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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS
"Empowerment is the theme of the initiatives proposed by George W.
Bush. Let individuals control at least part of their own retirement
packages.... Let parents in failing schools receive federal aid
directly and use it to make choices about their children's education.
Let the elderly have a choice of health plans, as federal employees
do. Let individuals keep more of their own money rather than ship it
off to be distributed by politicians in Washington. ...Al Gore, by
contrast, speaks for an older, more paternalistic order. The most
important issue before the nation is protecting the elderly from the
high cost of prescriptions. ... There is nothing wrong with our
schools that more money won't cure. We can afford Social Security and
Medicare promises if only we put tax revenues in a 'lock box.' And
while taxpayers can earn tax cuts through behavior approved in
Washington, as a moral question the money is the government's to
distribute fairly rather than belonging to those who earned it. In
short, Vice President Gore and the Democrats speak for the past, while
Gov. Bush and the Republicans speak for the future. ... [Mr. Gore]
seems intent on recreating the Democratic Party agenda of the 1950s,
if not of the 1930s." --Wall Street Journal
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BODY POLITIC
THERE HE GOES AGAIN....
"[R]ight out of the box, the vice president began hedging the truth."
--Boston Globe.
"At the first opportunity, he lied." --New York Post
That most erudite of Democrats, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, once
noted, "Everyone is entitled to his own opinion but not his own
facts." Apparently, based on his debate performance last Tuesday
night, Albert Gore has decided there is "no controlling legal
authority" concerning facts.
Gore repeatedly took credit for the economy. Bush missed a grand
opportunity to pick up a tried and true line from Ronald Reagan:
"There he goes again. Albert, you didn't invent the economy." Gore
said that the country had a triple dip recession in 1992, but the
current economic expansion began, by all reputable economic estimates,
in March 1991, almost two years before he took office.
Fact: Even Gore's own budget office (June 28, 1999 OMB Mid-Session
Review) states, "The economic expansion that began in April 1991...."
Gore said that he would balance the budget.
Fact: The nonpartisan Citizens Against Government Waste estimates that
Gore's total spending in the first five years of his administration
totals $2.2 trillion (three times Bush's $712 billion.) The
Congressional Budget Office estimates that, in the same period, the
general revenue and Social Security surpluses will be a total of $1.4
trillion. Gore's "balanced budget" creates more deficit spending than
Mr. Bush proposes in total new spending.
Gore said that he wants to cut taxes for middle class families.
Fact: In 1992, the Clinton-Gore campaign said it "includes $104
billion in tax cuts over four years for the middle class, the working
poor, and corporations that make smart investments to create jobs."
But after taking office, Gore cast the tie breaking vote on the
largest tax increase in U.S. history, including $115 billion in higher
personal income taxes, $31 billion in higher gasoline taxes, $25
billion in higher taxes on Social Security benefits, and $29 billion
in more Medicare taxes. (Congressional Budget Office)
Gore said that Governor Bush spends more on the wealthiest 1% of
Americans than on education, health care, drugs, and defense combined.
Fact: The largest percentage cuts in Mr. Bush's tax plan go to those
with the lowest incomes: A family of four making $35,000 would get a
100% cut in their income tax, about $1,500. A family of four making
$50,000 would get a 50% cut in their income tax, about $2,000. A
family of four making $75,000 would get a 25% cut in their income tax,
about $2,500. Under the Bush plan, "the wealthiest 1%" actually pay a
larger percentage of total taxes than they do now. The share of income
taxes paid by people making over $100,000 will rise to 64.1% from
61.9%. The bipartisan Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the
Bush tax plan will save taxpayers $1.3 trillion over 2001-10, about
25% of the $4.6 trillion estimated surplus under current tax rates.
Gore said, "I have actually not questioned Bush's experience. I have
questioned his proposals."
Fact: In a recent New York Times article, Gore said of Bush, "Does he
have the experience to be president?"
Gore crowed that he fought for welfare reform.
Fact: Bill Clinton, Al Gore smiling at his side, vetoed welfare reform
not once, but twice. After public opinion swung in favor of welfare
reform, Clinton-Gore signed it into law only then to provide all
manner of "exemptions." Gore had no role at all in welfare reform!
Gore said that he would take on big oil companies.
Fact: Al Gore has a long personal and financial history with
Occidental Petroleum, the same company that was involved in the Love
Canal contamination, which Gore once claimed to have led the fight to
clean up.
Gore said that he wants to free the U.S. from "Big Oil" and OPEC.
Fact: Dependence on foreign oil increased under Clinton-Gore, with
imports up 34% since 1992, while U.S. production, due in large measure
to absurd Clintonista environmental and land management regulations,
has decreased 18% -- to the lowest level since 1954.
