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| Does the Bush Administration Sincerely Think It Is Acting In The Best Interest Of The Majority Of Americans? |
| Absolutely. These people are selfless servants of the American People. |
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| Yes. They may not be perfect, but they are lead by the desire to benefit the average American. |
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| Yes, but like any politicians, they're somewhat beholden to special interests. |
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| No, they serve their base, e.g., the religious right, and aren't very concerned with the needs of the majority. |
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| No, they serve their corporate masters, how the American people fare is an afterthought. |
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| No, they make the robber barons looks like a bunch of Mother Teresas. They are doing everything they can to fleece the American people. |
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threadbear
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 Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 12:26 am Post subject: Re: Bush claims broad new powers |
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| Crapattack, New Zealand is a bit tough to get into. I'll be thinking Costa Rica if it gets nasty up here. |
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Keith_McClary
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 1:02 am Post subject: Re: Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast o |
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| crude_intentions wrote: | didn't mean it literally 
WASHINGTON — One day after President Bush vowed to reduce America's dependence on Middle East oil by cutting 75% of imports from there by 2025, his energy secretary and national economic adviser said yesterday that the president didn't mean it literally.
What the president meant, they said, was that alternative fuels could displace an amount of oil imports equal to most of what America is expected to import from the Middle East in 2025.
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The US could reach the 75% goal tomorrow, simply by buying all their oil from Norway, Canada, Russia, Indonesia, Nigeria, etc. The rest of the world would have to buy their oil from the Mideast.
Wouldn't make a lot of difference, except for increased shipping costs. |
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crapattack
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 3:55 am Post subject: Re: Bush claims broad new powers |
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Might have a point Threadbear, but there's something just damn appealing about living in middle earth.
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threadbear
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| Posted: Sun Feb 05, 2006 5:02 pm Post subject: Re: Bush claims broad new powers |
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Crap, Costa Rica has universal health care too, and no military (either)  |
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crapattack
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0mar
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 1:32 am Post subject: Re: Bush claims broad new powers |
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You're Fark no matter where you go. Simple as that.
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silveredwings
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| Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 9:02 pm Post subject: Re: Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast o |
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Big Oil will never allow the puppet to change our national agenda of massive consumption.
We're all cash drones like the pod-people in the movie Matrix, only in our case we don't produce energy, we subsidize it, pay for it and consume it as fast as we can. All else is incedental. Do you want the red pill or the blue pill? |
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Rambo
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oilfreeandhappy
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| Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2006 10:25 pm Post subject: Re: Bush energy advisers clarify his statements on Mideast o |
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Is anybody old enough to remember Carter's speech in the early 70s asking Americans to conserve bu carpooling, biking, etc. I remember seeing people who never rode a bicycle in their adulthood, commuting by bicycle. I believe it was short-lived, as the conservative media has a "field day" with it.
Bush would never have the guts to publicly encourage carpooling, etc.
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sicophiliac
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:23 pm Post subject: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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| Well I dont know who has AOL or not on here but the main news headline was Bushs approval ratings at a record low. 34% for Bush and 18% for Cheney. Looks like the UAE port deal as well as the impending civil war in Iraq as well as the rest of the laundry list of scandals and failures are really bringing W down. |
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emersonbiggins
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 10:31 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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| sicophiliac wrote: | | Well I dont know who has AOL or not on here but the main news headline was Bushs approval ratings at a record low. 34% for Bush and 18% for Cheney. Looks like the UAE port deal as well as the impending civil war in Iraq as well as the rest of the laundry list of scandals and failures are really bringing W down. |
Well, it should've been obvious to the neocons that the ports deal would be toxic, as most of the xenophobic base wants nothing to do with the 'ay-rabs,' especially in sensitive areas like national security. I'm against the ports deal myself, but for other reasons, chiefly the fact that the company in question is state-owned, ostensibly the reason (non-reciprocity) we shot down the CNOOC/Unocal deal.
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LadyRuby
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:23 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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| sicophiliac wrote: | | Well I dont know who has AOL or not on here but the main news headline was Bushs approval ratings at a record low. 34% for Bush and 18% for Cheney. |
Still too high. |
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seldom_seen
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| Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:28 pm Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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Is it possible for the president's approval rating to go in to negative numbers?
I would give him about a -24% approval rating. |
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rogerhb
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 12:16 am Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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| seldom_seen wrote: | | Is it possible for the president's approval rating to go in to negative numbers? |
Only by counting the death-threats.
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untothislast
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| Posted: Wed Mar 01, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: Re: Bushs approval numbers at a new low |
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In the normal run of events, these sorts of figures are usually a precursor to something 'happening' to take the public's eye off the ball.
So what will it be this time? Disclosure of a foiled terrorist threat at DisneyWorld back in 2003? An intelligence report of a planned ricin attack on the NY underground - or maybe the invasion of Iran? |
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