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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS April 9, 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/ _____________________________________ RICE KRISPIES How ironic that it was the Bush-whackers who were DEMANDING that National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice appear before the 9-11 Commission and answer questions...and who then spent most of their time once she got in front of them trying to cut her off so she couldn�t answer their questions. What a circus. And Bob Kerry turned out to be the biggest clown of them all, referring to Rice on a number of occasions as �Dr. Clarke,� before Condi had to point out that she looks nothing at all like Richard Clarke. But Kerry sure looked like Bozo. FROM TEDDY�S LIPS TO TERRORISTS� EARS �Earlier this week (Sen. Ted) Kennedy was saying that Iraq was going to be George Bush's Vietnam.� Today that pudgy little radical Islamic �cleric� Muqtada al-Sadr was saying the same thing.� This stuff is priceless folks. Kennedy launches a broadside against Bush, and the people who are trying to kill our soldiers in Iraq parrot it the next day.� �...By the way .. in case I haven't had a chance to say this today; Kennedy is a vile, repugnant slug who, when he moves around the Senate floor, leaves a sticky trail behind him ... somewhat like a slug.� And I'm being kind here. Golly ... I'm having such a hard time expressing how I really feel today.� - Talk show host Neal Boortz MILE HIGH FOOT-DRAGGING �The federal government is stalling the process to arm airline pilots, according to lawmakers pushing new legislation to jump-start the program created in 2002. . . . Only 2 percent of 100,000 eligible pilots have been trained to carry guns. They are then forced to carry the weapons in a lockbox, unless they are behind a locked cabin door, and are forbidden from carrying weapons on international flights � rules pilots have said undermine the program.� - Washington Times, 4/8/04 FRANKEN-FLOP �It probably doesn�t bode well for a purportedly enjoyable radio show when its most entertaining segment is one featuring Al Gore. But that was the case on the maiden voyage of �The O�Franken Factor,� the much-ballyhooed liberal talk-radio show, hosted by Al Franken, which, along with the much-ballyhooed liberal talk-radio network Air America, debuted on (March 31). . . . If this doesn�t sound like great radio, that�s because it isn�t.� - Columnist Jason Zengerle ANNUAL OINK-OINKER HITS THE SHELVES �Congress spent $22.9 billion on unauthorized and often frivolous projects earmarked in appropriations bills this year, according to a study by Citizens Against Government Waste. The spending hawks introduced their 12th annual �Pig Book� yesterday, which details the 630 most egregious �pork barrel� projects approved by Congress.� - Washington Times, 4/8/04 CUT THEIR PAY & SEND �EM HOME �California lawmakers should work part time so they can be more productive and less likely to write �strange bills,� Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says. �I want to make the Legislature a part-time Legislature,� he told the Los Angeles Times on Tuesday while vacationing in Hawaii. �Spending so much time in Sacramento, without anything to do, then out of that comes strange bills.� . . . Democratic lawmakers criticized Mr. Schwarzenegger's comments.� - Greg Pierce�s �Inside Politics,� 4/8/04 WHAT�S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE? A state�s DEMOCRAT Party puts out an urgent action alert to its supporters asking that they contact their elected legislators and urge them to vote AGAINST a tax increase plan crafted by its REPUBLICAN governor? Is this the Twilight Zone or what? Nope...Kentucky. Here�s the action alert from the Kentucky Democrat Party... �URGENT ACTION REQUIRED!!!!� Call your legislators today and�tommorrow (sic) and tell them you want them to vote against House Bill 395 with the Governor�s tax increase.� Remember that Gov. Fletcher promised not to raise taxes, and while he calls his plan �revenue neutral,� it raises taxes on middle class families�clearly a flip-flop from his campaign promise.� Call 800/372-7181 �TODAY and ask for the message line and relay this VERY important message!!� SELLING OUT FOR 30 PIECES OF SILVER Just months after voting for Oregon Democrat Gov. Ted Kulongoski�s tax hike last year (since repealed by the voters), at least two of the turncoat Republicans who voted with him landed cushy, high-paying state jobs in Kulongoski�s administration. Fast forward to today and the late, great state of Virginia. Their Democrat governor is also pushing a HUGE tax hike which he absolutely can�t get without some turncoat GOP votes in the legislature. Which is why Americans for Tax Reform has sent a letter to Virginia Republicans asking �for a public promise that no future paycheck is sweetening the appeal of hiking taxes on Virginians.� This one�s about to get ugly folks. THEY SHOT HORSE-THIEVES, DIDN�T THEY? �A 26-year-old Los Angeles man who prosecutors say shot at two thieves stealing his car, killing one of them, was charged on Wednesday with murder. Yoon Ho Song could face 50 years to life in prison if he is convicted of the first degree murder of Mario Sandoval Martinez and a special allegation of using a handgun, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. �Prosecutors say Song came out of his house to find two car thieves pushing his customized Honda out of his driveway in the predawn hours on Monday and opened fire, hitting Martinez, 25, in the back. The second suspect got away. �The fact that your car is being stolen isn't a legal justification for killing somebody,� Deputy District Attorney Frank Somes said.� - Reuters, 4/7/04 READING IS FUNDAMENTAL * Ted Kennedy lost his cool on Wednesday when asked at a press conference about his involvement in spiking a judicial nomination until after a controversial affirmative action case had been heard. Read all about it at: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040408-124243-6112r.htm * When Sen. Trent Lott (R) had a few kind words for former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond, the left demanded his head on a platter. But when Sen. Chris Dodd (D) uttered some similar gushing praise for former KKK chieftain Sen. Robert Byrd...barely a peep from anyone. Go figure. Read more at: http://washingtontimes.com/national/20040408-122244-5534r.htm * That old �Bill 602P� hoax about taxing the internet has some folks suspicious about ALL reports on efforts to tax the internet. But a 9th Circus Court ruling last week is a REAL threat to the cost of future broadband communications. Grab your wallet and check it out here: http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20040407-092911-9291r.htm TABOR TALES Point of clarification: Kay Daley advises that she is a media consultant for Vernon Robinson�s congressional campaign in NC-5. Her husband Jack does not work *for* the campaign as a paid staffer, but *on* it as an unpaid volunteer advisor. That is precisely what I said in yesterday�s News & Views, but Robinson�s opponent Nathan Tabor apparently doesn�t understand the difference between �working for� and �working on.� What a doofus. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Chuck Muth�s News & Views is published by Citizen Outreach, a non-partisan, 501(c)3 non-profit corporation. 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