My Waco Bureau Chief, Snotglass, has this to say:
Tax and spend liberals have been desperately trying to play the old-style Washington blame game by attributing the recent recession to President Bush's economic policies. But recent reports released by the prestigious Byron ("Low Tax") Looper Center for Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute demonstrate that Presidential policies actually have little effect on the actual American economy. In spite of this illuminating report, radical Democrats insist on pathetically pursuing the failed and discredited strategy of seeking higher taxes, in the form of repealing the President's visionary tax-cut, in a forlorn hope of instituting bigger government and permanently establishing a socialist welfare state.
In accordance with his overwhelming electoral mandate, President Bush held an economic conference today that, in stark contrast to the exclusionary and secretive schemes of the previous administration, included Americans from all segments of society. This successful forum affirmed the support for the President's economic policies that his poll numbers indicate.
Disgruntled Democrats complained that they had not been invited, but most thoughtful observers realize the President's wisdom in not including those whose policies are directly responsible for the current Clinton recession. The President has evidently decided to make a clean break from the reckless economic policies of the failed Clinton administration that had such a dramatically negative effect on the American economy.
The President had already instituted many far-sighted policies that will stimulate growth in the economy. He has laid a strong foundation by providing tax cuts to the American tax payers and eliminating the wasteful Federal surplus. He has provided a morally honorable and dignified example for American business leaders to emulate, and demonstrated his basic sense of compassion by refusing to bend to the talking heads of the elite liberal media who are demanding unjust retribution fo right-thinking corporate executives who were
tempted by the promiscuious excesses of the Clinton administration.
In addition to his bold tax-stimulus plan, the President had opened many opportunities to working American families by eliminating the low-paying, dead-end jobs desperately created by the failed policies of the Clinton administration. In this far-reaching stroke, the President has provided motivation for Americans to seek and obtain more and better-paying jobs.
You people should be grateful for such visionary leadership in our elected President. In one afternoon, he has solved the American economic conundrum for decades to come, leaving this administration free to devote its considerable energies to the War on Iraq.
