Just go away, please: “For the president of the United States to claim in a television ad that those who disagreed with the decision to go to war with Iraq are against attacking terrorists is a disgrace,” said Gore, who lost the 2000 election to President Bush. “It is a cheap and petty political tactic …
Archives for November 2003
More Bad News for the Democrat Candidates
The economy is roaring back, growing at a rate of 8.2%. Consumer confidence is up, construction is up, retailsales are up, inventories grew modestly, and inflation did not change. Steve Verdon has more, meanwhile, the Econopundit catches Krugman in another lie.
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Going the Way of the Betamax and the Edsel
So, your team just falls over and plays dead and gets steamrollered by the GOP on the Medicare Prescription Drug Benefit. This occurs, mind you, while the AARP, previously one of your staunch allies, is spending 7 million dollars on an ad campaign to tell the public they disagree with you, yet you continue on. …
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No Shit
The title of this Opinion Journal piece says it all: The GOP’s Spending Spree: Aren’t Republicans supposed to be the party of small government? I guess they got the same fiscal bill of goods I got. The only problem is that nothing in my experience, and in particular the rhetoric of the Democrats during the …
Nukes In Iran
Whatever can we do to reign in this danger to our society, this menace to mankind, the belligerent, bellicose unilateralist bullies who would make statements like this: The only clear imperative is that Iran must be pressed to reveal all its nuclear activities, past and present, and cooperate wholeheartedly with international inspectors. That can best …
Cryptic Writing
This might be the most useless sentence in NY Times history. IN a two page online article about the Senate atempts to pass the Prescription Drug Bill (or whatever it is called), we see this gem: Eight of the nine Democrats running for president criticized the measure, calling it a threat to Medicare and a …
Football Woes
Today’s Steelers/Browns matchup was as grave an insult to the game of football as burial in a pigskin coffin would be to Osama bin Laden. IN a matchup pitting the hideously inept vs. the woefully incompetent, the Steelers managed to pull out a win, 13-6 Actually, claiming the Steelers won isn’t really accurate. The Steelers …