Election 2004

cheney wants to stay in office

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Yea, I know, no surprise there.
Radly posts:

A Cynic Might Point Out Who Was in Office the First Time We Got Hit
Vice President Cheney:

It’s absolutely essential that eight weeks from today, on Nov. 2, we make the right choice, because if we make the wrong choice then the danger is that we’ll get hit again and we’ll be hit in a way that will be devastating from the standpoint of the United States.

Geez, is it getting ugly.

I have a couple questions for cheney and company:
1. Who have you bought off to assure it won’t happen before 11/2 or, if you are reelected, afterwards?
2. Gosh, what strange argument will you use in 2008? Or will that have given you guys enough time to suspend the constitution?
3. Is there any reason not to think that you are the wrong choice?
NB: Neither bush nor kerry warrants a position as powerful as that of president of the US. Perhaps no one does.

A New Civil Right

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Jessa Crispin apparently has been reading the Republican platform (94 pages). To be honest I haven’t read a party platform in years and, while I suspect that there is a tremendous amount of bloggable material in each parties platform, I don’t plan to start now. In a nutshell, they are laundry lists of things the federal government shouldn’t be involved in at all.
However, I agree with both Jessa and Jaquandor that this item from page 56 is strangely put:

Our Party believes, as does the President, that reading is the new civil right.
The new civil right? Puzzling to say the least.
Now the goal they set in the next sentence seems reasonable on the surface:
Every child must be able to read by the end of the third grade.
But I am sure that there are some children who, though capable of reading, just will not progress that fast.

Simplifying the Tax Code?

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When w says:

In a new term, I will lead a
bipartisan effort to reform and simplify the federal tax code.
He apparently means to make room for more special interest loopholes:
…we’ll provide tax relief and other incentives to attract new business, and improve housing and job training to bring hope and work throughout all of America.
…
We will offer a tax credit to encourage small businesses and their employees to set up health savings accounts, and provide direct help for low-income Americans to purchase them.
Seems like more of the same old, same old to me.
Thanks to Atrios for the early look at the w’s presentation.

DeVoto

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dick cheney, 9/1/04, quoted Bernard DeVoto:

“Bernard DeVoto once wrote that when America was created, the stars must have danced in the sky.”
The Rude Pundit explores other DeVoto material that cheney might appreciate.

Convention Things

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To be precise, 1001 Things to Hate About the Convention.
There really are a 1001 of them ranging from the humorous to the serious and some that perhaps reflect positively about the convention.
And they are generally much more entertaining though I’m going to savor them a bit longer then PZ Meyers who says he has read them all.
Roxanne borrowed #17, Ayn Rand smiling up from hell, to headline a fine picture of these left behind children. I do doubt that Rand would be smiling about anything to do with the RNC convention, its candidates or their programs.