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************************************* The "Right" Place for Your Christmas Shopping FreeedomHQ.com: Your headquarters for conservative and patriotic shirts, caps, flags and more. "Bush 2004" gear, as well. http://store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/clink?freedomhq+b4bnzq+index.html+ ********************************** Playing Hardball "During 14 years in the Michigan Legislature and 11 years in Congress, Rep. Nick Smith had never experienced anything like it. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, in the wee hours last Saturday morning, pressed him to vote for the Medicare bill. But Smith refused. Then things got personal. Smith, self term-limited, is leaving Congress. His lawyer son Brad is one of five Republicans seeking to replace him from a GOP district in Michigan's southern tier. "On the House floor, Nick Smith was told business interests would give his son $100,000 in return for his father's vote. When he still declined, fellow Republican House members told him they would make sure Brad Smith never came to Congress. After Nick Smith voted no and the bill passed, Duke Cunningham of California and other Republicans taunted him that his son was dead meat. ".Republicans voting against the bill were told they were endangering their political futures. Major contributors warned Rep. Jim DeMint they would cut off funding for his Senate race in South Carolina. A Missouri state legislator called Rep. Todd Akin to threaten a primary challenge against him. Intense pressure, including a call from the president, was put on freshman Rep. Tom Feeney. As speaker of the Florida House, he was a stalwart for Bush in his state's 2000 vote recount. He is the Class of 2002's contact with the House leadership, marking him as a future party leader. But now, in those early morning hours, Feeney was told a 'no' vote would delay his ascent into leadership by three years -- maybe more. "Feeney held firm against the bill. So did DeMint and Akin. And so did Nick Smith." - Columnist Bob Novak ********************************** Playing Let's Make a Deal "As part of the horse-trading to win votes for the prescription-drug bill, House Republican leaders promised to hold a vote on a bill requiring hospitals that treat illegal aliens to report them to federal authorities. The Medicare overhaul bill, which passed the House on Saturday and the Senate on Tuesday, includes $1 billion to reimburse hospitals for treating indigent illegal immigrants. "But in exchange for supporting the bill, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, California Republican, extracted a promise from House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois to allow a vote on making hospitals report illegal aliens. 'I told leadership that if they wanted my vote they would have to mitigate the damage that is done by financing illegal immigrant health services. They needed my vote, so they took the deal,' Mr. Rohrabacher said in a statement." - Washington Times, 11/27/03 ********************************** Power Shift "The passage of the Republican Party's Medicare/prescription drug bill - and its support by the AARP - is by far the most convincing evidence to date that the political center of gravity in Washington is shifting definitively to the GOP for the first time since the pre-FDR era. . . . (A)s the Republicans continue to peel away more and more pieces of the remaining Democratic influence in Washington, more and more Democratic senators and congressmen will feel compelled to work with, and vote with, the Republicans on legislation. Crumbs are better than starvation. The remaining loyal Democrats will sound ever more shrill and thus unfit to govern - pungent adjectives being the last resort of a minority party. So, the political center of gravity in Washington will continue to shift toward the Republicans. And the longer this process continues, the harder it will be for the Democrats to regain power." - Columnist Tony Blankley ********************************** Billionaire King of Hypocrites "Beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing through the enactment of the so-called Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, (George) Soros was one of the leading proponents of the campaign finance reform. . . . Now, however, Mr. Soros has apparently had a change of heart. Having succeeded in restricting the fund raising and spending activities of political candidates and political parties, Mr. Soros has found a way to skirt the very laws he helped enact in order to advance his personal political agenda. "He has committed up to $5 million to MoveOn.org, an organization that airs ads and organizes rallies denouncing the president's policies at home and abroad. To date, Mr. Soros says he has spent upwards of $15.5 million to oust (President) Bush, and he's prepared to spend even more. Of course, there's no outcry from the liberal establishment and media elites that worked so hard to impose the reforms that Mr. Soros once supported." - David Bossie, president of Citizens United ********************************** The Bad News Donkeys "It seems like the bad news never stops. Economic indicators are up. Unemployment is falling. Seniors are about to get prescription-drug coverage. And the United States is moving forward on a plan for Iraqi self-government. Can it get any worse? As the turkey is being carved [on Thanksgiving], there will be little joy for Democrats sitting around the table. For the fact is, everything is breaking George W. Bush's way. Increasingly his re-election looks inevitable." - Columnist Thomas Keane Jr. of the Boston Herald *************************************** 4.75 cents-per-minute Long Distance * All state-to-state calls in the continental U.S. * Residential or commercial * 6-second billing increments * 24 hours/day * 7 days/week * No access codes * No minimums * No activation fees * Calling Card Rate is 10 cents per minute * No monthly service charge unless your bill is less than $20.00 a month (then a $1.99 service charge will apply) * No need to change your local phone company * No hassles * Easy sign-up. * And a small portion of each bill goes to help continue publishing our FREE Chuck Muth's News & Views e-newsletter. Just go to: http://www.NewsandViewsLongDistance.com ********************************** Bring Back Gridlock "On Jan. 23, 1996, Bill Clinton told the nation, 'The era of big government is over.' If so, it sure didn't last very long. Today, the era of big government is back with a vengeance, ushered in by a massive new prescription drug entitlement, a pork-laden energy bill of grotesque proportions and a trade war with China. What few people, including myself, ever thought would happen was that this new era of big government would be implemented by Republicans controlling both Congress and the White House. It makes me long for the good old days of gridlock." - Columnist Bruce Bartlett ********************************** Break Out the Veto Pen "While (President) Bush is an otherwise stalwart defender of American interests abroad and a staunch supply-sider at home, he seems to believe strongly in little else. He could not wait to sign virtually any Medicare bill. 