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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (351958)	2/1/2003 6:33:29 PM
From: KonKilo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Bush and his Lying Administration If has been said that if you repeat a lie often enough, it eventually becomes the truth. And boy, do the Bush Administration like to repeat lies. How many times have we heard them say over the last few months that they know Saddam has weapons of mass destruction? How many times have they told us that they have hard evidence that he is hoarding these weapons, or building more? And how many times have we wondered why, if the administration has this hard evidence, aren't they just passing it along to the U.N. weapons inspectors so they can go find the buggers? Well here's why - in a recent New York Times article entitled "U.S. Set to Demand That Allies Agree Iraq Is Defying UN" an alert reader spotted this gem: "Administration officials said their strategy was based on the belief that there might never be a 'smoking gun' proving Iraq's possession of illegal weapons." So... there's no actual evidence of weapons of mass destruction then. Not that the Bush administration would ever lie to the American people, of course. democraticunderground.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (351958)	2/2/2003 2:27:34 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Respond to of 769670

BUSH FAILS TO DISCIPLINE PARTY: Six Republican Senators Turn Against Bush on ANWR truthout.org [[NOTE: This is an important break from the otherwise repulsive goose-stepping that the GHP has been doing for Bush's evil agenda in Congress.]] Six Republican Senators Turn Against Bush on ANWR: McCain, Snowe, Collins, Chaffee, Fitzgerald, De Wine put honor above sleaze. By Reuters Friday 31 January 2003 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration's plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to drilling suffered a major blow on Friday as six Republican senators said they opposed inserting language to give oil companies access to the refuge into a must-pass budget bill. ANWR, which is home to polar bears, caribou and other wildlife, sprawls across 19 million acres of Alaska's northeast corner. The Republican-led House of Representatives passed energy legislation last year that would have opened ANWR to drilling but a Democratic-led Senate did not pass similar legislation. The White House contends that the refuge's potential 16 billion barrels of crude must be tapped to help reduce U.S. dependence on oil imports from unfriendly countries like Iraq. But drilling is opposed by many Democrats and environmental groups, who say the administration should cut oil imports by boosting the mileage standards of gas-guzzling sport utility vehicles. Six of the Senate's 51 Republicans, including former presidential candidate John McCain of Arizona, on Friday announced they would not go along with a plan to tack ANWR drilling language onto a massive spending bill this spring that would enact the new 2004 budget for the federal government. The senators said drilling in the Alaskan refuge is an important policy issue that should be openly debated, not slipped into an unrelated bill. ``Because the opening of the Arctic refuge to drilling raises a host of policy concerns, including serious environmental ramifications, we do not believe this issue should be injected in the budget process,'' the lawmakers said in a letter to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Senate Budget Committee Chairman Don Nickles. The letter is the latest twist in a two-year legislative battle over drilling in the Alaskan refuge. The Democratic-led Senate last year soundly defeated efforts to open the refuge, when drilling supporters fell short of the 60 votes needed to end debate on the controversial proposal and allow a final vote on the measure. To get around a filibuster this time, supporters of opening the refuge want to attach drilling language to must-pass legislation to fund the 2004 budget for the federal government. They argue that such language is appropriate for budget legislation because of the fees the government would collect from leasing tracts in the refuge to oil companies. Under Senate rules, budget legislation cannot be filibustered and only 50 votes would be needed to approve the bill and an attached ANWR drilling provision. In addition to McCain, the letter was signed by Senators Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Peter Fitzgerald of Illinois and Mike DeWine of Ohio. The six were part of a group of 8 Republicans who crossed the aisle last year to vote against ANWR drilling. In his State of the Union speech to Congress earlier this week, President Bush urged lawmakers to pass legislation enacting his national energy plan, which includes drilling in the refuge. Two Democratic presidential hopefuls, Senators John Kerry of Massachusetts and Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, oppose ANWR drilling and have promised to filibuster any energy bill that would open the refuge. A new poll released on Friday by The Wilderness Society showed that by a two-to-one margin, voters reject opening the Arctic refuge to oil drilling, even in the case of impending war with Iraq and a possible cut-off of some of America's oil supplies from the Middle East. Sixty-two percent were against drilling in the refuge, while 30 percent favored the idea, according to the poll.