Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America Large Print by Molly Ivins; Lou Dubose

Author:Molly Ivins; Lou Dubose
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Writing, Non-fiction, Politics, Humour, History
ISBN: 9781400095353
Publisher: Thorndike Pr
Published: 2003-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

10.

Warm in the White House

First and first and foremost, we’ve got to make sure we fully fund LIHEAP, which is a way to help low-income folks, particularly here in the East, pay their high fuel bills.

—GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENTIAL DEBATE, BOSTON, OCTOBER 2000

Let’s begin by demonstrating our grasp of the obvious: George W. Bush has never faced the choices Luz Cruz wakes up to every day. He doesn’t know much about cold houses. Maybe that’s why he refused to release the $300 million in federal funds that would have helped Cruz keep her house warm in the winter of 2003. This remarkable example of compassionate conservatism is enough to make you wonder if the country has completely lost its gag reflex. While the president was cutting the heating subsidy for people in Luz Cruz’ desperate circumstances, he was also pushing a $337 billion cut in dividend taxes that benefits only the very rich. Bloomberg News Service applied Bush’s proposed tax cuts to Bush’s own 2002 tax returns and to those of Vice President Cheney. The resulting savings would be $44,500 for Bush and $326,555 for Cheney.

If you think Bush later changed his mind and released $200 million in the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP) funds in January 2003, you have been misinformed. The story was just complex enough so that it was reported wrong. More on that later.

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