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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (132642)	3/21/2001 11:39:32 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Not quite that easy this time. That has been a standard tactic in US politics in the 20th century, but what is known by all is usually the starting point for subsequent battles. The Bush administration (now we now where all the smart Republicans have been hiding since 1994) has so far successfully positioned the Congressional liberals in the public eye as the new "villians" who stand in the way of the one reform that can end the recession and return the nation to the Reagan surge of the last 20 years: A massive cut in the top marginal tax rate. Daschle and Gephardt have had the advantage of the Clinton era media cover, but that is beginning to dry up as the administration proves itself both more efficient and ethically superior to their predecessors each week. Add to that the fact that they are both from states that went heavily to Bush (take away the frauds being discovered in MO, and it's a Bush landslide there). Also, Greenspan could have possibly bailed the liberals out yesterday by simply doing his job-but, for whatever reason, he failed miserably. So the Daschles and Gephardts are progressively being faced with the unfortunate choice of giving Bush (and the nation) the victory on taxes, or facing large Congressional losses in 2002. The advantage to America is that, IMO, they are both shrewd enough to see the writing on the wall, so we don't have to wait until 2003 to solve this recession...