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*********************************** Our Favorite Political Odd Couple "He has the span of concentration of a hummingbird or mosquito. He couldn't look at it long enough to know what it was." - Republican White House adviser Mary Matalin when asked if she trusts that her famous Democrat husband James Carville won't peek at confidential files she brings home from work, NewsMax.com *********************************** 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. *********************************** Dumb & Dumber "I think I read in a fortune cookie once that 'He who has foolish enemies possesses the Mandate of Heaven.' In that sense, President Bush is twice blessed. I'm not sure who is President Bush's stupidest opponent: Saddam Hussein or Tom Daschle. "Of course, a powerful case can be made for Saddam, whose career-long fetishistic love affair with weapons of mass destruction exposed him to potential oblivion whenever a United States president should come along with the clarity of vision and guts to call him on it. "...But a persuasive case also can be made for Sen. Tom 'I-don't-have-the guts-to run-for president' Daschle being the more politically stupid. At least Saddam has the excuse of being an insane megalomaniac. "Senator Daschle, to all appearances, is not possessed of any urges more deranged than to occasionally wear a pink tie (which I thought looked rather nice on him.) Like the rest of us in town, he is just another chap trying to maneuver through the marble corridors of power to a point of some prominence. The trouble is, he tends to walk into walls, rather than through doors." - Columnist Tony Blankley ************************************ Only the Tip of the Saddam Iceberg "Time and time again over the 20th century, the West learned that the scale of crimes committed by totalitarian regimes was far worse than we even knew. It was not until those brutal regimes fell and their victims documented the full extent of the monstrous abuse that we learned the truth. "We saw it in Hitler's Germany. We saw it in the Soviet Union. We saw it in Cambodia, and eventually we will see it in Cuba. And once Saddam fails and falls, the Iraqi people will shock and disgust the world by revealing the full, ghastly scope of Saddam's oppression." - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) ************************************ Free Saddam! "Let's make this short & sweet. President Bush proved France, Germany and the Democrats are either too stupid or too anti-American to understand geo-political issues and defeat worldwide terrorism. We will liberate Iraq with a decisive victory that will feature Hussein unleashing some awful weapons, killing his own people as well as American troops. We will win nonetheless, and capture him while scurrying to some other country. Nancy Pelosi, Tom Daschle, Alec Baldwin and Amnesty International will then cry out over his treatment as a political prisoner." - Tom Adkins, "The Common Conservative," 2/1/03 *********************************** Treating Soldiers Like Kids "Our son returned from a deployment to Saudi Arabia and had to have us buy some ammunition for his handgun because he was under 21. LOL. He was old enough to carry an M-60 and work on the satellite equipment that helps launch ICBMs, but not old enough to by 9 mm ammo. What a hoot!" - News & Views reader Donna from Missouri ************************************ Long, Cold Winter on the Home Front "President George W. Bush addressed Congress and the nation Tuesday, giving his second official State of the Union address. Partisan politics was very much in evidence almost from the outset. When the president stated that, 'Jobs are created when the economy grows; the economy grows when Americans have more money to spend and invest; and the best, fairest way to make sure Americans have that money is not to tax it away in the first place,' it brought the Republicans in the House and Senate to their feet in thunderous and, for a State of the Union address, sustained applause. Across the aisle however, nary a Democrat could be seen applauding let alone standing. If this is an indication of the state of play on Capitol Hill, the president's domestic agenda is in for a long, cold winter." - Peter Roff, UPI's Capital Comment, 1/29/03 *********************************** Gov't Is the Problem, Not Solution "A lot of liberals have been complaining that George W. Bush's presidency is Ronald Reagan's third term. And when it comes to tax policy and foreign policy, Bush is a supply-side, hawkish Reaganite. "But where Bush and Reagan substantially part company is when it comes to the role of government in solving societal problems. Bush has really shown himself over the last two years to be more of a big government Republican than someone who believes, as Reagan did, that government isn't the solution to our problems, it is the problem. This White House doesn't believe that approach to government can work." - Stephen Moore, president of Club for Growth, Washington Times, 1/29/03 *********************************** Dangling on a String Chuckie Schumer and Teddy Kennedy were in full throat this week in hearings over the president's judicial nominees. "There is just this tremendous rush to judgment here," thundered the pipsqueak from New York. Republicans are trying to "jam through nominees" bellowed the Rotund One from Taxachussetts. What a load of flapdoodle. As Sen. Orin Hatch pointed out, the three nominees who were considered this week that got Chuck and Ted's pantyhose all up in a bunch were nominated back in May 2001...630 DAYS AGO! Some "rush." *********************************** Moderate Rumblings Rep. Mike Castle, Delaware Republican, is evolving as the leader of the "moderate" wing of the House GOP. And according to reports this week, he's mad as a hornet at House Speaker Denny Hastert and Majority Leader Tom DeLay over moderate Chris Shays being passed over for chairmanship of the House Committee on Government Reform and Oversight. Apparently, Shays was given the shaft as punishment for his leading role in forcing a vote on the House's version of the ridiculously unconstitutional campaign finance reform bill last year. Good. Actions such as Shays SHOULD have consequences. It's very encouraging to see our new leadership is willing to exert some discipline over RINOs who wander too far off the reservation. *********************************** The Goldwater Doctrine "I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution, or that have failed in their purpose, or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should later be attacked for neglecting my constituents' interests, I shall reply that I was informed their main interest is liberty and that in that cause I am doing the very best I can." - Barry Goldwater, "The Conscience of a Conservative" To help promote the "Goldwater Doctrine" in public policy and government, join the Goldwater Club by going to: http://chuckmuth.com/goldwater.htm ********************************* ********************************* Published by The Goldwater Club Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher P.O. 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