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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH’S NEWS & VIEWS March 9, 2004 To view the HTML version of today’s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ To reach our 7-day News & Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ KISS OF DEATH “That photograph of (Rosie O’Donnell) kissing her new ‘wife’ inflicted more damage on the same-sex marriage movement than a dozen sermons. In-your-face exhibitionism doesn’t sell well in the cheap seats.” - Columnist Suzanne Fields FAT CATS “Litigation against the food industry is not going to make a single individual any skinnier. It will only make the trial attorneys' bank accounts fatter." - Rep. Ric Keller, R-FL REPLACING DICK “Here's an unsigned question: 'Mr. Vice President, don't you think it's time to step down and let someone else add new energy and vitality to the ticket?' No, I don't. And Rudy, you need to do a better job disguising your handwriting." - Vice-President Dick Cheney poking a little light-hearted fun at former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani at the annual Gridiron Dinner in Washington on Saturday A VERY SIMPLE BALL GAME “The Bush side, with the Democratic nominee chosen, will spend the next 8 months and millions of dollars exposing Kerry for what he is: a flip-flopping liberal who is soft on terrorism, and someone who wants to turn our military over to the UN to protect us. John Kerry thinks terrorism is a law enforcement problem and George Bush views them as an enemy that must be destroyed. It's no more complicated than that.” - Talk-show host Neal Boortz A REAL STIFF “John Kerry is so stiff. You sort of see him sitting at home with a powdered wig watching C-SPAN. For John Kerry, being rebellious is having red wine with fish." - Time magazine's Matthew Cooper NOT A CANDIDATE TO DIE FOR “I have never met anybody, nor seen anybody interviewed, nor received an email from anybody, nor read a letter to a newspaper from anybody who really woke up in the morning and thought: If John Kerry doesn't win, I just don't know what I shall do." - Columnist Christopher Hitchens USPS MONOPOLY “The U.S. Department of Justice announced last week that Oracle's takeover of PeopleSoft violates antitrust law, stating that ‘we believe this transaction is anti-competitive - pure and simple.’ Ironically, in the same week the U.S. Supreme Court, in United States Postal Service v. Flamingo Industries, decided that the massive U.S. Postal Service is exempt from all antitrust laws. Yet anticompetitive behavior by the Postal Service is more harmful to consumers, competitors and the overall economy than most private sector mergers.” - Rick Geddes of the Hoover Institute ______________________________________ PUSHING THE ENVELOPE Last year, the President appointed a commission to study how the post office runs its operations in this new Internet age. Congress will soon weigh the recommendations for USPS reform made by the commission and consider possible legislation. What do you think Congress should do? Are you pretty much happy with the post office and believe Congress needs to just do a little tinkering around the edges? Or is major reform called for, including an end to the monopoly the post office has on first-class mail delivery and mailbox access? Or is it time for radical change, including the complete privatization of the post office the way the Japanese are doing? Weigh in on the Discussion Board at: http://blog.chuckmuth.com/blog/ ________________________________________ PRINCIPLES SACRAFICED FOR...NOTHING “ Last year, when Republicans rammed a new Medicare drug benefit through Congress, I warned they were unlikely to get the political boost they were expecting. Now, just three months after the legislation was signed into law, many now realize — too late — that I was right. . . . Every poll since the drug bill was enacted shows a distinct lack of enthusiasm for it on the part of the elderly. . . . In the end, Republicans will lose far more votes from this legislation than they gained.” - Columnist Bruce Bartlett DELAY’S DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE “House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, criticized by some conservatives for toeing the White House line too often over the past three years, is about to announce his own legislative agenda. . . . On Wednesday, Mr. DeLay will take the extraordinary step of introducing his own set of legislative and policy goals, for this year and beyond. . . . ‘We're trying to get people excited about being Republicans again,’ the Texan said. “...Mr. DeLay, in effect declaring his independence, said he plans to present his package of goals and initiatives for the first time to House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and the other 226 Republican House members at a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference. . . . Word of the DeLay plan generally met with approval from other House Republicans, especially those who disagreed with Mr. Bush's recent immigration-reform proposal.” - Washington Times, 3/8/04 SCREWING THE BOY SCOUTS Since 1957, the Boy Scouts have provided city-dwelling boys in the San Diego area a place to camp, tie knots and learn how to be productive citizens in a 15 acre section of Balboa Park downtown. Then the ACLU came along and sued the city and the scouts because the scouts do not permit open homosexuals to serve as scoutmasters...as is their right according to the Supreme Court. But the ACLU charges that allowing the scouts to lease city-owned land is a violation of the doctrine of separation of church and state. What a crock. “Quite simply, the Boy Scouts of America is not a church and canoeing, kayaking and swimming are not religious activities,” says assistant attorney general R. Alexander Acosta. “Boy Scouts should not be prohibited from using public lands on an equal basis with other youth groups.” The city has turned tail and run, settling with the ACLU for close to a million dollars...which the ACLU will now use to fuel its court case to crush the scouts once and for all. _________________________________________ WINNING “HOW TO” CAMPAIGN REPORTS Quick, down-and-dirty "how to" reports on specific aspects of political campaigns and grassroots organizations. Written primarily for beginners with little or no experience, but certainly chocked full of tidbits and hot tips to benefit even the most seasoned political pro. Generally 8-16 pages of A-Z, step-by-step instructions to gain more votes, more money and more volunteers for your political activities and/or campaign. Don't expect fancy packaging with a lot of bells and whistles. Just solid, up-to-date how-to information you can put to use IMMEDIATELY. Go to http://chuckmuth.com/specialreports.htm to check out our ever-growing library of winning publications! __________________________________________ READING IS FUNDAMENTAL * A “group of anonymous feminists will be paid $6,000 of public funds to dress up like apes, throw bananas at the audience, and campaign against George W. Bush” while at the same time plugging their new book, “Bitches, Bimbos, and Ball-breakers.“ http://www.townhall.com/columnists/mikeadams/ma20040308.shtml * Actor Alec Baldwin took home the “Meathead” award. See who else made the list of “America's most notorious animal-rights zealots, environmental scaremongers, celebrity busybodies, self-anointed 'public interest' advocates, trial lawyers, and other food and beverage activists who claim to 'know what's best for you.' “ http://www.gopusa.com/news/2004/march/0308_tarnished_halo_awards.shtml * The union bosses claim they won the battle, but even if so, they lost the war according to an analysis of the settlement terms of that grocery workers’ strike in Southern California. And the biggest winner of all is likely to be...WalMart. http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-fi-golden4mar04,1,2205453.column?coll=la-news-columns * Brian Riedl of the Heritage Foundation and a recent guest on “Always Right with Chuck Muth” released a new paper explaining how to eliminate the deficit without raising taxes. Guess what? Entitlements must be on the table. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1733.cfm?renderforprint=1 * The Bell companies are fighting furiously to regain their monopoly over the nation’s local telephone services...a battle which could cost you a boatload if the White House doesn’t appeal a recent court ruling to the Supremes. http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040307-104353-5588r.htm * Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Byron Dorgan (D-ND) are gunning for FDA Commissioner Mark McClellan for exposing “importation as a cheap political trick.” http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040307-104400-8439r.htm _________________________________________ Chuck Muth’s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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