Incompetent
It is the Democrats’ new favorite word. And as John Podhoretz of the New York Post notes, “Calling Bush and the Republicans incompetent is a way of offering a critique. As an act of name-calling, it’s far less incendiary than words like ‘liar’ and ‘fascist’ and ‘torturer.’”
Unfortunately for Democrats, their own incompetence has shown through in this most recent campaign of criticism.
- They have done what they seem to always to best - offer critique with no solution - no alternative plan. “Oh, we’ve got a plan,” they always say. But we never actually SEE that plan.
- By offering only critique and no solution, they haven’t seemed to gain any political ground as the party offering the better choice for midterm elections.
This is the same rhetoric we’ve seen before from the Democrats, only the wrapper has changed. So while the GOP keeps squandering their majority, the DNC can’t make any headway without resorting to their typcial rhetoric.
Incidently, claiming the President is incompetent when it comes to the deficit is, to me, the equivalent of a debt-laden wife blaming her husband for not stopping her from overspending. “Save me from myself!‚ I can’t stop spending money we don’t have!‚ It’s all YOUR fault for not stopping me!‚ Now our kids are going to have to pay off my credit cards.”
Instead of blaming George Bush and the tax cuts, Harry Reid and friends might do well to remember the words of Ronald Reagan in his 1987 State of the Union speech,
We don’t have deficits because people are taxed too little; we have deficits because big government spends too much.
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[ President Ronald Reagan - State of the Union - January 27, 1987 ]
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