Posted on 04/20/2003 3:42:00 PM PDT by Uncle Bill
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:40:15 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
President Bush yesterday scaled back his proposed tax cut by nearly 25 percent in an effort to prod Congress into passing the measure in time to stimulate the economy before next year's election.
After insisting for months that he would not budge from his 10-year cut of $726 billion, Mr. Bush yesterday endorsed a $550 billion compromise that was passed by the House. The Senate is pushing for an even smaller cut of $350 billion.
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Add and Snowe and Voinovitch, and don't forget the undermining by Grassley.
2) W risks the fate of his Dad and the Nation. Why not the whole loaf??
3). Coward!!! You didn't call for the repeal of the Income Tax (which is a tax on production, and therefore a cause of poverty) and so played into the Nazis' (excuse me, Democrats') hands. Oh Hell, take what little you can get.
Remember, a House-Senate Reconciliation bill cannot be filibustered. So let the House Majority write just as much as is possible into such a bill.
That would be the economic boom of all booms.
Fascinating question. Would you ping me if you get an answer to that?
We should be supporting the President who is trying his best to get this done for us and dump those who are stopping him!!
He's racking up a clear record as a "moderate," not a "compassionate conservative," to use his own weasel words. Goldwater wouldn't be happy with that "compassionate" prefix, because it suggests conservatives aren't--something the liberals love to say. Goldwater's book, _The Conscience of a Conservative_ addresses that very point, except in Goldwater's day they called themselves "progressive conservatives." LOL!
Bush is also going to keep the assault weapons ban, lots of bad news this week. Ah well, like father, like son. All in the family: the Order of the Skull and Bones family.
Shocked! Who would have thunk!
We could always draft Tom Tancredo. Lots of people want to get our borders under control, something Jorge Bush couldn't bring himself to do since he's buddy-buddy with El Presidente Vicente Fox.
I'm sure that would happen under a Democrat. Any Democrat. Uh huh. And Baghdad Bob picks the horses at Churchill Downs.
(Oh, and that ol' liberal Bush used exec. orders to END more abortions than Reagan ever did. Yep, a flaming liberal).
You Bush haters need to get a life. Go vote for Ron Paul and be irrelevant.
No you're not. You're arguing that when Bush stole $10 in taxes from us due to outrageous socialist spending to $1 in tax cuts, we're suppose to jump up and down with glee and feel good about being screwed. Forget it. He's all yours.
That Yes Man In The White House
The presidential veto is like a nuclear weapon: no one will be afraid of it unless he thinks it might actually be used. Ronald Reagan, who used to invite Congress to "make my day" by passing bills he didn't like, killed nearly 70 of them. The first President Bush, battling a Democratic Congress, racked up 44 vetoes, only one of them overridden.
But conservatives on Capitol Hill are becoming frustrated by President George W. Bush's reluctance to follow in Dad's footsteps. After nearly 16 months in office, Bush has not exercised a single veto.
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