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Thursday, March 2, 2006 |
He's a real Nowhere Man,
Sitting in his nowhere land,
Making all his nowhere plans,
For nobody.
He's as blind as he can be,
Just sees what he wants to see,
Nowhere man can you see me at all?
HuffingtonPost: "The problem, of course, is that Bush's plans for America aren't working. He's had the reverse Midas touch. Everything that he's touched - Iraq, Katrina, Homeland Security - has turned to shit."
Katrina: "Federal officials delivered stark warnings to President Bush and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff that the storm could lead to massive loss of life."
Bush is lambasting Iran for the distant possibility they might some time use enriched uranium for military purposes. Yet he is giving India access to nuclear knowledge when he knows that India's peaceful nuclear power program and its military program are thoroughly entangled. He says he wants to disentangle them, but the cooperation is mainly military.
These ad hoc policies tend to backfire. Like the US supported and in a way even created the Taliban, and also supported Saddam Hussein some time ago.
Contrary to the intention and promises by Bush, the Patriot Act is being used for other purposes than fighting terrorism.
NYSun: "Two federal judges in Florida have upheld the authority of individual courts to use the Patriot Act to order searches anywhere in the country for e-mails and computer data in all types of criminal investigations, overruling a magistrate who found that Congress limited such expanded jurisdiction to cases involving terrorism."
IdahoObserver: "Under the Patriot Act, the 'right' to free speech, peaceable assembly and security in one's person, papers and effects have been relegated to 'privileges' that government can take away at any time. Patriot Act authority has suspended the right to due process and a prompt and public trial; it even cancelled protection against cruel and unusual punishment."
FreePress: "At least 308,000 voters, most of them likely Democrats, were eliminated from the registration rolls prior to an election allegedly won by less than 119,000 votes, where more than 106,000 votes still remain uncounted, and where the GOP Secretary of State continues to successfully fight off a meaningful recount.
It seems evident that the Democratic Party will now enter Ohio's 2006 gubernatorial and US Senate races, and its 2008 presidential contest, with close to a half-million voters having been eliminated from the registration rolls, the vast majority of them from traditional Democratic strongholds, and with serious legislative barriers having been erected against new voter registration drives."
While Bush is increasing the control and surveillance on American citizens, he is giving away essential control of six US ports to a Dubai firm. First he lied and said he didn't know about the whole deal, then he stressed he would veto any bill that would halt the Dubai port deal, now it appears there are close ties between the Dubai firm and the White House.
CrooksAndLiars: "President Bush's family and members of the Bush administration have long-standing business connections with the United Arab Emirates, and those connections are raising new concerns and questions tonight in some quarters about why the president is defying his very own party leadership and his party in defending the Dubai port deal."
It's the Corporation, stupid.
TheNation: "The problem is that Dubai Ports World is a corporation. It happens to be a corporation that is owned by the government of the United Arab Emirates, a nation that served as an operational and financial base for the hijackers who carried out the attacks of 9-11 attacks. But, even if the sale of operational control of the ports to this firm did not raise security alarm bells, it would be a bad idea.
Ports are essential pieces of the infrastructure of the United States, and they are best run by public authorities that are accountable to elected officials and the people those officials represent."
WashingtonPost: "The signs of GOP discontent have been building in the past few months."
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