George "Cannot Tell the Truth" Bush

[struggle4progress]

George "Cannot Tell the Truth" Bush

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Princeton University professor and New York Times columnist Paul Krugman, who was once a junior economics staffer in the Reagan administration, is among the leading voices detailing the daily lies of the Bush administration. Here is one excerpt from a 2002 Krugman column: “The Bush administration lies a lot….He is as slippery and evasive as any politician in memory…..The recent spate of articles about administration dishonesty mainly reflects the campaign to sell war with Iraq. But the habit itself goes all the way back to the 2000 campaign, and is manifest on a wide range of issues. High points would include the plan for partial privatization of Social Security, with its 2-1=4 arithmetic; the claim that a tax cut that delivers 40 percent or more of its benefits to the richest 1 percent was aimed at the middle class; the claim that there were 60 lines of stem cells available for research; the promise to include limits on carbon dioxide in an environmental plan.”
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The book covers not just the aforementioned lies, but ones many people seem to forget, ones that occurred before he took the White House amid lies that he actually won that election and he and Dick Cheney actually lived in different states. The lie that Bush won in 2000 has been covered in many places; for the latter more obscure lie, on Election Day 2000, Cheney still owned his home in the exclusive Dallas suburb of Highland Park, had a Texas driver’s license, listed himself as a Texas resident on income-tax returns, and worked most recently as CEO of oil company Halliburton’s Dallas office. Cheney got around the Constitution’s 12th Amendment, which states that the president and vice president have to reside from different states or forfeit that state’s electoral votes, merely by switching his voter registration to Wyoming, where he once lived, in July 2000. He continued to live in the Dallas area; I observed television news reports recording Cheney coming out of his Texas home several times after Nov. 7, 2000.

Furthermore, Cheney did not sell his $2.2 million, 4,700-square-foot home until Nov. 30, 2000, well after the election, to Dianne T. Cash, a wealthy Republican Party and high society donor, Dallas County records showed. Cash owned another $2.4 million, 6,400-square-foot home in Highland Park at the same time. From Sept. 2000 until Jan. 2001, Cash gave a whopping $204,433 to national Republican organizations, in addition to buying Cheney’s house, according to federal records.

http://www.opednews.com/thoreau_053104_george_lies.htm

[anarchy1999]

1. This deserves a kick back to the top. Even Editorials can't keep up....

There is so much coming at us all, from every direction......

Hang on everyone, we are in for a wild ride.

Jackson tells it better that anyone. He was in the nest of Dallas, Cheney, Halliburton, Belo, ClearChannel, Enron and all the rest. He is DEAD ON!

[nixonwasbetterthanW]

2. 12th Amendment actually says ...

... that an elector cannot vote for two people from the same state, but you can vote for one of them. So, assuming Cheney was still a Dallas resident, then among the Texas electors in 2000, they could have voted for Bush or Cheney but not both. If the Texans had all voted for Bush, then neither Cheney nor Lieberman would have received a majority of EVs, and the Senate would have then chosen the vice president.