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The Guardian on Paul O'Neill
A rebel Republican Sidney Blumenthal Thursday January 15, 2004 The Guardian One of the tacit operating assumptions of the Bush administration is that the checks and balances have been checked. But that implacable wall has been cracked by an insider's surprising confessions. The former treasury secretary Paul O'Neill, fired and forgotten, mild-mannered and grey, appears an unlikely dissident. He was, after all, the CEO of Alcoa, a pillar of the Republican establishment. More is involved with him than pride and pique. While O'Neill records slights and is dismissed by some as a dotty reject, he does more than tell a few tales in the book The Price of Loyalty. The attack on him, consistent with Bush efforts to intimidate anyone who challenges the official version, underscores the inherent fragility of Bush's public persona, upon which rests his popularity. Bush's greatest political asset is his image as a masterful commander in chief who happens to be a nice man. Alongside him, Dick Cheney is viewed as the sagacious Nestor. O'Neill's persuasiveness and the long-term damage he does to these icons comes from his years in the Nixon and Ford administrations and his first-hand critique of a government radically unlike any before, especially Republican ones. O'Neill's threat is to a president unusually dependent in an election campaign on fear and credibility to sustain a sense of power and inevitability. He sounds an alarm against an unfit president who lacks "credibility with his most senior officials", behind whom looms a dark "puppeteer", as O'Neill calls the vice-president, and a closed cabal. Invading Iraq was on the agenda of the first "principals" meeting of the National Security Council (NSC), of which O'Neill was a member, months before September 11, and relentlessly pushed. Regressive tax cuts creating massive deficits were implemented without economic justification as "the administration has managed to kill the whys at every turn". ( Read more... ) |
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Protesters push past barricades at King's tomb
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/me Protesters push past barricades at King's tomb The Associated Press Hundreds of people pushed past barricades set up by the Secret Service to protest President Bush's visit to the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr. on Thursday, which would have been the slain civil rights leader's 75th birthday. Beating drums and chanting "In 2004, Bush no more," about 300 people had marched in circles near the tomb, saying the president's stop there was merely a "photo op." "When I heard Bush was coming here I couldn't believe it. I was outraged and disgusted, and I just think it's a photo op. It's so transparent," said Kathy Nicholas, a flight attendant from Atlanta who said she had planned to visit the tomb before she learned of the president's visit. The protesters pushed toward the sidewalk across the street from King's tomb, abandoning a barricaded area that had been designated by the Secret Service several hundreds yards back. Some of the protesters held signs that displayed King's image and said "War is not the answer." Bush's visit to observe King birthday has upset some civil rights leaders, who say his politics and poor scheduling conflict with their plans to honor King. Critics also say Bush's policies on the Iraq war, affirmative action and social service funding conflict with the King legacy. Bush planned to lay wreath on King's grave before heading to a $2,000-a-head fund-raiser in downtown Atlanta. ( Read more... ) |
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Edward's portrait of me
 http://surrealism.50megs.com/portraitofa edward - elp@rjds.biz le_poulin took this photo of me on 12/28/2003 goto http://surrealism.50megs.com/portraitofa love chri s |
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Artparticiparty 1986
http://surrealism.50megs.com/art86p  16 images from an art party © KEELEY 1986. goto http://surrealism.50megs.com/art86p Chris |
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