GUNROCKETS
February 24, 2003, 10:13 PM
A DEMOCRATIC LIE … AGAIN!
The remote control was on the couch on the other side of the room, and I couldn’t reach it in time. So I was forced to listen to the idiocy of Richard Gephardt for a few agonizing minutes over the weekend.
Gephardt was talking about the economy. Speaking about George Bush, Gephardt said “We handed him the best economy in probably fifty years.”
Hey, if you’re going to lie, why not tell a lie that is so easily disproved? When Bush moved into the White House the economy had already been in recession for a quite some time. Stocks were already headed down .. the dot.com bust was well under way .. and anyone with the economic sense to balance a checkbook knew that the ride was going to be rough for a while. The recession happened under Clinton, not Bush, and Gephardt knows it. Gephardt also knows that most of the people likely to vote for him were educated in government schools and don’t know the difference between economics and ergonomics.
Gephardt then delivered another deliberate, knowing lie to his audience of myrmidons. He told them that George Bush must be very good indeed because he came in second in the election and still managed to get into the White House. This, of course, is not true. Bush won the election. He got the majority of the electoral votes, and that is a win. Through five recounts in Florida .. Bush still won. By saying that Bush came in second Gephardt undermines public confidence in our electoral systems and in our Constitution. These are not the actions one would expect from a person who wants to take an oath of office pledging to protect that Constitution.
So … when do we hear Gephardt’s latest lie?
The remote control was on the couch on the other side of the room, and I couldn’t reach it in time. So I was forced to listen to the idiocy of Richard Gephardt for a few agonizing minutes over the weekend.
Gephardt was talking about the economy. Speaking about George Bush, Gephardt said “We handed him the best economy in probably fifty years.”
Hey, if you’re going to lie, why not tell a lie that is so easily disproved? When Bush moved into the White House the economy had already been in recession for a quite some time. Stocks were already headed down .. the dot.com bust was well under way .. and anyone with the economic sense to balance a checkbook knew that the ride was going to be rough for a while. The recession happened under Clinton, not Bush, and Gephardt knows it. Gephardt also knows that most of the people likely to vote for him were educated in government schools and don’t know the difference between economics and ergonomics.
Gephardt then delivered another deliberate, knowing lie to his audience of myrmidons. He told them that George Bush must be very good indeed because he came in second in the election and still managed to get into the White House. This, of course, is not true. Bush won the election. He got the majority of the electoral votes, and that is a win. Through five recounts in Florida .. Bush still won. By saying that Bush came in second Gephardt undermines public confidence in our electoral systems and in our Constitution. These are not the actions one would expect from a person who wants to take an oath of office pledging to protect that Constitution.
So … when do we hear Gephardt’s latest lie?