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

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (148092)	5/23/2001 10:30:41 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Honeymoon is over...............Tipping the Balance of Power Republicans have control of the 50-50 Senate by virtue of Vice President Dick Cheney's constitutional authority to cast tie-breaking votes. Were Jeffords to become an independent or a Democrat, the move would give Democrats the majority. "We all hope that Sen. Jeffords remains a Republican," Fleischer said this afternoon. "That's based on … our desire to make sure the Senate remains in Republican hands so our agenda can continue to move through." But if Jeffords does abandon the GOP, Democrats will be setting the legislative agenda, scheduling the votes and calling the shots in the Senate. Minority Leader Tom Daschle of North Dakota would be catapulted to the position of Majority Leader and the ranking Democrats on each committee would become the chairmen. Dyed-in-the-wool Democrat Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts, for example, would head the influential Health, Labor, Education and Pensions Committee now chaired by Jeffords. And instead of Utah Republican Orrin Hatch chairing the Senate Judiciary Committee, which must approve all of Bush's judicial nominations, Jeffords' fellow Vermonter Patrick Leahy would head the panel. The consequences for many of the key items on Bush's agenda that have yet to be addressed by Congress — energy policy, national missile defense, Social Security reform — could be grave. "I would guess that President Bush will get his two primary objectives — the tax cut and an education bill — and nothing else out of this Congress," speculated Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah.

To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (148092)	5/23/2001 10:55:13 PM
From: Jorj X Mckie	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Thomas, You seem to enjoy mental masturbation and obfuscation and also seem to enjoy having a lazy and weak mind yourself. 1. I stated: I am now convinced that you are a demolib posing as a conservative so that you can be offered up as proof that some conservatives really are boneheads. Go back to your Clinton Shrine and say 10 Hail Hillarys for being such a twit. If you had bothered to parse the above text, you would understand that I was saying that you pretending to be a conservative or anti-demolib in an effort to discredit them (conservatives/anti-demolibs) with what appears to be deliberately obtuse writing style. You then posted a response where you claim that you have never identified yourself as a conservative and have proudly declared yourself a liberal. And by the way, if you really did read my posts then you would know that I have never identified my self as a conservative. But I do prowdly state that I am an extreme liberal and all who have posted on this thread will not contradict that assertion. I then asked if you were a liberal. Instead of giving a straight answer, you throw a bunch of links at me which surely took more time to cut and paste into the message than a simple yes or no answer. Anybody who is as determined as you are to make communication as painful as possible, clearly doesn't want his message heard. Why don't you just cut right to the chase and post your stuff in sanskrit so that as few people as possible can understand you? You truly do present an overwhelming case for being a demolib in disguise. And if you are truly an engineer and you do your job in the same style that you communicate, If you are a software engineer, I bet it is spaghetti code. And if hardware, the most bizarre rube goldberg design imaginable. JXM