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Originally posted by SlaveNoMore
We're counting on it.
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Note that the fight involving Specter is one where Arlen departed from Bush Orthodoxy, and he's getting de-pantsed for it even after he ran away from his earlier remarks.
Imagining deficit hawks standing up to Bush requires, among other things, a willful disregard of the last several years that the GOP was at the fiscal helm. I like the theme, Slave, but if you can tell me how this will credibly happen when we know that Bush tells us he plans to "spend his political capital" by simultaneuously doing the following .....
* "Reform" the tax code in some heretofore unknown way, which I cannot believe will result in a net increase in the aggregate tax burden
* Reform SocSec, with some eventual explanation for the additional $1 Trillion it'll take to accomplish his goal
* Make the 2001 tax cuts permanent, at an estimated cost of $1-2 Trillion
AND
*"Reduce the federal deficit by half in the next 4 years."
..... I'd love to hear it. Even Carnac the Magnificent couldn't pull all this shit off at once. Which of the above incompatible goals do YOU think Bush will cast overboard in pursuit of his agenda?
