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House Sets Campaign Finance Reform Vote 2/6 FROM THE SAY-WHAT-DEPARTMENT: Bush Aides Say Deficits Won't Hurt Economy 2/6 Bush's "Benefit the Rich" Stimulus Bill Dead. Daschle Says Votes Just Aren't There. 2/6 Oh My Lord, Some Republican Senators Actually Criticize Bush Foreign Policy Rhetoric! Will Wonders Never Cease! 2/6 BUZZFLASH.COM IS NOW OFFERING "GRAND THEFT 2000: MEDIA SPECTACLE AND A STOLEN ELECTION." THE COVER OF THE BOOK IS WORTH THE PRICE OF THE CONTRIBUTION ALONE! Get News Fast! Sign up for BuzzFlash Alerts, the fastest and easiest way to keep abreast of breaking news and commentary (see bottom of the right column). Click here for the latest alert. The Pentagon Spending Spree 2/6 An Orgy of Defense Spending: Bush's 'Axis of Evil' Rhetoric Fabricates a Need 2/6 Conn. state board votes to subpoena Andersen records 2/6 "Oh, I know the news media likes to say, 'Where's ol' Osama bin Laden?' He's not the issue," Bush said on a trip one day after he released his 2003 budget plan." George, You Made Him the Issue, Remember? 2/6 'Victims Of Enron’s Lies' 2/6 America's Shooting Gallery: Man shot at Mobile Register 2/6 Bloomberg Wants to Sell Corporate Naming Rights to New York Parks 2/6 FOLLOW THE OIL: "A delegation from the Bush administration is in Colombia for meetings with the country's president as Washington considers expanding military aid by $98 million to help protect an oil pipeline from guerrilla violence." 2/6 DID ENRON STEAL FROM EMPLOYEES? DID THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION TIP ENRON OFF ON INTERVIEWS WITH WHISTLE BLOWER? 2/5 BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Enron, Part III: Enron Supported Both Sides (Except the Democrats) 2/5 "Two women have now come forward with credible accounts of domestic violence at the hands of Frederick Heebe, George Bush's nominee to serve as the U.S. Attorney in New Orleans" 2/6 The February 5th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American The State of the Union 2002, An Editorial Cartoon 2/6 Powell, in a Possible Shift, Calls U.S. Willing to Sign Nuclear Pact 2/6 Jeb's Lieutenant Governor Says "Teachers Don't Know the Truth" 2/6 John Walker Lindh Gets Hit With a 10-Count Indictment 2/6 KEN LAY IS MISSING. MAYBE HE'S HIDING OUT WITH DICK CHENEY. AFTER ALL, THE WHITE HOUSE DOESN'T WANT "KENNY BOY" SINGING LIKE A CANARY. STAY TUNED. The predictable awfulness of the Bush Republicans 2/6 Molly Ivins: Going for Broke 2/6 O'Neill for tax cuts over balanced budget 2/6 Support Independent News Sources! Will Enron Prove to be a Hidden Gift to the Bush Administration? Interesting Theory. 2/6 Andersen Under Fire in Arizona 2/6 "Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan, the ranking Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, plans to ask Karl Rove, President Bush's chief political adviser, to provide any information that would link Bush campaign officials to Enron" 2/6 "The administration's new motto seems to be "Leave no defense contractor behind," by Paul Krugman. 2/5 Pension Chiefs Want Head of the S.E.C. to Withdraw 2/6 Astros Want to Drop Enron from Enron Field 2/6 SENATOR HOLLINGS CALLS FOR A SPECIAL ENRON PROSECUTOR: "WE'VE GOT AN ENRON GOVERNMENT" White House Eats His "Money Grubbing" Words About NYC 2/6 Like His Paid-for Man Bush, Ken Lay Can't Accept Responsiblity 2/6 RECEIVE "TALIBAN: Militant Islam, Oil & Fundamentalism in Central Asia" With a $30 Voluntary Subscription to BuzzFlash.com. Yale University Press, #1 on the NEW YORK TIMES Bestseller List (Paperback Nonfiction) Former Enron Chief Kenneth Lay Appears to Have Substantial Assets at His Disposal 2/5 Republicans Object to Aid to Displaced Workers in Trade Bill 2/6 Davos on the Hudson: Day Three 2/6 The Big Dog Was the Top Draw in NYC: Bush Squandered Potential Deal with North Korea, Clinton Implies 2/5 Pakistani Police Detain Two in Hunt for U.S. Reporter 2/6 What Is Dick Cheney Afraid Of? 2/6 Not Conservative Enough? Watch Out! Minnesota Republican activist aims to 'expose' false conservatives 2/6 Rosa Parks honored in Detroit Ceremony 2/6 Arthur Andersen’s Contract to Audit FBI Unaffected by Mounting Evidence of Criminal Activity 2/6	Iran Moves to Ease Tension with U.S. 2/6 "Bush administration officials say that helping former welfare recipients move into higher-paying jobs is a top priority, though the president's budget has no money dedicated to the effort." 