From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
Subject: Re: Clinton break tax (and other) promise(s)
Date: 21 Jan 93 17:52:02 GMT
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Organization: Duke University; Durham, N.C.

session@seq.uncwil.edu (Zack C. Sessions) writes:
=>From: eyc@acpub.duke.edu (EMIL CHUCK)
=>Subject: Re: Clinton break tax (and other) promise(s)
=>-If you can't understand that it is possible that reevaluation may become
=>-necessary as time progresses, then go ahead, call Clinton a liar all you
=>-want. Don't excpect me to believe it.

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=>Okay, so it's okay for Clinton to reevaluate his stance on a middle
=>class tax cut, reducing the deficit, Haitian refugees, sending Chelsea
=>to Sidwell Friends, etc. So was it okay for Bush to have "raised taxes"
=>in order to get spending limits on Congress during the Budget Act of
=>1990? I'd call that a reevaluation of a problem too.
=>
=>If you call it, try to call it both ways.
=
=Hold on a second!! I sure that you are aware that Clinton never made
=campaign promise to send Chelsea to a public school while they live
=in DC. And Clinton has clearly stated that he has NOT changed his position
=on the Haitian refugees. He is merely keeping the Bush policy in place
=so he can transition his policy into place without causing a mass exodus
=of refugees. And there is a hell of lot of difference to re-evaluating
=a promise and totally abandoning one.  (Bush was actually PROMOTING the
=tax increase just before it was voted on.)

No, he didn't make that promise about Chelsea, but he did make a lot of
people really upset at him, especially the NEA folks. But not sending
Chelsea to a public school, which the Democrats themselves called the
"bedrock of democracy," when they opposed school competition with
private schools, felt like a hypocritical act. Clinton himself he was
doing some that he thought was the best for his daughter. That's was all
well and good, but I don't remember anyone being so forgiving to VP
Quayle on the Larry King Show when he said he would support his daughter
if she got pregnant (and interpret out to if she got an abortion. I've
lost my copy of the transcript). Quayle said he would support his
children and do what he thought was best for them. The same people who
viciously attacked Quayle for caring about his children are the same
people who now sit on their mouths when Clinton does something that his
own party won't allow all the American people an opportunity to pursue,
which is to send their children to the best possible school they can. If
the Democrats believe in public school choice, Clinton was expected to
be the model American to send Chelsea to a local public school.
	Chelsea went to public school when her folks were in the
Governor's Mansion making about what... 30-50K $? Now they're making
$200K. It is their right to send her to Sidwell Friends (it's a good
school, but I like Georgetown Day -- where Al Gore, Jr., attended
school), but it just looks like the reforms Clinton makes in the public
school system will be "sheltered" from Chelsea, that she won't have to
experience or witness the consequences of her father's policies.

The reason why he was promoting the Budget Deal of 1990 was that it
contained spending caps for the Congress and placed the onus of keeping
the budget deficit on them. 

=And the Read My Lips broken pledge was not the only campaign promise of
=Bush's he broke. What about those 50,000,000 million jobs? What about
=his pledge to be the environmental president? What about his pledge to
=be the educational president?

Yes, he couldn't fulfill all the promises he set forth back in 1988. But
would you be so forgiving if Bush said, oh, the 50 million (as opposed
to the 50 quadrillion in your response :) ) was a GOAL, not a promise?

Have you heard anything about the Clear Air/Water Act? Head Start and
the America 2000 goals? He did something, but he either let it slide or
didn't do that one "marquee" thing that we could say, ah, that's what he
did. Otherwise, he didn't do what you wanted or expected him to do to
fulfill your definition of being an "environmental" or "education"
president.

But that's old news now.
-- 
Emil Thomas Chuck	eyc@acpub.duke.edu	BSE in BME in 1993
"You just can't promise something like that just to get elected if you
 know there's a good chance that circumstances may overtake you."
	- Bill Clinton, East Lansing MI debate, Mon Oct 19 1992
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