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Good post.....
"*Volt" <voltlinfame@swbell.net> wrote in message
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> GOP Is Busy Pre-Fouling Their Own Nest
>
> Molly Ivins in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram, January 3, 2001
>
> http://www.star-telegram.com/columnist/ivins2.htm
>
> MARATHON - So far out in West Texas, there's only God and country on
> the radio. Along with endless sky and no cellphones. Drive across the
> Rio Grande in your pickup for lunch and say, "Oh good, the War on
> Drugs is bound to work eventually, because there's only 27 trucks
> waiting on the other side."
>
> In the odd way that the detachment of distant places seems to
> reinforce reality, it becomes ever clearer that the Republicans in
> Washington are in an impossible bind.
>
> President-elect George W. Bush seems to have made the odd choice of
> governing as if he had a mandate in a country where the hot new bumper
> sticker is "Re-elect Gore." One watches the Republicans in the Senate
> seal their own doom - no power sharing, no committee chairmanships.
> And what do they think the Democrats are going to do when the D's take
> power?
>
> The two saddest Cabinet choices are Gale Norton at the Interior
> Department and John Ashcroft for attorney general.
>
> Norton, former attorney general in Colorado, is an ardent property
> rights advocate and prot�g� of James Watt, Ronald Reagan's notoriously
> anti-environmentalist interior secretary, who was last heard from in
> public life making a tasteless joke about "a black, a woman, two Jews
> and a cripple."
>
> The property rights movement, which has been investigated numerous
> times, is not so much an actual group of citizens of like mind in this
> country as it is the deliberate creation of the big timber, big
> mining, big oil and big cattle industries.
>
> The industries built this AstroTurf (meaning phony grassroots)
> movement to help lobby against repealing outrages like the 1898 mining
> law, cut-rate grazing fees, cut-rate oil royalties on public lands,
> etc.
>
> Assuming that Bush must pay off or placate the Republican right in
> some way at the Cabinet level, why not the Commerce, Energy or
> Transportation departments - positions where social or environmental
> views are largely irrelevant?
>
> For Bush to emphasize his notorious disregard for the environment
> shows, among other things, a distressing inability to learn from
> experience. Texans will recall that upon first becoming governor, Bush
> appointed a trio of anti-environmentalists to the state environmental
> regulatory agency who soon earned an almost comic reputation for
> outlandishness. This did nothing to enhance Bush's reputation.
>
> Ashcroft, who lost his Senate seat to a dead guy, is one of the most
> vocal Christian conservatives in public life. Jerry Falwell was
> ecstatic over news of his appointment.
>
> I will say that naming Spencer Abraham as secretary of energy shows a
> sense of humor. In 1999, Abraham sponsored a bill to abolish the
> department.
>
> During the campaign, Bush urged his $1.3 trillion tax cut on us
> because we were going to have this enormous surplus. Now the economy
> is tanking, the surplus is disappearing, and Bush insists that we
> still have an enormous tax cut because the economy is tanking and the
> surplus is disappearing.
>
> He says the money belongs to us. So does the national debt.
>
> Angry Democrats have been vowing, "No honeymoon, no honeymoon." At
> this rate, the D's won't need to do a thing. Bush is ending his
> honeymoon himself before it even has a chance to get started.
>
> *****Poor George II. Always a phony President, never a bride!
>
> As always, follow the citations above to read the article.
>
>      Volt
>
>
> Ecrasons l'infame
>
> Bartcop.com: More Freedom George II Wants to Stop
> http://www.bartcop.com/
>
> BushWatch:Exposing George II
> http://alana.moonvine.org/bw/bush.htm
>
> BuzzFlash.com: News and Comment
> http://www.buzzflash.com/
>
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> "The journey from Reno to Ashcroft is a journey from utter darkness
> to brilliant light."
>                          -- Jerry L. Falwell, Bush Secretary of Bible
Thumping
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