Update: George Bush on Tax Cut Claims – A Heckuva Claim

The Washington Post published a response on Jan 6, 2006 to Bush’s Wall Street Journal Op-Ed piece (proclaiming how his tax cuts had bolstered the economy.) While I have called the President a pathological liar on this subject, the Post editorial is not so strident, but extremely unflattering to Bush, nonetheless:

…The claim about fueling record revenue is flat wrong, and it is shocking that the president should persist in making such errors. After all, tax cuts are the central plank of his domestic policy. How can he fail to understand the basic facts about them?

The Post editorial is spot on and I love their last paragraph, it’s so true:

Mr. Bush’s op-ed included nice statements about bipartisan cooperation. But the Democrats would be more likely to cooperate with the president if he stopped making things up.

They all but called Bush a liar – close enough for me.

In other news, albeit local, I had a terrific conservation today with a local media personality who is the brother of Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, whom I think is a great guy. I had no idea that there were only two degrees of separation between the governor and myself – small world these days. See ya, Rudy!! {;~)
Denny

YUP, REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ WAR!

I’m beginning to be a fan of a lot of the Huffington Post’s writers, Cenk Uygur being one of my favorites. He’s a lawyer, and co-host of THE YOUNG TURKS, a morning show on Air America. He wrote a blog piece for the Huff-Po folks, entitled: THE REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ, to which I replied:

You said it so lucidly Mr. Uygur. The blame for losing the Iraq War rests squarely on the Republican shoulders. Anyone who tried to inject sanity into their jingoistic monologue was scorned as a traitor. From day one I was incensed by Ann Coulter calling anyone who openly disagreed with the President, ON ANY TOPIC, an unpatriotic traitor. We all should have been rounded and tried like terrorists, in Ann’s and Rush’s and O’Reilly’s insane, reptilian worldview.

I am concerned that Democrats will now be roped into the “blame pool,” having won both houses. However Rumsfeld’s latest leaked memo written two days before he resigned, and the fact that most of the mainstream media now call it a Civil War, should limit the Democrat’s liability for the calamity ahead. Watch, though, the neocons will still be grousing that if they had been given enough time they would have pulled Iraq out of its current funk. (Hey neo-knotheads, it’s gone on longer than the America’s involvement in W.W. II.

The failed Republican – neocon approach has ignited a searing fire in the bellies of future generations of Middle Eastern jihadists. They will rightfully blame the U.S. for the 650,000 civilian deaths in Iraq.

The best approach to the Iraq situation would have been to grant more time to the initial weapons inspectors, and to a diplomatic solution.

I feel that your main point, Mr Uygur, needs to be hammered out loudly and firmly for the media and the world to hear, and remember. Say it loud! Say it proud! REPUBLICANS LOST IRAQ!

I feel that this bears repeating as a mantra for a while, vain and arrogant as it may sound, as a dose of reality to Republicans, neocons, their followers, and the rightwing media who have been pounding the terrorist war drums for the last five years. We need to drum this truth, into their heads.

If you have not yet checked out the Huffington Post, you need to do so, daily, or hourly if you are like me. It updates several times an hour, tracks the main wireline news, and has the best bloggers out there. It’s a national treasure. Give them a visit.

I’ve got several posts to get pasted up in the next few days – maybe Tuesday, or so. Thanks for your patience, Denny.