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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS February 28, 2004 To view the HTML version of today�s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm To subscribe, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsletter/ To reach our 7-day News & Views archive, go to www.citizenoutreach.com _____________________________________ MAYORS SAY THE DANE-DEST THINGS �I hate hate-mongers. Anybody who is that full of odious venom isn't the kind of person I'd like in my community ... I liken (Tony Dane) to a zit ... You pinch it and poisonous stuff comes out and it disappears." - Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman on the anti-gay gadfly, Jon Ralston�s �Flash,� 2/26/04 EVEN DONKEYS ARE PINNING THE TAIL ON THE FLIP-FLOPPER �I�m saying what [John Kerry is] saying now is different than some of the votes he�s cast in the past.� � Sen. John Edwards (D-NC), Democrat presidential candidate debate, 2/26/04 LEFT FACE! BACKWARDS MARCH! �National Journal, the respected Washington policy magazine, has just published its annual congressional vote ratings which measure how liberal or conservative each member is. . . . National Journal found that Mr. Kerry was the most liberal senator in 2003, with a composite liberal score of 96.5%. Mr. Edwards was right behind him with a composite liberal score of 94.5%. That made him the fourth most liberal senator. Despite some personal tension between the two men, they appear to be completely compatible as running mates -- both are on the extreme ideological end of their party.� - John Fund, �Political Diary,� 2/27/04 HILLARY-CANADA-CARE, OH MY Let�s see, let�s see. Hillary Clinton and the Democrats want an American health care system just like the one the Canadians to our north enjoy. And mayors and governors around the nation want to import the price-controlled cheap versions of Canadian drugs. So the Canadian health care system must be truly wonderful, eh? Yeah, right. One problem: According to the Toronto Star this week, their �health-care system will begin to self-destruct by the end of the decade without both an overhaul and a cash influx from the federal Liberals.� �Nuff said. ________________________________________ GOP SURVIVOR SERIES Balloting for the Third and final preliminary round of our 2008 GOP Presidential Survivor showdown is underway. The top two finishers of Round Three will join the top two finishers from Rounds One & Two (Giuliani, Owens, Paul and Rice) for our big Super Tuesday elimination round. If you haven�t cast your vote yet, go to the Survey Says! page at www.citizenoutreach.com Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney Former Alabama judge Roy Moore PA Sen. Rick Santorum SC Gov. Mark Sanford Gary Bauer Alan Keyes Chuck Muth __________________________________________ USPS: IT�S BROKE, TIME TO FIX IT In a letter sent to Senate Governmental Affairs Committee Chairman Susan Collins (R-ME), the General Accounting Office (GAO) agreed with her assessment that comprehensive not incremental postal reform is needed now to ensure the U.S. Postal Service's future viability. And a letter this week from The Coalition for a 21st Century Postal Service to Members of Congress warns, �The U.S. Postal Service is the linchpin of a $900 billion industry that employs more than nine million people. Failure to enact postal reform this year will inevitably expose a large part of the U.S. economy to serious harm." Senator Collins' Committee, which has jurisdiction over the U.S. Postal Service, has been leading the drive for postal reform and she plans to introduce bipartisan reform legislation with Senator Tom Carper (D-DE) later this year. WHITE-ONLY SCHOLARSHIP 20-year-old Adam Noska was the winner of a $250 scholarship established to make a point about affirmative action and race by Roger Williams University�s College Republican organization. According to a report in the London Telegraph (you didn�t think an American paper would cover this story, did you?), �The application form for the scholarship deftly parodied the language of similar documents for black, Hispanic or American Indian students seeking financial help for their education. �In 100 words or less, write why you are proud of your white heritage and explain what being white means to you,� it read.� � The left is, predictably, having a mad cow over the scholarship...but, regrettably, so are some GOP establishment leaders. The Rhode Island state Republican Party rebuked the scholarship for its �racist overtones.� It appears there are only �racist overtones� if you�re white, not black or Hispanic or American Indian. So much for judging folks on the content of their character. Seems the College Republicans have MORE than made their point. Too bad so many have missed it...especially Republicans who should know better. Well, gotta go. I�m off to an affirmative action bake sale! SPEAKING OF RACISTS Rep. Corrine Brown, a black Democrat from Florida, attended a closed-door Capital Hill briefing with administration officials over the Haiti unrest this week. And according to the Associated Press, the unbalanced congresswoman became angry and began yelling at Assistant Secretary of State Roger Noriega, calling the Bush policy �racist� (we�re shocked!). She then complained that the White House had sent �a bunch of white men� as representatives to the meeting - an accusation which really ticked off the Mexican-American Noriega, who upbraided Brown saying, �I deeply resent being called a racist and branded a white man.� To which the unhinged black Brown woman replied, �You all look alike to me.