Posted by caraher on July 24, 2008, at 8:54:36
From an Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration, Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review...
"I helped to devise and to get implemented an economic policy that cured stagflation and that brought Republicans back into political competition after Watergate. If I could have looked into a crystal ball and seen that under a free trade banner, Republicans would enable corporate executives to pay themselves millions of dollars in performance pay for deserting their American work forces and hiring foreigners in their place, thus destroying the aspirations and careers of millions of Americans, I never would have helped the Republicans. If a crystal ball had revealed that a neoconned Republican Party would launch wars of naked aggression against countries that posed no threat to the United States, I would have shouted my warnings even earlier."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts07232008.html
The bit with the kid in the T-shirt reminds me of this guy who put up a bunch of billboards showing the World Trade Center towers aflame with a plea not to vote for Democrats who said, "I believe 9/11 could have been prevented if we'd had a Republican president at the time." http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/16/911.billboard/index.html
After all, look how they sprang into action upon taking office when Richard Clarke came to them with this memo...
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