Gore said that Mr. Bush's budget takes $1 trillion out of Social
Security.
Fact: Economic Security 2000 (ES 2000) found that "Gore's accounting
defies credibility. From 2015 to 2037, there's a missing $4.3 trillion
in the Social Security Trust Fund, because the money has been spent
and is a debt, an IOU. Then, from 2038 to 2054, there's a missing
$6.069 trillion."
Gore said that passage of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance reform
bill would be his first act as President. Bush hit back hard: "You
know, this man has no credibility on the issue. As a matter of fact,
[Gore] said he cosponsored the McCain-Feingold campaign fund-raising
bill, but he wasn't in the Senate with Senator Feingold. ... I am not
going to lay down my arms in the middle of a campaign for somebody who
has got no credibility on the issue."
Fact: Gore has collected more campaign donations from lobbyists than
any other presidential candidate. "The problem with pandering, as Vice
President Gore is fast learning, is that once you start, it's hard to
kick the habit," says Dana Milbank, senior editor of liberal New
Republic. Short of credibility on the issue of campaign finance
reform, Gore took a page from Clinton's denials, and tried to divert
the issue into one of "character assassination." "I think it's better
to spend time attacking America's problems than attacking people
personally. I think we need to build our country up instead of tearing
somebody else down." Obviously, Gore feels exposed on this issue, and
Bush needs to hammer him!
And a footnote on McCain-Feingold: In March, Gore promised, "I would
-- my first act as President -- will be to resubmit the Comprehensive
Test Ban Treaty to the Senate." Of course, that was a different
audience.
Gore said that he has always fought for campaign finance reform.
Fact: We checked, and Gore did not mention campaign finance reform in
his 1992 speech to the Democratic National Convention or his 1996
speech to the Democratic National Convention, nor in his 1999 speech
announcing his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination.
And, for the record, John McCain said Gore's fund-raising tactics
constituted "incredible abuses of the institutions of government and
every ethical standard."
Other Gory "facts"...
Gore said he worked with President Reagan in support of his defense
plans in the 1980s. Even the most nescient political observer knows
this claim is a lie.
After being complimented by Mr. Bush for the job the Federal Emergency
Management Agency did responding to wildfires in west Texas, Gore
claimed that he had personally come to Texas with FEMA director James
Witt to visit the stricken areas. Bush looked a bit puzzled by Gore's
response -- for good reason.
Fact: Gore did visit the region in the period of time the fires were
burning, but not with FEMA helping people out. He was there to attend
a fund-raiser at the home of the former head of the Texas trial
lawyers -- and for the rest of that story, see "The most ethical
administration" above!
On the education issue, Gore, a dedicated water boy for the NEA,
argued that some of the "surplus" Mr. Bush was "spending on the
richest 1%" should go to schools such as a Sarasota, Florida, high
school where a father showed him a picture of his daughter standing in
her science class because the room was so overcrowded she had no place
to sit.
Fact: The principal of that school, Daniel Kennedy, reports, "It would
have been good if the facts had been checked before [Gore] was
encouraged to use that information in a national debate. The picture
he was referring to was taken maybe the first or second day of
school...when we were in the process of leveling classes. And, she did
have an opportunity to use a lab stool, which was also available in
the classroom. But we were refurbishing that classroom and in the back
of that picture, if you look carefully, you can see probably about
$100,000 worth of new lab equipment that was waiting to be unpacked,
which is one of the reasons the room looked as crowded. ... We have
2,480 students on a practically brand-new campus. In my opinion, it's
one of the top high schools in the nation right now. We don't have any
portable classrooms. All of our students are in regular classes and we
have 900 computers, 600 Internet sites."
Finally, as for the price of prescription medication and the
hot-button Medicare issue, there was the saga of Mrs. Winifred
Skinner, the 79-year-old widow who picks up cans so she can afford to
pay for food after she pays $250 a month for her prescriptions.
Fact: Our friend Scott Hogenson, executive editor of CNS, contacted
Mrs. Skinner and found that she does not want federal assistance. "No,
no, I don't want the taxpayers to pay for my medicine. I'm a proud
person and I want to earn it and I want to do it on my own. I don't
accept charity, and I don't get food stamps. I qualify, but I don't
get them because I don't want the taxpayers to support me." Sounds
like Mrs. Skinner has hitched her wagon to the wrong mascot!
But Gore-Lieberman's media sycophants have already created an
Algorista folk hero out of little Ms. Winifred, regardless of the
facts. "She's no child, but she belongs on a poster about high drug
costs," proclaims Gore mouthpiece Dan Rather.
