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Why Win If You're Going to Wimp Out? (Rush Limbaugh asks Republicans)
rushlimbaugh ^ | January 2, 2003 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 01/02/2003 5:26:45 PM PST by TLBSHOW

Why Win If You're Going to Wimp Out?

January 2, 2003

There is no reason for going soft on the Bush agenda, yet we're doing that more and more on everything from ending racial discrimination (aka: affirmative action) to tax fairness to Saddam. If we'd already dealt with him, we wouldn't be faced with this supposed dilemma over whether North Korea or Iraq should be our primary focus. It's not a dilemma, anyway. They're both going to be dealt with, so there's no reason to create these openings.

Reuters reports that President Bush plans to unveil an economic stimulus package expected to reach up to $300 billion, including "targeted" tax cuts, but only a 50% cut in taxes on corporate dividends to shareholders. The original proposal was to eliminate them, because it's immoral to tax earnings twice. It's double taxation. It's ridiculous. For crying out loud, why do you win the White House and Senate if you're only going to water down your agenda?

I love this administration when it comes to foreign policy and protecting us from terrorism, but I continue to scratch my head over some of this on the domestic side. If this Reuters story isn't just wishful thinking, the White House is going to shelve tax cuts because they fear the Democratic lie that it's "for the rich." They don't have the sand to go out there and cite the IRS figures we have on this site, proving that only the rich are paying income taxes.

Who are "the rich," anyway? It used to be millionaires. Today it's any family that earns $100,000 a year - and we have multimillionaires like Kerry and Edwards and Rockefeller and Kennedy saying, "I have my wealth, so I don't favor a wealth tax, but I'm going to tax income so you can't get wealthy."

The White House is also said to be staying out of the Supreme Court case of a woman kept out of the University of Michigan because of her skin color: white. Admission based on race is wrong, but the administration fears taking the woman's side because it would damage White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' Supreme Court confirmation.

They're also ready to extend unemployment insurance yet again – which means paying people not to work by taking the money from those of us who are working. Folks, the Democrats are going to criticize us no matter what we do. It's absurd to back down on our agenda. As Senator Mitch McConnell told me in our upcoming Limbaugh Letter interview, the Senate only has six months to get things done. The Democrats want to bottle things up so they can have issues. Why help them out?


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Hey hey, Put that broad brush back away, I've only been out of work once since I was 15, And that was because of a motorcyle accident where I broke 13 bones.

:-)

101 posted on 01/02/2003 8:18:06 PM PST by MJY1288
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To: Mo1
That is good, or we would become the democrats!
102 posted on 01/02/2003 8:18:37 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Work is always just a click away! :>)
103 posted on 01/02/2003 8:19:36 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
He probably still does.

If anything, he may not think that Trent is a good leader.

It's politics TLB, it has nothing to do with how you "feel" about an individual.

104 posted on 01/02/2003 8:19:54 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: HankReardon
Rumsfield also said "another attack is a certainty", there is a statement from your "People of Trust" for you to file away, you may need to heed that statement more than the other. Whose to know?
105 posted on 01/02/2003 8:23:38 PM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: dogbyte12
Some things just take longer to die, I guess.


106 posted on 01/02/2003 8:25:02 PM PST by justshe
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To: 4Freedom
pssst! over here!
107 posted on 01/02/2003 8:27:40 PM PST by ovrtaxt
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To: TLBSHOW
"Nice picture of the president with Trent! He thinks Trent is a great guy!"

I'm sure the president still thinks he is a great guy, But politics has always been a cut-throat game, and Trent is just it's latest victim. Trent will be there helping the GOP controled Senate and hats off to him for not taking his ball and going home. We havn't seen the last of Trent.

I'm sure Trent Lott is much like most conservatives who believe that "Whatever doesn't kill me, Will make me stronger" He's a big boy, You should follow his lead and move on

FReegards and Happy New Year TLBSHOW,

108 posted on 01/02/2003 8:28:22 PM PST by MJY1288
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Statement by the President


"I respect the very difficult decision Trent made on behalf of the American people.

