>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: <mailto:eric_dorkin at yahoo.com>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
><<mailto:nathanne at nathannewman.org>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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