For the second week in a row, Jonathan Chait churns out the good stuff in the New Republic. This article may be a subscriber only. Still, it is a short complaint on the GOP tactics of using our war to push through unmerited tax cuts. For example:
"Asked a week ago about McCain's plan to postpone tax cuts until after the war, Fleischer replied that tax cuts would ensure that, "when the war is over, our military has jobs to come home to." Since this seems to be the administration's new line Fleischer has repeated it twice more since it is worth considering in all its glorious absurdity. First, soldiers aren't going to "come home" after the war the way they did after Vietnam. We now have an all-volunteer, professional army, and the administration is not proposing to shrink its size anytime soon. When the war is over, the soldiers will still have jobs as soldiers. Yes, reservists have been called up, but they have a legal right to resume whatever job they left."
Other cheap suggestions that tax cuts = supporting troops are outlined.
In my mind, there's spin, and there's deception. Both parties, no doubt, toe walk the line....but this a stomping down the deception side of the field.