Mona Charen's Reasons to Vote Republican

[lwcon]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/uc/20061027/cm_uc_crmchx/mona_charen20061027

Let's pick this apart, okay?

I'll start with reason #1...

"1) The economy. More than 6.6 million new jobs have been created since August 2003. Our 4.1 annual growth rate is superior to all other major industrialized nations. The Dow has set record highs multiple times in the past several weeks. Productivity is up, and the deficit is down. Real, after-tax income has grown by 15 percent since 2001. 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."

They cherry-pick the dates when they start claiming job-growth success. Averaged over Bush's six years, the economy is much slower than under Clinton. Also, they celebrate that the stock market is now negligibly over its high from six years ago. What growth there is is overwhelming slanted toward the very wealthy, and not the poor or middle-class, and whatever economic gains they claim are on the backs of our children and grandchildren, who must pay down the $9 trillion debt they've run up, after inheriting a record-surplus national treasury -- those tax cuts for the most privileged can take a bow for that.

Any other takers out there? Most of her "points" should be easy and fun to knock out of the park....

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[eleny]

1. "6.6 million new jobs" - That's a lot of burger flipping

[wake.up.america]

3. More jobs as opposed to new jobs? 5, 000 laid off at Intel. 5,000 new jobs...

at Wal Mart. 5000 new jobs?

Amazing what one can do with semantics

[SharonAnn]

8. Creating fewer jobs than needed to keep up with population growth.

[Rageneau]

14. And Halliburton drivers and KBR contractors.

The only growth industry we've got these days is exporting war, and Bush's buddies have that market cornered. We're seeing jobs that SUBTRACT from the economy, rather than add to it.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Re "inlfation has remained low."

The cost of bread may be about the same as in 2000, but what about the price of tuition and pharmaceuticals?

[AlCzervik]

4. that is so wrong, when was the last time "Useful idiot" Mona went food shopping?

everything cost more but no one has the balls to come out and call it what it is---inflation.

[zoeb]

7. and energy and rising health care costs.....on and on it goes! n/t

[LiberalFighter]

5. Annual Dow Jones Index

01/12/2001 - 10525.40
01/11/2002 - 09987.50
01/10/2003 - 08784.89
01/09/2004 - 10458.89
01/14/2005 - 10558.00
01/13/2006 - 10959.87

Periods are end of first two weeks of the year.

[Lefty48197]

17. For five years, America's 401K's haven't gone up in value one nickel

Thanks Republicans. I can't take any more of your prosperity.

[Homer Wells]

6. I read on another thread recently

that the two top employers in the USA are currently (1) Wally World and (2) Manpower
So these fine new jobs are minimum wage and with very few benefits.
So I say she is full of crap!!

[Mz Pip]

9. Ber she didn't give Clinton

credit for the economy in the 90s. Why should we credit Bush?

Besides the DOW just shows how well businesses are doing. How much moneyis the average Joe making in the stock market?

Mz Pip
:dem:

[lostnotforgotten]

10. Does This Look Like A Booming Economy?

[lwcon]

11. #13 is sooo easy...

13) Democrats believe that the proper response to Kim Jong Il's nuclear test is "face to face talks." That's what the Clinton administration did for years. It worked out well, didn't it?

Bush's plan over the last six years, which turned its back on Clinton's effective quid-pro-quo program, allowed an "Axis of Evil" country to actually build nukes, while we've kept over 100,000 troops busy destabilizing a country that didn't have WMDs, turning it into a terrorist hotbed. It worked out well, didn't it? By this revisionist calendar, we should blame Clinton for failing to respond to Hurricane Katrina.

Bush's plan -- Operation: Hope China Does Something About This -- shows the bold leadership that only our all-Republican government can provide. Are those canned goods in the bomb shelter still good?

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[Chipper Chat]

12. Mona Charen's ear-rings have poisoned her brain cells.

She is a archtypcal pub playbook typing machine programmed by Rove.

[gumby]

13. Excuse me,

but I don't give two figs what Mona 'Dog Food' Charen says about anything.

She should shut up and go on carin' for her young 'ens.

[lwcon]

15. IMHO, a big part of what we do here...

... is to update and sharpen our skills as debunkers of the bad guys' disinformation. Then we apply that in our own activism, blogging, local "evangelism," etc.

The MSM is only too happy to give air time and column inches to these people, so it's important that "new media" participants regularly call "B.S." on them.

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[sinkingfeeling]

16. Whose real, after-tax income has grown by 15%? Every study I've

seen indicates that for the middle and lower classes, income has dropped steadily.

[lwcon]

18. Here's #5

5) There has not been another terrorist attack on American soil since 9/11. Who would have predicted that on 9/12?

There was a terrorist attack on American soil on 9/11. Who would have predicted that? Anyone who listened to anti-terrorism expert Richard Clarke or read the PDB entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

There were no terrorist attacks on American soil in the five years before 9/11. I don't hear Mona being all excited about that.

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[saltpoint]

19. If on the last space ship from Earth only two slots remained, and

I were forced to choose between Mona Charen and a box of poptarts, I'd take the poptarts.

[lwcon]

20. One is an unappetizing, strangely preserved tart oozing revolting goo...

...and the other is a breakfast pastry.

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[saltpoint]

21. LOL! A stranger happening by might be led to believe that we

didn't think a whole lot of Ms. Charen. !

[Arkana]

22. I bet (without even reading the list)

that one of her reasons is "Democrats are icky. Mommy said so! DON'T VOTE FOR DEMOCRATS EEEEEWWWWW!"