Posted on 09/11/2010 7:16:08 AM PDT by Diamond
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MARK SHIELDS: And I just wanted to point this out, that Bill Clinton came into office on January 20, 1993. He left on January 20, 2001. He raised taxes to a spectacularly high level, by Republican standards, to 39.6 percent. There were, in Bill Clinton's eight years, 21,872,000 jobs created in the private sector.
George Bush came in, and, following the lead of Mr. Taylor and others, cut taxes to their lowest, to 33 percent. During George Bush's eight years in the White House, from January 20, 2001, to 2009, the country lost 672,000 jobs.
JIM LEHRER: And you think there is a direct connection?
MARK SHIELDS: Well, I mean, there obviously is, because David told us last week that, if we raised it, it was going to hurt the economy.
DAVID BROOKS: Wait. No.
(LAUGHTER)
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MARK SHIELDS: Who are we kidding -- two years, let them go up? They were going to go up after 10 years. That's -- the Bush tax cuts were supposed to expire, have to expire, by law, at 10 years. All right?
They will extend them in perpetuity. I mean, there is one organizing principle among all the Republicans, whether they are Tea Parties or just garden-variety Republicans. That is, we don't raise taxes. Barack Obama has created more private sector jobs in this year, in his administration, than Bush did in eight. So, I don't know what we are talking about, ways...
DAVID BROOKS: I'm talking about the right policy.
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Keep sayin’ that Mark Shields, and let’s see what the public thinks of your hero Hussein’s policies.
I’m bettin’ they’ll think he SUCKS. Just like you and your PBS.
Republicans: I challenge you to cut PBS FUNDING 100% once you get control of Congress and the White House. 110% if you can.
In the cities they bus them to the polls. 'Course, now that a lot of places are using electronic voting machines that are easily hacked there isn't nearly as much need for bum busing.
IMHO, the Founders had it right in the beginning when you had to be a property owner, IOW, have a vested interest in the country, in order to be eligible to vote. If it were left up to me anyone receiving gubmint assistance would have their voting rights suspended until such time as they are no longer receiving public assistance.
Alexander Fraser Tytler said it best:
"A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the majority discovers it can vote itself largess out of the public treasury."
If we had followed the Constitution we'd still be a Federal Republic.....
I wish someone would post the cartoon of the 2 dinosaurs standing on the beach watching the ark sail away, the comment was “Oh crap was that today?”
A part of the welfare crowd sleeps in on election day.
Maybe the corrupt election officials vote for them, very pathetic.
Makes me wonder every time I use one of those electronic voting machines. I'm an electrical engineer. I've never played with one of those machines, but given what I know about electronics and microprocessors I guarantee one of those machines would not be hard to hack at all with the proper knowledge. Seems like at the very least it should give the voter a receipt that shows how you voted......
Absurd propaganda that defies logic, common sense and all sense of reality. Thank God we’re not ALL that dumb — but Obama and crew are hoping JUST ENOUGH are that dumb...
What amazes me is that even 20% of the nation still doesn’t realize this, or, perhaps they do, and it is the ideology they embrace, and thus accept the lie.
Some are born stupid and never recover. Some are born liars and never recover. Some do not even belong here.
And then again The Good Lord made some people stupid as an example to the rest of us.
Mark shields wasn't
Mark Shields was
Cordially,
Something Bush may have, to use Obama's favorite word, inherited.
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