Posted on 01/13/2004 9:20:42 AM PST by William McKinley
Some nice backpeddling by O'Neill here, don't you think?
Then why was the cover sheet flaunted as if the "attachments" were considered in the book?
Good question. I wonder why Katie didn't ask it? Maybe the interview was getting too depressing for her. She probably thought it would be safe to ask if he would vote for Bush. In the end she was begging Suskind to say something, anything.
Nope. No bias there.
With regard to O'Neill, someone must have really put the pressure on him. He's backpeddling like a circus clown on a unicycle.
The sad, sad point of all this is that the lemmings in the public will believe this tripe.
Let's take a few examples of insane liberal thinking:
O'Neill: If the cover page and the attachments were secret, the cover page was not secret.
Ok, so, "I didn't say what I said, I didn't do as I did." Yes indeed, that litmus test passes liberal muster.
Now, let's find and example of placing the blame somewhere else. That's any politician's first defense, notwithstanding republicans too. Liberals have to use this primary defense more often because they know their ideology never works in practice, and they have to resort to illegal measures to ram their tripe down the country's throat, right? Right. Ok.
O'Neill: What they will discover is the general counsel, the chief legal officer of the Treasury Department, went through all these documents and sent me things. Under the law, he's not supposed to send me anything that isn't unclassified. And so if there's anything in that file that's unclassified, the general counsel failed to be sure that everything was clear.
Ah, yes. Blame the general counsel. Liberal mantra above all others: take no responsibility for your own actions.
O'Neill: (I thought) that in the fourth quarter of 2003, the real growth rate would be 6 percent. It turned out to be 8.2 percent. I think the 2.2 percent came because of the third tax cut, but the price we are going to pay for it is enormous because it reduces our fiscal flexibility to fix Social Security, which we desperately need to do.
Ok. Myopic liberal thinking. Liberals look at the economy as a simple linear system that responds to stimuli, especially government stimuli. Stimulus, response. Stimulus, response, again.
Now, the dirty little secret none of the media wish to reveal is that under Reagan, it was proven that by decreasing taxes, the economy grew and government receipts went UP. More dollars are attracted to quality goods and services that are considered fairly priced. This creates revenue. Revenue creates tax reciepts for the treasury! Lower taxes produces GREATER income for the government.
Look at it this way. If we tax at 100%, no one will work. If we tax at 0%, we'll have no public roads or police. Therefore, somewhere in between is optimal. Economic growth is created by tax cuts, which, if the politicans were not so myopic and a little more patient, over the course of a relatively short time, they would be happy with GREATER income with which to give them their ego boost and power trip.
(shaking head) You know, I think it's about time to simply scream and check into a passport off the planet. (smile)
(snip)
COURIC: Well, let's talk about your assessment of the president and, I guess, his leadership style, for lack of a better term. You do describe him as disengaged. You do describe, I think if I can, sort of, try to assess your description, as policy having no process, kind of, being put together willy-nilly. You do describe him as a blind man in a room full of deaf people. So what are you saying about the way policy is established in this White House?
If Tom Brokaw thinks that's not biased, he's a deaf man in a room full of dumb people.
Bet not one in ten thousand have any idea who the current Secretary of Treasury is.
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