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& Tackle Dems By NR Editors,
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Nita Lowey of New York, who runs the House Democrats' campaign committee, declares that we are in "Bush's recession," the president having somehow engineered a slowdown within two months of taking office. Hillary Clinton thinks now would be a fine time to delay Bush's tax cuts. Tom Daschle says that he won't let any stimulus pass unless it has the support of two-thirds of Senate Democrats — which means that the 17 most liberal senators get a veto. The president has been reduced to asking for a temporary, targeted tax cut for business investment, and maybe a two-point drop in one of the middle income-tax brackets. Enough. The Democrats are not being serious about stimulating the economy, and Bush might as well say so.
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he
debate over the recession and how to fight it has reached new depths
of inanity.
