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03-02-01: Yeltsin may have proof Monica was a plant, and other bizarre
happenings
By Bev Conover
March 3, 2001-In another week of madness-GW Bush playing president before
a joint session of Congress, Joe Lieberman drooling to meld church and
state, and the Secret Service springing Jenna Bush's (boy?)friend from
jail-The (London) Sunday Times reported that Boris Yeltsin claims to have
received a report in 1996, before the world heard the name Monica
Lewinsky, that might have thwarted Bill Clinton's impeachment.
"Among papers on his desk in the Kremlin lay a coded report from Russian
intelligence warning that the Republicans intended to exploit Clinton's
notorious "penchant" for young women by planting a female "provocateur" in
his entourage. The aim was clear, it said-to ruin Clinton's reputation and
force him out of office," the Times reported.
In an interview with the former Russian president, Yeltsin told Times
Moscow correspondent Mark Franchetti, "I thought about telling him but it
could after all have been a normal provocation. I wasn't sure whether some
of the details were sufficiently precise. If I had warned him I could have
hurt him unnecessarily, and I didn't want to do that. I have always
believed in him and in his honesty, and I thought that Clinton could deal
with this situation himself."
Franchetti wrote that this was one of the "stranger tales recounted by the
former Russian leader in The Midnight Diaries, an account of his last four
years in office, which is published this week."
In the interview, the 69-year-old Yeltsin said he had given thought to
giving Clinton a copy of the coded report as a souvenir during a meeting
some time after the failed attempt to oust Clinton from office, then
thought better of it because he allegedly did not want to "traumatise him."
If Yeltsin is telling the truth, did he not realize he could have spared
Clinton, the people Kenneth Starr ruined post 1996 in his zeal to get the
president, and the American people the agony of a groundless impeachment
and Senate trial, not to mention the hijacking of the country, in the
aftermath, by the Bush forces?
Once again, we have to turn to a British paper-one owned by Clinton-hating
Rupert Murdoch, yet-to learn things the U.S. media choose to ignore. Don't
bet on hearing this on the nightly news or seeing it even in the back
pages of the New York Times or Washington Post, much less think anyone in
the Bush regime will ask Yeltsin for the report in order to check its
validity or that Dan Burton will convene a hearing to investigate the
matter.
The GW Bush Magic Show
Perhaps if you were down in the gutter with the corporate media and
looking up, Illusionist Bush might seem impressive. Then again, maybe not.
The bar the corporate pundits set for His Fraudulency was about as high as
the curb, but they gushed and swooned over how easily he sailed over it.
Never mind the shell game Bushie was playing with our money and how many
times over he was both spending it and giving it back or the fact that the
projected surpluses are predicated on current tax rates in a sound
economy-something George II is doing his best to destroy, the media mavens
have decided performance-as in acting-is more important than substance.
Even the Democrats, in their paltry response, didn't bother to bring up
all the things W. wants to cut-such as aid for the homeless and emergency
preparedness, among others-so he can give his fat cat friends tax cuts.
Okay, he didn't drool. He managed to limit his smirks to winks and sly
smiles that came across as "I'm screwing them and look at those dumb
Democrats applauding and giving me standing ovations."
The pundits even ballyhooed that he didn't flub his words. Are we alone in
having heard him say, "Education is not my top priority," then quickly
correct himself? Or do the corporate media go into automatic edit mode to
spare him from embarrassment? You know, pretend he didn't say it, just as
they pretend he won the election and now pretend he is the legitimate
president.
The more sickening performance, though, was turned in by the Democrats who
shamed us by standing up for the Great Pretender and by applauding him,
instead of sitting quietly and letting him have his say or, as Rep.
Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) did, walking out.
The Democrats may think they are playing a cagey game, but right now the
Bushistas are outmaneuvering them at every turn.
Joe Lieberman's Peculiar View of American History
Senator Joe Lieberman sounded off on religion and politics at last
Thursday's launch of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, a new
organization promoting "how religion shapes the ideas and institutions of
American society."
In promoting what has until now been the right wing's goal to tear down
what is left of the wall of separation between church and state, Lieberman
told the gathering, "The wall of separation has grown so beyond its
original conception and to such mythical proportions that some Americans
believe it is not just inappropriate but unconstitutional for a public
official or clergyman to praise the Lord in public. They," referring to
the skeptics and non-believers, "need to know that the First Amendment
freedom they are standing up for was originally recognized as a blessing
from God. In fact, the Framers held these rights sacrosanct precisely
because they were endowed to us by our Creator.
