-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- BOZO BUSH PART OF CLOWNISH TEXAS LEGAL SYSTEM This morning Tim Russert interviewed Dubya here in Austin. Perhaps Bush's most outrageous statement had to do with the Texas system of justice. Russert asked him if he would be willing to consider halting executions in light of the Illinois decision to do so because the guilt of those being executed was sometimes in question. Bush gave his usual arrogant answer--there was no doubt in his mind that everyone executed was guilty, so let the killings continue. Russert asked Bush how he could be so sure, since many Texans have questioned the justice system in Texas. In fact, Russert went on, both houses of the Texas legislature had passed a bill in the last session, tightening up the justice system for the poor who are unable to get anything other than state legal representation. Yet, Bush vetoed the bill when it came to his desk and Russert wanted to know why. Bush said he didn't remember vetoing the bill, although he did so last June. A commercial break gave Karen Hughes or Karl Rove time to remind Bush of the veto, and during his next answer Bush rapidly mumbled a one sentence explanation that made no sense. Given the week of debates Bush's veto caused, both in Texas and throughout the nation, we marvel at the man's ability to turn one of the most serious concerns of a civilized society into just one more politicized answer, ending it with a smirk. Here's what Bush seems to have forgotten in less than a year. "In recent years the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals has upheld death sentences in at least three cases in which the defense lawyers slept during trial. The trial judge in one case reasoned that while the Constitution requires that a defendant be represented by a lawyer, it 'doesn't say the lawyer has to be awake,' " writes "Stephen Bright, the director of the Southern Center for Human Rights, an Atlanta-based organization that has provided extensive help to defendants in capital cases." In the 6/24/99 New York Times, Bob Herbert calls the justice system in Texas "clownish" because of its abysmal quality of legal representation," making our Governor Bush the head Bozo because he has, once again, bought into the system by vetoing a bill that would have given defendants some relief from the abysmally poor quality of justice dispensed in Texas. Continued here. -- Politex, 2/13/00 "Though the Vietnam War was raging while Bush was at Yale, he took no part in protests or even discussions. In his autobiography Bush gives the classic "hawk" explanation used by conservatives who managed to avoid fighting in the war: "We could not explain the mission, had no exit strategy, and did not seem to be fighting to win." If those three missing conditions had been met, we may presume that Bush would have been trudging through the boonies along with Pat Buchanan, Newt Gingrich, Phil Gramm, Dan Quayle, Rush Limbaugh, and the rest of that blowhard army that shunned service in Vietnam because the war was not being fought hard enough. "But Bush was not without political passion during the turbulent Vietnam years. Minutaglio reports the following account from one of Bush's fraternity brothers: "As he was standing shoulder to shoulder with him at the bar, Bush began railing about how the nation's oil men were being strangled by some suggested tax-break variances in the oil-depletion allowance. The college fraternity brother remembers him growing heated as he built his argument in defense of the oilmen in Texas." "Bush's oil career similarly paralleled his father's. His expertise was in raising money rather than in drilling for oil. Like his father, who was backed by his uncle Herbert Walker, the young George W. Bush used an uncle, Jonathan Bush, to assemble investors for his first ventures. Unlike his father, however, George W. Bush never found much oil. No matter; the domestic oil industry of the 1970s made much of its money by drilling holes in the tax code rather than in the ground. "His uncle Jonathan agreed that actually finding oil was not all that important. "In those days, it behooved you to drill," Jonathan Bush told Minutaglio. "You didn't have to do terribly well in order to do well because you got so many write-offs. So it was an attractive way to invest money and save taxes....Practically everything Bush touched in the oil business turned to ashes, yet he always emerged both unscathed and, according to Mitchell, oblivious. "George W. never seemed to acknowledge adequately the role of the carpetlayers in his life....His insecurities prevented him from giving credit where credit was due. "Given his lack of national political experience, Bush may be at the mercy of [his] advisers. He has gotten some of his stock responses down by rote, but in a television interview on January 23, as he answered a barrage of questions, he appeared completely confident—and deeply interested—in only one issue: a defense of the intangible-drilling cost tax deduction for