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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Augustus Gloop who wrote (9003)	3/20/2004 3:15:55 PM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

I still remember Clinton and Ebbers walking around like long lost buddies and that disaster makes California look like chump change. There is just so much blame to go around on both sides that I'm not willing to lay it all at GWB's feet Bush supporters tend to have this view. Maybe people feel personally cheated by Clinton, but I can't see any real evidence where Clinton deliberately screwed Texas for example. Clinton didn't make statements about texas fiscal irresponsibility while imposing gas taxes and funneling the money to California did he? Ebbers is a crime perpetrated by Ebbers and deregulation. Otoh Enron is a crime perpetrated by Lay AND BUSH against California. There is a huge difference here and this is one of many reasons Californians have a distaste for Bush and Enron that is unique to say, your average citizen's view of Worldcom for example. California: What are Bush's prospects in the state? Zip, zero, nada: No way after 24/7 war he and his oil cronies waged on us On that first trip to California as president in May of 2001, former oilman Bush wagged his finger and warned us of the evils of energy price controls - even while his cronies and campaign bankrollers at Enron and other Texas-based energy companies were, as we now know, robbing us blind. Since then, the catalog of Bush administration transgressions against California is thick -and growing fatter by the day. We still have extracted only a pittance in refunds - courtesy of the industry-friendly, Bush-controlled Federal Energy Regulatory Commission - from those piratical energy companies that manipulated electricity prices and made a killing off of us. On the environment particularly, Bush has battered California from all sides. The president's Justice Department sided with big oil companies in going to court to deny the state the right to stop new offshore drilling in federal waters if it poses a threat to the environment. The administration also ganged up with the big auto manufacturers to sue California over our innovative zero-emissions-vehicles policy. sacbee.com