What're You On Algore?
August 7, 2003
The deranged Democrat candidate from the 2000 campaign, Algore, jumped back on the speech trail Thursday at New York University. They billed this as "a major policy speech." At first Algore's people put out word that he'd been asked to give the speech; then the truth came out: he went to the group MoveOn.org and begged them to let him speak. This website was created to urge people to "move on" from the impeachment which grew out of Bill Clinton's lying under oath and obstruction of justice. It has been largely commandeered by Hillary Clinton.
Algore said of the Iraq war: "Normally we Americans lay the facts on the table, and talk through the choices before us and make a decision. But that didn't really happen with this war." With one fanciful statement, Algore rewrites history: twelve years of UN resolutions, strikes by Bill Clinton, speeches and letters by members of Congress, a 14 month George W. Bush build-up at the UN, two resolutions authorizing the use of force - all of this wasn't talking through the decision?
Congress had already signed on to one use of force resolution when Democrats demanded a second one right before the election as a way to get us focused on "kitchen table issues." Algore also rewrote history on tax cuts: "I'm convinced one reason we've had so many nasty surprises in our economy is that the country somehow got lots of false impressions about what we could expect from the big tax cuts that were enacted." Bush enacted one (1) tax cut, Al Junior. It amounted to $50 billion. Anyone with half a brain has been through all of this, but when have facts ever stopped one of these demagogues from using obscenely disingenuous rhetoric?
Algore is the latest Democrat to open the door right into his own nose and bloody it, because the economic news today is good. I'll give you a little hint on how to tell: don't focus on employment numbers. That's what economists call "a lagging indicator." Remember this as you hear Algore falsify history, saying, "[W]e are losing millions of jobs - three years in a row of net losses. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression." Once again, it's the Great Depression. Does anyone who remembers the Jimmy Carter presidency, much less the Great Depression, really believe that things are anywhere near as bad as they were then?
The thing I love most about these liberals is that they ran the show for 40 years. They had every chance in the world to make everybody in the middle class as prosperous as they wanted to, and they didn't, did they? No, they're still complaining about it. They never solve problems. They don't want to solve problems. It's the same litany. It comes from the same pages, from the same playbook. There's nothing new; there's nothing refreshing; there's nothing uplifting; there's nothing positive; there's nothing inspiring. There's just the same old Algore, who couldn't even read those tired old lines with any passion.
August 7, 2003
The deranged Democrat candidate from the 2000 campaign, Algore, jumped back on the speech trail Thursday at New York University. They billed this as "a major policy speech." At first Algore's people put out word that he'd been asked to give the speech; then the truth came out: he went to the group MoveOn.org and begged them to let him speak. This website was created to urge people to "move on" from the impeachment which grew out of Bill Clinton's lying under oath and obstruction of justice. It has been largely commandeered by Hillary Clinton.
Algore said of the Iraq war: "Normally we Americans lay the facts on the table, and talk through the choices before us and make a decision. But that didn't really happen with this war." With one fanciful statement, Algore rewrites history: twelve years of UN resolutions, strikes by Bill Clinton, speeches and letters by members of Congress, a 14 month George W. Bush build-up at the UN, two resolutions authorizing the use of force - all of this wasn't talking through the decision?
Congress had already signed on to one use of force resolution when Democrats demanded a second one right before the election as a way to get us focused on "kitchen table issues." Algore also rewrote history on tax cuts: "I'm convinced one reason we've had so many nasty surprises in our economy is that the country somehow got lots of false impressions about what we could expect from the big tax cuts that were enacted." Bush enacted one (1) tax cut, Al Junior. It amounted to $50 billion. Anyone with half a brain has been through all of this, but when have facts ever stopped one of these demagogues from using obscenely disingenuous rhetoric?
Algore is the latest Democrat to open the door right into his own nose and bloody it, because the economic news today is good. I'll give you a little hint on how to tell: don't focus on employment numbers. That's what economists call "a lagging indicator." Remember this as you hear Algore falsify history, saying, "[W]e are losing millions of jobs - three years in a row of net losses. That hasn't happened since the Great Depression." Once again, it's the Great Depression. Does anyone who remembers the Jimmy Carter presidency, much less the Great Depression, really believe that things are anywhere near as bad as they were then?
The thing I love most about these liberals is that they ran the show for 40 years. They had every chance in the world to make everybody in the middle class as prosperous as they wanted to, and they didn't, did they? No, they're still complaining about it. They never solve problems. They don't want to solve problems. It's the same litany. It comes from the same pages, from the same playbook. There's nothing new; there's nothing refreshing; there's nothing uplifting; there's nothing positive; there's nothing inspiring. There's just the same old Algore, who couldn't even read those tired old lines with any passion.
