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Hillary’s Revenge
"Hey, we got one right! On Wednesday we predicted that if Ted Olson's
nomination to be solicitor general came to the Senate floor, Hillary
Clinton would vote against it, and yesterday she did just that. Then
again, so did 46 other Democrats. ... What's astonishing, though, is that
Hillary also voted against the nominations of Viet Dinh and Michael
Chertoff to top Justice Department jobs. Dinh was confirmed by a 96-1
vote, Chertoff 95-1. What motivated Hillary to vote against nominees who
were acceptable to such left-wing Democrats as Ted Kennedy, Barbara Boxer
and Paul Wellstone? Her spokeswoman, Karen Dunn, says: ‘Based on
information she had, she did not believe these individuals had the
background or judgment to be elevated to such high positions of
responsibility.’
"Yeah, right. Here's a more likely explanation: Chertoff is a former
counsel
to the Senate Whitewater Committee, and Dinh worked for the Whitewater
independent counsel's office. Clearly Hillary could not bring herself to
vote
to confirm nominees who had investigated her own wrongdoing. This
has got to be the lamest act of political payback we've ever heard of. ...
Hillary
didn't even bother to enlist a single fellow Democrat to join her in
voting against Dinh and Chertoff, thereby making it clear that her motives
were purely personal. If we were Dinh or Chertoff, we'd wear Hillary's
‘no’ vote as a badge of honor."
- Best of the Web, 5/25/01
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Ahead of Their Time
"From the minutes of the Republican Town Caucus, April 24, 1984:
‘The caucus then unanimously adopted the following resolution:
Whereas, Congressman James M. Jeffords has compiled a voting record of the
sort one would expect from a fellow who can't pour maple sap out of a
boot, even with the
instructions printed on the heel; and Whereas, instead of urging our
Republican President Ronald Reagan to stand firm on his principles,
Congressman James M. Jeffords has hollered bloody murder most every time
he did so, thereby using him for a punching bag all over Washington and
Vermont, if not the whole civilized world, and Whereas, if Congressman
James M.
Jeffords were ever put on trial for telling the straight truth about
anything, no jury in Caledonia County would be likely to convict him,
therefore be it Resolved by the Kirby Town Caucus, that the true
Republicans of this town would cross hell on a rotten rail before they
would vote for him again.’ Attest: John McClaughry, caucus
chairman April 24, 1984."
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The REAL Reason Gas Prices Are So High
"I filled up my SUV yesterday, and paid the clerk $30.00.
$15.00 dollars for
the gasoline and $15.00 for taxes. I get to burn the $15.00 worth of
gasoline. The government gets to burn the $15.00 in tax money.
- Julian Dubuc, 5/26/01
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Clan of the Cave Bear
"If Democrats had their way, we would have no oil drilling, no
nuclear, no
coal, no nothing ... in fact, we would have California, where a
conservation-only energy policy has given us ... drumroll please ... no
power! Perhaps a return to cave dwelling would satisfy the enviro-nuts
dictating Democrat strategy. Meanwhile, we finally have a president who
administers common sense and balance to environmental and energy policies.
No wonder Democrats are going crazy. For decades, their positions on
energy and environment have been based on junk science, exaggeration and
deceit. Then again, what aspect of the Democrat platform isn't?"
- Columnist Tom Adkins, The Hill, 5/25/01
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The Conscience of the Republican Party
"Now, admittedly, Republicans on the liberal-left side of the
spectrum are
also the ones who are likely to support gay rights legislation, but is
this
really a winning long-term strategy for gays who want a more inclusive
GOP?
Should the road to gay inclusion be based on expanding the power of the
federal government to regulate business hiring decisions or would a more
effective focus of Republican gays be to demand, in the words of gay
pundit
Andrew Sullivan, 'Equality, period'...
"Interestingly, there may be a growing alternative within the GOP
that would
be open to this approach, comprised of 'libertarian' -- not liberal --
Republicans. Libertarians, as a rule, want less government, not more. They
favor tax cuts, less onerous regulation, and limited government activism.
But unlike 'conservatives,' they are consistent in their principles, and
don't think the government should be telling people how to conduct their
private lives.
