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

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (496917)	11/21/2003 8:47:43 PM
From: AuBug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

YES! Send troops into Turkey & Saudi Arabia & Libya & North Korea!!! We need to kill as many people as it takes to keep the peace ;-) Just trying to think like the slopehead in the White House.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (496917)	11/21/2003 9:03:06 PM
From: laura_bush	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

The Incredible Bloated Money Bill The New York Times \| Editorial Friday 21 November 2003 The Republican-led Congress is wallowing toward a garishly spectacular finale: a $284 billion omnibus spending bill, a haphazardly stitched hulk that gives a bad name to the usual legislative metaphors about sausage-making and bauble-laden Christmas trees. This bill, being rigged as a take-it-or-leave-it voting prod for lawmakers antsy to get home, begins by combining five expensive measures that deserve separate votes because they are vital for financing much of the government next year. But the real political goal is to festoon this appropriations wad with an incongruous mix of resurrected controversies, hometown pork and hot-button proposals. The megameasure is daily shifting. As it stands now, President Bush is threatening a veto of the whole thing if G.O.P. leaders fail to include his controversial proposal curtailing overtime pay in the private sector. This plan was previously rejected by the lawmakers, but that doesn't seem to matter in the current end-of-session garage sale, where Speaker Dennis Hastert works to bend the members to the White House's will. One regrettable deal previously rejected has been suddenly revived: a plan to force a voucher system on the public schools of the capital city. It is no comfort that there is still a week's bargaining left before the Capitol auction gavel descends. In a resurrection worthy of Transylvania, a nefarious $7.2 billion sweetener for doomed tobacco growers has flapped back to life, its chances uncertain. The real pity, large as the omnibus bill itself, is that the full contents and damages will not be known for weeks, even by the lawmakers who vote for approval. If the old Congressional problem was gridlock, the new one is juggernaut. nytimes.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (496917)	11/22/2003 8:34:43 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

33 Years Later, Draft Becomes Topic for Dean By RICK LYMAN and CHRISTOPHER DREW nytimes.com n the winter of 1970, a 21-year-old student from Yale walked into his armed services physical in New York carrying X-rays and a letter from his orthopedist, eager to know whether a back condition might keep him out of the military draft. This was not an uncommon scene in 1970, when medical deferments were a frequently used avenue for those reluctant to take part in the unpopular war in Vietnam. And this story would have little interest save that Howard Dean was the name of the young man. Now, 33 years later, he finds himself a leading Democrat in the quest for the party's nomination to be president of the United States. Dr. Dean got the medical deferment, but in a recent interview he said he probably could have served had he not mentioned the condition. "I guess that's probably true," he said. "I mean, I was in no hurry to get into the military." But now that he is running for president, in a race when many Democrats believe they need a candidate with strong national security credentials to challenge President Bush, the choices Dr. Dean, a former Vermont governor, made 33 years ago are providing ammunition for critics. Senator John Kerry and Gen. Wesley K. Clark, two of his strongest challengers for the Democratic nomination, have recently started running advertisements highlighting their military experience. And all the Democratic candidates except Carol Moseley Braun had to face the possibility of being drafted during the Vietnam War. In the 10 months after his graduation from Yale, time he might otherwise have spent in uniform, Dr. Dean lived the life of a ski bum in Aspen, Colo. His back condition did not affect his skiing the way the rigors of military service would have, he said, nor did it prevent him from taking odd jobs like pouring concrete in the warm months and washing dishes when it got cold. Even the candidate's mother, Andree Maitland Dean, said in a recent interview about his skiing after receiving a medical deferment, "Yeah, that looks bad."