[at-l] The Other MacKaye Vision

[Slyatpct at aol.com (Slyatpct@aol.com)]

Yup, sounds like the Bush administration in a nutshell.  Of course, I'm sure 
he had a lot of help from his Veep.  You have to laugh when asked to find a 
running mate, Cheney came back and said he's the best man!

Don't worry though, atleast we're all safe from Saddam and his scuds.

Sly

In a message dated 7/25/2005 7:05:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
Snodrog5@aol.com writes:

> >From Amazon:
> Book Description
> In this powerful and far-reaching indictment of George W. Bush's White 
> House, 
> Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., the country's most prominent environmental attorney, 
> 
> charges that this administration has taken corporate cronyism to such 
> unprecedented heights that it now threatens our health, our national 
> security, and 
> democracy as we know it. In a headlong pursuit of private profit and 
> personal 
> power, Kennedy writes, George Bush and his administration have eviscerated 
> the 
> laws that have protected our nation's air, water, public lands, and wildlife 
> for 
> the past thirty years, enriching the president's political contributors 
> while 
> lowering the quality of life for the rest of us.
> Kennedy lifts the veil on how the administration has orchestrated these 
> rollbacks almost entirely outside of public scrutiny -- and in tandem with 
> the very 
> industries that our laws are meant to regulate, the country's most notorious 
> 
> polluters. He writes of how it has deceived the public by manipulating and 
> suppressing scientific data, intimidated enforcement officials and other 
> civil 
> servants, and masked its agenda with Orwellian doublespeak. He reports on 
> how 
> the White House doles out lavish subsidies and tax breaks to the energy 
> barons 
> while excusing industry from providing adequate security at the more than 
> 15,000 chemical and nuclear facilities that are prime targets for terrorist 
> attacks. Kennedy reveals an administration whose policies have "squandered 
> our 
> Treasury, entangled us in foreign wars, diminished our international 
> prestige, made 
> us a target for terrorist attacks, and increased our reliance on petty 
> Middle 
> Eastern dictators who despise democracy and are hated by their own people."
> Crimes Against Nature is ultimately about the corrosive effect of corporate 
> corruption on our core American values -- free-market capitalism and 
> democracy. 
> It is about an administration, the author argues, that has sacrificed 
> respect 
> for the law, public health, scientific integrity, and long-term economic 
> vitality on the altar of corporate greed. It is a book for both Democrats 
> and 
> Republicans, people like the traditionally conservative farmers and 
> fishermen 
> Kennedy represents in lawsuits against polluters. "Without exception," he 
> writes, 
> "these people see the current administration as the greatest threat not just 
> 
> to their livelihoods but to their values, their sense of community, and 
> their 
> idea of what it means to be American."