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Cap Times On Dube: She would come to the department with no previous experience in government service, health care or human services -- a distinction that separates her from all of her predecessors at the department over the past 25 years, according to department officials.
Palmeri on Dube: Hey, if the Oshkosh Common Council could hire as a City Manager someone who's not qualified for the position, why can't Scotty do the same with his cabinet hiring? I mean c'mon, the Health and Family Services department only has an annual budget of $4.6 billion and 6,800 employees. I'm sure Scotty learned from Tommy over the last 14 years that before all else, government appointees MUST KNOW HOW TO WRITE OUT CHECKS. Dube passed that test with flying colors!
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From a Friday , October 6 editorial in the Appleton Post-Crescent: "The calm, reasoned approaches of Democrat Joe Lieberman and Republican Dick Cheney in Thursday night's vice presidential debate was a stark contrast to the abrasive, head-butting debate between their running mates earlier this week. It was refreshing to see intelligent adults have an honest disagreement about issues without resorting to name-calling, finger-pointing and immature responses. Are the right guys in the right places on these tickets?"
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Wouldn't it have been a better discussion with Winona LaDuke there? Are we to believe that Dick Cheney and Joe Lieberman represent the true spectrum of views that exist in this country as regards gay rights, racial profiling, and the pentagon--three issues raised by Bernie Shaw? We are not allowed to hear from even one "peace dividend" candidate this year? Do you realize that we are in the year 2000 and ALL FOUR of the of the major party candidates for president and vice-president support the death penalty? Why are the majority of editorial boards in this country not speaking out on the utter charade represented by the commission debates? Shame on them. --Tony Palmeri
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John Nichols: But even as Gore hit the campaign trail with a "give 'em hell" stump speech that borrowed the old Roosevelt, Truman, and Ralph Nader critique of economic royalism, Lieberman was busily assuring a Wall Street Journal reporter that Gore's attacks on corporations were just "rhetorical flourishes." The ticket is "pro-business," he declared, adding, "Political rallies tend not to be places for extremely thoughtful argument." |
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(Broward County Canvassing Board Member Inspects Ballot)
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From Amazon.Com's review of old-time Democrat David Schippers' account of the impeachment travesty: While no one came out of the Monica Lewinsky scandal looking good, David Schippers, the chief investigative counsel for the Clinton impeachment, wants to be sure Americans know just who contributed to the debacle and how. A trial attorney and a Democrat, Schippers was hired by Republican congressman Henry Hyde to lead an oversight investigation of the Justice Department, then was redirected to handle the impeachment. The quintessential honest man, Schippers was shocked, not so much by Clinton's actions (which he calls a far-reaching conspiracy to obstruct justice with perjury, lies, and witness tampering), but by Republican and Democratic politicians who sold out the impeachment process. "If you ever want to vote again, you might not want to know what went on behind the scenes in the Capitol Hill meat grinder leading up to and during the impeachment proceedings against William Jefferson Clinton.... Lies, cowardice, hypocrisy, cynicism, amorality, butt-covering--these were the squalid political body parts that, squeezed through the political processor, combined to make a mockery of the impeachment process."--David Schippers |
These Are The Progressive Candidates? Can you say PMRC?
Death Penalty? Welfare "Reform"? IMF? WTO? NAFTA? GATT? Fast Track?
Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Aid To Columbia's Military? Increase Pentagon
Spending? Permanent trade relations with China? Continue Iraqi Sanctions?
Even if the Republicans lose the election, they sure have won the issue
debate. And we wonder why voter turnout may be the lowest on record?--
