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| Dr. David Marlett, Editor | theconservative@usa.net | Number 63 |
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16 December 2000
As Bush gets ready to name his cabinet, the names that are being dropped are troubling many conservatives. We can't imagine why the names are coming as a surprise. TCN has been stating all along that GW is not a conservative; it would therefore be surprising to us only if the names he was dropping were conservatives!
Colin Powell will certainly get the nod as Secretary of State. Powell supports affirmative action type programs, the UN and the mother's "right" to murder her children. Powell openly stated that he could work for either Gore or Bush, meaning he has no ideological convictions, he just wants to get into politics. Secretary of State isn't a bad place to start a political career I guess.
Other names that have been dropped include Tom Ridge, Christie Todd Whitman and Guy Hunt. All are pro-abortion liberals.
Tom Ridge is supposed to be a candidate for Secretary of Defense even though he opposed almost every move of Ronald Reagan as he built up the military during his tenure as president. Ridge's opposition to new technologies could set the military back even further than the Clinton/Gore regime have them now. This cabinet position needs someone "forward thinking" that can move ahead. The Clinton/Core years of selling and/or giving away our technological advantage to hostile countries have been devastating to the balance of power. World stability requires us to surge ahead again. A 1950's mentality will not get that to happen.
Did we mention that Tom Ridge supports a nuclear freeze? After years of Clinton/Gore unilateral nuclear disarmament, I can almost support that if it means we stop destroying what little arsenal we have left!
Christie Todd Whitman is said to be in the running to head the Department of Health and Human Services. As we said before Whitman support killing babies. We cannot give an inch on this issue. It does not seem to be an issue in the Bush camp, but killing babies is wrong and a baby killer in charge of HHS means four more years of liberal pro-abortion policies. TCN will be on her every move like stink on a skunk. Count on it.
The liberal, pro-abortion Democrat Governor of North Carolina, Guy Hunt, is apparently in the hunt for Secretary of Education. Expect RU-486 dispensers in the girl's bathrooms in all of the nation's schools. Why not? The AMA is trying to make the abortive an "over-the-counter" drug. If this is accomplished, there is really no reason why it couldn't be done if the one in charge of such policy directed to happen.
Ralph Hall of Texas, Sen. John Breaux of Louisiana and Rep. Charles Stenholm of Texas are other leading Democrats that are in the running for top level cabinet posts.
So where are the conservatives? Don't look for any, they aren't coming. They haven't been invited.
[ TCN ]
** Judicial Watch Warns President-Elect To Stay Away
(Washington, DC) Yesterday, President-elect George W. Bush, in a telephone conversation with Bill Clinton, embraced Hillary Rodham Clinton by telling her husband, Bill Clinton, that he "looked forward to working with the Senator from New York."
This has been reported widely in The Washington Post and in other written and television press. During the campaign, Governor Bush showed little interest in ethics issues and, in fact, stated: "While it's clear that Al Gore engaged in a number of questionable fund raising activities and gave the FBI statements that continue to raise the issue of credibility, the American people are sick and tired of all these scandals and investigations. The best way to put all these scandals and investigations behind us is to elect someone new. I'm running to uphold the honor and dignity of the White House."
William Safire, in an article entitled "Exegesis of Acceptance" of August 7, 2000, wrote:
Running against Washington. The Yale graduate and child of privilege assumed, Jimmy Carter style, a hardscrabble pose to assert that his 'background may lack the polish of Washington.' And then, following a focus-group distaste for controversy;, he dissociated himself from all investigations into Clinton-Gore scandals, including illegal fund-raising: 'I have no stake in the bitter arguments of the last few years.' Republicans on the unpopular ramparts of the rule of law were coolly informed he preferred 'civility and respect.'
While Mrs. Clinton has thus far escaped criminal proceedings by federal prosecutors, she is a defendant in seven Judicial Watch lawsuits and, in particular, the prime defendant in the ongoing $90-million Filegate class-action case. Testimony from a number of sources shows that she was the mastermind of Filegate and, indeed, has smeared a number of political and other perceived adversaries with information from their U.S. government files. In this regard, she and her husband, Bill Clinton, along with others, engaged in criminal conduct, as found by the Court, when she released information from Kathleen Willey's official White House file to smear and destroy her.