investors in the oil industry." --Lars-Erik Nelson, Review of Four Bush Biographies FROM COMPASSIONATE CONSERVATIVE TO CALAMITOUS COMMUNICATOR Bush is doing a Bob Jones on Mac, and observers are disgusted. "The Bush campaign denies it is conducting push polling, a technique designed to spread negative information about an opponent in the guise of voter research, and leveled a similar charge against McCain. But there is mounting evidence that, after Bush's 18-point defeat in New Hampshire, his campaign, or at least those who support it, are resorting to a scorched- earth policy in South Carolina," comments David Grann in the lastest New Republic. [Forbes complained about Bush doing push polling during the last days of the Iowa caucus race, so this isn't the first time Bush has been accused of such activities.] "In Greenville, near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, several people told me that an endless stream of anonymous callers had phoned the local radio station asking about McCain's womanizing and questioning his war record. 'It's disgusting,' says Terry Haskins, the speaker pro tem of the South Carolina House and a McCain supporter. 'There were people on the radio saying, `How can Terry Haskins support a man who gave secrets to the enemy?' I've seen dirty politics, but I've never seen a rumor campaign like this. It's a vile attempt to destroy a man's reputation just to win an election, and I know it's organized because none of these rumors existed until the day after New Hampshire.' "When I visited Greenville's Bob Jones University, the ultra-fundamentalist college famous for banning interracial dating," writes Grann, "I encountered the campaign firsthand. As I sat in the administration office under the mounted head of a deer, Bob Taylor, the school's dean, who had helped coordinate Bush's recent visit to the school and had Bush bumper stickers stacked on his desk, told me he was worried about McCain's second wife's family values, among other things. What do you mean? I asked. He leaned forward, his voice dropping several notches. She owns, he confided, 'one of the biggest beer distributors' in the country, and he feared her family might have 'friendships among organized crime.' When I asked him for evidence, he leaned back in his chair and said, 'I don't have any firsthand knowledge, but that's just the kind of thing that's out there.' Such dirty politics comes out of the bag of tricks concocted by Lee Atwater, Poppy's political strategist and mentor of Karl Rove, who is Dubya's political strategist. "Atwater invented, for a whole generation of politicians and consultants, the art of modern political warfare. First as an aide to Senator Strom Thurmond and later as a consultant to Governor Carroll Campbell, he identified what he called "symbolic platforms"--the flag, family values, taxes--and painted his opponents, regardless of their ideology, as ultraliberals, as outsiders and transgressors of the Southern way of life. He helped label one congressional candidate a foreign-born Jew and said a Democrat who had suffered shock therapy as a 16-year-old had been 'hooked up to jumper cables.' 'I guarantee you I can get the negatives up on anyone,' Atwater boasted." This kind of ultra-negative politics is what Dubya has decided to practice in South Carloina. In yesterday's LAT, Doug Gamble, a former speech writer for both Reagan and Poppy Bush, has had it. "The person whose decisions led to the New Hampshire debacle, Bush guru Karl Rove, fancies himself another Lee Atwater, the now-deceased brilliant strategist behind the 1988 campaign of Bush the elder. The spinning Atwater is doing in his grave tops the campaign spin put out by Rove thus far....Bush is now on the attack in South Carolina, trying to persuade voters in the upcoming primary that McCain is actually the establishment [outsider], even though W has the endorsement of 44 senators and the party bosses....This outburst ends my 13-year association with the Bushes and will cost me friends. Yet more Republicans need to say out loud what they know inside: A nominee Bush would be crushed by Gore." 2/11/00 Texas Ranks Under Bush: 1st in Children without Health Insurance %... 1st in Toxic Air Releases... 1st in Smog Days (Houston)...1st in poorest counties(3)... 3rd in Hunger %... 5th in Highest Teen Birth Rate... 45th in Mothers Receiving Pre-Natal Care... 46th in Public Libraries and Branches... 46th in High School Completion Rate... 46th in Water Resources Protection...47th in Delivery of Social Services... 48th in Literacy... 48th in Per Capita Funding for Public Health... 48 in Best Place to Raise Children... 48th in Spending for Parks and Recreation... 48th in Spending for the Arts... 49th in Spending for the Environment... 50th in Teachers' Salaries plus Benefits...documentation welcome...comment...bulletin board to TODAY'S (FASTER LOADING) BUSH HEADLINES (See FAQ) including... BUSH'S A-G WANTS TO CREATE SECRET CORPORATE MONEY CONDUIT. 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