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CHUCK MUTH'S NEWS & VIEWS
April 21, 2004
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THE WORD IS.
Columnist Jonah Goldberg describes his new word "Frankenfreude" as "a state of
restrained glee at the failures or setbacks of Al Franken." I think I'm feeling
a tad Frankenfreudish this very minute!
THE QUEEN'S ENTOURAGE
"New York Senator Hillary Clinton went on vacation in Jamaica, and along with
her entourage, she occupied 40 hotel rooms. Must have needed the space for
Bill's girlfriends."
- Talk show host Neal Boortz, 4/20/04
FLIP, FLOP, FIZZ, FIZZ
"I suspect there's another reason for Kerry's decided lack of fizz since the
primaries ended. This is just not a very fizzy candidacy. . . . Kerry's may be
the most sclerotic presidential campaign since Bob Dole's. . . . It is not
uncommon to see audiences leaving his fund-raising events in droves while he is
still speaking. . . . There is nothing conversational, or comforting, about his
candidacy."
- Time magazine columnist Joe Klein
KERRY BOWS TO PRESSURE, WILL AIR RECORDS
"Senator Kerry requested from the U.S. Navy his military records. The Kerry
Campaign announced today that it will post the military records that the U.S.
Navy provided Kerry on his active military service from 1966 to 1970 on his
campaign Web site."
- Kerry campaign statement, 4/20/04
METHINKS THOU DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH
"It's not amnesty. They're claiming we're supporting amnesty. We're not
proposing amnesty."
- Joe Hunter, Chief of Staff for Rep. Chris Cannon in the Deseret News denying
that Cannon's AgJOBS amnesty bill is an amnesty bill
DESPERATE TIMES CALL FOR DESPERATE MEASURES
"President Bush campaigned in Pennsylvania yesterday for incumbent GOP Senator
Arlen Specter, who is in the primary fight of his life. Among the ironies here
is that to save himself the 74-year-old Mr. Specter is now calling on the same
GOP establishment that he's spent a career disdaining.
"The four-term liberal Republican is facing conservative Congressman Pat Toomey
in an April 27 contest that could have national repercussions. Fiscal hawks are
bothered by the GOP's spending binge, and they've found someone to articulate
these frustrations in Mr. Toomey, a 42-year-old who's spent the past five years
compiling a small-government, low-tax voting record in the House. A Toomey upset
would signal to other GOP "moderates" that voters still want the party to stand
for something beyond incumbency.
"Despite his substantially larger war chest, Mr. Specter's lead in the polls has
been cut by more than half since January. Two surveys last month put Mr. Toomey
within 10 points; and among likely GOP voters Mr. Specter is below 50%.
Obviously nervous, the Senator has called in the Presidential cavalry. . . . Win
or lose, Mr. Toomey's strong challenge will put Republicans in Congress on
notice that the rank-and-file are unhappy with their performance, particularly
on spending and a flagging reform agenda. As for the White House, if Senator
Specter wins a fifth term, it better hope it gets the loyalty it's paying for."
- "Review & Outlook," Wall Street Journal, 4/20/04
NICE WORK IF YOU CAN GET IT
"(In addition to their $99,000 per year salary, California) legislators get $140
a day for 'expenses,' leased automobiles, credit cards good for unlimited
gasoline [in a state where the price of gasoline is closing in on $3 a gallon]
and telephone calls and a ticket for an airline trip home and back once every
week. Other goodies, such as office supplies, postage stamps, newspaper and
magazine subscriptions, business meals and courier services make up hidden
extras. The California Legislature may or may not be the best that money can
buy, but at $200 million a year it's one of the most expensive."
- Wesley Pruden, "Pruden On Politics," 4/20/04
GOLDWATER DOCTRINE
"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more
efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare,
for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them.
It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to
the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the
people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether
legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is
constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting
my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main
interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
- Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative"
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