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)
Bet not one in ten thousand have any idea who the current Secretary of Treasury is.
Perhaps things have changed since I worked with classified documents, but usually the cover sheet was labeled to indicate what the classification of the document inside was, i.e. confidential, secret, top secret etc. Put simply, the cover page was used to indicate if there was classified material enclosed instead of letting anyone open the document and then find out that they had comprimised security (need to know and all that).