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Living Up to The Commitment

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It is to bad that cheney-bush failed to live up to this cheney statement from the 2000 cheney-lieberman debate:

I think this is an extraordinarily important decision we’re going to make on November 7. We’re really going to choose between what I consider to be an old way of governing ourselves of high levels of spending, high taxes, an ever more intrusive bureaucracy, or a new course, a new era, if you will. And Governor Bush and I want to offer that new course of action.
In 2000 Cheney almost captured Ann Althouse with this approach.
Well, maybe we did get a new course, a new era. One defined by higher levels of spending, a more intrusive bureacracy, increased secrecy, and, yes, more federal-corporate cronyism.
Via Professor Bainbridge.

I Don’t Know Whether to Laugh or Cry

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Whichever, this pretty well reflects what I’m hearing from the bush campaign.
It is pretty clear that they have failed in their primary mission to protect the American people from threats to their life, liberty and pursuit of happiness.
An appropriate campaign message, and one that might win my vote, would go something like this: We and our allies around the world have eliminated terrorism as a threat.
Via The Apostropher.

Of Mice and Failed Missions

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Folks riding Washington’s ferry system will be subjected to an increasing number of vehicle searches. Here is one reaction:

In the interest of national security, I understand the Washington State Patrol is instituting random car searches at our ferry terminals (“Feds order new level of security for ferries,” Times page one, Sept. 29).
And so while they are busy trampling our rights by digging through our possessions, I hope they regret ever encountering my car.
I have a family and I have not seen the floor mats of my car since 2002. A single road trip requires at least six stuffed animals, 10 pounds of books, a box of crayons and a note pad for my child. My husband takes at least three coats, a hat and an extra seat cushion.
Added to that pile, which is now threatening to swamp the aforementioned kid in the back seat, are my backpack, clothing, a first-aid kit and occasionally a wetsuit. I have not mentioned the trunk.
That is because a mouse has taken up residence in it � we’ll call him “Kenny.”
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If the US government had been doing its job for the last 4 years, had accomplished it mission, we wouldn’t be reading this today!
Do go read the rest of the story.