[lbo-talk] a shred of hope

Nathan Newman nathanne at nathannewman.org
Wed Apr 16 14:54:48 PDT 2003


Pretty much everything they can-- on that issue Davis has been loud and harsh against the FERC and Bush. It was only that pressure that forced the FERC to reconsider its earlier "no problem here" rulings. California Dem leaders had launched a series of lawsuits against the energy companies that dug up much of the information that forced the FERC to change its rhetoric and rulings.

From: eric dorkin

Nathan: what are the Dems doing to get California its money following the ruling from FERC and to hold the clowns responsible?

Nathan Newman <nathanne at nathannewman.org> wrote:

----- Original Message -----

From: "Marta Russell"

>Nathan:

>Silly story quoted, since it ignores the Dems killing ANWR drilling,

>filibustering Estrada, and slashing Bush's tax cut in the budget vote.

-But not enough slashing. Domestic programs will still be affected

-and this is the second time Bush has been conceded a tax cut. A true

-opposition party should have completely stopped it.

He hasn't been "conceded" anything-- the Dem leadership fought the first tax

cut but did not have the majority of votes to block it. Once they got the

majority with Jeffords, they blocked Bush's second big corporate tax cut of

December 2001-- passed the House and died completely in the Senate. Folks

can't seem to remember that because of their ideological blinders.

The $350 billion number was the best that people could get-- the! GOP has the

majority so the moderate Republicans like Lincoln Chafee got to set the

number they were willing to live with.

As for spending, the Dems have blocked a lot of Bush's proposed block grants

and blocked the more serious cuts in programs proposed by Bush.

-- Nathan Newman

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