I don't know why anyone is surprised. I would have been surprised only if the Bush administration had done the right thing.This is a guy who lost by half a million votes, then won in Florida because 15,000 elderly Jews (of the new group, Jews for Buchanan) were disenfranchised, along with probably another 20-30,000 people of color, and even then, it took a Republican Supreme Court standing every civil rights law it had ever ruled upon on their head, to stop the counting of the votes which would have kept that lying son-of-a-bitch out of the White House.
Does anyone else remember his first act? I do. By executive order Bush cut all family planning funds for any non-US clinic which in its family planning, offered abortion as a possible option, thus affecting the poorest women and children on the planet.
And now his administration is using 9/11 in taking aim at the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to give his campaign contributers more oil money, while at the same time killing US servicemen and servicewomen by keeping a war going in order to maintain his own popularity in office and reelection.
These people are profoundly hypocritical and cynical, having maintained themselves in and out of office, in positions of power since Nixon. Bush's campaign received enormous contributions from Enron, and his father, the former President Bush, made over $2 million dollars in stock transactions through an Enron subsidiary.
Will this Bush, will John Ashcroft - who believes his job as Attorney General is to enforce not the laws of the United States, but "God's Law" - do anything just and human and fair and right? Not a chance in hell, if it has anything to do with Gays or Abortion.
Don't be surprised - the moral brothers and sisters of slave owners, are doing what they've always done. Selling one group of people whom they consider less than human anyway, down the river to get the votes of another group. Its all about power for them; not about people.
What can you and I do about it? Write (not email) your Congressperson and your Senator. Tell her/him that this must stop, that everyone who was killed on September 11th deserves equal compensation, and that if undocumented aliens are getting paid, they can damn well compensate the partners of lesbians and gays.
And then, get out there and make sure these evil homophobic bastards are never, ever elected again.
bzengo
[This message has been edited by bzengo (edited March 27, 2002).]