Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:----- Original Message -----
From: "Marta Russell"
>Nathan:
>Silly story quoted, since it ignores the Dems killing ANWR drilling,
>filibustering Estrada, and slashing Bush's tax cut in the budget vote.
-But not enough slashing. Domestic programs will still be affected -and this is the second time Bush has been conceded a tax cut. A true -opposition party should have completely stopped it.
He hasn't been "conceded" anything-- the Dem leadership fought the first tax cut but did not have the majority of votes to block it. Once they got the majority with Jeffords, they blocked Bush's second big corporate tax cut of December 2001-- passed the House and died completely in the Senate. Folks can't seem to remember that because of their ideological blinders.
The $350 billion number was the best that people could get-- the GOP has the majority so the moderate Republicans like Lincoln Chafee got to set the number they were willing to live with.
As for spending, the Dems have blocked a lot of Bush's proposed block grants and blocked the more serious cuts in programs proposed by Bush.
-- Nathan Newman
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