A Tangled Web

CHENEY VERSUS EDWARDS.



A few readers have chastised me for not blogging on the Kerry vs Bush debate. I was not here at the time and was not in a position to cover it properly! However, I have followed last night's debate and I was impressed. With Cheney.



Here's why;



John Edwards:...We are for more tax cuts for the middle class than they're for, have been for the last four years. But we are not for more tax cuts for multimillionaires. They are. And it is a fundamental difference in what we think needs to be done in this country.



Gwen Ifill: You have 30 seconds, Mr. Vice President.



Dick Cheney: Yesterday, the president signed an extension of middle- class tax cuts, the 10 percent bracket, the marriage penalty relief and the increase in the child tax credit. Senators Kerry and Edwards weren't even there to vote for it when it came to final passage.





And then there was this....



"I am the president of Senate, the presiding officer. I'm up in the Senate most Tuesdays when they're in session. The first time I ever met you was when you walked on the stage tonight." Ouch!!!



And the knock-out exchange...



John Edwards: And regardless of what the vice president says, we're at $200 billion and counting. Not only that, 90 percent of the coalition casualties, Mr. Vice President, the coalition casualties, are American casualties. Ninety percent of the cost of this effort are being borne by American taxpayers. It is the direct result of the failures of this administration.



Gwen Ifill: Mr. Vice President?



Dick Cheney: Classic example. He won't count the sacrifice and the contribution of Iraqi allies. It's their country. They're in the fight. They're increasingly the ones out there putting their necks on the line to take back their country from the terrorists and the old regime elements that are still left. They're doing a superb job. And for you to demean their sacrifices strikes me as...



John Edwards: Oh, I'm not...



Dick Cheney: ... as beyond...



John Edwards: I'm not demeaning...



Dick Cheney: It is indeed. You suggested...



John Edwards: No, sir, I did not...



Dick Cheney: ... somehow they shouldn't count, because you want to be able to say that the Americans are taking 90 percent of the sacrifice. You cannot succeed in this effort if you're not willing to recognize the enormous contribution the Iraqis are increasingly making to their own future



Now then - I am sure the on-line polls will show that Edwards won this big-time!

I am just as sure that come November, Dick Cheney will be V-P. This was a clear victory for Cheney, folks. Roll on St.Louis.