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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2956)	5/11/2001 1:44:03 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93284

Weird, but yesterday, I thought the same thing. Bush blames everyone else for his woes, but he never accepts responsibility for his actions, especially since most of them have been disasters. He refuses to consider energy conservation even though many scientists believe it will help. A Blinkered Energy Strategy Excerpt from an Editorial in The New York Times May 6, 2001 . "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue," he said, "but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy." Dick Cheney, Vice President of The United States. ………………………………………************……………………… "But conservation — saving energy by using it more efficiently — can also make a huge difference, and for Mr. Cheney to imply otherwise simply reinforces the suspicion that his strategy is little more than a clever effort to sell the country on the need for more drilling. Take first the fuel supply. Mr. Cheney is determined to drill for oil on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, which could yield as much as 600,000 barrels of economically recoverable oil per day by 2010. By contrast, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy estimates that gradually raising the fuel efficiency of light trucks and cars to 35 miles per gallon would save 1.5 million barrels a day in 2010 and 4.5 million barrels a day by 2020 — up to seven times what the refuge could produce. Moreover, these would be permanent energy savings that would not require invading an ecological treasure. Improved energy efficiency would also diminish the need for new power plants. In the same speech, Mr. Cheney asserted that energy demands are rising so fast that the country will need to build 1,300 new generating plants in the next 20 years. This assertion was based on a report of questionable integrity from the Energy Information Administration, an arm of the Energy Department that has traditionally promoted conventional energy sources like coal and oil and downplayed the potential of efficiency and renewable energy It is also the same report that Mr. Bush used to justify his decision to withdraw from the Kyoto accords on global warming."** nytimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2956)	5/11/2001 1:49:44 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 93284

Oooops!!! Bush wins........again!!!! Report: Bush Would Win Recount of Disputed Ballots yahoo.com Friday May 11 3:12 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Bush (news - web sites) would have won a hand recount of all disputed ballots in Florida's presidential election using the two most common standards for judging votes, according to a USA Today analysis published on Friday. The newspaper said the study of 171,908 ballots also found that errors by Democratic voters probably cost former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) as many as 25,000 votes, enough to have decisively won Florida and the 2000 election. The findings were the result of a study of the state's disputed ballots by USA Today, The Miami Herald, Knight Ridder newspapers and six other Florida newspapers. The study found that Gore might have won a narrow victory if lenient standards that counted every mark on a ballot had been used, the newspaper said. But Gore could not have won without a hand count of overvote ballots, which he did not request, the report said. Bush won the state's crucial 25 Electoral College (news - web sites) votes only after a ferocious court battle with Gore that was ultimately decided by the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites). The divided high court halted hand recounts that Gore had hoped would produce enough votes to overturn Bush's 537-vote margin of victory. The study analyzed 60,647 undervotes -- ballots that registered no vote in vote-counting machines. It also examined 111,261 overvotes -- ballots marked with more than one presidential choice. Under Florida law, overvotes are disqualified. USA Today said the study found that Democratic voters made far more overvotes than Republican voters. ``Gore would likely have won if all overvote ballots had been properly marked,'' said Anthony Salvanto, a political scientist at the University of California-Irvine who assisted the news organizations on the study. He said people who cast overvotes were clearly confused by the presidential portion of the Florida ballot and had few problems casting votes in other races. The paper said voters were confused by a long list of minority-party presidential candidates on the ballot. USA Today said only 6 percent of those who overvoted in the presidential race made the same mistake in the Senate race, which was next on the ballot. He concluded that the leading causes of overvotes in Florida were ballot design and ballot wording. USA Today said Florida's controversial ``butterfly'' ballot was a key problem for many voters. The ballot put candidates' names on facing pages with punch holes in the middle. The alignment confused some voters, who punched holes for candidates they did not intend to choose. Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, the president's younger brother, signed a sweeping election reform law on Wednesday that ended the use of butterfly ballots and punch-card machines in the state. The governor signed the reform measure in Palm Beach County, where Gore supporters believe the butterfly ballot cost their candidate the presidency.