Jobs Report Leads Bush* to Defend Reliance on Tax Cuts

[kskiska]

INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 5 — Today's unexpectedly bad employment report dashed the White House's hopes of going into the heat of the presidential campaign with clear evidence of an economic turnaround and forced President Bush to defend his reliance on tax cuts as a remedy.

In a speech here hours after the government announced that the economy had lost 93,000 more jobs in August, Mr. Bush remained upbeat. He said that if Congress wanted to help, it should make the recent tax cuts permanent and enact other parts of his agenda, from limiting lawsuit awards against doctors and companies to allowing more domestic oil and gas drilling and easing regulations on businesses.

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Clearly hoping that the latest round of tax cuts would diminish the role of the economy in the presidential race, Mr. Bush had spent much of the summer, including portions of what the White House called his "working vacation" on his ranch in August, serving up a message of cautious optimism.

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But the effect of the economy on Mr. Bush's political positioning is beginning to show. In the face of arguments from many Democratic candidates that the administration's trade policies are subjecting American workers to unfair competition from abroad, Mr. Bush continued today to suggest that his support for unfettered commerce had its limits, even as his trade team prepares for a new round of talks to reduce impediments to trade worldwide.

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[ninkasi]

1. How pathetic...

every remedy this incompetent fraud proposes is something that just happens to be on his agenda anyway. Obviously, all of his proposals are nothing but b.s., and only designed to further enrich his cronies.

He doesn't seem to be able to come up with any ideas that will help the rest of us. Of course, that's because he doesn't care.

[BiggJawn]

2. "BWAWWK! TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH, TAX CUTS FOR THE RICH!"

"Bushie wanna Cracker! Pretty girl! Pretty Girl! Here Kitty, kitty, kitty..."

Fucking Parrot. Can't Cheney and Rove come up with something new for their "Chatty Cathy" doll to say?

[DS1]

4. it's not a matter of "can't", it's a matter of "don't have to"

even is Bush is out after 4, the damage will be done, and another Repub will be back in after a 4 (barring a recall) year term of a Dem who has to play bad cop and raise taxes in order to offset the massive deficits. It's win-win for Bush, even if he loses the second round, the long term, 20 year GOP, strategy will live on.

[VolcanoJen]

7. LMFAO, BiggJawn!!!!

:+

Keep bringin' the good stuff,
Jennifer :-)

[pansypoo53219]

3. ooh, defence

i like that he ain't on the offene no mores.

[maggrwaggr]

5. "that guy that fired you? He got a big tax break, it should help you"

uh .... how's that logic work again?

[ClintonTyree]

6. The entire "supply side".............

mantra isn't working.......again. Remember, those tax cuts for the rich were to get industry to hire more people, to invest in America. They are hiring more people, just not in America. In the end it's just another give away to the rich, and Americans continue to believe this horseshit everytime it's paraded around as the panacea for our countries employment ills. When will Americans wake up? When will they finally say, enough of this crap? It's never worked and it's never going to work. Unless of course you're in the top 1% on the economic scale, then it's regarded as the holy grail of economics.