Politics: Money Talks

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It is March 7 today. To most Canadians it is an- other day closer to Spring. To Americans, it is Super Tuesday. Unlike Fat Tuesday, today is when the smack gets laid down in US politics.

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party. Now is when the orgy of political advertise- ments will begin as seen on TV, radio, and newspaper. Baby Bush had an esti- mated $70 million cam- paign war chest when

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treatment for) and evidently blew his long term memory as well. He seems to be the front run- ner but McCain shook things up with his surprising campaign (remi- niscent of the run Jean Charest gave Kim Campbell in 1992). Both were pitted against the establishments “crowned” choice. If McCain doesn’t show

taking on the Democrats. On that side it looks tight as well but Al Gore will prevail. Regardless of his showing tomor- row, which will probably be good, Gore will be lead- ing the Demo- crats. That is good if you are an envi- ronmentalist among other so- cial causes he ad- vocates. If Gore takes on Bush, expect the Demo- crats to prevail.

With Preston Manning touring the country hus- tling support for his CCRAP ven-

ture, the Liberals used the budget an- nouncement to take the wind out of his il i

which were in- tended to pacify the right. He also an- nounced new spending initiatives designed to ap- pease the left. Any- time one tries to sat- isfy the 180 degrees of the political spectrum, no one is satisfied... until this year. The best indi- cation of this was the day after the budget, the opposi- tion returned to their daily BBQ of Jane

ditionally it is a time to critique the gov- ernment. And criti- cize they could have, especially considering most measures were spread over the ° next 5 years. But the Liberals man- aged to keep their _ campaign promise of a 50/50 split be- tween tax cuts/debt reduction and new spending. With a revised 5 year esti- mated surplus of $115 billion, $58 billion will go to tax cuts and debt re- duction with the rest in new spend- ing. Here is how Martin managed to shut the opposition