Bad Deeds for 2-26-07

FOX News Contributor Dick Morris One Of Top 100 Tax Delinquents In Connecticut – Republican political consultant and Fox News contributor Dick Morris owes Connecticut over $280,000 in taxes and has been on the state’s list of tax delinquents for years. Morris is infamous for remarks such as Bush’s ratings are going to soar over the next year, and, “The people who said this storm [Hurricane Katrina] is going to hurt Bush’s presidency are just wrong,” and “if the election were held today that they [Democrats] would win the White House, whoever was the nominee. And it is not because of George Bush’s failures, it’s because of his successes.” Morris makes the claim that he is a bipartisan consultant although as early as 1988, he has said he decided to work only for Republicans, a claim he reiterated in 1995; although he worked secretly on the Clinton campaign in 1992.

Latest data on America’s fiscal outlook shows “a federal debt burden that ultimately spirals out of control” – The January update was based on new data supplied to the Government Accountability Office by the Congressional Budget Office, and identified spiraling national health care costs as the main culprit for the country’s budgetary woes. The report also challenged a key assumption about the nation’s fiscal future made by President George W. Bush in his release of the 2008 budget. Using a pair of different simulations of government outlays, the GAO bluntly states that “the Nation’s long-term fiscal future is ‘at risk.'” It considers different futures in which discretionary spending grows more quickly or slowly, and in which tax cuts are renewed or allowed to expire.

Some US aid distributed to Sunni groups in Lebanon falls into the hands of radical groups – “We’re spreading the money around as much as we can,” a former senior intelligence official said, and that has “serious potential unintended consequences.” Such money “always gets in more pockets than you think it will,” the source said. “It’s a very high-risk venture.” A member of Prime Minister Fouad Siniora’s government in Lebanon said: “We have a liberal attitude that allows Al-Qaeda types to have a presence here.” In some cases, the clandestine operations rely on Saudi Arabia and its national security advisor, Prince Bandar, to provide the funding, so that operations remain secret,

Fox News Guest says media are liberals who normally don’t care about the troops – On Fox News, James Pinkerton makes the laughable observation that the media failed to report about the scandal at Walter Reed because they are liberals who normally don’t worry about the troops so why would they care about the conditions at Walter Reed.

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On 2-22-07, I told you about TXU’s plans for new coal-fired generating plants. But now, … Environmentalists Hail Takeover Plan for Texas Utility
– The prospective owners of Texas’ largest electric utility – whose $45 million takeover bid was approved last night by TXU Corp.’s board – have said they plan to cancel eight of 11 coal plants proposed by the company and also back national legislation for mandatory reduction in carbon dioxide emissions, in what environmentalists hail as a potentially major turning point in the battle against global warming.

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Jim