THE CASE for bush's re-election

[rainstorm]

AND LET'S HEAR ANOTHER BIG "I TOLD YOU SO!"

Do you remember that nifty little prescription drug benefit program that President Bush pushed through the congress? When did he sign the bill? Last month, that's when. He signed in in January. And just how much was that supposed to cost us? Yeah! I remember! It was going to cost us about $400 billion for the first ten years, and then somewhere near $2 trillion or more for the ten years following.

I seem to remember one tall and slightly balding libertarian talk show host telling you back then that you shouldn't believe the cost estimates. They were merely political positioning and the actual cost would be higher ... much higher.

Well, Lordy Lordy! Whaddayaknow? It seems like the budget that George Bush is going to send to the congress next week is going to show the first 10-year price tag for this prescription drug benefit program to be not $400 billion, but about one-third more at $540 billion! In the space of a little over one month we've added $140 billion to the price of this prescription program. One month. Do you want to make any guesses what this is going to cost when it finally goes into effect? I'll bet you that the actual first decade cost of providing this coverage to the Gimme Generation is going to approach one trillion dollars. That's trillion, with a "t".

BUT I'M MORE AFRAID OF THE ISLAMIC GOONS THAN I AM OF BUSH'S SPENDING

After all, it is conceivable that some future congress can actually do something to turn back the obscene spending increases we've seen out of George Bush. Not likely, but conceivable. It is far more likely, however, that if we see an appeasement-oriented Democrat take the reigns next year we'll see not only the same level of spending (if not worse) but a weakened posture against Islamic terrorism that will end up costing us lives .... thousands of lives, perhaps tens of thousands.

The bottom line here is that no matter how disgusting Bush's spending might be, no matter how offensive it might be to his core conservative base, there is no Democrat running in this race who would spend any less. Every single Democrat running for congress has a new-spending agenda that ranges from a low of $169 billion a year for Joseph Lieberman, to a high of $1.3 trillion a year for Al "The Liar" Sharpton. Now it's true that every single one of these candidates promises to raise taxes on the evil, ugly, nasty, putrid rich by overturning Bush's tax cuts, but that would only put about $135 billion back in the budget (and that's not counting any reduction in tax revenue caused by the resulting economic slowdown). So each and every Democratic candidate would increase the budget deficit. The frontrunner, John Kerry, would increase the deficit by about $130 billion a year.

So ... a classic damned if you do, damned if you don't situation here. Vote for Bush and you get runaway government spending, but you also get a strong defense and an aggressive war against the Islamic terrorists who want to kill as many Americans as they can, on our own soil if possible, and to destroy the American way of life. Vote for a Democrat and you get the same runaway government spending, but as an added bonus you get the appeasement of our enemy, instead of its destruction. Vote for Bush and you get some appeals court judges who actually have an appreciation of our Constitution .. plus runaway spending. Vote for a Democrat and you get activists judges who will use judicial fiat to enact the leftist agenda ... plus runaway spending.

I understand the strong impulse to punish Bush for his free spending ways by withholding your support in November. The price for sitting on hands could be huge. It could be another terrorist attack on American soil, this time with tens of thousands dead. It could be higher spending, a bigger deficit, and a slowed economy brought on by higher taxes. It could be the end of a dream of Social Security reform ... and the list goes on.

And then ... there's always the hope that in a second Bush term he could actually start dancing with who brung him


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[stormchazer]

Amen....I really do not get it. President Bush may be careful or he will lose his base. Domestically, he appears to be a Democrat in Republican clothing. He is lucky that a strong independent like Pat Buchanan is not running or he might find himself run out of the White House!!

[rainstorm]

if it werent for the fact that a dem would surrender, bush would not stand a chance

[JQ Public]

interesting