In addition, the award-winning author, Christopher Anderson, in his book Bill and Hillary: A Marriage, has reported that Mrs. Clinton hired private investigators to dig up dirt on and smear two of Judicial Watch's clients, Gennifer Flowers and Dolly Kyle Browning. "For these and other reasons, and even to further his professed goal of bi-partisanship, President-elect Bush should not 'get into bed' with an individual such as Mrs. Clinton, who lately has been attempting to extort millions of dollars from book publishers, with interests before the U.S. Senate, to publish her memoirs and line her pockets further," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman.
"Judicial Watch will not rest until Mrs. Clinton is brought to justice, pays large damages to Judicial Watch clients, and is thrown in jail where she belongs," added Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
[ Judicial Watch ]
While Jesse Jackson, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-N.Y., the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus have earned media coverage for attacking the Florida presidential election, other black voices have received less attention from the mainstream media.
A number of prominent black Americans believe Jackson and his supporters are seeking not fairness but personal gain and status in the Democratic Party.
Starr Parker, president of the Coalition for Urban Renewal and Education, a group that promotes "faith-based and free market solutions on issues of race and poverty," says Jackson is in the streets demonstrating because "he's getting ready to lose everything."
"He knows that the policies of George W. Bush are going to work very effectively for the underclass and the poor," said Parker. Blacks are "going to look at him and say, 'You have been lying to us,' " she said.
Kevin Martin is on the advisory council of Project 21, an initiative of the National Center for Public Policy Research that promotes black views not traditionally represented by "the nation's civil rights establishment."
"Do you think for one second Jesse Jackson is concerned about black voters? No. He's concerned about Jesse Jackson," said Martin.
"They're not out here about voters or votes being counted. They're out here about the power that is represented behind them. They know that with the Republicans in control, they have no one to give them a soap box to stand on or a microphone to parade their victims around." Martin faults Jackson for living an elite life that's far removed from the people he claims to represent.
"I've lived here in Washington, D.C., almost all my life, and I remember when Jesse Jackson sent his son to private school, Sidwell Friends, the same school that Chelsea Clinton went to. But he's opposed to school vouchers," Martin said.
"You never hear anyone saying how, before the cameras are rolling, Jesse Jackson arrived in a limousine."
[ NewsMax ]
NEVADA - Is this the next ploy by Al Gore's political machine, to challenge the rules governing electors in each state so that 271 of them can vote for him later this month?
It may be so, starting with a 17-page lawsuit filed Tuesday by Reno lawyer Carter King in U.S. District Court, which seeks a restraining order to prevent Nevada's four electoral voters from casting all their ballots for George W. Bush when they meet Monday in Carson City.
Under state law, all of Nevada's electoral votes go to the presidential candidate who wins the most votes. Bush won the state 49.5 percent to Gore's 46 percent, according to results certified by the state Supreme Court.
If the rule is changed, Gore would receive one of Nevada's electoral votes because he won in one congressional district. Bush would receive three.
Were this to happen in three more states and Nevada, Gore would be elected. Stay tuned.
- Official registration lists in the United States have become so faulty that scores of counties claim to have more voters than actual adult population.
Sloppy bookkeeping led 190 counties and the state of Maine to appear to be more than 100 percent registered in the 1996 presidential election, according to a Scripps Howard News Service study of election records in 3,189 counties and voting districts.
The study found that at least 167,968 people in these areas were still eligible to cast ballots even though they had died or moved away.
Maine had 1,001,292 eligible voters even though census estimates pegged the voting-age population at no more than 945,000. That means Maine was 106 percent registered four years ago.
"That was not a good thing," said Rebecca Wyke, Maine's assistant secretary of state.
The quality of America's voter rolls is deteriorating. Easier sign-up provisions under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 and overworked or incompetent election supervisors have contributed to often grossly inaccurate lists sent to the local polling places to determine who should vote.
"This is an accident waiting to happen," said Curtis Gans, director of the Washington, D.C.-based Committee for the Study of the American Electorate. "The problem is real and could pose a danger in that people can vote in the names of those who have died or moved away. We must create a better standard for cleaning the lists."
