President Bush and the Economy
In his Column Right diatribe (Oct. 8) David Horowitz surely has the shoe on the wrong foot. The President’s dereliction lay not in his acquiescence to the reform tax bill promulgated by a Congress controlled by Democrats, but rather in his blaming the Democrats for a bill he knew to be necessary and accordingly signed into law. As a veto-prone President, Bush can’t have it both ways. He made an unrealistic and irresponsible campaign promise and was forced to think better of it. The least he can do is face up to his actions in an honest way and stop shifting responsibility to any and all political targets. Horowitz might well follow suit.
GEORGE G. LATIES
Los Angeles
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