Thursday, August 08, 2002

A thanks to Rajesh for a link  that documented how to add a list of my favorite links.  That makes it a lot more "homey".  Tomorrow's challenge - to replace the current header with the graphic from my archive. 9:39:41 PM    comment []

Atrios has some interesting material on Saletan's slamming of Gore. On his page, you can see that during the campaign, Saletan was very supportive of Gore's populist strategy. 9:28:06 PM    comment []

A priceless quote I found on Table Talk: "My wife told me not to vote for Al Gore in Florida. Because, if I did, he would win the election. The stock market would crash, the employment rate would go down, the dollar would fall and the economy would fall apart. She was right on everyone of those things. I did vote for Al Gore, he did win the election, and all those bad things happened." It is apparently from James Carville from his 7/21 speech to the Florida Dems. I would love to get a T-shirt with this quote on it. 8:09:10 PM    comment []

This morning's editorials in my local paper (the Dallas Morning News) that criticize the Bush administration: 0. The DMN had a piece about the upcoming economic summit that could have been interesting.  It talked about Bush's economic summit and then talked about Clinton's economic summit.  It would have been interesting to contrast Clinton's economic summit with Bush's first and upcoming economic summit, but Leubsdorf for the most part dropped the ball.  I don't remember much about Clinton's economic summit, but the article talked about that was when Clinton changed his economic plan to deficit reduction and used his summit to sell that new plan.  Bush's first economic summit was little more than a private thank-you party for big fund raisers, who then made statements to the press praising Bush's economic plan.  It sounds like Bush's upcoming summit will be a cheerleading camp for Bush's failing economic policies. 7:56:25 PM    comment []

I am going to post a draft version of this, and then follow up later with links and updates: Bush Scandal Summary Harken - Bush still hasn't allowed the SEC to release all documents related to their investigation of Bush. Bush still has released the minutes from the Harken Board of Directors meetings that Bush told reporters to read. Halliburton - Cheney still hasn't been interviewed by the SEC. Enron - 247 days since Enron's collapse and still no arrests. 9/11 - Time ran a story that the Clinton administration had given Bush a detailed plan for systematically taking out Al-Queda but the Bush administration never acted on it. Rice responds that the Bush administration wanted a plan for eliminating Al-Queda, not rolling it back. Rice ignores that the actions after 9/11 followed the Clinton administration plan. Rest of the media seems to be ignoring the Time story. Bush's Bogus Budget Accounting - Krugman's latest column chastises the OMB for their unsupportable attacks on him and their bogus correction. Rest of the media is ignoring that the budget projections are totally pie-in-the-sky. Energy Task Force - the government is still wasting huge amounts of tax payer money in a losing cause to keep the member list secret Crooks in the AdministrationSecretary of the Army White is still there despite all the evidence that his group at Enron seriously cooked the books. The "Brooks Brother Rioters" turned out to be employees of the Bush Recount Committee. None of them have been arrested and most wound up with jobs in the White House. Bush's 8/6 recess appointee Dorr is guilty of receiving farm subsidy payments that he and his family shouldn't have received. His defense is that everyone does it. The War on Civil Liberties - The Justice department lost once again in court on keeping secret the list of non-citizens who have been detained. Bush's Phony War on Terrorism - Despite all of the President's and Vice-President's rhoertic that they country is at war, they feel the "war" isn't of sufficient importance to put their personal vacation plans on hold. Nothing here for pundits to write about - time to trash Gore's Op Ed in the NY Times. 6:26:13 PM    comment []

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