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

To: JBTFD who wrote (409079)	5/24/2003 10:20:31 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Rush Limbaugh calls Chelsea a dog. Well! Funny thing about him not mentioning this tape of a call to the Austin city police department...Listen closely to the criminals mentioned in this tape... geocities.com Oops! Thought this was a direct link to the call, but you have to go down to the part about Smoking Gun and clink on the link there....What darling little criminals!

To: JBTFD who wrote (409079)	5/24/2003 10:43:08 PM
From: Arthur Radley	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

The Bush lemming are bragging about Shrub and his tax breaks, but isn't it funny, Shrub became a millionaire by the fact of him getting a tax increase....Yep! Once you screw the public out of their money, you want to do away with taxes... __________________________________________________________ "One may also fairly conclude that the Bushes are blessed and protected beyond reason by those portions of the public’s brain that have turned to mush. What other explanation but public stupidity explains the denouement of the Texas Rangers deal? As everyone knows, George W. used $600,000 from the Harken stock sale to buy a tiny slice of the Texas Rangers; and when the Rangers were sold last year for $250 million, the second-largest amount ever paid for a baseball team, George W. emerged with more than $14.9 million. What had made the ball club so valuable was a gift from the public — a $200 million stadium mostly paid for by a sales tax that the citizens of Arlington, Texas, had overwhelmingly voted to assume. Incredible. Ordinary folks — most of whom probably have a hard time meeting their mortgage payments — dug into their pockets to make George W. a rich man. But wait. It’s worse than that. Forget George W. for a moment. His reward was penny-ante compared to what some of his fellow owners got — men like Richard E. Rainwater, the mastermind of it all, the guy who allowed George W. to buy into the Rangers in the first place. Rainwater, rated by Fortune magazine as one of the 400 richest men in America, is the sorcerer who devised the investment strategy that elevated the Bass family from millionaires in the 1970s to billionaires in the 1990s. He probably owns the U.S. Treasury. And yet Texans are paying a sales tax to make him richer? Unbelievable. With a public that dumb, George W. and the other Bushes needn’t worry that their indiscretions and abuses of power will attract much attention.