" ... Indeed, there is a growing libertarian movement within the GOP,
spearheaded by the Republican Liberty Caucus. 'The most important thing is
to get libertarian-leaning Republicans to vote Republican,' said Liberty
Caucus
National Chairman Chuck Muth, who added, 'Government is already too big
and intrusive.' A newly energized Liberty Caucus will recruit, train
and support
Republican candidates to go up against other Republicans, he said,
including
incumbents who don't support 'maximizing personal freedom.'"
- Columnist Stephen Miller, 5/25/01
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Faster Than a Speeding Bureaucrat
Three boys were heading home from school one day when one started the
time-honored game of paternal one-upmanship. He said, "My dad's way
faster than any of yours, he can throw a 90-mph fast ball from the
pitcher's mound
and run and catch it just after it crosses the plate!" One of
the other boys
said, "Oh yeah? Well, my dad can shoot an arrow from his bow and run
to the
target and hold it up to make sure the arrow hits the bulls eye!"
The last
boy said, "Your dads don't even come close to being faster than mine.
My dad
works for the government, and even though he works every day until 4:00 he
gets home at 3:30!"
- Forwarded by GOPN&V reader
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# #The Fart Tax
“New Zealand, famous for having more sheep (46 million) than people (3.8
million), is considering imposing a tax on livestock flatulence, which
supposedly contributes to global warming. Farmers would have to pay
between four and 60 New Zealand dollars (roughly US $1.75 to $25) for each
head of livestock, ‘with rates differing depending on emission
levels,’ the Sunday Star-Times reports. We just thought we'd note this,
ahem, in passing.”
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One Tough Republican
“Raoul Felder -- (New York Mayor Rudy) Giuliani's divorce lawyer --
recently
revealed that the mayor's prostate cancer treatments have lowered his
testosterone level such that not even Viagra can stimulate him. Giuliani
has
a reversible case of ‘chemical castration.’ But even with his
testosterone
count down around his ankles, Giuliani remains more of a man than the
average
Republican politician ever will be.
“Too many GOP officials push their ideas bashfully while leaping in
terror
from their own shadows. Just watch congressional Republicans ‘limit
government’ by outspending Democrats. GOP governors likewise spew public
cash and sign hate crimes legislation to show they care.
“Despite his tawdry private life, Giuliani's public performance deserves
imitation by Republicans from Malibu to the Mall. On taxes, spending,
education, energy and race, Giuliani does the right thing on demand and
without apology. … Giuliani avoids weasel words like ‘opportunity
scholarships.’ He proudly embraces ‘vouchers.’ The
as-yet-Republican
Congress, meanwhile, has deleted school-choice language from President
Bush's education plan. And Bush let them.”
- Columnist Deroy Murdock, 5/24/01
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Meet the Enemy of Education Excellence
“It is difficult to overstate the power of the NEA (National Education
Association) and its influence on the entire public school establishment.
With a budget of more than $200 million and a large staff, NEA is one of
the most important unions. ... On the voucher issue, NEA’s mission is to
prevent competition in its labor market and to retain policy leverage by
protecting
the near-monopoly position of government schools. ... The NEA political
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its anti-voucher, anti-school choice agenda. Last year, NEA’s PAC
contributed $8 million to campaigns to return Democrats to the majority in
Congress. Only occasionally does the NEA support a Republican.”
- Columnist Richard Tradwell, “Organization Trends,” Capital Research
Center, May 2001
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Squealing Like Stuck Pigs
“No wonder the California Teachers Association was howling. Ray
Haynes
actually wanted them to practice what they preach. Mr. Haynes, a
Republican
state senator from California, recently introduced legislation in
Sacramento
that would have required public school teachers to send their children to
public schools. Teachers cried out in opposition from the Redwood
forests of
Northern California to the Mexican border.
“’Peole,’ said teachers union spokesman Mike Myslinski, ‘have the
right to
put their children in (private schools).’ Teachers union officials
for school choice? Before Mr. Haynes’ bill, that group could have
met comfortably in a phone booth. ... So why did Mr. Haynes’ legislation
strike a nerve? As it turns out, one-third of California’s
teachers send their kids to private schools, a teachers union survey
shows.”
