Scarecrow Akhbar said:
Hmm...did Howie campaign on cutting taxes in 2004 or is something missing from your argument. Howie may or may not have signed such a bill for VERMONT, I don't pay a lot attention to insignificant states. You can be assured that if Howie did sign that bill that it was because he had no choice, because of strictly local Varmint politics. On the national level Howie was a Red Star winning class warrior, a true Hero of the Soviet Union...er...Hero of the Unions, I mean.
I take you haven't been paying much attention to the hot gas that comes from the lefties in Washington who're adding significantly to global warming by the noise they're making about reducing taxes whenever the subject comes up?
What does the national Rat Platform say about lowering taxes? I'm guessing it'll be some socialist screed about "fair shares" and "evil rich white guys".
You know, you and Navy Pride really give me an intellectual superiority complex. It is your ridiculous contention that JFK was a conservative. Your evidence of his being a conservative is that he cut taxes.
Never mind the fact the he referred to himself as a New Deal Democrat, ideologically completely on par with FDR.
Never mind the fact the he was staunchly pro-labor.
Never mind the fact the he referred to himself as a proud liberal.
Never mind the fact that he was not well liked at all in Texas because he was a northeastern liberal and the conservative Democrats in Texas and much of the south for that matter could not stand him.
Never mind the fact that as a congressman, he was one of the most liberal members of the House of Representatives.
Never mind the fact that Medicare was a program originally promoted by JFK yet had stalled in congress and was eventually passed after his assassination.
Never mind the fact that JFK was a huge supporter of federal aid for education and teachers salaries.
So you are telling us, that New Deal Democrat, who was staunchly Pro-Labor / Union, who was disliked by southern conservative Democrats who saw him as a Northeastern Liberal, who while in the House of Representatives was one of the most liberal members, who essentially gave us Medicare and who had originally proposed many of the programs that eventually became known as Johnson’s Great Society, and who was a huge supporter of federal aid for education and teachers salaries was a Conservative????
Moreover, those tax cuts in Vermont that Howard Dean signed into law were proposed by Howard Dean, and being that Vermont had a Democratic Majority in its legislator, Howard Dean had to gain the support of pro-business Republicans in Vermont in order to get the legislation passed for those tax cuts. Yet no liberal would ever cut taxes huh????
