http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Democrats_wont_commit_to_ending_using_0225.html
"Democratic presidential candidates Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL) will not commit to ending President George W. Bush's practice of signing statements -- a tactic whereby the president adds his interpretation to laws passed by Congress, possibly allowing his office to circumvent the law -- according to a little-noticed article Monday.
"Sen. John McCain R-AZ), however, asserts he would. Asked by a Washington Post reporter, he said he'd never consider it."
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"Schuchat mostly discussed how personal concerns fed in to vaccination decisions. "Fifty years ago, disease was very real to parents," she stated, noting that parents put forward 1.8 million schoolchildren to take part in testing of the polio vaccine simply because polio was a concrete risk, while the risks of the vaccine were abstract and minor in comparison. Now, with most vaccine-targeted diseases existing only in the memories of older family members, the risks of vaccination.discomfort, a rare adverse reaction, even unfounded rumors of an autism link.seem more concrete than the disease itself."
People have short memories; certainly none longer than a generation. When a long term problem is solved, it's only a matter of time before the solution begins to be seen as a problem. "Reform" occurs. And the original problem returns. Over, and over, and over, and over...
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http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_What_we_asked_telecoms_to_0225.html
"President Bush continued Monday to press for Congress to retroactively excuse alleged lawbreaking by the nation's telecommunications companies, and he repeated questionable allegations that Democrats' refusal to pass a surveillance law has endangered the country."
Er... If the Telcoms weren't doing anything wrong, then they have nothing to fear, right?
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