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A few more choices

How about adding a few more answers?

1) The best way to handle our nation's budget is to...

c) Continue to pass massive social spending entitlements (one's coming down the pike even as we speak), usually over the bleeding corpses of Republicans. Mandatory entitlements alone (not counting discretionary wealth redistribution) are currently responsible for 55 percent of ALL Federal spending, and Medicare and Medicaid are almost solely responsible for an eventual debt load of over 40 trillion.

Remember, $400 billion doesn't count as excessive spending if it's for YOUR program.

2) Gratuitously revealing to the press the covert identity of a "deep cover" CIA agent involved in the delicate, vital business of finding and reporting weapons of mass destruction in countries hostile to America is...

c. Something the Left made a career of until quite recently. Their sudden concern for national security and the safety of CIA personnel is surprising and quite refreshing, as is the novel experience of seeing the word "treason" cross their lips.

3) The news reports that one or two American soldiers PER DAY are being killed in Iraq, with no strategy in place to end this killing. This is...

c) Irrelevant--from a military standpoint--for the first part of the question and erroneous for the second. The idea that any military casualties at all are enough to make one give up on a military effort is a hallmark of the Left, well demonstrated during previous administrations. This lesson was not lost on our enemies, and it is their current working strategy now. Bonus question: which political party is playing right into that strategy with statements like "We need to figure out how to stop this insane waste of human lives, and bring our soldiers home as soon as possible"?

As for the second part of the statement, there is an exit strategy in place, mentioned at almost every DOD news conference, involving rapid transfer of security responsibility to the Iraqis, but why bother your muddleheaded readers with complex things like that?

4) The President of the United States scares the citizenry to death by repeating over and over and over that Saddam Hussein has tons of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons, and he's getting ready to use them on us. For this reason, the President tells us, we MUST MUST MUST invade Iraq immediately, brushing off those hand wringing, cheese-eating, chocolate-making Nervous Nellies in the United Nations. We blow off our allies, and invade unilaterally. It turns out there are no weapons of mass destruction. Zero. Zilch. Zippo-city. The war turns out to be a deadly, expensive debacle, with no exit strategy. The correct thing to do...

c.) Is for the question writer to take a deep breath. Wouldn't hurt to blink once in a while, too. If you think the U.N. would fix anything, or make anything better, I've got a great real estate deal for you.

Oh, and don't read that Kay report about the "Zippo" WMD over there. Just take the media's word for it. They read it and honest, there's nothing important in there. Really.

5) The President rams through three huge tax cuts, plummeting the economy into massive deficits. The President says that these tax cuts will create millions of new jobs and cause a huge tsunami of prosperity to crash over the country. Instead, the country loses three million jobs, with no relief in sight. The President should...

c) Keep up the good work. The economy is taking off, and jobs are recovering. Hey, I'm old enough to remember the recovery of the early 1980s, before Reagan's tax cuts really took hold. Unemployment was about 10 percent before it started dropping like a rock.

Oh, by the way, do the math on the tax cuts and the deficits. The effect of the cuts was trivial, compared to the effects of the falling economy. Oh, and while you're at it, you can explain how increasing taxes would help small businesses.

6) Hollywood celebrities should be...

c) Given the same treatment as the guy down at the barber shop who has an opinion, i.e. agree with him or tell him he's full of shit. Note that the latter does not violate his right of free speech, or mean he is being "censored." Oddly, the guy at the barber shop, who probably knows more about current affairs than most Hollywood stars, is not normally interviewed by newspapers for political opinions, nor is he hauled up before Congressional committees to give expert testimony. One notes that the respect the Left has for the intelligence of Hollywood stars seems to be directly proportional to how much the star agrees with the Left. Ed Asner, for example, is considered a bloody genius.

7) Our national policy toward those who abuse drugs should be...

Actually, I'd go with a) on this one. Sorry to blow your stereotypes, folks. However, I'd probably like to see a little moral guidance thrown in (there's the "M" word), as opposed to letting your kids smoke dope at home because "they're going to try it anyway."

8) The most responsible way to deal with our nation's challenges is to...

c) As Davy Crockett once said, be sure you're right, then go ahead. In other words, do the right thing regardless of the polls. How do you know what's right? Take the advice of a staff with more brain power than the White House has seen in one place in a long time. Use your own best instincts. Use the best information available. In other words, make your decisions like any other human being has to. It is possible to go through eight years in office without making any serious national decisions at all, but it doesn't help things much.

Also, if the Democrats are foaming at the mouth, it's another good clue you're probably doing the right thing. Sorry, just kidding.

I don't get number 9

10) The Federal Government is...

c) Bloated to the point that if the Founding Fathers could see how much its tentacles extended to every aspect of our lives, they would projectile vomit until they passed out from dehydration. In constant dollars, it is twice the size it was in the early 1970s, at the height of the Cold War. Its primary function (about two-thirds) is now wealth redistribution primarily to keep politicians in power. It performs functions that were never intended for it, that should have remained at state and local levels. And few are the politicians who don't think it should be even bigger.

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