rec.arts.theatre.musicals

dgsweet wrote:

> The Bush administration, however, is the first administration that is
> almost entirely staffed by people who came from precisely the culture
> that government is supposed to protect us from. The old line about
> the fox guarding the henhouse applies. The enforcement of a lot of
> the rules has simply been nil, a lot of regulations have been
> weakened, a lot of cronies with corporate portfolies have been put
> into jobs for which they are philosophically ill-suited or simply
> incompetent. The Bush administration has been about the near-total
> smothering of government responsibility to the citizens by the most
> malign corners of the corporate culture.
>
> This is one of the reasons why Bush is not remotely a genuine
> conservative, by the by. True conservatives try to get people off of
> citizens' backs. Bush simply has worked to get government off of
> corporations' backs so corporations can abuse us more efficiently.
> It's a shameful chapter in American history. I think it's worse than
> Watergate.

And that's without getting into his sacrificing the lives of thousands
of soldiers in pursuit of profiteering. There's no question that this is
a far more shameful chapter in American history than Watergate. These
are war criminals.

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Stephen

Jane: So is there anyone you want to bring?
Tony: What, "bring" bring?
Jane: No, not "bring" bring, just bring.
Twinkle: You can get phones that do that.