Bush to receive the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award from ALEC

President George W. Bush will address the members of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) during its 32nd Annual Meeting in Grapevine, Texas on Wednesday, Aug. 3.

"President George W. Bush's steadfast commitment to free-markets, and limited government is a hallmark of this organization. It is truly an honor to have the President speak at our Annual Meeting," said Georgia State Representative Earl Ehrhart, ALEC's national chairman.

The conference is being held at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, Aug.3 to Aug. 5. The President will address the conference attendees during Wednesday's luncheon and will be awarded the Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award.

The Thomas Jefferson Freedom Award is given annually to an individual who has established an exemplary record of accomplishment in advancing the fundamental Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism and individual liberty. Past recipients have included the men and women of the United States Armed Forces, President Ronald Reagan, President George H. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, among others. ..cont'd

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=51128

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Don't know anything about ALEC? FIND OUT!

The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) boasts “During the 1999-2000 legislative cycle, ALEC legislators introduced more than 3100 pieces of legislation based on our models, and more than 450 of these were enacted. . . . In the legislative Sessions of 2000, there were more than 2150 introductions promoting ALEC Policy.”
So why haven’t we ever heard of this group?

Because corporate America doesn’t want us to know. Close scrutiny reveals that ALEC is little more than a screen for hundreds of big corporations and trade associations to advance their legislative agendas in state capitals from coast to coast.

http://www.alecwatch.org/

ALEC Homepage: http://www.alec.org/

I'd buy it if we eliminated corporate welfare

so he can slap the taste out of ALEC's mouth.

Jay

One day Thomas may rise up and bite this bunch in the balls.

When people are being held incommunicado, without access to legal counsel or charges being filed?

That's limited government?

all they've ever meant by "limited gub'mint" (and their supporters' "boomsticks").
Carcinogens, DDT, Kalashnikovs, MX missiles, and hog farms as far as the eye can see (but agents on the phone, in the bedroom, in the library, and in the Virginia-sized Freedom Love Liberty Liberty Freedom Love Camp in Utah and Reeducation Camp Ronald Reagan where the Everglades--er, Dow Chemical--Swamp was.

given shrub the time of day.

I was just thinking this as I scolled over your post.....you know what they say-great minds think alike!! lol
Except I like your added vision of mach 1 speed:toast:

Oh... that's ol' Tom Jefferson, spinning in his grave.... especially on account of the individual liberty part. And he wasn't real big on religion in government, either.

Because ALEC is just the kind of organization Bush represents. They tried to pass legislation in Texas a couple years ago to redefine ecological terrorists as:

"two or more persons organized for the purpose of supporting any politically motivated activity intended to obstruct or deter any person from participating in an activity involving animals or an activity involving natural resources."

The law would have created an ONLINE DATABASE of anyone found guilty of such "crimes", and make the "criminal" responsible for informing the govt. of address changes so the database could be updated, and made any filming of an "animal enterprise" a felony. That would have meant that reporters filming expired meat products at the grocery store would have made them felons.

http://www.serconline.org/watchdog/watchdog2003/watchdog29.html

See the link at the bottom for Texas HB 433. Scary stuff. Fortunately even conservatives were against the bill and it was laughed out of our congress ... for now.

What morons.

This guy has expanded the size of the government to the biggest it's been in American history!! There is almost no nook or cranny where it doesn't have its fat fingers. The Patriot Act is the most invasive piece of legislation in centuries!!

I want to laugh. I have to cry.

his heart? I sure he would prefer it.

Then rises from the dead and asks Bush to meet him on the White House lawn....

what's this dude been smokin'?


Seriously, why are these creeps allowed to get away with this crap? Limited government? Free markets? This maladmin has shown nothing but contempt for both, and much much more. :grr:

that's the freedom he's shown us... the freedom to do whatever the hell he wants and we have to shut up and take it.

Julio Gonzalez dancing Award,

Jeffery Dalmer cooking Award

Jefferson, how dare they use his name in anything in connection to Bush.

Take away the dim-wittedness, the fascism, the graft, war profiteering, treason, lying, bible thumping and theft and you have a guy who is almost the exact equal of Jefferson.

Sounds like Bush is the perfect recipient.

:puke:

March on Grapevine Texas!

ALEC - Ghostwriting the Law

http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/2002/09/ma_95_01.html

The US can now solve the world's energy problems by simply harnessing the power of Thomas Jefferson as he spins in his grave at the thought of fuckwits like ALEC using his name and ideals to push this sort of crap.

:wtf: If Jefferson were alive today he'd chase Chimpy down Pennsylvania Avenue at the point of a high-powered cattle prod. Do these goons have any idea what Jefferson actually stood for? :grr:

record. He would loathe GWB were he to visit here now.

I'm hearing the whirring, too!
:yoiks:

spinning out in his grave. Wishing his name could be taken off of any "award" given to a traitor of our Country.

This shit annoys me most severely.

Surely, he's more than spinning in that grave. They're probably
drilling him with drills and cutting him in to bits with diamond
saws, republicans licking up the blood of their distortions.

Abruptly, the grave stone tilts back and frankenjefferson emerges
to look at his creation. And smiling without sentience, old
frank gets to work cloning republicans.

All the while, the half eaten, cut up body of jefferson continues
to spurn in his grave every bush or ray gun of his captors.

Oh, were they to photograph all the republicans drinking jefferson's
blood, with the flaming crosses, the white pointy hats, and the blood
stains from the chains they used to hold jefferson down... and
greedily, they lick their pointy teeth and scurry off under the
carpet to breed with their roach buddies in roach motels.

:-*

this much bullshit would have made good fertilizer.

Good for nothing else.
Another despicable day in LaLaLand, aka DC.

because it makes him look good, like Ronnie Reagan...and it beats back the vermin who need the "brush" for sustenance.

But, nevermind. The Chimp needs to keep "claring brush" for his ATV BIKE...so he can "burn them miles...since his poor knees are sore and out of commission." :-(

This must be a right wing think tank, doing some logrolling with PNAC. Their past winners are a catalog of horrors as far as real democracy goes.

This is now Wonderland. Up is down. Black is white. Bush gets a Thomas Jefferson award. Wish you were here to straighten people out.

doesn't seem very smart, does it?

Okay ....

http://www.alec.org/ Confirm Judge Roberts and CAFTA are at the top of the adgenda.


And this POS - http://www.alec.org/meSWFiles/pdf/ShowMeTheMoney2.pdf

Show Me theMoney
Budget-Cutting Strategies for Cash-Strapped States

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III. TEN STRATEGIES FOR
CUTTING BUDGET DEFICITS

The strategies outlined in this study include short-, medium-, and long-term plans for reducing the cost of government. Some of the short-term measures are imperfect and impolitic and will do little to fix long-term budget imbalances. In many states, however, the severity of the current fiscal situation makes stopgap measures unavoidable.

It is important to remember that no matter how successful state governments are in employing short-term measures to close deficits, the seeds of fiscal crisis will remain. Only by fundamentally restructuring government will state policy makers be able to contain
spending growth and return accountability to state finance.

The following ten strategies will help states do both.

1. Go Where the Money Is: Reduce Workforce Costs

Those jokers in Georgia must be drunk and crazy.

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

This is the most secretive, oppressive administration we have ever had (well Nixon was close).