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CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS
January 29, 2004
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I SCREAM, YOU SCREAM, WE ALL SCREAM...
"But the biggest shock was the poor showing of former Vermont Gov. Howard
Dean, who did far worse than expected in Iowa, then gave his now-famous
post-caucus speech, in which he sounded as though he'd been gargling with
paint thinner, and then, out of nowhere, emitted a scream that was a
pitch-perfect imitation of a small-hipped woman giving birth to an upright
piano."
- Columnist Dave Barry
SPEAKING FOR ALL OF US.
"I wouldn't want him sitting next to the button."
- Connie Dumont of Merrimack, New Hampshire, on why she couldn't vote for
Howard Dean, Washington Times, 1/28/04
HERE'S HOW DESPERATE DEAN IS
"If I were president tomorrow, the first thing I would do is pick up the
phone and call the only person who has had any kind of success in bringing
the Palestinians and the Israelis together in the last 25 years I'd call
Bill Clinton and ask him to represent me in the peace process."
- Howard Dean in New Hampshire
TRIPPI TRIPPED UP
"Joe Trippi, the mastermind behind former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean's
stunning rise prior to the Iowa caucuses, quit the Dean campaign Wednesday.
Dean, who stumbled badly after suffering an unexpected defeat in Iowa,
reportedly sought to put longtime Al Gore aide Roy Neel in as campaign CEO
and to shift Trippi into an advisory role. Trippi reportedly quit rather
than accept the demotion."
- UPI, 1/28/04
SPACE CADET
"Rep. Dennis Kucinich, who seems to have been separated from Mr. Spock of
Star Trek at birth, sounds almost as though he comes from outer space."
- Columnist Halle Dale
WEAK ON TERROR
"Listening to all the aspiring commanders in chief (except for Joe
Lieberman), I don't hear any campaign promises related to winning the war on
terrorism. They make a few obligatory references to getting Osama bin Laden
rather than wasting our time with Saddam Hussein, and then they get on to
their real campaign message, which is the conventional, peacetime Democratic
argument to tax the rich and give the proceeds to their likely voters."
- Columnist Tony Blankley
WEAK ON DEFENSE
"(John) Kerry...cares about as much for national security as a giraffe. From
his first days in Congress, the Massachusetts liberal has been to the very
far left of the political spectrum in his national security views. . . . In
short, Mr. Kerry likes to pretend he would make the tough national security
choices as president. Highly unlikely. He never made the tough choices when
he was a senator."
- Peter Huessy, president of GeoStrategic Analysis
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GUNS & BUTTER, THE SEQUEL
"A growing number of Republicans seem to be getting nervous about the
direction of their president's proposed domestic agenda, including the
alarming growth of the deficit. It seems to remind them of Lyndon Johnson's
guns and butter disaster of four decades ago. Republican members of
Congress have been warning that spending is out of control and Republicans
throughout the nation have shown dissatisfaction with some of the president'
s showcase programs like No Child Left Behind."
- Columnist Dan Thomasson
FISCAL IRRESPONSIBILITY
The GOP-controlled White House and Congress have been so bad on the spending
issue that Democrat Minority Leader Tom "Saddened" Daschle said on Tuesday,
"I think it's abundantly clear now that this administration is the most
fiscally irresponsible we've had in our nation's history." The biggest
problem is...he may have a point.
FAIRLY WARNED ON AMNESTY
"Twenty-three congressmen warned President Bush in a letter yesterday that
he risks an election-year backlash from Republican voters if he continues to
press his guest-worker proposal. The Republican lawmakers said their
congressional offices have received a flood of angry letters, e-mails and
phone calls from Republican constituents vowing that they will refuse to
vote for the president if his program is approved."
- Washington Times, 1/28/04
OK, CIRCLE UP THE FIRING SQUAD
Last fall, a series of devastating memos were published by the Wall Street
Journal and the Washington Times which exposed collusion on the part of
Democrat senators and far-left organizations to screw with the nation's
judiciary. One memo exposed the racist plan to block Miguel Estrada from a
judicial appointment for fear he might become the first Hispanic to end up
on the Supreme Court. In another, it was revealed that Democrats dragged
their feet on vacancies in the 6th Circuit until AFTER a contentious
affirmative-action case was decided. The leaked memos weren't exactly the
Pentagon Papers, but they WERE a serious indictment of foul-play by the
Democrats.
So naturally, Republicans have lined up one of their own for the firing
squad.
Yup. Instead of going after the Democrats and the lefties for their naked
obstruction of the judicial confirmation process for purely partisan
reasons, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has put staffer Manny Miranda on
a leave of absence as they investigate, not what the Democrats did, but how
the memos exposing what the Democrats did were obtained. Miranda maintains
he did not leak the memos or do anything else wrong.
Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Orrin Hatch is fuming over the incident.
Not that Miranda is being hung out to dry or that the Democrats colluded to
hold up nominations in his committee, but that memos exposing the collusion
were leaked. "It shouldn't have happened and I'm upset that it did," said
the Utah Republican.
The more things change...
THE BUCKRAKERS
"The American people recognize there are too many trial lawyers in the legal
game...to get themselves rich off of contingency fees. To those
money-grubbing barristers, the wheel of justice is a wheel of fortune. They
file lawsuit after lawsuit, no matter how frivolous in far too many cases,
and they spin the wheel hoping for a multi-million payout. . . . . The
biggest beneficiaries of personal injury claims, of malpractice suits, of
class actions and other such litigation is not the consumer, not the worker,
not the family. It's the buckraking trial lawyer."
- Columnist Joseph Perkins
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