2/6 John Dean Reviews Political Books: "If Kellner [author of Grand Theft 2000] is correct, Enron may prove a calamity for George Bush." We are Offfering "Grand Theft 2000" on BuzzFlash.com (see Link near top of first column) 1/31 Rove Asked to Itemize Enron Contacts and the White House Spins up Some Gibberish 2/6 Ken Lay leaves California in the dark -- again, by Barbara Boxer 2/6 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Bush Scrubbers 2/6 REPOST: When Dubya and Lay were As CloseAsThis 2/6 Bush Hides From Accountability While Promoting It 2/6 Senate Committee to Subpoena Lay 2/6 A no-questions-asked war: Bush can’t fight for justice and human dignity while ignoring them 2/6 Why Bush spent $3,200,000 of our tax dollars on Super Bowl propaganda 2/6 Bush's 'stimulus' comes down to arms 2/6 Democrats Criticize Bush on Budget 2/6 LEARN MORE ABOUT THE U.S GERM WARFARE PROGRAM. Contribute to BuzzFlash.com and receive the #1 Bestseller: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War: Germs. No bank would make loans like these 2/6 John Walker Lindh's Attorneys Seeks His Release 2/6 Did this man predict Sept. 11? Strange story of a jailed spy unfolds in Toronto court 2/6 Big crimes? Maybe. Big punishment? Not likely. 2/6 Bushwhacked: $5B Slashed From Pledged WTC Aid 2/6 "Although Mr Bush campaigned on the promise that he would force the Pentagon to make "hard choices" in its weapons programme, it now seems he has given the military a blank cheque to have it all." 2/6 UN Fears Bush 2003 Budget May Reduce Food Aid 2/6 Grand Jury Indicts Lindh on 10 Counts 2/6 Pitt's Accounting Fix Leaves a Lot Broke 2/6 End the Offshore Money-Go-Round 2/6 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! "One whisper of the magic economic word “recovery” and all serious talk of tax cuts has apparently vanished, if not into thin air, then at least into the depths of US Congressional committees." 2/6 Proposed Aid Cut Stuns Youths. Photo Op One Day, Your Program on the Chopping Block The Next. More of that Famous Bush Compassionate Conservatism. 2/6 Ultra-conservative and republican-funded "Club For Growth" meeting scared off by farmers upset with the "welfare" label they were given by the group 2/6 US officials, firms to discuss Arctic gas pipeline next week 2/6 "Don't Tap Into Social Security: Four-fifths favor tax cut deferment over using the fund's revenue to pay for other programs," from an LA Times Poll 2/6 Bushonomics does not add up 2/6 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Why are journalists' requests for George W. Bush's gubernatorial documents being met with lengthy delays? 2/6 America's Shooting Gallery: Sheriff's officer killed in shooting 2/6 Say goodbye to Saudis: U.S. should withdraw its military presence 2/6 "While Florida was putting money from its pension fund in Enron, Enron was putting money into the campaigns of Florida politicians. In the end, neither investment paid off." 2/6 "U.S. Representative Nick Smith (R-MI) introduced H.R. 3598, requiring young men to be available to serve in military or national community service for at least six months." 2/6 The Bush Schtick 2/6 Honda Steers Hybrid Car to Mass Market 2/6 The February 4th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia For Supreme Court Judges, It's Getting Personal 2/6 Fort Lauderdale To Prohibit Sexual Orientation Discrimination In City Work Force 2/6 Super Bowl Ad Was Out of Bounds 2/6 Bush Wants His Federalist Judges Confirmed as Soon as Possible So He Won't Have to Actually Worry About Court Outcomes Like This One. The Bushes Don't Like to Have to Justify Their Actions. 