It rained like a motha last night so we left the Grandville/Grand Haven game at half time and head back to, you guessed it, Grand Rapids.
So we got home in time to watch debate number two, "The Hooey in St. Louis." Of course the $87-billion-dollar question came up, the one that's dogged Kerry for the past 9 months. There was only answer that he could have given in his situation, but he's fumbled with it in interviews and stump speeches and whiffed in the first debate.
There was a version of the spending bill that would have reversed tax cuts for the country's wealthiest in order to fund the troop support. The measure that passed had no means of paying for the expense, it essentially added another $87 billion cash advance on the government's Discover card. In last night's questioning, Kerry suggested that he supported the former version and therefore voted against the latter.
I honestly don't know if it's the true answer, my suspicion is that he was pandering to the anti-war crowd to siphon off support from Howard Dean, but the anwer that he gave last night is the only one that he could give. Why did it take so long to answer that freakin' question?
Posted by scott at October 9, 2004 01:41 PM