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Pat Buchanan accuses NR, as well as The Weekly Standard and Commentary, of urging America to “go nightsticking recalcitrant regimes according to a priority list drawn up for us by Bibi Netanyahu.” As a result of our advocacy, President Bush may end up “subcontracting Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon.” Buchanan is starting his own magazine, The American Conservative, to oppose us. It debuts in late September, Mazel tov.

President Bush has suggested cutting taxes on investment, but Republicans in his administration and in Congress are holding back because they worry that a new tax-cut push could backfire politically. Republicans would certainly face charges from Democrats of swelling the deficit to curry favor with their rich friends. So what? People are more concerned about the sluggish economy than about the deficit, and “the rich” are in this case the investors for whom Democrats have just spent a season expressing their tender-hearted solicitude—and who are also a majority of the electorate.

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Pat Buchanan accuses NR, as well as The Weekly Standard and Commentary, of urging America to “go nightsticking recalcitrant regimes according to a priority list drawn up for us by Bibi Netanyahu.” As a result of our advocacy, President Bush may end up “subcontracting Mideast policy out to Ariel Sharon.” Buchanan is starting his own magazine, The American Conservative, to oppose us. It debuts in late September, Mazel tov.

President Bush has suggested cutting taxes on investment, but Republicans in his administration and in Congress are holding back because they worry that a new tax-cut push could backfire politically. Republicans would certainly face charges from Democrats of swelling the deficit to curry favor with their rich friends. So what? People are more concerned about the sluggish economy than about the deficit, and “the rich” are in this case the investors for whom Democrats have just spent a season expressing their tender-hearted solicitude—and who are also a majority of the electorate.