Political Quotes

“in the past 24 hours, AT&T announced it is cutting an additional 7,000 workers, Bank of America is laying off an additional 4,500 employees, and Unisys 1,400, and 18,000 manufacturing jobs last month alone were lost. Less than an hour ago, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the economy added a paltry 96,000 jobs. Oil prices are above $50 a barrel. Since 2000, 5 million more Americans have entered the rolls of poverty. Bankruptcies are up more than a third. College and health care costs have each gone up by a third in the last 3 years, yet President Bush says we are making steady progress on the economy. In Iraq, the numbers of attacks are increasing daily. Nearly 1,100 Americans have been killed and Republican Senators McCain, Lugar and Hagel have said Iraq is a mess. America is stuck in an endless occupation and a jobless economy, yet the word ``progress'' is how President Bush described the situation. Time after time this administration has tried to bend reality to its ideology. Usually, the fog of war sets in on the battlefield, but it appears the fog of war has set in at the White House.”