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THE FEDERALIST(r) DIGEST
The Conservative e-Journal of Record
Date: 19 January 2001
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CONTENTS:
The Founders
Federalist Perspective
Insight
Upright
Editorial Exegesis
Second Opinion
Dezinformatsia
Village Idiots
Short Cuts
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THE FOUNDERS
"I hope I shall always possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain
what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an
'Honest Man'." --George Washington
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FEDERALIST PERSPECTIVE
In the news this week, as Bill Clinton embarked upon his national
farewell concert tour, President-elect George Bush said goodbye to his
home state of Texas.
Regarding Clinton's televised farewell speech last night, White House
mouth Jake Siewert said, "It was an opportunity for the president to
thank the American people for their support over the years and talk a
bit about how America has changed for the better." That explains why
it was one of Clinton's shortest TV speeches on record -- unless, of
course, you count the one when he declared, "I did not have sex with
that woman, Ms. Lewinsky."
For his part, Mr. Bush told a gathering of 10,000 supporters in Texas,
"Our deepest values in life often come from our earliest years," he
said. "It is here in Midland and in West Texas where I learned to
respect people from different backgrounds. It is here where I learned
what it means to be a good neighbor at backyard barbecues or just
chatting across the fence. It is here in West Texas where I learned to
trust in God. I leave here really upbeat about getting some things
done for the people, getting something accomplished for the people of
this land by putting aside all the partisan bickering and name-calling
and anger. You see, I've never been a cynic about public service."
Regarding Democratic opposition to his agenda, Mr. Bush said, "I took
firm positions on important issues and didn't back off. And I'm not
backing off.... Quite the contrary, I'm going to take those issues I
campaigned on and campaign hard for their enactment. Because I believe
it's the right thing for the country."
Arriving in Washington Thursday, Mr. Bush was greeted by the Left's
"partisan bickering and name-calling and anger" in hearings for his
Cabinet nominees. For the moment, he has chosen to ignore the din and
focus on the delivery of his inaugural address (which we will review
in detail next week). Before listening to Mr. Bush's inaugural
comments, read this week's Second Opinion feature, "Inaugural
Admonitions."
Leftist blowhards in the House of Lords are indulging themselves at a
borkfest -- a borking frenzy. You recall the reception Teddy Kennedy
gave President Reagan's Supreme Court nominee, Robert Bork, in 1987:
"In Robert Bork's America...blacks would sit at segregated lunch
counters; rogue police would break down citizens' doors in midnight
raids." Kennedy's attack was so vitriolic that it was coined as
"borking." First on record using the term was NOW feminist Flo Kennedy
ranting about Clarence Thomas's nomination in 1991: "We're going to
bork him. We're going to kill him politically." Last week, the New
York Times had a special section rating the Bush cabinet nominees as
"likely borkees and their probable score on the bork-o-meter."
This week, Judge Bork himself commented, "It's beginning to feel like
homeweek with all the old crowd -- People for the American Way,
National Organization of Women, AFL-CIO, National Abortion and
Reproductive Rights Action League and scores of other Leftist groups
and senators -- gathered round to bring down and pick the bones of
another presidential nominee. It's enough to make a man nostalgic."
Once again, Teddy Kennedy was at his worst, attacking Bush Attorney
General nominee John Ashcroft with a vigor heretofore unseen. Of his
former Senate colleague, Teddy bellowed and blustered: "I think this
nominee owes an apology to the people of the United States for that
insinuation, talking about our government now being the source of
tyrannical oppression. That's what I think, senator. I don't retreat.
I don't retreat on any one of those matters."
Of course, Mr. Ashcroft is to be praised for seeing and calling the
central government what it really is -- to the dismay of Sociocrat
tyrants like the Senator who killed Mary Jo Kopechne at
Chappaquiddick, but has, for almost 40 years, retained the throne he
uses to assail men of virtue like John Ashcroft.
Fearing he is short on votes to defeat Ashcroft's nomination, Kennedy
plans to filibuster. But in 1995, Kennedy had this to say about
filibustering presidential nominees: "It is wrong to filibuster this
nomination, and Senators who believe in fairness will not let a
minority of the Senate deny [the nominee] his vote by the entire
Senate. We do a disservice to [the nominee], the Senate and the
Nation as a whole by prolonging this process." Of course, Teddy has
never let a double standard get in his way!
