Jim Stillman
M-Kaz
Chutzpah and the McCain-Palin campaign
September 5th 2008 23:51
The Yiddish word “chutzpah” has entered into the English language; it has a meaning not that well expressed in other words. It means gall, nerve, all to an extreme degree. It is often illustrated thusly: A child murders his parents and then pleads for mercy on the grounds that he is an orphan.
Senator McCain’s speech at the GOP convention and his latest political advertisement is unique in that it required a total loss of memory and a total suspension of belief.
And then there is the latest GOP ad warning that an Obama administration will result in “years of deficits” and “billions in spending” and “no balanced budgets”
Chutzpah.
Has Senator McCain and his party forgotten that, as to the first quoted statement, that the administration was Republican, George Bush was and is president, and that for nearly all of the eight years, Republicans controlled the Congress and, even in the last year when Democrats were in nominal control, Republicans were able to have an obstruction role and exercised it? Senator McCain urges us to allow him to “change the way the government does almost everything”, the GOP-run government, headed by President Bush with whom the Senator agreed 90% of the time.
Chutzpah.
As to the second position displayed in the advertisement, that a Democratic victory will result in deficits, years of spending and a lack of a balanced budget.
Amazing! When George Bush became president, President Clinton left him a balanced budget, a budgetary surplus and reduced levels of spending; we were living within our means.
As reported by Roger Runningen on Bloomberg.com,
Chutzpah.
The Republicans are counting on the voters’ suspension of rational thought. They believe that sarcasm, mean and cruel name calling will carry the day. I will give examples of this in a later post, including examples from GOP politicians, media sympathizers and, even, one language and vocabulary-challenged Orble writer.
Don’t let them get away with it!
Senator McCain’s speech at the GOP convention and his latest political advertisement is unique in that it required a total loss of memory and a total suspension of belief.
'We need to change the way government does almost everything: from the way we protect our security to the way we compete in the world economy; from the way we respond to disasters to the way we fuel our transportation network; from the way we train our workers to the way we educate our children.'
Chutzpah.
Has Senator McCain and his party forgotten that, as to the first quoted statement, that the administration was Republican, George Bush was and is president, and that for nearly all of the eight years, Republicans controlled the Congress and, even in the last year when Democrats were in nominal control, Republicans were able to have an obstruction role and exercised it? Senator McCain urges us to allow him to “change the way the government does almost everything”, the GOP-run government, headed by President Bush with whom the Senator agreed 90% of the time.
Chutzpah.
As to the second position displayed in the advertisement, that a Democratic victory will result in deficits, years of spending and a lack of a balanced budget.
Amazing! When George Bush became president, President Clinton left him a balanced budget, a budgetary surplus and reduced levels of spending; we were living within our means.
As reported by Roger Runningen on Bloomberg.com,
The U.S. budget deficit will widen to a record of about $490 billion next year, an administration official said, leaving a deep budget hole that will constrain the next president's tax and spending plans.
The projected deficit for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is higher than the $407 billion forecast by President George W. Bush in February. The bigger shortfall reflects dwindling tax receipts because of the U.S. economic slowdown, the cost of a $168 billion economic stimulus package and spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We've already seen a pretty sharp cooling in tax receipts, and it's just going to continue into next fiscal year," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Capital Markets, said in a telephone interview.
The deficit projection will burden both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the presumptive presidential nominees of the major political parties, with a constricted budget that has little room for cutting taxes or increasing spending. The next president also will inherit the deepest housing recession in a generation, fears of a crisis in the banking industry, a falling dollar and high energy prices.
The projected deficit for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 is higher than the $407 billion forecast by President George W. Bush in February. The bigger shortfall reflects dwindling tax receipts because of the U.S. economic slowdown, the cost of a $168 billion economic stimulus package and spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We've already seen a pretty sharp cooling in tax receipts, and it's just going to continue into next fiscal year," Stephen Stanley, chief economist at RBS Capital Markets, said in a telephone interview.
The deficit projection will burden both Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama, the presumptive presidential nominees of the major political parties, with a constricted budget that has little room for cutting taxes or increasing spending. The next president also will inherit the deepest housing recession in a generation, fears of a crisis in the banking industry, a falling dollar and high energy prices.
Chutzpah.
The Republicans are counting on the voters’ suspension of rational thought. They believe that sarcasm, mean and cruel name calling will carry the day. I will give examples of this in a later post, including examples from GOP politicians, media sympathizers and, even, one language and vocabulary-challenged Orble writer.
Don’t let them get away with it!
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