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"Eighteen of the energy industry's top 25 financial contributors to the Republican Party advised Vice President Dick Cheney's national energy task force last year"	Archived 3/1/02 8:14am Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n!
EPA OFFICIAL QUITS, RIPS WHITE HOUSE: He Was Tired of "fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules [the EPA is] trying to enforce"


OUTRAGEOUS! THIS WHITE HOUSE HAS NO SHAME, BLAMED CLINTON FOR MIDEAST VIOLENCE! UNCONSCIONABLE! So Here's the BuzzFlash Scoop: High Ranking EPA Official Slams Bush and Resigns. Rove Tells Ari to Blame Clinton for Middle-East Violence and Then Retract Statement to Divert Attention from EPA Resignation. You Heard It Here First. 3/1 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. FROM THE ARCHIVES: It Was Bush's Foreign Policy Advisor Who Derailed The Clinton Middle East Peace Talks. So, We Get ANOTHER White House Evasion of Responsibilty And More Lies. 3/1 Resignation Letter of EPA Office of Regulatory Enforcement 3/1 MORE ON THE SCANDAL INVOLVING THE GRAND HYPOCRISY PARTY SPEAKER OF THE FLORIDA HOUSE 3/1 For Right Wing Nut Speaker of the Florida House, Employee is a Hoot(er) 2/28 Photo of Florida Grand Hypocrisy Party Speaker of the House (This Guy is Nutty Right Wing) With Controversial Aide Who Formerly Worked at Hooters (see story above) 3/1 Support Independent News Sources! Second Judge Says Bush Administration is Stalling on Release of Energy Task Force Documents 3/1 246 Killed in India Religious Attacks 3/1 Congress Hears a Sordid FBI Tale 3/1 "President Bush has dispatched a shadow government of about 100 senior civilian managers to live and work secretly outside Washington" 3/1 NEW POLL: Number of Americans Doubting the Bush/Cheney Enron Story is Dramatically Increasing 3/1 Conflicts Follow DOE Official 3/1 The February 28th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Bush Incorporated ANWR Drilling Statistics are a Fraud, by Paul Krugman 3/1 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! BuzzFlash presents The Angry Liberal - Bush on Welfare Reform: "Hard Work is Good, I've Heard." 2/28 Nixon Sought to Tie Wallace Shooting to Democrats 3/1 Court overturns 3 convictions in N.Y. police torture case 3/1 Sarasota businessman's GOP honor may go up in smoke. Heck, He's an Entrepeneur! 3/1 'Suspicious' Air India Passenger Released, FBI Says 3/1 "Former US Secretary of State Dr Henry Kissinger denied he was a war criminal yesterday, saying it was an insult to human intelligence for protesters in Cork to compare him to Slobodan Milosevic." 3/1 Get "Germs" AND "Grand Theft 2000" as a "Twofer"! "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala ``It doesn't add up,'' said Rep. Earl Pomeroy, a North Dakota Democrat who sits on the Ways and Means Committee. ``We're on our way to a fiscal train wreck in the financing of Social Security." 3/1 Democrats Question Expansion of War on Terrorism 3/1 Once Again, BuzzFlash Asks, "Why Isn't John Ashcroft Railing Against Our Homegrown Domestic Terrorists?" 3/1 The Bush/Enronomics Economy: States Ask Workers to Go Without Pay 3/1 Nuke Test Fallout Caused 15,000 U.S. Deaths 3/1 MUST READ: Why Can't the Democrats Get Tough? 2/28 Grand Hypocrisy Party Montana Governor Has More Explaining to Do 3/1 "At present, there is no investigation focusing on the potential political scandal -- but there ought to be, and likely eventually will be, such an investigation." 3/1 Ashcroft Made Counter-Terrorism a Low Priority Prior to 9/11 2/28 Federal Judge Orders Energy Department To Release Thousands Of Pages Of Task Force Records 2/28 The Scorecard of "Evil" 3/1 Scientist Says Anthrax Culprit Knew Too Much 3/1 Text of Poppy Bush's Letter of Faux "Apology." Remember Poppy Got a Place for Junior in the National Guard So He Wouldn't Have to Fight in Vietnam. That's Bush Integrity for You. 3/1 "The Defense Department's aggressive missile defense testing program will continue with a test launch March 15, Air Force Lt. Gen. Ronald Kadish told Congress Feb. 27. " 3/1 Liberal Media Conspiracy Falls Flat 3/1 Cheney's War On The Public's Right To Know - Arianna Huffington California's Haywire Power Contracts 3/1 IRS Tries To Stem A Common Error: Your $300 Check From Last Year (For Those Who Got One), Was An ADVANCE. You Don't Get It Again This Year. 3/1 "U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a Republican appointee, denied an appeal from Democrats to stop a GOP-appointed federal court panel from imposing a redistricting plan that favors an incumbent GOP congressman." 