Posted on 03/23/2008 9:09:12 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
With Eliot Spitzer gone, Chuck Schumer moves to the head of the list of self-righteously bloviating New York pols. So it was particularly satisfying to see Sen. Jon Kyl [R-AZ] put Schumer is his place on today's This Week.
A guest with Kyl for purposes of discussing the economy, Schumer clearly came in with a game plan: to analogize President Bush to the man who presided over the beginning of the Great Depression: Herbert Hoover. After he tried it twice, Kyl had had enough and unleashed a riposte that was as reasoned as it was devastating.
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Many, many years ago, when Pat Buchanan was on WRC radio in Washington each evening with Tom Braden, during the debate on the first Reagan tax cuts, I called in and asked Braden why he was in favor of Hoover’s economics. I mentioned that Hoover had raised the income tax (from a top rate of 24% to 61%) and Pat confirmed it. Tom Braden’s comment was: “Hoover raised taxes? I didn’t know that!”
This from a liberal for whom Hoover was, undoubtedly, a lifelong villain. He didn’t actually know what policies Hoover had followed.
There's a wonderful political cartoon that most people see as praising The New deal. It shows a very sick Uncle Sam with FDR as Dr. New Deal administering one remedy after another and saying that he'd keep tying until something worked. The cartoon is actually very critical of FDR and his efforts. Showing that continuous government intervention is actually keeping Uncle Sam in bed. The Left, because of the revival due to WWII never learned the folly of their efforts.
Kyl Spikes Schumer’s Bush=Hoover Shtick...
poor schmuck shummer...since the piaps has been running....he doesn’t get the air time he thinks he deserves...
what a maroon!!!!
This reminds me of another president who raised taxes when he said he wouldn’t and a nice recession came right after. That brought about lovable bill clinton, who raised more taxes.
Exactly. If he was a vacuum salesman for some time, Socialist Schumer might understand capitalism better.
Not only that they are bring up Hoover who left office over 70 years ago but that they have to go that far to find a President with a bad economy. Under Jimmy Carter it was a whole lot worse then now and of course they never mention this.
Last Feb. Schumer participated in a supposed “common Ground” conclave at the National Press Club with Newt Gingerich. Newt spoke of the need for a unified approach to terrorism and Schumer vociferously insisted that the greatest threat to America in coming years was - the Christian Right!
This is an example of why politicians irritate the crap out of me -- they can't call a spade, a spade. My friend... when you know he really wanted to go Dan Aykroyd on him: Chuck, you ignorant slut, you know it was the Democrats in Congress that...
Whenever Chuckles Schumer speaks something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.
I wish Kyl were on the Republican Prez ticket.
if Hoover would have been re-elected in’32 the depression would have been over 5 years earlier than it did....Roosevelts anti free market crap prevented Wall Street from its natural course correction...if Hoover was re-elected, then we wouldn’t have had to bait the Japanese into attacking us by cutting off their oil supply, to start a war to end the depression. another socialist failure of Franklin Delano Roooosevelt.
so true!!
If everyone understood this, there would be no democratic party.
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