Bush cult PR hack unmasked (J. Edward Carter = James E. Carter)

[kurth]

Nom de Plume

Did President Bush fritter away a $5.6 trillion surplus? "Is Bush truly the culprit?" asks economist J. Edward Carter on National Review Online. No, he concludes, the projections were always fictional.

But the writer was quickly unmasked, by Washington Monthly blogger Kevin Drum, as James E. Carter, a Labor Department undersecretary and presidential appointee.

NRO Editor Kathryn Jean Lopez says the Web site mistakenly assumed that Carter had left the administration: "As a practice, we don't publish pieces from people who work in government without disclosing it. We were remiss here and apologize to our readers."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/05/AR2006110501135_pf.html

[I_Will]

1. Merd de Plume!

[Donnachaidh]

3. ROFLMAO!!!!!

:rofl:

[formercia]

5. Merde encore....

tough day for the 'boys'.:evilgrin:

[williesgirl]

2. K & R

[Spazito]

4. Geez, Kurtz is a disgusting POS....

Note what is listed and what is NOT:

"There surely may be some instances of liberal bias. Maybe the press made too much of Sen. George Allen's "macaca" moment, or wallowed too long in the finger-pointing fallout from the Mark Foley page scandal."

No comment on the media frenzy over a botched joke, I guess in Howie's mind, that frenzy was perfectly handled.

I notice, as well, his comment re the NRO article is to be found only at the very bottom of his commentary. I can't help but wonder if they print something like this in Howie's column so they don't have to print it anywhere near the news/front page?

[chat_noir]

6. BUSH ADMITTED TO CLINTON’S SURPLUS

Bush Speech to Republican National Convention Aug 3, 2000: “The surplus is the people’s money-return it. The last time taxes were this high as a percentage of our economy, there was a good reason: We were fighting World War II. Today, our high taxes fund a surplus. Some say that growing federal surplus means Washington has more money to spend.”

“But they’ve got it backwards. The surplus is not the government’s money. The surplus is the people’s money. Now is the time to reform the tax code and share some of the surplus with the people who pay the bills.”

http://www.issues2000.org/2004/More_George_W__Bush_Tax_Reform.htm



February 2001: The most intense debate, however, has been reserved for the matter of taxes and what to do with the federal government surplus that some estimates project may be as high as $5.3 trillion over the next 10 years. While the new President proposes giving at least one-third of this projected surplus back to taxpayers in a tax cut, Democrats, and a number of moderate Republicans, feel that it is too risky to pass a $1.6 trillion tax cut plan.

They counter that it is wiser to use the surplus, where it exists, to pay down the national debt (which is currently more than $2 trillion). They note that the hundreds of billions the government is forced to pay in annual interest on this debt is the second largest line item in the annual budget. Democrats also propose using the remainder of the projected surplus, when it exists, to secure needed federal commitments (in Social Security benefits and health care) and only then, to entertain a tax cut.

http://www.aaiusa.org/wwatch/021901.htm

[Celebration]

7. LOL

Good catch!! The surplus belongs to the people!! But when it's a deficit I guess it doesn't. Oh, my gosh, what a complete idiot.

[Scriptor Ignotus]

8. our greatest weapon

is using their own words and deeds against them.