Mona Charen: 13 reasons to vote Republican on Nov. 7
Karl Rove is circulating his talking points throughout the media. Number 5 I've seen printed almost word-for-word elsewhere by other Republican pundits. I remember that "Who would have predicted that on 9/12" line. Here are 13 reasons to vote for Republicans on Nov. 7, from a nice little roundup article by Mona Charen on Yahoo! News:1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003[Weren't 20 million created under Clinton?]. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations[Right, and it's heading down fast. Right now at 1.6%? Plus the country is heading toward bankruptcy. What's their answer for it? Cut taxes even further]. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. [Matter of fact, it finally crossed the highs set way back in 2000]. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down[Whoa, whoa, whoa! The deficit is down??? Down from what? Definitely not down from where it was in 1998, but it is down from where it had been in 2003]. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001 [For the middle class? See, that's how they get ya. Incomes ARE up dramatically for the wealthy, but NOT for the 70% of the nation in the middle class]. Inflation has remained low. As Vice President Cheney summed it up at a recent meeting with journalists, "What more do you want?" The tax cuts proposed by President Bush and passed by a Republican Congress can take a bow [Hahahaha! Oh... Ha! I can't go on].
2) The Patriot Act. Democrats and liberals mourn this law as a gross infringement upon civil liberties. Yet the much-discussed abuses simply haven't materialized. The law has, on the other hand, permitted the CIA and FBI to cooperate and share information about terrorist threats -- at least so long as The New York Times isn't publishing the details of our counterterrorism efforts on the front page.
3) The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, to which liberals clung with passionate intensity, has been cancelled, permitting us to work on missile defense. In the age of Kim Jong Il and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is anyone (except Nancy Pelosi) sorry?
4) Immigration. Republicans in Congress insisted upon and got the first serious immigration restriction in decades. On Oct. 26, the president signed a law that will build a 700-mile fence along our southern border and, what is more important, does not offer amnesty.
5) There has not been another terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Who would have predicted that on 9/12?
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- October 30, 2006
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