To unsubscribe send "leave chuckmuth" in body of message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or hit reply with "remove" in subject or go to http://www.incor.com/l10003/newsletter.htm to remove X-ListMember: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] ************************** Stupid Is As Stupid Does �A Maryland elementary school has banned the game of tag. Joan Briscoe, principal of West Annapolis Elementary tells the Capital newspaper that the game violates the school's �no touching� policy.� - �Best of the Web,� OpinionJournal.com, 3/27/01 *************************** GOP�s �Weak Sisters� �Senate Republicans say they are struggling to keep some of their party�s �weak sisters� from undermining President Bush�s legislative agenda. Conservatives identify the usual lineup of suspects who have made life difficult for the Senate Republican leadership since the party captured the upper chamber in the 1994 elections. Now these �RINOs� - Republicans in Name Only, as party conservatives deem them - are causing similar troubles for Mr. Bush. � � The Republican �weak sisters� lineup includes Sens. James M. Jeffords of Vermont and Lincoln R. Chaffee of Rhode Island - whom conservatives colleagues describe as the most difficult to deal with - as well as Sens. Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins, both of Maine. � But the �weak sisters� club has expanded beyond its Rockefeller Republican base in the Northeast. Sen. George V. Voinovich, Ohio Republican, is among those who have bucked the party�s Senate leadership� � � �Would they feel more comfortable as Democrats than Republicans? Some of them would,� an aide to a conservative Republican senator says. �They�re the last elements of the Rockefeller Republicanism that (the late Sen. Barry) Goldwater thought he killed off but didn�t.�� - Reporter Ralph Hallow, Washington Times, 3/26/01 ************************** State Legislatures Lining Up Behind Tax Cuts �The Oregon House of Representatives passed a resolution today (H.J.M. 28) calling on their state's congressional delegation to support and work to pass the tax relief proposal introduced by President George W. Bush. The vote passed by a margin of 43 to 14 with 12 Democrats voting in favor of the resolution. The Oregon legislature joins Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, New Jersey, and Utah as states that have officially endorsed the President's plan. Resolutions are pending in a dozen other states.� - Americans for Tax Reform, 3/27/01 ************************** Nowhere Man �Mr. Gore has become the forgotten man in American politics, spurned by his friends, forgotten by his foes, neglected by the press that once nipped so ardently at his heels. He pops into view from time to time, teaching college classes, schmoozing with Silicon Valley execs and trying to chart a path through a wilderness apart from politics. But he never lingers long. He does his bit and then vanishes into the fog of anonymity.� - Columnist Tony Snow *************************** >From Race Haters to Race Baiters �There was a time when those who claimed to fight against prejudice confronted genuinely terrible injustice: segregated public schools, the bombing of black churches, willful flouting of the Fifteenth Amendment. Back then, civil rights leaders were figures of impressive moral authority who saved the charge of racism for bigots who deserved it: cross-burners in hoods, terrorists who attacked Freedom Riders, haters preaching white supremacy. �No more. �Civil rights� leaders today are typically shakedown artists like Jesse Jackson or racial inciters like Al Sharpton. The old struggle to cleanse the law of distinctions based on color has given way to demands for permanent racial preferences. And �racist� has become an all-purpose smear, suitable for every target: the supporter of welfare reform, the activist who criticizes slavery reparations, the official who calls a budget �niggardly.�� - Columnist Jeff Jacoby of the Boston Globe, 3/26/01 ************************* Jailing People for Being Sick �A day before the Supreme Court was to hear arguments on the issue, Republican lawmakers sparred on Tuesday with the leader of a group advocating the medical use of marijuana. �What's really going on here is people are trying to legalize smoking marijuana and they're using cancer and AIDS patients as a prop,' said Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Fla., at a hearing of the House Government Reform Committee's criminal justice subcommittee. Rob Kampia, the executive director of the Marijuana Policy Project, said his organization �believes that sick people as well as healthy people should not be put in jail for using marijuana. But if we can keep sick people out of jail in the short run, then by God we're going to do it,' he said.� - Associated Press, 3/27/01 ************************** Domenici Backs Off On Call for Dendahl�s Head �(New Mexico) State Republican Party Chairman John Dendahl is glad the firestorm is over. He says he can now focus on doing battle with the Democrats instead of New Mexico's senior Sen. Pete Domenici, a force in state and national politics. �We're a team again,� Dendahl said while sipping coffee outside an Albuquerque coffee house Friday afternoon. About 10 days ago, it appeared Dendahl had done himself in with his highly public push to change the state's drug laws, holding a press conference in an effort to persuade legislators to move on a package of drug law reform bills backed by the state's top Republican, Gov. Gary Johnson. Dendahl's apparent advocacy for softening drug laws brought a furious reaction from Republicans in the state's congressional delegation. But an angry Domenici let Dendahl off the hook this week when the Republican senator retreated from his call for Dendahl to resign as the GOP's chairman. Domenici, who is back home in Albuquerque this weekend, won't say what caused his change of heart. - Albuquerque Tribune Online, 3/27/01 ************************** Another Shoe Drops On Donnie D �Acting New Jersey Gov. Donnie DiFrancesco, whose campaign for the GOP gubernatorial nomination has been plagued with bad news, is dealing with another shock. News reports this week say that his nominee for state treasurer, Isabel Miranda, was fired from a high-level job at Citibank after an audit showed she had used her expense account to underwrite an extramarital affair. According to The New York Times, �Court documents suggest that Mr. DiFrancesco himself learned of her firing, if not the reason for it, within weeks after her dismissal.� Miranda is disputing the report.� - Peter Roff, UPI�s �Capital Comment,� 3/27/01 ************************** Thought For the Day �There will always be death and taxes; however, death doesn't get worse every year.� ************************** Help Spread the Word GOP News & Views is a daily Internet e-newsletter for Republican activists, supporters, political leaders and elected officials. 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