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WHAT "IS" IS DEJA VU
A dirty diaper by any other name will still stink to the
high heavens. But not if White House spinmeisters have
their way.
"President Bush's political strategists, taking note of the
unpopularity of his immigration initiative as reflected in
public-opinion polls, expressed confidence yesterday that the
proposal will gain support as it is recast as an economic and
homeland security issue," reported the Washington Times on
Thursday. "Once people have had a chance to educate
themselves about the proposal and what it does, support for it
will grow," said Christine Iverson, spokeswoman for the
Republican National Committee.
"Recast"? In other words, even though everybody this side of the Rio
Grande KNOWS this is an amnesty program by another
name, once it is "recast" as something else by the
powers-that-be, even if it isn't something else, well...the
dupes will change their tune. In other words, the White
House believes it CAN fool enough of the people at
least this time.
MOONING MICHAEL MOORE
"OK, Mr. President, I'm trying to hang in with you here,
but you're making it tough. Afghanistan? Got it. I know why we
had to go into Afghanistan. Iraq? I'm on board. War on terror,
Saddam was a terrorist, we gotta go into Iraq. OK. Saudi
Arabia? Count me in. (Oops, I'm not supposed to know about
that one. Sorry.)
"But Mars? You want us to
spend $500 billion to send people to Mars - and none
of those people are Michael Moore? I fail
to see the benefit."
- Columnist
Michael Graham
TALKIN' OUTTA BOTH SIDES OF HIS
MOUTH
"USA Today has unearthed a letter Howard Dean,
then governor of Vermont, wrote to President Clinton in July
1995, which gives the lie to any claim that Dean's opposition
to liberating Iraq was a matter of principle. 'I have
reluctantly concluded that the efforts of the United Nations
and NATO in Bosnia are a complete failure,' Dean wrote the
president. 'Since it is clearly no longer possible to
take action in conjunction with NATO and the United Nations, I
have reluctantly concluded that we must take unilateral
action.' If Dean favored unilateral action then, why
does he insist now that America was wrong to free Iraq from
Saddam Hussein's brutal rule without 'permission' of the
U.N.?"
- James Taranto, Best of the Web,
1/14/04
COULTERGEIST
"Democrats are so delirious about
finding a general who is a pacifist scaredy-cat that no one
seems to have bothered to investigate whether Wesley Clark is
sane.
"On 'Meet the Press' back in November,
Clark described intelligence as 'a sort of gray goo as you
look at it. You can't see through it, exactly, and if you try
to touch it, it gets real sticky and you might actually
interfere with the information that you're getting back. So
you have to draw inferences from it.' No, wait. I'm sorry. I
think that was Clark talking about Monica Lewinsky's dress,
not national security intelligence."
"...NATO, led by Gen. Wesley Clark,
staged a pre-emptive attack on Yugoslavia. Under Clark's
command, the U.S. bombed the Chinese embassy by mistake,
killing three Chinese journalists. ... At the end of major
combat operations led by NATO Supreme Allied Commander Gen.
Wesley Clark, arch-villain Slobodan Milosevic was still in
power. (At least Clark won't have to worry about any
embarrassing 'mission accomplished' photo-ops coming back to
haunt him.) Today, almost a decade and $15 billion later, U.S.
troops are still bogged down in the Balkans. No quagmire
there! That's the Democrats' idea of a general."
- Columnist
Ann Coulter
GEPHARDT CHARGED WITH BEING
AWOL
"This week ACU filed
a lawsuit against Rep. Richard Gephardt of Missouri.
Congressman Gephardt missed 90 percent of the votes in the
House in 2003. Federal law requires that congressmen return
their pay to the taxpayers for any days they are absent from
the House for any reason other than serious illness. ACU's
lawsuit demands that the Clerk of the House dock Rep.
Gephardt's pay for the days he was absent campaigning for the
presidency. ACU believes it's important politicians be held
accountable and that the laws are enforced."
- David Keene, chairman, American Conservative
Union
SEND IN THE CLOWNS
"If you want to understand the Democratic presidential
race, it may be that your best bet is to switch off CNN and
Fox News Channel and turn instead to the Cartoon Network."
- James Taranto, Best of the Web, 1/15/04
HO-HO-HO-BAH-HUMBUG
"Three decades ago, supply-side publicist Jude Wanniski
coined his 'Two Santa Claus' theory: Tax cuts could be the
electoral goodies for Republicans that spending initiatives
were for Democrats. ... The Bush administration, however, has
done him one better: It has embraced both the Santa Clauses,
enacting massive tax cuts and supporting popular spending
programs; in three years there's not been one presidential
veto of a spending bill. The result: a looming fiscal
train wreck. ... Politicians playing Santa Claus, handing out
goodies, know that produces votes; if you pose as two Santa
Clauses, even more so. But ultimately there will be a
consequence: Their grandchildren will get a lot of coal in
their stockings."
- Wall
Street Journal columnist Al Hunt
HOP OFF THE (OMNI)BUS
"The battle over federal spending has been joined.
Representatives of some of the nation's most influential
organizations announced Thursday that they would work toward
the defeat of the Omnibus Fiscal Year 2004 spending package.
The legislation, which finishes up the work on spending for
the current fiscal year that Congress failed to complete
through the appropriations process, is expected to come to the
Senate floor for a vote around the time President George W.
Bush goes to Capitol Hill to deliver his annual State of the
Union address. ... Organizers of the effort, who say the
United States would be better off if the measure were
defeated, call the bill 'a pork-laden, wasteful and reckless
scheme that violates principles of limited government and
could place the recovery in jeopardy.' "
- UPI's "That's Politics!"
KEEPING UNFRIENDLY SKIES UNSAFE
"The federal agency charged with providing security for
U.S. airlines, and the airlines themselves are intentionally
sabotaging the congressionally-mandated program to train and
certify pilots who volunteer to carry guns in the cockpit,
according to supporters of the program who claim tens of
thousands of pilots have opted out s a result.
"Pilots
with knowledge of the Federal Flight Deck Officer (FFDO), or
'armed pilots' program tell CNSNews.com that the manner in
which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
requires FFDOs to carry their weapons not only discourages
participation, but also renders them defenseless against
potential terrorist attacks when they are most
vulnerable."
- CNS
News, 1/15/04
GOVERNMENT MARRIAGE COUNSELORS?
The White House is planning to spend $1.5 billion to
promote healthy marriages, and President Bush could announce
plans for the proposal next week in his State of the Union
address. The measure would go towards training to help
couples develop interpersonal skills that sustain 'healthy
marriages,' especially among low-income couples."
- CNS
News, 1/14/04
GUNNING FOR CHARTER SCHOOLS
"The nation's leading teachers' union and its largest state
affiliate are planning an aggressive campaign to unionize
charter school teachers, who represent a growing faction of
workers outside of the unions' realm. The National
Education Association is committing upwards of $1.75 million
over the next three years for the effort."
- CNS
News, 1/14/04
GUNNING FOR HOME SCHOOLS
"Indeed, legislators and the liberal media (witness CBS
News' anti-homeschooling hit piece last October) are pushing
for increased regulation of homeschooling parents, including
criminal background checks, because the grass-roots movement
gravely threatens their socialist agenda of promoting
dependency. God forbid children be taught by their own
parents without oversight from the all-knowing, all-caring,
infallible wizards of the child welfare-public school
monopoly!"
- Columnist
Michelle Malkin
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