May 28, 2003

Non-news of the Day

The new tax cut and aid to states package signed by Bush sends $2.4 billion to California. (Snide sneering comment of the day: I think that's more than we got from Davis' highly touted victory before FERC but don't expect the same sort of whooping from the unbiased CA press).

According to this shocking story, the Democratic members of the state legislature want to increase spending and the Republican members want to use it to lower taxes. (Now, in deference to my liberal friends who have indeed made a valid point recently, I note that there's been analysis showing that Republicans spend more than Democrats so the non-news corollary is that this is all rhetoric.)

Posted by Justene Adamec at May 28, 2003 07:42 AM
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it. I am told that he appears to be strong and rosy, and steadily
sane. But we will be doing what he wants us to do, I think, if we
consider his exterior a sort of Dorian Gray facade. Inwardly, he is
being eaten alive by tinhorn politicians.
The disease is fatal. There is no known cure. The most we can
do for the poor devil, it seems to me, is to name his disease in his
honor. From this moment on, let all those who feel that Americans can
be as easily led to beauty as to ugliness, to truth as to public
relations, to joy as to bitterness, be said to be suffering from Hunter
Thompson's disease. I don't have it this morning. It comes and goes.
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