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

To: MSI who wrote (264298)	6/16/2002 12:30:44 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Casting Pearls before Swine? You'll have a hard time getting an intelligent message like that into the thick skulls and thin cerebellums of the delusional Right. Hard to say why we should bother with their ilk. They seems to be akin to the boxer who is ever-ready to take more punishment to a bankrupt intellect without enough comprehension to know when they're defeated. Sort of reminiscent of the zombie capitalism that sprang mylackey.com. A dying gasp of a deluded dream.

To: MSI who wrote (264298)	6/16/2002 12:54:44 AM
From: JEB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

It's a credible response to 100,000 deaths as a result of an annihilation of a US city. The ultimate response around the world would be a total crackdown on all terrorist sects by all countries that harbor them or they would be inviting a full scale invasion from us. The leaders know this and they aren't asking the same questions you are. They already know what to expect from us.

To: MSI who wrote (264298)	6/16/2002 1:05:07 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

NY TIMES: MAUREEN DOWD: Secrets of the Yo-Yo's nytimes.com Secrets of the Yo-Yo's By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Karl, Karl, Karl. All this time, we've been hearing about what a big brain you are, how you have the pulse of every constituency, from Baptist Hispanics in rural areas to suburban moms who watch 15 hours a week of the Lifetime channel, at your clever fingertips. We've heard about your disquisitions on American history, like your contention that William McKinley was really smarter than his political boss, Mark Hanna. But now, tragically, we discover you're just another PowerPoint pinhead with a color-coded chart. A megalomaniac marooned in the banality of demography. The White House was in a swivet over the Case of the Slipped Disk, as CNN dubbed it — one of several odd slip-ups lately by the formerly disciplined and tight-lipped Bush administration. Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, first reported the too-good-to-be-true story of a Democratic Senate staffer happening upon a computer disk dropped on a street corner by a White House intern — can't the White House recruit any discreet interns? — containing a confidential analysis of the 2002 election by Karl Rove and the White House political director Kenneth Mehlman. With Karen Hughes leaving, Mr. Rove is giddily spreading his wings in the West Wing. As chief of staff Andy Card told Ron Suskind in the new Esquire, Karen and Karl had a moderate and conservative "beauty and the beast" routine going. Now we will be treated to the beast, unleashed. The strategist from Texas has been nicknamed "Boy Genius" by the president and aggrandizes himself as "The Honorable Karl C. Rove" in the lost-and-found slide show. If you think the secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood are lame, check out the secrets of the Yo-Yo Brotherhood. The Rove doctrine is simple in the extreme: "Maintain Base." The base he lists sounds like a lyric from "Oklahoma!" — "Farmers, Ranchers, Coal & Steel." Even before we learned Mr. Rove's deepest, darkest secrets, we had already cottoned on to the fact that looser standards on coal dust and higher steel tariffs were campaign initiatives. "Identify Issue Synergies," the White House political team exhorts. What on earth is an issue synergy? Is that the intersection between Enron and Halliburton? "Maintain a positive issue environment," they instruct. Not a positive global environment, of course, just a positive issue environment. In midterm elections, they intone, "Presidents' standing matters." No kidding. Karl urges Republicans to "Focus on War." Milking that war again. And "Promote Compassion Agenda." Not compassion itself, mind you, just the trompe l'oeil agenda. Karl predicts that the Democrats will "question the President's Middle East Strategy." The Democrats might do that if they can ever figure out what the president's Middle East strategy is. [[ROTFL!!!]] The politico also thinks the Democrats will pound the G.O.P. with "the Budget, Tax Cuts and Enron for Class Warfare." Why must the Democrats always pester the Haves with that Have-Not piffle? In his "Summary of Recent Data," Karl happily reports: "No evidence that Enron attacks, POTUS political activity or economy has significantly impacted the President's rating." A predictable insight into the Rove world view. He worries about Enron as a potential political attack rather than an economic calamity in which thousands of people lost their shirts and their jobs. And the phrase "POTUS political activity" is an acknowledgment that despite the strenuous public attempts of aides to mythologize W. as someone who always does the right thing, rather than the calculated thing, this president, like the one he succeeded, can put pragmatism over principle. Mr. Rove sanguinely refers to the deeply jittery economy as "recovering," making it sound like a movie star at a Malibu rehab center. The maps and charts bear the stamp of the chief political adviser's "Office of Strategic Inititatives." The name sounds uncomfortably close to the Office of Strategic Influence, the shadowy department in the Pentagon that was going to plant deliberately false stories in the foreign press — before word leaked out and Rummy was forced to shut it. Since our tax dollars are paying for this stuff, next time they lose something, let's hope it's a bit more sophisticated. """"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" Gawd, I don't know about you, but I've had way more than enough of this ersatz "leadership" already... Oy vey!