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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak my mind. I lost my job this past year. When Clinton was president I was secure and prosperous, but in the last year, we had to close our operations. We simply could not compete with foreign labor. This foreign labor worked for low pay under very bad conditions. They worked very long shifts, and many even died on the job. This competition could hardly be called "fair." I was forced out of the place where I had worked for 34 years. Not a single government program was there to help me....

<p>When in doubt, blame Bush. President Bush, that is.</p> <p>Such is the motto of liberals, Democrats, partisan populists and other disgruntled folk who connect the dots, find a convenient target, then mount their soapbox.</p> <p>Various critics recently have blamed Mr. Bush for mad cow disease, influenza, increased oil prices, poverty, water shortages, unemployment, the September 11 attacks and the potential extinction of Alaska's Inuit people because of global warming — among other things.</p>

Blame game 2003-12-30 Oklahoman Editorial THERE'S a new epidemic spreading across the land, and we're not talking about the case of mad cow disease discovered in Washington state. No, this particular contagion is more silly than dangerous, springing as it does from the ambitions of the Democratic candidates for president. Its chief symptom is to blame every problem in America on President Bush. It is indicated at nearly every bend of the campaign trail, most recently illustrated in the political reaction to the mad cow disease outbreak. Sen. John F. Kerry, D-Mass., suggests the Bush administration is conspiring with the...

Dr. Freud assesses the mental (in)stability of Little Tommy Daschle. Must be Bush's fault! ; )

by Greg Palast I can tell you all about the ne're-do-wells that put out our lights tonight. I came up against these characters -- the Niagara Mohawk Power Company -- some years back. You see, before I was a journalist, I worked for a living, as an investigator of corporate racketeers. In the 1980s, "NiMo" built a nuclear plant, Nine Mile Point, a brutally costly piece of hot junk for which NiMo and its partner companies charged billions to New York State's electricity ratepayers. To pull off this grand theft by kilowatt, the NiMo-led consortium fabricated cost and schedule reports,...