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October 26, 2004
Ahem
I am glad that Andrew Sullivan is officially on board for John Kerry. I do object to one thing he says in his editorial, though. He claims that President Bush has spent like a drunken liberal Democrat. Hardly! A drunken liberal Democrat may have spent similar amounts, but the choices of what to spend on make a big difference.
This is one of the reasons that Bush hasn't been able to "buy" the election with his massive spending increases -- they don't actually go to people. Sure, corporations get a lot, specifically drug companies and defense contractors, but when it comes to actual benefits to voters, there isn't much there.
They were promised a drug benefit -- and the drug companies benefited from Bush's bill. They were promised education reform, and local school boards and property owners got the bill. They were promised a leaner defense department and instead money has been spent unaccountably in Iraq. So I would say to Andrew Sullivan that, no, he hasn't spent like a drunken liberal Democrat -- unless that Democrat is seriously impaired.
Posted by Chris at October 26, 2004 03:39 PM
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