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Republican Zealotry
October 28, 2001 Taking ideological consistency to an
absurd extreme, House Republican leaders are putting their aversion to "big
government" ahead of the nation's security needs. Dick Armey, Tom DeLay and other
conservative congressmen are standing firm against aviation security legislation that has
already been approved unanimously by the Senate. The House leaders oppose the creation of
a federal airport security force, and in their fierce opposition to anything that would
increase the rolls of government employees, they have been blocking passage of legislation
that is desperately needed both to protect air passengers and to revive the airline and
tourism industries. nytimes.com
Economy needs careful guidance 10/28/2001
By
Thomas Oliphant Washington as many Americans know from nine similar
occasions since World War II, there are recessions and then there are Recessions.
The former happen. The latter are for the most part made to happen by derelict or inept
governments that manage to transform one of the inevitabilities of economic life in a free
society into a longer, deeper event causing damage that takes years to repair. But the
fact remains that the economy's decline is not yet precipitate and could easily be
short-lived. So far, however, the Bush administration and Congress appear to be doing
exactly what will cause a big ''R'' recession. boston.com
Iran Says U.S. Paying for Giving Anthrax to Iraq
October 26 8:37 AM ET TEHRAN (Reuters) Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, chief
adviser to Iran's supreme leader, said on Friday the United States was paying the price
for supplying anthrax to Iraq, which fought a bitter war with the Islamic Republic in the
1980s. ``They knew anthrax was not a conventional weapon of war, but they supplied it to
Iraq ... Now anthrax which they themselves sent to this region is back to haunt them,''
Rafsanjani told worshippers gathered for weekly prayers at Tehran University.
yahoo.com
Critics Call
White House Bush League
October 25,
200 By THOMAS M. DeFRANK Daily
News Washington Bureau Chief For the first time since Sept. 11, the Bush high
command is being criticized for its handling of the terror crisis — and many of the
complaints are coming from Bush partisans worried about an appearance of confusion and
drift. Bush's conduct of the Afghan war continues to earn high marks, even from top
Democrats. But several administration officials and other Bush sources grumble that the
White House has bungled the anthrax crisis with a mishmash of confusion, mixed messages
and grudging disclosure."We look like we don't have our act together," one key
Bush source grumped. "The impression is being left we may not know what we're
doing." nydailynews.com
Squelching the News in Democracy's Name
Oct. 24, 2001 Mark
Crispin Miller The Bush
administration's efforts to control the news with the broadcast media's willing
collaboration -- may be more dangerous to American democracy than any terrorist. By
When the White House, via National Security Advisor
Condoleezza Rice, "requested" recently that the networks not air any future
unedited videos of Usama bin Ladin, that tacit order met largely with a frightening
silence. America's elected representatives voiced no complaint about this effort to black
out discomfiting news, and -- far worse -- the broadcast media's top managers sank quickly
to their knees. While some newspapers did editorialize against it, that blunt stroke of
intimidation moved the broadcast media's bosses mainly to salute the power that had just
muscled them. motherjones.com
First, brand all
the children Cyber-liberties swept away
by tidal wave of security concerns
Oct. 24 By Brock N. Meeks
MSNBC WASHINGTON, — Anthrax, Afghanistan, al-Qaida, Ashcroft and anti-terrorism legislation. We
aren’t even through the first letter of the geopolitical alphabet before jumping all
the way to “S” as in “screwed” as in what’s happening to civil
liberties in the online world.msnbc.com
Bin Laden family
to end ties to Carlyle OCTOBER 23
2001 FROM CHRIS AYRES IN NEW YORK THE family
of Osama bin Laden is close to ending its relationship with the Carlyle Group, the US
investment group backed by George Bush Snr, the former President, and John Major, the
former Prime Minister. It is understood that Carlyle Group and the Saudi Binladin Group,
the Middle Eastern conglomerate owned by the family of bin Laden, have decided to part
company by “mutual consent”. thetimes.co.uk
The Soul of Democracy October 16,
2001 Bill Moyers The soul of democracy the essence
of the word itself, is government of, by, and for the people. And the soul of democracy
has been dying, drowning in a rising tide of big money contributed by a narrow,
unrepresentative elite that has betrayed the faith of citizens in self-government.
grannyd.com/moyers.htm
''Misunderestimated"? 10/4/01
Ellen Goodman "When President Bush told CIA
workers that the enemy not only ''underestimated'' America, they ''misunderestimated the
will and determination of the commander in chief, too,'' not a word was whispered. When he
uttered his favorite malaprop three times in three sentences, not a titter was heard. The
''mis'' take was edited from the CNN transcript. It was dropped from the excerpts in most
newspapers. It appeared in a rather gentle piece in The Washington Post suggesting that
things are back to normal when the president is back to mangling his words.
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