[extropy-chat] straight from the horse's mouth

[Brian Lee]

I think one of the problems with Kerry's vote against the $87 billion is 
that his protest vote was not coupled with alternate legislation for a 
smaller amount for for a bill to increase taxes to fund the war.

A protest vote without appropriate action seems like a change of mind to me.

I debated on whether to add a bit about how I didn't vote for Bush, etc etc 
to prevent all the "Bush is an idiot, Kerry should have won" replies.

BAL

>From: Al Brooks <kerry_prez at yahoo.com>
>To: extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org
>Subject: [extropy-chat] straight from the horse's mouth
>Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 06:52:54 -0800 (PST)
>
>Last weekend Karl Rove stated that what substantially
>contributed to Kerry's defeat was his allegedly fuzzy
>position on funding the Iraq war in 2003. Actually,
>Kerry's rather sound reasoning was: because the Bush
>administration had no intention in 2003 of raising tax
>rates to pay for Iraq occupation funding,
>reconstruction & occupation would be funded by
>increased deficit spending. Kerry wanted to make the
>statement of only supporting the $87 billion Iraq war
>appropriations legislation if it were to be backed by
>increasing taxes to keep the deficit at a lesser
>growth rate than the administration wanted in 2003-4
>and probably wants in 2005; though now that Bush is
>relieved of running for reelection he may or may not
>decide to raise taxes.
>Whatever the merits of Kerry's vote last year, it was
>a sincere statement. Rove boastfully admitted Kerry's
>genuine and solid position was "the gift that kept on
>giving" Bush's reelection the conservative and swing
>(e.g. Reagan Democrat) votes it needed to keep Bush as
>president.
>
>
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