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

To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (232895)	3/1/2002 11:07:43 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

BUSH IS A BIG FIT LIAR Howdy J.F., Re: I think there is hope for you Selectric....guess who's in power and who loves secrecy????? Maybe the light is finally going on? Here's more grist for the Bush is a Big Fit Liar mill: salon.com <Copy> amBushed! You can pin a lot on Osama bin Laden, Mr. President, but not the soaring debts you've stuck us with. By Scott Rosenberg March 1, 2002 In spring 2001, when President Bush championed his big tax cut, critics pointed out the illogic in his "we can have it all" promises. Bush told us the government could cut taxes and still run a surplus even as we were heading into the pit of a national recession. Economists shook their heads in disbelief; New York Times columnist Paul Krugman went so far as to call Bush's fuzzy math "lies." Now, we face the consequences of Bush's deception, as Congress confronts the problem of having to raise the national debt ceiling -- a once-familiar exercise that had fallen into disuse in an era of budget surpluses. The president is nothing if not a Texas straight-talker, say his supporters. Straight talk from Bush today would go something like this: "We cut taxes last year. Now the government's going into the red again. Congress needs to raise the debt ceiling. Either that or you can all send your rebate checks back to the IRS." Funny -- Bush isn't saying anything of the sort. Instead, he's playing the "Don't you know there's a war on?" card again. <Continues...>