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

To: Scumbria who wrote (140030)	4/22/2001 12:46:08 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

<<Exactly, as I have been saying. The Bush folks have been trying to create the incorrect impression of a recession, so that they could take credit for fixing it later. >> So Bush, as governor of Texas slowed the shipping on the nations rails? Watching the trains is a good indicator of lots of things. <ASHINGTON, April 21 — Last fall, as the presidential campaign gave way to the long count in Florida, Dick Cheney picked up a disturbing nugget of economic intelligence. Mr. Cheney, who was a director of the Union Pacific Corporation before George W. Bush chose him as his running mate, heard that loadings of railroad freight cars were down.

To: Scumbria who wrote (140030)	4/22/2001 12:57:47 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Posturing, rather than action, on economics, were a characteristic of the Clinton fraudsters. They successfully took credit for the Reagan economic growth (with the help of the left-wing establishment media) as it reached one of its heights during their tenure. If there turns out to be no recession, only the Daschle liberals will be unhappy about it-since they need one in order to have any hope for 2002 or '04. But recessions are very hard to deny once they materialize, and it will be very easy to pin the blame on those economic ignoramuses who worship at the shrine of the so-called surplus (i.e., excessive theft of private property) like Daschle and Gephardt (as well as certain Republicans). If the current slowdown turns, real credit simply goes back to the last economic visionary of our time: Reagan, but I have no doubt that the Bush team has learned enough from watching the Clinton propaganda machine to take credit for it. Remember the perpetual last line of defense in all the Clinton scandals and miscues: "The public doesn't care"? It was their one truth. And if there's no recession, that same uncaring public will be just as difficult to convince that the Republicans have to go as they were to convince that Clinton had to go in '96. So either way, my opinion stands that the left has a tougher nut to crack over the next 2 to 4 years than the right...