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...lock in permanent tax cuts for corporations and the wealthy, using the Sept. 11 attacks as an excuse.” And making sure to mock the pre-Sept. 11 agenda for good measure, Krugman offers the baffling claim that Bush’s plan to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil drilling had little or nothing to do with electricity generation, leaving us to assume that it was motivated by political considerations instead...
...Even in this post-attack world, Congress has time to attend to other business. It helps if you can make the case that your bill is related, however tangentially, to anti-terror measures; for instance, proponents of drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge have been trying to get their measure through by arguing that increasing the oil supply is a national security issue...
North Pole: The 1999 Arctic Regatta is slowly approaching its final leg. Skipper Bob “Iceman” McGillicuddy cites frozen water as “probably the main cause” of the languid pace. “We had no idea it would be this freakin’ cold,” he explained...
...shortcomings of Bush’s domestic policy limited to his poor economic planning in the wake of the terrorist attacks. What if the destruction of Sept. 11 had never happened? Bush would still be pushing to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. He would still be turning away from the U.N. and declining to sign treaties such as the Kyoto Protocol, the Small Arms Ban and the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty. The current crisis has limited Bush’s ability to go astray on other policy issues for now, but I’d wager that...
...used to by now, is selling his political agenda - the one that predated the slowdown - as an economic one. "Fast- track" trade authority would send a message to CEOs at home and trading partners abroad that new markets are on the way. The pro-production energy plan, including Arctic drilling, would of course create innumerable jobs and other economic goodies. And balancing the budget without using Social Security funds - the very reason he's been so cool to GOP plans for further economy-juicing tax cuts - is now touted as an economic stimulus...