Fiction and the Tax Cut

Bush gets his gimmicky tax cut while a $400 child credit for millions
of low-wage families is eliminated. Are his critics suffering from outrage
exhaustion? http://www.msnbc.com/news/920140.asp


Bush's critics inside and outside his party are suffering from outrage
exhaustion. How much can Bush get away with before the public and the media
hold him accountable? If this shameful provision is not repealed, 11.9
million children, or one of every six children under 17 ,will be
shortchanged according to The Center on Budget and Priorities, an admittedly
liberal group, but whose facts are not disputed. Keep an eye on the media
and whether the networks pick up the story, first reported in Thursday's New
York Times. If the Times story resonates, Karl Rove and his tag team of
compassionate conservatives will do damage control, pledging perhaps to
correct the omission with another tax bill in the fall, which they will see
as an opportunity to push through still more cuts for upper-income voters.


Claudia D. Dikinis
http://starcats.com
Political & Personal Astrology for a New Millennium