Here’s Tom DeLay criticizing John Kerry for fiscal irresponsibility:
“He’s not even trying to be fiscally responsible,” said House Majority Leader Tom DeLay of Texas.
“He is either insincere about his new spending, dishonest about his new taxes, uninterested in the new deficit, or they just didn’t teach him arithmetic at the European boarding school that he went to.”
I’m not going to tackle DeLay’s criticism of Kerry as such. But one has to ask: where has DeLay been these past few years? While his party has controlled the House, Senate and White House, we have seen a faster build-up of debt, a greater spending explosion and more entitlement spending than any administration since LBJ. And this man is attacking Kerry? DeLay adds whole universes of meaning to the word “shameless.”
QUOTE OF THE DAY I: “Here’s the dirty little secret. It will never get a two-thirds vote in both houses of Congress.” – Senator John McCain, on the proposed religious right amendment to the Constitution.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “America is the symbol of freedom. Everybody wants to go live there, or just to go there and have fun. It’s a mixture of people from different backgrounds and its ruling system is not imposed on you. And people are more accepting there than they are in Europe, where we feel like strangers.” – a young Iranian called Noushin, from a recent article in Le Monde Diplomatique.
QUOTE OF THE DAY III: “I have been a Republican and a Christian my whole life. I believe that national security is the #1 most important issue in America – it is, to be blunt, the thing that makes any other issue possible in the first place. I do not buy the loss of jobs argument, I think tax cuts work, and I think abortion is wrong, I still support the Iraq war and feel that those 500 plus brave men and women saved untolled millions from horrible death, and I even agree that activist judges should simply be arrested and dismissed from office. I believe all this and right now, I don’t know if I’m voting for Bush.
I don’t know because this political ploy is so overtly mean-spirited and opportunistic it that my own sense of fairness and decency is far more offended by the attack than whatever defense could be made of it. I can’t believe I am the only one, even the only Christian to feel this way.” – blogger Ozymandias.
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