http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/artic.../01/29/national1227EST0580.DTL&type=printable
[blockquote](01-29) 09:27 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
The Bush administration issued a veto threat Thursday against legislation introduced in Congress that would scale back key parts of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act.
In a letter to Senate leaders, Attorney General John Ashcroft said the changes contemplated by the Security and Freedom Ensured Act, or SAFE, would "undermine our ongoing campaign to detect and prevent catastrophic terrorist attacks."
If the bill reaches President Bush's desk in its current form, Ashcroft said, "the president's senior advisers will recommend that it be vetoed."
The threat comes a week after Bush, in his State of the Union address, called for Congress to reauthorize the Patriot Act before it expires in 2005.[/blockquote]
I haven't figured out what to do this November. Nice to see the Bush administration starting out the year with two major blunders that have virtually convinced me to vote Libertarian.
First was the Moon/Mars plan fiasco. The moon is primarily useful for He-3, not for "experience" or for a launch site that can be used to travel or maintain a "base" on Mars. Anyone who's read any of Zubrin's The Case for Mars knows that there's no necessity or significant advantage to launching Mars missions from the moon. What we need to get to Mars is motivation, not a moon base. And the timescale and vagueness of the plan is such that it's clearly just an election-season ploy.
Now this. Bush is threatening a veto of any reduction in strength of the PATRIOT Act.
Combine this with his promise to sign the AWB if Congress passes it, and I'm fresh out of reasons to vote for him. He hasn't done anything to reduce Social Security payouts, balance the budget, or anything else particularly useful. About the only useful thing he's done is stand up to the UN and depose Saddam. That's done.
His grammar stinks. His advisors... well, I haven't heard much about Colin Powell since last Spring; Condi Rice got put in a bad situation and she's paying for it politically. Rumsfeld is seen as an instrument of Satan by most of the Left. And let's not forget Dick "Death's Door" Cheney... not really an advisor, but has stayed behind the scenes for the most part.
Why vote for Bush in November?
[blockquote](01-29) 09:27 PST WASHINGTON (AP) --
The Bush administration issued a veto threat Thursday against legislation introduced in Congress that would scale back key parts of the anti-terrorism Patriot Act.
In a letter to Senate leaders, Attorney General John Ashcroft said the changes contemplated by the Security and Freedom Ensured Act, or SAFE, would "undermine our ongoing campaign to detect and prevent catastrophic terrorist attacks."
If the bill reaches President Bush's desk in its current form, Ashcroft said, "the president's senior advisers will recommend that it be vetoed."
The threat comes a week after Bush, in his State of the Union address, called for Congress to reauthorize the Patriot Act before it expires in 2005.[/blockquote]
I haven't figured out what to do this November. Nice to see the Bush administration starting out the year with two major blunders that have virtually convinced me to vote Libertarian.
First was the Moon/Mars plan fiasco. The moon is primarily useful for He-3, not for "experience" or for a launch site that can be used to travel or maintain a "base" on Mars. Anyone who's read any of Zubrin's The Case for Mars knows that there's no necessity or significant advantage to launching Mars missions from the moon. What we need to get to Mars is motivation, not a moon base. And the timescale and vagueness of the plan is such that it's clearly just an election-season ploy.
Now this. Bush is threatening a veto of any reduction in strength of the PATRIOT Act.
Combine this with his promise to sign the AWB if Congress passes it, and I'm fresh out of reasons to vote for him. He hasn't done anything to reduce Social Security payouts, balance the budget, or anything else particularly useful. About the only useful thing he's done is stand up to the UN and depose Saddam. That's done.
His grammar stinks. His advisors... well, I haven't heard much about Colin Powell since last Spring; Condi Rice got put in a bad situation and she's paying for it politically. Rumsfeld is seen as an instrument of Satan by most of the Left. And let's not forget Dick "Death's Door" Cheney... not really an advisor, but has stayed behind the scenes for the most part.
Why vote for Bush in November?
