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_____________________________________ LAST CHANCE Only another day or so left to get your copy of the new "Liberty Calendar" during our Winter Fundraising Drive. Check it out at www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ 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! For a look at the schedule of speakers and panels, go to: www.cpac.org To listen in live via the web, go to www.rightalk.com 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 __________________________________________ 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 __________________________________________ 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 ________________________________________ THE (CAMPAIGN) DOCTOR IS IN! NEW! You can't change public policy if you don't change public officials. So Citizen Outreach has established a separate website project dedicated to helping under-funded, underdog campaigns...especially at the state and local levels. Visit today...and make sure you sign up for FREE email "hot tips" on how to get more votes, more money and more volunteers for your campaign or grassroots organization. Go to: www.campaigndoctor.com __________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________ THIS WEEK ON THE DISCUSSION BOARD State of the Union Address Democrat Primary Omnibus Spending Bill Bush & His Base Immigration Nation Weigh in. Share your opinion. Comment. Inter-activate. Just go to: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ________________________________________ Chuck Muth's News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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