 |
 |
|
 |
|
Bush Campaign Ads . . . Brought to You by Special Interests
As President Bush's $10.5 million campaign ad blitz begins, Public Citizen released a report outlining who helped pay for the campaign ads and what favors they have received during his presidency.
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
No Child Left Behind? The Funding Gap in ESEA and Other Federal Education Programs
The current reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), raises high expectations for achievement and imposes stringent measures of accountability on students, teachers, and schools.
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
December 11, 2003
More Presidential Deficit Deceit
President Bush yesterday deployed his budget director to write an op-ed claiming "We can cut the deficit in half"1. It was a direct attempt to regain his status as a supposed "fiscal conservative." The problem is that it is just one in a long line of empty reassurances and dishonest statements on the deficit issue.
In 2001, when he was pitching his tax cut, the President reassured the country that, "we can proceed with tax relief without fear of budget deficits, even if the economy softens."2 After his tax cuts passed and a deficit ensued, he promised, "Our budget will run a deficit that will be small and short-term."3 When that proved not to be the case, he said "I remember campaigning in Chicago and one of the reporters said, 'Would you ever deficit spend?' I said, 'Only - only - in times of war, in times of economic insecurity as a result of a recession or in times of national emergency.' Never did I dream we'd have a trifecta."4 Even this statement proved to be a flat out lie: two days later on Meet the Press, Tim Russert said "We have checked everywhere and we've even called the White House as to when the president said [the trifecta caveat] when he was campaigning in Chicago, and it didn't happen."
Bush then tried to shift the blame for the deficit, saying, "This nation has got a deficit because we have been through a war."5 While that sounded good, he was contradicting his own budget director, who admitted just a few months before that "Even if we had never been attacked, and incurred no costs of war or recovery from September 11th…we still would have gone into deficit."6
Because the President has decided to focus on dishonest rhetoric - instead of action - the deficit now sits at $374 billion - the highest in history.7
Sources:
- Wall Street Journal, 12/10/03
- Remarks by the President, 03/27/2001.
- State of the Union Address, 01/29/2002.
- President Discusses Homeland Security Department, 06/07/2002.
- President Discusses Plan for Economic Growth in Ohio, 04/23/2003.
- Mitch Daniels, congressional testimony, 2/5/03
- "Federal deficit hits record $374.2 billion", USA Today, 10/20/2003.
Send the Misleader to a Friend | Print It | Misleader Archive
|
|
