IPW Daily Report – Wednesday, March 10, 2004
"It's impossible to imagine the Democratic Party
seeking a pro-life, free-trading,
non-protectionist, deficit hawk,"
John McCain told
ABC's "Good Morning America" during an interview
about illegal steroid use that he would consider
being Sen. John Kerry’s V.P. "They'd have
to be taking some steroids, I think, in order to
let that happen."
"That status of war led me to find it impossible
to suggest I wouldn't want to blow Osama bin
Laden's brains out and treat him as an enemy,"
John Kerry said.
Taxes & economy
Soft money targets Bush
New York beware
Taxes & economy
Sen. John Kerry was in a dual with President Bush
on the nation’s economy as the President visited
Ohio and Kerry was preparing to meet with the
AFL-CIO union.
Kerry announced that he would raise taxes on those
making over $200,000 a year to the usurious
Clinton rate of taxation. Clearly John F. Kerry
does not agree with John F. Kennedy, who knew that
the way to stimulate the economy is to cut taxes
-- including taxes to the wealthy. Kennedy was the
first supply-side politician.
Kerry, speaking via satellite to the unions, said,
"George Bush is running on the same old Republican
tactics of fear — and they're already getting
tired," he said. "It's clear that this president
will fight like hell to keep his own job, but he
won't lift a finger to help Americans keep
theirs."
Somehow, Kerry believes that giving tax cuts to
those who own small businesses and pay taxes at
the individual rate is costing middle class
citizens. The fact that the economy improved and
most economists attribute that improvement to the
tax cuts was never mentioned by Kerry.
Kerry still fails to explain how increasing taxes
will improve the economy and not cause even
greater number of jobs to be lost.
Campaigning in Ohio, President Bush challenged an
even more dangerous trend in the Democrats -- to
isolate America in the traditions of Smoot-Hawley,
which brought on the Great Depression:
"Their agenda is to increase federal taxes, to
build a wall around this country, and to isolate
America from the rest of the world," Bush said
Bush also took on Kerry’s tax increases, "That old
policy of tax and spend is the enemy of job
creation; the old policy of economic isolationism
is a recipe for economic disaster," he said.
"Americans have moved beyond that tired, defeatist
mind-set, and we're not going back. There's a
better way."
Soft money targets Bush
The Washington Post reports on Democrats
subverting the new McCain-Fiengold law:
Led by veterans of presidential and congressional
campaigns, a coalition of Democratic Party
interest groups, armed with millions of dollars in
soft money, is rapidly constructing an
unprecedented political operation designed to
supplement the activities of Sen. John F. Kerry's
campaign in the effort to defeat President Bush.
Republicans continue to wait on the Federal
Elections commission to determine whether the
actions being taken by the Democrats are legal. If
the FEC rules the actions legal, the Republicans
are sure to follow suit.
The 527 PAC the Media Group has an effective ad
that backs up Kerry’s premise of class warfare and
states Bush is only supporting the wealthy and
hurting the middle class.
New York beware
Does NY want an abuser?
There is talk about Bill Clinton (the lover not a
fighter, or at least in the oval office) becoming
Mayor of New York City.
However, New York might want to checkout Dick
Morrison’s article about how then Arkansas
Governor Clinton attacked Morris. He offers the
article to correct lies in Hillary Clinton’s book,
Living History.
The real reason I was reluctant was that Bill
Clinton had tried to beat me up in May of 1990 as
he, you, Gloria Cabe, and I were together in the
Arkansas governor's mansion. At the time, Bill was
worried that he was falling behind his democratic
primary opponent and verbally assaulted me for not
giving his campaign the time he felt it deserved.
Offended by his harsh tone, I turned and stalked
out of the room.
Bill ran after me, tackled me, threw me to the
floor of the kitchen in the mansion and cocked his
fist back to punch me. You grabbed his arm and,
yelling at him to stop and get control of himself,
pulled him off me. Then you walked me around the
grounds of the mansion in the minutes after, with
your arm around me, saying, "He only does that to
people he loves."
I continued to work for Bill since I felt a
responsibility to do so until Election Day in
1990. But our relationship was never close and
never the same. After the 1990 campaign we parted
ways as a direct result of the altercation.
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