Thursday, September 22, 2005
This administration cares deeply about women-owned and minority-owned businesses:From the White House press briefing:(emp add) Q Scott, Representative LoBiondo from New Jersey, Republican, is circulating a letter calling on the President to rescind the tax cut, which he signed into effect for the people who are going to be rebuilding the Gulf Coast. In light of that, and in light of the need that people have to be working and to be earning decent money down there, is the President reconsidering this wage cut?
MR. McCLELLAN: Which tax cut?
Q The wage cut.
MR. McCLELLAN: In terms of tax cuts --
Q No, I'm sorry. I meant the wage cuts, didn't mean to say, tax cuts --
MR. McCLELLAN: What do you mean, wage cuts?
Q The Davis-Bacon.
MR. McCLELLAN: The Davis-Bacon. Well, what --
Q Which is a wage cut.
MR. McCLELLAN: We suspended that act for the reasons that we stated previously. This will open up access to more business -- small businesses, including women-owned and minority-owned businesses. An echo of the parody of the New York Times which had the headline: World War III Begins
Atomic bombs rain on several U.S. cities
Women and minorities adversely affected Back then (the 1908's ?) the joke was on liberals. Now it's the Bush administration which is a joke.
posted by Quiddity at 9/22/2005 09:49:00 AM
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The transcript is beautiful. Everything to them sounds like "tax cuts."
Calvin Trillin tells the story of his magazine article from the early 60s with the parody headline "Cold snap hits our city: Jews, Blacks, suffer most". This being a dig at the reliably liberal sentiments of the--New York Post! That's before you were born, Quiddity. It's a fairly old joke anyhow, and told often enough by liberals on liberals.
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Typo in "1908s"
...Yeah, and they also loosen environmental rules down there. It's like a Free Trade Zone in the Philippines. If anyone suggests anything that might be safer, or environmentally sounder, or better energy policy or urban develpoment policy for the ravaged area, it will be SHOT DOWN. Instead, we'll see a Republican vision for the future instituted on the Gulf Coast.
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