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...wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these two caricatures are worth examining, because doing so helps explain how each man would govern, where their records and philosophies are fundamentally different--and where their plans are more alike than either cares to admit...
...Every day, two o'clock, "Hysteria"--it's a history cartoon! I love it. I love it!," she says. "Three o'clock is "Dungeons and Dragons"--I just realized it's back on the air. And then "The X-Men" come on at four...
...wants to wire-transfer the surplus into the bank accounts of the upper class, spending "more money on tax cuts for the wealthiest 1%" than he does for new education, health-care and defense programs combined. Are Bush and Gore right about each other? Every campaign serves up a cartoon version of its opponent. But these two caricatures are worth examining, because doing so helps explain how each man would govern, where their records and philosophies are fundamentally different - and where their plans are more alike than either cares to admit...
...also true that in 1997 he backed a noble effort to raise business taxes to boost school funding and reduce reliance on property taxes. He fought hard for the plan, which originated with Democrats in the state legislature, but came up short. In other words, Gore's cartoon version of Bush is no more complete than Bush's cartoon version of Gore. They are both complex and sometimes compromised men, both pragmatists who will govern in part based on economic realities and the need to push bills though a sharply divided Congress - no matter which party ends up with...
...these things held a sort of infinite communicability and possibility within themselves; above all, they didn't seem symbolic, didn't seem to have the onus of a "deeper meaning." They were just things-things with an emphatic, almost gleeful physicality about them, suggested by thick, confident brushstrokes, black cartoon outlines and often fleshy colors...