yet there’s no push for full disclosure of Howard Dean’s gubernatorial record when he is running for President???
“By refusing to subject his record to public scrutiny, Howard Dean is telling the American people to pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” Barnett continued.
For someone who’s entire campaign has been based on attacking the record of other candidates, both other Democrat Presidential hopefuls and President Bush, you’d think he’d be all about letting his allegedly squeaky clean record be released.
“If Howard Dean is serious about straight talk, he can start by being upfront with the American people about his tenure as Governor of Vermont. If he doesn’t open his record, it obviously means there’s something he wants to hide from us,” said Barnett.
I can’t wait to see where this goes. Of course Dean has something to hide. He’s been hiding behind criticisms of Bush rather than discussing issues and what he really thinks about them. He has yet to offer one good idea for the American people… What – national/socialized healthcare? Abortions for 12-year-old girls without parental notification? Is that the America that people really want? No, it’s not. So Dean hides behind his sealed record and steers his campaign almost exclusively on anti-Bush rhetoric.
These sealed records will be the death of the “Dean Machine.”
Fraud Alert!!
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Accountability Is a Bitch, Ain’t It?
Tuesday, July 29th, 2003I have no real issues with drinking while underage. However, when I couldn’t legally buy alcohol, I didn’t try. If i wanted some, I had other means of obtaining it. I never put myself in a position to get caught and find myself suffering the legal consequences. I never put any establishment in a position where they’d be considered liable for illegal actions I could have taken.
But that’s just me… Other people, it seems don’t want to take responsibility for anything.
When Kate, a 19-year-old University of Notre Dame freshman, went out with friends for a night of drinking at a local bar called The Boat Club last January, she had no idea what was in store for her.
Shortly after midnight on Jan. 24, officers from the Indiana State Excise Police, the Indiana State Police and the local South Bend, Ind., police surrounded the two-story nightspot in a surprise raid aimed at cracking down on underage drinking.
Kate and 212 other underage drinkers were busted in the sting, and were ordered to appear in court.
Happens to everyone at one point right? At least, everyone that takes the chance of going to a bar while underage.
The bar was given the option of having its liquor license revoked or paying a $5,000 fine and selling its liquor permit to a new owner.
I have always been against bars being held responsible for underage drinkers at their bar when they are using fake ID. Doesn’t seem right at all. They do their part by asking for ID, and it’s getting tougher to distinguish fakes from real ones… What can they do????
The Dismal Color of Education
Monday, July 28th, 2003The perversity of education today is now the topic of two blog entries today. First it was a gay high school, now it’s white teachers not being able to teach black history…
A group of parents said they will fight a possible decision to allow a white teacher to lead classes in black history at Oberlin High School.
NewsChannel5 reported that a scheduling conflict could cause the district to reassign the black teacher who has taught the course for seven years.
Using a white teacher at Oberlin High School would send the wrong message to black students, said A.G. Miller, an associate professor of American and African religious history at Oberlin College.
A.G. Miller, you see, is a racist. That’s right. A racist. History is history. Math is math. Science is science. Who cares who teaches it?
“The message is that we are not concerned about the importance of your historical background … that that is less important than a schedule conflict,” said Miller, whose three children graduated from Oberlin High School.
Jaqui Willis, a black Oberlin parent, said the teacher is a role model and that removing him from the class would be detrimental to students.
I am led to believe that the scheduling conflict is not really what is bothering these people. Plain and simple, they’re racists.
Fairy Tale High
Monday, July 28th, 2003I always thought that a person’s sexuality was one’s own private business. The recent news about the new gay high school to be opened in New York this fall is now proof of how dangerous the Left is becoming in America. They claim to be the Equal Rights party, but now have become the champions of segregation.
Operating for two decades as a small alternative program with just two classrooms, the new Harvey Milk High School officially opens as a stand-alone public school with 100 students in September.
A public school… meaning paid for by taxpayer dollars. The people of New York are paying for a public bathhouse with books in it.
The school is undergoing a $3.2 million in city-funded renovations approved by the old Board of Education in June of last year. It will eventually take in 170 students by September 2004, more than tripling last year’s enrollment.
3.2 million dollars to segregate students. That’s a hefty price tage for a huge step backward on equal rights. Have we not learned anything since 1896? Does the Left understand how illegal and wrong this is?
The Hetrick-Martin Institute — the gay-rights youth-advocacy group that manages and helps finance the school in conjunction with New York’s Department of Education — has hired the school’s first principal.
Is this what so-called “gay rights” advocacy groups do? Find ways to single out homosexuals from the rest of the world community? Is that what they want? Is this the most appropriate way to help their cause?
