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"Harry Hope" |
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13 Aug 2003 04:57:05 PM |
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Gore shines a spotlight on unelected smirking chimp, Georgie Bush. |
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
From New York Newsday, 8/12/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc123410937aug12,0,7916071.column
Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit
By Marie Cocco
A lone Democrat has identified the essential problem of the Bush
administration and is willing to say what it is:
Our government sets policy and maintains almost unquestioned power
through calculated and comprehensive deceit.
The Democrat is Al Gore, and so his warning already has provoked
ritual sneers from the usual quarters.
Isn't he, after all, the man who blamed an iced-tea binge for a
bathroom trip that drew him away from a controversial campaign-finance
meeting?
It is very fortunate, and very unfortunate, that Gore says he won't
run for president in 2004.
Fortunate, because we will be spared Gore-bashing as a substitute for
serious coverage.
Unfortunate, because non-candidate Gore doesn't get much ink.
Yet the message of Gore's speech at New York University on Thursday
deserves attention.
The wrong, Gore said, isn't just that President George W. Bush led the
nation into a pre-emptive war in Iraq without international support
and did so with a public-relations campaign heavy on hyped-up claims
that exceeded and at times contradicted intelligence about Saddam
Hussein's weaponry.
No, the trouble isn't just Iraq.
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
"Robust debate in a democracy will almost always involve occasional
rhetorical excesses and leaps of faith," Gore said.
"I've even been guilty of it myself on occasion. But there is a big
difference between that and a systematic effort to manipulate facts in
service to a totalistic ideology that is felt to be more important
than the mandates of basic honesty."
The president's tax cuts were sold first as a rightful return of
surplus funds to taxpayers, then as an engine for job creation.
The surplus gave way to recurring deficits.
Yet the tax cuts keep on coming.
As for jobs, the economy has hemorrhaged them.
Still, a failed economic policy isn't a form of corruption.
Official mendacity is.
Gore cited the removal at White House insistence of scientific data on
the dangers of global warming from a supposedly comprehensive
Environmental Protection Agency report.
He noted the inclusion, instead, of material from the petroleum
industry.
Gore reviewed the history of the secret society of industry lobbyists
involved in writing the administration's energy policy and the
Treasury Department's manipulation or withholding of data on who
really benefits from the Bush tax cuts.
Even as Gore spoke, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - who was onto the
tale of the phony Niger uranium caper long before the press - released
a report on the Bush administration's political interference and
distortion of science in policies from missile defense to agriculture
to public health.
The White House and other executive agencies have altered basic health
information on government Web sites, booted mainstream scientists off
advisory panels in favor of ideological and industry soul mates and
suppressed agency reports that didn't support its socially
conservative ideology or the business interests of contributors.
Don't believe Waxman, either?
Then maybe the editors of Science, Nature and Scientific American
magazines will do.
They've complained in print about the administration's politicization
of science.
"An Epidemic of Politics," Science called it in an editorial, stating
that interference under Bush "now invades areas once immune to this
kind of manipulation."
Every day new lies come to light.
The White House forced the EPA to issue reassuring messages on air
quality in Lower Manhattan following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, though the agency had no basis for such claims, according to
an inspector general's report obtained by The New York Times.
It carried out a yearlong campaign - over the objection of the Energy
Department and against the consensus of international experts - to
convince the public that aluminum tubes in the possession of Saddam
Hussein's government were meant for building a nuclear weapon,
according to The Washington Post.
The Bush administration never lets the facts get in the way of its
agenda.
We can let chronic annoyance with Gore, the messenger, get in the way
of his message.
But giving him a healthy respect this time is one way to start
restoring lost respect for truth in government.
____________________________________________________________
"Restoring lost respect for truth in government?"
"Truth in government" is not in the Bush lexicon.
Harry
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| User: "Eric Salmassy" |
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| Title: Re: Gore shines a spotlight on unelected smirking chimp, Georgie Bush. |
13 Aug 2003 06:33:10 PM |
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"Joe" <news@deletethissectionINFOSACRAMENTO.COM> wrote in
news:3f3ac46e$0$63776$d368eab@news.newshosting.com:
That is correct but that is a law produced by our representatives that
we elected and sent to office. So, it is inherently an unjust law and
must be at once repealed until it can in any way benefit the left. At
which time it would be completely appropriate and long live democracy
and the rule of law!
Just as an FYI it was the Republicans that had a plan in place to
circumvent and undermine the Electoral College in 2000 because there was a
real fear among Republicans that Bush would win the popular vote but lose
the electoral college.
*****
From the NY Daily News - 11/1/2000
So what if Gore wins such crucial battleground states as Florida, Michigan
and Pennsylvania and thus captures the magic 270 electoral votes while Bush
wins the overall nationwide popular vote?