� Lovely. Blacks are certainly lucking to have Ms. Brown representing them in Congress. NO BRAINER Let us stipulate that wearing a seat belt is a good idea. That being said, giving the government the power to make seat belt use mandatory is as anti-American as it would have been to require Paul Revere to wear a safety helmet before embarking on his �Midnight Ride.� Sure, it would have been a good idea. But can anyone in their wildest imagination believe the Founders would have stood for such busy-body nannyism? Of course not. Yet Virginia Republican state Sen. Thomas Norment Jr. is pushing a bill to make failure to buckle up a primary offense...meaning cops can pull you over for not wearing one, not just ticket you if you weren�t wearing one when you did something *really* wrong. But Norment pulled his proposal this week after finding it didn�t have the votes on his committee, saying in his disappointment that �This just seemed like a no-brainer piece of legislation.� It�s a no-brainer alright, senator. Just not the kind of no-brainer you think it is. DOESN�T ANYONE TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS ANY LONGER? Virginia Ormanian and Norma Astourian of Detroit are self-admitted gambling addicts. In return for taxpayer-funded anti-gambling aid, they agreed to put their names on a self-exclusion list and stay out of the city�s casinos. But they didn�t. And they lost more money. So naturally they�re suing the casinos for not enforcing their own agreement to stay out of the casinos. Makes perfect sense, doesn�t it? STATEMENT FROM THE NRA �Recent internet alerts from some �pro-Second Amendment� groups have suggested that the National Rifle Association has either accepted a compromise that would include reenactment of the 1994 Clinton Gun ban and/or the McCain-Reed gun show restrictions, or will not actively fight against their passage in the Senate. �Not only are these claims completely false and ridiculous but they are also extremely counterproductive to our legislative strategy and agenda. �The National Rifle Association led the fight in opposition to this ill-conceived ban in 1994, led the efforts to repeal the ban two years later, and is leading the fight to ensure the Clinton gun ban expires on time on September 13.� - National Rifle Association, 2/26/04 A MUCH-NEEDED LESSON ON FEDERALISM �Federalism is a decentralized decision-making system that allows states to compete for residents and businesses by offering different mixes of economic and social policies. As in a market, citizens can satisfy their preferences by deciding to live in states that provide the tax, education, welfare or family policies that they agree with. Some states, such as Massachusetts, can choose to permit gay marriage, while others such as California might choose to define marriage as between a man and woman, and Americans can choose to live in either state depending on what policy they support. The administration's current plans would prevent our states from allowing their own democratic systems to respond to their citizens in deciding this important question of family law.� - John Yoo, former deputy attorney general in the Bush administration and former law clerk to Justice Clarence Thomas, Wall Street Journal, 2/27/04 BACKLASH BEGINS �The Georgia House narrowly rejected a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage Thursday, a surprise vote that derailed the same-sex marriage question that seemed almost certain to go to voters this fall.� - Associated Press, 2/2604 GOD BLESS THE FEDERALIST �In the end, this proposed (Musgrave federal) marriage amendment does little more than bandage a lesion on a body consumed with cancer. In addition, it lends a false sense of security. If the issue -- as President Bush presented in no uncertain terms -- is the imminent threat of judicial activism (and indeed it is), then the only constitutional amendment we should be considering is one that addresses JUDICIAL ACTIVISM.� - The Federalist, 2/27/04 ____________________________________ ON THE AIR Yours truly will be a guest on liberal talk-show host Michaelangelo Signorelli�s national program out of New York on Tuesday afternoon from 3:15 - 3:45 p.m. (EST). The topic? You guessed it: Gay marriage. You can listen in via satellite radio or pick it up via webcast by going to www.siriusojq.com. ________________________________________ THIS WEEK IN DC CONFIDENTIAL * A dangerous landmine ambush Kerry is setting for an unsuspecting Bush over gay marriage * A Bush decision last week which may backfire on him, resulting in a Christian-based third-party alternative presidential candidacy * Some interesting, if not down-right provocative, musings by former Clinton adviser Dick Morris including Osama bin Laden, the vice president and the president of Romania * Update on the PA GOP senate primary cat-fight * The latest political cause for Looney Clooney * Good news from South Dakota is sad news for Tommy D * How old-fashioned grassroots might result in a major upset this Tuesday in California * Underdog senate candidate in Florida scores major endorsement * The good, the bad and the ugly: Three congressional races to watch. A possible RINO retirement in New York, a really, really bad Republican candidate in Georgia, and a major GOP pick-up opportunity against a lousy Democrat in Arkansas * The looming mega-rematch in Jersey All this and more in Sunday�s DC Confidential. Don�t miss it. Get an automatic subscription just by making a donation of $5 or more to Citizen Outreach by going to the �Donate� page TODAY at www.citizenoutreach.com. __________________________________________ Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. The opinions and views expressed in Chuck Muth's News & Views reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees. 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