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Party Animal : /p>

Hewitt gored your ox, did he, Mr. Hogberg?

p>All kidding aside, I can't argue with your mentions of the steel tariffs and what certainly appears to have been excessive federal spending during the first two years of his presidency, (although you could make a case for expanding the tent by at least some of those expenditures), but your contention that it's Bush's fault that his 2001 tax cuts weren't front loaded is off base. Those delays were in most part due to a vicious, monolithic opposition by the Democrats, coupled with the need to cater to a few wrong-headed but powerful Republican Senators and congressmen who weren't overwhelmed with those cuts in the first place. I think Bush did what he had to do to get them enacted at all. The fact that he's signed a tax cut bill for every one of his four years secured my support for his fiscal policies, steel tariff or no, front loading or no. As you've mentioned in other articles, the deficit will take care of itself, through growth, just as it did in the '90s, proving those above-mentioned Republicans wrong again. But we still need to make room for them, don't we? br> -- Tim Jones /p> p> I agree with Hogberg's premise with the exception of the closing sentence. Given that Bush is battling not only the left, but the "anybody but Bush" faction, a media that is aiding and abetting those groups, what appears to be an inexhaustible amount of money, an evenly divided Senate, I am amazed he has been able to navigate as well and accomplish as much as he has. Given all these factors I'm not sure he would be in any stronger position for reelection had he followed a more strictly conservative approach. br> -- Tim Reed br> Highlands Ranch, Colorado /p>

I am not a Party Animal, as described by David Hogberg. Wishy-washy Republican describes me better. Come to think of it, that is an apt description of my Senator, Arlen Specter, but for different reasons.

I'm wishy-washy because I was happy to register Democrat, to vote for Bob Casey, Jr. in the gubernatorial primary against Ed Rendell.

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