Posted on 08/06/2005 4:06:51 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
...."... I think it's important for me and for you to look for the depth of a person's soul and character. I was touched by the fact your mother gave you the cross.' " Bush publicly testified of Putin, "I was able to get a sense of his soul."
...Bush is even apt to apply this particular brand of illogic to his own character. In one of the 2000 presidential debates, Al Gore pointed out that Bush as governor of Texas opposed a measure to expand children's healthcare and instead used the money for a tax cut. The debate moderator then asked Bush, "Are those numbers correct? Are his charges correct?" To which Bush replied, "If he's trying to allege that I'm a hardhearted person and I don't care about children, he's absolutely wrong."
...Gore was trying to make a point about Bush's moral priorities by establishing a series of facts about Bush's behavior. Rather than deny having chosen tax cuts over children's healthcare, or explain his rationale for having done so, Bush changed the subject to more comfortable ground: judging people's hearts. He asked the audience to intuit, based on the way he carries himself, that he is a warmhearted person, and thus to reject out of hand any facts that might clash with this impression.
The point isn't just that Bush refuses to engage with facts he finds inconvenient. ... It's that Bush rejects reason itself. Reason is a process by which we draw our broader conclusions from an accumulation of specific evidence. When the evidence changes ....., our conclusions can also .....Bush, on the other hand, arrives at his beliefs through intuition. His supporters marvel at the unshakeable certainty of his convictions. Well, no wonder.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Yes, I see that from the left They're obstructing as much as possible, those things that concern you. Don't lump the parties together.
No.
When 2/3 of the "uninsured" families in Texas have incomes over $75,000, the best way to help them is not to sell them government-subsidized and owned health insurance. It's better to allow them to buy insurance and/or healthcare themselves, so that *they* own it.
I wonder if the author's noticed what's happening in Oregon, the UK and Canada with their government healthcare?
The President is consistent, genuine and honest. There's no way he's reading a script.
Somehow, they don't get it, despite international example after international example:
http://blog.bioethics.net/
(or try, http://blog.bioethics.net/2005/08/rip-canadian-socialized-medicine.html )
THanks for the information. Your experience proves my gut feeling that nothing is free.
However, why are there "uninsured" in Oregon?
Jonathan Chait, a senior editor at The New Republic writes about the policy and politics of taxes, health care reform, the federal budget, and many other issues. He has been with the magazine since 1995, previously as a staff writer and reporter researcher.
After graduating from the University of Michigan in 1994, Chait was an assistant editor at the American Prospect before joining TNR. His writing has also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Slate and Reason.
He resides in Washington, D.C.
And he writes stupid articles because he's incapable of anything else.
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