From: billc@airgun.wg.waii.com (Bill Curtis)
Newsgroups: tx.politics
Subject: Re: Clinton has won...watch your pocket!
Summary: No broken promises...let's see
Date: 28 Jan 93 16:31:09 GMT
Distribution: tx
Organization: Western Geophysical, Div. of Western Atlas Int'l, Houston, TX

In article <1993Jan27.144851.13703@mksol.dseg.ti.com>, mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
> In <1854@airgun.wg.waii.com> billc@airgun.wg.waii.com (Bill Curtis) writes:
> 
> >> 
> >> "Slick Willie" == "Smart Willie"
> >> 
> 
> >Clinton has already broken several
> >promises with hardly a week passed and there's more to be broken on the
> >horizon as far at the eye can see.
> 
> You know, conservative extremists keep saying this, but when asked to
> detail which ones they inevitably come up remarkably short.  They have
> to stretch to things like "there is a rumor that they are talking
> about" and other such things.  
> 
Extremists, eh?  Let's see.    


	1.  He promised a tax break for the middle class.
            
	    That empty pomise was abandoned almost from the first
	    day.  Remember how his staff suddenly discovered that
	    the deficit was going to be $19 billion more than they
	    had computed.  They have headed for the tall grass.

	2.  Instead, he has Benson suggesting a tax on gasoline.  This
	    would be the opposite of a tax break and regressive to
	    the extreme.  This might not be a broken campaign 
	    promise as much as a lie.

	3.  He promised a cabinet that looks like America, yet there
	    is not one republican, not one conservative, not one 
	    Perotista, not one right to life advocate, which
	    suggests that this promise was for the credulous, the
	    true believers.  Insiders, like yourself, know the
	    shibbeloths and the code words the liberal
	    Democrats use to advance their agenda.  The rest of us
	    are gullible, thinking this Democrat might be different
	    and will live up to his promises.  You see, there are 
	    a few Neanderthals out there that believe that men of
	    honor attach meaning to their utterances.

Many voted for him because of these promises.  Had I, I would have
felt deceived.  Symbolism over substance:  the phrase attaches itself
to those who make empty claims and delude the people.

None of the above are contestable, IMO.  Bill Clinton, our president,
is more and more appearing to be a tax and spend liberal.  Many people
said he was going to be for change, for the good.  Do words have no
meaning to this man?  Was his campaign simply a word game, a charade,
an exercise in semantics?  Words have meaning: ideas have
consequences.  Only the meanest, lowest type person deliberately
misleads.  Do you admit to a president that so behaves?

And come on, he has appointed some real screwy people to his cabinet.
Shalala, Reisch (sp), to mention just two, are not serious managers or
leaders.  Wouldn't you, in normal times, describe them as flakes, even
weirdos?  His wife is a 60s radical.  :)

His administration, though too early to tell for sure, is looking more
and more Carteresque.  I was alive and trying to survive during those
dark days.  Sorry, but you should worry, too.  It is your country as
well as mine.

Lighten up.  If you plan to defend the man on his silly actions to date,
you are going to have to drop off the net.  The future is going to be
too busy for you.  All we can do now is have fun.  Have some humor.  After
all, it is going to be 4 years of zanniness.
-- 
W. C. Curtis, Jr. 
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