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To: ahhaha who wrote (5005)	7/25/2002 9:35:20 PM
From: ahhaha	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 24758

Here 'crats. Here's your leader: Resurrecting the populist themes of his failed 2000 White House race amid the recent rash of corporate scandals, Gore said this year's midterm election was a referendum on whether the government would be run for the benefit of a wealthy few. "The Republican Party today is at the hands of an elite that embodies wealth and power," Gore told 500 young Democratic activists jammed into a Senate office building room. The former vice president, who said he would make a decision on another run for the White House by the end of the year, last visited Capitol Hill in January 2001 when he presided over the certification of Electoral College results that made George W. Bush president. During a speech to the 21st Century Democrats, a group of young activists who support progressive candidates, Gore said Bush's centerpiece $1.3 trillion tax cut had squandered federal budget surpluses and shaken what had been a strong economy, creating an environment of "unfettered corporate greed." The consequences, he said, include more lost jobs, lost savings and a loss of confidence in the government. "It is the natural and predicted result of the economic policies the Bush-Cheney administration has been following," he said. He likened Bush's economic stewardship to the actions of the directors of collapsed energy trader Enron Corp. "Everything Enron did, to mislead people about the extent of that company's future liability in order to grab the money for the benefit of those at the top of the corporation, that is pretty much the same formula that this administration has taken on the national budget," Gore said. He said his warnings about Republicans being beholden to corporate interests had been dismissed in 2000 as "over-the-top partisanship" but had since been proven true. BLASTS ECONOMIC PLAN "The best thing they could do is completely scrap their entire economic plan and start over again from scratch, and get rid of their entire economic team and start over with a brand new one that has some common sense," Gore said. He said Bush's continued support of Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt, a former Wall Street lawyer with prominent accounting and corporate clients, was "a continuing embarrassment to the administration." He also questioned Bush's unqualified confidence that an SEC probe would clear Vice President Dick Cheney of wrongdoing during his tenure as chief executive of Halliburton Co., which is being examined for its accounting of cost overruns. Gore said he would like to see the overthrow of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein but questioned some of the approaches of the Bush administration, which has accused Saddam of developing weapons of mass destruction and said it will use all necessary tools to bring him down. He said there had not been enough effort made to build a coalition against Saddam and win support for the move among other Arab nations. Without that, he said, such a move would risk serious diplomatic consequences and harm other U.S. foreign initiatives. "These people were supposed to be good at foreign policy," Gore said of the Bush administration. "I don't think they are." Every last sentence and nuance is nothing but lies. Put that in office, little guy, and die.