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

[Al Brooks]

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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