3/1 4 Allentown, PA Priests Ousted for Sex Abuse 3/1	Interior secretary Gale Norton, Strickland tied to Global Crossing 3/1 Israeli Army Attacks Inside Refugee Camps 3/1 Aide to Florida House Speaker Tom Feeney Mixed State, Campaign Work. She Probably Took Lessons From Katherine Harris 3/1 Montana Gov. Judy Martz used state time and telephones to help organize a big-money fund-raiser in California late last year for a conservative political group that the governor heads up 3/1 "Stupid White Men" Goes Into 9th Printing 3/1 More on The Florida House Speaker Aide Scandal Brewing. 3/1 NewsMax's Reality Distortion Field - The main qualification to getting published: Say something bad about the Clintons. 3/1 U.S. Soldier Shot Dead in Kuwait 3/1 "Washington's government lawyers are in a state of confusion and embarrassment, having so far failed to come up with a coherent plan for the [Camp X-Ray] captives' future." 3/1 With Victories Like These....The glaring inadequacies of Shays-Meehan. 3/1 Just Desserts? A year ago, Francine Cavanaugh tossed a pie at Jeffrey Skilling for gouging Californians … now the former Enron CEO is under fire in Washington 3/1 The E.W. Scripps Co. has announced that its television stations will offer free airtime to political candidates prior to primary and general elections this year. 3/1 Senate Energy Bill Focuses on Conservation 3/1 GOP Patron Gets Nod for Alaska Pipeline: Pay Before You Pump 3/1 "A prominent Republican activist is reaching out to the White House and other GOP leaders to gently nudge acting Mass. Gov. Jane M. Swift out of the race and avoid a primary bloodbath with businessman Mitt Romney" 3/1 Democrats Criticize Bush Defense Plan 3/1 Elder Bush Apologizes for Remarks, Sort Of. 3/1 U.S. Guantanamo Prisoners Stage Hunger Strike 3/1 "Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Appropriations Committee, grilled top defense officials at a budget hearing about the lack of an "exit strategy" in Afghanistan, their failure to capture al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, and ...." 2/28 "The FBI is investigating the possibility that a power outage on the last day of the Winter Olympics was caused by a bomb" 2/28 U.S. Warplanes Bomb Targets in Northern Iraq. Has The War Begun Or Is This Just Routine Retaliatory Bombing? 3/1 Analysts Who Recommended Enron Stock, As Enron Slid Towards Bankruptcy, Testified They Were Not Influenced By Their Own Firms' Investments, Were Misled By Enron. Okay. So, How Many Other Companies Are They Invested In That They Know So Little About? 3/1 Nixon suggested nuclear weapons against Vietnam 3/1 $1 million bomb detectors were foiled; agent says airport security 'frightening' 3/1 White House lawyers yesterday backed off plans to prevent Congress from reviewing Justice Department memos related to Boston mob prosecutions after Indiana Rep. Dan Burton vowed to challenge President Bush in court. 3/1 Help GWBush.com Write An Ad "to tell the truth about Dick Cheney's 'evil deals with evildoers.'" 3/1 Judgement Day: How To Avert Chaotic Bork/Thomas-style Appointments 3/1 Conservatives Want Rumsfeld To Dismantle "Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services." What Is It With Conservatives and All These Anti-Women Issues? 3/1 UNBELIEVABLE! Bush Incorporated Spurns Clinton/Gore Hi-Tech Programs 2/28 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Law And Order, Enron And America's Working Classes 2/28 WHY ISN'T JOHN ASHCROFT ALERTING US TO OUR DOMESTIC TERRORIST PROBLEM? GOOD QUESTION INDEED? L.A. Airport Terminals Evacuated 2/28 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Is The AP Changing Doomsday Clock News To Benefit Bush? 2/28 Bush Sells Access -- and a Possible Washington Post Whitewash 2/28 Raising Money for Dole, Bush Once Again Jokes Around About Hitting the "Trifecta" of War, National Emergency and Recession. And the Grand Hypocrisy Party Fatcats Roared With Laughter. (Read down) 2/28 Skeptical lawmakers quiz NASA chief about budget 2/28 Press Falls for Lie About Clinton, Enron - Joe Conason 2/28 "Rules limiting media ownership are rapidly disappearing. If they are allowed to vanish, the nation's news landscape will change dramatically — and not for the better" 2/28 Next Stop, Yemen! 