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____________________________________ CHUCK MUTH�S NEWS & VIEWS April 14, 2004 To view the HTML version of today�s News & Views, just go to: http://www.chuckmuth.com/newsandviews/nv.cfm _____________________________________ KERRY�S HOME-GROWN BA�ATH PARTY �Campaign 2004 turns extreme in Florida with the placement of a newspaper ad calling for physical retribution against Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld! �We should put this S.O.B. up against a wall and say 'This is one of our bad days,' and pull the trigger,� the ad reads. The call-to-arms fundraising ad, placed by the St. Petersburg Democratic Club in the current issue of the GABBER, a local St. Petersburg paper, asks readers to make an urgent donation to the John Kerry campaign.� - The Drudge Report, 4/13/04 TIME TO MOVE ON �George Bush had been in office less than a year when confronted with Sept. 11, and the unwisdom of succumbing to the clamor of victim families for a premature investigation should now be clear to all. The commission predictably has degenerated into a partisan spectacle in the middle of a presidential year, as well as becoming incoherently and unproductively entangled in current policy controversies, notably Iraq. �...But amid the millions of words poured forth in the investigation, two important ones have not been spoken. Nobody has yet politely told the victim families that it's time to �move on.� One way or another, approximately 43,000 Americans have died by violence since Sept. 11, 2001, each family suffering the pain of unexpected loss. Yet the vast majority have not been gratified by endless national attention. There needs to be some limit to the sympathy claimed by one unexceptional set of survivors, so the country can proceed about its business.� - Holman W. Jenkins Jr., �Political Diary,� 4/13/04 THIS IS CNN �If CNN's cameras and correspondents had been positioned at Omaha Beach on June 6, the pressure on FDR and Winston Churchill to negotiate a cease-fire by nightfall, �to give peace a chance,� would have been irresistible.� - Wesley Pruden, �Pruden On Politics,� 4/13/04 WHAT�S AT STAKE: THE BIG PICTURE �We are locked in a historic struggle in Iraq. On its outcome hangs more than the fate of the Iraqi people. Were we to fail, which we will not, it is more than 'the power of America' that would be defeated. The hope of freedom and religious tolerance in Iraq would be snuffed out. Dictators would rejoice; fanatics and terrorists would be triumphant. Every nascent strand of moderate Arab opinion, knowing full well that the future should not belong to fundamentalist religion, would be set back in bitter disappointment.� - British Prime Minister Tony Blair in the London Guardian last weekend LOONY ROONEY �60 Minutes' Andy Rooney, supreme Bush-hater and left-wing shill, has written a column where he has actually said that our fighting men and women in Iraq are not heroes.� Rather, he attempts and fails to make the case that somehow our brave soldiers are regular people who just joined the military because they couldn't get any other job, and then just went where they were told.� And in the ultimate insult, he says that those who joined the military are victims and not heroes. Isn't that great? Is Rooney intentionally trying to demoralize our men and women in uniform by telling them that they're really nothing special after all?� Nice going, Andy.� - Talk-show host Neal Boortz DRAFTING FEAR �Presidential candidate Ralph Nader this weekend warned his constituents that a military draft is pending, and asked younger voters to prepare. . . . Another third-party candidate, Libertarian Aaron Russo, has joined Mr. Nader in warning Americans that a draft is a real possibility, despite denials from all quarters of the Bush administration. . . . It would take legislative action by Congress to reinstate the draft, which was ended in 1973, about two months before the last U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam.� - Washington Times, 4/13/04 NOT FORGETTING THE FORGOTTEN WARRIORS �There are about 8,100 America GIs still missing in action in North Korea and since 1996 operations have been underway to identify the remains of some of them. So far, 180 American soldiers have been recovered. Now the good news: The Defense Department announced recently that for the first time in these efforts, equipment and supplies have been allowed to flow to U.S. recovery teams working north of the DMZ. �Also for the first time since 1999, recovery teams will be allowed to bring any remains they discover back home with them after each search operation. Five operations have been scheduled for this year -- in Unsan County and near the Chosin Reservoir, both sites of major battles and heavy American losses. For all the nuclear Armageddon talk, it's nice to see that North Korean officials have quietly stepped up their co-operation in recovering America soldiers. These men deserve a trip home.� -Brendan Miniter, Political Diary, 4/13/04 NO TAX HIKE WITHOUT A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE �In the Virginia General Assembly, the bipartisan scheme by Gov. Mark Warner (D) and the state Senate Republicans to raise taxes in the Old Dominion state could be passed into law in the weeks ahead. When antitax Republicans argued any tax hike should be approved by a vote of the people, the governor pouted that this would �turn Virginia into California.� �Mr. Warner, the pro-tax Republicans and the liberal media are all deadset against giving the voters the right to choose on taxes. Mr. Warner is no fool. He knows a ballot initiative on his tax-increasing revenue grab would be soundly defeated. How do we know this? Because tax initiatives have been trounced every time and everywhere voters have had a say. �This is why Republicans should stick to their guns: No tax increase without voter approval.� - Steve Moore, Club for Growth, 4/13/04 OOPS �Jamiel Terry, the 24-year-old adopted son of Randall A. Terry, militant abortion protester and opponent of same-sex �marriage,� acknowledges he is a homosexual in the May issue of Out magazine, slated to reach newsstands April 20.� - Greg Pierce�s �Inside Politics,� 4/13/04 OK, IF YOU INSIST... �PLeazzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz don't let up on (Nathan) Tabor. This is more fun than I've had in a long time...and I don't even live in his state!� - News & Views reader �Sheri� SOME CONSERVATIVE �(Nathan Tabor) doesn�t believe in anything except narcissism. He never voted for (Sen. Jesse) Helms and never voted against (Bill) Clinton.� - North Carolina 5 congressional candidate Vernon Robinson, Washington Times, 4/13/04 TABOR CAUGHT IN ANOTHER WHOPPER �Chuck: I have just learned of your Web site about Nathan Tabor and read your recent posting regarding Nathan's lying about an endorsement from the College Republicans. I just finished a two-year term as Chairman of the N.C. Federation of College Republicans on April 3 and assure you that the College Republicans have made no such endorsement of Nathan Tabor. �It has and always will be our policy to stay out of contested primary races. . . . (I was) present at Mr. Tabor's event and heard no such endorsement ever uttered by our National Co-Chair, Corrine Scharz. Additionally, I know that most of the CRs were lured into this event by the free Pizza Hut food and not necessarily for any sort of inspiring speech by Mr. Tabor.� - Michael McKnight, Immediate Past Chairman, N.C. Federation of College Republicans, 4/13/04 (Read Mr. McKnight�s full letter on the �Tabor Tales� page at www.tabortales.com) THE SOUTHERN TED KENNEDY �Chuck: Just beginning to follow the Nathan Tabor discussions and am appalled that someone of this (lack of) caliber has any chance of getting elected in NC. Beginning to sound like a Southern Ted Kennedy !!! 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