“We have a President who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities.” – Barbra Streisand, in an urgent 3-page <a HREF = http://www.drudgereport.com/babs.htm TARGET = NEW>memo to Democratic leaders, leaked to the Drudge Report.
“With the guidance of his regents, the Duke of Halliburton and Cardinal Rumsfeld, W. has set off the specter of a mushroom cloud of carcinogens and carbon dioxide emissions, nuclear power and “China Syndrome” fears, rapacious drilling and retrenchment on women’s rights, the missile shield, spy tensions and the cold war.” – Maureen Dowd, The <a HREF = http://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/01/opinion/01DOWD.html TARGET = NEW>New York Times.
Memo to Maureen: on arsenic and carbon dioxide, Bush has proposed keeping the same regimes that prevailed throughout the entire Clinton administration; he has acknowledged that drilling in the Arctic Reserve almost certainly won’t happen; more nuclear power is actually a way to help alleviate global warming, not exacerbate it; he supports a missile shield that Clinton also (more coolly) supported; the expulsion of Russian spies was in the works for months before he took office. Oh and: what retrenchment of “women’s rights”? Overseas abortion aid? Did I blink and miss something?
The Dish 