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*********************************** One Bad Apple Still in the Barrel "(The Bush) administration retains as transportation secretary a Democrat, Norman Mineta, who thinks every single flier should be treated like every other. Asked on '60 Minutes' if elderly white women and young Muslim men would be subjected to the same level of scrutiny, Mr. Mineta said, 'I would hope so.' Ridiculous." - Columnist Mona Charen ********************************** Go Forth and e-Multiply If you know someone who might like to receive News & Views, you can sign 'em up at: http://www.chuckmuth.com. Also, please help us continue to bring you the best in conservative news and views briefs with a voluntary contribution today. It's fast, simple and secure. Just go to: http://chuckmuth.com/voluntarysubscription.htm *********************************** And Then There Were Six "Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman will return to his hometown of Stamford, Conn., next week to make his announcement that he will run for president in 2004." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 1/9/03 *********************************** Cowboy Cool "George Bush reflects cowboy cool which comes naturally, compared to, say, the Democratic wannabes who want to fill his boots. Joe Lieberman is smart, but a yarmulke is not a ten gallon hat. He's definitely not cool." - Columnist Suzanne Fields *********************************** The Polarizer "Dick Gephardt is one of those Democrats who remind many Democrats why they are Democrats. . . . Unfortunately, he has also been one of those Democrats who remind many Republicans why they are Republican." - Boston Globe columnist Thomas Oliphant ********************************** Driving Mr. Klan-Man "The first week of the 108th Congress was largely given over to housekeeping and fussing over committee ratios and who gets a chauffer-driven car and who doesn't. Hint: Senator Robert Byrd, the 'Conscience of the Senate' who is no longer the President Pro Tempore wants to keep his limo." - Rich Galen, "Mullings," 1/10/03 [REMINDER: Unlike Trent Lott, Bobby Byrd was at one time a card-carrying member of the Ku Klux Klan] ********************************** Clueless In Nevada "President Bush's tax-cut plan will help 'the very, very, very few and eliminate the majority from any benefit,' says assistant Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid of Nevada. Mr. Reid's preposterous claim shows he and his Democratic allies still do not understand what fuels a growing, job-creating economy or where an expanding investment class will get its future retirement incomes." - Columnist Donald Lambro *********************************** Hot Air from High Priestess of Class Warfare "Never in the field of economics have so few been given so much at the expense of so many." - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) criticizing the President's economic proposal this week, Washington Times, 1/10/03 *********************************** Economic Ignorance "Two decades after President Ronald Reagan's tax cuts opened the floodgates on the longest, lushest period of economic growth in American history, most of Official Washington remains in the dark as to how it happened. In fact, many Democrats seem not even to know it happened. In 1992, the Clintons campaigned as though the American economy were in a depression. Listen to Hillary's response to the president's Chicago speech. She still thinks we are in a depression." - Columnist R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. *********************************** CPAC 2003 The 30th annual Conservative Political Action conference will be held in Crystal City, Virginia from January 30 through February 1. For more information, go to www.cpac.org. *********************************** This Year's Joe Biden Award Goes To... "Charges of plagiarism surround California Gov. Gray Davis's State of the State speech, which he delivered Thursday night. The Los Angeles Daily News reports the speech was strikingly similar -- in some cases, word-for-word -- to what President Clinton said in his first State of the Union address." - CNSNews.com, 1/0/03 *********************************** Spoken Like a True Liberal "(President) Bush should invest money in public projects like roads and Amtrak instead of relying on the private sector for job growth, (California Gov. Gray) Davis recommended." - Ontario Daily Bulletin, 1/8/03 ********************************** Never Satisfied "People can get nine months (of unemployment benefits) to look for a job and be compensated for it. What the Democrats problem is, is nothing is good enough for them. In fact, I would venture to guess that they would have unlimited unemployment compensation so somebody could stay out of work for the rest of their lives...if (Democrats) had their way." - House Majority Leader Tom Delay, Washington Times, 1/0/03 ********************************** Slapping Bush's Outreached Hand "(After September 11, President Bush) courted the Democrats with special assiduity and thanked them loud and often for their cooperation. . . . And he offered them concession after concession. "The Democratic leaders wanted airport security screeners to join the federal workforce. Bush assented. They wanted federal unemployment and healthcare benefits for workers displaced by the terror attacks. They got them. They asked that New York's emergency aid pay not just to rebuild lower Manhattan, but to improve it. So it was done. They urged Bush to focus his post attack economic stimulus on low-wage workers. He did that, too. "What did Bush get in return? On Jan. 4, 