As Majority and Minority Leader of the Senate, Trent Lott improved education for the American people; he led the way in securing tax relief; he strengthened our national security; and he stood for a bold and effective foreign policy.

Trent is a valued friend, and a man I respect. I am pleased he will continue to serve our Nation in the Senate, and I look forward to working with him on our agenda to make America safer, stronger, and better."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2002/12/20021220.html
109 posted on 01/02/2003 8:32:58 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: TLBSHOW
January 2, 2003

U.S. to maintain N. Korean food aid

From combined dispatches The Bush administration plans to continue humanitarian food shipments to North Korea in the new year, U.S. officials said, despite Pyongyang's continued belligerence in pursuit of its nuclear ambitions.

"We expect to continue providing the same level of aid to the [United Nations] World Food Program in Korea as we have in the past," a senior administration official said in reply to questions from Reuters news agency. "We don't use food as a political weapon."

But North Korea appealed yesterday to widespread anti-American sentiment among South Koreans by seeking support in its confrontation with the United States over nuclear weapons.

"It can be said that there exists on the Korean peninsula at present only confrontation between the Koreans in the North and the South and the United States," the communist state said in its New Year's message.

It is North Korea's long-standing strategy to drive a wedge between Seoul and its chief ally, Washington. A senior South Korean diplomat arrived in Beijing yesterday to seek China's support in persuading North Korea to give up its nuclear ambitions.

Lee Tae-sik, South Korea's deputy foreign minister, will meet Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing today, South Korean officials said.

South Korea also plans to send a vice foreign minister to Moscow later this week. China and Russia maintain friendly ties with the communist North, and they have urged a peaceful solution to the rising tension.

On the issue of food aid, the United States has argued in the past that such aid should be isolated from geo-strategic considerations — an idea summed up by former President Ronald Reagan's dictum that "a hungry child knows no politics."

But the timing of a U.S. food-aid announcement was up in the air while Washington pressed to reverse the North's recent steps toward restarting a nuclear program frozen in a 1994 nonproliferation deal with the United States.

The aid would come at a time when the reclusive communist state — long considered by Washington as one of its most dangerous enemies — is perhaps more vulnerable to outside pressure than ever. In the mid- to late 1990s, as many as 2.5 million North Koreans, or about 10 percent of the population, died in a famine.

North Korea, which can not feed its 22 million people without outside help, risked losing key sources of aid in the recent weeks by moving to restart its mothballed nuclear program, expelling U.N. inspectors and threatening to pull out of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. One of the two nuclear inspectors expelled by North Korea, Missak Demirdjian, arrived yesterday in Vienna, Austria, on a flight from Beijing. He fended off all questions, saying only: "We, of course, hope to go back as soon as possible."

The United States has already cut off monthly fuel oil shipments it had been making since 1994, worth about $75 million annually.

In a Dec. 3 appeal, the U.N. agency urged donor nations to help feed 6.4 million "particularly vulnerable" North Koreans among a population of 22 million, as part of a $201 million emergency operation this year.

The main beneficiaries would be children from ages 6 months to 10 years, pregnant and nursing women, the elderly, and those particularly affected by natural disasters and the country's dire economic straits, said Rick Corsino, the group's country director for North Korea. The senior official who responded to Reuters' queries said the administration would not know how much it will contribute until the fiscal 2004 budget was completed. It is due to be sent to Congress next month.

Rep. Mark Steven Kirk, an Illinois Republican who toured North Korea in the 1990s as a House International Relations Committee staffer, said North Korea's behavior had already cost it food aid from Japan and Europe. "No matter how incompetent the regime may be, it's critical that we step in to save the next generation," Mr. Kirk said, adding that the administration was loath to make a food-aid announcement in the same week that Pyongyang was expelling the last two U.N. nuclear monitors.

North Korea's emphasis on "cooperation" with South Korea comes at a time when Seoul is criticizing a U.S. push to isolate North Korea in the standoff over Pyongyang's nuclear program. North Korea's overtures are also driven by economic needs, analysts said.

