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Only in the presence of God will the Devil be cast out!
WEDNESDAY
AUGUST 04
1999
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Vote 'none of the above' in 2000
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� 1999 WorldNetDaily.com
In just under two days, a quick perusal of the news revealed several good
reasons why our current two-party system is no longer functional.
Among this list of items, see if you can spot a similar theme:
Linda Tripp last week became the only figure charged with a crime in the
Monicagate affair or, at a minimum, the only crime that will land anyone in
jail if she is convicted.
Though the evidence against mixed-sex training in the armed forces is
convincing and overwhelming, a panel "examining" the issue voted to continue
it anyway. The Marine Corps provided the best proof available, considering
they don't train men and women together, but it too was ignored.
Washington Times reporters discovered that an Interior Department official
told his boss in a secret memo about his covert "on-the-job political
campaign" aimed at "unseating House Republican leaders" in the 1998
election. So far Congress is "examining" this smoking gun.
A British/NATO general ignored an order given to him by the Supreme
Commander of NATO forces in Kosovo, Gen. Wesley Clark, to stop a Russian
military force from entering the Pristina airport after a cease-fire had
been reached in the Yugoslav war. As a result, Gen. Clark -- not the
Briton -- was relieved of his command.
A new report published in the Washington Post revealed what many have
suspected for some time -- that the so-called GOP "revolution" of 1994 has
resulted in little governmental change, as well as an increase, rather than
a decrease, in spending on the federal level.
The Justice Department has had evidence since 1997 that CitiBank in New
York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong laundered money for Johnny Chung, who was
acting on behalf of Chinese military operatives seeking to influence the
1996 presidential elections. I can almost hear Sen. Fred Thompson, R-Tenn.,
shaking his head in disgust.
What do all of these stories have in common?
They all demonstrate the total corruption of our system of government. They
demonstrate to me that a criminal president -- Bill Clinton -- is firmly in
control of his own destiny and there is no "opposition party" in place to
checkmate him.
Furthermore, these stories demonstrate:
Republicans also cannot help but spend our money -- same as the Democrats.
Republicans can't do anything about a military training decision that is so
fundamentally wrong even some panel members who voted for it knew it was a
bad decision and fundamentally wrong. *
Republicans can do nothing to protect from politically motivated persecution
an individual -- Ms. Linda Tripp -- who has more political courage than all
of them put together.
Republicans can do nothing to protect the status and position of a seasoned
U.S. general who had his order ignored by some British underling in a time
of war. Consequently, Republicans will be able to do nothing about the
impending disintegration of NATO either.
Republicans can do nothing about an administration that is so permeated with
rot and corruption that there is literally not one single department or
administrative bureaucracy that hasn't been tainted -- even one as obscure
as Interior.
Republicans can do nothing about obvious violations of the law regarding
elections, campaign funding, and a president's treasonous commingling with
intelligence agents of a powerful foreign country.
These stories also show that this country is little more than a rudderless,
leaderless vessel in a sea of corruption. Americans are being "led" in a
manner befitting a third- or fourth-rate banana republic -- the very same
kind of governments our politicians love to point and laugh at. There is so
much "CYA" going on that if all the guilty parties ever had to go to court,
the trial would stretch halfway through the next millennium -- all because
Americans have no opposition party in Washington, D.C., for all intents and
purposes.
Having said that, I will admit that no reasonable conservative voter really
expected the Republicans -- in less than five years -- to blow into D.C. on
a promise of "revolution" and reverse 60 years of FDR-inspired socialism.
However, few of us expected them to become part of the problem either.
For instance, I believe most conservatives realize that Republicans are not
yet powerful enough to roll back tax rates to five percent or cut 90 percent
of the federal bureaucracy. And I don't think we expected them to convert
Social Security into a private sector endeavor or end all corporate welfare.
Without presidential backing none of this could ever be done in five years
by any party, considering that Americans have to be reintroduced to notions
about constitutional government missing for over six decades.
When I vent disgust with Republicans I'm simply talking about their
inability to even do their sworn duty to uphold the Constitution and the
laws that document inspired. Apparently, this is asking too much because
now, in the eyes of many GOP lifers, I'm one of these "out-there third party
fundamentalists" who has an "unrealistic view of the political landscape in
this country."
Oh. And here I thought these people worked for me -- not the other way
around. See, I thought "public servant" meant just what it said, rather than
"serving oneself at the public trough."
If the Republicans were serious about thwarting the corruption in this White
House they could have -- and should have -- used one tactic against Clinton
and his socialist buddies a long time ago -- the power of the purse.
It's a known fact that the power of the government lies in money. If an
agency is misbehaving, you don't reward it by giving it a budget. You kill
it or render it ineffective either by giving it no money or a budget that is
drastically reduced.
For instance, the Clinton "Justice" Department has done more to perpetuate
his criminal existence than the mainstream media has. They have purposefully
bungled investigations, withheld evidence, stalled congressional inquiries,
held up the release of legally requested materials and destroyed evidence.
So what do the Republicans do? This year they're giving Justice more money
and more lawyers. What kind of sense does that make? What kind of lawyers do
the Republicans think Janet Reno is going to hire -- those who are more or
less of the kind she already has running interference for a corrupt regime?
The same principle can be used on a number of other bureaucracies the GOP
supposedly despises. The Department of Education, Health and Human
Resources, Commerce, National Endowment of the Arts, Energy, and the BATF
are just a few places where Republicans interested in checking the abuses of
power by the Clinton administration could put the pressure on.
But they don't. And they won't. Even Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, last week
supported the extension of "Most Favored Nation" status to China, even
though he knows Beijing is aggressively stealing our secrets and using our
"free trade" deficit money to buy weapons to destroy us. He even admitted
that the "free trade" concept is bogus because it's only "free" for the
Chinese. But he voted for MFN anyway.
How can you win?
I say it's time to get rid of these people. They're either too compromised
or too few in number to return this nation to constitutional government.
To Democrats and Republicans, I say, "None of the above."
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Jon E. Dougherty is a senior writer and columnist for WorldNetDaily, as well
as a morning co-host of Daybreak America.
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