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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: $Mogul who wrote (93113)	11/28/2000 10:29:54 PM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

If you only knew the story (not to mention the difference between an application and a ballot). LoF

To: $Mogul who wrote (93113)	11/28/2000 10:30:45 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769667

I doubt it. Here's an assessment I agree with, however... Bush doesn't get it © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com Imagine, for a minute, the roles of the two contenders for the presidency are reversed. It's Al Gore who wins Florida by a few hundred votes and George W. Bush is contesting the election in the courts. Do you have any doubt that the Clinton-Gore administration would be releasing the money necessary to begin the transition? Of course not. The idea is ludicrous on its face. Yet, the Clinton administration, for obviously political reasons only, is blocking the transition plans of the apparent winner of the presidency. The General Services Administration, an arm of the Clinton administration, says it will not release $5.3 million to help Bush prepare for office until the challenges to the election are resolved. This despite the fact that Florida's statewide canvassing board certified Bush the winner of its 25 electoral votes and, therefore, the presidency. The reason? Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, is contesting the election. As required by law, the GSA set up a transition office complete with computers and telephones and stood ready to turn over the keys -- and the bank account -- to either Bush or Gore the morning after Election Day. But the recounting and legal battles, which are now likely to intensify, kept the door locked. Now, personally, I'm not losing any sleep over this. As far as I'm concerned, the United States of America would operate well, in most cases, without any president. The trouble is, we still have one. In fact, we have a president who would welcome any excuse to avoid leaving office Jan. 20. And the other problem is that Bush simply doesn't get it. Did you hear his speech after the certification in Florida? He's still making campaign speeches about Social Security, government schools and senior citizen health care. Many of you told me that was all just campaign rhetoric prior to the election. Well, folks, the election is over. And Bush is making clear that his No. 1 priority remains the transfer of wealth from one segment of society to another -- regardless of what the Constitution might say about such plans. What he ought to be talking about is the prosecution of the organized criminal enterprise known as the Clinton administration. After all, the behavior of these folks speaks for itself. Not only did they pull out all the stops to try to steal the national election -- through encouraging non-citizen voting, by depriving military service people the right to cast absentee ballots and, ultimately, by changing the rules for counting votes after the fact -- the Clinton-Gore crime syndicate has refused to concede after losing under the system it rigged. This is why I have repeatedly stated that I do not have a dog in this race. The choice has always been between a criminal enterprise known as the Clinton-Gore administration and a Bush-Cheney administration that has made it clear it will not clean up Washington. It will be business as usual, if Bush and Cheney are successful at prying these Clintonistas from office. There will be no prosecutions of high crimes and misdemeanors. There will be no great reforms. There will be no effort to rein in the federal leviathan. There will be no effort to restore limited constitutional government. Instead, it will be Bush II. And that's the prescription that led to the Clinton years in the first place. W's Daddy made it all possible -- along with the help of some, once again, familiar faces like Cheney and James Baker. These guys simply don't have the stomach to fight in the gutter with the likes of Clinton and Gore. They also don't have enough philosophical differences with them to give us any hope that things will really change come Jan. 20 -- if Clinton decides to turn over the keys. I hate to be a wet blanket. So many of you are excited about the certification of the vote in Florida. I tell you this criminal gang in the White House has not yet begun to fight. They will never give up. They will never surrender. And, even when they are eventually extricated from power, what we'll have in their place is not all that much different in terms of governance.