[Gambit]

I saw the Democratic response last night, given by the Governor of Washington state.

I noticed he criticized a number of Bush's plans to stimulate the economy (tax cuts, etc) as too expensive and creating deficit.

Then he criticized Bush for not helping out those who need it - when quite a bit of the money has gone to NY to help recover from the attacks, even though it helped to create deficit (see #1)

Then he criticized Bush for not spending a huge chunk o' money on border security, though doing so would obviously "create deficit" (see point #1)

And somewhere in there he tried to lay the blame for the various states' budget shortfalls on Bush economics. When did the Feds become responsible for the state budgets? Anyone remember the various historical issues between states' rights and federalism?

He also said something in there about how we needed tax cuts. See #1 again... Sheesh.

Not to say I agreed with everything Bush said, either. For instance, I don't feel terribly "secure" when the feds get more like Big Brother every day.



I hate politics.