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

To: DOUG H who wrote (175955)	8/30/2001 12:07:02 PM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

<<It will be a hoot watching the HyperLibs defend the spending while decrying a deficit.>> I suspect that's why ultra-lib Robert Reich is writing in the WSJ and temporarily making sense economically. Daschlegephardt was walked into a trap. When liberals talk about reducing deficits and/or preserving surpluses they endanger their core beliefs that government should be used as a vehicle to redistribute wealth from the productive to the deadbeat sectors of the economy. Some of the more rabid liberals have forgotten that saving money, for any reason, gives the lie to virtually all liberal ideas. Reich, on the cutting edge, has seen the trap closing shut. Bush, on our side, set and baited it months ago. Bush understands that he doesn't have the votes due to liberal Democrats AND liberal Republicans, to improve the tax cut to what is really needed at this time. But the "spending flank" has thus been left wide-open. And he's sending every asset that can sit a horse or carry a musket right through that weak side...