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[iamshazzam]

relentless - it's so much fun to watch the media and left continue their own hanging - lol



MAIN PRESS PLANS ANOTHER WEEK OF CHENEY SHOOTING COVERAGE
Sun Feb 19 2006 10:57:36 ET

If the nation's top magazines have the pulse of the country -- get ready for another exhaustive week of exhaustive Cheney shooting coverage!

This just in... Both TIME and NEWSWEEK are planning high impact covers of Cheney for newsstands starting tomorrow, with each magazine rolling out top staff bylines and thousands of words on the hunting incident: TIME: With deep reporting by John Cloud, Mike Allen and Matthew Cooper/ Washington, Cathy Booth Thomas and Patricia Kilday Hart/ Austin, and Hilary Hylton. NEWSWEEK urgently brings in its big investigative guns: Evan Thomas, Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Richard Wolffe, Holly Bailey, Mark Hosenball and Eleanor Clift in Washington and Carol Rust in Texas.

NEWSWEEK's Jonathan Alter essays that media budget cuts and shifting news priorities have contributed to the public being in the dark about Cheney's ways and means.

TIME headlines a poll: DICK CHENEY APPROVAL RATING 29%

NEWSWEEK editor Mark Whitaker defends his decision to push for another week of Cheney-Shooting coverage: "The reason we ultimately decided to stick with a cover is not because of the hunting incident itself-although we did turn up some new details that you might not have read elsewhere-but because of what it says about the mysterious world of the most powerful vice president of recent times."

[ergo sum]

Republican logic, now there is an oxymoron, is that somehow collecting less than we spend will cure the problem, that is the hallmark of Neo Reaganism, aka Neo Conservativism. Starve the beast!

During the second Clinton Administration the Federal Government received and spent about 19% of GDP. Rather than focusing on the spending the Bush Administration focused on the revenues. Both revenues and GDP have grown every year. Without the tax cuts we would not be running a deficit.

In effect all that they have done is used future obligations to pay for the tax cuts now.

[n4807g]

Come on...there are only 1400+ programs that the federal government funds with taxpayers $'s. Surely every one is absolutely necessary? Aren't they?