IS BUSH AN ECONOMIC LIBERAL?

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political : IS BUSH AN ECONOMIC LIBERAL?

[+] serious ballot by Cathexis
created Mon Aug 02, 04
"That G.W. Bush fellow will try to run away from his record, but he's just another one of these Texas liberals, way out of the mainstream!"

That's not quite the description that makes the rounds. But look at the record and you'll find enormous deficits, protectionist subsidies, and ungainly spending programs -- everything economic conservatives say they're against.

[And there's reason to think John Kerry will be install a centrist economic team.]

*Is* George W Bush an Economic Liberal?

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You know ... labels can be misleading. If you look at the actual *records* ...

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 02, 04 4:31pm [+]

More like an empirical fascist, maybe.

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Aug 02, 04 4:45pm [+]

Zig: Ah, but that's "in general." I am looking strictly at economic policy.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 02, 04 4:49pm [+]

Zig: Ah, but that's "in general." I am looking strictly at economic policy.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 02, 04 4:49pm [+]

Gotcha...well, fiscally speaking, hasn't he broken ALL records? In which case he deserves his very OWN label. I can think of at least a couple of choice ones. ;)

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Aug 02, 04 4:59pm [+]

Yessss!

Interesting, isn't it, how the Republicans say they are against "big government" but only if it suits them. Case in point: the Florida presidential vote re-count in 2000. The Florida State Supreme Court was handling it just fine. But just when the numbers started to get too close for comfort, *someone* had the Federal Supreme Court step in and stop the process. Result: Dubya "won" the presidency.

Good ballot (as usual).

by mojo on Mon Aug 02, 04 5:07pm [+]

Next topic: Why CLINTON was a gravy-sucking draft dodger, but Bush was a war hero, keeping Alabama safe from the Viet Cong in undercover operations.

by Cathexis on Mon Aug 02, 04 9:02pm [+]

Out there among people that progressives never meet, there is a group of Conservatives hoping that Dubya is going down.

Two writers for the Economist magazine, John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge, cite a feeling among right-wingers that a good Bush-bashing in November will help regenerate a Republican Party that has lost its way, abandoning small government and making a real mess of US foreign policy.

by Cathexis on Tue Aug 03, 04 4:34pm [+]

More news: the IMF thinks Bush is an economic ultra-liberal:

The International Monetary Fund in a staff report on the U.S. economic outlook questioned whether the Bush administration's medium-term goal of halving the deficit in five years is *ambitious enough*; the IMF's suggestions for long-term fiscal security included imposing restrictions on tax cuts, broadening personal and corporate tax bases, raising energy taxes, and introducing a national value added tax.

The report described U.S. President George W. Bush's fiscal 2005 budget plan as providing a *welcome shift in policy emphasis towards fiscal consolidation.* The report noted that the president's plan focuses on strict spending limits with the goal of making the 2001 tax cuts permanent.

According to the report, the IMF directors also discussed the *severe underfunding* of Social Security and Medicare. Some cautioned against diverting a portion of the payroll tax into private retirement savings accounts -- an approach favored by the administration.

by Cathexis on Wed Aug 04, 04 10:51am [+]

No ... economic idiot would be more accurate.

by xxxxxxxx on Thu Sep 30, 04 4:39am [+]

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