w pro-growth policy mix — supply-side tax cuts to reignite business investment and risk taking, and easier money to finance a hoped-for growth spurt. If only they could get Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill on board. Inexplicably, O’Neill told a Fortune magazine conference that he didn’t believe broad-based tax cuts are necessary. He would rather consider “targeted stimulus proposals” to help particular industries. This sounds like something from the Carter-Mondale era. These off-the-reservation comments underscore the president’s need to find a new captain for his economic ship — someone who is completely in sync with the presidential growth package and has the communication skills to sell it to Congress and the public. Someone like New York Stock Exchange president Richard Grasso. His massive rolodex of key financial-market players and his indefatigable can-do spirit make him an ideal choice to replace O’Neill, who’s a fish out of water at the Treasury. More, such an appointment would punctuate the president’s determination to move his pro-growth economic agenda forward.Investors, of course, will wait until they learn more before celebrating. They’ll need to see the fine-print of any new plan, and won’t take action now if the tax cost of investing will be substantially lower next year,red vans. That could mean the fourth-quarter economy will remain soft — but next year’s stock-market rise and economic growth surge could be real barnburners if the president has his way,vans shoes on sale.[标签:标题]
A combination of a just war, a recovering economy, the deaf ear of Democratic operatives, and a last-minute reminder that the Carter-Mondale era (ie. tax, spend, and inflate) was another Great Society failure,red vans, seems to have injected the electorate with an intensity that could deliver Congress to the GOP on Tuesday. Advertisement Over the course of a hard-fought mid-term campaign season, voters have been handed reason after reason to pull the Republican lever this time around, while nearly every political maneuver attempted by the Democrats has backfired.The Democrats blamed a recession economy and a plunging stock market on President Bush. But Americans understood that these negatives — now corrected under Bush — were inherited from the days of Clinton-Gore. They tried to pin corporate corruption on Bush. But sophisticated shareholding voters correctly linked the business scandals to miscreant executives, and not the capitalist system.The last-minute weaseling of Sen. Tom Daschle didn’t fool voters either. His obstructionist tactics to prevent key votes on the war, judges, energy, homeland security, and terrorist insurance hardly endeared the electorate — much to the dismay of the Democratic party.Finally, there was the spectre of the Paul Wellstone “memorial service.” Instead of a somber reflection on the tragic loss of Minnesota’s left-wing but still beloved senator, the nation was treated to a harsh political campaign rally. The extreme partisanship of this event was symbolized by the decision of Democratic-party operatives to exclude Vice President Dick Cheney because of allegedly burdensome security arrangements. Meanwhile, the former executive-branch duo of Bill Clinton and Al Gore, who receive nearly the same security as Cheney, got front row seats to the sham event. Pulling all these story lines together, an election-eve Gallup poll reveals an astonishing turnaround in likely voter sentiment. As of the last weekend of the race, the critical period when all recent elections have been settled, the new poll holds that voters prefer Republicans to Democrats by 51% to 45% in House races, a nine-point shift from two weeks ago when Democrats led Republicans 49% to 46%. The lead mirrors the six-point advantage held by the GOP in the final days of the 1994 election when they won control of the House and Senate.The Gallup is the grandaddy of all polls, and most likely it was a combination of factors that delivered this startling turnaround. Surely the global war on terror, waged effectively by President Bu Related articles:

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