IPW Daily Report – March 29, 2004
"The only people responsible for the terror
attacks on Sept. 11 were al-Qaeda — not the
government, not the Bush administration or the
Clinton administration. It was al-Qaeda,"
Karen Hughes
said.
Vice President
Cheney prepared remarks say: "He [John
Kerry] has given the usual assurances that in
those first 100 days he's planning, only the
wealthiest Americans can expect higher taxes. But
voters are entitled to measure that campaign
promise against Senator Kerry's long record in
support of higher taxes for every income group."
"My greatest worry about the Kerry candidacy is
that the competence and confidence it's
demonstrated early on in rapid reaction to news of
the day will come at the expense of an organized
and systematic effort to tell the American people
what John Kerry would do as president of the
United States,"
said William Galston, a University of Maryland
professor and former Clinton domestic adviser.
"By the end of the campaign, if people can't
spontaneously name two or three things that are
big things that he would do differently, then I
think the campaign will not have succeeded in
getting across the whole message."
"I think they want someone who is younger, who
doesn't come from the Northeast, who isn't as
liberal as I am, and someone who could deliver a
state," said
Mario Cuomo about his chances of being V.P.
“[Congressman] DeMint's fear, that dependency
produces "learned helplessness," echoes
Tocqueville's warning about government keeping
people "fixed irrevocably in childhood," rendering
"the employment of free will less useful and more
rare." It is, Tocqueville said, "difficult to
conceive how men who have entirely renounced the
habit of directing themselves could succeed at
choosing well those who will lead them."
-- writes George
Will.
Did Clarke commit perjury?
New Bush ad features Boston cop
Bush Campaign talks taxes
Did Clarke commit perjury?
Richard Clarke on NBC’s Meet the Press stated that
the strategy of the Clinton administration was the
same strategy that the Bush administration adopted
on Sept. 10, 2001. In other words, if the
administration had listened to Clarke then there
wouldn’t have been a delay.
The curious aspect is that the Bush administration
made this minor change in policy of moving toward
eliminating al Qaeda as opposed to the
Clinton actions of trying to roll-back al
Qaeda. So, Clarke never quite explained how the
strategy adopted by the Bush administration on al
Qaeda was the same as when he proposed it in the
beginning of the Bush administration.
Then there is the adamant past statements by
Clarke that the Clinton administration never had a
strategy concerning al Qaeda.
There is ample reason why Senate Majority Bill
Frist and the Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert
want to unseal Clarke’s classified testimony from
previous sworn testimonies to Congress. It is
called perjury.
New Bush ad features Boston cop
The Bush campaign is airing a new radio ad in the
17 battleground states. It features a Boston law
enforcement officer:
Jay Moccia:
"My name is Jay Moccia. I'm a law enforcement
officer in the greater Boston area.
And for the record, I think you guys have a
funny accent, too.
John Kerry has been my Senator for 20 years.
Now he's running for President. You might want
to know him the way some of us in Massachusetts
do.
Take his record on taxes.
John Kerry likes to raise taxes. So much so
he's voted for higher taxes 350 times …
I'm a working guy with six kids. The last thing
I need is another Kerry tax increase. Senator
Kerry also voted to increase taxes on seniors'
Social Security benefits.
No it's not fair at all … these people have
worked their whole lives and to put a tax on them
is just wrong.
And sad to say, John Kerry even voted against
giving small businesses tax breaks so they could
provide health care for their employees.
It looks like Kerry's gonna raise taxes about
900 billion dollars within his first hundred days
in office.
I'd say look it, trust me, John Kerry likes to
raise taxes. It's what he's done before and you
know he'll do it again.
That's just … just wrong."
Mr. Moccia — let's get ready to rumble (with the
Kerry campaign)!!!
The Boston Globe reports that some of the Bush
campaign tactics (like using a Boston law
enforcement officer) are designed to personally
upset Sen. John Kerry:
"Every good campaign tries to play a little
psychological warfare with the other side," said
Mike Murphy, the Republican strategist who ran
Mitt Romney's campaign in 2002. "While it won't
win or lose a campaign, it will help on the
margins . . . You want to keep your opponent
off-balance psychologically."
Bush Campaign talks taxes
The Bush ‘04 campaign is going to change the
discussion to taxes if it can. Vice President Dick
Cheney will address the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
and question Kerry’s commitment to tax cuts.
Cheney will report that Kerry voted against
creating the new 10 percent bracket; against
repealing the inheritance tax; against cutting
taxes on dividend income; and against raising the
amount of investment expenses that businesses can
write off.
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