Predictions It's time to review all of the dire predictions made by Democrats in the run up to the 2004 Presidential election. The first one, of course, being that if Bush was re-elected, there would be a draft. This meme spread by Democrats and by certain media outlets got to such a height that at one point the Washington Post (in a backhanded attempt to promote the meme) conducted a poll which found that
Three in four likely voters currently oppose resuming the draft while one in five favor reviving it. Opposition to conscription is both deep and broad: Six in 10 likely voters strongly rejected the draft while only 8 percent strongly favored it.
This of course was the lead paragraph to a headline that read, Poll Shows Voters Reject Return of the Draft. There is no doubt that this meme was spread by Democrats through backchannels such as the story above. I mean the headline could not be construed as an attempt to change the Republican position on this issue since the Republicans had already rejected the idea of a draft.
Further in the article we read that
Two-thirds of all Kerry voters say a draft is at least fairly likely if Bush wins next month, while just 13 percent of the president's supporters agree.
Well here we are six months into the new term and there still is no draft. In fact, the Democrats who proposed the legislation were eventually forced to vote against it when the bill was brought to the floor.
The specter of a new military draft is being dismissed as "the hoax of the year," but Republicans are still doing everything they can to kill the rumor that has spread like wildfire among young voters and worried parents....The 402-2 vote, on a bill sponsored by a Democrat, was called by House Republicans hoping the vote will quash the persistent rumors which have seeped into the presidential campaign.
Rumors. Yeah that's the ticket.
A Kerry Ad that ran just before the election stated:
Announcer: They were hoping to keep it a secret , but we just learned that George Bush and the Republicans are planning to privatize Social Security after the election. Bush and the Republicans have already put Social Security at risk with a record deficit of over $400 billion. Now Bush and the Republicans have a plan to privatize Social Security that cuts benefits by 30 to 45 percent.
Bush and the Republicans, a plan to cut Social Security benefits.
Kerry: I'm John Kerry and I approved this message.
Strangely, they are still claiming this.
Democrats proclaimed the US economy was the worst since the Great Depression.
Well it seems personal income is up, GDP continues to grow at a nice rate, tax revenues are up (with a $58 billion surplus) despite tax cuts, productivity is up and unemployment is down to 5.1%: 3.5 million jobs have been added in the last two years. And the dollar is up. It seems Bush ended the Depression in record time since FDR never did manage to get the unemployment rate down to 5.1% during his whole, 4-term administration.
And remember when Kerry said that there would be a flu vaccine shortage even though he fought legislation that would have alleviated the potential problem? And Democrats claimed
the Bush Administration held back key documents about the flu vaccine shortage until after the election.
Turns out there was a surplus.
Oh, and by the way, I wonder how Michael Moore's film of the 2004 voting in Florida is going?
Documentary filmmaker Michael Moore announced that he is dispatching 1 200 people to literally watch the polls in Tuesday's presidential election in the United States.
The volunteers will be outfitted with video cameras to record any irregularities that might occur in the battleground states of Florida and Ohio.
I'll bet it's riveting.
WMDs: Again The UN is now claiming that the WMD sites they were watching before the war have mysteriously disappeared.
U.N. satellite imagery experts have determined that material that could be used to make biological or chemical weapons and banned long-range missiles has been removed from 109 sites in Iraq, U.N. weapons inspectors said in a report obtained Thursday....
In the report to the U.N. Security Council, acting chief weapons inspector Demetrius Perricos said he's reached no conclusions about who removed the items or where they went. He said it could have been moved elsewhere in Iraq, sold as scrap, melted down or purchased....
The commission, known as UNMOVIC, previously reported the discovery of some equipment and material from the sites in scrapyards in Jordan and the Dutch port of Rotterdam....
A third of the chemical items removed came from the Qaa Qaa industrial complex south of Baghdad which the report said "was among the sites possessing the highest number of dual-use production equipment," whose fate is now unknown." Significant quantities of missing material were also located at the Fallujah II and Fallujah III facilities north of the city, which was besieged last year.
But wait! Is the UN now saying that the WMD factories might have been there all along?
I'm confused.
European Allies If voters will elect them to office, the German Christian Democrats promise better relations with the US and while not breaking ties with France, warn the French not to make Germany choose between relations with France and the US.
"We always told France, 'Don't make us choose between you and the United States, because we probably won't choose you,' " Mr. Schaeuble told a group of young American leaders on a visit to Berlin organized by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations and Germany's Draeger Foundation.
Schroeder and his Social Democrats made a political point of standing against the US during their last successful election cycle. But recently, the Social Democrats have been losing power consistently as their policies fail to improve Germany's economy and bring down unemployment which stands above the 10% mark on average and much higher in some areas. As a result of slipping political power, Schroeder has called for new elections.
Now Schroeder's opposition is using his foreign policy decisions against him.
Wolfgang Schaeuble, deputy chairman of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) parliamentary group who is in charge of foreign policy, accused Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a Social Democrat, of undermining trans-Atlantic ties....
Wolfgang Gerhardt, chairman of the FDP parliamentary group, said Mr. Schroeder had built an "axis" with Paris and Moscow, which was "neither in the interest of Europe, nor of Germany."
What's more, while Schroeder and the Social Democrats power wanes, the Christian Democrats message is on the rise.
Maybe Anti-Americanism isn't the way to win elections.
US Democrats should take note....
Population Crisis Europe in general is having a problem not only with economic growth but additionally they have problems with population growth. But a Swedish politician says she has the solution: More Porn
A Swedish politician says there should be more porn on TV to help boost the country's population. Christian Democrat Teres Kirpikli says not enough babies are being born in Sweden.
She believes that putting porn on television will put couples in the mood for sex.The 35-year-old mother of three told Expressen: "I want more porn on TV. For example every Saturday, all day. That will give people the lust to have sex."
Yeah, who needs Saturday morning cartoon shows. They're so yesterday...