'My pen is ready,' Bush announced in August, fueling a Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade of legislative excesses. Meanwhile, in their first three years, Ronald Reagan vetoed 22 bills, George Bush, Sr., 25 and Clinton 11. G.W. Bush has not used his veto pen. Not a single time. Never." - Columnist Deroy Murdock ********************************** The Woman Who Would Be Hillary "The wife of Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says that suspected terrorists held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, should be given prisoner of war status. 'They were captured while fighting a war,' Teresa Heinz Kerry said Monday at an informal discussion with minority activists in Seattle. "They should have the rights that other prisoners of war have had.' Mrs. Heinz Kerry, heir to the Heinz family's food fortune, said denying the detainees the protections of the Geneva Convention is 'insulting, ignorant and insensitive' to the rest of the world. She added that under President Bush, the United States, once known as the standard-bearer for human rights, is now considered a hypocrite." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 11/26/03 ********************************** Ambulance Chasers Dealt Setback in Senate "Senators say they have reached a deal to get a bill reforming class-action lawsuits that was blocked by Democrats last month through Congress. Three Democratic senators changed their stances after language was inserted they say better protects consumers while still reining in many frivolous lawsuits and preventing lawyers from "venue shopping" in search of sympathetic judges and juries that award the biggest settlements. Those supporters now include Democratic Sens. Charles E. Schumer of New York, Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana, all of whom opposed the bill last month. The bill was defeated by a single vote in a filibuster lodged by mainly Democrats." - Washington Times, 11/27/03 ********************************** Free Ride for Boxer? "California Rep. Darrell Issa, who bankrolled the recall drive against Gov. Gray Davis, will not seek the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Barbara Boxer, a Democrat. . . . Several days ago, Rep. David Dreier, who gained visibility as one of (Gov. Arnold) Schwarzenegger's advisers during the recall campaign, also opted out of the Senate race." - Greg Pierce's "Inside Politics," 11/27/03 ********************************** Yes, Virginia, There IS a Bob Hurt "I think PROCREATION between blacks and either whites or Orientals should be outlawed for the commonsense reasons I gave in a previous message. Bottom line: allowing it fosters a dumbing-down of the gene pool and results in degeneration of the civilization. This is even more poignantly suggested by the reality that statistically more stupid blacks and Hispanics constitute 30% of the population, more than 50% of the prison and jail population (and crime), 65% of the welfare burden, and more than 50% of the illegitimate births. Their rate of procreation is double that of Caucasians, and Caucasians are not even producing at a sufficient rate to perpetuate the race. Given the reality that blacks, on their own, have never evolved beyond tribal government and have been historically incapable of producing a superior civilization, do you think those statistics are irrelevant to the future of our civilization? "Next time you badmouth my position on mixed race marriages, please quote the above paragraph, for that is the reason I have taken my position." - News & Views reader Bob Hurt (In response to several readers' inquiries, yes, as hard as it is to believe, Bob Hurt appears to be a real person who considers himself to be highly intelligent and has a couple other Neanderthals who agree with him.) ********************************** Marrying Government "Historically, there was no requirement to obtain a marriage license in colonial America. . . . George Washington was married without a marriage license. Abraham Lincoln was married without a marriage license. So, how did we come to this place in America where marriage licenses are issued? "Historically, all the states in America had laws outlawing the marriage of blacks and whites. In the mid-1800's, certain states began allowing interracial marriages or miscegenation as long as those marrying received a license from the state "...Give the State an inch and they will take a 100 miles. Not long after these licenses were issued, some states began requiring all people who marry to obtain a marriage license. In 1923, the Federal Government established the Uniform Marriage and Marriage License Act (they later established the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act). By 1929, every state in the Union had adopted marriage license laws. "Christian couples should not be marrying with State marriage licenses, nor should ministers be marrying people with State marriage licenses. . . . Given the fact that states may soon legalize same-sex marriages, we need to ask ourselves, 'If a man and a man marry with a State marriage license, and a man and woman marry without a State marriage license - who's really married? Is it the two men with a marriage license, or the man and woman without a marriage license?'" - Pastor Matt Trewhella, Mercy Seat Christian Church ********************************** When In Rome "The fall of Rome occurred because of government corruption and sexual deviation? All my history books say it had something to do with external invasion. Incidentally, the Roman Empire fell centuries after it had converted to Christianity and the traditional sexual mores of the Mediterranean had been abandoned in favour of . . . well, the ones that Ken and Judy Bower are advocating." - News & Views reader Quentin Langley *************************************** Affordable Campaign Websites! Now you can get professional-looking campaign web sites for as little as $10 a month. That's right...just ten smackeroos a month. Here's what's included in this fantastic new program from Campaign Secrets, Inc. 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