- Jennifer Garrett of the Heritage Foundation
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Boob Tube Solution
“Censorship may not be the answer to polluted TV but parental
responsibility
is. A recent study by Children’s Hospital Medical Center in
Cincinnati found
that 40 percent of two-year-olds are watching a minimum of three hours
of TV
per day. The American Academy of Pediatrics says kids under age two
should not be watching TV at all, and those between two and five should be
strictly limited to two hours per day.
“Turn off the TV or, better yet, get rid of it. Try dinner table
conversation, meet your neighbors, read good books, rent old movies or, if
the TV remains, block out all but the really good things.”
- Columnist Cal Thomas
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Screwing Farmers to Save Suckers
“’At least they're not shooting at me this time.’ That's about the
only good
thing World War II veteran Paul Christy has to say in comparing his
experiences as a fighter pilot 55 years ago with what he and his fellow
veterans-turned-farmers are experiencing today at the hands of their own
government in Klamath Basin. Christy and 213 other war veterans came
home from defending their country in the mid-1940s and were lured by the
U.S.
government to Klamath Basin, a high desert area that straddles the
California-Oregon state line, by promises of a homestead including
irrigated
farmland with guaranteed water rights forever. In fact, Klamath Lake was
developed in 1905 specifically to irrigate the basin's family farms.
“But today, the government that Christy and others defended has decided
--
with the prompting of professional environmental activists -- that the
farmers' water rights are less important than the rights of some
‘endangered’ sucker fish and ‘threatened’ coho salmon. As a
result of ‘citizen’ lawsuits filed by the activists under a provision
of the Endangered Species Act, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which
operates the irrigation system, turned off the taps on April 7. The Bureau
decided to set aside virtually all of the water from Klamath Lake to
protect habitats for the sucker fish and salmon instead. The lake is
full, but the irrigation ditches are dry. Without irrigation water, the
farmers' crops and pastureland
- and with it their livelihoods and way of life - are in jeopardy of
becoming
a thing of the past.”
- Pat Taylor, CNSNews.com, 5/21/01
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New One From the Safety Nazis
“Two U.S. lawmakers unveiled proposed legislation on Tuesday that would
ban
the use of hand-held mobile telephones while driving and withhold federal
highway funds from states that failed to implement the ban. The two
similar
measures, both introduced by Democrats, would require states to come up
with penalty systems for violations, either imposing fines or assessing
points on a driver's license that could lead to a suspension of driving
privileges.
New York Rep. Gary Ackerman's proposal would require drivers to use
speaker phones or earpiece devices allowing both hands to be on the
steering wheel. New Jersey Sen. Jon Corzine's measure would give the
states more discretion to decide what kinds of cellphone use in vehicles
constitutes a threat to public safety.”
- Reuters, 5/22/01
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One Heck of a Jobs Program
"San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown... and his fundraising coordinator
had a
baby girl. He paid her $380,000. Jessie Jackson paid his girlfriend
$450,000.
I guess these are the high paying jobs for women created during the
Clinton
Administration."
- "Tonight Show host Jay Leno
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Reagan-Republican vs. Jeffords-Republican
"For a few fleeting hours last month, Bret D. Schundler thought he
had the
Republican nomination for governor of New Jersey locked up. Then the
Republicans weighed in. Donald T. DiFrancesco, the acting governor,
had just withdrawn from the race in a hailstorm of criticism over his
legal ethics and
business dealings. Mr. Schundler, the mayor of Jersey City, was the only
other candidate in the field.
"Not only that, but here was a man any good Republican could embrace:
a
proven tax-cutter, fund-raiser and vote-getter. An apostle of school
choice
and smaller government who had won over Democrats and minorities in New
Jersey's second-largest city. An intellectual George W. Bush. But
state
Republican leaders shunned him as if he were a disease. Calling him way
too
far-right for New Jersey - he opposes abortion rights, for starters - they
drafted a moderate, former Representative Bob Franks, to carry the party's
banner.
