I figure March/April would be good. Early enough to remind people that stocks go down as well as up, and that they're about to put their pensions on a roulette wheel.
Joanna
John Thornton wrote:
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>> So this tells me that a potential wholesale gutting is in the works,
>> with the other possibility that the WH will overhaul the agency
>> internally and enforce some long list of `austerity' measures to
>> `streamline' and make it more `efficient', basically kill it through
>> regulatory power. With enough stories of inefficiencies, corruption,
>> scandal, and so forth--all coming from the rightwing smear machine--the
>> agency will look and probably be a wreck by the time GWB's plan is
>> ready for Congress to rubber stamp, say by summer. After months of
>> breaking it down, they can then claim to fix it.
>>
>> My only hope is that Iraq will continue to deteriorate into an even
>> more horrible nightmare and stall GWB's domestic agenda.
>>
>> CG
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> Isn't fear of this happening part of why the WH is rushing this plan
> forward as quickly as possible now or is that perception on my part
> incorrect? They seem to be pushing ahead on this more quickly than is
> usual for something of this nature.
>
> John Thornton
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