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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (6183)	9/29/2006 11:59:51 AM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 224725

Democats balanced the budget through the 90's and created huge surpluses. At the time, Dick Armey declared that Clinton's taxes would destroy the economy, and Armey said he wanted no part of it. Well it worked like gangbusters. Inteestly, Dick Armey just blasted the current rightwing congress as corrupt pork barrel spenders with no ethics.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (6183)	9/29/2006 12:00:53 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224725

Woodward Book Proves Bushies AWOL on terror before 9-11, let 9-11 happen. Also that Bush ignored his own father's warnings about Iraq. And that Bushies have been lying about Iraq since day one. The 537-page book describes tensions among senior officials from the very beginning of the administration. Mr. Woodward writes that in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks, Mr. Tenet believed that Mr. Rumsfeld was impeding the effort to develop a coherent strategy to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Mr. Rumsfeld questioned the electronic signals from terrorism suspects that the National Security Agency had been intercepting, wondering whether they might be part of an elaborate deception plan by Al Qaeda. On July 10, 2001, the book says, Mr. Tenet and his counterterrorism chief, J. Cofer Black, met with Ms. Rice at the White House to impress upon her the seriousness of the intelligence the agency was collecting about an impending attack. But both men came away from the meeting feeling that Ms. Rice had not taken the warnings seriously. In the weeks before the Iraq war began, President Bush’s parents did not share his confidence that the invasion of Iraq was the right step, the book recounts. Mr. Woodward writes about a private exchange in January 2003 between Mr. Bush’s mother, Barbara Bush, the former first lady, and David L. Boren, a former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee and a Bush family friend. The book says Mrs. Bush asked Mr. Boren whether it was right to be worried about a possible invasion of Iraq, and then to have confided that the president’s father, former President George H. W. Bush, “is certainly worried and is losing sleep over it; he’s up at night worried.” The book describes an exchange in early 2003 between Lt. Gen. Jay Garner, the retired officer Mr. Bush appointed to administer postwar Iraq, and President Bush and others in the White House situation room. It describes senior war planners as having been thoroughly uninterested in the details of the postwar mission.

To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (6183)	10/1/2006 3:49:12 AM
From: RMF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224725

Ann...if the Dems take the House then we'll have gridlock and stop this perpetual tax cutting STUPIDITY the Repubs have foisted on us. It won't balance the budget, but at least it will slow the loss of revenues. Ann...maybe you haven't noticed but the Repubs control EVERYTHING now and all they've done is increase discretionary spending more than any U.S. government in the last 60 years. That doesn't even INCLUDE the war spending! So...WHICH party is the BIG SPENDER?