Election officials in Maine were able to reduce their voter rolls to 882,337 by June of this year, still giving the state one of America's highest registration rates at 93 percent. Meanwhile, Alaska's lists deteriorated to the point that by October of this year the state was 108 percent registered.
"I'm very happy to pass this honor over to Alaska," Wyke said. "Our problems really were based in Maine law not requiring any kind of systematic purging of the voter rolls."
The federal registration act - often called the "Motor Voter Bill" since it authorized citizens to register while applying for drivers licenses - provided a mechanism to remove apparently inactive voters. But many local election supervisors are overwhelmed by the task of regularly preparing lists of voters who have not cast ballots in recent elections.
Maine and Alaska apparently are the first states - at least in modern times - to report more voters than eligible population. But the inaccuracies are even more apparent at the local level.
The most over-registered county, according to the Scripps Howard study, is rural Issaguena County in west-central Mississippi. The county had 1,669 registered voters four years ago, even though census estimates put the adult population at only 1,102 people, making the county 151 percent registered.
"Yes, I've been told that," said Circuit Clerk Erline Fortner who oversees the voter rolls. "But I've never looked into this to analyze it. I just don't have the time to do that. I know some people who have family here but no longer live here do come back to vote. But I don't know if that could account for such a large number."
Mississippi and Michigan are tied for having the largest number of counties with impossibly bloated voter lists. Each has 28 counties that report more than 100 percent registration rates.
Michigan's Iosco County on the shores of Lake Huron had 22,901 registered voters four years ago, even though population projects indicate no more than 16,779 residents are of voting age.
"A lot of those are military people who have to be maintained on our list," said Iosco County Clerk Michael Welsch. "We just can't purge them from the system. Under the law, they can maintain their residence wherever they want to."
The rolls became wildly inaccurate following the 1992 closure of Wurtsmith Air Force Base, which cost the county about 8,000 adults.
"Once they register to vote or get a drivers' license in any other state, in a perfect world either act is supposed to change their voter registration. But that certainly doesn't always happen," Welsch said.
Twenty-seven states had counties with bloated lists, including Texas with 23, Missouri with 19, Maine with 15, Kentucky with 12, Nebraska with 10, South Dakota with seven, Colorado with six and Illinois and Idaho with five each.
Election experts agree that any county with an apparent voter registration rate of 90 percent or greater almost certainly has ineligible voters on their rolls. (In 1996 the national registration rate was 74.6 percent, or 146.5 million registered voters out of a voting-age population of 196.5 million.)
This means there are at least 681 counties and voting districts with suspiciously large voter rolls.
"A bad list can cover up any sort of fraud that could be going on," said Kimball Brace, president of Election Data Services, which advises election supervisors nationwide. His group assembled the data used in the Scripps Howard study. "And a bad list can be indicative of sloppy procedures."
[ Scripps Howard News Service ]
Hillary Clinton will probably finish her six-year Senate term, but she will seek the White House in the future, according to Parade magazine.
Here's what Parade said Sunday: "In her mind, it's not a question of if, but when. In many ways, friends say, she already is treating her husband like a rival, because she's determined to show she can do a better job in the White House than he did."
TCN - That's not saying much to say she could do a better job than Bubba, but we still don't think she is up to the task. - TCN
Usually when a sitting president leaves the White House, the Secret Service agents fall all over themselves to get the coveted assignment of guarding their former boss and his family.
No so with the Clintons, a source close to the elite protection force tells NewsMax.com.
The Clintons, in fact, had no takers as of a few weeks ago, a source close to the Secret Service said.
Sources say members of the Secret Service may have had several reasons to avoid working for the Clintons.
The Clintons have not had a good track record with their bodyguards. Several went public after Clinton became president, revealing intimate details of the Clintons' lives.
While Clinton himself has gotten along well with some of the Secret Service, apparently Hillary is a big turnoff.
Another reason is that agents enjoy working for former presidents because the job has many of the same perks, without the same frenetic pace. The problem is no one thinks Bill and Hillary plan to slow down their busy social and political schedules.
Clinton isn't the first recent president to get a thumbs-down for volunteers.
Secret Service personnel never liked Carter. Carter solved the problem by being the first recent president not to take Secret Service protection after he left office.
But soon after leaving the White House, Carter reversed himself and took the protection - largely to get the benefits of having Secret Service agents. These include being ushered to the front of the line attending functions and getting free First Class upgrades on airlines.
