<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> <html><head><style type="text/css"></style><title>Re: [lbo-talk] a shred of hope</title></head><body> <div>Maybe but it took him a long time to get on it.</div> <div>The Dems are poised to make some of the most draconian cuts ever seen in this state.  They are going to do that rather than tax business and tax the rich.</div> <div>Marta</div> <div><br></div> <blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1">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.</font></blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite> </blockquote> <blockquote type="cite" cite><b>From:</b> <a href="mailto:eric_dorkin@yahoo.com">eric dorkin</a><br> <blockquote><br></blockquote> <blockquote>Nathan: what are the Dems doing to get California its money following the ruling from FERC and to hold the clowns responsible?<br> <br> <i><b>Nathan Newman <</b></i><a href="mailto:nathanne@nathannewman.org"><i><b >nathanne@nathannewman.org</b></i></a><i><b>></b></i> wrote:<br> <blockquote>----- Original Message -----<br> From: "Marta Russell"<br> >Nathan:<br> >Silly story quoted, since it ignores the Dems killing ANWR drilling,<br> >filibustering Estrada, and slashing Bush's tax cut in the budget vote.<br> <br> -But not enough slashing. Domestic programs will still be affected<br> -and this is the second time Bush has been conceded a tax cut. A true<br> -opposition party should have completely stopped it.<br> <br> He hasn't been "conceded" anything-- the Dem leadership fought the first tax<br> cut but did not have the majority of votes to block it. Once they got the<br> majority with Jeffords, they blocked Bush's second big corporate tax cut of<br> December 2001-- passed the House and died completely in the Senate. Folks<br> can't seem to remember that because of their ideological blinders.<br> <br> The $350 billion number was the best that people could get-- the! GOP has the<br> majority so the moderate Republicans like Lincoln Chafee got to set the<br> number they were willing to live with.<br> <br> As for spending, the Dems have blocked a lot of Bush's proposed block grants<br> and blocked the more serious cuts in programs proposed by Bush.<br> <br> -- Nathan Newman<br> <br> ___________________________________<br> http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk<br> </blockquote> </blockquote> <blockquote><br></blockquote> <blockquote> <hr size="1"></blockquote> <blockquote>Do you Yahoo!?<br> <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/search/mailsig/*http://search.yahoo.com" >The New Yahoo! Search</a> - Faster. Easier. Bingo.</blockquote> </blockquote> <div><br></div> <div><br></div> <x-sigsep><pre>-- </pre></x-sigsep> <div>Marta Russell<br> Los Angeles, CA<br> http://www.disweb.org</div> </body> </html>