OMG. How did you ever remember that?
We are to seize taxpayer dollars out of the economy, trust lifetime government bureaucrats who never ran a successful business in the real world to then dole them out to whomever they in their infinite ignorance think are worthy of “investment” for the future economy?
Yes.
And, try to point that out to the members of this forum as a warning about the GOPe of Bush prior to 2000?
The Bush-bots would not stand for it --- took them years to realize, what you wrote.
Rush Limbaugh saw it coming, when Bush representatives flew to Washington, to see Trent Lott and Orin Hatch, about negotiating a deal to release William Clinton from being cashiered from office.
What you wrote, was the biggest reason for the large outlays of cash spent for the Bush campaign. The system for repeating that method of campaigning, continued for Bush 2004, for McCain 2008, for Romney 2012, and Rove is pushing it ... again.
The GOPe method of "campaigning" is negotiating lucrative deals; they think that they are making progress, because they hold endless negotiation meetings/sessions.
The pressing problem, that the foundations of liberty are ignored by the GOP, remains, ignored.
The GOPe remains fearful of being accused of being "MEANSPIRITED" by defending freedom. As it was, when Bush accused Americans of being "vigilantes" for defending our laws. The "vigilantes" including parents of our kids in uniform, which parents own land along the borders of the U.S.A.
The same GOPe that now would rather kick a member of the Tea Party to the curb, than refuse a lucrative deal bone tossed from the fine dining table at Chez Big Government.