# Jim Webb to give the Dem's response to Bush's speech
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161
**Category:** Great Debates
**Created:** [January 23, 2007, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161 "2007-01-23T22:21:03Z")
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### Author:  [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2007, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/41 "2007-01-24T19:02:18Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
His only specific domestic policy prescription was the minimum wage increase - did you notice that Bush made no mention of that whatsoever in his speech? - and I’m all for that, of course.
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Why would you be all for that? Please explain.
Giving raises to some teenagers while eliminating the jobs of others sounds like a lousy way to beat poverty to me, especially when doing something as simple as adjusting the EITC would have a much bigger impact on those minimum wage workers actually in poverty.
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### Author:  [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2007, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/42 "2007-01-24T19:23:40Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto]
Jim Webb is my senator, for better or worse, and I don’t think it is too much to ask for better behavior from him. After all, he is supposed to represent me.
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I don’t see anything in the constitution about Senators having to represent a fantasy world in which one pretends that Bush was being polite and Webb was the one being rude. Could you perhaps cite where in the Constitution that duty is listed?
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2007, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/43 "2007-01-24T19:29:28Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto]
Why would you be all for that? Please explain.
Giving raises to some teenagers while eliminating the jobs of others sounds like a lousy way to beat poverty to me, especially when doing something as simple as adjusting the EITC would have a much bigger impact on those minimum wage workers actually in poverty.
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Feel free to start a thread on the minimum wage hike if you’re really interested in debating it. I’ll see you there - _after_ I get a response to the question I keep asking you in the ‘message v. messenger’ thread.
In _this_ thread, I meant, “of course” in the sense of “you know where I stand generally, so it won’t surprise you to hear that I favor this.” And I said where I stood on that because **John Mace** asked me, and I did him the courtesy of replying.
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### Author:  [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2007, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/44 "2007-01-24T19:35:03Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
In _this_ thread, I meant, “of course” in the sense of “you know where I stand generally, so it won’t surprise you to hear that I favor this.” And I said where I stood on that because **John Mace** asked me, and I did him the courtesy of replying.
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I’d like to add, since Mr. \*\*Moto \*\*might not be aware of this, that we just had a very long thread on this subject within the last few weeks, so let’s not rehash that subject again so soon, and in this thread.
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [January 24, 2007, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/45 "2007-01-24T20:52:32Z")
[QUOTE=RTFirefly]
::applause::
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Thank you, thank you. My next number is one you might’ve heard:
_MacArthur’s ghost is standing at his post
And keeping Bush from pulling out.
The yellowcake was not found in Iraq
So he’ll look real hard to find it
With a resolution to bind it
When we go next door to take it from Iran
Oh, no!_
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### Author:  [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2007, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/46 "2007-01-25T19:10:34Z")
Some are so impressed by Webb’s [response speech](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246178,00.html) that they want him to [run for president or veep in '08.](http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=160126)
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### Author:  [@Malodorous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malodorous)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2007, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/47 "2007-01-25T19:14:57Z")
[QUOTE=BrainGlutton]
Some are so impressed by Webb’s [response speech](http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,246178,00.html) that they want him to [run for president or veep in '08.](http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?pid=160126)
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2008: Attack of the one-term senators!
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### Author:  [@Captain\_Carrot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Carrot)
#### Post date: [January 25, 2007, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/jim-webb-to-give-the-dems-response-to-bushs-speech/389161/48 "2007-01-25T19:25:33Z")
Oh, dear Og, please no! It was hard enough getting him to the Senate in the first place; let him serve his term!
I’m glad that people like my Senator so much, but I want to keep him in the Senate, not in the White House.
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