Okay, I have thought about this some more, and I am not as angry as I was. I do not see what, exactly, Gephardt could have done. The simple fact of the matter is, Bush is in the White House, and being in the White House, gets to determine the course of the national agenda [...]
Archive for October 2nd, 2002
More on Bush's war resolution
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House gives Bush his war
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Bush got everything except permission to do this to anyone in the region: In connection with the exercise of the authority granted in subsection (a) to use force the President shall, prior to such exercise or as soon there after as may be feasible, but no later than 48 hours after exercising such authority, make [...]
College is not affordable – kiss the middle class goodbye
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States get “D” on affordable colleges Well, I could have told you that (you should see what I pay a credit hour …) A report card grading each state on its support for higher education found that colleges have become less affordable in most places compared with two years ago, the last time the report [...]
The New Jersey Ballot Replacement
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Okay, I am not a lawyer, and I have not read the full NJ statute, so this is all tentative. I think that the Dems should be able to replace the candidate. The choice here is between allowing voters a clear choice in the election, or following what appears to be a strict interpretation of [...]
Port Authority negotiators bring weapons to mediation meeting
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Yahoo! News – Longshore Union Walks Out of Mediation Talks Tell me this was about intimidation: Efforts to start federal mediation for a U.S. port dispute that has stranded mountains of cargo on West Coast docks collapsed Tuesday after the longshoremen’s union stormed out of talks, accusing port employers of bringing “gun-toting thugs” to the [...]
Another hissy fit
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Reuters | The World’s Leading Provider of Financial Information and News Sigh. Must the Bush Administration act like a spoiled child every time it doesn’t get exactly what it wants? It would be best if he (Schroeder) resigned. But he’s obviously not going to do that,” Pentagon adviser Richard Perle said in an interview with [...]
Thwarting Inspections
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Times Online Does anyone need more proof that the Bush Administration’s goal is not security, but the death of Saddam? Colin Powell, the US Secretary of State, said that the inspectors should not go back to Iraq until they had received new instructions from the UN Security Council. His intervention came after Iraqi officials in [...]
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