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

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (405646)	5/13/2003 10:49:34 AM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Well then, you should be happy that I am not the CIC and you shouldn't moan next week when another suicide bomber murders innocent men, women and children to get money for his co-conspiring family.

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (405646)	5/13/2003 11:42:27 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 769667

WOW....I have that nut case on ignore....I can't imagine what he must have said....More TORTURE? The US is doing it's usual job.....Blow the place up and leave it at that....The Bushkies have already lost their savior administrator in Iraq after THREE WEEKS....What a joke....we've unleashed terror upon those poor people....the same as would happen to our own New York or large city without a police force.... U.S. Overhauls Administration to Govern Iraq: Deep Changes as Chaos Lingers in Baghdad By Patrick Tyler and Edmund L. Andrews EXCERPT: " Officials said the impetus for the overhaul stems in part from urgent warnings that the escalating violence and a breakdown of civil order are already paralyzing the effort to rebuild Iraq. "Unless we do something in the near future, it is likely to blow up in our face," one official said. "Today, black smoke billowed over Baghdad's skyline as looters set fire to the city's former telephone communications center, apparently as a distraction for others who tried to steal cars nearby. On the other side of the city, hundreds of looters, who now range through the city every day poured into a palace of Saddam Hussein after American military units decided to vacate it. Baghdad is once again becoming a city of almost hourly eruptions of gunfire. Criminals are shooting at other criminals, officials said. Families are settling scores, and some Iraqis are just taking potshots at American forces. From the outset, the task of quickly re-establishing order and civil administration in Iraq was far more daunting than American officials had planned for, they now acknowledge. A month into reconstruction, there is still no functioning police force in Baghdad." CC

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (405646)	5/13/2003 11:48:25 AM
From: Skywatcher	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This is what the Republicans of Texas stand for.....it's DISGUSTING! And hooray for the Democrats for bailing on the legislature to prevent this outrageous and unconscionable attack on the innocents of their own state!!!! It's the same in Washington....bombs instead of taking care of the PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY </>The alternative to raising taxes, though, is a series of dramatic cuts in social services that have shocked even many moderates here. The Republican leaders say they are trying to be good fiscal wards in difficult economic times. But they have proposed, among other things, reclassifying 56,000 elderly and disabled people so they are no longer "frail" — making them ineligible for Medicaid. An estimated 250,000 children from low-income families would be removed from the rolls of the Children's Health Insurance Program. Money set aside to replace antiquated textbooks in public schools has been cut, and teachers' health insurance benefits are expected to drop considerably. The budget bill containing those provisions is among those that could die this week because of the Democrats' walkout. Democrats also disagree with a host of other Republican legislation that is expected to pass, including one bill that limits damages in medical malpractice cases, restricts class-action lawsuits and shields some corporations from defective product claims. "The Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives have taken a stand on principle," said Texas Democratic Party Chairwoman Molly Beth Malcolm. "They are not going to allow themselves to be run over by Tom DeLay, Tom Craddick and the rest of the far right-wing Republicans who care more about their party's agenda than what is best for Texas. The Republicans will attempt to call them obstructionists. They are heroes." According to Craddick, they are cowards. "It's not a disgrace to stand and fight, but it is a disgrace to run and hide," he said. The Texas Legislature meets just once every two years, for 140 days, during which, on average, more than 8,000 bills are proposed and more than 1,000 are debated and approved. That means every day counts, said Peggy Venable, the Austin-based state director of Citizens for a Sound Economy, which fights for lower taxes and less government regulations. "They are supposed to do the people's business. Instead they are taking a vacation at taxpayer expense," she said in an interview. "They are acting like truant schoolchildren. Democrats don't seem to know how to be in a minority. It is time they grow up." The Democrats' maneuver is not without precedent. Twenty-four years ago, 12 Texas state senators went on a similar strike, refusing to work at the Capitol. They hid in an Austin apartment for several days while Texas Rangers and other law enforcement authorities searched for them.