USA Today/Gallup Poll
Here are the results of the just-completed polling from USA Today/Gallup. For what it's worth. . . Sorta explains why BushCo wants to keep everyone in a constant state of fear: It gets his numbers up into the 40's for a brief spell. Hmmm. . .as I recall. . ."Daddy" was at twice that number the year before Bill Clinton taught him a lesson on what resonates with the voting public. . .You remember. . .back in the days when we had honest elections and ballot-counting rather than the Supreme Court calling elections. . .and $28 barrels of oil, and scandals involving one blow job rather than 200 million Americans bending over and taking it again and again from this boy-king.
Come on. . .I know you remember that first balanced budget under the Clinton Administration, as well as welfare reform, sane environmental policies, and the reduction in the size of our federal government that occurred under the watch of Clinton and Gore. I know that you remember the first attack on the World Trade Center and that Bill Clinton put the perps of that attack in jail! Whereas Bush took his eye off of the ball, left Afghanistan to revert to Taliban control, never took the Saudis to task (most of the 9/11 terrorists hailed from there), and linked Iraq to the attack on New York.
I normally attempt to use some restraint on this blog, but my true feelings on this issue are as follows:
If YOU still beleive that Bush has done a fine job as our president, made America safer, and increased world opinion of us for the better, you've been drinking far too much "Rove Kool-Aid". Get a friggin' clue or remove yourself from the gene pool. . .
posted by John Good @ 10:36 PM
6 Comments:
I have one correction for your inspired rant John.
The Federal Government in no way shrank under Clinton and Gore.
It grew and grew by a lot.
You could say that it grew LESS under Clinton/Gore then it has under Bush/Cheney and that would be a true statement partner.
Mike Sylvester
let us not forget GW Bush's famous 'mission accomplished' quote after we 'won' the war in Iraq. That was a couple years ago.
You catch the Gov. on NPR this morning?
Mike,
I'm sure you know THIS guy:
AFP: Mr. Badnarik, the federal government has grown three times the size of the Democratic administration of President Bill Clinton. Who's to blame?
Badnarik: "Who's to blame? Who's in the White House? Who controls Congress?
"Over the last four years, the Republican administration and the Republican Congress have grown government like LBJ on a crack binge. They got a one-party government for the first time in 40 years by claiming that they'd cut government back. Now they're fresh out of excuses.
And another quote, from Hawaii:
Slom said Hawaii's Democrats should follow the lead of the previous national administration to cut the size of government to stimulate the national economy.
"It's been mastered by a Democratic president, Bill Clinton, who was able to reduce the size of federal government to where it was under President Kennedy," he said.
John:
I do know that guy, and he is 100% wrong on this statistic.
The Government has not tripled in size in the last five years, that is absurd. PLEASE...
Per the Congressional Budget Office (PLEASE feel free to go and check these numbers ANY time):
Federal Spending in fiscal year 2000 was 1,789 Billion Dollars.
Federal Spending in fiscal year 2005 was 2,472 Billion Dollars.
This is an increase of 7.6% per year or a total increase of 38.2%. So the Federal Government did NOT triple in size.
I am an Accountant, take my word for this one...
The Federal Government did grow by a large and wasteful amount and The Republicans should be ashmed of themselves. They are a large government party.
Mike Sylvester
Fort Wayne Libertarian
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