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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (5350)	8/1/2001 12:42:45 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

How do they compare to those used by leftists? Could be a Ph.D. thesis in political science here. I think the right has it won hands down. One of the more recent ones out of Rush was comparing some Democrat [don't recall which one] to "Satan". Ok, heck with Rush, let's got directly to the leadership. I've particularly gotten a kick out the fine Senator Lott...taking the opposing position of the House [moderate conservatives and liberals] and asserting they are racist, unilateralist and isolationists...[ I haven't read the thread here lately...is that what we can call playing the race card. Your turn for the left. Ah, but a 57% rate isn't going to improve my quality of life- -it'as going to decrease it. Significantly. Make sense now? Oh, and how do you define "quality of life"? And, equally important. how do you measure it? You need a way of knowing whether you've increased or decreased it by raising taxes. Have such measurements been done in Europe 4 or 5 years ago I might have agreed with you, but it isn't clear to me that's the case. Quality of life is a tough definition to acquire. Precisely, is impossible. I've posted a number of extracts [anecdotally and statistically] on the subject earlier which compared the major economic countries, western Europe and Japan. I thought the comparison were interesting and deserve some attention, others thought differently. On the other hand I could accept your point, how do you "know" that the US is better. I think GDP falls rather short of answering the question. Nice to see that conservatives are not the ONLY ones who know how to practice intentional obtuseness. I thought it was clear that that was a comment, not a proposed definition. Your comment was clear, but it avoided the implicit question. So I thought I'd force it back on you. The Declaration of Independence, while certainly a euphonious document that has inspired numerous other similar efforts (with both good and bad outcomes), is actually not a legal document that has force of law. Not a legally binding document, but does it lend itself to application as an instrument of the intent of the Framers? I think it does. Regards, jttmab