Posted on 08/12/2002 11:29:34 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
WASHINGTON -- Here we go again.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, long-time fund-raising pal of ex-President Clinton, told a whopper Sunday about his old boss on ABC's "This Week," while attacking President Bush as part of a GOP-bashing campaign before the midterm elections.
McAuliffe maintained that, unlike Bush, Clinton took the high ground and didn't "blame his predecessors" for the economic woes he inherited in 1993.
"There are 1.6 million Americans today who have lost their jobs since George Bush became president. And what does this administration do? All they do is blame others," he told ABC's Sam Donaldson.
"When Bill Clinton became president, he had a 7 percent unemployment rate. We were in a recession (and) he had the largest budget deficit in the history of our country," McAuliffe went on.
"Did he blame his predecessors?" he said. "No, he got to work. He brought Democrats, Republicans together."
His statement is demonstrably untrue, yet Donaldson left it unchallenged and quickly moved on to the next question ("Let's talk about your party, the Democratic Party. Joe Lieberman ...").
Luckily, Lexis-Nexis -- the database that archives old media articles and transcripts of speeches and press conferences going back decades -- doesn't have as short a memory as Donaldson or McAuliffe.
Here are just a few of the many complaints that Clinton, as both president and candidate, made about what he called the "failed" economic policies of his Republican predecessors, Presidents Bush and Reagan (who, it should be noted, implemented markedly different fiscal policies during their terms, despite Clinton's attempt to link them together as one seamless policy over their combined 12 years).
"We were dealing with 12 years of trickle-down Reaganomics, which exploded our deficits and sent our jobs overseas, and divided our people," Clinton added.
"Our national debt quadrupled," he added. "From 1989 to 1992, we experienced the slowest growth in a half-century."
"It took us from a $1 (trillion) to a $4 trillion debt (and) a huge deficit," he added.
"Trickle-down has had 12 years," he added. "I'm tired of it. We're not going to do the same thing for four more years."
"This policy has failed," he said. "The Republicans in Washington have compiled the worst economic record in 50 years."
Referring to other incendiary statements McAuliffe made about Bush in a DNC speech over the weekend, Republican National Committee Chairman Marc Racicot said his counterpart is prone to "hyperbole," but stopped short of calling him dishonest.
"He is incredibly inaccurate," he told the Sean Hannity radio show Monday, "and sometimes almost reckless."
Bush is a Winner. Gore is a Loser. Get over it.
Terry McAuliffe does it again. The DNC chairman and head of the Democrat Party inserted his size 12 foot in his mouth Sunday, accusing Bush of having stolen the 2000 presidential election from poor Albert.
Albert who?
Albert Gore, former Veep, lockbox, 'people versus the powerful' -- ring a bell?
"He [Gore] was robbed, that's a fact!", he told Sam Donaldson on ABC's The Week. Gore has to "get up every morning knowing that" he "got half a million more votes than George Bush did", he whined.
Oh, the agony! Oh, the pain!
Gee, but didn't the Tennessee slumlord ultimately concede the election? "Tonight, for the sake of our unity ... and the strength of our democracy, I offer my concession", Mr Snippy said on December 13, 2000, 36 insufferable days after endless "recounts", 'hanging chads', 'swinging chads', 'dimpled chads', 'pimpled chads', 'pregnant chads', 'deadbeat chads', etc., etc. For weeks, Gore frantically tried to steal the election -- but failed.
That's a fact.
Or is Mr. Buddhist Temple retracting his concession?
Gazillions of media 'recounts' conducted since only confirm Bush won fair-and-square.
That's a fact, too.
Besides, methinks 'Ice Tea' Al needs a refresher course in the U.S. Constitution. Presidents aren't elected by popular vote, but by electoral votes. The electoral college system is found in Article II, section I of the constitution. In the U.S., presidential elections consist of 50 statewide contests: The candidate who gets the most electoral votes, wins. Simple as that.
Too simple to grasp for McAuliffe, I suppose.
Oops! Never mind...I forgot...we're talking about 'no-controlling-legal-authority' Al here.
Back to the ABC interview:
Asked to explain his complaint that no Democrat was invited to Bush's upcoming Economic Forum in Waco, McAuliffe stumbled and staggered. When Donaldson noted that no less than 43 'forum attendees' are generous donors to Democrat candidates and 'party organizations' -- to the tune of over $255,000 since 1990 -- McAuliffe tripped all over his 'answer'.
"Because they [The White House] put out a list of...this is not a fundraiser, Sam!"
Well, duh.
Of course it isn't, Terry. That's the precisely point. Were this the Clinton White House, it would be. That's the difference.
Nor did he offer a credible explanation for the 'killing' he made in Global Crossing, turning a $100,000 initial "investment" into a mindboggling $18,000,000 shortly thereafter. McAuliffe, at the time, was trying to hook up pal Gary Winnick, company CEO, with the Clinton White House. The $18 million smacks of insider trading: The stock was dumped just before Global Crossing went belly-up.
How did McAuliffe know the company was about to tank? Nothing he said quelled the cloud of suspicion he's under.
His 'alibi' doesn't pass the laugh test.
McAuliffe was also asked about controversial remarks during his froth-in-the-mouth tirade in Las Vegas, where Democrats were holding their summer conference. The speech was an orgy of ad hominem attacks, charging the President with "exploiting" 9/11 for political gain.
A sweeping indictment of the Bush administration, the media called it.
Ah, don't think so. 'Indictment' ascribes merit to the charges. There are no merits. McAuliff's attacks were not only baseless, they were utterly ridiculous.
And -- upon closer scrutiny -- brimming with contradictions.
McAuliffe, in one breath, trashes the President of using 9/11 for political reasons. But then, in the next, slams him for failing to use 9/11 for action on Social Security, health care, the economy.
McAuliffe blasts the President for "squandering" the surplus, but then demands that Bush spend more on domestic programs.
"It's a sad commentary on the state of the Democratic Party when they meet and cannot unite around a positive agenda and instead can only resort to negative attacks", said Scott McClellan, White House spokesman.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Anyway, that's...
My two cents...
"JohnHuang2"
They keep screaming the lies loudly and over longly. We must find a way to make the mainstream press more accountable to the truth.
They may want to spin the popular vote line but that is only a popularity contest. The Electoral Vote determines the President and George W. Bush got more votes than Junior. What's more, the popular vote was a difference of 0.51% (less than half of one percent of the vote), certainly inside the margin of error.
Bears repeating...
Put in terms Joe Sixpack can understand, this is like the difference between the Rams winning by one point or by 50 points...If they win by 50, they just get the one win they were playing for, not an automatic trip to the Super Bowl.
Gore GOT the electoral votes from NY and California. He's not entitled to more than that. That his final popular vote total was only a half million more than Bush when he got two & three times that in two states just points out how much of a putz the other 48 states thought he was, INCLUDING HIS OWN HOME STATE!
Here is one of the sites that I have used to view the results of 2000:
However, 43% of the voting public will STILL vote for the democRAT come whatever, or high water.
Being a systemic democRAT like that these days is akin to having a terminal disease.
IT is no wonder that they all tend to be lunatic and paranoid, who would be when worshiping such evil.
At least if you got Guillotine on your mind.
"A bas les Aristos!"
Regards,
Not to take away anything from your analogy and with all due respect I must point out the Rams didn't win the Super Bowl. As a long suffering Patriots (and Red Sox) fan I cannot give up my bragging rights to a Super Bowl Championship. Unless of course you are making a prediction for the next Super Bowl.
Yeah, right. And the world is round. :-)
That was more like a dollar JH!
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