"The one thing we don't do is roll over," says a Bush aide. "We fight."
How? The core of the emerging Bush strategy assumes a popular uprising,
stoked by the Bushies themselves, of course.
In league with the campaign — which is preparing talking points about the
Electoral College's essential unfairness — a massive talk-radio operation
would be encouraged. "We'd have ads, too," says a Bush aide, "and I think
you can count on the media to fuel the thing big-time. Even papers that
supported Gore might turn against him because the will of the people will
have been thwarted."
Local business leaders will be urged to lobby their customers, the clergy
will be asked to speak up for the popular will and Team Bush will enlist as
many Democrats as possible to scream as loud as they can. "You think
'Democrats for Democracy' would be a catchy term for them?" asks a Bush
adviser.
*****
"Mike" <mjpohl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vjlf8i4432av21@corp.supernews.com...
if i recall Bush received the largest amount of electoral votes thus
making
him the president.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:11dljvs08v63frvug2jqmtmd37ct5kelt6@4ax.com...
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of
private interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has
compiled a record of distortion, manipulation of information and
secrecy that makes it impossible to make informed judgments about
where he's taking the nation, and how.
From New York Newsday, 8/12/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc123410937aug12,0,7916071
.colu
mn
Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit
By Marie Cocco
A lone Democrat has identified the essential problem of the Bush
administration and is willing to say what it is:
Our government sets policy and maintains almost unquestioned power
through calculated and comprehensive deceit.
The Democrat is Al Gore, and so his warning already has provoked
ritual sneers from the usual quarters.
Isn't he, after all, the man who blamed an iced-tea binge for a
bathroom trip that drew him away from a controversial
campaign-finance meeting?
It is very fortunate, and very unfortunate, that Gore says he won't
run for president in 2004.
Fortunate, because we will be spared Gore-bashing as a substitute
for serious coverage.
Unfortunate, because non-candidate Gore doesn't get much ink.
Yet the message of Gore's speech at New York University on Thursday
deserves attention.
The wrong, Gore said, isn't just that President George W. Bush led
the nation into a pre-emptive war in Iraq without international
support and did so with a public-relations campaign heavy on
hyped-up claims that exceeded and at times contradicted
intelligence about Saddam Hussein's weaponry.
No, the trouble isn't just Iraq.
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of
private interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has
compiled a record of distortion, manipulation of information and
secrecy that makes it impossible to make informed judgments about
where he's taking the nation, and how.
"Robust debate in a democracy will almost always involve occasional
rhetorical excesses and leaps of faith," Gore said.
"I've even been guilty of it myself on occasion. But there is a big
difference between that and a systematic effort to manipulate facts
in service to a totalistic ideology that is felt to be more
important than the mandates of basic honesty."
The president's tax cuts were sold first as a rightful return of
surplus funds to taxpayers, then as an engine for job creation.
The surplus gave way to recurring deficits.
Yet the tax cuts keep on coming.
As for jobs, the economy has hemorrhaged them.
Still, a failed economic policy isn't a form of corruption.
Official mendacity is.
Gore cited the removal at White House insistence of scientific data
on the dangers of global warming from a supposedly comprehensive
Environmental Protection Agency report.
He noted the inclusion, instead, of material from the petroleum
industry.
Gore reviewed the history of the secret society of industry
lobbyists involved in writing the administration's energy policy
and the Treasury Department's manipulation or withholding of data
on who really benefits from the Bush tax cuts.
Even as Gore spoke, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - who was onto the
tale of the phony Niger uranium caper long before the press -
released a report on the Bush administration's political
interference and distortion of science in policies from missile
defense to agriculture to public health.
The White House and other executive agencies have altered basic
health information on government Web sites, booted mainstream
scientists off advisory panels in favor of ideological and industry
soul mates and suppressed agency reports that didn't support its
socially conservative ideology or the business interests of
contributors.
Don't believe Waxman, either?
Then maybe the editors of Science, Nature and Scientific American
magazines will do.
They've complained in print about the administration's
politicization of science.
"An Epidemic of Politics," Science called it in an editorial,
stating that interference under Bush "now invades areas once immune
to this kind of manipulation."
Every day new lies come to light.
The White House forced the EPA to issue reassuring messages on air
quality in Lower Manhattan following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, though the agency had no basis for such claims, according
to an inspector general's report obtained by The New York Times.
It carried out a yearlong campaign - over the objection of the
Energy Department and against the consensus of international
experts - to convince the public that aluminum tubes in the
possession of Saddam Hussein's government were meant for building a
nuclear weapon, according to The Washington Post.
The Bush administration never lets the facts get in the way of its
agenda.
We can let chronic annoyance with Gore, the messenger, get in the
way of his message.
But giving him a healthy respect this time is one way to start
restoring lost respect for truth in government.
