In a message dated 8/3/2004 1:05:33 AM Eastern Daylight Time, writeforu2@xxxxxxxxxxx writes: Eric, with your "if," you seem to be trying to exonerate our fearless leader of all his sins: his lying, his taking from the poor and giving to the rich, his lying, his support for big big industry against the public interest, his lying, his successful attempts at calling those who disagree with him anti-American, his lying, etc. Not exonerate Bush, merely hone the field of criticism. Makes sense to use a laser guided bomb on some policies and directives rather than drop daisy cutters all over the place. Conversely, a lot of Bush's anti-Robin Hood tax policies and trashed environmental standards could only become reality with a GOP-controlled Congress. Daisy cutter time. Scrooge may have outsourced Bob Cratchett's job, but it was Jacob Marley who forced Cratchett either to train his own replacement or leave Tiny Tim without medical coverage. ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html