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Monday, October 25, 2004

reason number 142

If you haven't yet seen McSweeney's Daily Reason to Dispatch Bush, I urge you to go take a look. Every [week]day it provides readers with another valid reason for a huge people's revolution aimed at dismembering the current U.S. administration. These reasons include disastrous policies, dangerous errors of judgement, exposed falsehoods and classic Bushisms. Today's reason begins as follows:

Over 100 high-level officials appointed by the Bush administration now oversee industries they previously represented as lobbyists, lawyers, or company advocates. Many of those appointees have pushed for more favorable policies for their respective industries from within the Food and Drug Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Interior Department, and other agencies. Six have been the subject of ethics investigations or have resigned due to conflicts of interest.

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And, since November 2nd is so terrifyingly close, and in case reading those 142 compelling facts somehow didn't convince you to vote for Kerry, why not take a few minutes to read this fascinating biography of the president who truly believes that "the human being and the fish can coexist peacefully."