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This is the traditional Republican supply-side aspect of Dubya-nomics: you help the poor by helping the rich. In particular, Bush justifies cuts in top-bracket tax rates by noting that they will benefit the small-business owner. That they will. But a lot of top-bracket taxpayers are not small-business owners. So even under the dubious premise that small-business owners are delicate flowers that must be fertilized with extra-rich tax goodies, a general tax cut for the rich is a weird way to go about...
...Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. To capitalize on the memory of 9/11, Rove saw to it that the G.O.P. convention would be held in New York City and late in the political season--just in time to coincide with the two-year anniversary of the tragedy. In New Hampshire, where Dubya suffered a humiliating 19-point loss to John McCain in 2000, Rove has made sure that Bush loyalists control the state G.O.P. to forestall any potential rivals. When the press secretary gave a briefing last week on the President's trip to Ohio, it was from a memo prepared...
...palace in Marrakech, purchased from the actor Alain Delon. Universally known in France as BHL, he is not shy about putting himself in any available limelight, from Vanity Fair and Paris Match to the pop-culture talk show Everybody's Talking About It. "BHL has learned the lessons of Dubya: pile it on from the first day," hissed the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. "Hit the masses with shock and awe." Lévy claims he couldn't care less about his image, only the books. He defends French intellectuals for being right when governments were wrong...
...showbiz contingent of the Coalition of the Willing cracking asunder. I applaud the eloquence, poignance and sheer brass of these statements, especially since I agree with them. (Just for the sake of contrarianism, I would like to have heard someone, in that overwhelmingly liberal house, speak up for Dubya Dubya Three...
Maybe if Saddam had a better comic repertoire he’d be safe? The foreign experts were doubtful. As one might expect, there was plenty of hostility toward George W. Bush at Charlie’s on Sunday. Most suggested that their friends back home viewed Dubya as the typification of America, a swaggering and headstrong cowboy determined to shoot down everything in his path. (Even if the Democrats can’t register these foreigners to vote, perhaps they should consider hiring them as speech writers...