The tax cuts are doing what naturally happens when you cut taxes. More growth, more jobs.
Something that Democrats can't seem to understand is that you can't tax your way out of a recession - the imminent recession was a very hot topic during the 2000 elections, and something that libs love to forget is that we were heading into a recession prior to Billy Bob exiting the White House. Oh yeah, gotta love those massive tax increases that Billy Bob got. The 9/11 stock market crash exaggerated the recession, but the recession was upon us, nevertheless.
OBL is naturally a hot target, and he always has been since 9/11. What's going on now is that there is an important election coming up this year, and what do you hear liberals quacking about? Yep, what happened to OBL?
You have to think about this from our military's standpoint. If you are actively trying to find someone's address and he doesn't want to be found, do you make headlines saying you're REALLY going all out to find him? Of course not, you want him to think he's taken a back burner to priorities and catch him off guard. It will only take one small mistake from him or his lackeys for our military to zero in on him, and you can bet the farm that there are multiple electronic intercept missions flying & monitoring every transmission from that region 24/7, and has been since prior to the invasion of Afghanistan. That's just the Air Force, there's plenty of boots on the ground asking questions & following up leads. I'd really like to know how many spooks the CIA and NSA have in country now, there will be some killer autobiographies and movies made 10 years from now.
Since we've got an election year and the dems are yelling about OBL, Bush did what any politician in those circumstances would do that wants to get re-elected, and that's to state what has been our mission all along publicly - makes it harder for the military & intelligence to do their job but by informing the public about the effort you have less fallout against such allegations. All of the Demos know the search has top priority, but it's politically handy to ask these questions in front of the masses that aren't in the loop on briefings. It's a blatant embarassment smear upon Bush, when our service men and women would work every bit as hard under Gore - we all want OBL's head on a platter.
Well, most of us, anyway. I've talked with libs that would like to enroll him in an anger management course (paid by Uncle Sam, of course) to bring him around.
You can bet that when the statement was released about OBL being gone after 24/7, there were plenty of surveillance and intercept missions watching intently for any break in silence - remember, it only takes one knucklehead to panic to pinpoint his position. When I heard about the announcement, my first thought was that it was a ploy to get someone to transmit & flush out the bastard.
I'm not positive on what happened & is happening, and if I did I damn sure wouldn't be talking to you on this board about it. I can only surmise from what I do know.
But I do know that OBL has been, and is to this day, a priority 1 target - and this I do know for a fact. Politics get in the way, sometimes, but that's American politics for you.
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