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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (165507)	5/29/2002 4:13:44 PM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Tenchusatsu, RE: Look at the antics of Gray Davis and his cronies in California for an example of how things could be worse. Bush plays politics over principle in the same way. He campaigned as an ardent free trade advocate. But when it comes down to buying votes or standing on principle, he has shown a clear propensity to buy votes. He advocates steel tariffs to buy votes in Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. He advocates a sharp rise in farm subsidies to buy votes in swing states in the midwest. In Alaska, the people want oil revenues, so Bush has no problem choosing the oil industry over the environment with the proposed drilling in the ANWR. But in Florida, where the voters are more inclined to the environmental side and where his brother is in a dangerous gubenatorial seat, Bush has no problem taking the exact opposite tack. Today he proposed having the US taxpayers pay $235 million to buy existing oil and gas leases so that environmentally sensitive areas near the Everglades and the panhandle. That's the exact opposite tack as his supposed desire to have us less dependent on foreign oil, but no matter. He needs to buy some more votes in Florida, and this is a way to do it. Again, principle takes a back seat.