?The President and I continued to talk, by the way, after the interview....And I said, ?Will you call for tax increases, in fact, if that?s required?? And he said there won?t have to be tax increases, that he believes that it?s very important not to throw a curve to the economy at this particular moment.?
? ABC?s Diane Sawyer following a live interview with President Bush on Good Morning America, September 1.
?Just before we went on the air, Diane and Robin, I asked her [Hillary Clinton] ? given the fact that it?s going to cost so much for recovery and with what we?re spending in Iraq ? whether we?re not going to have to raise taxes.?
? ABC?s Charles Gibson following an interview with Senator Clinton, September 7 Good Morning America.
?Are you going to maintain that we can pay for this, we can pay for the war in Iraq, and we can pay for the rising healthcare costs in this country without raising taxes? These are astronomical dollars we?re talking about that will cost the federal treasury.?
? ABC?s Charles Gibson to White House counselor Dan Bartlett on Good Morning America, September 15.
?The last thing in the world that George W. Bush wants to do is raise taxes, but the amount of money that we?re talking about here ? we?re talking about many, many, many tens of billions of dollars ? can that be done without raising taxes??
? ABC?s Ted Koppel to George Stephanopoulos during live coverage following Bush?s September 15 speech.
George Stephanopoulos: ?You say roll back the tax cuts for the wealthy. He [President Bush] says no tax increase of any kind. We?re spending $5 billion a month in Iraq, probably $200 billion on Katrina. Something?s got to give.?
Former President Bill Clinton: ?Well, that?s what I think.?
? ABC?s This Week, September 18.
NPR?s Nina Totenberg: ?I was very happy to see him take responsibility and to not pretend that the buck stops someplace else. But it would have been a great opportunity to say, ?Look, I?m for tax cuts, but we need a Katrina tax, we need to really pay, to do this and to pay for it.??
Moderator Gordon Peterson: ?You want more taxes.?
Totenberg: ?I want more taxes, yes.?
? Inside Washington, September 17.
Why can't the media ask 'With our commitments in Iraq and the aftermath of Katrina, doesn't this mean there will have to be major cost cutting in the federal budget?' Instead they think that raising taxes is the key to covering the costs. If they were unbiased they would ask if raising taxes and/or cutting federal programs was the correct action. Instead the liberal media imply that they want tax hikes.
The majority of Americans think higher taxes are wrong. Even liberals know this! Just look at the way they frame the idea that GWB's tax cuts should be withdrawn. They say 'repeal the tax cuts.' They don't say 'raise taxes!' If they said 'raise taxes' their political future would be very much in doubt because only hard-line liberals think raising taxes is a good thing. They are, in fact, in favor of raising taxes, but try to spin their way out of it.
? ABC?s Diane Sawyer following a live interview with President Bush on Good Morning America, September 1.
?Just before we went on the air, Diane and Robin, I asked her [Hillary Clinton] ? given the fact that it?s going to cost so much for recovery and with what we?re spending in Iraq ? whether we?re not going to have to raise taxes.?
? ABC?s Charles Gibson following an interview with Senator Clinton, September 7 Good Morning America.
?Are you going to maintain that we can pay for this, we can pay for the war in Iraq, and we can pay for the rising healthcare costs in this country without raising taxes? These are astronomical dollars we?re talking about that will cost the federal treasury.?
? ABC?s Charles Gibson to White House counselor Dan Bartlett on Good Morning America, September 15.
?The last thing in the world that George W. Bush wants to do is raise taxes, but the amount of money that we?re talking about here ? we?re talking about many, many, many tens of billions of dollars ? can that be done without raising taxes??
? ABC?s Ted Koppel to George Stephanopoulos during live coverage following Bush?s September 15 speech.
George Stephanopoulos: ?You say roll back the tax cuts for the wealthy. He [President Bush] says no tax increase of any kind. We?re spending $5 billion a month in Iraq, probably $200 billion on Katrina. Something?s got to give.?
Former President Bill Clinton: ?Well, that?s what I think.?
? ABC?s This Week, September 18.
NPR?s Nina Totenberg: ?I was very happy to see him take responsibility and to not pretend that the buck stops someplace else. But it would have been a great opportunity to say, ?Look, I?m for tax cuts, but we need a Katrina tax, we need to really pay, to do this and to pay for it.??
Moderator Gordon Peterson: ?You want more taxes.?
Totenberg: ?I want more taxes, yes.?
? Inside Washington, September 17.
Why can't the media ask 'With our commitments in Iraq and the aftermath of Katrina, doesn't this mean there will have to be major cost cutting in the federal budget?' Instead they think that raising taxes is the key to covering the costs. If they were unbiased they would ask if raising taxes and/or cutting federal programs was the correct action. Instead the liberal media imply that they want tax hikes.
The majority of Americans think higher taxes are wrong. Even liberals know this! Just look at the way they frame the idea that GWB's tax cuts should be withdrawn. They say 'repeal the tax cuts.' They don't say 'raise taxes!' If they said 'raise taxes' their political future would be very much in doubt because only hard-line liberals think raising taxes is a good thing. They are, in fact, in favor of raising taxes, but try to spin their way out of it.
), but on certain issues he's certainly not a conservative. That call for giving up profits falls into the more left-leaning things he promotes. So yes, Diane Sawyer asking the President if oil companies should just give up profits still shows her promoting liberal ideals.
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