Grown beyond its "original conception" and to "mythical proportions?"
Jefferson and Madison must be spinning in their graves over those
revisionist remarks. And they must have agita to boot over Lieberman's
notion that the First Amendment "was originally recognized as a blessing
from God."
Where did the senator from Connecticut learn American history? Did he
learn American history?
There is no mention of any god in the Constitution, other than to forbid
religious tests for office and prohibit Congress from establishing a
religion or interfering with the free exercise thereof. That's a mighty
high wall the framers built.
But to twist Jefferson's poetic use of "Creator" in the Declaration of
Independence is an outrage. While no one knows for sure and Jefferson
would never reveal what he believed, at most he was a Deist, but some
suspected he was an atheist.
Contrary to popular notions, Deists were not Christians. They believed
their creator did his thing and moved on, leaving us to our own devices.
Lieberman then uttered this erroneous statement: "We also need to remind
the skeptics that religion in America, beyond being a unifying force
throughout our history, has also informed and strengthened our sense of
purpose, and changed our country for the better. In the 18th Century, the
first Great Awakening helped put America on the road to independence and
freedom and equality."
The era in which we gained our independence and drew our Constitution was
known as the Enlightenment, not the Great Awakening. The Great Awakening
was a period of religious fervor that came later.
We don't doubt Lieberman's sincerity when he said, "Too often people
assume faith-based initiatives inevitably mean entanglement,
establishment, and ultimately theocracy. Of course that need not be the
case." History, however, has shown otherwise and in supporting Resident
Bush's faith-based initiative, Lieberman is taking us down a slippery
slope.
The Secret Service Chauffeur Service
The Bushes offshoots are proving to be as "colorful" as their parents.
The latest shrub to garner press attention is Jenna Bush, one of the twin
daughters of George W.
According to the Fort Worth, TX, Star-Telegram, last Wednesday Sheriff Dee
Anderson said Secret Service agents who said they were escorting Jenna
"picked up a TCU (Texas Christian University) student," who claimed he was
Jenna's boyfriend, "early Sunday from the county jail after his arrest for
public intoxication."
William Ashe Bridges, 18, and two others were taken into custody at the
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house, near the TCU campus, shortly after
midnight last Sunday, when police received complaints "of loud music and
beer bottles in the yard and the street."
Police were told that Jenna Bush was at the party and "the Secret Service
was up the road," according to the Star-Telegram. Sgt. Robert Cloud of the
Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission said he saw neither Jenna nor the
Secret Service. But the Dallas Morning News today cited an Associated
Press report that said that Thursday there was a photo of Jenna flanked by
five TCU students, including Bridges, that was posted on the web site of
the company hired to take the photos, but the photo was not there
yesterday.
The Dallas Morning News said several other students also confirmed they
saw Jenna and the Secret Service agents a the party.
The Star-Telegram said, "Once Bridges was placed in custody, Cloud said,
'he asked initially if Jenna was all right. He told me they had gone to
highschool together in Austin and were friends.'"
Another young woman was taken into custody, because police thought her
driver's license was a fake. A young man, "believed to be one of the
party's hosts," also was taken into custody on a charge of providing
alcohol to minors.
While the White House isn't talking and Bridges' father said that while
his son and Jenna were friends, he knew nothing about a
boyfriend-girlfriend relationship. According to jail officials, Bridges
was "very vocal" in claiming he is Jenna's boyfriend.
He was placed in a cell alone to sober up, then allowed to make a call.
Jail officials believe he called Jenna and her Secret Service escort.
"A few minutes later, a black Suburban and some Secret Service agents
showed up," Anderson told the Star-Telegram, "adding that jail personnel
were told Jenna Bush was in the Suburban."
At 5:46 a.m., Bridges was whisked away in the Secret Service agents'
vehicle.
Last fall, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's 16-year-old son John (aka Jebby) was
caught in a compromising position with a half-naked 17-year-old girl in a
vehicle in the parking lot of a Tallahassee shopping mall.
While the security guards who caught the couple called in the police, one
of the guards said Jebby called his father, then said, "My dad will fix
it." Whether Daddy intervened, which would have been an abuse of office,
is unknown, but Jebby escaped a charge of sexual misconduct.
George P. Bush, another of Jeb's sons, has a 1984 Miami-Dade police record
that alleges he drive his Ford Explorer over two lawns, causing an
estimated $300 in property damage, and broke into the home of an
ex-girlfriend. He was 18 at the time and the girl's parents declined to
press charges.
Were these just teenage pranks or chips off the old Bushes?
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