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"Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however." In short, in the Bush Doctrine, Democracy Doesn't Count. But we knew that in December of 2000.


BUZZFLASH TRAVESTY OF THE DAY: James "Bush Family Consigliere" Baker Says Government should not overreact to Enron scandal 4/16 Support Independent News Sources! Powell Reports "Progress" in Middle East 4/16 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. A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: First Hand Account of This Weekend's Florida Democratic Convention 4/16 Congressman Waxman's Letter to CEO of JP Morgan Chase about Contact with Enron (pdf) 4/16 Oh, Brother! Pentagon Optimistic About Missile Shield 4/16 Vanessa Legget Loses Supreme Court Appeal To The Court To "use her case to give writers and reporters more rights to protect the confidentiality of their sources." 4/16 Difficult times, conditions inside Arafat's compound 4/16 BUZZFLASH BADGE OF HONOR: Richard Mellon Scaife's Newspaper Joins in Taking Its Potshot at BuzzFlash and Paul Begala for Telling the Truth 4/15 South Carolina Doesn't Want Plutonium Shipments. Can You Blame Them? But the Bush Administration Isn't Listening. 4/16 Arafat Aide Barghouti Captured 4/16 The Anything-But-Clinton Bush Middle East Policy 4/16 Army Chief White Probed for Enron Trading 4/16 FROM THE ARCHIVES: Article Indicating the Bush Team Was Pulling Together Venezuelan Coup Plans Last December 4/16 Thousands Rallied on Washington Mall to Support Israel 4/16 Amnesty sends US dossier of complaints over Afghanistan detainees 4/16 Justice Department to Settle with Andersen 4/16 $98 Million Patent Infringement Verdict Against Halliburton 4/16 Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute. Get the Buzz! The Congress Moves To Block A New King George 4/16 Germany Takes New, Sharper Tone Toward Israel, Holds Back Military Spare Parts 4/16 Available on BuzzFlash.com, "Blinded By The Right" by David Brock Grand Hypocrisy Party Horse Trading for ANWR Drilling 4/16 The April 15th BuzzFlash Mailbag: Patriotic, Honest, Irreverent, and All-American Alma mater won't carry Cheney name 4/16 The April 15th Edition of the BuzzFlash World Media Watch, by Gloria Lalumia (Neither BuzzFlash Nor Gloria Endorse the Opinions of Articles Included in World Media Watch.) Sobering Study of the Effects of Welfare Reform 4/16 More Right-Wing, GOP Lunacy -- MS Judge: Put Gays in Mental Institutions 4/16 "The burned remains of a Palestinian boy lay amidst toys in a house destroyed by Israeli soldiers in the Jenin refugee camp" 4/16 "Palestinian rescue workers retrieve the body of Palestinian woman Zoha Ifreitekh from the rubble of her demolished house" 4/16 Enron's final, biggest error ... 4/16 BuzzFlash presents Fifth Columnist: "Light brown, please, and plenty of butter" 4/15 Those Pesky Enron Ties of Republican CT Gov. John G. Rowland 4/16 The Oil President Hits a Slick Spot 4/16 Unmarried Question Welfare Plan 4/16 TX Republican lieutenant governor candidate Dewhurst won't shed light on his CIA past, Candidate's years in Bolivia questioned 4/16 Rep. Conyers takes aim at GOP's ties to business 4/16 Nader Says Turnout Proves Citizens Fed Up 4/16 BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Smoke and Mirrors 4/15 Lessons from Belfast: Journalist-filmmaker Yehuda Litani hopes his new film on Northern Ireland will open Israeli eyes. 4/16 Supreme Court Won't Rule on Vote-By-Mail 4/16 Don't Forget "Too Close to Call," Available at BuzzFlash.com Eye-opening look at dirty politics in 'Blinded by the Right' 4/16 UK reveals nuclear bomb plans: -- Britain's Ministry of Defence has confirmed it has made public information describing in detail