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Democratic Chair accuses Bush of "new McCarthyism"
National Democratic chairman Terry McAuliffe accused President Bush on Saturday of unleashing a "new McCarthyism" by vilifying people who oppose his policies.
Paraphrasing retired Sen. Alan Simpson - to accuse one of McCarthyism is, itself, McCarthyism.
"George Bush has unleashed a new McCarthyism that, under the cloak of a time of crisis and peril, has vilified and questioned the patriotism of those who have policy and political differences with him and his administration." McAuliffe was critical of Bush's economic policies in general, saying they have cost 2.8 million jobs since the president took office.
Of course, forgetting to mention that the Clinton Recession started prior to Bush taking office.
Along with the 9-11 attacks, which decimated the airline industry, among others...
"Just last Sunday on national television, Secretary of Treasury (John) Snow said we have a soggy economy. Soggy. Soggy," McAuliffe said, drawing laughs from the party faithful with the incredulous tone of his delivery. "It's not soggy, it is a raging typhoon in America." McAuliffe accused Bush of squandering the federal surplus of the 1990s and said Bush's tax cuts benefit the rich while costing working people their jobs.
"The story goes that as the lifeboats were being loaded, the wealthy of the passengers of the Titanic pushed aside the women and children," he said. "The values of this administration would be quite at home aboard that ill-fated ship."
As I recall my history on the matter, Vanderbilt and other (undoubtedly Republican) establishment figures gave up their seats and the men who shoved their way in the lifeboats were from the less esteemed classes.
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean, one of nine candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, told reporters before his speech to the Ohio dinner: "I don't think we can beat George Bush by being Bush-like. We need a fiscal conservative and a social progressive and that's who I am." In his speech, Dean said the cost of the war in Iraq has increased with Americans still in the Middle Eastern country and that homeland security suffering a funding shortfall as a result. "I think this country is not safer since the war with Iraq has ended," Dean said.
"And look! It's been a month already..."
Rep. Dennis Kucinich, a former Cleveland mayor and the only other presidential candidate
(to have presided over the bankruptcy of a city)
at the dinner, pushed his message of national health insurance, labor rights and trade protections.
A sure winner if he was running in Europe.
He reminded the crowd that he had beaten Republican incumbents in his races for mayor, state senator and Congress.
This makes me question the sanity of the good people of Ohio.
"In 2004, I'm prepared to replace another Republican incumbent who happens to be in the White House," Kucinich said.
The only way Kucinich is going to the White House is on a public tour.
Posted by: ColoradoConservative 2003-05-19
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