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

To: Cogito who wrote (268455)	6/30/2002 3:11:47 AM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

NY TIMES: MAUREEN DOWD - "MAKIN' US DIZZY" Hi Allen, Always a breath of fresh air, Maureen Dowd has captured the essence of Tricky Dicky Cheney's soul. It's called Catch-2002. Enjoy.... :) -Ray nytimes.com Makin' Us Dizzy By MAUREEN DOWD WASHINGTON Dick Cheney is a sly old fox. He wanted the Congressional cat to start chasing its tail. So he sicced the F.B.I. dogs on it. The vice president called Porter Goss and Bob Graham, the chairmen of the Congressional intelligence committees looking into the 9/11 security debacle, to berate them about a leak to the press detailing missed interceptions at the National Security Agency about "zero hour" and "the big match." Never mind that this story had been circulating for months and that any number of agencies could have leaked it. A churlish Cheney spurred the Goss & Graham team to call up John Ashcroft and ask him to conduct an F.B.I. inquiry into whether their committees had been guilty of the leak. Mr. Cheney created a Machiavellian Mobius strip: the F.B.I. is now investigating the committees that are investigating the F.B.I. Faced with the specter of interviews, polygraphs and new leak accusations, the lawmakers will be so busy playing defense with the G-men, they won't have time to go on offense against W.'s men. They'll grow tentative about rooting through sensitive, damaging material about the F.B.I. for fear that the F.B.I. will find their fingerprints. Everywhere you look these days, you see situations that are absurdly contradictory and circular and self-defeating. Reality has turned into one huge, self-consuming loop. Call it Catch-2002. Nervous that the stench of mendacious and felonious Big Business will cling to Republicans, the president is speaking out loudly against the latest robber barons. Mr. Bush must condemn deep-pocketed corporations that gave him the money to get elected president so he can be re-elected and protect corporations' deep pockets. Catch-2002. We must helplessly witness spectacularly greedy and fraudulent corporations as they betray stockholders and lay off thousands of workers even as they pay or prepare obscene bonuses for the very executives who were wittingly or unwittingly betraying the stockholders. Catch-2002. And here's Martha Stewart, who thought every kitchen needed a propane torch for browning meringues. After making a fortune giving us tips about the myriad rules of perfect homemaking, she faces ruin as a result of suspicions about a stock tip and an indifference to rules. Catch-2002. At a fund-raiser on Thursday night at the Chelsea nightclub Lot 61, Al Gore tried to link the president to the business scandals, telling young supporters: "You see now what it means to have an administration that's that committed to fighting and working on behalf of the powerful and letting the people of this country get the short end of the stick." Al and Tipper gathered fund-raisers and donors for a retreat this weekend at Memphis's Peabody Hotel, hoping the fat cats swanning amid the ducks would signal Democrats that Al is ready to rumble. Democratic poobahs hate the thought of a Gore campaign. But they have to pretend they're willing to do the Tennessee waltz in 2004 because they don't want to let the Democratic rage of 2000 subside. They're stuck acting as though the guy who lost the election even though he won could win again even though they're sure he'd lose. Catch-2002. On Monday, the president declared that he would deal only with a democratic leader of Palestine — Abu Jefferson — even though he deals with the region's kings, autocrats, tyrants and military dictators stalling on democratic elections. Catch-2002. The Washington Post had a front-page article last week reporting that a significantly higher percentage of American college graduates are women and quoting experts saying that would make it harder for women to find suitably smart mates. And a new study from Rutgers about why more men are putting off marriage suggests that moms who warned daughters that guys would think, "Why buy the cow if you can get the milk free?" may have been right: women have sex to get men to marry them, but men think they don't need to marry because they're already having sex. Which brings us back to the dread findings of Sylvia Ann Hewlett: Women having trouble finding husbands get better educations and bigger jobs to support themselves, which ends up scaring away possible husbands. Catch-2002.

To: Cogito who wrote (268455)	6/30/2002 12:30:45 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

allen, it's call leadership. It's not what others were telling him to do. It was his job. But his stupidity allowed him to do stupid things in office and get caught. The stupidity that got him caught is the same stupidity demonstrated in his policy of leadership. I smoked but did not inhale. A gratuitous comment that's mocks all who believe in honesty and honor. The stupid that ever was did not see this as baiting. It does not matter if you do not see it as baiting. The dummy got caught. With the stupidest that ever was it was not about right and wrong, It was about not getting caught. That stupid mindset cannot lead. PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, I don't see such stupid baiting comments. Smart ass baiting watman.com from my essay on A morality play on the state of good and evil in America. watman.com My baiting humor. LOL tom watson twosiwmee