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Jenna Bush Falls For Daschle's Demagoguery About Arsenic in Water, Switches To Beer.

by Randy Barker

Believing Democrat Senator Tom Daschle will lead you down the wrong path. Just ask Jenna Bush, Dubya's daughter and University of Texas freshman. Last week, she saw Senator Daschle attacking her dad for allowing deadly levels of arsenic in our drinking water. That was followed by a Democrat National Committee commercial that had a little kid asking for "May I have more arsenic in my water, please ?" It was too much. That combination caused Jenna to swear off water and led her to the wrong side of Austin where she was cited by police early last Friday morning for "illegally possessing alcohol". But who can blame the 19-year-old for resorting to beer? She wants to live to be 21, and be able to have a drunken binge like Chelsea Clinton reportedly had in Aspen last month.
(But unreported by the liberal press.)

Little did Jenna Bush know that Tom Daschle was "disingenuous" about the
arsenic problem. That our water is safe. And that Daschle himself had voted for delaying a decision on arsenic content until June 21, much as Daddy Dubya wants to do now. Daschle knew that the FDA needs time to find a reasonable level that won't make municipal water unaffordable. But the Democrats are desperate to find something to bash Bush with, and will say anything. Their truthfulness can be measured, like arsenic, in parts per billion.

Since the incident, Jenna's parents have no doubt explained to her about
Senator Daschle's veracity. And that she can now safely have another choice when a bartender asks her to "Name your poison."

Is It Another My Lai, Or Some Other Kind Of Lie?

Remember the My Lai Massacre? It was March 16, 1968. Charlie Company, 11th Brigade, Americal Division. Lt. William Calley in charge when Vietnamese civilians were deliberately killed. Now we hear that less than a year later, on February 25, 1969, a Navy Seal team commanded by Lt. Bob Kerrey did something similar at Thanh Phong. At least that's what team member Gerhard Klann says. Former Senator Bob Kerrey, realizing the story would be published in the New York Times Magazine, came out with damage control and denied Klann's version. That was followed up by a joint statement with five other team members that denied Klann's accusations. Somebody's lying.

It's been 32 years, but time doesn't erase those kinds of memories. I
remember being in Vietnam in 1965 in a foxhole in a rubber plantation in the Delta in the dark with the only light coming from the eerie phosphorescence on the ground-- when the VC attacked through a bamboo thicket 200 yards away, fortunately not directly on our position. You couldn't see anything but muzzle flashes or hear anything but scared guys with guns emptying magazines into the murky darkness. I can understand the situation Kerrey's team was in. I can understand them firing blindly in the direction they were being fired upon. And, I can also understand what it's like to be fired on by a "civilian". At least, I suspect it was a civilian.

What I don't fully understand is what is going on with Kerrey today. I used
to think he was one of the very few honorable Democrat politicians. I started to think differently when he went to Florida and flacked for Al Gore during the post-election spin-a-thon. It looked like he was playing "good soldier" to endear himself to the party faithful for a possible 2004 presidential run. Now I'm wondering about him again. Has he, and now five other Seals, really been covering up a mass execution for 32 years ? Is he getting "bad news" out of the way for that presidential run in 2004? Or is he being set up by The New York Times and CBS News who don't want him running against the much more liberal Senator John Kerry, who suddenly is proud of his Vietnam service after being militantly against the war ? Are Kerrey's wounds self-inflicted? Or was he ambushed by the ultra-liberal press ? It's hard to see through the smoke, but I think it's the latter.

Bush's Negative Report Card

A lot is going to be said this week about what happened during Bush's first
100 days. That's a short time to be measuring accomplishments. More attention should be given to what didn't happen. The President didn't have a bimbo eruption, didn't bomb any aspirin factory in the Sudan, didn't commit troops to some foreign quagmire, didn't change rules about gays in the military, didn't accept money from China, didn't approve the transfer of nuclear or missile technology to any potential enemy, didn't give pardons to traitors and drug dealers, and didn't steal any furniture. Being negative can be positive sometimes.

Excerpts from NotSo SERIOUS MONEY,
a weekly online financial newsletter written by randybarker@aol.com