____________________________________________________________
"Restoring lost respect for truth in government?"
"Truth in government" is not in the Bush lexicon.
Harry
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| User: "Frankidadio" |
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| Title: Re: Gore shines a spotlight on unelected smirking chimp, Georgie Bush. |
13 Aug 2003 11:32:59 PM |
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"Mike" <mjpohl@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:<vjlf8i4432av21@corp.supernews.com>...
if i recall Bush received the largest amount of electoral votes thus making
him the president.
Get real, Do you believe that makes him infallable? Clinton won by a
much larger majority....twice. Was he right all the time too?
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:11dljvs08v63frvug2jqmtmd37ct5kelt6@4ax.com...
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
From New York Newsday, 8/12/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc123410937aug12,0,7916071.colu
mn
Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit
By Marie Cocco
A lone Democrat has identified the essential problem of the Bush
administration and is willing to say what it is:
Our government sets policy and maintains almost unquestioned power
through calculated and comprehensive deceit.
The Democrat is Al Gore, and so his warning already has provoked
ritual sneers from the usual quarters.
Isn't he, after all, the man who blamed an iced-tea binge for a
bathroom trip that drew him away from a controversial campaign-finance
meeting?
It is very fortunate, and very unfortunate, that Gore says he won't
run for president in 2004.
Fortunate, because we will be spared Gore-bashing as a substitute for
serious coverage.
Unfortunate, because non-candidate Gore doesn't get much ink.
Yet the message of Gore's speech at New York University on Thursday
deserves attention.
The wrong, Gore said, isn't just that President George W. Bush led the
nation into a pre-emptive war in Iraq without international support
and did so with a public-relations campaign heavy on hyped-up claims
that exceeded and at times contradicted intelligence about Saddam
Hussein's weaponry.
No, the trouble isn't just Iraq.
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
"Robust debate in a democracy will almost always involve occasional
rhetorical excesses and leaps of faith," Gore said.
"I've even been guilty of it myself on occasion. But there is a big
difference between that and a systematic effort to manipulate facts in
service to a totalistic ideology that is felt to be more important
than the mandates of basic honesty."
The president's tax cuts were sold first as a rightful return of
surplus funds to taxpayers, then as an engine for job creation.
The surplus gave way to recurring deficits.
Yet the tax cuts keep on coming.
As for jobs, the economy has hemorrhaged them.
Still, a failed economic policy isn't a form of corruption.
Official mendacity is.
Gore cited the removal at White House insistence of scientific data on
the dangers of global warming from a supposedly comprehensive
Environmental Protection Agency report.
He noted the inclusion, instead, of material from the petroleum
industry.
Gore reviewed the history of the secret society of industry lobbyists
involved in writing the administration's energy policy and the
Treasury Department's manipulation or withholding of data on who
really benefits from the Bush tax cuts.
Even as Gore spoke, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - who was onto the
tale of the phony Niger uranium caper long before the press - released
a report on the Bush administration's political interference and
distortion of science in policies from missile defense to agriculture
to public health.
The White House and other executive agencies have altered basic health
information on government Web sites, booted mainstream scientists off
advisory panels in favor of ideological and industry soul mates and
suppressed agency reports that didn't support its socially
conservative ideology or the business interests of contributors.
Don't believe Waxman, either?
Then maybe the editors of Science, Nature and Scientific American
magazines will do.
They've complained in print about the administration's politicization
of science.
"An Epidemic of Politics," Science called it in an editorial, stating
that interference under Bush "now invades areas once immune to this
kind of manipulation."
Every day new lies come to light.
The White House forced the EPA to issue reassuring messages on air
quality in Lower Manhattan following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, though the agency had no basis for such claims, according to
an inspector general's report obtained by The New York Times.
It carried out a yearlong campaign - over the objection of the Energy
Department and against the consensus of international experts - to
convince the public that aluminum tubes in the possession of Saddam
Hussein's government were meant for building a nuclear weapon,
according to The Washington Post.
The Bush administration never lets the facts get in the way of its
agenda.
We can let chronic annoyance with Gore, the messenger, get in the way
of his message.
But giving him a healthy respect this time is one way to start
restoring lost respect for truth in government.
____________________________________________________________
"Restoring lost respect for truth in government?"
"Truth in government" is not in the Bush lexicon.
Harry
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| User: "Hogans Goat" |
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13 Aug 2003 07:06:55 PM |
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Here's a cheerful little earful from Harry Hope:
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
From New York Newsday, 8/12/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc123410937aug12,0,7916071
.column
Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit
By Marie Cocco
<deleting the story, read the original post>
____________________________________________________________
"Restoring lost respect for truth in government?"
"Truth in government" is not in the Bush lexicon.
