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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:12 PM
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Hard to have a nice photo-op after you lay 32 workers off.
President to visit renewable energy lab

GOLDEN - President Bush will arrive in Colorado today ahead of a visit to the National Renewable Energy Lab in Golden Tuesday.

The visit comes as dozens of laid off NREL workers will be returning to their jobs.

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Missy M Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:16 PM
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1. Does he ever stay at the White House? He is going to.....
India the beginning of March and will be welcomed with protests. Has any other president done this much traveling around to campaign because of low numbers? I will have to try and find past presidents travel and vacation habits.
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Blue Poppy Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:27 PM
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2. This is sick...they cut the funding to NREL and laid off
workers, but right before * comes, they give the workers their jobs back? WTF!
Also, Salazar is going to join * at the photo-op :mad:
Why did he agree to it?! They should have sent Wayne Dullard (Allard) since he is the repuke senator here.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:35 PM
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3. Welcome to DU
peace and low stress!
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Javaman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 03:42 PM
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6. Let's see the buried story next week about them being laid off again...
wait for it, it will happen. Like everything with this admin* it's all smoke and mirrors.

After he* leaves the area, the workers will be marched out the back door because they were laid off yet again.

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MadMaddie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:35 PM
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9. I was thinking the same thing...
What's up is down, what's black is white....

They rehired them for the photo op and to pretend to care about their jobs.

They are ever so reactionary in everything that they do.

The * Cabal laid them off to see what kind of response they would get. Then * slipped and mentioned funding research in alternative energy sources...

Conveniently he goes to the state where he laid off the workers and then re-hired them....
:banghead:
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Democrats_win Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:40 PM
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4. Proof that if there's a will there's a way. If * would get out of the way
our country could move forward instead of regress.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 12:54 PM
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5. Ahh, so that's why I woke up feeling like crap today..
It must be a reaction to the presence of pure evil and stupidity a few miles to the West. Hey *, come to Denver and we'll show you again how much we despise you.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:18 PM
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7. From Michael Huttener about NREL - who to thank and NOT to thank..
Edited on Mon Feb-20-06 04:57 PM by HawkeyeX

Dear Network Member,

Great news! We received word late yesterday that the 32 jobs cut at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will be restored as soon as possible.

Thank you to:

Anonymous Tipster: Two weeks ago one of our network members, who asked to remain anonymous, tipped us that the President was planning to visit NREL which we passed on to the press. Thank you and to so many others who continue to feed us timely tips.

Courageous Laid-off NREL Workers: Who had the courage to share their concerns on how NREL's cuts were a set-back to investing in our country's alternative energy efforts.

Congressman Mark Udall and Senator Ken Salazar: Last November, Udall sent a bipartisan letter signed by over 100 members of Congress to President Bush demanding that the NREL funding be fully restored. Last Tuesday, Salazar met with and lobbied President Bush to restore the NREL funding.

ProgressNowAction Members: Thank you to the thousands of you who signed our petition to restore NREL's funding, participated in our "Bush Question" sign contest, and emailed your local newspaper about the importance of restoring the NREL's funding.
No thanks should be given to:

Congressman Bob Beauprez: Not only did Beauprez vote for the cuts to NREL which is in his district, he also refused to sign the bipartisan letter to restore the cuts. Worst of all, he tried to take credit for helping NREL, in a Rocky Mountain News guest editorial this past Saturday, when he, more than any other member of Congress, is most to blame for the cuts. For the facts and a response to Both Ways Bob's hypocritical editorial click here.

Senator Wayne Allard: Allard, a member of the majority on the Senate Appropriations completely dropped the ball by allowing the cuts in the first place. The past couple weeks he has tried to blame the cuts on minority member of the Appropriations committee, which the Colorado press--to its credit--didn't buy. Worst of all, Allard is now trying to take credit for the restoration of cuts by being the first to put out a release about how "pleased" he is to the press.
As for President Bush, he will arrive in Denver tonight and will be visiting NREL tomorrow morning. Stay tuned to our homepage, www.progressnowaction.org, for the latest plans regarding his visit.

Sincerely,

Michael Huttner

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Blue Poppy Donating Member (116 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Feb-20-06 04:26 PM
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8. ProgressNowAction has been on the Jay Marvin show a
couple of times.
I like how they skewered Beauprez for prancing around in a flight suit during a photo op when he's never served in the military.
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mdmc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-02-06 12:38 PM
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10. kick for the flip flop
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