Date:

02 May 2006

Time:

10:54:59

Comments

Take Back the Oil Companies

By Mike Whitney

2,400 American servicemen and 100,000 Iraqis have now sacrificed their lives on the altar of corporate profiteering. Bush has spread his energy war from Central Asia to the Middle East; increasing the incidents of terrorism by 4 fold. At the same time, the American middle class has been crushed by government malfeasance and diminishing civil liberties even though well-heeled oil moguls are raking in the largest profits in history.

Date:

02 May 2006

Time:

22:42:57

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Before you go on again about gas prices, please do a search for California Energy Comission gasoline price breakdown. See where the money goes for every dollar of gas. Most, over half is related to the price of crude. Taxes take up three times the money compared to corporate profits. Hard to believe, but companies are in business to make money. Still, big oil makes less profit than most other companies, so why do you continue to harp on them? Could it be that you are uninformed? Please prove me wrong.

You are also harping on GI deaths. When has your side ever cared about the military except when it suits your agenda. You are the ones that have pushed to weaken our armed forces, the ones that have denied it the necessary funds, etc. Yet, when the sh*t hits the fan, you are the first to holler that not enough has been spent. Hypocrisy, I hear your name echoing through this board resoundingly, you are prejudice with a halo. You also never addressed the earlier post about the number of deaths by presidencies, because it does not fit your agenda nor your preconcieved views. Hypocrisy.....

Date:

04 May 2006

Time:

12:53:48

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George W. Bush---An American Hitler

In George W. Bush's petty, pathetic, partisan world, laws he doesn't agree with don't have to be obeyed, Congressional actions that differ from his political agenda can be ignored and the Constitution of the United States is just a "goddamned piece of paper." (Bush's own words)

Date:

04 May 2006

Time:

14:12:58

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Bush is a goddam Hitler what is going on in Iraq is like another holocost. He dont care about our rights he is doing it for the oil copanys and now I have to pay 3 bucks for a gallon for gas. They were going to send me 100 bucks but they dint do it. I could use the money ensted of them spending it on the war.

Date:

06 May 2006

Time:

05:10:52

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Patrick Kennedy has admitted himself to a rehab clinic. Let us wish him a full recovery, I have witnessed a close family member suffer with the same affliction and it is a heartbreaker.

That said, what do liberals feel he should do now? Should he resign? Should he be prosecuted? Has he lost all credibility? Once you have answered those questions, can you honestly say how you felt when Rush Limbaugh had to check himself in for the same problem? The MSM, liberals, and the Democratic establishment will give Mr Kennedy a pass. We nevertheless have to wonder if this incident is the result of a genetic predisposition, and we have to be thankful that he was alone in the car and that there was not a bridge along his route.

Date:

07 May 2006

Time:

05:58:48

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State after State Repudiates Bush The collapse in public support for George W. Bush is extending across the United States, even reaching into staunchly Republican areas, according to new state-by-state polls. Bush is now viewed unfavorably in 43 out of 50 states, including double-digit net negatives in South Carolina, Indiana, Virginia, Tennessee and his home state of Texas. March 23, 2006

Date:

07 May 2006

Time:

18:32:41

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Good thing he's not running for re election next time.

He's already whipped the liberas butts twice.

Date:

07 May 2006

Time:

18:35:51

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Funny,

Unlike the liberal rants against Rush Limbaugh, I haven't heard conservatives whining about Kennedy's illegal drug use and driving activities.

Was he alone? Maybe we should drag the Potomac or the relecting pool. It could be some kind of cover up.

Date:

07 May 2006

Time:

21:11:03

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I have heard from psychologists that the capitol police did not do Mr Kennedy any favors by giving him a pass. In his speech he still came across as thinking of himself a victim of circumstances, no admission of guilt whatsoever, he is in spin cycle full blast. He still has not sincerely accepted the fact of his addiction. He should have spent the night in the drunk tank, to maybe realize he has hit bottom and needs to straighten out. Hell, if Bush can recover from his addiction, even with liberals tormenting him about it perpetually, I would hope Kennedy can. I bet the libs will leave him alone if he does kick the habit, unlike their persistent harping against Bush's or Limbaugh's past addictions.

On a more sinister note, what is going on with our imperial elected officials? Kennedy drives under the influence, wrecks his and another car as well as public property, and gets the police to give him a ride home. Cynthia McKinney slugs a cop and so far nothing has happened. Both display arogance when humility would be far more becoming. What do you think would have happened if it had been one of us, one of the mass of unelected peons? Is it just Democrats who get away with it? I don't think so but the recent examples would make me wonder, were I one to fall for conspiracy theories.

