Remember the Medicare tv ads the 'W' regime had to modify becuase they were blatant pro-'W' campaign ads disguised as Medicare PSAs? (public SERVICE announcements)

This group ain't da sharpest knives in the drawer, so they don't learn their lessons without being hit over the head with a bat. They're at it again.



Treasury News Releases on Taxes Attacked
Fri Apr 9, 6:55 PM ET
By JEANNINE AVERSA, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - The Treasury Department issued a batch of tax-related press releases Friday that each carried a message saying America has a choice between growing the economy and raising taxes that could hurt the recovery.

Democrats immediately denounced the action as an improper use of government resources to subsidize political propaganda.
While the sentiment is a long held position of the Bush administration, it was the first time the department included this message in dark type at the bottom of some its news releases, said Treasury Department spokesman Rob Nichols.

"America has a choice: It can continue to grow the economy and create new jobs as the president's policies are doing; or it can raise taxes on American families and small businesses, hurting economic recovery and future job creation," the message on the releases said.

The message, on four of five different releases issued by the department, doesn't mention presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry a critic of President Bush's tax policies, or anyone else by name.

Asked whether the message was referring to Kerry, Nichols said: "No, it is a reference to anyone who suggests that raising taxes is the right thing to do. There have been many who suggest that taxes should be raised. We don't share that view."

so THAT makes it ALL okay?

Treasury's decision to include the message on the bottom of several "April 15th Tax Day Reminder" releases follows the department's in-house analysis of Kerry's tax proposal last month. The analysis, requested by House Republican Leader Tom DeLay, was posted on the department's Web site March 22.

That ignited criticism from Kerry and other Democrats and prompted the department's inspector general to launch a preliminary inquiry into the matter.
"First the Bush Treasury Department did campaign research on the Kerry tax plan and now they are blatantly putting out Bush campaign statements that masquerade as a news release," said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y. "This release has nothing to do with April 15 and everything to do with Nov. 2."

(*)(*)(*)(*) straight it does..........

Democratic National Committee spokeswoman Debra DeShong said there should be an investigation to determine whether the language represents a violation of the Hatch Act, which restricts the political activities of government employees.

"For them to say it's not political, you know, it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, it's not a goose," DeShong said.