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

To: Scumbria who wrote (141161)	4/28/2001 5:58:38 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769667

Dear scum, This is America and you as a self proclaimed little bit racist being are free to fantasize about the plan's of men as analyzed by the minds of mice. thank you for entertaining us. What an enchanted forest. you all have a nice day now hear and today try going out of your way to be nice to a two humans. tom watson tosiwmee

To: Scumbria who wrote (141161)	4/28/2001 6:28:37 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

I hate to inject reality into your fantasyland, but: You don't think maybe AG had something to do with this with his interest rate hikes? Oh, and they all occurred on Slick's watch. Did you notice the markets started down before Bush even had the nomination? That occurred on Slick's watch too. Crying over the money you lost in the market? Talk to Slick. As TLC says, you're hilarious!

To: Scumbria who wrote (141161)	4/28/2001 6:50:57 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Daschle’s Love Affair with Arsenic Does Tom Daschle enjoy poisoning the nation’s children? April 27, 2001 4:30 p.m. hat is it about poisoning the nation's children that Senate E-mail Rich Printer-Friendly E-mail a Friend Lowry Archive Majority Leader Tom Daschle enjoys? Daschle was one of 18 Democratic senators in October 2000 who voted to give the Environmental Protection Agency more time to implement a new rule on arsenic in drinking water. Barbara Boxer had offered an amendment to the VA-HUD appropriations bill that would have forced the EPA to finalize its new rule by January 1st, 2001, instead of giving it until June 22, 2001. If one accepts the terms in which Democrats have attacked Bush on arsenic recently, the Boxer amendment would have meant six fewer months for innocent Americans to drink corrupted and dangerous water. Yet, 18 Democrats — 42 percent of the caucus — voted against it. Yes, there were procedural reasons for the Democrats to oppose the amendment. Any changes might have killed a House-Senate deal, and according to Daschle's office, perhaps endangered the ability of the EPA to make a new rule at all. But why settle for playing such inside baseball games when the nation's health is at risk? And 25 Democrats did vote for Boxer. Of course, there were substantive reasons as well to oppose the Boxer amendment, reasons that will sound familiar to defenders of the original Bush arsenic decision. Cut to an account of the debate produced at the time by the Republican Policy Committee: "In 1996, Congress set a schedule under which the EPA was to update the arsenic standard for drinking water. The EPA is behind schedule in developing that rule. It is currently required to issue its final rule by January 1, 2001, but it says it will not be ready until April or May, 2001. It has not had time to evaluate the concerns that have been expressed about the proposed rule it issued this summer (6 months behind schedule). Many small communities are especially worried about that proposal because, if it were implemented, it would prove prohibitively expensive for their customers. For instance, the Utah Department of Environmental Quality found that the cost of water for residents in the Heartland Mobile Home Park would be $230 per month per customer under this proposed rule. It is very likely that in some areas this rule would just end town water service and people would drill their own wells, and end up drinking water that was much less safe for them." Now, if Democrats aren't just being opportunistic and demagogic in their current attacks on Bush, they would have risen up as one against these arguments back in October. Tom Daschle has recently said, "Under FDR all we had to fear was fear itself. Now, we have to fear arsenic in our drinking water." And he has condemned the Bush arsenic action as "an outrageous and indefensible decision." So, where was Daschle in October? With 18 other Democrats who joined Republicans to give the EPA more time to implement a rule, suggesting the new arsenic reg is just what Bush defenders say it is: a minor adjustment that is not particularly urgent. Who would have thought delaying the arsenic rule would turn out to have been one of Bush's bipartisan initiatives? nationalreview.com