Levi

Date:

08 May 2006

Time:

18:16:39

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Whoever is rejoicing about the President's low poll numbers might want to look more deeply into the numbers. I doubt if many Democrats have changed their opinions of him. I would wager that the drop in popular opinion would probably be due to Bush abandoning conservative principles and behaving like a Democrat. The loss of popularity is probably most pronounced among the conservative base. It is noteworthy that opinion of Congress is even lower. It may be read as a condemnation of old time spending like a drunken sailor, regulating like a central government proponent, an generally governing like a big time liberal.

Date:

09 May 2006

Time:

06:07:07

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Life in the Bush Economy-- Fat, Drunk and Broke

A Nation of Waitresses and Bartenders

By Paul Craig Roberts

Social Security and Medicare are in financial trouble, as are many company pension plans. Decide for yourself--is this the economic picture of a superpower that can dictate to the world, or is it the picture of a second-rate country dependent on foreigners to finance its consumption and the operation of its government?

Date:

09 May 2006

Time:

06:15:23

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This focus on money and power may do wonders in the marketplace, but it creates a tremendous crisis in our society. People who have spent all day learning how to sell themselves and to manipulate others are in no position to form lasting friendships or intimate relationships... Many Americans hunger for a different kind of society -- one based on principles of caring, ethical and spiritual sensitivity, and communal solidarity. Their need for meaning is just as intense as their need for economic security. -- Michael Lerner

Date:

09 May 2006

Time:

16:07:03

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During the Clinton years, network journalists argued (correctly) that strong economic growth, a rising stock market, low unemployment and low inflation were the benchmark indicators of a good economy. Today, economic growth is a phenomenal 4.8 percent, the stock market has been climbing for three straight years, and inflation and unemployment are both low. Lerner and the feelgood americans long for the good old touchy-feely hippy days of yore. We have seen your future and it does not work. I will settle for today's riches over the pie in the sky ideals your side tries to ruin the country with.

Date:

09 May 2006

Time:

16:12:55

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Social Security and Medicare are in financial trouble, as are many company pension plans. Indeed. So now you freely admit that the socialism of the first two is failing, and Bush is no doubt at fault. His ownership society would have shown a way out, but you poopooed it to death. Union extortion, another leftover from the worker's paradise ideals, has brought many companies to where in fact they cannot afford to stay in business, much less pay for retirees. All this, decades in the making, must also be Bush's fault!!

Date:

10 May 2006

Time:

04:41:29

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The fact that illegal immigrants pay taxes at all will come as news to many Americans. A stunning two-thirds of illegal immigrants pay Medicare, Social Security and personal income taxes. Yet nativists like Congressman Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., have popularized the notion that illegal aliens are a colossal drain on the nation's hospitals, schools and welfare programs - consuming services that they don't pay for,

Date:

10 May 2006

Time:

05:14:42

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I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Date:

10 May 2006

Time:

07:11:00

Date:

12 May 2006

Time:

15:28:07

Date:

17 May 2006

Time:

05:56:42

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Robert B. Reich - The $70 Billion Tax Cut

Irresponsible and Obscene Robert Reich writes, "The rich are now paying a smaller percentage of their income in taxes than at any time in the last seventy-five years. That they pay a lot of taxes nonetheless is a by-product of the mind-boggling increase in their income and wealth relative to most other Americans.... Middle-income workers are now paying a larger share of their incomes than people at or near the top. We have turned the principle of a graduated, progressive tax on its head."

Date:

18 May 2006

Time:

06:36:45

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Dick Meyer, editorial director of CBSNews.com, says--

"Short of another disaster on the scale of 9/11, George Bush no longer has the power, credibility or ability to effectively govern for the rest of his term in office."

Date:

18 May 2006

Time:

08:02:46

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This is lovely. Two FISA judges were "informed" that the NSA was going to be collecting all of our phone records, per Orrin Hatch.

Two judges on the secretive court that approves warrants for intelligence surveillance were told of the broad monitoring programs that have raised recent controversy, a Republican senator said Tuesday, connecting a court to knowledge of the collecting of millions of phone records for the first time....

Asked if the judges somehow approved the operations, Hatch said, "That is not their position, but they were informed."

Oh, well, if judges were "informed" that we were going to begin mass illegal spying on American citizens, then that makes it constitutional and legal. Silly me, I thought judges were the ones who decided such things.