2002, (Democrat Senate Majority Leader Tom) Daschle accused Bush of responsibility for the 'most dramatic fiscal deterioration in our nation's history.' " - From the new book THE RIGHT MAN by David Frum [ You can order your copy of Frum's book by going to: <http://www.conservativebookservice.com/BookPage.asp?prod_cd=c6130&sour_cd=C ME004102> ] ********************************** Retread Liberal "(Sen. Frank) Lautenberg was a knee-jerk, old-style liberal who was, generally speaking, intolerant of opposition. And it would have been a better world if he had taken his retirement to heart and not come back." - American Conservative Union chairman David Keene on the New Jersey Democrat's return to the U.S. Senate after a brief "retirement," Washington Times, 1/10/03 ********************************** San Francisco Treat for Illegals "The Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco has become the first federal facility to accept Mexican-issued (Matricula Consular) ID cards, used by both legal and illegal immigrants, as valid identification. The policy was requested by new House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, California Democrat. "...Opponents say accepting the ID cards encourages illegal immigrants to continue to break the law and creates an unsafe atmosphere. 'There is no one in the United States of America that needs a [Mexican-issued] ID card other than someone who is here illegally or someone here who is a felon,' said Rep. Tom Tancredo, Colorado [Republican] and chairman of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus." - Washington Times, 1/10/03 ********************************** DWI: Driving While Illegal "Proponents of licenses for illegal aliens say that, since illegal aliens are going to drive anyway, a license would make them legal drivers. At this rate of incremental anarchy, we might as well say that since liars are going to lie anyway, we should make lying legal. They fail to see that what is at stake is not a mere license, but the fundamental respectability of law itself. Nothing is a greater assault on law than rewarding a lawbreaker. "Giving licenses to illegal aliens is a big issue - and it should be. . . . An illegal alien - someone who has no right to be here in the first place - does not deserve it. . . . To give licenses to illegal aliens is to slap every legal immigrant in the face for obeying the law." - Columnist and LEGAL immigrant Ian de Silva ********************************** Hillary Sez: Be Like Grover "What's this? Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), the arch-villain of conservative Republicans, urging fellow Democrats to follow the example of conservative GOP strategist Grover Norquist? That's right. Clinton says Democrats need to be like Grover, and convene weekly strategy sessions to ponder their mission and message, and then get the word out with friendly media types, as Republicans do with Rush Limbaugh and Fox News talkmeisters Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly." - "Open Secrets," The Hill, 1/8/03 ********************************** Democrat's Southern Exodus Continues "Democrats continue to experience problems in the South as the defection of local elected officials to the GOP continues. The latest Democrat to switch is Alabama state Rep. Johnny Ford, the former mayor of Tuskegee, who announced Thursday he would cross the aisle and become a Republican. Ford, a five-year legislative veteran, becomes the first black Republican in the state house since reconstruction." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 1/10/03 ************************************ TSA: Take Your Union & Shove It "Airport screeners can't join labor unions, says the Transportation Security Agency. Adm. James Loy, the under secretary of transportation for security, on Thursday signed an order banning collective bargaining by TSA screeners, much to one union's dismay. 'Mandatory collective bargaining is not compatible with the flexibility required to wage the war against terrorism,' Loy said. . . . Loy filed the 'no-union' order after the American Federation of Government Employees asked for an election in which screeners at two big airports would be able to designate the union as their exclusive bargaining representative." - CNSNews.com, 1/10/03 *********************************** Thou Shalt Not Distribute Candy Canes "Seven Westfield High School students are now preparing an appeal to the board of education challenging the suspensions handed down when they returned to school last week. Administrators did not approve the students' request to pass out the candy and an accompanying religious message. But the students decided to ignore that order and distribute about 450 candy canes, just as they had done in the past." - CNSNews.com, 1/10/03 ********************************** Protecting Your Cheap Long Distance Rates I just received a note from our GOPLongDistance.com account representative requesting immediate action - that is, if you want to keep getting the low long distance rates we've been enjoying for a while now. Seems the FCC commissioners will vote next month on proposed changes to the 1996 Telecommunications Act which could mean that our "4.9 cents per minute plans will be either abolished or we will be left with much higher rates." To preserve your current low rates from GOPLongDistance.com, you should immediately write, call, fax or email the FCC commissioners and urge them to vote "NO" on the planned changes to the 1996 Telco Act. Here's the contact information: Chairman Michael K. Powell: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Commissioner Kathleen Q. 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