Posted on 07/17/2002 12:47:25 PM PDT by dirtboy
The White House is reeling from allegations that both President Bush and Vice President Cheney engaged in business practices that are disturbingly similar to those of executives at Enron and WorldCom. Like administrations before it, this White House now must choose between serving the greater interests of the office of the presidency or the narrower goals of the current officeholder. If last week was any indication, Bush officials have chosen a dangerous path of personal devotion over public duty, a path that has led previous administrations to disaster.
The recent allegations - which may prove overblown under closer scrutiny - center on transactions by Bush and Cheney when they were executives at Harken Energy Corp. and Halliburton Co., respectively. Among the unproven allegations are insider trading, questionable personal loans and fraudulent dealings. The White House staff has put on a full-court press to refute these allegations of private misconduct. In doing so, the administration is drifting into the troubled waters in which the Clinton administration found itself...
Click here for the rest of the article, as this was originally published in the LA Slimes...
Slavery was once on the books too but that didn't make it moral or just. I don't see how a democratic referendum can comport with the constitutional guarantee of a republican form of government.
It works fine. You can't offer any substantive rebuttal so your relagated to the old "uh huh!" routine.
Ah ... the beauty of "democratization", comrade.
Power to The People's Will!!
Demidog - Slavery was once on the books too but that didn't make it moral or just.
Thank you for proving my point. A constitutional amendment had to be passed to get rid of it - bitching and moaning about its unfairness is most ineffectual.
If you do not like taxpayers' $$$ in Texas building stadia, then start a movement to change the Texas constitution.
Until then, pipe down - you're way over your head when dealing with me on this subject.
No it didn't. The abolition of slavery would have been right there in the bill of rights. It was Taney who decided that "people" didn't really mean people but "citizens."
God, the guy who said this was BRILLIANT!
But, you see, demigod, a STATE referendum is far removed from a NATIONAL referendum.
And, there was no STATE referendum in deciding on the Texas Ranger baseball stadium; it was a CITY referendum.
Thanks for the memories, though.
No it isn't. All referendums are mob rule. Mob theft is no better on a local level than a national level.
So let me get this straight: you'd prefer that a legislature shove a stadium down the throats of a city than allow the city's voters to decide.
That's just nuts, demi. Absolutely nuts.
It's also why local referenda are a good idea.
Yes. Because the voters cannot be held accountable for their poor judgement as can legislators. Furthermore, the state legislature had no play in this. It was the city itself that conspired with Ranger management to get the referendum passed. They can wash their hands of the whole mess using the claim that the "voters have spoken."
It is mob rule that is nuts.
Leading question. "Extremism in defense of liberty is no vice" - Barry Goldwater.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22440-2002Jul17.html
Don't miss this.
Looks like you lose in your attempt to appear as a defender of the Constitution, when you're really just a punk, leftie jumping on the Democrats red wagon.
I love the anti-stadium outrage. Creative. Ignorant. But creative.
So you approve of Dubya fleeceing the taxpayers to subsidize his pitiful baseball team while preaching about how overburdened the taxpayers are?
It figgers.
Oh, I see...you're just nuts. Good to know.
Keep up the good fight against that menace of city-subsidized sports stadiums. And let me know about buying any finger-painting you do while in therapy.
The difference now is, Turley (a minor media pundit during the ThongGate days) will suddenly be elevated to Major Pundit because he's criticizing President Bush.
Nuts because I don't mindlessly chant the Party mantra despite what experience tells me?
Keep up the good fight against that menace of city-subsidized sports stadiums.
Well thanks! It is sometimes difficult to continue the battle against such grossly flagrant misuse of public funds when most Americans have apparently been numbed into apathetic acceptance. But it is worthwhile considering the $$$billions that are wasted in this fashion, and other, more important priorities exist.
And let me know about buying any finger-painting you do while in therapy.
I'm not in need of therapy as much as those willing to squander their tax dollars on professional sports stadia.
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