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CONGRESS ACTION: January 6, 2001 ================= ENDANGERED SPECIES FRAUD: Left-wing extremists will do just about anything to advance their agenda -- including lies, fraud, and even committing acts of violence. Several biologists who worked for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Washington State Department of Fish & Wildlife came under investigation when, as part of an ongoing national survey begun during the Clinton administration to study the habitat of the allegedly endangered Canadian lynx, they planted false samples of lynx fur at locations in various Washington state forests. If it was determined that lynx habitats included those new areas, most human activity would have been banned. The areas already off limits to most human use, in order to protect lynx habitats, are not considered expansive enough by radical environmentalists. Those who recall the arson committed by environmental terrorists at the Vail Ski Resort in 1998, causing millions of dollars of damage, may also recall that that arson was claimed to be in defense of lynx habitats. The biologists accused were given counseling, and six of them have since retired. Imagine if the reverse had taken place. Imagine if private property advocates intentionally killed endangered species found on private land, in an attempt to portray the land in question as free from such species so that it could be developed? Actually, we know what happens -- even when the killing is purely accidental. Remember that hapless California farmer who made the mistake of accidentally killing five rats while plowing his fields in 1994? The feds thought the rats in question were endangered Tipton kangaroo rats, and launched a paramilitary raid of heavily armed agents to arrest the farmer and seize the instrument of his crime -- his tractor. The feds then threatened the farmer with 3 years in prison, a $300,000 fine, forfeiture of half of his farm, and payment of $172,425 into a fund to operate a wildlife preserve. In the end the feds were embarrassed into dropping the charges, settling the case for a $5000 "voluntary" donation by the farmer to a local habitat conservation fund. One arrogant Earth Liberation Front spokesman denied that environmentally-inspired arsons were terrorism at all with the following empty-headed inanity: "How can you be violent against a piece of property. It's ridiculous. How can you be a terrorist if you're just destroying a building and nobody's in it?" A building, it must be pointed out, that he didn't own, and that was torched with the specific intention of trying to change the behavior of the person who owned it, such as inducing the owner to abandon the property. By those standards, if bin Laden's plans had come to fruition a few hours earlier and the World Trade Center was unoccupied, that ELF idiot would probably have praised Al Qaida. TALIBAN JOHN: Those who thought that the root cause of John Walker's decision to take up arms against his country and fight alongside the Afghan Taliban was his left-wing upbringing, sorry, you just don't get it. It wasn't treason -- it was TV ads. Walker, you see, was simply pursuing "personal authenticity" as demanded by American corporate consumerism. The New York Times explained it all: "Extremism in the pursuit of intensity, the ad men tell us, is no vice. . Maybe the boy Talib is simply an attentive consumer, his ill-fated affair with extreme Islam merely a twisted continuation of his search for the weapons-grade authenticity promised him so many times by manufacturers of bell-bottom jeans and lemon-lime soda." Well, now that that's settled, let's not hear any more talk about trials and treason! Just give "the boy Talib" a plane ticket to the next protest against the World Trade Organization, and the man who thought living a stone-age existence practicing an ideology that treats women like dirt can take his rightful place in the front ranks of the movement that thinks the whole world should go back to living a stone-age existence. And speaking of an ideology that treats women like dirt, we can thank an "internationally renowned feminist", quoted in the Washington Post, for enlightening us about the root cause of terrorism in general and the Taliban in particular: "Travel to the heart of darkness that is terrorism and you will find that one of its causes -- not much spoken about -- is the definition of manhood that has been ingrained in nearly every society for centuries." See -- it's all the fault of that standard feminist canard, the male-dominated patriarchal society. The psycho-babble prattled on, "The terrorist is the ultimate sexual idol of a male-centered cultural tradition.. The tragedy is this won't change until we raise our kids differently. There will always be somebody willing to die for a cause." You know, willing to die for a cause like those firemen who ran into the blazing infernos on September 11 trying to save others, or willing to die for a cause like those men in our military currently risking their lives on foreign shores in defense of freedom, or willing to die for a cause like those policemen who daily risk their lives protecting us all, including internationally renowned feminists, from criminal attack. All of which the "internationally renowned feminist" would apparently like to purge from society: "Men and women can change the definition of manhood. .Then we can look to the firefighters in New York who wept. That, to me, is real manhood." So there you have it. All the bombs and soldiers who rooted out the Taliban were totally unnecessary. What we should have done was simply gather together in a national sob-fest (group hug) and terrorism itself would be vanquished. Which still doesn't explain why Osama bin Laden launched at least four separate terrorist attacks against Americans during the past eight years while the master of the quivering lower lip himself was president. DO-NOTHING DEMOCRAT SENATE: When he became Senate Majority Leader, Tom Daschle must have thought he had been anointed dictator, because he has decided that the Constitution is now irrelevant (not that leftists ever pay much attention to the Constitution anyway). Article I, Section 5 of the U.S. Constitution states that "a majority.shall constitute a quorum to do business.". Daschle, however, has decided to change the rules: ".in