Ya reckon there was any high-fiving yesterday in the WH?
Posted on 10/31/2003 8:31:05 AM PST by Tumbleweed_Connection
Anyone who saw yesterday's great news of the booming economy, followed by economists' predictions of President Bush's re-election, knew what would come next: the Democrat White House wannabes bitching and moaning and trying to talk down the economy. And that's just what happened. Hear them roar: Sen. John Edwards issued this statement even before the remarkable 7.2 percent annual growth rate was announced: "The Bush administration has dug a hole so deep and so wide that it's going to take a lot more than one quarter to get back on solid ground." Howard Dean: "President Bush has compiled the worst economic record since the Great Depression, and it is going to take a lot more than one quarter of growth to clean it up. The real measure of a strong economy is when average Americans see real benefits and the people who lost their jobs under President Bush are working again." Rep. Dick Gephardt's spokesman Steve Murphy: "Unemployment is not down a bit. Corporate profits are up while jobs are lost because of poor competition." Wesley Clark's spokesman Steve Bouchard: "This is still a jobless recovery. Three million are jobless. Fiscal mismanagement is the hallmark of this administration." Sen. Joe Lieberman's spokesman Kristen Carvell: "Obviously it's good news, but it does not change the fact that the president has turned Main Street into a one-way street going in the wrong direction." House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, who says attempts to nab illegal aliens are "terroristic" but who at least has enough sense not to be in the race: Bush has "the worst record on job creation since Herbert Hoover. Mr. President, where are the jobs?" Sen. John Kerry campaigning Thursday in Davenport, Iowa: "Roll back the high-end tax cuts of the Bush administration." Economists, in contrast, said the president's tax relief helped fuel the impressive 7.2 percent growth rate, which is better than anything Bill Clinton saw even during the frenzied and unstable days of the Internet and high-tech bubble. Will the Democrats' attempt to talk down the economy succeed, or instead backfire on them? Some think the latter. "The new economic numbers are further proof that the Democratic candidates' calls for massive tax increases would only reverse the upward trend," said Jayne Millrick, chairman of the New Hampshire Republican Party. "There's no question that [the GDP number] is a big political embarrassment for the Democratic presidential candidates - especially Dean," said Stephen Moore, president of Club for Growth, an organization that promotes tax relief. The Christian Science Monitor reported today that "there's no way that the best quarterly GDP numbers since Ronald Reagan's presidency aren't good news for the White House."
Ya reckon there was any high-fiving yesterday in the WH?
The first time I heard this phrase was during the 2000 elections when Democrats accused Cheney of doing the same.
Has anybody heard this particular tidbit reported on CBSABCNBCFOXCNN?
Exactly how would a company add employees if it were losing money?
Dr. Williams is talking about the GDP right now, and will have Dr. Sowell on later to talk about judicial nominations.
So Wesley, your solution is to raise taxes on anyone that makes over $200,000 per year. I'm certain that your annual income of $195,000 has nothing to do with that cutoff figure.
Can't wait for Rush to get back, but love all the loyal, knowledgeable men that are sitting in for him while he's gone. I salute the advertisers and the radio stations who haven't deserted him, also!
Keeping all my radios tuned in to the Rush station from noon to 3 daily --- here's a BTTT for Walter Williams!
Mary HELP!
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