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Promises, Promises

In addition to the 1.4 million new jobs that we are promised by the admininistration by the end of 2004 there is another promise that we should hold his feet to the fire on. An unhappy Peace Tree Farm points us to this Seattle Times article which notes that on September 13, 2000 candidate Bush ” vowed to eliminate a $4.9 billion backlog in deferred maintenance” on our national parks. The backlog is up to $6 billion now. Completing this deferred maintenance over the next 18 months would be a nice small step toward all those new jobs. Failure to do so becomes one more lie to add to the list.


Truth in Advertising

From Cursor.org on 5/26 a pointer to this New Republic partial accounting of truth in advertising by Peter Beinart:

For conservatives, it seems, this administration’s decency and honesty are ideological axioms that require no empirical defense. President Bush is not President Clinton. That’s all they need to know.

Well, he is the Commander in Chief and to defend him would imply that he might not be infallible and to even hint at this would be unpatriotic.

PS: Too bad there are not links to each of Cursor’s snippets.