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...Pique Leading Republican politicians reacted angrily after the country lost its seat on the U.N. Human Rights Commission. "It is an affront to the whole notion of human rights," said Dick Armey, majority leader of the House of Representatives. Their ire increased when the U.S. lost its seat on another important committee, the 13-member International Narcotics Control Board. The House voted to withhold payment of $244 million in back dues the U.S. owes to the U.N. unless the country is reinstated to the human rights panel when seats are next contested...
...creeping fear of unaffordable power has President George W. Bush looking for a backup policy generator as he prepares to unveil an energy program this week that is very fossil-fuel friendly--and simpatico with his and Vice President Dick Cheney's long ties to Big Oil. Bush says his policy, which stresses greater production over conservation, is a long-term solution...
...While we remember the Saturday Night Live version of Carter's efforts, polls at the time showed that people responded well. Lots of other problems contributed to the Carter malaise and his subsequent re-election loss. But the image persists of that presidential appeal not being presidential. Just ask Dick Cheney next winter. Real men don't turn down the thermostat...
...been talking about his own White House. The much-vaunted discipline and collegiality that have defined the Bush operation since Inauguration Day have been breaking down in recent weeks over the marketing of the energy plan. The trouble started in Toronto at the end of April, when Vice President Dick Cheney, whose task force drew up the plan, delivered a speech in which he seemed to mock conservation as a means of dealing with energy shortages. The attempt was to lay out the dire reality; the effect was to just sound dour. One sentence in particular - "conservation...
...been sharp enough to practically guarantee bipartisan support for at least the spirit of his supply-side solution by bringing in Big Labor for a nice chat about all those jobs out on the pipelines and up on the transmission towers. And while Dick Cheney may not be progressive enough about energy for some people's tastes, no one can accuse him of not knowing anything about the subject...