Seconding Kennedy's complaints about Mr. Ashcroft's strong faith, Sen.
Charles Schumer asked, "How do you just turn it off?" Did somebody
mention "faith profiling"?
Memo to Teddy and Charles: "...But no religious Test shall ever be
required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the
United States." --Article VI of the U.S. Constitution
Numerous Leftist cadre principals chimed in, such as the NAACP's
Kweisi Mfume who warned, "Senators who vote for Ashcroft will not be
able to run away from this and assume people will forget. We are going
to fund major information campaigns for the next four years in states
where senators voted to confirm." Ms. Keiana Peyton, of Jesse
Jackson's Rainbow Coalition, added, "We will not let it be forgotten
that African-Americans are the most loyal constituency in the
Democratic coalition." In other words, 94% of blacks may vote against
Republicans in the next election rather than just 93%.
Speaking of the Left Reverend of Hypocrisy, Jackson declared this "a
week of moral outrage" leading up to Mr. Bush's inauguration Saturday.
And speaking of "moral outrage," Jackson also announced, "I am father
to a daughter who was born outside of my marriage (AKA -- adulterer).
This is no time for evasions, denials or alibis." Apparently the time
for "denials and evasions or alibis" was when Jackson jumped to the
defense of Clinton's "internal" affair but failed to mention he,
himself, had a little dalliance on the side.
The recipient of Reverend Jackson's affections is reported to be a
former Rainbow Coalition staffer Jackson has parked in a $365,000 LA
home (that's not "Lower Alabama") on a monthly stipend of $10,000.
Jackson added, "I will be taking some time off to revive my spirit and
reconnect with my family before I return to my public ministry." In
LA, we suppose....
Back to the borkfest, Leftist media bigots were also out in force. A
representative sample comes from the San Diego Union-Tribune's James
Goldsborough, who concludes, "If Bush had won a clean victory, one
might make a case for these [cabinet] choices. Had he won a landslide,
he might claim that naming a fundamentalist, homophobic,
anti-abortion, racially suspect attorney general was his right, one
ratified by voters."
Ah, the comfort of knowing that the Leftist rhetoric of the last week
is nothing more than a warm-up for the next four years.
There are a few Sociocrats in the media who are giving the Bush team a
more objective look. The Washington Post's Richard Cohen writes, "Bush
has not put together a Cabinet to my ideological liking, but he has
managed to avoid the unsightly search for this or that token -- a
black, a woman, a Hispanic, etc. He has one or more of each, for sure,
but none of them was picked solely on account of ethnicity or sex."
Quotes of the week...
"The only leader I did not manage to have a proper conversation with
was Clinton. I was speaking, and he was looking at one of the walls,
admiring the frescos and the paintings. He was not listening to me."
--John Paul II
"Because of [Clinton's] political monomania, and because he is a
perpetual preener who can strut even while sitting, Bill Clinton
relished being president. The pomp, the cameras, the microphones make
that office a narcissist's delight. But other than by soiling the
office, he was a remarkably inconsequential president, like a person
who walks across a field of snow and leaves no footprints. ... Clinton
is not the worst president the republic has had, but he is the worst
person ever to have been president." --George Will
"Clinton's achievements largely consisted of persuading the Democrats
to accept the more progressive parts of the Republican agenda. And
even that modest assessment does not take into account the omissions
of the Clinton years -- in particular, the deep cuts in U.S. defense
spending that have created a serious mismatch between America's
ambitious foreign policy commitments and the defense resources
available to meet them. In other words, the inconsequential Clinton
may eventually have consequences -- but they will descend on the head
of his successor. O Lucky Man." --John O'Sullivan
On cross-examination...
"If I could leave America with one wish as I depart office, it would
be that we become more the 'One America' that we know we ought to be."
--Bill Clinton, Grand Master of the Demos' power-maintenance strategy
of dividing Americans by race, class, and preference.
>From the "Double Standards" Department...
"I think the dividing line between politics and policy is not very
clear. Most people say that in a pejorative way. I say it in a proud
way. This is a political system we live in. The framers of the
Constitution expected it to be that way, and didn't think politics was
a bad word. They thought it was a good word and so do I." --Mr.
Clinton, taking a page from Teddy Kennedy on gridlock now that a
Republican is entering the White House.
