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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
You MUST be kidding club.
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I'll reiterate. There is a difference between a politician attempting to garner support for his/its policies and the press, which is supposed to be objective.
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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man As to the Bush Administration:
(a) "Iraq has WMD and lots of it." (repeat as needed)
(b) "My tax cuts provide most of their benefits to the middle class."
(c) "We aren't in a recession, but if we are its Clinton's fault."
(d) "The Bush tax cuts did not cause or contribute to the deficit -- that's due to the economic downturn and national security."
(e) The "death tax" harms small buinesses and the family farmers -- eliminating it will help them.
(f) outlawing "partial-birth" abortions will save hundreds or thousands of live in this country each year.
the list could go on and on.
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(a) I don't recall this quote, but we have found evidence of WMD (though, I admit, not in the quantities that this quote would imply). The jury is still out on the quantities.
(b) Arguably true, depending on the definition of "benefits"
(c) Impirically true. A recession is defined as negative growth. We have not experienced negative growth during the Bush term.
(d) Again. Arguably true. If the economy was high flying enough, even with tax cuts could theoretically we could have run a surplus.
(e) True, depending on the estate value of the small business/family farmers.
(f) No idea on this one, but I'd suspect that at least several 100,000 procedures are performed each year.
