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February 20, 2004 Keep it up, guys.... The Official Democratic Party blog is listing Bush's "low points". Among them.... Presiding over an economic disaster to rival Herbert Hoover?Really? The current 5.6% unemployment rate, low inflation, and 4% GDP growth? That "rivals" the Great Depression? Child, please. And the Democrats have the temerity to criticize the Bush administration over hyperbolic economic claims. Trying to put arsenic and mercury in our drinking water?Yet, the article they cite says the Bush administrati9on proposal would "cap mercury emissions from coal-burning power plants nationwide at 34 tons a year by 2010, a reduction of 30percent from current levels, The Associated Press reported. Emissions would be cut to 15 tons by 2018." And, of course, we all know the "arsenic" debate was not over whether more arsenic would be allowed, but whether we would continue to allow the same levels allowed during the Clinton era. And, as the article THEY CITE says "Bush EPA adopted the Clinton EPA arsenic rules" after the initial fuss over whether they would adopt it or not. Stealing the 2000 election?They Gorejacked it. Sad, guys. Just sad. Almost 4 years later, and you still can't Move On. Insider trading at Harken?Uh, would that be the "insider trading" about which the SEC found "It appears that Bush did not engage in illegal insider trading because it does not appear that he possessed material nonpublic information or that he acted with" wrongful intent "when he sold the Harken stock." Insider trading, I'd remind you, is a crime. The Democratic Party is accusing Bush of a crime for which he has already been investigated and exonerated. I'd say he has a pretty good case for libel, if he wanted to pursue it. Shirking his duty at the National Guard?(sigh) Haven't we already been through this? Multiple witnesses have come forward to confirm his presence. But go ahead: Gorejack the debate. Make it about the Vietnam war. Talk about the improving economy. Please do that. After all, it's not like we're fighting a war, or anything. |