Today's WSJ political thoughts !

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Kerry begins advertising in Virginia - and the Wall Street Journal Notes that Moody's is rewarding Virginia Gov. Mark Warner for his "hard-won budget victory over anti-tax state and national Republicans, restoring the state's triple-A bond rating yesterday." !!!

No Tax WSJ - ????


While we are signing the CAFTA trade agreement that Lou Dobbs was upset about last night - "Today's signing of a free-trade deal with five Central American nations brings to three those awaiting Congress's ratification; another with Bahrain isn't signed. Backers have scant hope for final votes, given lawmakers' election-year jitters about job losses. A deal with war ally Australia could pass, but Democrats say the Central America pact is 'on a midnight train to nowhere.'"

Seems the Alternative Minimum Tax reform is going nowhere because of deficit concerns,.

Kerry's new line of attack on Bush is blaming "mismanagement of the war" for high gas costs.

And the WSJ wants Bush to admit that Bush's bow to the UN "won't mean any more foreign troops to help us in Iraq."

I do like the WSJ Ed boards "We wish Mr. Bush had proposed a 'two-step' process — keep killing our enemies and organize the elections as soon as possible ourselves … "