Under President Kim Dae-jung's "sunshine policy" of engaging the North, South Korea has begun a series of unfinished inter-Korean projects, including a cross-border rail link, and tourist and industrial parks, that would bring the impoverished North badly needed cash. Although North Korea's recent decision to reactivate its nuclear program angered much of the world, it provoked little reaction among most South Koreans. Both Mr. Kim and President-elect Roh Moo-hyun, who will take office in late February, insist that North Korea not develop nuclear weapons.

But they have vowed to press on with an engagement policy toward the North and have expressed concern that Washington might impose heavy economic pressure on Pyongyang.

Nearly 2 million troops are massed on both sides of the Korean border. About 37,000 U.S. soldiers back the South Koreans. Anti-U.S. sentiment is evident on the streets of Seoul. Thousands of South Koreans have joined street rallies to protest the deaths of two teenage girls accidentally killed in June by a U.S. military vehicle.

110 posted on 01/02/2003 8:35:32 PM PST by FreeSpeechZone
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To: TLBSHOW
And?
111 posted on 01/02/2003 8:35:40 PM PST by Luis Gonzalez
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To: Luis Gonzalez
Ok attention Bushies the President today gave a hint of the next battle with the rats! Its going to be called class warfare!

here it is!

Bush promises new economic plan, not 'class warfare'

Thu Jan 2, 8:22 PM ET

By MARTIN CRUTSINGER, AP Economics Writer

WASHINGTON - Seeking to counter criticism that his economic policies favor the rich, President George W. Bush (news - web sites) said the plan he will unveil next week to stimulate the economy will focus on jobs and the unemployed.



"I'm concerned about all people," Bush said Thursday. "I understand the politics of economic stimulus, that some would like to turn this into class warfare. That's not how I think. I think about the overall economy and how best to help those folks who are looking for work."



112 posted on 01/02/2003 8:41:25 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: Luis Gonzalez
People who have 24/7 and listen in the evening.
113 posted on 01/02/2003 8:42:37 PM PST by mathluv
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To: FreeSpeechZone
Thanks, that is another issue! The world cannot say Americans are cold hearted jerks now can they? The enemy threatens and we feed them, reminds me of a bible story!
114 posted on 01/02/2003 8:44:01 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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To: M. Thatcher
Rush doesn't wallow.

Really? He's still talking about Trent Lott, AND he recognizes that it was long-knived conservatives who had their own selfish motives in cheering for Lott's demise.

But, I'm done with this. I'm just watching to see how long it will be before the sanctimonious will find something about Frist that will cause them to get a rope.

115 posted on 01/02/2003 8:45:31 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: Luis Gonzalez; justshe
It's politics

Ain't this just the most retro thread?

I keep thinking of the Civil War recreators when I see these posts:
Fighting the same battles, crying the same tears, dying the same deaths, over, and over...



Look away! Look away! Look away...

116 posted on 01/02/2003 8:46:13 PM PST by Sabertooth
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To: Luis Gonzalez
One is the President of the United States of America, and the other one is Howard Stern without lesbians.

Luis, what an outrageous remark.

Rush has done more for conservatism than George W. (whom I love) will ever do.

117 posted on 01/02/2003 8:47:56 PM PST by sinkspur
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To: sinkspur
Bush is not a conservative, that's fer shure.
118 posted on 01/02/2003 8:51:01 PM PST by Fred Mertz
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To: ex-snook
For crying out loud!
Do your homework instead believing the liberal drival that
"we can't afford a tax cut".
TAX CUTS INCREASE TOTAL FEDERAL REVENUE!
It's a result of increased productivitiy and financial growth.
When Reagan cut taxes, federal revenue doubled!
The only reason there were deficits is because Congress increased spending 50% beyond that!
119 posted on 01/02/2003 8:51:38 PM PST by G Larry
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To: Sabertooth
Fighting the same battles, crying the same tears, dying the same deaths, over, and over...

Surely one of the hundreds of other threads grabs your attention.

So, find it.

120 posted on 01/02/2003 8:52:43 PM PST by sinkspur
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