It's Craptastic!

Dean, who for much of last year dominated the race for the right to challenge Bush on Nov. 2, launched a new attack on Kerry, calling him a typical Washington insider beholden to lobbyists and special interests.

"We are not going to beat George Bush by nominating someone who is the handmaiden of special interests, " Dean told hundreds of cheering supporters at a rally in Tucson.

Michael Wertheimer, who worked on a report presented Thursday to the Senate Education, Health and Environmental Affairs Committee, said a team that simulated an election as a test found several ways vote totals could be changed. He said touch-screen machines could be disabled simply by repeatedly jamming a voter card into a terminal or lifting it up and pulling out wires.

The head of a company vying to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year."

Despite a fifth-place showing in New Hampshire, Joe Lieberman said the state's Democratic presidential primary had given him a strong start to the next round of contests.

Lieberman called his finish a "three-way split" for third place with Wesley Clark and John Edwards, though they each had 12 percent of the vote to his 9 percent.

Lieberman told supporters he will keep fighting for "a Democratic Party that fights as hard to defend our nation's security as it does to advance the causes of social justice and equal rights."

He pledged to stay in the Democratic presidential race despite advice from advisers who were urging him to drop out.

Even if weapons of mass destruction are never found in Iraq, the U.S.-led war was justified because it eliminated the threat that Saddam Hussein might again resort to "evil chemistry and evil biology," Attorney General John Ashcroft said Monday.
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"Weapons of mass destruction including evil chemistry and evil biology are all matters of great concern, not only to the United States but also to the world community. They were the subject of U.N. resolutions," Ashcroft said.

George W. Bush sees the world as a larger version of Texas.

Specifically, on the issue of foreign policy, he treats nations like he treated death-row inmates.

First, you're accused and convicted of crimes based on minimal intelligence.
Instead of giving the accused a fair trial, you rush them through the court and give them the death penalty.

The accused is then executed but there a few that say that the now executed criminal was not guilty of the crimes they were accused of. These dissenters are quickly marginalized and humiliated.
Then, after lengthy studies, the now-executed criminal is found to have not caused the crime that they were accused of.

The Governor/President then uses the fractured justification of: Well if they didn't commit that specific crime, they committed some sort of other crime at some point in their life so having them executed was still justified.

Finally, he relies on the blood-lust of paranoid Americans/Texans to get away with all of this scott-free.

The government's budget outlook deteriorated further on Monday as the Congressional Budget Office projected nearly $2.4 trillion in deficits over the next decade, providing new fuel for an election-year battle over soaring federal shortfalls.

Along with the forecast, almost $1 trillion worse than estimated in August, Congress' nonpartisan fiscal watchdog said this year's deficit would hit $477 billion. That would be a record in dollar terms.
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The budget office projected that for the decade ending in 2013, the red ink will total $2.38 trillion. That was $986 billion worse than it projected in August and $3.7 trillion deeper than it projected only a year ago.

As Bush took office in January 2001, the budget office projected surpluses totaling $5.6 trillion for the decade ending in 2011.