Carolyn Kay

Date:

18 May 2006

Time:

16:43:37

Comments

Morale is slipping in Iraq. Fighters are growing doubtful of success. A comprehensive strategy for winning the conflict is nonexistent.

Is this an assessment of the U.S. military? No, it is an assessment about the insurgents who oppose the elected Iraqi government. While U.S. opinion polls show a growing number of Americans are pessimistic about the prosecution of the war, documents authored by an al-Qaida operative and seized by U.S. soldiers during an April 16 raid in the Yusufiyah area (12 miles south of Baghdad) offer hope to the American side that success may be closer than we think.

I am curious how the equivalent of this board would have been accepted during the korean war or during WWII.

Date:

18 May 2006

Time:

16:51:58

Comments

This administration is secretive, breaks the law and spies on citizens. The past administration had Hillary illegally meeting her health care task force in secret, gathering FBI files on the opposition, firing the Travel Office to reward her cronies, hiding the Rose Law Firms records in violation of A COURT SUBPOENA, selling off overnight stays at the white house for big donors, and covering for her lying husband, etc. I bet I could guess who your candidate of choise would be in two years, the same genius who made a mint on cattle futures. It is time to bring honesty back to the Presidency.

Date:

19 May 2006

Time:

05:32:14

Comments

Bush Is Certifiable

George W. Bush is suffering from a peculiar but not that uncommon form of madness.

By Paul Levy

Bush literally feels himself above human morality, as he is under the self-generating delusion that he is the supreme moral arbiter, not realizing in the slightest that he has fallen into his unconscious, whose dark side he is acting out. Because of his pathological condition, he is the last person who should be the judge of morality, the very last person on earth choosing justices for the Supreme Court.

Date:

20 May 2006

Time:

14:47:17

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The Madness Of George W. Bush - George W. Bush is ill.

He has a psycho-spiritual dis-ease of the soul, a sickness that is endemic to our culture and symptomatic of the times we live in. It's an illness that has been with us since time immemorial. Because it's an illness that's in the soul of all of humanity, it pervades the field and is in all of us in potential at any moment, which makes it especially hard to diagnose

Date:

20 May 2006

Time:

14:47:57

Comments

Whatever the merits of the immigration debate, we're having it for one reason. George Bush's approval rating is at 29% and the Republicans are afraid they're going to lose control of the Congress in the fall elections.

The Republicans are afraid that they've milked gay-bashing for all they can, and even though they're going to AGAIN vote next month on an amendment to the US Constitution to make gays second class citizens, they've tried that trick before and apparently it just isn't getting them the political mileage it once did.

So what's a Republican to do who has no issues to run on, no real ideas to help the country move forward, nothing to address the real problems facing America from gas prices to the war in Iraq?

Date:

22 May 2006

Time:

09:59:10

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I bet half of you cheered when Daniel Berg was being beheaded by the freedom fighters oppresssed by the U.S.A. The only reason the other half did not cheer is that they were too busy jacking off.

Date:

23 May 2006

Time:

11:30:21

Comments

Jonathan Chait

The right discovers Bush's 'honesty' Conservatives are finally getting a taste of his misleading rhetoric.

May 21, 2006

IT APPEARS that the scales have fallen from David Frum's eyes. The former Bush speechwriter, and current National Review writer, once had faith in the basic decency and honesty of George W. Bush. But now the president he once served so loyally, and whose honesty he once found above reproach, has done something utterly uncharacteristic. He has presented his policies in a misleading light.

No! you say. This can't be true! But it is. Allow me to quote Frum, "Putting the [National] Guard on the border is a symbolic act.. But I am afraid that in this case the symbolism is manipulative and deceptive."

Deceptive? Bush? He must have the wrong guy. Just a couple of years ago, Frum wrote, "I've always thought it strange that so many on the left have chosen to make an issue of President Bush's honesty. The president is, if anything, almost excessively direct and self-endangeringly truthful."

It's funny. I remember when Bush insisted that he wanted to bring the parties together to pass a patients' bill of rights, even as he arm-twisted Republicans who favored such a bill into renouncing it. I remember when he insisted that lower-income workers reaped the biggest share of his tax cuts. I remember when he presented his stem cell position as a way to dramatically expand research opportunities. One could say that misleading rhetoric was the hallmark of Bush's political style. But if you said that two years ago, you were a rabid Bush-hater.

