Posted on 08/19/2002 11:13:42 AM PDT by StopDemocratsDotCom
*Bush Summit to Focus on Military Transformation: President Bush is calling all hands to a major meeting of military minds at his ranch on Wednesday. The president will take a break from all the brush clearing, path building and other ranch activities he finds so relaxing for the mini summit.
In Other News:
*Thousands of blacks rallied in Washington in support of reparations for past slavery, joining Nation of Islam Leader Minister Louis Farrakhan and shouting "They owe us!". "We're not asking white people [for reparations]," said Farrakhan, who headlined the 'Millions for Reparations Mass Rally'. "We are demanding what is justly ours."
*New Poll: Doug Forrester Surges to Double Digit Lead over Torricelli in New Jersey.
*Nearly 35 percent of the Republicans in Georgia's 4th Congressional District are expected to cross over and vote in the Democratic primary in an effort to oust Rep. Cynthia A. McKinney.
*An ex-treasurer of the Palestine Liberation Organization has accused Yasser Arafat of taking more than a half-billion dollars in international aid - and transferring it to his personal accounts.
*Sick Politics: Even the most-jaded political watchers have been stunned by the level of raw viciousness unleashed by Democrats against sitting Connecticut Governor John G. Rowland. "Death to the prince of darkness!" the invocation speaker declared at the state's recent Democratic Convention.
Articles and Commentary:
*Enron's Democrat Pals: Before its messy decline and fall, Enron had plenty of clout in George W. Bush's Washington, from the personal ties between chairman Ken Lay and the President to the company's alleged influence on Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force. But Enron's cozy relationship with Washington didn't start there. Documents obtained by TIME show the energy giant enjoyed much closer ties with Clinton Administration regulators than was generally known. Long before Cheney's task force met with Enron officials and included their ideas in Bush's energy plan, Clinton's energy team was doing much the same thing. Drafting a 1995 plan to help facilitate cash flow and credit for energy producers, it asked for Enron's input—and listened. The staff was directed to "rework the proposal to take into account the specific comments and suggestions you made," Clinton Deputy Energy Secretary Bill White wrote an Enron official.
Clinton officials also made efforts to help Enron get business overseas. Clinton Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary included Enron officials on trade missions to India, China, Pakistan and South Africa. White, returning from a 1994 trip to Mexico, wrote chairman Lay that "much opportunity" existed there for natural gas, and he sent a copy of Mexico's energy plans. To persuade an Enron senior vice president to join a mission to Pakistan, White wrote, "I have strong personal relationships with the existing government."
*Al Gore AWOL for Osama-Monica Crisis
NewsMax.com: Over a period of 13 days in August 1998, an overwhelmed President Clinton struggled to put together plans for retaliation against Osama bin Laden for the bombing of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, while simultaneously facing the biggest legal test of his career - his upcoming testimony before the Monica Lewinsky grand jury.
As defense lawyers and national security advisers competed for Clinton's time, aides privately worried he was so distracted by the sex scandal that he was incapable of confronting the bin Laden threat with a clear head.
If ever there was a moment when Vice President Al Gore's experience, political judgment and crisis management skills were desperately needed, it was then.
But the man who reportedly played more of a hands-on role than any other vice president in U.S. history wasn't on hand to weigh in on the threat.
Visit RenoWatch.com and www.Continue.to/Enron
Featured Website: *GoodbyeCynthia.com: This website takes aim at the colourful Rep. Cynthia McKinney from Georgia.
Featured Photograph: *President George W. Bush answers questions from the press with first lady Laura Bush at his side at the Crawford Community Center in Crawford, Texas.
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Until next Monday!, StopDemocrats.com
No kidding. I emailed the author and rattled his cage a bit and gave him a copy of my letter. I'll check out your website, sounds great. Thanks a lot.
BTN
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