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34051 heartbeats -- rank: 1000

[From Chris Caldwell's column in this week's NY Press] Just how high the stakes were became clear when Americans woke up on Thanksgiving morning to find out that Dick Cheney had suffered his fourth heart attack. Although it was a mild one, it was a disturbing reminder that, should he win, George W. Bush will be only a heartbeat away from running the country.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 29 10:08:24 PST 2000

34052 Canadian election -- rank: 1000

[posted from a non-sub'd address] Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 14:42 +0000 (GMT Standard Time) From: m.blackmore at blackmore-sly.co.uk (M.Blackmore) Subject: Re: O Canada To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com In-Reply-To: <p04330109b649f87c30bb@[216.254.77.128]> Reply-To: m.blackmore at blackmore-sly.co.uk Message-Id: <memo.20001129144220.230C at m.blackmore.ntlworld.com> X-Ameol-Version: 2.52.2000, Windows NT 4.0 build 1381 (Service Pack 6) Be nice to know what the results were - no mention of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 29 10:03:31 PST 2000

34053 Charlatans Left & Right -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: >Joycelyn Elders >also spoke out so forcefully on the subject she lost her job. But it was uttering the word "masturbation" that finally did her in. Speaking of which, I just learned from a student member of her school district's reproductive health advisory committee that Michigan law forbids mention of "masturbation" (though it's unclear whether euphemisms are acceptable), mandates that abstinence until marriage be promoted as the best approach, ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 29 10:01:49 PST 2000

34054 Christopher Hitchens from left charlatan to mouthpiece for the Republican right -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >I thought neo-conservatives ideologues (though not followers) were >mainly former _leftists_ (not liberals) who decided that while they >were against slavery & Jim Crow, they didn't like blacks after all >because they were loud & also that abortion was a sin. > >The myth of a liberal who was mugged & became neo-conservative, >however, has a virtue of highlighting the centrality of criminal >justice in the production of race. Yes. Race ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 18:47:21 PST 2000

34055 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Brad De Long wrote: >As I have said before, we had a *plan*! We had a *strategy*! >Everything was stacked behind health care! > >We're not malevolent! We're just incompetent! So what's your take on why the health plan was so goddam awful? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 18:37:35 PST 2000

34056 O Canada -- rank: 1000

So what to make of the Canadian election, if anything? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 16:04:25 PST 2000

34057 Query, was Re: The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >My query is, How useful is it to argue with committed Democrats. We >would not bother to intercede in a quarrel between two factions in the >Republican Party. We would not bother to argue one side or the other >in a dispute on the GE Board of Governors. As Doug said the other >day (I've lost the exact post) the thing to do with the Democratic >Party is to destroy it. So wouldn't it be more useful discussing various >routes to that goal than arguing endless ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 15:59:16 PST 2000

34058 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >NB. The real juice for the minimum wage initiative >came out of the Dem Congress, not the WH. But what'd the Dems do in 1993 and 1994 while they controlled Congress? I thought they didn't even hold a single hearing on the minwage increase. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 15:45:27 PST 2000

34059 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

SergioL652 at aol.com wrote: >Quick question. In 1992 one of Clinton's campaign slogans was that the US >was last among industrialized nations in hourly wage. Was this statistic >changed much during his presidency? I have not seen this mentioned anywhere >in the media. The BLS numbers on international comparison of manufacturing wages are at <http://stats.bls.gov/news.release/ichcc.t02.htm>. (These include fringe benefits - conceptually, they're the cost to employers, not th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 15:20:52 PST 2000

34060 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Of course Greenspan and monetary policy play a role in economic prosperity, >but I do not believe that Greenspan is some how more uniquely smart nor >solicitious of Clinton than Volcker was of Reagan in the 1980s, yet >lower-income folks were royally screwed in the 1980s and have seen some real >gains in the 1990s. So what explains the difference in how the respective >booms affected economic inequality and the wage gains of lower-income folks? One answer ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 12:07:13 PST 2000

34061 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Dennis Breslin wrote: >People do hype the Fed's role precisely because >it can advance a partisan agenda - Clinton didn't >really do anything or Clinton lied about his role, etc. >But it also feeds those who trumpet the virtues of the >market or the effectiveness of monetary over fiscal policy, etc. >I wonder how the salience of Greenspan's role will play >out in the poltical arena. Has monetarism won? What >role can be pitched for fiscal policy if the bankers >are he ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 12:09:21 PST 2000

34062 The Language of Betrayal -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >And the goals they accomplish - such as the EITC, labor policy improvements, >minimum wage raises, etc. - had nothing to do with improving the wages of >low-income workers. I thought the DLC loved the EITC because it drove a wedge between the working and nonworking poor - i.e., it rewarded the "deserving," while welfare reform would punish the underserving. I thought the true "progressive" position was child allowances and/or minimum incomes wit ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 28 07:11:41 PST 2000

34063 Eric the non-red -- rank: 1000

Doug Henwood wrote: >> Some conservative pundits have gone so far as to celebrate >>the triumph of mob rule over democracy and rule of law. Paul Gigot, >>a commentator for PBS's "NewsHour" and the Wall Street Journal >>editorial page, praised what he termed the "bourgeois riot." Gigot >>reporting from the scene, witnessed John Sweeney, a visiting GOP >>monitor, telling an aide, "Shut it down," and thereby inspiring >> ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 19:08:59 PST 2000

34064 Eric the non-red -- rank: 1000

Eric Alterman writes: > When it was over, the rule of the mob was triumphant. The >three canvassers voted to walk away from the recount whose tally >would likely have led to Al Gore's victory over George Bush in >Florida and in the presidential election. One of its members, David >Leahy, acknowledged the protests were a factor in his decision. The >other two, perhaps fearful of their safety, declined all interviews. >As the mob celebrated its victory, its Republican P ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 19:07:32 PST 2000

34065 [Fwd: Re: on the American election - a query and a comment] -- rank: 1000

Tom Lehman wrote: >Here's a complimentary story by Eric Alterman that's worth taking a peek at, > >http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp So why didn't the Dems organize a "riot squad" to counter the Repubs? Are we against the freedom to assemble when it's right-wingers who are assembling? I hear that the DLC types running the show on the ground in Florida are a bunch of incompetent wankers. Hire David Boies, but don't bother to organize/mobilize actual people. How typical. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon Nov 27 17:04:12 PST 2000