the make-up of a nuclear bomb. 4/16 In BuzzFlash Perspectives: Media Liberal Bias, GOP ChickenHawks, Bush's Accomplishments and the Bush-Enron Lovefest Connection Women's Pay Gap and Choice 4/16	Lebanon rejects Powell warning on Hezbollah attacks 4/16 Oil addiction our weakness against terror 4/16 Political Battle Looming Over Superfund Plan 4/16 Smart ALECs: Corporations underwrite the agenda of this state-level lobbying group 4/16 Retired Supreme Court Justice Byron White dies 4/16 Probe of Merrill Lynch, others puts spotlight on dual role of brokers 4/16 Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling has nothing to do with the national security of the United States. Here's why: 4/16 Help Honor Julie Hiatt Steele Satan Ban Exposes Mayor to Wrath 4/16 On the front lines of a war on dissent 4/16 SEC objects to Enron's request to pay retention bonuses to key employees, legal expenses of top executives 4/16 Help Keep BuzzFlash Buzz'n! Corporate-Sponsored Crime Laws 4/16 "Every day brings fresh evidence of sexual abuse by priests, almost invariably accompanied by attempts by the church to conceal that abuse from the police." 4/16 How not to catch a spy 4/16 10,000 Gallons on Oil Spill in Michigan 4/16 U.N. Chief Adopting Harsh Stance on Israel 4/15 CHAVEZ FREED AND RETURNS TO CLAIM PRESIDENCY. CIA-BACKED "SILENT COUP" BACKFIRES. Big Jump in Spending Marks 2003 Budget 4/15 Powell pays dearly For his boss's failings 4/15 "The United States, like the European Union, Japan and Canada, are avid supporters of the ideas of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, but only when it means liberalising the markets of smaller and weaker countries, not their own." 4/15 A Jubilant Chavez Reclaimed Power in Venezuela 4/15 Streaming Video of Al Gore's Florida Speech This Past Weekend 4/15 Government Secrecy Won't Defeat Terrorism 4/15 Dissent is Not Disloyalty. We Figured that out a Long Time Ago. 4/15 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Fox News Chairman Says Crossfire, "Set Up To Have The Left Win." E-mail from Roger Ailes. U.S. inquiry tracks insiders at Enron 4/15 Arafat Won't Stop Suicide Bombings Until Israel Withdraws: Powell Presses Sharon on Pullback of Troops 4/15 More Sex Abuse Accusers Come Forward in Boston 4/15 Court: Israel Must Hand Over Bodies 4/15 "Thousands of black and Hispanic students across Florida are being left behind in the state's drive to boost reading scores, despite rosy assessments by Gov. Jeb Bush and top education officials." 4/15 "I don't care what anybody says," Gore said. "I think Bill Clinton and I did a damn good job." Al, if You Had Said that in 2,000, You Would Have Beat Bush by 2,000,000 votes, not 540,000. 4/15 Jeb Soft-pedals Tax Break. Oh Heck, He's Just Plain Lying. 4/15 Wave of Anti-Semitic Attacks Continues in France 4/15 BUY "THE BEST DEMOCRACY MONEY CAN BUY" AND HELP OUT BUZZFLASH.COM Chavez Adopts a More Conciliatory Tone 4/16 Eyeing November, Democrats Intensify Attacks 4/15 Global Crossing Pressured Employees to Make Campaign Donations 4/15 Kids and guns: still a risky mix 4/15 GREAT ARTICLE: Texas GOP hypocrites are sent scurrying 4/15 Some Detect GOP Hypocrisy on Hispanics. No Kidding. 4/15 "Up From Conservatism" by Michael Lind. "BuzzFlash Gives It Two Thumbs Up and Four Stars" White House Warns Chavez to Respect "Constitutional Process." Message to White House: Wouldn't Helping to Overthrow a Democratically-Elected Leader, Whatever His Policies, be a Violation of "Process." So Much for the Grand Hypocrisy Party (GHP). 4/15 FOUR U.S. SERVICEMEN KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN TAX DAY SPECIAL: Where is the Leadership to Take on the Tax Cut Follies? 4/15 "Stupid White Men" on BuzzFlash.com, by Michael Moore. #1 On NY Times Best Seller List.	