Date:

23 May 2006

Time:

17:23:22

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You are finally catching on why Bush is unpopular, and it is because he is leading like a liberal Democrat. We want a conservative a la Reagan, and we get a RINO. Does it surprise you that Congress is even more unpopular? Do you catch on that the ideals put forth in this blog are the unpopular ones? Keep spouting your anti-war, big government, income-redistribution taxing, socialist antiamerican message and get America to wake up and stand up to you! I for one hope we will get a real conservative finally elected!

Date:

23 May 2006

Time:

17:28:34

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Just to refresh our memory, from when we had honest Bill Wednesday, April 23, 1997

The Little Rock underground has Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr looking at close to $3.5 million worth of payments and comp received by Webb Hubbell during the period of time he spent between Justice and jail. The NEW YORK TIMES Jeff Gerth has estimated Hubbell's earnings that year at close to $400,000. The amount may actual be closer to ten times that amount.

A long-running government investigation appears to be closing in on former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, legal experts said Wednesday after an indictment was returned against Espy's former chief of staff. Experts agreed that with the indictment of Espy's close aide Ron Blackley on Tuesday, the first of Espy's former staff to be criminally charged with wrongdoingIndependent Counsel Donald Smaltz appears to be systematically weaving a tighter net around the former Clinton cabinet member.

Date:

24 May 2006

Time:

08:52:32

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George W. Bush and his right wing religious zealots have turned their back on the fruits and accomplishments of our academic system, shunned the university world as if it is some sort of plague upon religious belief. Bush is anti-reality, anti-reason and anti-science. His denial of the catastrophic effects of global warming is just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak. Throughout this administration, people have been appointed to the highest positions who simply discard science and reason as a plight upon their absolute faith in literal Christian scripture.

As surely as the Taliban destroyed, a few years back, an internationally centuries-old image of Buddha sculpted into a mountain because it "defiled" Islam, the Busheviks blast away the Age of Enlightenment and Reason as exemplified by our incomparable college system.

The second backbone of American innovation has been the lone inventor, the common man or woman who created great things, given the climate of inquiry and freedom to break with tradition that was a hallmark of this nation before the Busheviks assumed power.

Now, we are led by a cabal of extremists who believe that all knowledge comes from the Bible. We are led by a Christian version of the Taliban.

Bush and his base of "Dominionists" and "Rapture" disciples have more in common with Islamic fundamentalists in terms of their view of scientific inquiry and the pursuit of reasoned discourse than we have with either of them. We, in reality, the believers in both a spiritual and enlightened world are the enemy of both groups.

It is our misfortune that a believer in one of these extremist viewpoints is sitting in the White House.

Date:

24 May 2006

Time:

22:45:41

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You accuse Bush of extremism! The pot is calling the kettle black, I say.

More memories: Thursday, April 24, 1997 A month ago I asked the question Did John Huang have access to Clipper? Clipper is a "secure" communication ciphering chip, secretly developed by the NSA (National Security Agency). The answer, provided by an FOIA against the Commerce Department, is yes. Four of the six documents on "Clipper" viewed by Mr. Huang were sent to me, three of them are now on display at the Softwar web page. However, two other documents were mysteriously with-held. These were to be reviewed by the "other" agencies which originally sent them. My ever-faithful Post Office has today delivered to me more evidence of John Huang's interest in secret computer chips. - Charles R. Smith

Satellite photos now reveal that a state-owned Chinese company deliberately deceived Washington officials in 1994 when it claimed it was importing American machine tools for civilian purposes. Instead, it diverted them illegally to a missile factory. The equipment came from Columbus, Ohio, where it had been used to produce the B-1 strategic bomber. The shipment included high-tech milling and measuring machines and a giant stretch press used for bending huge pieces of metal; all required export licenses from the Commerce Department..The satellite photos show that the factory was under construction even as the Chinese were promising Administration officials they would use the press at the Beijing machining center. - NYT

The FBI has obtained substantial evidence that "top" Chinese officials approved plans in 1995 to attempt to buy influence with American politicians, and that the scheme continued through the 1996 elections and is ongoing, Bob Woodward reports in Friday edition of the WASHINGTON POST. Secret communications between Beijing and the Chinese Embassy in Washington establish that the influence-buying plan was "government sanctioned," one official tells the paper. Incredibly, the Chinese are still trying to keep the scheme going, despite the (campaign finance) investigations in Congress and press attention, a second source tells Woodward.

