Dwindlehop wrote:http://www.opensecrets.org/pressreleases/PresFR3Q.asp
Apparently lawyers give the most to everyone, Republican and Democrat. Just what are they donating for? Better laws?
If you only knew the power of the Dark Side.O'Neill never understood supply-side economics and was thus a surprise candidate for the job of Treasury secretary to begin with.
Oh, well, if the stock market is rising, bully for everyone then.The press is having a field day with O'Neill's claim the 2003 tax cuts—the dividend and capital-gains reductions—were unnecessary and fiscally reckless. One wonders what this man was smoking when he was trooping around the hinterlands in Africa with U2. Since the Bush tax cut took effect, the stock market has risen 25%, the economy has produced 500,000 new jobs, the economic growth rate has doubled, and business investment has hit a 10-year high.
The rest of the Bush team receives their instructions directly from God.O'Neill just never seemed to be singing from the same hymnal as the rest of the Bush team.
'Silver lining'
General Schoomaker said the attacks on America in September 2001 and subsequent events had given the US army a rare opportunity to change.
"There is a huge silver lining in this cloud," he said.
"War is a tremendous focus... Now we have this focusing opportunity, and we have the fact that [terrorists] have actually attacked our homeland, which gives it some oomph."
He said it was no use having an army that did nothing but train.
"There's got to be a certain appetite for what the hell we exist for," he said.
"I'm not warmongering, the fact is we're going to be called and really asked to do this stuff."
It looks certain now that the primary season will be highly competitive and drawn out. The good news for Democrats, at least theoretically, is that whoever comes out of it will be a stronger general election candidate. Kerry and John Edwards have already improved dramatically, as the results in Iowa prove. (Kerry won with 38 percent of Iowa's delegates and Edwards finished with 32.)
But the new alignment of the field pretty much kills the possibility of the quick and orderly contest that Democratic Party chairman Terry McAuliffe had hoped for, meaning that the nominee is likely to emerge depleted of funds to take on President George Bush in November.
Dean, who before placing third in Iowa was the only candidate with the means and popularity to win quickly, now finds himself under enormous pressure to change course. The danger is that many undecided voters in New Hampshire are reaching the same conclusion many Iowans did: The man may not be electable.
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