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Kyl Spikes Schumer's Bush=Hoover Shtick
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; US: Arizona; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chuckschumer; georgewbush; herberthoover; jonkyl
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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.


21 posted on 03/23/2008 10:10:35 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan
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To: Vaquero
It was more that FDR and his brain trust looked for instant results and gave even their own ideas very little time to work before going on to another new prscription. This made the markets and Main Street very unsure of what was to come and that lack of any predictability made investment very risky.

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.

22 posted on 03/23/2008 10:14:53 AM PDT by xkaydet65
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

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!!!!


23 posted on 03/23/2008 10:19:14 AM PDT by nyyankeefan
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To: Arthur McGowan

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.


24 posted on 03/23/2008 10:22:03 AM PDT by DWC
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Exactly. If he was a vacuum salesman for some time, Socialist Schumer might understand capitalism better.


25 posted on 03/23/2008 10:29:02 AM PDT by PGalt
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To: TNCMAXQ

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.


26 posted on 03/23/2008 10:31:02 AM PDT by Birch Barlow (Will McCain ask Kerry to be his VP if he wins the Republican Nominee?)
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To: All
Look Familiar?


27 posted on 03/23/2008 10:53:49 AM PDT by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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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!


28 posted on 03/23/2008 11:29:43 AM PDT by Diogenez
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To: Digital Sniper
JON KYL: Well, first, I wondered how long it would take my friend, Chuck Schumer, to blame the Bush administration here.

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...

29 posted on 03/23/2008 11:58:01 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

30 posted on 03/23/2008 12:15:42 PM PDT by Gritty (Unless our religious faith endures, the principles of our Declaration will perish-Calvin Coolidge)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Whenever Chuckles Schumer speaks something is subtracted from the sum total of human knowledge.


31 posted on 03/23/2008 12:18:22 PM PDT by ought-six
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I wish Kyl were on the Republican Prez ticket.


32 posted on 03/23/2008 12:59:07 PM PDT by Captain Pike
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To: Vaquero

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.


33 posted on 03/23/2008 1:11:07 PM PDT by genghis
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To: Piquaboy

Client #8


34 posted on 03/23/2008 3:21:24 PM PDT by tom paine 2
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Bump


35 posted on 03/23/2008 5:01:38 PM PDT by swmobuffalo ("We didn't seek the approval of Code Pink and MoveOn.org before deciding what to do")
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