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16846 [lbo-talk] Pew poll lots less favorable to W -- rank: 1000

Two-In-Three Critical Of Bush's Relief Efforts Huge Racial Divide Over Katrina and Its Consequences The American public is highly critical of President Bush's handling of Hurricane Katrina relief efforts. Two-in-three Americans (67%) believe he could have done more to speed up relief efforts, while just 28% think he did all he could to get them going quickly. At the same time, Bush's overall job approval rating has slipped to 40% and his disapproval rating has climbed to 52%, among the highest f ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 11:04:02 PDT 2005

16847 [lbo-talk] Allbaugh hard at work, lobbying -- rank: 1000

Washington Post - September 8, 2005 Former FEMA Chief Is at Work on Gulf Coast Lobbyist Allbaugh Gives Clients Help By Thomas B. Edsall Washington Post Staff Writer During his two years as director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency during President Bush's first term, Joe M. Allbaugh traveled to Louisiana for a series of disasters, from tropical storms Allison and Isidore to Hurricane Lili. Yesterday, Allbaugh, now head of his own Washington lobbying and consulting firm, was in Baton Rou ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 11:00:11 PDT 2005

16848 [lbo-talk] Soros on the war on terror -- rank: 1000

[This just in from Soros' flack - the text of a full-page ad in yesterday's WSJ.] Reconsidering The War On Terror By George Soros We are all overwhelmed by the enormity of the natural disaster that has struck our country, which forcefully reminds us that we face many dangers other than terrorism. It is in that context that the war on terror should be re-examined. I should like to challenge the very concept of the "war on terror." It is a metaphor that needs to be challenged because it ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 10:41:38 PDT 2005

16849 [lbo-talk] Friedman not running for president -- rank: 1000

Here's some good news: Thomas Friedman isn't running for president. From Romenesko: >Noted: NYT's Friedman has no plans to run for president > >Fortune <http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,1100908,00.html> > >"Why should he?" writes Justin Fox. "He has been the nation's most >influential pundit ever since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, >2001, propelled to that status by his knowledge of the Middle East >and his skill at taking the complex ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 10:06:11 PDT 2005

16850 [lbo-talk] Bush: what went wrong? -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >I would say that most other nations do not share such delusions of absolute >control and infinite perfectability of everything from the weather to the >human nature. They realize that there are many things beyond human control >- and scale their expectations accordingly. Yet they manage to do a lot better than we do, no? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 09:52:52 PDT 2005

16851 [lbo-talk] The Note: Bush won yesterday's news cycle -- rank: 1000

[remember that The Note often offers tomorrow's conventional wisdom today] <http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> We suggested in Wednesday's Note that you should score along with us at home to decide who won the Katrina political news cycle. We hate to be backward looking, but one must know who won yesterday to figure out who has momentum for today. The President is still in a heap o' political trouble, the facts on the ground are still hideous, and Mr. Bush still hasn't ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 09:44:09 PDT 2005

16852 [lbo-talk] Wal-Mart at Forefront of Hurricane Relief -- rank: 1000

Keith Nybakke wrote: >But, there is something else going on, too. WM has one of the best >logistics system in the world and they used it to good result in >response to Katrina. > >For many years they have used a lot of the money they don't spend on >health insurance and overtime to create a massive sophisticated >system for moving goods from factory to port to distribution center >to retail outlet. For WM to fill a few trucks with carefully chosen >merchandise is no mo ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Sep 8 09:42:19 PDT 2005

16853 [lbo-talk] CBO on Katrina -- rank: 1000

<http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/66xx/doc6627/Katrina-FristLtr.pdf> Katrina could dampen real gross domestic product (GDP) growth in the second half of the year by 1Ž2 to 1 percentage point and reduce employment through the end of this year by about 400,000. Most economic forecasters had expected 3 percent to 4 percent growth during the second half, and employment growth of 150,000 to 200,000 per month. Economic growth and employment are likely to rebound during the first half of 2006 as rebuil ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 14:27:38 PDT 2005

16854 [lbo-talk] Fedster: what hurricane? I'm worried about inflation! -- rank: 1000

[I'm feeling a little more prescient than yesterday!] UPDATE 3-Fed's Moskow looks beyond Katrina, eyes inflation Wed Sep 7, 2005 03:59 PM ET (Recasts; adds analyst comment) By Ros Krasny CHICAGO, Sept 7 (Reuters) - The Federal Reserve needs an "appropriate" monetary policy to keep inflation contained at a time the economy has less slack than a year ago, Chicago Fed President Michael Moskow said on Wednesday, hinting at more rate increases ahead. "I'm concerned about core inflation ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:46:32 PDT 2005

16855 [lbo-talk] Bush: what went wrong? -- rank: 1000

<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/09/07/national/w095209D05.DTL&type=printable> At a news conference, Pelosi, D-Calif., said Bush's choice for head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency had "absolutely no credentials." She related that she had urged Bush at the White House on Tuesday to fire Michael Brown. "He said 'Why would I do that?'" Pelosi said. "'I said because of all that went wrong, of all that didn't go right last week.' A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:42:26 PDT 2005

16856 [lbo-talk] FW: Lakoff article -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski quoted George Lakoff: >The progressive-liberal values are >America's values, and we need to >go back to them. Huh?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:40:49 PDT 2005

16857 [lbo-talk] Gallup on Katrina reax: heads still wedged -- rank: 1000

[another small sample, but not all that different from the ABC/WP poll - and this one was taken on a Monday & Tuesday, not a Friday night - so, a large portion of Americans still have their heads wedged hopelessly up their asses] September 07, 2005 Public Skeptical New Orleans Will Recover Criticism, but little outrage, for Bush's and federal agencies' response to hurricane by David W. Moore GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- A new CNN/USA Today/Gallup survey finds the public skeptical tha ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:37:45 PDT 2005

16858 [lbo-talk] NY Post blasts "FEMA fool" -- rank: 1000

New York Post - September 7, 2005 FEMA FOOL SAT ON HIS HANDS By DOUGLAS SIMPSON, TED BRIDIS and IAN BISHOP The head of FEMA waited a mind-boggling five hours after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf before even contacting his boss about sending personnel to the area - then suggested workers be allowed two days to get to the ravaged region, shocking internal documents reveal. One stunning Aug. 29 memo - sent from embattled Federal Emergency Management chief Michael Brown to Homeland Security Secretar ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:21:19 PDT 2005

16859 [lbo-talk] The Note returns, more cynical than ever -- rank: 1000

<http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/TheNote/story?id=156238> What the White House thinks it knows about the politics of Katrina: 1. "Federalizing" the response to a natural disaster in advance or immediately after the fact is not politically or legally feasible, especially when state and local officials of the other party resist such an effort. 2. Most of the TV-picture-generating problems of the last week were caused by the rank incompetence of the New Orleans and Louisiana governme ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 13:17:23 PDT 2005

16860 [lbo-talk] Iraq invasion added $10-20 to oil price -- rank: 1000

[can't vouch for this, but it's a perspective...] TrimTabs Investment Research MEDIA ADVISORY: Special Report on Iraq Oil: US Occupation Responsible for $10 to $20 Price Spike per Barrel of Oil Says Robert Berke; Iraq Production Drops 1.5 Million BPD Santa Rosa, CA - September 7, 2005 - We recently interviewed Robert Berke, editor and publisher of The Energy X File, about the impact of the Iraq War on crude oil prices. Mr. Berke has more than 25 years of experience as a student and investor in ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Sep 7 12:38:15 PDT 2005