OSAMA BIN LADEN SHOWN IN NEW VIDEO "President Chavez's comeback has also left Washington looking rather stupid" 4/15 D.C. Banks Closed Temporarily Due to Bomb Threat 4/15 IT'S APRIL 15TH! IRS Audits Increase for Low-Income Taxpayers: Examination Rate for Affluent Filers Falls Again After Failed Bush-Backed Coup Attempt, Chavez Wants Answers About Mysterious U.S. Plane 4/16 White House Pushing Hard to Make the Federal Courts Another Branch of the Republican Party 4/15 MUST READ: Friday's Orwellian State Department Double Speak Statement on the Coup that Temporarily Overthrew the Duly Elected Venezuelan Government 4/15 Pentagon No 2 ordered CIA to investigate record of UN agency chief 4/16 Cheney Radio Ad from GWBUSH.com 4/15 The Oil President Hits a Slick Spot 4/15 Some Senate Democrats Finally Realize that the Republicans Only Know How to Smear and Run. What Took the Dems So Long? 4/15 Bush Needs a 12-step Program to Ween Him Off of Polluting Our Nation 4/15 "The Bush administration is eliminating a respected fellowship program for graduate research in the environmental sciences, administration officials said this week." 4/15 REPOSTED: "President Bush is arming troops to protect Occidental Petroleum in Colombia. What next?" 4/15 U.S. Army to "Contract Out" Training of Afghan Army? Call It the "Dogs of War." 4/15 G8 in Open Disarray Over Kyoto Protocol 4/15 Bob Woodward's Pinocchio Problem 4/15 "Grand Theft 2000: Media Spectacle and a Stolen Election" War on Terror Stirs New Activism 4/15 TOM RIDGE'S NON-TESTIMONIAL APPEARANCE BEFORE CONGRESS, by John Dean 4/14 BUZZ INTO SPRING! GET A BUZZFLASH.COM T-SHIRT AND SPREAD THE NEWS! McBride Has a Better Idea in Florida 4/16 A BUZZFLASH READER COMMENTARY: Demand An End to Bush's Secrecy 4/12 Arctic Drilling Deal Fails in Senate 4/16 Venezuela Was Another Bush Betrayal of Democracy. The First One Was When the Supreme Court Felonius Five Annointed Him President, Despite a Democratic Vote in Which He Lost by More than a Half a Million Votes. 4/16 "Buck Up, Suck Up and Come Back When You Foul Up" by James Carville and Paul Begala Part Two of the BuzzFlash interview with Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. Part One of the BuzzFlash interviews Paul Begala, Famed Democratic Political Strategist and Co-author of Buck Up, Suck Up, and Come Back When You Foul Up. A BUZZFLASH NEWS ANALYSIS: Yes, Virginia, There Is A Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 4/10 BuzzFlash interviews Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich, Author of The Popular "Prayer for America" and Advocate for Creating A Department Of Peace. BuzzFlash interviews the Legendary Jim Hightower About The Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour BuzzFlash interviews David Brock, author of Blinded By The Right. BuzzFlash interviews Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. NEW INTERVIEW! BuzzFlash interviews Michael Moore, Filmmaker, TV Host, and author of Stupid White Men . . . And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation. THE CAMPUS VOICE: Roe v. Wade attorney advocates renewed defense of abortion rights, from the Brown Daily Herald 4/16 THE LIGHTER SIDE: The Keystone Cops Administration 4/15 Typo or Intentional? Yahoo Calls George Bush the "resident" 4/16 This Week's Edition of Top Ten Conservative Idiots 4/15 These Are Ironic Times 4/16 Just Like Poppy Said 4/15 The Dubya Chronicles 4/15 Dubya's Dayly Diary 4/15 Register for BuzzFlash.com email updates

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"Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however." In short, in the Bush Doctrine, Democracy Doesn't Count. But we knew that in December of 2000.