ZOT: Dean's agenda isn't radical; it's plain sensible

tallahassee democrat ^ | 1/2/04 | Matthew Miller

[montomike]

Yeah, right!

[Bullcrap alert]Clinton's great achievement on "defense" was to move the country from large budget deficits (which put Democratic domestic ambitions in a straitjacket) to unprecedented budget surpluses.

The republican takeover of congress in '94 and their restraint on govt spending as well as the "internet bubble economy" resulting in the large increase in capital gains taxes lead to the reduction in the deficit.

Clinton had nothing to do with it. He was too busy getting knobbed by Monica (35 times by her own admission) and others to pay any attention to the economy and the budget deficit and terrorists and the environment and the military and anything else. He was a totally ineffectual president who was much more interested in the trappings of power and the requisite adulation and perks. The perception of doing something is easier and much different than actually doing something

One man's opinion.

[Cyber Ninja]

I hope the kind of pain you are talking about never goes away!!!

[4mycountry]

[Coop]

BTW, what's the next seasonal topic for your screen name? Valentine's Day? Or MLK's birthday?

Hey, everyone! Let's help our troll friend out with some screen name suggestions for these two upcoming holidays.

ihaveadream

promised_land

cupids_arrow

shot_through_the_heart

[NeoCaveman]

You can go here to see the massive support Dean is getting from Republicans:

I want Dean to be the D's nominee, he'll get beat like a drum.

[thoughtomator]

You can have doubts about Howard Dean's electability. But you can't doubt that his domestic agenda is roughly where Democrats in 2004 ought to be.

No doubts about his electability *snicker* and I do think that his domestic agenda is where the Democrats ought to be - on the lunatic fringe, the perfect place for wiping them off the electoral map in 2004.

Looks like the dawning of an age of GOP domination akin to the one the FDR years was for the Dems.

[dirtboy]

You forgot Groundhog Day - so let's propose he log in as Saddam saw his shadow Four more years of Bush on February 2nd.

[Made In The USA]

Dean is a socialist, ever lovingly empathetic of the former USSR's model.

[Omedalus]

Hungover, you are NOT going to trick us into voting for Dean by trying to convince us he's fiscally conservative. I'm sorry, but we're just not that dumb. I know how much you wish we were, but it's not going to happen.

See, Mr. Hungover, the problem is that Dean has no concept of how economics works on a national scale. He ran a balanced budget in a microscopic toy state which has almost no expense for its own police. The majority of the federal budget goes to national defense, which Dean not only doesn't know how to pay for, but intends to gut anyway.

Furthermore, Dean's plan to balance the budget involves taxing the nation to death. Now, this might work in the first year or two (thanks to Bush's economic stimulus package whose impact Dean would inherit), but it's the economic equivalent of strangling the goose that lays the golden eggs. See, Mr. Hungover, when you give people the freedom to earn and spend their own money, they tend to try and make as much of it as possible; tax them the way Dean is proposing, and the government ends up taking a whole lot of nothing.

Hence, there is NO WAY that Dean can be considered a "fiscal conservative", so just drop that shebboleth right now. I KNOW you got it from the deanforamerica blog (I visit there myself, subtly throwing in disinformation and watching you guys make asses of yourselves with it), but your belief that this would actually work shows just how little you know or understand. Try actually learning a thing or two about conservatives or about economics, and then come back to us when you're ready to talk.

[Coop]

Very good! Or Puxatawney_Phil (sp?) would work.

[VRWC_minion]

The hangover won't begin until after 2004 election day and its going to be a really big one.

[dirtboy]

I hope the kind of pain you are talking about never goes away!!!

Republican presidents as far as the eye can see. That's the mother of all Dem hangovers.

[NYC GOP Chick]

[Johnny_Cipher]

As my dentist loves to say, "This is going to sting a little." He lies too.

[NeoCaveman]

[deport]

Here's the reall support for Deanie........

[Cyber Ninja]

April first it can be: Republican_4_Dean

[arasina]

May I suggest a website that you will absolutely LOVE? It won't make your hangover worse and ALL genders are accepted there.

Crushies for Dean

[RightWhale]

Don't know about Dean. He might be okay in spite of his hyperventilating style, but after hearing a couple of his supporters call in to talk radio this morning I don't know that his supporters are. They just keep yelling the most irrational things in the approved CommieGreenie manner. Proof, I suppose, that not everyone is properly medicated in the Brave New World.

[Conspiracy Guy]

Howie

Your comments really crack me up,
I’d have to say you’re funny.
As funny as a hemorrhoid,
Or as a nose that’s runny.
Saddam’s capture no big deal,
Your stance is still the same.
You’re really sucking big on this,
I’d say your brain is lame.
But tell me Howie, I must know,
These speeches, just who writes them?
Katie Couric comes to mind,
Or Michael Moore, is it him?
Well Doctor Dean you make me sick,
Malpractice, I will sue you.
Please get a clue, I’ll sell you one,
John Kerry needs a few too.

Conspiracy Guy 12/16/03