What is the dollar amount of the tax cuts that are in effect today?
Kyoto is dormant, not dead.
When did drilling start in Alaska? (When did construction start on new refineries? When did the Justice Department begin to look at breaking up the anti-trust collusion between big oil, refinery capacity and the retail gasoine market?)
What evidence do you have that Roberts isn't Souter?
Don't mention the flood of illegals Bush has brought in with his direct encouragement.
Bush's numbers are at historic lows because of his weak leadership on the war and his refusal to seal the borders. His blatant refusal to name a clear conservative while stepping over Scalia to name CJ hasn't helped his numbers, either. To date, Bush has not discouraged one penny of socialist spending. (Even his father discouraged 13 billion.) What do you wanna bet the replacement for O'Connor is another unknown?
Keep it up, Southack...you make a fugly cheerleader for Bush.
DUer?
He didn't run for election or re-election on a "seal the borders" pledge...so his standing today has nothing to do with that issue.
In fact, that issue has so little public popularity that it is unlikely to become an election issue in 2006 or 2008, either (well, outside of 3rd party "conventions").
What you are doing is confusing your own personal views and feelings with national views and feelings...a mistake that will not let you predict any aspect of the future.
Pick a candidate who made "sealing the borders" his top policy position in 2004 or 2002 after 9/11 or even back in 2000 and then note how few national votes he or she won.
And then after noting the above, you'd be well-served to see how many additional border patrol officers President Bush deployed, anyway. Ditto for how many additional miles of 12 foot tall steel border fences he had erected over the stout opposition of Greens who sue at every step to block all border fence construction.
$1.3 Trillion for the 3 income tax cuts. More still for the dividend tax cuts. More again for the repeal of the Estate Tax (AKA "death tax"). $40 Billion more for the energy tax cuts this year.
"Kyoto is dormant, not dead."
Kyoto expires in 2010. It's dormant through 2008 **because** the GOP controlls the political agenda (contrary to what some posters ignorantly claimed).
If you think that "dormant" Kyoto can be revived between January of 2009 (debates, political shifts, enactment, enforcement) and 2010, then make your case.
I suspect, however, that you will simply punt and claim that some new treaty is always possible. Yeah, as if we don't know that fact.
But we control the political agenda as evidenced by Kyoto being "dormant" or dead. That's my point.
He was appointed to prominence by President Reagan and promoted to Judgeship by President Bush. He is a friend of the Federalist Society...and his wife is the biggest life-long pro-life activist in Washington.
He clerked for and was personal friends with our Conservative Chief Justice Rehnquist, too.
Likewise, he was attacked by rabid leftists such as MoveOn, Howard Dean, DU, Daily Kos, and Senator Kennedy.
Pity that you question him likewise...
But what about all three of Bush's cuts, the cuts for individuals enacted in 2001 and 2003, and the business tax cut enacted in 2002? In raw dollars, Bush wins. Tempalski's tables show that Reagan's 1981 cut was estimated to average $111 billion per year during its first four years on the books, while Bush's three cuts average a combined total of $160.4 billion annually during the comparable four-year period.
But Bush loses when inflation is taken into account. A dollar today is worth much less than a dollar in 1981. And Reagan's cut is 12% larger than Bush's combined cuts in "real" dollars (dollars adjusted for inflation) according to Tempalski's tables, again comparing four-year averages for both tax cuts.
Kyoto is dormant, not dead.
The unspun truth.
When did drilling start in Alaska? (When did construction start on new refineries? When did the Justice Department begin to look at breaking up the anti-trust collusion between big oil, refinery capacity and the retail gasoine market?)
There is no drilling in Alaska. There are no new refineries planned. He did end boutique fuels for...two weeks.
What evidence do you have that Roberts isn't Souter?
No evidence, just faith.