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CPAC UPDATE
Cheney, First Lady appeal to GOP:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-104707-6441r.htm
Conservatives grumble over Bush's policies:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-104721-3989r.htm
Listen to CPAC coverage live on the web!
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ANOTHER GREAT LETTER
While we thoroughly enjoyed Hale DeMar's letter to the
Wilmette town leaders
telling 'em to stick to planting trees and leave defending his
home and
family to him and Smith & Wesson, another must-read letter
emerged this
morning which blames President Bush for costing him his job and
killing two
of his sons in Iraq...with a rather surprising twist at the end.
You gotta
read this one, too. I've it posted on the News & Views website
at:
http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm
IT'S SPELLED: I-L-L-E-G-A-L
"The most compelling reason to oppose this latest amnesty
effort, of course,
has to do with the rule of law. Amnesty for illegal aliens is
simply a
reward for law-breaking. No system depending on a strict regard
for the rule
of law can treat law-breaking so casually. Amnesty will be a
magnet for
further illegal immigrants, who hope to be the future recipients
of the
nation's 'compassion.' . . . Public opinion is firmly opposed to
increased
immigration and amnesty for illegal aliens. . . . Amnesty not
only
encourages illegal immigration, but contempt for the law as
well."
- Edward J. Erler of the Claremont Institute
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MUTH'S TRUTHS
Why are conservatives so ticked off at the President's
amnesty...er,
"temporary worker" program? Find out in this week's "Muth's
Truths" at
www.citizenoutreach.com
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LOOK FOR THE UNION LABEL...IF YOU CAN FIND IT
"The other big development (in the Iowa caucus) that sent
disturbing signals
to the (Democrat) party was organized labor's failure to turn out
the union
vote for Mr. Gephardt or Mr. Dean. Mr. Gephardt had more labor
endorsements
than anyone, but Mr. Dean had won support from several of the
biggest unions
in the country. Neither were helped by them, despite thousands of
union
volunteers working in their behalf in a big labor state. Mr.
Gephardt drew
more than 15 percent of the vote in only 23 of Iowa's 99
counties.
"Labor's failure to turnout the vote for the candidates it has
endorsed
suggests two things: Labor unions are no longer the political
powers they
once were in election contests, union households no longer follow
the
dictates of their union bosses in how they vote."
- Columnist Donald Lambro
MY BIG, FAT UNION GOOSE-EGG
"Richard Gephardt's devastating fourth-place finish trumpeted
the limits of
organized labor support. Everyone knows union-backing is not
enough
anymore. But even in a caucus state, the strong endorsement of
21 labor
unions was not enough to turn out more than 11 percent of the
122,000 caucus
voters for Mr. Gephardt, resulting in zero national delegates."
- Columnist Maggie Gallagher
MIGHTY, MIGHTY INVISIBLE GROUND GAME
"Iowa Democrats also throttled the political engines of
organized labor -
the bulk of which supported Mr. Dean or Rep. Richard Gephardt of
Missouri.
That loud sound you hear is the collective head scratching of
most political
pros around the country wondering what happened to the vaunted
union 'ground
game.'
"'Our (labor) guys were nowhere to be seen,' said a Democrat
who supported
Mr. Gephardt. For all the talk about this being a big fight
between the new
services oriented unions such as (Service Employees International
Union and
the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees)
and 'old'
labor (Teamsters and the United Auto Workers), neither team
apparently
showed up in full force.
"'This was a double loss for labor leaders,' a former Democrat
hill staffer
told me. 'Not only did the two candidates they backed lose, but
the majority
of rank-in-file labor union members supported (Senators) Kerry
and Edwards.'
Some may ask who the labor bosses support if both Mr. Gephardt
and Mr. Dean
implode; others may ask, 'Who cares?' "
- Columnist Gary J. Andres
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SOTU FELL FLAT
"I like President Bush. I'll probably vote for him in
November. However, his
State of the Union speech was probably the least inspiring speech
I have
heard in a long time. Mr. Bush failed to offer any real vision
for the
future. What he gave us instead was a shopping list of
election-year
gimmicks, most of which are simply wasteful spending; some are
even harmful.
"One proposal I especially hate is the one about drug testing
our children
in school. I would much rather teach our children about our
nation's history
and government, as well as our civil rights. Instead, we are
teaching our
children to shut up and submit to being drug tested, X-rayed,
videotaped and
searched without any kind of warrant or probable cause. When are
we going to
teach our children about the rights and freedoms guaranteed in
the
Constitution?"
- Michael K. Magner of Virginia Beach (VA), Washington Times,
1/22/04
IT'S THE SPENDING, STUPID
"If conservatives like the (President's) tax cuts and agree
their effect was
to powerfully stimulate the economy, as Mr. Bush said (in the
State of the
Union address), the conservatives don't much like the runaway
spending that
can be only partially explained by the war on terrorism. . . .
Indeed, if it
is still a conservative principle to stand for limited
government, you have
to wonder why the president wants to keep adding one program on
top of
another to supposedly correct our private lives.
"...I think a great many conservatives today do fear either
that political
considerations too often override Mr. Bush's conservative
principles or that
his principles are not all that conservative after all. The
conservatism
that is most compassionate, some of us think, is a conservatism
that fights
to have the government leave us alone to live our own lives
without
encumbrances that finally serve no one's good."
- Columnist Jay Ambrose
CONSERVATIVE REVOLT
"Conservatives on Capitol Hill and around the country have
complained about
the increases in domestic spending during Mr. Bush's
administration that
exceed those of his Democratic predecessor, Bill Clinton. Rep.
Sue Myrick,
North Carolina Republican and chairman of the Republican Study
Committee,
urged the president yesterday to show spending restraint.
'Conservatives
believe that the entire cost of new initiatives ought to be
offset with
other reductions in spending,' Mrs. Myrick said."
- Washington Times, 1/22/04
MAYBE A STEP IN RIGHT DIRECTION
The Bush administration leaked word today that it intends to
"freeze"
discretionary spending to less than a 1 percent increase for
federal
spending not related to defense or homeland security. While we
surely
welcome such a move, what do you want to bet Congress finds a way
to declare
the construction of a $50 million indoor tropical rain forest in
Iowa a
"homeland security" priority? Watch these people, folks. They're
slippery.
Don't trust 'em as far as you can throw 'em. Read the full
story HERE:
http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040122-113950-1435r.htm
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THIS WEEK ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD
State of the Union Address
Democrat Primary
Omnibus Spending Bill
Bush & His Base
Immigration Nation
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