[Bleyseng]

Tax cuts works if you don't also raise government spending. Simple economics. Cut spending and cut taxes. If you raise spending and cut taxes for the rich then you are in trouble. Thats where we are now...
Oh, Reganomics were the same thing. Tax cuts for the rich and higher government spendin.
Clinton did BALANCE the budget and this amazingly help spark the economy for the longest period in the 20th Century. Wow, a Democrat did that!
IIRC Clarkes plans came at the end of Clintons time so it could have gone right into effect. The problems of the FBI and the CIA communicating go back to the Regan Era where the White House ordered the CIA to do operations (see Ollie North).Congress passed some laws to prevent this.
I think that the GOP congress would have stood in the way of any changes that Clarke suggusted until a 9/11 like event happened. As a people we need blood to spill before we change.
I think if Gore had been elected we would still be with the UN rebuilding Afghanistan and not in Iraq.
I also think this "Bush Strong Man" posing is driving Arab men to become terrorist in droves. The Arabs see Bush as a threat to them and will fight to the death. How many of you will strap a bomb on and go blow yourself up?
Kicking the ***** out of things usually stirs up a hornets nest.

Geoff