Honor and dignity? Try graft and sleaze is what siezed the White House

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

This article is over 2 years old but still fits this
corrupt Bush White House of crooks even more today

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SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
June 15, 2001


Honor and dignity? Try graft and sleaze


WASN'T this supposed to be the team that brought "honor and dignity" back to the White House? Now that the honeymoon is over and the country ............., the sleaze is piling up pretty fast.

The latest sordid tale concerns Karl Rove, President Bush's top political strategist and presumably a man who had something to do with Bush's honor-and-dignity campaign theme. Details emerged yesterday of a March meeting between Rove and top executives of Intel Corp., in which the execs pushed for approval of a merger between one of their U.S. suppliers and a Dutch company.

...skip.....The Rove flap comes on the heels of a recent story by Salon.com about Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, who may have made millions in the last few months from White House-initiated increases in the value of his Alcoa stock.

O'Neill.... publicly promised in late March that he would divest himself of the stock to avoid potential conflicts of interest......Shortly after O'Neill's high-minded promise, the U.S. Department of Energy directed several western aluminum suppliers to halt production to conserve energy. ...........There was only one problem: O'Neill never got rid of the stock, despite his public promise. As a result, he may have made as much as $60 million from Alcoa's increased market value.

In both cases, top White House officials stood to add to their private wealth by virtue of their connection to public policy-making.

Honor and dignity? Sounds more like a bunch of rich guys -- just getting richer.


http://www.examiner.com/sfx/templates/printer.jsp?story=OPeditorial0615

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1. The article's two years old, but . . .

It's still all about a bunch of rich guys just getting richer.

Make this a campaign point Democrats, boost voter turnout, and you can start getting ready to re-take the congressional majority and the White House.

[Karenina]

2. Meine ficken Fresse.

Was soll man sagen?

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3. <Blank stare> Uhhhhhhh . . .

Sure.