Just buying a few votes. The Dems do it too, so it's O.K., right?
Bush Signing Farm Legislation Over Objections of Many Republicans
By Scott Lindlaw Associated Press Writer
Published: May 13, 2002 WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush is signing a farm bill that expands subsidies to growers and appeals to rural voters but is opposed by many fellow Republicans as a budget-busting step backward in agriculture policy.
The 10-year, $190 billion bill rains federal largess on farm-oriented states that will be campaign battlegrounds this fall, potentially helping Bush in his quest to win back control of the Senate for the GOP - and giving him a chance to rack up IOUs for his own 2004 re-election effort.
It increases spending by nearly 80 percent over the cost of existing programs at a time when government and private analysts are projecting a budget deficit this year of $100 billion or more. The president has been calling on lawmakers to show fiscal restraint.
"Just buying a few votes. The Dems do it too, so it's O.K., right?"
Your original claim wasn't that GWB bought votes with the Farm Bill or even increased spending. No, your claim was that GWB "lied."
Yet you won't or can't show where he lied. GWB said that he'd work with Congress to pass a compromise farm bill. He worked with them, but they didn't pass a compromise. Does that mean that GWB lied? No.
Yet somehow I suspect that I'll see you running around on thread after thread claiming that GWB "lied" about the Farm Bill.
That's a very dishonest tactic that you are practicing...