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To: Cola Can who wrote (520954)	1/7/2004 3:45:31 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Respond to of 769670

The trial court judge has refused to approve a plea bargain in which Fastow would serve 5 months in jail. chron.com

To: Cola Can who wrote (520954)	1/7/2004 3:48:52 PM
From: PartyTime	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

My girlfriend's brother is a Republican. He's NRA, pro-nuke, several issues where he's firmly in the GOP camp. But his comment I think will ring true in the next election: "I don't like this president and I'll never vote for him." Do I detect a post-'04 election comeback on the part of the Ripon Society? The Ripon Society? What's that? Heck, most of those today waging war on America from the GOPwinger column don't even remember what that organization was. Perhaps some research is on order for some folks, eh?

To: Cola Can who wrote (520954)	1/7/2004 4:39:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

"Mr. Dean is from a Congregationalist background, a liberal denomination that does not believe in ministerial authority or church hierarchy. Each Congregationalist believes he is in direct contact with God and is entitled to sort out truth for himself. Mr. Dean's wife is Jewish and his two children are being raised Jewish, which is strange at best, considering the two faiths take a distinctly different view of Jesus."http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/columns/kurtzhoward/

To: Cola Can who wrote (520954)	1/7/2004 4:42:08 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

If you put the Democratic candidates in a room and take away the television cameras, you get...pretty much the same thing, without pictures. As we found in yesterday's NPR face-off: "Debating for the second time in three days," says the Los Angeles Times, "Democratic presidential hopefuls renewed their scuffling today over taxes and personalities, but also broke ground on issues as disparate as obesity and restricting snowmobiles in national parks. "Front-runner Howard Dean bore the brunt of the assaults, led by Sens. John F. Kerry of Massachusetts and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut. The two suggested that Dean's proposal to repeal President Bush's tax cuts - a stance he shares with Rep. Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri - would amount to a tax hike on hard-pressed middle-class Americans. "Noting the rise in tuition and health care costs as well as increases in local property taxes, Kerry said, 'Nothing that Howard proposes is lowering that burden. In fact, he's going to add to it.' "'Hogwash,' Dean replied, asserting that his proposals would make tuition and health care more affordable and reduce taxes by funding education programs now financed by local governments. 'Middle-class people get a better deal from President Dean.''' Here's a link to the NPR audio. Is this how you move to the center? Check out this Boston Globe piece: "After months of touting his plan to repeal all of President Bush's tax cut, former Vermont governor Howard Dean is moving toward embracing a tax relief package for middle-income Americans, which would amount to a major revamping of a centerpiece of his Democratic presidential campaign. "Dean's action comes after his team of economic advisers privately gave him a "unanimous" recommendation to back a middle-income tax cut to offset the increases that would come with repealing Bush's plan, a top campaign official said. "The economic team has been especially concerned that Dean's proposed repeal of the Bush cuts has enabled critics to accuse him of supporting what amounts to a $2,000 tax increase on families earning between $73,000 and $145,000." You can almost hear Dean's rivals crying flip-flop.