Gore said that Mrs. Winifred drove her Winnebago RV 1,300 miles from
her hometown of Des Moines, Iowa, to Boston for the debate. Those RV's
get about 7 miles per gallon, while empty cans bring about 5 cents.
Her round trip will cost about 13,000 cans. Hope she does not expect
Gore to pick up the tab. He doesn't pay a dime more to take care of
slum tenants than HILLARY! drops in tips for single mom waitresses!
And that's a fact!
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DEZINFORMATSIA
Clintonistas on the Federal Communications Commission have suspended
regulations -- for the duration of this election cycle -- requiring TV
and radio stations that endorse a political candidate to notify and
give that candidate's opponents free rebuttal time. The FCC claimed
this was "an ideal time to determine how broadcasters are affected by
the political editorial rule." {} This month's "Pierre Salinger Non
Compos Mentis" Award: "In today's world, children cannot learn about
honor from an organization that views homosexuality as a moral
defect." --New York Times on the Boy Scouts of America
{} This month's "Keen Sense of the Obvious" Award: "What Divorce
Does to Kids. New research says the long-term damage is worse than you
thought." --Time Magazine cover. {} This month's "TV Media Busters"
Award: "Were Dante alive today he'd have a circle reserved just for
these television executives, an eternity to be spent watching reruns
of the mindless stupidity they are foisting on the public." --Brent
Bozell
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SOCIOCRATS
(Enough already!)
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VILLAGE IDIOTS
This month's "Village Marxist" Award: "Capitalism is innately
Darwinian. Hence business needs a counterbalancing ethical force for
social justice." --Feminista Camille Paglia **And we thought liberals
wanted to preserve "evolutionary nature." {} This month's
"Consummate Village-Celeb" Award: "[Gore's] views in everything
coincide with mine. If you vote for the vice president, [the U.S.]
will go forward. But it's going back to the dark ages, I'm afraid, if
you vote for the other guy." --Elton John {} This month's "Gender
Disorientation Disorder" Award: "Can you believe this? We're a family.
.. You'll make a great mom. ... So will you." --Two lesbians and
their newly adopted child in an ad for John Hancock Financial
Services. {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" File: "We did it
in this one instance, and it really was an error in judgment."
--University of Wisconsin at Madison publications director Al Friedman
after it was discovered that his office doctored a 1993 photo of white
football fans by inserting a 1994 image of black senior Diallo
Shabazz, to add "diversity" to the shot.
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SHORT CUTS
"Gore was comically over made up.... I work in show business every
day, and I don't think that I've seen that much makeup on anyone
besides a Las Vegas showgirl. I kept waiting for his false eyelashes
to fall off." --Satirist Ben Stein {} "Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, we have a two-party system." --Bob Thaves in the comic
strip "Frank & Ernest" {} "Rumor has it that Geraldo Rivera and 'Who
Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?' bride Darva Conger are dating.
How about that for a couple? ... The dirt digger and the gold digger."
--Andrew Wisot
Night Lines:
Leno.... The first presidential debate took place tonight. Local NBC
affiliates had the choice of airing the debates or airing Major League
baseball playoffs. What would you rather watch -- guys lying or guys
trying to steal? .... Al Gore...he once was pro-life, now he's
pro-choice. He once was against gun control, now he's for it. He
claimed he invented the Internet. Hey, Gore just needs to debate
himself! .... Al Gore had a ton of makeup on last night. If he had
been at the White House, Bill would have been hitting on him!
Letterman.... The presidential debates started tonight. They used a
different kind of format. The debates started with each candidate
kissing his wife. .... George W. said he has one goal tonight -- to
look "presidentialbabble." Bush kept accusing Gore of using "fuzzy
math." Fuzzy math? This coming from a guy who uses fuzzy English. ....
Clinton and Hillary are looking for an apartment in New York. They
have the house in Chappaqua, where they pretend to live together, and
now they're looking for an apartment where they will pretend to [live
together]... Hillary still doesn't know much about New York. She keeps
telling people she's looking for a place on the "Upper West Nile."
Hamilton.... Al Gore was recently asked [by Oprah] his favorite food,
and he replied, "Chinese." That makes perfect sense from a
fund-raising standpoint. Who wouldn't love Chinese food when every
fortune cookie contains a check for a fortune? .... A Hindu priest
was invited to give the invocation to open Congress. But it was out of
place.... Hindus worship many gods...while members of Congress worship
the one true God--the one with Ben Franklin's face on it. .... A
Washington Post poll says that most Americans think the Democratic
ticket of Gore-Lieberman has the edge in moral leadership. George W.
Bush is as good as elected. Based on the last two elections, this is
the kiss of death.
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