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To: Road Walker who wrote (255220)	10/14/2005 4:05:07 AM
From: Amy J	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573076

John, RE: "Polls" I think you give voters too much credit. People vote according to their pocket books for the most part. As soon as the gas prices went up, Bush became unpopular. I don't like Bush, but I think we have to be honest here - the voters simply vote according to their pocketbook which is why eventually a Democracy is likely to bankrupt itself. California passed a balanced budget law many years ago (before my arrival to Calif), so later on I was very puzzled to learn Calif had racked up debt. I'm not sure if this is true, but I had read somewhere that Calif govt was using loans as a way to balance their budget. Since when aren't loans counted as debt? RE: ""Contrast that with Bush at 30% +/-. How the hell do we get this very dangerous guy out of office before he can do more damage" Good question. Do no harm - is pretty hard for Bush. Regards, Amy J

To: Road Walker who wrote (255220)	10/14/2005 2:35:19 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1573076

I don't know how you stop it. I think natural events have put a lid on some of the damage he can do. For instance, he has a rebellion of Republicans on his hands, which is why alot of the legistlation he wanted passed isn't getting air time. Then he's successully bogged down the world's most powerful armed forces into action within only two countries. So he now doesn't have the leeway to engage in any more conflicts. He's done nothing to improve our energy posture. In fact, he's made it substantially worse. That last piece of energy legistlation was the most disgusting form of croneyism I've every seen. 1/3 went to incent oil companies to do more offshore drilling. These are the same oil companies that now have record profits, in a time when the price of oil is so high that offshore drilling and tar-sand reprocessing is eminently profitable. Why the hell are we providing more incentives on top of the market incentive? In addition, no increased CAFE standards in that energy bill. More stupidity. The only thing I could see that it did was provide some tax savings for consumers who purchase alternative fueld vehicles, but even that they limited to 60K vehicles per manufacturer. Yes, I'm fully fed up with Bush. He's a disgrace and doesn't deserve to be President. But he's also covered himself pretty well. I'm afraid we have to watch and wait until the next election. We're so far to the right now, I think I'll have to vote Democrat just to give our country enough dose of the left to get us back to center. And I'm not kidding. Hillary is looking good to me now in comparison to Bush.