Thursday, October 19, 2006
Takin' a fool to school
Hodan "P.T." Brown says he's agin' George W. Bush because "the president ... hasn't articulated a plan, a vision, or any sense of direction for this country since taking office." I don't know where Mr. Brown has been during the past six years. Wherever he was, he wasn't spending much time reading papers or watching the news.
The fact of the matter is that President Bush, by his words and deeds, has articulated very clearly his vision for America's future. Take the economy, for example. In 2003, President Bush proposed bold tax cuts on investment and capital in an effort to revive a sluggish economy. Three years later, the stock market is in record territory, annual GDP growth has been steady at just under 4 percent, unemployment keeps falling, and, as the Wall Street Journal reported recently, revenues to the U.S. treasury are growing at a faster rate than the overall economy. Pretty impressive, if you ask me.
Whether it's No Child Left Behind, the various faith-based initiatives, proposing individual investment accounts within Social Security, or the attempt to spread democracy in the Middle East, President Bush has done nothing but plan and propose bold visions. It takes a mighty uninformed/ill-informed individual to suggest that the president has spent the last six years doing and saying nothing.
That being said, I reject Mr. Brown's assertion that a vote for Harold Ford, Jr., aka Junior, is a vote for revolutionary change. Junior fancies himself a right-leaning Democrat who's not afraid to buck his party's leadership. When one examines Junior's record, however, one sees that he votes in almost perfect lockstep with the liberal-led Democratic caucus in the U.S. House. If Junior wins in November, it will take Tennesseans all of six months before they begin having buyer's remorse. Zell Miller he ain't.
The fact of the matter is that President Bush, by his words and deeds, has articulated very clearly his vision for America's future. Take the economy, for example. In 2003, President Bush proposed bold tax cuts on investment and capital in an effort to revive a sluggish economy. Three years later, the stock market is in record territory, annual GDP growth has been steady at just under 4 percent, unemployment keeps falling, and, as the Wall Street Journal reported recently, revenues to the U.S. treasury are growing at a faster rate than the overall economy. Pretty impressive, if you ask me.
Whether it's No Child Left Behind, the various faith-based initiatives, proposing individual investment accounts within Social Security, or the attempt to spread democracy in the Middle East, President Bush has done nothing but plan and propose bold visions. It takes a mighty uninformed/ill-informed individual to suggest that the president has spent the last six years doing and saying nothing.
That being said, I reject Mr. Brown's assertion that a vote for Harold Ford, Jr., aka Junior, is a vote for revolutionary change. Junior fancies himself a right-leaning Democrat who's not afraid to buck his party's leadership. When one examines Junior's record, however, one sees that he votes in almost perfect lockstep with the liberal-led Democratic caucus in the U.S. House. If Junior wins in November, it will take Tennesseans all of six months before they begin having buyer's remorse. Zell Miller he ain't.
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Thursday, October 19, 2006 
