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

To: Neocon who wrote (168348)	8/7/2001 10:40:55 AM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

Excellent post! JLA

To: Neocon who wrote (168348)	8/7/2001 10:42:56 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769668

Excellent piece. Need some righties in the media!

To: Neocon who wrote (168348)	8/7/2001 10:47:53 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

AM radio really is a media anomaly in that it can accurately be described as a conservative ghetto. And I think it is having some impact on public opinion. On balance, I think the NYTimes is more influential since it sets the agenda for virtually all local newspapers and TV news. If NYTimes is a 10 how would you rate Talk Radio in general as a counter balance? I’d say 7.

To: Neocon who wrote (168348)	8/7/2001 10:47:54 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769668

LA Times ‘Compassion’ – Another Fractured Fairy Tale …[Last November] George W. Bush advertised himself as something better on the political scene, a conservative with compassion. Before, these words were found in proximity only in the dictionary. The idea that they could be blended into a new policy direction appealed to America's goodness of heart as well as its faith in bootstraps, not to mention our exhaustion with partisanship. But now I have on my workbench the first stack of clippings in the category, compassion. A proposed prescription drug "benefit" that would require a widow with a $15,000 pension to spend thousands on medicine before getting assistance? A budget draft with a $200-million cut in child care grants by the man who would "leave no child behind"? A suggested 18% reduction in child-abuse programs? A side-door Pentagon deal to prop up Boeing while the bankruptcy noose is tightened around the necks of people seduced into credit card debt? A rollback in new safety standards for arsenic in drinking water--returning the country to the days of lead paint and unfiltered Camels? Compassion, according to Webster's, means this: sorrow for the suffering or trouble of another or others, accompanied by an urge to help. Instead, Bush feels the urge to joke. He opened his monologue at the Washington Gridiron dinner with a gag about using the glasses of water served to the gathered press corps to study how much arsenic is OK. Texans have a different sense of humor entirely. Of course it was reported that journalists in the audience joined in laughter, proving their own curious take on what's funny. Only by the extreme terms of tough-love could the opening themes of this administration be judged as compassionate… Five months after the election, Bush's claim on compassion can only be described by a word as spongy as "puffery." As for uniting the country, yes, he has made headway. What unites everybody I know are the jitters about their jobs and savings. Honk if you're feeling better now than a year ago. "Compassionate conservative" is beginning to sound less like a political ideal than an assault on our language--and by a man whose command of English is an unfinished homework assignment. Of course, he thinks that's funny too