Zarak - It's wishful thinking. He is cutting taxes, yet proposing new programs. Therefore, unless he wants to get beaten up by the left for proposing more than we can affor, he might have to consider finally cutting other more frivalous spending....at least that's my hope.

BigJohn - Dude, ya gotta step back from the party line for a second and be objective. When you do so, you realize that Chris Matthew is a complete jacka$$. Zell was rev'd up based upon an ambush Matthews performed on an author resently. If you look up the text of that interview, Matthews was completely overly aggressive, disrespectful, and genuinely disgraceful as a journalist. He never let her finish her sentances, he took everything she said and distorted it or took it out of context.....he was a menace. She finally left the show during the break. She was originally on the show to discuss a completely different topic from her book, but was roped into talking about the swift-boat think simply because she was a conservative. Matthew's pinned her down as a representative of the President, which was wholely inaccurate. Matthews wanted to make a point for his boy Kerry and decided to lambast an innocent writer who had no relationship to the issue or any of the involved parties.

So, that brings us to Zell Miller. I ask, have you read his book? If you had, you might understand him better. He is a Democrat from the days before these extremist liberals took over the party. He is from the days of great moderate Democrats like JFK. He went to Washington to fill a post vacated by the death of the elected Senator. Once he got there, he came to understand what is going on in the Democratic party and who is running the show. His unwillingness to tow the party line and serve as the puppet of the unions and the special interest groups has forced him to the fringe of the party. His disgust with the situaiton in Washington led him to write his book, which pulls up the skirt of the Democratic party for all to see the dirty laundry. Because of that, the party has villified him and done whatever possible to discredit him and paint him as a loon.

It is with this understand that I suggest you think twice about writing him off like you have. Miller has the balls to stand on principals instead of falling in line with the rest of the crooks in Congress.

As far as the speech goes, someone had to tell the American public exactly what Kerry's true record was....not his damn war record. Miller didn't pussy-foot around the issue like everyone has been up until now. He has every right to be ticked off, since Kerry represents everything he dispises about what his party has become. He went from supporting a moderate Democrate of the likes of Clinton (key note 1982 I think) to watching his party be overrun with far-left socialists like Kerry and Kennedy and all the unions that they covet so much.

Finally, I want to go back to Chris Matthews. Zell did snap a little harder than he should, but I think that is was a miscommunication due to the loud crowd behind Matthews. Matthews asked a question about the anti-Republican rhetoric about starving our kids, etc and Zell thought that he was accusing Zell of using that language in reference to Kerry (worth finding speech online and re-listening to - makes more sense when you listen to it again). From that point on, Zell got pretty pissed off and went a little far. However, prior to that, he did something that needed to be done.....he basically told Matthews to shut up and let him answer the questions. Matthew's tried to bully Zell like he did that author and Zell took issue with that and put Matthew in his place. Matthews thinks his Crossfire (or whateve it's called) mentality is acceptable during civil political dialog and he's wrong.