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Horace Brownbag <hbrownbag@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<i6g0o0l4r0bgn67m9hj216rtkndl4n39bl@4ax.com>...
> On 27 Oct 2004 17:37:34 -0700, master_blaster100@lycos.com (Jon)
> wrote:
> >Kerry isn't a threat, since with a Republican congress, he won't be 
> >able to enact much of anything, 
> 
> Yeah, they'll be all over him like slow cure poly-urathane
> adheasive/sealant when you didn't realize you put your forearm in it
> five minutes ago.
> 
> >but Bush, with a blank check, is scary.
> 
> You mean it could get worse?

Actually, yes, it could be.  Bush seems to be a lot of political
promises right now, and these promises are going to be paid out of the
public treasury.  And it doesn't look like the congress is going to be
much of a guardian-- they're spending it as fast as they can.

Bush seems to be on a spending spree, and if Kerry can keep the
Republican congressional pork-barrel in check, that sounds good to me.

From the Wall Street Journal (10/27), which is hardly a pro-Democrat
newspaper
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB109883130405656505,00.html?mod=
opinion%5Fmain%5Fcommentaries

"The massive growth in the state during this presidency (faster than
under Bill Clinton, even if you exclude the spending on the war on
terror) owes a fair amount to opportunism -- to Mr. Bush's willingness
to pay off friends in the business world or a refusal to pick a fight
with allies in GOP-controlled Congress (he has not wielded his veto
pen once)....   he laced his acceptance speech at the GOP convention
with promises to use government to improve people's lives."