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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH’S NEWS & VIEWS April 28, 2004 To view the HTML version of today’s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ ANOTHER BLOWN OPPORTUNITY Sen. Arlen Specter defeated Rep. Pat Toomey in Pennsylvania’s nationally watched GOP primary race for the state’s U.S. Senate seat yesterday. If conservatives can’t even defeat a liberal Republican in a Republican primary in a state with two Republican senators which went for the Republican candidate for president in 2000, what does that say about their ability to move conservative legislation through Congress, confirm conservative judicial nominees or defeat liberal Democrats in the general election? Yes, the reports that Toomey’s campaign and message were terribly flawed are true...but this choice for Republicans was still a no-brainer despite those problems. This race was billed nationally as THE fight for the soul of the Republican Party. And conservatives lost. The only silver lining I can find is that Toomey was out-spoken in his support for the Federal Marriage Amendment and Specter was against it. Let this serve as a wake-up call to those who think the marriage amendment is the silver-bullet which will elect Republicans in November. Obviously, it’s no such thing. So can we just drop this issue and get back to taxes, spending, big-brother government and killing terrorists? RUDY & THE UN Seems most folks on the Discussion Board would prefer that former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani focus on taking out Hillary Rodham from the Senate in 2006 than spinning his wheels at the United Nations. But an interesting alternative has emerged to fill the UN ambassadorship vacancy: former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Interesting… If you haven’t weighed in on this subject yet, surf on over to our Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ LEFT-WING SCUZZ-BALLS James Taranto of “Best of the Web” included a sampling of postings, headlined “Dumb Jock Killed in Afghanistan,” from a left-wing Internet site hosted by the Portland Independent Media Center over the death of football player turned Army Ranger Pat Tillman. WARNING: Take your blood pressure medicine before reading this garbage: * * * QUOTE * * * - "Tillman chose to go to Afghanistan. He's partially reponsible for the deaths of hundreds, maybe thousands of Afghan civilians. No need to feel sorry for him, other than feeling bad that he was brainwashed into serving as a grunt." - "it's amazing the kind of attention this insignificant incident is going to cause. well, he was rich, white, and an american. 10,000 (brown) iraqis get killed, and it barely merits a mention in the american news. how utterly f---ing sad." - "To be honest I wish I could feel sorry for the guy, but the truth is I really feel nothing at all. To many have died and too much money has flowed into the pockets of Dick Cheney to even worry about it." - "if he 'sacrificed' anything it was his common sense. He had a good American thing going and blew it." * * * UNQUOTE * * * Would it be wrong to question the patriotism of these jerks? Just checking. CAREER OPPORTUNIST “Unlike many who are driven to succeed in public life by a core belief system, the arc of Kerry's political career is defined by a restless search for the issues, individuals and causes to fulfill a nearly lifelong ambition' for the White House." - Washington Post columnist David Broder COULD YOU BE A LITTLE MORE VAGUE? “Maybe next time, (John Kerry will) narrow it down for us a little more. Maybe the name of the restaurant. Maybe the leader.” - Vice President Dick Cheney ridiculing John Kerry’s latest explanation about his endorsements by foreign leaders; that he bumped into them while dining in New York restaurants PERSONIFICATION OF “HAUGHTY” “I don’t think it’s bothersome to people that John Kerry thinks he’s very smart. That’s fine. I think what’s bothersome is he thinks the rest of us are stupid.” - RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie WAAAAHHHHHH! “When confronted with irrefutable contradictory evidence that he lied about throwing away his medals, John Kerry has responded not with an explanation, but with the charge that the evil Republicans are attacking him. Poor baby...don't have the facts on your side? Then just throw a temper tantrum start screaming about how it's not fair.” - Talk show host Neal Boortz, 4/27/04 LIE...AND GROW RICH “If I had a dollar for every story John Kerry changed, I’d be a rich man, too. Blaming ‘vast right-wing conspiracies’ for his own whoppers is not going to cut it.” - Rep. Sam Johnson (R-Texas) HOW LOW CAN THEY GO? Stung by the fact that John Kerry’s Vietnam service isn’t helping as much as his post-Vietnam service is hurting, the Democrat attack machine has cranked up to smear Vice President Dick Cheney. The Thunder Road Group, a band of political mercenaries affiliated with America Coming Together - one of those Democrat “527” organizations - is charging that Mrs. Cheney got pregnant in order for Mr. Cheney to receive a draft deferment and avoid service in Vietnam. “It looks as if a little bit more went into the Cheney family-planning decision, but who knows,” sneers TRG spokes-monkey Sarah Leonard. Yeah, this is pretty low...even by Clinton standards. And, of course, it comes not from the Kerry campaign directly, but from an independent 527 group funded with “soft” money so as to give Kerry “plausible deniability.” But you know what? It’s hard to feel sorry for the GOP leadership which refuses to cut loose its own 527s to counter this kind of gutter politics. The White House and the RNC need to seriously think about making a public statement that if the Democrats are going to continue funding such activities with “soft” money, then our own team is free to do the same...unless or until the FEC or a court of law stops it for EVERYBODY. For more information on this subject - along with contract information for President Bush and RNC Chairman Ed Gillespie, go to the “Brushfire Alert” page at www.citizenoutreach.com THE e-TAX VILLAINS “President Bush renewed his call yesterday for a permanent ban on taxing Internet access, particularly the high-speed phone, cable and satellite varieties known as broadband. The White House is hoping that the Senate, which is scheduled to address the issue this week, was paying attention. We hope so, too. “A small pro-tax contingent of Senate Republicans, under pressure from Governors and state legislatures back home, successfully conspired to allow the five-year-old moratorium on federal and state Internet access taxes to lapse last fall. The House has already voted to renew the ban, but usual GOP suspects such as Tennessee's Lamar Alexander and Ohio's George Voinovich have used procedural tactics to prevent the Senate from following suit.” - Review & Outlook, Wall Street Journal, 4/27/04 CANNON FODDER Seems the rest of the nation is beginning to find out what we’ve known for a long time: Not only is Rep. Chris Cannon (R-Utah) a deadbeat, he’s a bum. In fact, some folks are actually referring to him as a RINO due to his pro-illegal alien positions, including support for illegal alien amnesty. One such group now has a website titled “Cannon Watch” up on the ‘net dedicated to our least-favorite GOP congressman. “Cannon Watch” features this classic quote from a MALDEF (a hard, hard, hard-left Hispanic fringe group) award ceremony in 2002 where the chubby congressman was the toast of the town: “In fact I think Utah was the first state in the country to legislate the ability to get a drivers license based on the matricula consular and of that I am proud." Lovely. You can surf “Cannon Watch” by going to: http://www.americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/CannonWatch.html SURVEY SAYS! This fall, airports may consider replacing the government-run TSA airport screeners with private companies. 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