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Kent,
Very well spoken! Bravo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kent Rollins" <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re[4]: [RT] One dummy down, more to go....
> These complaints are all about style and nothing about substance. Fire
> Lindsay for his appearance? That tells me more about you than it does
about
> Lindsay. I'll take substance over style any day. If O'Neill continues to
> ineffectually lisp his way thru every interview for the next 6 years but
> cuts my taxes the whole time and let's me save more tax free for my own
> retirement, I'll take it.
>
> By the way, you don't think West Wing is real do you? They're all real
> pretty and well groomed.
>
> So re-capping your list of specifics:
> 1) They're invisible (opinion).
> 2) They don't command respect (opinion).
> 3) They aren't articulate (opinion).
> 4) They might be God's gift to economic thought (opinion, but dismissed).
> 5) Can't generate confidence (opinion, but even Rubenski couldn't generate
> confidence in this market).
> Oh well, maybe Simms can come up with something. And frankly, I'd like my
> pubilc officials to be a little less attracted to the klieg lights.
>
> As for your comments on Thompson, is he a member of the economic team? I
> thought he was Health and Human Services. Do you really want him out
> announcing new HHS programs every week? I sure don't. If HHS dies a
quiet
> death, I would think Tommy Thompson was the best HHS secretary ever. I
> would ask you how he flubbed the anthrax attack but I'm not interested in
> your opinion of his appearance.
>
> As for your comments on Ridge, is he a member of the economic team? I
> thought he was Homeland Security. Do you really want him out announcing
new
> Homeland Security programs every week? I sure don't. If Homeland
Security
> dies a quiet death, I would think Ridge was the best Homeland Security
> director ever. I would ask you how he flubbed being a figurehead but I'm
> not interested in your opinion of his appearance.
>
> Kent
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jim Johnson" <jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Kent Rollins" <kentr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 9:08 PM
> Subject: Re[4]: [RT] One dummy down, more to go....
>
>
> Hello Kent,
>
>
> Specifics are tough to come by in these cases. Most of these guys and
> girls are totally invisible, stand for nothing apparently and don't
> command respect or attention. To me that immediately disqualifies
> them from world-class status as national leaders.
>
> Lindsay and O'Neill lack any shred of leadership. Neither is
> articulate or particularly incisive--at least at the public level of
> discourse. Perhaps behind closed doors they God's gift to economic
> thought. But if they can't generate confidence in the markets, public
> or are completely invisible, they are unfit. I personally would fire
> Lindsay for his slovenly appearance. Anytime he talks it is vacuous.
> Nothing said, just cheerleading and obfuscation. The other top
> ecomomist (can't remember his name) is the same.
>
> O'Neill's claim to fame is setting safety records at Alcoa. whoopie!
> I didn't like Ruben's politics but at least he had a point of view
> that was understandable and commanded attention and respect. The
> majority of the audience couldn't care less what O'Neill has to
> say--except perhaps to be entertained by some gaff.
>
> Tommy Thompson has shown himself to be misplaced. He flubbed the
> antrax scare at the start and never recovered. No one looks to him as
> source of knowledge, leadership on those issues. I have heard no
> coherent approach, guiding priciples, critique of the welfare, health
> care, public health strategy of the administration.
>
> Ridge is a no-show as head of domestic security. He has been a figure
> head at best. Again no real plan, guiding priciples, effective
> retoric from a bully pulpit etc.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
> --
> Friday, November 8, 2002, 8:43:07 PM, you wrote:
>
> KR> Exactly what is so bad about W's economic team? I would like to hear
> some
> KR> specifics from Simms and Johnson. Specifics.
>
> KR> They got a massive tax cut though a Democratic Senate and they are
> working
> KR> to make them permanent and enact some more. They are working to
> privatize
> KR> Socialist Security. They are working to expand free trade.
>
> KR> Those are positives. What are the negatives?
>
> KR> Kent
>
>
> KR> ----- Original Message -----
> KR> From: "Jim Johnson" <jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> KR> To: "M. Simms" <prosys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> KR> Cc: <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> KR> Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 8:29 PM
> KR> Subject: Re[2]: [RT] One dummy down, more to go....
>
>
> KR> Hello M.,
>
> KR> I do agree with you that W's domestic team, esp the econ team, is weak
> KR> and ineffectual. I hope he cleans house for the good of the US and his
> KR> administration. But your assessment of there pressure on W is wishful
> KR> thinking. He is bullet proof for longer than 6 months. The Pitt
> KR> resignation would have had more political advantage for Bush had it
> KR> been done the <day before> the election. It would have shown W to be
> KR> concerned about corp corruption and all that blather the libs spout.
>
> KR> In my opinion W is perfectly situated for re-election. Market has
> KR> declined in first two years, rates get slashed. year 3 of election
> KR> cycle clicks in soon, maybe already. market rallies into Nov, 04.
> KR> Dem's will put Pelosi in as minority leader. she will embarrass the
> KR> Dem's every day. Gray Davis will be a persona non grata by Nov, 04
> KR> and W will attempt to retake California. Dem's are already switching
> KR> parties in the Georgia house. This looks to me like a replay of
> KR> Reagan's reign--tax cuts, economy pops, deficit that doesn't really
> KR> matter
>
> KR> W's vulnerability is that the economy is so broken it won't respond
> KR> normally or there's another terror incident that can be traced to
> KR> missteps of his administration.
>
> KR> that's my wishful thinking :)
>
>
> KR> Best regards,
> KR> Jim Johnson mailto:jejohn@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
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