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To: KyrosL who wrote (6968)	9/6/2003 8:23:53 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

Bush job performance Yeah, we are going to get your hopes up, KL. :>)

To: KyrosL who wrote (6968)	9/7/2003 6:09:37 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

I think Hillary and the Dems can get some mileage out of this. Sounds like a dumb move by the Admin made during the panic after 911. Best that someone falls on their sword and gets it over quickly. washingtonpost.com Clinton to Block EPA Chief Nominee Associated Press Sunday, September 7, 2003; Page A04 NEW YORK, Sept. 6 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) said today she plans to block President Bush's nominee to head the Environmental Protection Agency over an internal report saying the EPA misled New Yorkers about health risks after the World Trade Center attack. In a telephone interview, Clinton said she will place a hold on the nomination of Utah Gov. Mike Leavitt (R), a procedural move that will prevent the full Senate from voting on his confirmation. "This is an effort to get the administration that he wants to join to take responsibility," she said. Clinton said she will lift the hold only if the White House answers her concerns about the EPA report. She said she holds no grudge against Leavitt but hopes the hold will force the administration to answer questions. "This is a very big issue," she said. "It not only has to do with the health and safety of the people I represent, it has to do with the credibility and trust of this entire government." A spokeswoman for Leavitt did not immediately return a call seeking comment. There was no immediate comment from the White House. The report, issued by the EPA's inspector general Aug. 21, said the agency gave New Yorkers misleading assurances that there was no air-quality health risk after the Sept. 11, 2001, attack, which spread debris, smoke and dust across lower Manhattan. The White House "convinced EPA to add reassuring statements and delete cautionary ones" by having the National Security Council control EPA communications after the attack, said the report by EPA Inspector General Nikki L. Tinsley. Seven days after the attack, the EPA announced that the air near Ground Zero was safe to breathe, but the report found that the agency did not have enough information to make such a guarantee. "When they would say, 'Oh, no, the air is safe,' there was a great sigh of relief," Clinton said. "But we know that many of the Ground Zero workers and volunteers are suffering from the World Trade Center cough, from asthma, from pulmonary-respiratory distress." The administration has defended its decision, saying it was justified by national security concerns. And the EPA's acting administrator, Marianne L. Horinko, has said the agency put out "the best information we had, based on just the best data that we had available at the time." © 2003 The Washington Post Company washingtonpost.com

To: KyrosL who wrote (6968)	9/8/2003 5:49:33 AM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

This poll you quoted missed the important numbers at the bottom. Slate has them. Most of the papers mention Bush's sinking poll numbers. A poll released Saturday by Zogby International showed Bush's positive performance rating dropping: 54 percent of likely voters rated Bush's job performance as fair or poor, and only 45 percent rated it as good or excellent, the LAT says. Yet not everybody is jumping ship. A Time/CNN poll cited by the WP showed that three in five Americans (63 percent) believe going into Iraq was the right policy and almost three in four (71 percent) said the United States has done a good job since major fighting ended. slate.msn.com