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Politics : Right Wing Extremist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (6248)	3/13/2001 12:43:01 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 59480

Kennedy family claims to be the sole interpreters of JFK legacy: Monday, March 12, 2001, 9:09 p.m. EST Kennedy Family Demands GOP Yank Tax Cut Ad Two members of the Kennedy family have demanded that Republicans halt an advertising campaign that invokes the words of President John F. Kennedy to sell President Bush's tax cut plan, the Associated Press reported Monday night. The ads draw heavily on audio from a 1962 speech by the late president where he proposes his own sweeping tax cut plan. Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy and Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg sent a written complaint to the Issues Management Center, which put the ad campaign together and is currently running it in states with Democratic senators that were carried by Bush in last year's election. The Kennedys claimed the ads are "intellectually dishonest and politically irresponsible." "It's a dramatic misreading of history to compare President Kennedy's and President Bush's tax cut proposals." "President Kennedy's tax cut was responsible," while Bush's is more like President Reagan's, which favored the wealthy, they said. In fact the controversial audio, some of which was aired nationally Monday by conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh, makes the late Democratic Party icon sound very much like a Reagan era supply-sider. In one excerpt, President Kennedy actually argues that cutting taxes for the wealthy will spur the economy and boost tax revenues - the exact argument made by Reagan in 1981. "It appears that Sen. Kennedy doesn't have a problem with the Issues Management Center, but with President Kennedy's tax cut," GOP consultant Greg Mueller told the AP in response to the Kennedy's letter. http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2001/3/12/201336