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8:07 a.m. Opposition to the nomination of a former postal union labor boss for a seat on the Postal Rate Commission is growing. Leaders from several public policy organizations have written a letter to President Bush urging him NOT to recess-appoint Dawn Tisdale to the PRC in order for the Senate to have the opportunity to fully investigate the obvious conflict of interest Tisdale would have as a regulator of the very organization he worked for for over 20 years. The Federal Times reports (http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=314380) that the groups maintain Tisdale would be a �rubber stamp� for whatever the unions or the USPS bureaucracy wanted. It would be sort of like putting a former Clinton official who had direct responsibility for various breakdowns in communications between intelligence agencies onto a commission investigating the breakdown of communications between intelligence agencies. I mean, that would be stupid. What? They did? Never mind. 8:26 a.m. Speaking of the post office, I just had a letter delivered to me yesterday which was mailed on February 12, 2004. That�s a little over six months to deliver one first-class letter...although it DID have to come all the way from Las Vegas. They should have given it to Lance Armstrong to deliver. 9:11 a.m. Federal Reserve chief Alan Greenspan warned that the nation couldn�t afford to deliver all the things promised to retiring baby-boomers and advised Congress to move quickly to cut Social Security and Medicare benefits. Heck, conservatives have been telling that to Congress for decades. But rest assured the politicians in Washington won�t move a muscle to fix this looming crisis...until it becomes an actual full-blown crisis. That�s what they call �leadership� here. 9:15 a.m. Television commercials return to the Masters golf tournament next year after a brief hiatus due to the whining of one sour old feminist named Martha Burk who threatened to boycott sponsors over the Augusta National Golf Club�s �blatant sex discrimination.� Augusta, where the Masters Tournament is held, is a men�s-only club. But Burk�s bark turned out to be nothing more than a whimper. Nevertheless, the Mouth That Meowed threatens to �get in touch� with next year�s new sponsors and renew the pressure. ExxonMobil - one of the new sponsors which faces genuine terrorist threats against its oil facilities in the Middle East every day - is surely quaking in its boots over Burk�s empty threats. Go away, Martha. Your 15 minutes are up. 9:26 a.m. The war on tobacco took a decidedly ridiculous turn in the Netherlands this week when new toilets fitted with sensors which detect what patrons are doing while answering Mother Nature�s call were installed in a central Amsterdam caf�. Should the toilet catch you puffing on a cigarette while going wee-wee, it will cough and warn you about the dangers of smoking. Who wants to take a bet on how long it will be before these commodes flush their way into the United States? Wanna bet New York gets �em first? 10:01 a.m. I received an email from our old friend Matt Lewis - one of the few truly talented campaign trainers in the country today, who is presently managing the GOP congressional campaign of Duane Sand (www.duanesand.com) in North Dakota - which is rather disturbing. Sand is challenging incumbent Rep. Earl Pomeroy (D). Pomeroy�s Lifetime American Conservative Union Rating is 23. The guy is a liberal�s liberal. Nevertheless, Matt advises that a prominent seniors organization with well-established conservative bona fides is currently running ads supporting...Pomeroy. We�ll be looking into this further on Monday. Stay tuned. 10:13 a.m. Another good friend, Kerri Houston over at Frontiers of Freedom, has penned an op/ed about some bone-headed diplomatic decisions being made by our State Department over in Macedonia. You can read all about it at: http://www.opinioneditorials.com/contributors/khouston_20040827.html 10:17 a.m. The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) is shilling for the nation�s trial lawyers. In its latest issue, it blames soda pop for diabetes in young and middle-aged women, but relies on �junk science� to make its charge. Nevertheless, this is an ambulance-chasers dream-come-true. It might even cause John Edwards to give up his quest for the #2 job in Washington and dust off his old law books and channeling skills. (Pssssst. I heard of a new study which indicates that people who eat broccoli tend to die before the age of 98. Pass it on.) 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� ************************* Published by Citizen Outreach Chuck Muth Editor/Publisher 611 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE, #439 Washington, DC 20003-4303 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Citizen Outreach is a 501(c)(3) non-profit public policy organization and does not endorse candidates or lobby for specific legislation. The opinions and views expressed in DC Confidential reflect those of the writers, editors and columnists therein and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Citizen Outreach, its officers, directors or employees.