Date:

25 May 2006

Time:

16:09:43

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How do you make gays second class citizens by defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman? If I would like to marry my sister, my mother, my daughter or my son, should that also be allowed, and if not, please tell me why. If you say I should not be allowed, have we made my relatives second class citizens? How about if I want to become a polygamist, or if I want to marry them all at once, is it OK? Can I marry my dog, or is that too sick? Is is OK to marry really weird creatures, like liberal Democrats? I wish someone would discuss things so we could have fun exploring your statements.

Date:

25 May 2006

Time:

16:16:52

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Can't help myself since you brought up that global warming fantasy again. On the first Earth Day the New York Times predicted "intolerable deterioration and possible extinction" for the human race as the result of pollution. Harvard biologist George Wald predicted that unless we took immediate action "civilization will end within 15 to 30 years," and environmental doomsayer Paul Ehrlich predicted that four billion people--including 65 million American--would perish from famine in the 1980s. You learn nothing from your idiotic predictions, and keep on keeping on. What warming there is turns out to be caused by solar radiation rather than human pollution. The Climate Change study concluded half the observed 20th century warming occurred before 1940 and cannot be attributed to human causes," and changes in solar radiation can "account for 71 percent of the variation in global surface air temperature from 1880 to 1993. Regarding Arctic temperature changes, the Study found the coastal stations in Greenland had actually experienced a cooling trend: The average summer air temperatures at the summit of the Greenland Ice Sheet, have decreased at the rate of 4 degrees F per decade since measurements began in 1987. Add in Russian and Alaskan temperature data and "Arctic air temperatures were warmest in the 1930s and near the coolest for the period of recorded observations (since at least 1920) in the late 1980s. Finally come the polar bears--a species thought by global warming proponents to be seriously at risk from the increasing temperature. According to the World Wildlife Fund, among the distinct polar bear populations, two are growing--and in areas where temperatures have risen; ten are stable; and two are decreasing. But those two are in areas such as Baffin Bay where air temperatures have actually fallen. But what is the difference, I am just confusing your quasi-religious opinions with facts.

Date:

27 May 2006

Time:

22:40:11

Comments

I realized I messed up. I was trying to draw a parallel with the present dates and inadvertently gave scandal history for april instead of May. So, to correct my errors:

Friday, May 23, 1997

The Democratic National Committee intends to reimburse a Cherokee tribe in Oklahoma after its chief was charged with diverting money to pay a DNC worker during last year's presidential election, the Washington Post reported Friday. Cherokee Nation Chief Joe Byrd has been charged in tribal court with illegally diverting tribal funds when he authorized the hiring of a Cherokee law clerk to work as part-time deputy coordinator of the American Indian Outreach Office at DNC's Washington headquarters. The clerk, Kimberly Teehee, was paid 23,420 dollars from July to December 1996, the newspaper said, quoting from court documents.

While in prison, Webster Hubbell kept in touch with his friends in the Clinton administration with regular telephone calls that were taped by prison officials and later turned over to Whitewater prosecutors, according to lawyers and others familiar with the investigation. Voices on the dozens of taped calls include those of then-Clinton administration official Mickey Kantor and current or former White House aides Marcia Scott, John Emerson and David Watkins, said the sources, speaking on condition of anonymity. Associated Press

The Buddhist temple that hosted a controversial political fundraiser last year that featured Vice President Al Gore, has privately reimbursed some of the donations made to the Democratic campaign, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The undeclared repayments, ranging from 2,200 to 5,000 dollars, came from about a dozen contributors, the paper said. Federal election law prohibits reimbursements of campaign contributions and requires disclosure of the true source of any funds. Reuter

Date:

29 May 2006

Time:

13:15:01

Comments

In a veiled attempt to undermine affirmative action for minorities, President Bush in 2003 assailed the University of Michigan's law school admissions policy as unconstitutional, charging the law school with giving minorities preferential treatment in reaching diversity targets for its incoming class.. This principle, however, doesn't seem to apply to President Bush or his administration.

Blake Gottesman, a.k.a. "Peanut", Special Assistant to the President and Personal Aide, is stepping down in August to attend Harvard Business School. It's a great accomplishment considering the school only admits 10% to 15% of its applicants. But to even be considered for admission, the school states firmly at the top of its qualifications, a prospective student "must have completed a degree program at an accredited U.S. four-year undergraduate college or university."

Peanut on the other hand, only attended college for one year, and never finished. He has, however, dated Jenna Bush, makes the President peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches, and dog-sits for Miss Beazley.

It is inconceivable President Bush did not lend a helping hand in getting Peanut and Julian Flannery accepted into HBS. Loyalty is this administration's affirmative action policy and loyalty to Bush seems to be Harvard's too.

- Sam Davis