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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: PartyTime who wrote (117430)12/18/2000 12:02:32 PM
From: ColtonGang  Read Replies (1) of 769669
 
If the economy turns …

The voters have clearly indicated it is time for compromise and cooperation in government, and the politicians have been promised just that. But if partisanship again dominates, we'll see how significant a lack of a mandate can be, and the tech community will feel the effects. And it seems to me the Democratic Party could see a lot to gain by stubbornly demanding its own agenda. Democrats feel they were robbed and deserve some giveback.

And no one really knows how the public will react. Unless, of course, the economy turns sour. Presidents always get blamed for that. (For that matter, I wonder how President-elect Bush feels about Federal Reserve Chairman Al Greenspan, the man his father accused of costing him re-election?)

That's the biggest risk to Bush and to a technology industry the American public already looks on as suspiciously privileged. If unemployment and the nation's debt start growing and the country slips into a recession, the fence-sitting public may fall off to the side that asks for more government protection. The Clinton administration deftly sat on the fence right next to the American public, ready to fall right along with them. Will Bush prove to have the same talent?

If not, we may see the biggest backlash against a sitting president since the Nixon administration. After all, everyone knows he was elected by accident anyway.

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." – Albert Einstein

Richard L. Brandt..........Upside.com
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