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

To: redfish who wrote (557341)	3/29/2004 11:51:44 AM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Finally, somebody is telling the truth. "As the hours wore on, Auken, whose husband, Kenneth, was killed in the World Trade Center, was becoming irritated. "We had been sitting here listening to all these people tell us what a great job they had done," she says. Then, on Wednesday afternoon, Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism chief, pulled up to the microphone. Turning around to face the family members of those who had died, Clarke issued a blunt apology. "Those entrusted with protecting you failed you," he said. "And I failed you." Clarke asked their forgiveness. Van Auken, like many of the family members in the gallery, began to cry. "I cried hysterically, and I couldn't stop. Here was somebody, at last, telling the truth."

To: redfish who wrote (557341)	3/29/2004 12:07:55 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Typically, they'll oppose something behind the scenes (until discovering that it'll pass none-the-less), such as the Homeland Security Agency, or Sarbanes Oxley, etc., etc. --- then, after diluting the reform effort as much as possible... they will claim that they were 'for it all along', and take credit when it passes. Of course, dishonesty is not exactly uncommon in politics.

To: redfish who wrote (557341)	3/29/2004 12:09:22 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

separation of powers, fishy, separation of powers. Wouldn't congress LOVE to set a precedent here??? Hell yeah....come in handy NEXT week when it is something else, huh......