Harry
Awfully damned nice of Gore to speak up now, when he's not running for
office and has little or no effect on anything these days. Why didn't he
get into it with Li'l Shrubby when he had the chance, back in 2000? We
might not need as many body bags, NYC would still have twin towers and
3000 citizens, our former allies would still respect us, and our economy
would still be red-hot like it was in the days of the Clinton Miracle.
I've lost any respect I had for Gore, which, dating back to the days of
the PMRC debacle, was never very much.
Hogan out.
--
"Politics is the entertainment branch of industry" - Frank Zappa.
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| User: "John Q Public" |
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13 Aug 2003 07:53:26 PM |
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Received is correct, earned and or deserved is what is questioned.
"Mike" <mjpohl@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vjlf8i4432av21@corp.supernews.com...
if i recall Bush received the largest amount of electoral votes thus
making
him the president.
"Harry Hope" <rivrvu@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message
news:11dljvs08v63frvug2jqmtmd37ct5kelt6@4ax.com...
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
From New York Newsday, 8/12/03:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-vpcoc123410937aug12,0,7916071.colu
mn
Gore Puts Needed Spotlight on Bush's Deceit
By Marie Cocco
A lone Democrat has identified the essential problem of the Bush
administration and is willing to say what it is:
Our government sets policy and maintains almost unquestioned power
through calculated and comprehensive deceit.
The Democrat is Al Gore, and so his warning already has provoked
ritual sneers from the usual quarters.
Isn't he, after all, the man who blamed an iced-tea binge for a
bathroom trip that drew him away from a controversial campaign-finance
meeting?
It is very fortunate, and very unfortunate, that Gore says he won't
run for president in 2004.
Fortunate, because we will be spared Gore-bashing as a substitute for
serious coverage.
Unfortunate, because non-candidate Gore doesn't get much ink.
Yet the message of Gore's speech at New York University on Thursday
deserves attention.
The wrong, Gore said, isn't just that President George W. Bush led the
nation into a pre-emptive war in Iraq without international support
and did so with a public-relations campaign heavy on hyped-up claims
that exceeded and at times contradicted intelligence about Saddam
Hussein's weaponry.
No, the trouble isn't just Iraq.
On the economy, the environment, energy, in the indulgence of private
interests and even on matters of public health, Bush has compiled a
record of distortion, manipulation of information and secrecy that
makes it impossible to make informed judgments about where he's taking
the nation, and how.
"Robust debate in a democracy will almost always involve occasional
rhetorical excesses and leaps of faith," Gore said.
"I've even been guilty of it myself on occasion. But there is a big
difference between that and a systematic effort to manipulate facts in
service to a totalistic ideology that is felt to be more important
than the mandates of basic honesty."
The president's tax cuts were sold first as a rightful return of
surplus funds to taxpayers, then as an engine for job creation.
The surplus gave way to recurring deficits.
Yet the tax cuts keep on coming.
As for jobs, the economy has hemorrhaged them.
Still, a failed economic policy isn't a form of corruption.
Official mendacity is.
Gore cited the removal at White House insistence of scientific data on
the dangers of global warming from a supposedly comprehensive
Environmental Protection Agency report.
He noted the inclusion, instead, of material from the petroleum
industry.
Gore reviewed the history of the secret society of industry lobbyists
involved in writing the administration's energy policy and the
Treasury Department's manipulation or withholding of data on who
really benefits from the Bush tax cuts.
Even as Gore spoke, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) - who was onto the
tale of the phony Niger uranium caper long before the press - released
a report on the Bush administration's political interference and
distortion of science in policies from missile defense to agriculture
to public health.
The White House and other executive agencies have altered basic health
information on government Web sites, booted mainstream scientists off
advisory panels in favor of ideological and industry soul mates and
suppressed agency reports that didn't support its socially
conservative ideology or the business interests of contributors.
Don't believe Waxman, either?
Then maybe the editors of Science, Nature and Scientific American
magazines will do.
They've complained in print about the administration's politicization
of science.
"An Epidemic of Politics," Science called it in an editorial, stating
that interference under Bush "now invades areas once immune to this
kind of manipulation."
Every day new lies come to light.
The White House forced the EPA to issue reassuring messages on air
quality in Lower Manhattan following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist
attacks, though the agency had no basis for such claims, according to
an inspector general's report obtained by The New York Times.
It carried out a yearlong campaign - over the objection of the Energy
Department and against the consensus of international experts - to
convince the public that aluminum tubes in the possession of Saddam
Hussein's government were meant for building a nuclear weapon,
according to The Washington Post.
The Bush administration never lets the facts get in the way of its
agenda.
We can let chronic annoyance with Gore, the messenger, get in the way
of his message.
But giving him a healthy respect this time is one way to start
restoring lost respect for truth in government.
____________________________________________________________
"Restoring lost respect for truth in government?"
"Truth in government" is not in the Bush lexicon.
Harry
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