Kent Conrad on C-Span Today: Destroys The * Economic Policy Disaster

[stopbush]

He outlined the entire economic disaster bushco has visited on the country. He showed how the looming deficits in the outyears will doom this country. He took apart the entire rationale of the supply siders and the all-taxes-are-bad crowd. He talked about foreigners buying our debt and how that was a false crutch for the domestic economy. And he peppered his discussion with quotes from * that show he is doing the exact OPPOSITE of what he campaigned on, and that his policies are having the exact OPPOSITE effect of what all the rosy scenario bush apologists are telling us.

If you think Iraq/Plamegate/Alito is scary, check out the economic abyss the * tax policies have doomed this country to. Third-worldom is about 5 years away.

I don't see a video posted at c-span, but you should try to catch it on a rerun.

[lyonn]

1. Saw some of the programing and thought how sad

that only those precious few of us that watch C-Span will hear this information. We are in deep do do. The repub dismissed the truth by trying to say "hey, we are still cutting taxes on the poor". The repub also made some goofy comment on how the Reagan admin. had us all rich and let's not forget it. I haven't forgotten it and it was a terrible mess.

[TheFarseer]

4. Reagan had us ALL rich

could not be further from the truth. Farmers and factory workers were up a sh*t creek with Reagan. His policies helped destroy the auto, steel and farming industries in this country to benefit paper pushers.

[TheFarseer]

2. Conrad is one of my favorite Senators

I wish he was more vocal and more in the limelight. Both Senators from ND are very good.

[JNelson6563]

3. When it comes to economics

Conrad always leaves them bloody on the floor. Watching him go to town on anything economy related is a thing of beauty.

Thanks for posting.

Julie

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. Ah...Bush has a newer and better plan now!

It will make the process of destroying the middle class twenty times faster!

[European Socialist]

6. Conrad has been warning about Dumya since 2001. North Dakota has ..

two excellent senators. Byron Dorgan has also blasted Bush for years.

[stopbush]

8. I'm a big fan of his levelheadedness...which is why it is always

keenly disappointing when he votes with the bushies on certain issues.

[Qanisqineq]

9. I agree

they are both great senators but no one ever hears about them. Dorgan is always great when he is talking about outsourcing.

A few months ago I saw Conrad give a speech about the debt being owned by other countries (namely China) and a timeline on what will happen in the years to come. He talked about how -if we don't change what we are doing now- in 80 years we will spend our entire yearly budget on the INTEREST of our debts and nothing else. It could have been 60 years or 100 years... I don't remember exactly but it was scary. He sure likes his big charts during his presentations -- too bad he doesn't put them online. He had a great one of the timeline.

Of course, I could be biased with the great senators comment since I am a native North Dakotan. :D

[rockymountaindem]

7. But because this won't make it on network or cable news

or on the front page of any newspaper, everyone, even our own party base, will continue to scream that the Dems have no platform, and that we're "spineless".

I'm beginning to think we should just take out infomercials.