October 27, 2003

MicroDem 2004: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Democratic Tax Convergence? No Mystery

I have to assume that Kevin Hassett at TechCentral is being disingenuous in The Tax Policy of Hate. He professes puzzlement at how the tax policies of the current crop of Democratic candidates are simply clones of one idea, driven by the hate of George Bush.

"The hate of Bush is so powerful that it has even dominated Democratic tax policy. For example, Wesley Clark announced his tax plan in a speech on Wednesday, and the details were oddly familiar. Like just about every other Democratic candidate, Clark has proposed an enormous tax hike. And what form does that tax hike take? Why the same form chosen by his competitors. Clark would roll back the tax reductions that President Bush passed for those taxpayers who make more than $200,000 per year....

"The Democratic candidates each studied the tax code and the economy and reached precisely the same conclusion: The way to improve the world the most is exactly to reverse the tax policy of George Bush. Such a convergence of answers is extraordinarily improbable.

I submit that it is neither extraordinary nor improbable, but simply an expression of the political operating system currently being run by the Democratic candidates. Like all operating systems there are certain root assumptions running in the program. We only need to see the input to understand the output.

What needs to be asked is exactly what Democrats are fighting over. Unless the current trends in Iraq and the Economy suffer catastrophic reversals, the Presidency in 2004 will remain with the person who currently holds the job. The only way Iraq and the Economy can be turned around at this point would be if the United States were to suffer a second terrorist attack at or beyond the level sustained on September 11. In that case, the Presidency becomes a full-court war Presidency and remains beyond the reach of the Democratic Party for the rest of the decade.

No, what's being fought over by the "Amazing Shrinking Gang of Nine, Eight, Seven, Six..." is the leadership of the Democrats -- the position of 'First Loser.'

In order to become the Democrats' annointed First Loser, the candidates must appeal not to the American People en masse. They are irrelevant to this quest. No, the Democratic "winner" will be the one who most successfully attracts the greatest number of energized, committed Bush Haters. As a result, there can only be a scorched-earth program for the "Bush Tax Cuts."

Indeed, scorched-earth HateBush programs are the only programs that can be run on the Democrats Mainframe. Why? Because the Democrats' IT Department has installed an operating system best known as "MicroDem." And, as we have learned over and over, any operating system with the word 'Micro' in it is pre-ordained to be full of security holes, ridden with viruses, and destined to crash at a moment's notice.

Posted by Vanderleun at October 27, 2003 9:11 AM
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