"Mr. Schundler now faces Mr. Franks in the June 26 primary, in what
is
shaping up as a power struggle over the future of the New Jersey
Republican
Party. The outcome could revivify the moderate establishment, personified
by
former Govs. Tom Kean and Christie Whitman, that has ruled for generations
while being increasingly orphaned on the national scene. Or it could help
vault to prominence a little-understood but feisty conservative wing that
has found in Mr. Schundler its first credible, well-financed champion in
decades."
- New York Times, 5/21/01
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Naiveté Is NOT A Leadership Quality
"Senator Lott is incredible. He said Friday morning that 'we
worked to share
power in the evenly divided Senate and now that the Democrats are in
power, I
expect a similar power-sharing agreement to be crafted.' How naive.
Does
Lott really believe that the Democrats, given their new majority, will
share
their new power the way Lott and the Republicans did? Yeah, right.
No
matter how bi-partisan Republicans are, not matter how many concessions we
make to them, no matter how nice we are or how much we compromise or share
power, Democrats will never, NEVER, return the favor. … Come on, GOP.
Jeffords' damage is done. Time to get tough, appoint leaders who
will get
the job done, court the Libertarian vote, and campaign hard to ensure we
regain control of the Senate in 2002."
- Ted Miller, Colorado Springs, CO
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Where the Hell Is the ACLU When You Need 'Em?
"'Your future begins here' is the motto of Florida's Estero High
School. But
if your name is Lindsay Brown, you can begin your future somewhere else,
thank you very much. Brown is the 18-year-old senior who spent nine hours
in jail Monday for having a steak knife wedged in the seat of her car; the
'weapon' had apparently fallen out of a box when she was moving over the
weekend. Principal Fred Bode tells the Fort Myers News-Press that
because
Brown has been suspended from school, she won't be allowed to attend the
school's graduation ceremony next Tuesday. She's also banished from the
senior class breakfast and a party for the staff of the yearbook, which
she
worked on. 'We're just stepping up our efforts in order to provide a
safe
environment in the school for our students and teachers,' Bode tells the
paper. What a hero."
- Best of the Web, 5/24/01
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Duh
"As the minutes went by and the hours, it became abundantly clear
that this
has nothing to do with an economic policy. This is nothing but a big tax
cut."
- Hillary Rodham Clinton, Washington Post, 5/23/01
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Refreshing Plain-Speaking From a Republican
"They knew over a year ago they had a problem, and (California Gov.)
Gray
Davis (D) refused to address that problem, kept putting it off and putting
it
off and putting it off, with the notion that somehow price caps could be
maintained. Now, today where are they in California? Well, rates are
having
to go up. They've got rolling blackouts. They bankrupted the biggest
utility
in the state, destroyed the state's credit rating and squandered a
significant portion of the state's financial surplus in a hair-brained
scheme to try to use the state to purchase power. So the classic thing, I
mean, if you want to see how not to do it is to look at California."
- Vice President Dick Cheney in an interview with Tim Russert
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This Is the Kind of Creative Thinking the GOP Needs
"The GOP ought to start sending out 'Democrat Energy Shortage
Solution Kits'
consisting of three candles, a pair of mittens, and a bicycle.
Complete with
pictures of McAuliffe, Gephardt, and Daschle stepping out of big SUV's at
rallies to distribute them."
- J. David Krauser
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Much More Than a Dime's Worth of Difference
"Attorney General John Ashcroft has thrown out the Clinton
administration's
interpretation of the Second Amendment--that it applies only to the rights
of states to maintain militias--and restored the interpretation that 'the
text
and the original intent of the Second Amendment clearly protects the right
of
individuals to keep and bear firearms.' He made his statement in a letter
to
the National Rifle Association, the Washington Times reports."
- Best of the Web, 5/23/01
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Like Daniel In the Lion's Den
"Conservatives need to learn to stay away from shows like Politically
Incorrect and The View. You would understand why if you were from the
rural
south. You can throw a boar hog in with a pack of curs and the hog may rip
apart three or four dogs but in the end the cur dogs win."
- Tom Hough, Natchitoches, La.
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