Monthly Archives: August 2003

bush’s Payback, or Influence Peddling Inflation

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As reported here bush has doubled the cost of support in the last 4 years:

His stop at a $2,000-per-head fund-raiser in the Hunts Point home of Craig McCaw will be his second visit to the billionaire cell-phone magnate’s home. In July 1999, Bush attended a $1,000-a-plate fund-raiser there.

So far 600 folks have signed up to hear bush say things like:

I look forward to signing the economic recovery bill soon. The principle of the bill is pretty simple, that we believe the more money people have in their pockets, the more likely it is somebody is going to be able to find work in America. In other words, the more money somebody has, it means somebody is more likely to demand a good or a service, which means somebody will produce a good or a service, which means somebody is likely to find work. , Washington, D.C., May 22, 2003

It seems clear that the type of service bush expects these folks to buy has a lot to do with his campaign and the bush jobs program.

Cheney on Trial?

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From the Connecticut Law Tribune via Today’s Legal News

Vice President Richard Cheney may be added to the list of defendants in Dallas accounting fraud cases, if Colchester, Conn.-based Scott & Scott prevails in its federal court bid to overturn a pending $6 million settlement….
During that period, both Cheney and his successor CEO David Lesar shared responsibility, but only Lesar was named as a defendant in the lawsuit. Neil Rothstein, a Pennsylvania-based partner in Scott & Scott, said Richard Schiffrin did not name Cheney as a defendant, despite liability exposure, because it would be “inappropriate” to do so during the war on Iraq.

Somebody please help me understand why this was inappropriate.

Late Night Reading

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Mark Kleiman takes a look at Ariana Huffington and California’s Proposition 187.
Get a preview of bush’s Oregon vacation and the surrounding issues at Pacific Views.
Brett Marston has a long and interesting piece on Tom Delay and the constituion (and, no, that is not a complete oxymoron).
FDR fans might not want to read David Bernstein’s discussion of FDR’s ‘inexplicable popularity’. Links to plenty more reading material.
Good Night!

If Blair Falls can bush Stand

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Bilmon doesn’t think the US has the stuff anymore to take out a president:

Here in land of the fairly free and the not-so-brave, that wouldn’t make much difference, I suppose, since we seem to have lost our taste for White House scandal — not to White House accountability — once Bill Clinton put his slick willy back in his pants. But the British appear to still take these things fairly seriously.

But if Blair really does fall can you imagine the new set of lies and misdirection we will be subject to as the Republican controlled House and Senate dodge their responsibility.
And then again, the bushies may have laid the groundwork for trying to pull their fat out of the fire:

Senior officials in the Bush administration believe Kay’s weapons discoveries should have been revealed as they were made. However, a decision, approved by President Bush, was made to wait until more was discovered and then announce it — probably in September.

See The Left Coaster for more details on Blair’s travails.

Politics of Fear

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Here’s the next to last paragraph from William Pitt’s editorial at trouthout.org:

Understand that the difference between these two groups – the Bush crew, and the men and women of the VFP – is the difference between what America is, and what America should be. Consider the experiences, the motivations, the actions, the sacrifices. Decide whether you want to spend your life afraid, or whether you will overcome that fear to reach the greatest victory of your life. Decide where you stand.

Read the whole thing, think about the bushies, think about Kennedy, think about the VFP folks and Brian Wilson then, as Jerome, Badattitudes, suggests take a look at this picture.