The BIG lies...last refrain!
"I pledge to President-elect Bush my efforts and the best efforts of
every member of our administration a smooth and successful
transition." --The Great Prevaricator
"On January 20...the person standing up before the Capitol taking the
oath of office...will be sworn in as my president too. I will spare no
efforts in saying to people who supported me, 'let's not have any talk
about stealing the election, let's not question the legitimacy of the
election'." --The Vice Prevaricator
>From "The most ethical administration"...
As one of his parting gestures to shore up one more Demo constituency,
Clinton has decided that felony offenders should regain their right to
vote without an executive pardon. "I think it is time that we change,
as a matter of national policy, the idea that you have to have a
presidential pardon or a governor's pardon before you can get your
vote back."
Speaking of felonies, we heard from one of Bill Clinton's rape
victims, Ms. Juanita Broaddrick, who offered this sentiment recently:
"There's just a hatred. I want to go through the TV screen and
strangle the man. I just wish he'd be removed from public sight, but I
feel like he's going to stay active and try to get [Hillary] elected
[president] in 2004."
Regarding your IRS overpayment...
The Capital Research Center reports that Leftist groups, including the
Feminist Majority Foundation, NAACP, National Education Association,
NOW Legal Defense & Education Fund, and Planned Parenthood, all of
which oppose the nomination of John Ashcroft, received $150 million in
government funding in the last two years.
Memo to the Daschle/Gephardt et al.: "To compel a man to furnish
contributions of money for the propagation of opinions which he
disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical." --Thomas Jefferson
>From the department of military readiness...
Regarding the "Honor Ceremony" for Bill and Hillary Clinton
(Federalist 01-01) hosted by the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Defense
Secretary William Cohen to recognize the Clintons for their
contributions to the armed forces, this message was circulated at the
Pentagon: "We need 100 individuals [from] all ranks to participate in
the Armed Services Farewell to the President of the United States."
Unfortunately, Secretary Cohen's office was unable to muster
"supporters," so division managers had to designate "volunteers."
The Commissars of Correctness...
>From the "Bolshoi Bureaucracy" Files: "Today we are learning to use
timber harvest as a tool to help restore healthier, more diverse and
more resilient forests -- not simply to supply wood for society.... In
the future, we will celebrate the fact that national forests serve as
a reservoir for our last remaining old-growth forests and their
associated ecological and social values." --Forest Service head Mike
Dombeck **OK, "Celebrating diversity" in our forests? Can affirmative
action quotas and equal opportunity programs for trees be far behind?
>From the states...
Alabama Judge Roy Moore, who was sued by the ACLU in 1995 -- to no
avail -- because he displayed the Ten Commandments in his courtroom
and opened his court with prayer, was sworn in as Alabama's Chief
Justice. Judge Moore declared, "God's law will be publicly
acknowledged in our court. [It is my duty] not only to maintain the
honor and integrity of the court system and the judicial branch, but
to restore and preserve the moral foundation of our law." He added
that the Ten Commandments would be displayed in Montgomery.
>From the People's Republic of California, after three days of rolling
blackouts, Gov. Gray Davis rolled over and said, "I'm declaring a
state of emergency in California." To understand what went wrong with
California's energy "deregulation," one needs only to understand that
it was "deregulated" in much the same way HILLARY! proposed to
"deregulate" national health care.
Memo to Gray: "Free enterprise socialism" is still an oxymoron!
Court Jesters...
This month's "Legal Lotto" Award: "James Riady, the Indonesian
billionaire with close ties to Beijing's leaders, was allowed to plead
guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States. One of his banks
will pay a fine of $8 million, to him a painless penalty. Because no
threat of jail hangs over the Clinton money man who evaded subpoenas
for almost five years, he is not induced to tell the whole truth about
his hugely successful purchase of White House influence. ...The
election law was broken, and the reluctant Justice Department had to
be hounded by a vigilant press and frustrated Congress into doing even
part of its duty. Riady's much-needed money passed and Clinton's
favors were done and American's Asian policies were changed. No
nostalgic spinning or pleas to move on will ameliorate that betrayal
of trust." --William Safire
The "Dumb and Dumber" Department...
