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

To: American Spirit who wrote (249808)	4/22/2002 12:49:18 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Monday April 22, 2002; 11:08 a.m. EDT White House Damage Report: Will Dems Apologize? Democrat claims that the White House fabricated reports of vandalism by outgoing Clinton staffers came unraveled last week, when an investigation by the General Accounting Office determined that at a minimum, the Clinton wrecking crew had run up a $14,000 bill trashing the American landmark. Last June, Rep. Anthony D. Weiner (D-NY) appointed himself Democratic Party point man on the charges. Standing beside four low-level Clinton staffers, he held a press conference to demand an apology from the Bush White House for what he said were bogus damage claims. "(The Bush administration) deliberately misled the American people and smeared the names of public servants who were guilty of nothing," the congressman complained, as no fewer than five TV cameras covered his every word. But advanced reports on the GAO probe suggest that it's Weiner and his fellow Democrats who may need to apologize. The watchdog agency reportedly found the Clinton damages include: The theft of two historic doorknobs that were stolen from the Old Executive Office Building. The theft of an official presidential seal. Various chairs and telephone tables broken, desks overturned. Assorted other furniture destroyed. Garbage strewn in various offices. Cut telephone lines. Computer keyboards broken. Some of the vandalism may have even had national security implications. The GAO found that Clinton staffers had disabled or reprogrammed at least 75 phones, something that could have crippled the Bush administration's ability to respond to a 9/11-style crisis in its early days. The vandalism cited in the final GAO report may be even more extensive, according to one Republican insider familiar with its probe. He told the Washington Times that the agency listed only the damage it could prove "without a reasonable doubt." newsmax.com tom watson tosiwmee

To: American Spirit who wrote (249808)	4/23/2002 1:53:18 AM
From: Krowbar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

I recall that during the early 80's Reagan S&L years my wife and I would drive past the S&Ls in the Austin, Tx. areas, and there would be scores of "developers" with Reagan/Bush stickers on the bumpers of their cars cooking deals in the board rooms. I told my wife at the time that they were looting the S&Ls, and she thought that I was crazy. I was right on the money. They absolutely loved Reagan's deregulation. It made a lot of millionaires out of people who never put up a dime of their own money, and never did the projects. The taxpayer picked up the tab. Del