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To: Alighieri who wrote (289399)	5/26/2006 3:42:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572158

The mith of dem tax and spend is dead. It was hardly a myth. That's if you 1) subscribe to this idiotic war as required 2) subscribe to the notion that it was conducted properly 3) subscribe to the further notion that it was shared with allies correctly and 4) I could go on...but you should get the idea You don't have to accept any of those ideas, for the point to be valid. All of these notions would make you a partisan follower who does not question his elected officials. No you could agree with all of those points without being a blind partisan. Personally I probably disagree with #1 (it being required, whether or not it was a good idea, or important or useful can be debated but I don't think it was required), and maybe 2 (depending on how you define properly esp. in the context of the fact that mistakes are made in every war) I do pretty much agree with #3 though. I don't think there was any realistic chance of getting a large number of additional soldiers from other countries to take part in the war. And the economy still fired on all cylinders. The economy at that point was somewhat similar to today. now we pass tax cuts that benefit the wealthy, while the middle class gets nailed. The middle class also received a tax cut. Which is why opinion polls still don't favor bush on the economy Message 22433718 "Adversarial in ways that helped him control spending. They would have gone for even less spending but he managed to hurt them on that issue with the whole "shut down the government" situation." Yes, somoeone had to manage "the compassionate" instincts in the "conservative". The comment you quoted was about Clinton and the congress at that time. Your reply doesn't make a lot of sense in that context.