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To: Mr. Palau who wrote (215031)	1/5/2002 9:06:14 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Joblessness Rises, but Some Positive Signs Seen washingtonpost.com

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (215031)	1/5/2002 10:00:55 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Well pally, dashle is linked to deaths. Enron Pales Next to Daschlegate Death Cover-Up "Enron will be Bush's Whitewater," Democratic Party faithful promise, apparently rooting for a smoking gun to emerge in upcoming Senate hearings that will hand Democrats control of the House in 2002 and open up the option for Bush impeachment proceedings just before the 2004 presidential race. Still, even with all the partisan bluster over the ill-fated energy giant, the scandal sounds about as exciting as a session with your friendly estate planner. Whitewater, after all, began with the suspicious gunshot death of Vince Foster and ended with White House intern Monica Lewinsky performing fellatio on the president - a high political drama fraught with gutter-level morality that makes all the rhetoric about Enron being "the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history" sound dry as dust. Still, somnambulant Republicans are sheepishly going along with the program, acknowledging whenever asked that Enron deserves a thorough probing. But with enough provocation, even the ethically lethargic GOP may not be able to resist examining a far more riveting imbroglio: Daschlegate, the 1994 deaths of three government doctors in the crash of a plane owned by one of Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle's close friends who had just gotten a free pass from FAA inspectors. Predictably, the Clinton Justice Department and the then-Democrat-controlled Senate Ethics Committee didn't give allegations of Daschle influence peddling, wrongful death and cover-up a second look - despite a blockbuster "60 Minutes" expose where greiving widows expressly blamed the South Dakota Democrat in spades. Heightening the Daschlegate intrigue, an FAA office manager at the time said she was ordered by superiors to destroy documents relevant to the fatal crash to protect the Senator's wife, Linda, who was then second in command at the agency. The three government physicians were killed when a plane operated by B&L Aviation crashed in Minot, N.D., on Feb. 24, 1994. B&L was owned by longtime Daschle crony Murl Bellew, who, before the crash, had asked his senator friend to help when the Forest Service found numerous safety violations with his aircraft. According to the New York Times, the Ssenator then began "a two-year effort to strip the U.S. Forest Service of authority to inspect air charter companies." What's more, it appears Daschle tried to cover up his attempt to undermine the Forest Service. In a Feb. 5, 1995, report, the Times revealed: "[Daschle] initially said that he never pressed the Forest Service to get its inspectors to relax their inspections on B&L. But in November, a senior Daschle aide said that he had, with the senator's knowledge, intervened directly with the Forest Service inspectors who had warned that B&L was unsafe." More evidence that the senator's denial was untrue emerged when documents turned up showing that Daschle had personally leaned on the Washington supervisors of the inspectors who had given his friend a bad rating. The Times added: "Two FAA inspectors who spoke on condition of anonymity said in recent interviews that the Senator helped Mr. Bellew when he flunked a safety check in 1987." After Daschle intervened, one agency official was "called on the carpet to explain what happened," the FAA source said. Then there's the account of Cathy Jones, an FAA office manager in Rapid City, S.D. Jones told investigators that she was ordered to destroy documents relevant to the case because they "contained information with the possible appearance of improper intervention by Senator Daschle on behalf of the FAA." The documents in question, Jones said, "would make the FAA look bad" because of Mrs. Daschle's top job with the agency. In the years since various Democrat-controlled legal authorites took a pass on the scandal, the deaths of the three government doctors have been all but forgotten. But as eyes glaze over after hours of tedious Enron testimony, perhaps one or two enterprising Republican back benchers may decide to liven things up by calling for the first-ever public probe into Daschlegate. To read the full transcript of interviews with the three grieving widows who finger Sen. Daschle in Daschlegate, see: [17]Widows told '60 Minutes' Daschle Caused Husbands' Deaths. newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (215031)	1/5/2002 10:26:19 PM
From: gao seng	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

>> No, seriously, I think the GOP should make it very clear that they would rather fund a tax increase to Ken Lay and his neighbors than provide temporary assistance to the laid off Enron employees. In fact, I will help fund the ads. << Moron, Bush is for tax cuts. You guys get everything wrong. No wonder, when Clinton says he did everything he could to catch osama, he in fact did the opposite. -- President Bill Clinton turned down at least three offers involving foreign governments to help seize Osama Bin Laden after he was identified as a terrorist who was threatening America, the SUNDAY TIMES of London is planning to report... MORE... drudgereport.com

To: Mr. Palau who wrote (215031)	1/6/2002 1:23:45 AM
From: d.taggart	Respond to of 769670

Mr.P. give it a rest,hate is out of vouge right now, and as you know ,perhaps you don`t, but there is an extra 13 weeks ok unempoyment plus a tax credit for healthcare for the laid off,but you had better realize up front that most of them are in fact not demonists.Crawl back under you taliban rock and blow whats left of your brain out with your russian made semi automatic,TIA