One needed stimulus missing from the Bush Stimulus Package.

1/8/2003 | Philip Freneau

[PhilipFreneau]

Last night, 1/7/2003, Charlie Rose had as his guests Nancy Pelosi and another liberal congressman to tout their "alternate plan" to Bush's unannounced stimulus plan. They went unchallenged by Rose. Rose promised that the following night (1/7/2003) the Republicans would be on to talk about the Bush plan.

Rose played the liberal game perfectly. He had a member of Bush's cabinet as a guest, but he also had Pete Petersen, the founder of the Concord Coalition. Petersen is opposed to the Bush plan (surprise!). Charlie and Pete introduced the liberal "tax cuts for the wealthy" spin into the discussion (surprise!). (To the credit of good-time Charlie, his show was less biased than Gwen Ifil's "Washington Week in Review", which always has a biased left-wing panel).

Oh, almost forgot. The needed stimulus missing from Bush Stimulus Plan is the elimination of federal support for PBS and NPR. That would help this nation immensely by stimulating more honest debate on public airways.

[BenLurkin]

"The role of government is not to manage or to control the economy from Washington, D.C., but to remove obstacles standing in the way for faster economic growth. "
George W. Bush January 7, 2003

>His words should be cast upon ten thousand brass plaques, and they in turn should be bolted next to the entrance to every Federal building in the United States.