2/6 Report that Bush Administration Paid Villagers Over Mistaken Raid 2/5 Judge Blocks Bush Clarence-Thomas-Clone Civil Rights Appointee 2/5 John McCain Has Skin Lesion Removed 2/5	The Axis-of-Inefficiency Budget 2/5 European leaders insist diplomacy is the way to deal with three nations singled out by Bush 2/5 In Pathetic Understatement, Rumsfeld Concedes Raid "May Have" Killed Friendly Afghans 2/5 Antonin "The Enforcer" Scalia is Now Telling the Catholic Church What to Do. He's Confused Being on the Supreme Court with Being God. 2/5 Olympic Sniper Scare 2/5 BUSH BRUSHES OFF DEMAND FOR ENRON PROSECUTOR, SAYS "MY JUSTICE DEPARTMENT" WILL INVESTIGATE. "HIS" JUSTICE DEPT? Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 2003 2/5 Justice Department Won't Appoint Special Enron Prosecutor 2/5 "Mr. Bush continues to suggest that it's possible to increase spending, address the deficits that lie ahead in Social Security and expand tax cuts. That math didn't work last year; it's more dubious now." 2/5 As law nears, GOP unloading its `soft money' 2/5 Bush Tries Again with His Useless Discount Drug Plan For Seniors. Plus, He Throws It Back to the States to Expand THEIR Programs for Lower-Income Medicare Recipients (Even Though They Don't Have the Money to Pay For It). 2/5 "President Bush is a populist," Bush senior adviser Karl Rove declared last month. 2/6 Judge Implicates 43 in French Oil Scandal 2/5 Anticlimax of the Week: Lay Resigns from Enron Board of Directors 2/5 Bush Kids Gone Wild. The Sheer Hypocrisy of Special Rules for Letting the Bush Kids Off, But Harshly Punishing Minorities and Poor Kids for the Same Offenses. 2/5 Don't Cry for Me Prince Charles 2/5 For the Bush Budget, It's Deja Vu All Over Again 2/5 Only 10% at World Economic Forum are Women 2/5 "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said yesterday that in times of national tension, the country should not compromise constitutional values in the name of homeland security." 2/5 Bush Still Pushing School Vouchers 2/5 William Bennett Tries to Position Himself for a Position with Bush Incorporated. The Royalties on that Silly Book He Wrote Must Be Running Out. 2/5 Ethics Violations of the Bush Administration 2/5 Getting Lay: Will Enron's top brass go to jail? 2/5 Exquisite Right Wing Hypocrisy 2/5 "[T]he latest Bush administration budget is notable for a number of firsts, including the use of pictures and Kermit the Frog quotes." 2/5 Ashcroft role in Microsoft case raises ethics issue. Donations: He withdrew from Enron probe, but not antitrust suit 2/5 Iraq Offers Dialogue with U.N. Without Preconditions. I Guess We Don't Need That Trillion Dollar Military Budget After All. How Lucky for Bush. Now He Can Put That Money To Programs that HELP People. 2/5 Mysterious ailments plague Hill mail-handling staffers 2/5 BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman Henry Waxman on Enron: Part II, Conducted January 30th by BuzzFlash.com "But if more people intended to vote for Gore than for Bush in Florida -- as they surely did -- then it is a crime against democracy that he did not win the state and thus the presidency." FOR $35.00, RECEIVE JEFFREY TOOBIN'S "TOO CLOSE TO CALL." BuzzFlash Interviews Congressman John Conyers, Jr., About the Justice Department Investigation of Enron FROM THE ARCHIVES: ENRON PRACTICALLY DICTATED THE FERC APPOINTMENTS. BUSH INCORPORATED DID THE BIDDING OF ENRON FROM DAY ONE. 1/25 BUZZFLASH WAS ON ENRON FROM DAY ONE: BUZZFLASH INTERVIEWS CONGRESSMAN HENRY WAXMAN ON ENRON. A MUST READ, REPOSTED ON 1/2 THE CAMPUS VOICE: A Tale of Two Boobs: John Ashcroft and what's best for the breast 2/5 THE LIGHTER SIDE: These are Ironic TImes 2/4 What About Those Top Ten Conservative Idiots, Huh? 2/4 Visit Florida Bushland! 2/6 Explaining the Enron collapse through simple financial terms 2/5 New U.S. Patriot Registration 2/5 Dubya's Dayly Diary 2/6 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Rumsfeld Uses Third Reich As Example of How He Plans to Change U.S. Military Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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EPA STAFFER MEMO WARNED CHENEY NOT TO BLAME ENVIRONMENTAL REGS FOR ENERGY SHORTAGES, BUT THE TRUTH DIDN'T FIT ENRON'S AGENDA