On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 05:01:25PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> The sad fact is that he's in a no-win situation, and he (and, by
> extension, his administration) didn't have rocks to say "I know I
> promised this to a large number of people who, as a result, voted for
> me.... but the truth is it's a promise I can't keep because it will
> harm our country in the long run."

His promise to the steel workers was not to forget them. There are a
number of ways he could have remembered the steel workers, without a
damaging tariff. It was hardly a no-win situation. Bush simply chose the
worst possible action.

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"Erik Reuter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>       http://www.erikreuter.com/

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