The Democrats’ Vision: Blinded by Their Hate of The Right
Sunday, July 27th, 2003The Democrats have no chance to win elections if they continue the route they’ve been going on since 2000. When the country accepted George W. Bush’s victory, the hard left-wingers of the party chose not to move forward, but to stay in the past. They’ve kept their vision in a standstill. They have not progressed into the present. The county continues to become disengaged from the party because they have no clear agenda anymore. Not to mention the fact the ideal they occasionally pretend to be concerned about are no longer mainstream.
Like it or not, if the Democrats spent less time attacking George W. Bush and more time being concerned with America, then they wouldn’t be in the position they are in today.
Terry McAuliffe, Idiot-In-Chief of the Democratic Party, said earlier this month:
“Our challenge is to make the DNC a more streamlined, leaner, more efficient institution that is maniacally focused on beating George Bush and taking back the White House, and everything we do here between now and Election Day has got to somehow meet that goal.”
This is their goal. Not health care, not Social Security, not abortion rights, gay rights, affirmative action, welfare, etc. etc. etc.
They are “maniacally focused on beating George W. Bush. That’s it. It’s about you. It’s not about America. It’s about them. It’s about power. It’s about control. It’s about them versus us. It’s about winning. They care more about that than about what’s good for America.
As I discussed in my blog entry “The Futility of Debating With Liberals” Gillespie similarly noted that Democrats “serve up raw emotion” rather than solutions. Gillespie pointed out ,”that emotion is anger.”
“Their overheated rhetoric toward the president, bandying about words like ‘lying,’ ‘madman’ and yes, ‘impeachment,’ is designed to distract from the central fact that their policies would not make us safer in the world, and President Bush’s do,” Gillespie said.
Gillespie has it right on. Democrats are throwing out clichés and catch phrases to try and stick them to the voters – distracting them from the ultimate truth that liberal policies don’t work, and America is shifting to the Right.
Predicting that prescription drugs for seniors would be a key issue for the 2004 election, Gillespie has set the tone for how this will be dealt with.
“When it comes to providing a prescription drug benefit for America’s seniors, the days of playing politics are over,” Gillespie said. “And Democrats chose to run on the problem rather than fix it one too many times.”
It sounds like he’s reading right from the Democrats’ Political Strategy Handbook.
While George W. Bush has been addressing the issues as President (and actually trying to do something about them) the Democrats have been addressing him. They advocate nothing and no one but themselves.
Gephardt Goes MIA
Saturday, July 26th, 2003Dick Gephardt, Democratic presidential hopefully has now effectively killed his chances of getting the nomination.
Gephardt has missed voting 356 times, or 90% of House votes as of July 21st…
That’s quite a record, don’t you think? You’d think that since Democrats claim to represent “working families” and “working people” that they’d show their advocacy for “working” by showing up for work.
Well, that puts a lot into perspective.
I go to work everyday. I’ve never even taken a sick day. I actually believe in the idea that when I’m getting paid to do a job, that means I’m supposed to show up and do the job.
Dick Gephardt’s failure to do his job helped a Republican victory in the House this week. By not showing up, the Republican backed bill proposing to overhaul the Head Start education program won by a single vote.
The 217-216 Republican victory came after midnight Thursday and was so tenuous that Rep. John Sullivan, R-Okla., recovering from a car accident, was brought in by wheelchair. But Gephardt, the former House Minority leader, had left Thursday evening for a two-day campaign swing through South Carolina, and the Head Start vote became one of hundreds he has missed this year.
Rep. John Sullivan, a Republican, made it in a wheelchair. Gephardt, pursuing his political aspirations left his post. Hmmmm… Who’s the one with the real work ethic – the Democrat or the Republican?
Gephardt said although he opposes the bill, he doesn’t think his vote would have made a difference.
“I try to make as many of the votes as I can, but the Republicans tend to produce as many votes as they need to win these things, unfortunately,” he said during a campaign stop in South Carolina. “They are in control. They have enough votes to do that.”
How disingenuous. The “My vote wouldn’t have counted,” line is just his way of saying (without really saying it) that the Republican majority makes the Democrats presence irrelevant – just another scare tactic trying to suggest that the Republicans have a monopoly on the government and are out of control. Of course, this is incredibly false, considering the ridiculous tyranny of the minority in the Senate with judicial nominees. In other words, Gephardt is on damage control, trying to save his image and his chances of getting the nomination… however I think stunts like this will ultimately hurt him, and just about kill his chances of getting the nomination. This like this tell his constituency that he is unreliable – that he’s more concerned with his political goals than doing the job he was elected to do and gets paid to do.
I really have no idea what liberals are planning to do or how they are looking at their choice of a Democratic candidate. I would like to hear from those who post on this blog what they think about Gephardt, and his lack of voting… Does it affect what you think of him? Were you even going support him anyway? Does stuff like this even matter to you? To the conservatives reading this, what do you think of Gephardt’s lack of voting, and do you agree that this hurts his chances?
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