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Originally posted by Netchicken
All the Democrats need to do in the next four years is find a strong leader. Maybe the return of the Clintons will be the fix they need.
By me, from here stuffucanuse.com...
Originally posted by Netchicken
Escalating oil prices
The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal think tank, has estimated that permanent extension of the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would cut revenues by around $2.2 trillion over the next 10 years, including the costs of higher interest payments on the national debt.
Deficit hawks contend such calculations undermine Bush's claim that he'll cut the budget deficit in half over the next five years, noting that budget impact of extending the bulk of the tax cuts will take place after the five-year window.
They've called for reinstituting budget rules that would require tax cuts or increases in mandatory spending programs to be offset and rendered budget-neutral. The Bush administration and GOP leaders have rejected such calls, insisting that such "pay-as-you-go," or PAYGO, rules should apply only to spending increases.
Nevertheless, critics of Bush's fiscal record doubt that deficit concerns will slow the momentum for extending tax cuts without offsets.
The mounting deficit, which hit a record in dollar terms of $413 billion in fiscal 2004, "wasn't an issue in the first term. It certainly isn't going to be an issue in the second term, and it certainly wasn't an issue in the campaign," said Stanley Collender, a veteran budget analyst with Financial Dynamics.
Originally posted by Netchicken
... Pity the party that has to deal with it, poetic justice that GW Bush will be in the sights of the increasingly disaffected.
If Kerry had won, the Democrat party would come into power in a country facing some of the greatest threats and problems since the Vietnam war. The Democrats would have to deal with it and despite inheriting the problems would become identified with them.
Originally posted by Gools
The democrats will inherit an even bigger mess next time around but at least they won't be blamed for causing them. Bush will go down in history as the absolute worst American president ever IMHO.
Originally posted by GradyPhilpott
Originally posted by Netchicken
Escalating oil prices
What are you suggesting, blood for oil? I don't understand liberals. They want cheap gas for their cars, but they don't want to drill for it or do what it takes to stabilize the region where most of it comes from.
Is there a pragmatic liberal to be found anywhere? Oh! It's an oxymoron.
[edit on 04/11/5 by GradyPhilpott]