President Nixon kept Secret Service protection for years after he left office, but said taxpayers shouldn't foot the bill. He hired his own bodyguards.
London - President Clinton popped into a London pub for lunch and a beer, then popped out again without paying, according to British newspapers Friday. While First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton and their daughter Chelsea wandered the antique shops in the trendy Portobello Road area, the outgoing president and his security entourage ducked into the Portobello Gold, where he tucked away $35 worth of cold lunch and half a pint of organic beer. "They bloody well did not pay the bill," the Guardian quoted pub owner Mike Bell as saying. Quick to spot a front-page headline with a difference, the Mirror, a feisty left-wing tabloid, stepped in and forked out the money, plus tip. Bell's mood then lightened: "I wouldn't quite say [Clinton] did a runner," he said, using a slang term for leaving a store hastily without paying. "I just don't think it occurred to him to pay." The tabloid added that "even the President of the United States sometimes has to be bailed out. The Mirror was happy to help." Clinton was wrapping up a flying visit to Ireland and Britain. He flew home Thursday night.
[ CNSNews.com ]
TCN -- The idea of accountability is so foreign to Clinton that he doesn't even think he needs to pay his bar tab! And evidently he is right! We are certainly glad that it was paid by a Brit. The US dollars in Clinton's pocket were ours, and we have paid for enough of his indulgences. - TCN
The Pentagon's top general warned yesterday that China may emerge as a Soviet-like superpower in the coming years.
"I am firmly convinced that we need to focus all elements of U.S. power and diplomacy on ensuring that China does not become the 21st-century version of the Soviet bear," said Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, during a speech to the National Press Club.
In particular, the United States needs to convince China that resolving its differences with Taiwan peacefully "is the only way ahead."
China's government stated in a recent official report that the situation in the Taiwan Strait was "grim." The Communist government is building up its missile forces opposite the island and has also stepped up threatening rhetoric, calling for unification, through force if necessary.
Gen. Shelton said the combination of a capitalist-style economy and Communist political dictatorship is a potential threat to regional stability. He noted that it will not be easy for the United States to prevent China from becoming a new Soviet Union.
"China takes a distrustful view of the United States' intentions, as articulated in their recent defense white paper," he said. The government white paper characterized the United States as a global menace and threat to peace.
"They are aggressively modernizing their military forces, both conventional as well as nuclear. At the same time, they hope to maintain control of an expanding capitalist-like economy under a communist hierarchy that embraces centralized planning and centralized control.
"This situation is a contradiction that could threaten China's internal power, and consequently threaten stability throughout the region."
The four-star general, who will finish his term as Joint Chiefs chairman in September, said the next administration will need to boost defense spending by $60 billion to $100 billion to fix problems caused by underfunding during the Clinton administration, a depletion that has caused a "fraying" of the military.
[THE WASHINGTON TIMES ]
It is rumored Al Gore has subpoenaed Santa Claus over some "irregularities" found on Christmas list handling procedures.
After the Florida Supreme Court ordered a 3rd election recount, Gore allegedly said "checking a list, and checking it twice" cannot possibly discern the true wishes of the children.
And the part about "who has been naughty, and who has been nice" is clearly a value judgment that does not take into account the circumstance surrounding said malfeasance.
Santa's list was obtained under the "Freedom of Information Act" and immediately a DNC boiler room call center was alerted to call all children to see if items listed on Santa's list were, in fact, true desired intent of the kids.
Several indicated they had intended to ask for Sony Playstations, and instead had checked off Nintendo 64. Many of the children were emotionally distraught and felt the entire Christmas letter writing experience was outdated and "hard to understand".
In reviewing the postmarks on Christmas letters, it was found by Democrat Canvassing officials that certain letters, particularly those requesting "G.I. Joe" dolls were not properly postmarked. Those letters (obviously from Republican children) were thrown out.
Democrat officials have asked that all Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade County children be contacted in person and have their requests reviewed for accuracy.
Santa Claus indicated there was not possibly enough time to get to each child by Dec. 25.
The Florida Supreme Court is now considering postponement of Christmas until Dec.30th, to allow for a "full and accurate" list to be compiled.
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