controversial issues, the Founding Fathers have said that it ought to take a super majority to pass." Forget the Constitutional requirement of a simple majority -- in Tom Daschle's Senate, nothing moves without a sixty vote majority. What is deemed to be "controversial" is, of course, like beauty, in the eye of the beholder, and in this case what is "controversial" is at the sole discretion of the little dictator, defined no doubt as anything that the most extreme leftist in the Senate doesn't like. What Daschle attributes to the Founding Fathers is the super majority required to stop a Senate filibuster. But the public, ever clamorous for bipartisanship, doesn't like filibusters, because the party carrying on the filibuster appears to be obstructionist. And Tom Daschle doesn't want the public to catch on to how obstructionist his party is. So he will simply refuse to allow any matter to come up at all, that he or some left-wing extremist doesn't like. Too "controversial". Rule # XXVI (3) of the Senate requires standing committees to meet at least once a month when the Senate is in session. Rule 2 (a) of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources requires that committee to meet once a month. But the Senate Energy Committee has not held a hearing to consider legislation since August, so as not to have to report out the bipartisan energy legislation that Daschle knows would receive a favorable vote of the full Senate. But it's not the bill that Daschle wants, so he has simply shut down the committee on this matter. But that's not all. The House passed economic stimulus legislation, but the Senate under the thumb of Tom Daschle, did not; and the Senate confirmation process has bogged down to a snail's pace as a result of partisan democrat obstructionism, with many presidential nominees being denied even a committee hearing. Some of the nominees have been waiting since last May for a hearing. And when President Bush suggested that he might counteract the Senate obstruction with recess appointments, democrats warned him not to do so because the nominees never had a committee hearing. Instead, before recess Daschle had the Senate working to reauthorize farm subsidies that will not expire for nearly a year. Why? According to numerous media reports, at least a half dozen members of Congress, from both parties, have their own hands in taxpayers' pockets and qualify for farm subsidies, and they need their pork! And the next time Daschle and the democrats blow hot air about "saving family farms", consider that, according to the Environmental Working Group database, last year the "farmers" in the city of Beverly Hills, California, received nearly a half million dollars in farm subsidies; while the "farmers" in New York City received over $3 million in farm subsidies. When democrats were in the minority in the Senate, stupid-party republicans offered a power-sharing arrangement to Senate democrats in an effort to appear "bipartisan" to the public and to curry favor with the media. However, since democrats gained the slim majority they now hold in the Senate (thanks to Jim Jeffords), notice how there has been zero talk about power-sharing with republicans. Maybe this will teach a lesson to stupid-party republicans dumb enough to offer to share power with a party whose goal is the utter destruction of everything conservatives stand for. RULES DON'T APPLY: Speaking of mean spirited left-wingers, consider the ongoing farce of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and its chairman, Mary Frances Berry. Back in June the leftist dominated Commission, headed by staunch Gore supporter Berry, issued its report, titled "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election". To the surprise of no one, the report concluded, "After carefully and fully examining all the evidence before it, the Commission found a strong basis for concluding that violations of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 occurred in Florida." Of course when the Commission refuses to examine evidence that contradicts its preordained conclusion, it can truthfully say that "all the evidence before it" led to that predetermined conclusion. One significant piece of evidence that the Commission refused to examine was a dissent, written by two of the Commission's own members (Abigail Thernstrom and Russell Redenbaugh), containing an analysis of the Florida voting authored by Yale Law School economist Dr. John Lott. The Commission relied instead on an analysis done by an American University historian who had worked as a consultant to Al Gore. Berry refused to even include the dissent as part of the Commission's official final report because, it was said, work done by unpaid consultants is illegal under Commission rules, thus the Commission cannot use work done by unpaid consultants. Lott had provided his expertise without pay. Fast forward to the present. On December 5, President Bush appointed Peter Kirsanow to a vacant seat on the Civil Rights Commission to replace Clinton appointee Victoria Wilson, whose term expired the prior week. But Berry refused to seat Kirsanow, who presence would shift the political ideology on the Commission from 5-3 in favor of the leftists, to a 4-4 balance -- a bipartisan balance, it might be noted, that would stifle Berry's blatantly partisan anti-Bush agenda. The squabble over seating Kirsanow has resulted in a lawsuit. The Washington Times reported this week that Berry has accepted the unpaid assistance of a New York law firm to represent the Commission. Apparently unpaid consultants are only illegal when they work for anyone who dissents from Mary Frances Berry. CLINTON'S LEGACY: With Bill Clinton's flaks now making the rounds trying to burnish his forever stained legacy, Peggy Noonan writing in the Wall Street Journal presented the perfect summation of the Clinton legacy: "When you walk into the presidency as a fully formed adult your first thought is, 'What should I do first and how and when?' When you walk into it with more vanity than sense, more hunger than purpose, your first thought is of what history will say of you. Mr. Clinton spent all his time thinking about his legacy, and by the end he had one: He was the president who spent his time thinking about his legacy while Osama made his plans. He wasted history's time." 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