On Bush's radical speech
My comments are in Italics, whereas W's stuff isn't.
"Our challenges will be overcome with optimism and resolve..."
Don't forget money... Lots and lots of my money
Bush went on to play the blame game with a list of reasons why the economy sucks so badly. Among them: Sept. 11th, corporate scandals, and wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Basically giving the "I didn't do it" speech.
Bush then outlined his 6 point plan to get the economy back on track
1- Healthcare - giving small businesses access to the same assoc. Healthcare plans of big businesses.
That's lovely... What about me? I'm working a temp job. I don't have healthcare no matter what size businesses can offer it.
2- Effective legal reform to stop frivolous lawsuits against doctors - class action lawsuits that cross state lines should be held in a federal court.
This seems about right, though going after lawyers is pretty easy.
3- A sound national energy policy finding clean energy sources ("...for national security America must be less dependent on foreign sources of energy.")
So... you're planning on drilling in Alaska, then?
4- Needless government regulations hinder new jobs, so they should be gotten rid of
Basically saying that he wants to get rid of some paper work. How did this make it into a 6 point plan for the economy? If it was a 200 point plan I would understand a paper-work-reduction act, but I'm not sure I'm going for this one. Saying that you're going to "eliminate needless government regulations" just makes me worry about your definition of "needless".
5- Pursue free-trade agreements to open markets for us products.
In other words, force other countries to sell our genetically modified and hormone filled products.
6- Make sure that all the tax-relief we pass does not disappear in future years. The tax cuts are scheduled to go away and Bush wants to make them permanent.
This just makes it so that in the future administrations will need to "raise taxes" just to get back to where we were before the tax cuts, instead of simply eliminating the tax cuts. Taxes will go up no matter what, having the cuts made permanent just makes the next administration lose more face.
"Who can possibly think that the world would be a better place with Saddam Hussein still in power?... Certainly not the victims of the rape rooms"!
That wasn't the question, you idiot. No one argued that he was a good guy, I think they argued that the way you went about removing him was stupid. And why do you always need to bring up rape rooms in every speech about Hussein's past (as he did in his speech to the UN on Sept. 23)? I know they're bad, but going after female voters like that is kind of transparent. And who's really the threat? North Korea is talking about testing a nuclear weapon!
Then, in reference to the new Iraq: "free nations are peaceful nations." But aren't we "free"? Aren't we at war on multiple fronts? Terror, drugs, etc. Who's peaceful?
Can Bush really be this transparent? I'm consistently astounded and baffled as to why the rest of the country doesn't pick up on this stuff. I recognize that all politicians do this same stuff, democrats, republicans, everybody, but that doesn't make it RIGHT. Does it?
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