You gotta give credit where credit is due. Bush scores one for showing up in Iraq on Thanksgiving and one for ending tariffs
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Originally posted by Zkribbler
You gotta give credit where credit is due. Bush scores one for showing up in Iraq on Thanksgiving and one for ending tariffs
This isn't a positive political mark for Bush--it will hurt him with steel workers, and it makes him look weak for blinking under threats from the EU and Asia.Tutto nel mondo è burla
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Has Bush lost Teamster's support by now? is this the end of the union bloc voting conservative?"Flutie was better than Kelly, Elway, Esiason and Cunningham." - Ben Kenobi
"I have nothing against Wilson, but he's nowhere near the same calibre of QB as Flutie. Flutie threw for 5k+ yards in the CFL." -Ben Kenobi
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Maybe they would all move to Florida and vote against GWB.(\__/) 07/07/1937 - Never forget
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(")_(") "Starting the fire from within."
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Yeah, the steelworkers union has decried Bush's move and said that they would work hard to unseat him.
Thinking how beholden the Democrat party are to protectionist unions, it is amazing that Clinton was a free trader.
It is also amazing that Bush became a protectionist, because he is never going to get the union leadership to back him.http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en
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The term "Fair trade" was invented by leftist, to describe a deal where you pay more for the goods, to allow for higher salaries in 3rd world countries. Now Bush uses it for his own purposes and I don't get it. (I oppose both the leftists and Bush)So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
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Zkribbler...how should Bush get points for ending dumb tariffs that he imposed in the first place?
Gives you one less reason not to vote for Bush, and it gives him some nice ammunition over the protectionist Dems.
The only way the tariffs could have hurt him is if some of the Dems took him to task for not having free trade, but now they don't have that opportunity.
How many times do you hear people complaining about Bush not admitting he was wrong? Now he has.Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
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Originally posted by Ned
Chem Ollie, if you oppose Bush because he imposed the tarriffs, you are not a good leftist.
I was pro-Bush during his last campaign and all the way until he imposed the steel tariffs. Then I started to doubt - well is he a commie or something - opposing free trade and introducing government support to obsolete industry?
Then came 9/11, and his response made me turn my back against him totally. The goal of terrorism is to provoke the authorities to do stupid things in response, which will make the public hate the authorities, and stupid Bush fell right into the trap.
Sound effects from "Counter-Strike" computer game: BOOOOMMM....Terrorists win!So get your Naomi Klein books and move it or I'll seriously bash your faces in! - Supercitizen to stupid students
Be kind to the nerdiest guy in school. He will be your boss when you've grown up!
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Well, we conservatives here in the US conniptions about the steel tarriffs as well.
I can also understand your view on 9/11 as conservatives here in the States have historically been isolationistic. However, all that changed beginning with the rise of George McGovern. The parties here in the US have switched with the Republicans being the party of Manifest Destiny.http://tools.wikimedia.de/~gmaxwell/jorbis/JOrbisPlayer.php?path=John+Williams+The+Imperial+M arch+from+The+Empire+Strikes+Back.ogg&wiki=en
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You guys are crazy. Bush scored political points with steel workers for imposing the tariffs in the first place, showing that his support for the American steel industry goes beyond mere words. He always knew the WTO would find against the US in this case, but the act itself was great from a political standpoint, even if it was always doomed to failure.
Now that the inevitable failure of the tariffs has come about, Bush can spin his removal of the tariffs as a sign of his support for free-trade and respect for the WTO and other international trading organizations. The public memory is so short that most people will forget that Bush imposed the tariffs in the first place and will give him some sort of credit for this pro-free-trade move. Meanwhile, Bush can still score points with steel workers, claiming that he tried his best to help them out, but foreign opposition did the tariffs in. It's a win-win situation for Bush.
Say what you want about Bush and his team, but you must admit that Karl Rove is a political genius.KH FOR OWNER!
ASHER FOR CEO!!
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Chemical Ollie:
You sound like an interesting conservative, being against the war on terror, and for free trade.
Which aspects of Bush most appealed to you, when he first got elected?Scouse Git (2) La Fayette Adam Smith Solomwi and Loinburger will not be forgotten.
"Remember the night we broke the windows in this old house? This is what I wished for..."
2015 APOLYTON FANTASY FOOTBALL CHAMPION!
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Ben -- conservatives are diverse in of themselves, just as liberals are diverse in of themselves.
You can have two conservatives slugging it out with one another -- or two liberals slugging it out with one another.A lot of Republicans are not racist, but a lot of racists are Republican.
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