I've been reading a few of your responses, and it appears to me that many of your answers would only satisfy the politically ignorant.
I've been on this board since early 1997, and was in the thick of the impeachment wars.
My response to your representation of Bush's "control" over Congress?:
Yeah, just look at the way the White House has rammed through their choices for the federal judiciary! Snort!
Good God, Perlstein! And this:
Worst lie: After the September 11 attacks, the EPA told New Yorkers it was safe to live and work near Ground Zero.
Were they going to shut down the freaking city? Do you realize what sort of economic impact an out-of-control EPA would have had at that moment in time?
Of course not. City people like you don't have the vaguest idea what the actual costs of the "First World solution" are .
If Bombay had had the same thing happen to it, very few people would be getting their undies in a bunch about the natives breathing the toxins of a Ground Zero.
People like you just have the luxury of doing that.
If the Al-Katies are successful, the constant procession of trucks and ships into America's Blue Zone plantations would dry up, and those areas would revert to Third World status and conditions so fast it would make your head spin.
Worst lie: After the September 11 attacks, the EPA told New Yorkers it was safe to live and work near Ground Zero.
Were they going to shut down the freaking city? Do you realize what sort of economic impact an out-of-control EPA would have had at that moment in time?
Not only that, they didn't say it was perfectly safe to live and work near Ground Zero - there was a multi-million dollar program of grants to provide certain EPA-recognized brands of HEPA air filters and vaccum cleaners to individuals living in the area.
I may even still have the form around somewhere.