Kerry Camp Hits Bush for 'Drunken Sailor' Spending

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BOSTON (Reuters) - Democrat John Kerry (news - web sites), back in full campaign mode after shoulder surgery and a vacation, opened a new front on Sunday in his election-year battle with President Bush (news - web sites) over the U.S. economy and soaring federal budget deficits.


Branded by Republicans as a classic tax-and-spend liberal, the Massachusetts senator's campaign tried to turn the tables with a report -- to be released on Monday -- accusing Bush of "empty rhetoric and political posturing" by claiming to be a fiscal conservative.


"It's as if Bush is a drunken sailor, spending recklessly," said Roger Altman, deputy treasury secretary in the Clinton administration and a Kerry adviser. "When it comes to spending, this administration's rhetoric does not match the reality."


The report said Bush had run up a spending bill that would increase the budget deficit by $6 trillion over the next 10 years alone.

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[Media_Lies_Daily]

1. Well...it's because he IS a drunken something, that's for sure!

[DBoon]

3. No, he's just a drunk

Does not have the intelligence or self-discipline to be a sailor.

Sailors earn their pay, Bush never did.

[oneighty]

2. Bush cannot be drunken Sailor

Even drunken sailors show up for duty do not wimp out. He is big bowerer spender type run and hide when frightened.

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[The Zanti Regent]

4. Kerry needs to pin BORROW and SPEND on Bush

He needs to toss Red Ink at Bush every chance he can!

[priller]

12. I like "Red Ink Republicans" better as a sound-byte

A bit catchier than "Borrow and spend", don't you think?

[mulethree]

16. Rubber Check Repubs?

George is on the phone discussing his latest expenditures,
He gets a bit desperate explaining how important they are
then, visibly rejected, hangs up the phone.

Cut to desk/hands - pulls out a rubber stamp and smacks a big
MAXED onto a credit card, opens his desk drawer and tosses it in
with a hundred others already stamped MAXED.

Searches out another - unstamped card - picks up the phone and
dials ....

[elperromagico]

20. Attack the Administration's "credit card mentality."

They spend when they don't have money, knowing that by the time the bill comes, they'll be riding off into the sunset. People get the crazy idea that the government doesn't run out of money; it does and it has. And these aren't minor expenditures; they're massive expenditures, like rebuilding efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

Where do you think the money comes from? From trees? The Bush Administration seems to think so, and sooner or later, we're all going to have to pay for the forest.

[happyending]

5. both houses

With the Republicans controling both houses of Congress and
the Executive branch, how can they disavow responsibility
for this deficit spending? They didn't even include the
costs of the wars in the budget!

How can anyone believe them anymore? For years we heard
them talk about fiscal responsability. It was all a lie.

Good grief. Where does the truth lie in all this? Are they
or are they not the party of fiscal responsability?

How do Republicans explain this to themselves?

[Eye and Monkey]

6. rePubs generally blame the mirror for the reflection they see.

That's how they explain it to themselves.

[Warren Stuart]

7. I like what Clinton said

They act like spoiled teenagers who can't wait to spend their inheritance.

[DemoTex]

9. Which brings to mind a paraphrase of a P.J. O'Roark quote:

OK, I know he is a winger, but bear with me: "Giving power and money to GOPers is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys."

[5thGenDemocrat]

13. Oh, PJ's alright, Tex

Reread his book "Holidays in Hell." I think PJ was a Reagan Democrat and he talked his stuff back when it was the trendy thing to do -- but I really doubt he'd be much in favor of what's going on today.
PJ might be a conservative -- but he's not a neo-conservative. He went to Bowling Green and I went to Central Michigan. We MACers understand each other okay -- and I think PJ's okay. He has too good a sense of humor to be in with these dickheads, for one thing.
John
I'd like to hear his take on all this, actually. I'd bet he thinks it's all bullshit -- just as we do.

[skooooo]

8. Good one!

I hate that one Bush commercial that makes Kerry look like a cartoon. I hope they hit the shrub HARD.

[kentuck]

10. Good move by Kerry !

Just when Bush is ready to take bows for the economy, Kerry hits him with a left hook! And hte huge deficits and spending are weaknesses in Bush's gameplan. Good timing!

[Malikshah]

11. Hey, as a wanna be drunken sailor..I take offense

Will someone PLEASE think of the drunk sailors out there when they make these rash comparisons. :)

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. That's not fair.

As one who's dad was career Navy that's an insult to all sailors. Kerry being one himself should know better.

Bush spends money like a drunken frat boy.

[Lisa]

15. except that drunken sailors tend to boost the economy ...

Especially the hospitality industry! (I speak as someone in a coastal town that depends on the revenue brought in by drunken sailors, both civilian and military, for its economic well-being as well as many jobs.)

When * spends, the money goes to useless things like overpriced weaponry and sleazy defence contractors. No wonder the economy's in trouble.

[The_Casual_Observer]

17. This is probably the weakest argument against chimp

Considering everything else.

[elperromagico]

18. Al Capone was brought down for tax evasion.

Sometimes you have to go after a seemingly weaker point if you want to get results. Besides, Bush made this into an argument about spending - time to bring the fight to him.

[Dr Fate]

19. Good choice of words too- subtly reminds people Bush is an Alky..

...

[elperromagico]

21. Wonder if Hannity will bitch about that too?

[Dr Fate]

22. I hope so. That too will remind folks Bush is an Alky.

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