[Rhodes22-list] The Democrats new promise "A New Direction for America" (Political)

[Rob Lowe]

You gotta love Brad's style of debating.  Instead of answering a question,
just assert something without any supporting evidence.  And if that doesn't
work, just say something is silly and avoid the issue.  How needs facts?
Bush was not in charge when 9/11 happened?  Already the history books are
being rewritten.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brad Haslett" <flybrad at gmail.com>
To: "The Rhodes 22 mail list" <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 9:28 AM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] The Democrats new promise "A New Direction for
America" (Political)


> Rob,
> I vote for you for Chief Cherry Picker.  The tax cuts for the so called *
> uber* rich have worked.  After all, they are the ones who pay the taxes
> (read my previous post or do your own research at irs.gov.)  We had a
> balanced budget during the last years under Clinton because their was a
big
> mood swing in 1994 and the new Congress wouldn't fund new social programs
> and the dot.com boom brought in record tax revenues. As a good friend of
> mine says, "Clinton is the best conservative President we ever had."  Bush
> 43 changed all that.  He's been a huge social spender, Medicare and the
> Dept. of Education just to name two, and yes, war costs a hell of a lot of
> money.
>
> Your second observation is so silly I shouldn't even comment.  Read "The
> Looming Towers".  Every President since FDR owns a piece of 9/11. Maybe we
> should start evaluating Presidential candidates on the quality of their
ESP.
>
> Brad
>
> PS - Breathe easy everyone, I really, really do have to go to work.
>
>
>
> On 1/12/07, Rob Lowe <rlowe at vt.edu> wrote:
> > Hank,
> > My Dad sent the same thing to me.  More meaningless drivel.  You can
> cherry
> > pick event's to make a case that the party in power is doing well/poorly
> > anytime.  But to address the lowest hanging fruit.
> >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > *The Federal deficit is down almost 50% over last year, just as
> > predicted.*
> >
> > There was NO federal deficit when Bush was elected.  In fact there was a
> > surplus.  To claim sucess for reducing the yearly debt is meaningless.
To
> > take it a step farther, when Bush was elected the total Federal debt was
> > something like $6 trillion.  It's now $9 trillion.  1/3 of the current
> > national debt (in a nation over 200 years old) has been racked up in the
> > last 5 years.  Now if that money have been invested in infrastructure or
> > gone towards programs that had benefited the general populace, than
maybe
> > that's tolerable.  But in reality the money went for the most part to
the
> > uber rich in the form of tax cuts.  Bush's war in Iraq has totaled about
> 0.5
> > trillion so far, also financed with debt.  Which means your children,
> > grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will be saddled with it while we
> get
> > to enjoy our couple hundred dollar a year tax reduction bone that they
> threw
> > us.
> >
> > >>
> > > *Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01.*
> > >\
> > >
> > 9/11/01?  What an interesting choice of dates.  Why not choose 9/10/01
or
> > 9/09/01?  The facts are the worse terrorist attack in the history of our
> > country took place under a republican administration.  And this is after
> the
> > previous administraction told the Bush administration the danger posed
by
> > Al-Queida, which was not taken seriously.  When will the American people
> > hold the Bush administration responsible for failing to protect us?  and
> > let's not forget the second worse terrorist attack on Americans, the
> bombing
> > of the Marine barracks in Lebonon, which happened under President Regan.
> > But republicans love to point to the attack on the US Cole (during the
> > Clinton adminstration) where 17 sailors were killed.  When republicans
> start
> > holding republicans accountable then I'll take this stuff seriously.
> >
> > - Rob
> > (all politicians are scum)
> >
> >
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