2/28 British Petroleum Claims It Won't Give Anymore Political Donations. Hmmm. 2/28 Is Dan Burton for Real? "The chairman of a House committee said Wednesday he may try to hold President Bush in contempt of Congress for failing to turn over Justice Department records" 2/28 MISTAKES WERE MADE 2/28 Bizarre Letter from Elder Bush to Residents of Marin County 2/28 Beyond Banning Soft Money: The campaign finance reform legislation moving through Congress is a major step toward getting money out of politics -- but only the first that needs to be taken. 2/28 Ban on Junk Guns Reduced Fatalities in Maryland, According to Study 2/28 MUST READ: A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: WHY DID BUSH SIT NEXT TO SASHA COHEN AT THE OLYMPICS? Just Ask "Where's the Beef"?	The February 27th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia Another Bush Incorporated Step Toward a Secretive Government 2/28 "The House of Representatives ... passed a bill that would change the way Americans access the Internet" 2/28 Dick Armey Can't Help Himself. He Just Has This Need to Keep "Stimulating" Wealthy People. Different Strokes for Different Folks. 2/28 "Dole quit the presidential campaign in October 1999, complaining that 'the message is money and that's too bad, because that really diminished the process.' She was one of several Republicans unable to compete financially against Bush . . ." 2/28 Wisconsin Republican Governor is Just Another Son of a Bush, To Paraphase Governor McCallum 2/28 Chris Dodd Calls for Investigation of Funeral Industry 2/28 Bartcop Needs Your Help to Help Out Julie Steele, a Victim of the Right Wing Clinton Entrapment Squad 2/28 U.S. to Weigh Computer Chip Implant 2/28 Ex-Enron chief made $66 million: Skilling says he'll use stock profits for defense. So? Are We Supposed to Feel Bad For Him? 2/28 How Michael Powell helped resurrect Ma Bell. 2/28 When Things Turn Weird, The Weird Turn Pro: Propaganda, The Pentagon And The Rendon Group 2/28 "[T]he pull of political gravity cannot long be defied. There are clouds scattered across GWB's fine view that are gathering into a storm." 2/28 Clueless in the Nation's Capital 2/28 The Freepers Are Doing Their Nasty Best to Snuff Aaron Sorkin. Check Mailbag for Email Address to NBC to Support Sorkin and Free Speech. 2/28 At Enron, Lavish Excess Often Came Before Success 2/28 "The creditors committee in Enron's bankruptcy case filed an objection Tuesday to company executives' efforts to access $30 million in liability insurance to pay mounting legal bills." 2/28 "For a man with a reputation as quick on his feet, it struck several senators as odd, indeed incomprehensible, that Skilling, with his Harvard MBA and savvy business background, never caught a whiff that something was rotten at Enron." 2/28 Too Much, Too Late: Sympathy for Reporters Follows the Death of Danny Pearl 2/28 Unbelievable Hypocrisy and Irresponsibility with OUR Money. Bush Uses Politics to Say That Congress is Using Politics With the Debt Limit. 2/28 Hard Questions for Nominee to Rights Post 2/28 No Sweat For Skilling 2/28 Paper Says Enron May Owe More in Pensions 2/28 Astros to Buy Enron Ballpark Name 2/28 "Ashcroft was so publicly compromised by the mere $50,000 he got from the robber barons at Enron that he recused himself from the Bush regime's "investigation" of its chief patron. But no such scruples trouble him when it comes to guns." 2/28 Superfund’s kryptonite: lobbyists. When big business screws up, you pay the tab. - Molly Ivins 2/28 SMASH HIT OF THE INTERNET: Congressman Dennis Kucinich Steps up to the Plate with a Prayer for America 2/26 Highly Recommended: A Washington Post Open Forum with David Brock 2/27 Media Watch Special Report: The Daily Show with Guest Michael Moore 2/22 ANTHRAX EXPERT STANDS BY HER CLAIM: IT WAS AN "INSIDE" JOB, MEANING AN ARMY OR CIA RESEARCHER BuzzFlash Interview with Douglas Kellner, Author of "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election." THE CAMPUS VOICE: At book reading, Moore addresses activism, politics, from the Brown University Daily Herald 3/2 THE LIGHTER SIDE: Cheney To GAO: "What Consenting Adult CEOs Do In The Privacy Of Their Own 2/28 FOX TV Reaches a New Low, If That's Possible 3/1 BUZZFLASH READER SATIRE: Because They're Not Like Us 2/27 Cloning of a President by Ted Rall 2/27 Equal Time with Bob Boudelang 2/25 Tom Tomorrow Vs. Ann Coulter 2/27 Dubya's Dayly Diary 2/28 What Me Worry 2/28 The Real Axis of Evil 2/25 GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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EPA OFFICIAL QUITS, RIPS WHITE HOUSE: He Was Tired of "fighting a White House that seems determined to weaken the rules [the EPA is] trying to enforce"