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Michelle Malkin (back to story)
March 28, 2001
The Senate's charity case
Now we know which political party is truly the Party of the Little People. Noble
Senate Democrats have come to the aid of a downtrodden woman. They are furiously
passing the plate for this destitute soul, pulling out all the stops to help her get
back on her feet. Who is this charity case? Not a welfare mom. Not a Cuban
refugee. Not a homeless teen. It's poor little Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), the
former dot-com executive who spent $10 million she doesn't have to win her seat.
Cantwell's personal fortune, estimated at $40 million, went poof when her tech-heavy
portfolio plunged last fall. Her campaign debt reported at the end of December was
$4.3 million.
Young staffers went uncompensated for months. Dozens of small businesses still await
payments. Two weeks ago, Cantwell failed to pay a hefty bank loan for which she had
used her volatile stock in Seattle-based RealNetwork
s as collateral. Cantwell has another bank note due in full in June.
Bills, bills, bills. What's a politician on the public dole to do? Cantwell's
deep-pocketed colleagues in the Senate feel her pain. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.)
told Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, this week th
at "this is a very hard time" for Cantwell. Well, break out the ultra-strength Kleenex
and super-sized checkbooks. "We're trying to raise money to help her, trying to give
her good advice -- good financial advice," Feinst
ein said.
Cantwell will certainly be learning from a pro. Feinstein, the eighth richest member
of Congress, is worth an estimated $50 million. How did she make the big bucks? She
married multimillionaire businessman Richard Blum, w
ho has helped Feinstein secure shady loans and refinanced one of their many lavish
homes to fund her Senate campaigns.
Also on the Cantwell salvation army band: Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-New York).
She plans to hold a fund-raiser for her impoverished colleague next month at her $2.85
million mansion in Washington, D.C. Like Feinstein
, money honey Hillary is a financial whiz who can give Cantwell sage advice on such
varied topics as securing lucrative book deals, speculating in cattle futures, saving
money on home furnishings, stiffing struggling wait
resses, and purchasing not one, but two, seven-figure homes (with favorable mortgage
terms, of course) -- all while carrying more than $5 million in legal debts she owes
with that guy who's loafing around her house in Cha
ppaqua.
The filthy rich Democratic men of the Senate are offering a gallant hand and open
wallet, as well. Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) has reportedly offered to host a
fund-raiser for Cantwell and hook her up to his Massachuset
ts campaign donor base. Kennedy, of course, is the senior heir of his daddy's booze
biz fortune -- totaling some $850 million, according to Forbes magazine. Sen. John
Edwards (D-N.C.) -- who earned his wealth as a glorifi
ed ambulance chaser -- chaired a $200,000 fund-raiser for Cantwell at his D.C. mansion
last week.
By day, these loaded Senate Democrats attack President Bush and the Republicans for
catering to the rich and powerful. They oppose income tax cuts, capital gains tax
cuts and death tax cuts. They oppose school vouchers for poor children. They
champion campaign finance reforms to punish big political spenders like Cantwell,
then fill their nights drumming up dollars for themselves and cash-strapped
colleagues ... like Cantwell.
Such are the Democrat Party's grand acts of compassionate liberalism. Where would we
little people be without them?
©2001 Creators Syndicate, Inc.
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tasks is to spread the demystification and desanctification of the
State among its hapless subjects. His task is to demonstrate
repeatedly and in depth that not only the emperor but even the
"democratic" State has no clothes; that all governments subsist
by exploitive rule over the public; and that such rule is the reverse
of objective necessity. He strives to show that the existence of
taxation and the State necessarily sets up a class division between
the exploiting rulers and the exploited ruled. He seeks to show that
the task of the court intellectuals who have always supported the State
has ever been to weave mystification in order to induce the public to
accept State rule and that these intellectuals obtain, in return, a
share in the power and pelf extracted by the rulers from their deluded
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