USA: The Village Voice gives the RNC a great big welcome with a top 10 list of all the ways W screwed New York City:
- Will any convention speaker dare mention the name of Osama bin Laden? What ever happened to Bush’s cowboy threat to “smoke ‘em” out?
- Why was Bush so afraid of a 9–11 investigation?
- Was the Bush team awake in the nine months before the attack?
- Iraq plus tax cuts adds up to a deficit that will force a second-term squeeze on social programs vital to NYC.
- Bush did OK on the $20 billion, but he’s still shortchanging us on the edges of the minimal pledge he made to a city whose economy took an $80 billion hit.
- Senator Schumer says NY doesn’t expect a share of Idaho’s farm subsidies, so why does Idaho take a chunk of NY’s security subsidies?
- What could be worse than lying to GZ workers and residents about the air they were breathing?
- Bush has left most New York children behind.
- Ten thousand NY families are in jeopardy of losing their housing subsidies and homes.
- With NYC the No. 1 target of bio and nuclear terrorists, the go-it-alone Bush administration has torpedoed international treaties that would make us more secure.
Don’t forget that W won’t stay overnight in New York City next week. He gives his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention next Thursday and then runs like a little girly man to Pennsylvania after the balloons drop.
