He Must Admit the Error of His Ways

Los Angeles Times | 9/9/03 | Robert Scheer

[TastyManatees]

How can the president tell us with a straight face that we taxpayers have a patriotic duty to cough up $87 billion more to enable him to sink us deeper into the Iraq quagmire of his making? That's a lot of money on top of the $79 billion already appropriated by Congress in April — enough to bail out California and every other state experiencing a budget crisis because of economic problems this president has only exacerbated. Shouldn't those who warned against Bush's folly at least qualify for another one of his signature tax rebates?

[TastyManatees]

"It is apparently too much to ask that the president acknowledge his errors, so costly in American and Iraqi lives, and show some humility for this mess he has created with his "my way or the highway" approach."

Always useful to see how Howard Dean's people think.

Tasty manatees

[AppyPappy]

But they'll spend twice as much on "education" despite the fact it's not the federal government's job. Go figure.

[Peach]

As another Freeper said yesterday, when leftists complain about the cost of war in Iraq:

At a minimum, 9/11 cost us in excess of 80B$ in clean-up and rebuilding cost alone. It has cost us more in additional attempts at security, some of which will certainly go awry as we try several approaches to discover what will work. Indirect costs to the US economy for the past 2 years are greater than 500B$ and probably amount to paring 3+% off the growth rate of the economy

[AppyPappy]

Hey chief, you have to excerpt all LA Times/ Washington Post articles. It's the law.

[At _War_With_Liberals]

He Must Admit the Error of His Ways...


After Scheer admits the error of his Communist ways...

[tsmith130]

I am soooo sick of the word 'Quagmire'. Someone get these people a thesaurus!!!

[ChadsDad]

I watched all the 9/11 docu's on discovery the other night...I'm sick of democrats complaining and spinning. Sheees, just shut-up-already!

[sauropod]

Scheer is a far leftist that used to run Ramparts. See Horowitz's book for details.

[FLAUSA]

Here's an interesting site on Robert Scheer and his columms of canards. http://www.usefulwork.com/shark/canard-o-matic.html

[Publius6961]

How can the president tell us with a straight face that we taxpayers have a patriotic duty to cough up $87 billion more to enable him to sink us deeper into the Iraq quagmire of his making?

About the time I got out of high school I figured out that looking for the mindless phrases intended to manipulate readers is a great time saver.
It saves wasting time reading hissy-fits disguised as news:

"straight face"
"cough up"
"patriotic duty"
"sink us deeper"
"Iraq quagmire"
"his making"

You see, safeguarding our national safety has nothing to do with it. Defense in not the primary function of a central government.

The sandmaggots are gonna tax themselves in order to keep the U.S. safe.
Everybody knows that.

where are the WMDs dammit!!

[tx_eggman]

These morons will forever be stuck on September 10, 2001. If it were still 9/10, their squawling about President Bush's actions might have some relevance - maybe invading Iraq doesn't make sense in the context of 9/10. But Bush's actions are being taken in the context of the events of 9/11, and they've simply got their heads so far up their posteriors that they can't see the light of day.

[mewzilla]

Gee, the Dems didn't have a problem passing that pork-laden 80 billion dollar farm bill a couple of years back. Go figure....

[ImphClinton]

Very true.

Does Dean really think we would be better off fighting Aq-Queda in America?

That is what would be happening if he were President. That is what happened when Clinton was President. That is when 9/11 was planned. That is when the Cole was bombed and the Barraks in S. A. That is when terrorism went unchecked.

No doubt Dean would do nothing about Iranian Nukes and would threaten to bomb Israel if Israel did anything about them. This would assure a nuclear 9/11 that would cost us Trillions of Dollars, if not our entire government. Either that or we would be paying Trillions in ransom to Iran and it's Arab buddies.