>From the "Wacky Ideas" file, we know our loyal readers will be
shocked, but The Federalist Editorial Board has elected to take the
controversial position that the United States government should,
indeed, make reparations to those citizens who were once enslaved. We
propose that Jesse Jackson and Johnny Cochran, et al., come forth now,
136 years after the 13th Amendment's ratification, and state their
case on behalf of any LIVING person who was subjected to the "peculiar
institution."
Around the world...
Just in time for the tenth anniversary of Desert Storm, Iraqi dictator
Saddam Hussein called on Arab states to allow his army to march on
Israel and create a "Palestine state from the river to the sea." Last
month, Saddam pledged almost $1 billion to aid Palestinian resistance
to Israeli "occupation."
Faith Matters...
In news from the "Village Church" bulletin, Bill Clinton delivered a
sermon at Foundry United Methodist Church last Sunday.
"In the years ahead, America may have presidents who do this job
better than I have. But I really doubt we'll ever have another one who
enjoyed it more than I have. ... You cannot imagine the peace, the
comfort, the strength I have drawn from my Sundays here. ... I will
try every day to remember, as apparently for the first time in my life
I will be able to earn a sizable income, that Christ admonished us
that our lives will be judged by how we do unto the least of our
neighbors."
Memo to Bill: William Shakespeare reminds us, "The devil can cite
Scripture for his purpose."
And last, we recently received this official advertisement from the
Democrat National Committee. "Support the DNC [with a $25 donation]
and receive our already famous 2001 calendar -- 'First Pets and Their
Families.' This keepsake calendar features timeless images of our
nation's First Pets evoking happy memories of our country under
Democratic leadership." By the way, we hear that January's
pet-of-the-month is -- Monica Lewinsky.
(PUBLISHER'S NOTE: T-1 day until eviction of the Clintonistas and
delousing! Hasta la vista, Bill! Independent counsel Robert W. Ray
says he will be in touch!)
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INSIGHT
"In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is."
--Ronald Reagan {} "To make the full case for liberty, one cannot be
a methodological slave to every goal that the majority of the public
might happen to cherish." --Murray Rothbard {} "The function of
Socialism is to raise suffering to a higher level." --Norman Mailer
{} "A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no
property, and vulgar employments." --Aristotle {} "One of the
penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up
being governed by your inferiors." --Plato {} "To be able to endure
odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power."
--Seneca {} "It's what one does, and nothing else, that shows the
stuff one's made of... You are -- your life, and nothing else."
--Jean-Paul Sartre {} "The simple step of a courageous individual is
not to take part in the lie. One word of truth outweighs the world."
--Alexander Solzhenitsyn
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UPRIGHT
"In their rancor toward the admirable John Ashcroft, soon to be the
flinty-eyed, square-jawed attorney general from the Western Plains,
the extremists of the Left are day by day adding fine detail to their
own self-portrait." --Michael Novak ++ "The level of mean-spirited
invective and race-baiting demagoguery spewing from those who have
suffered defeat has reached record-setting decibel levels. ... These
faithful followers of left wing radicalism are not unlike the
committed communists who, toward the end, finally were forced to
accept that they had organized their lives around a profound system of
lies, and staked their salvation on a sick and dying ideology."
--Linda Bowles {} "One thing I do not regret is taking Marta into my
home at the request of one of my friends who knew of her plight. I
would do it again today." --Linda Chavez {} "If exaggerations and
distortions are repeated often enough, they can become conventional
wisdom, which may eventually acquire the status of historical truth.
At least that's what the Clinton administration and its admirers are
hoping as they try to shape how present and future Americans evaluate
the 42nd president of the United States." --Steve Chapman ++ "It is
perhaps fitting that Bill Clinton has been spending the last days of
his presidency out on the road, in the manner of old washed-up
entertainers who make endless 'farewell' appearances, trying to cling
to the fading limelight as long as possible. He is going out in
character, even if not in style or with class." --Thomas Sowell ++
"The way to handle Clinton is to get rid of objective requirements to
pay him notice. It would be ideal simply to close him off as an
overexposed public-policy encephalophone, but there is no way to put
Bill Clinton in Coventry; he commands too many legions." --Wm. F.
Buckley {} "Tyranny seldom announces itself. ...In fact, a tyranny
may exist without an individual tyrant. A whole government, even a
democratically elected one, may be tyrannical." --Joseph Sobran
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