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

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (245088)	4/3/2002 5:54:59 PM
From: willcousa	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

We were counting on those Senate Democrats, you know, the party that cares about fiscal responsibility, to stop the budget-busting legislation - but no - they did not guard the Treasury as we had hoped. Our President, having no mandate as you Democrats like to remind us, could do nothing but sign the bill. You dems should be happy.

To: Mr. Whist who wrote (245088)	4/3/2002 6:03:54 PM
From: Gordon A. Langston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Also disappearing from the Republican lexicon post-Enron is the phrase: "We need to run (FILL IN THE BLANK) more like a business." Enron became a kleptocracy. Government should be run like a business but not as a business. It does not create jobs, only the environment of good laws, including working conditions, strict financial accounting procedures, and fair taxes that encourage economic growth. If it concentrated on these it would be wildly successful and beloved.;)