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

To: hmaly who wrote (138563)	4/15/2001 4:13:26 PM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

S+L debacle. You miss my point completely. Reagan's cronies (and some Texas democrats) deregulated S+L's just like Bush-Cheney are trying to deregulate energy and CAUSED the big rip-off. They then denied and denied there was a problem until RR was out of office and let Bush clean up the mess. The longer they supported their partisan program and took soft money contributions from the S+L swindlers the worse it got. Tax-payers had to pay for it all in the end and we are still paying. The energy deregulation-debacle is now starting to cost us all billions a week. Add it up over four years and you'll see what a gouging it truly is, esp if they roll back efficiency, conservation and allow more and more pollution. It's all for corporate special interests and has nothing to do with democracy. Again that's why campaign finance reform is at the heart of the solution. So support McCain and challenge those who oppose him. He is the one true hero in the GOP right now and is doing what he's doing in direct opposition to his own party powers. Bush is a creation of soft money. He owes everything to it, that and his last name. The S+L debacle and the new energy debacle are very similar in terms of their root causes and the types behind the manipulation. Don't be blind to this. Too much unfettered power in the hands of too few rippign us all off for their short-term gain. It's a complex issue but there are no checks and balances right now except the 50-50 Senate. In order to put pressure on those moderate senators who oppose Bush-Cheney's energy debacle they will allow and help create a greater shortage and price-gouging. Once people complain then they'll allow more pollution and try to drill off your sea-coasts, in your wilderness. All as a pay-off to soft money contributors. Literally no one is policing this now. A few moderate Republicans in the senate are the only ones keeping the the oil/coal/power companies from literally running US energy and pollution policies. Do you trust them?