What Fires You Up?

1/23/2004

 

Price of Loyalty

The Price of Loyalty: Bush, the White House,
& the Education of Paul O'Neill

http://www.amazon.com:80/exec/obidos/ASIN/0743255453/wilsonsalmana-20?creative=125581&camp=2321&link_code=as1

This entry is courtesy of the Wilson's Almanac I suscribe to. The editor, Pip Wilson, does an amazing job of compiling the best of current stories that affect our world, and that is meant in the global sense. This post came in today's email of the Almanac. The quotation is very "telling"...

The George W. Bush White House, as described by former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, is a world out of kilter. Policy decisions are determined not by careful weighing of an issue's complexities; rather, they're dictated by a cabal of ideologues and political advisors operating outside the view of top cabinet officials. The President is not a fully engaged administrator but an enigma who is, at best, guarded and poker-faced but at worst, uncurious, unintelligent, and a puppet of larger forces. O'Neill provided extensive documentation to journalist and author Suskind, including schedules with 7,630 entries and a set of 19,000 documents that featured memoranda to the President, thank-you notes, meeting minutes, and voluminous reports. The result, The Price of Loyalty, is a gripping look inside the meeting rooms, the in-boxes, and the minds of a famously guarded administration. --John Moe

On another note, the MoveOn.org has been denied placement of the winning issue ad to counter the Bush Administration's oligarchy with American news media and networks. This is bad publicity as well as bad policy for CBS. Apparently there is some connection with CBS and Fox regarding changes made in broadcast policy, with John McCain quoted in the MoveOn article. Please go to the site for more information. Consider signing the petition and authorizing MoveOn to send it on to CBS.

BJ 1/23/2004 09:55:00 PM

1/19/2004

 

Iowa Caucus Delegate For Edwards!

A quick note to friends clicking this way: cobalt here was elected a delegate to her county convention in the Iowa Caucus tonight! I stood for John Edwards, and what a wonder, he was the third winner in my own precinct, and the vote was so very tight. 70 - 70 - 66 for Dean, Kerry and Edwards! It was amazing to see that one of the largest initial groups at the caucus was for Gephardt, and by the end of the evening, all of those folks had disintegrated and assimilated with the three that finished with delegates.

I went over to draw the "non-viable" voters for Clark and Kucinich towards Edwards, and our group won two delegates with a rise from the original 32 of us to 66 in final tally! This is indeed another time that one person can make a difference. While I still believe Dean will make it to the final Election 2004, all the country and the media must now re-think what were considered slamdunks and assumed strategies and platforms.

For more on the results of the Iowa Caucus tonight, read Jay Bullock's post in Open Source Politics within the United States section.

http://www.ospolitics.org/usa/
Jay Bullock: http://www.ospolitics.org/usa/archives/2004/01/20/boston_bou.php#more

Power to the little people whose voices were heard from tiny Iowa to the rest of the country. It is Time to Take Back America from the Bushies and big-money corporations! Populists and Progressives rock!

BJ 1/19/2004 11:14:00 PM