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THE FEDERALIST(r) CHRONICLE The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 30 January 2002 SPECIAL EDITION THE STATE OF THE UNION -- PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH Federalist Edition #02-05 Wednesday Chronicle *To support The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/support.asp *To sponsor The Federalist, Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/sponsor.asp *To retrieve today's Chronicle as HTML printer-friendly text or PDF Link to -- http://www.Federalist.com/current2002.asp *To change your e-mail address or format, see instructions in footer. CONTENTS: The Foundation Insight Upright STATE OF THE UNION Editorial Exegesis Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "Strait is the gate and narrow is the way that leads to liberty, and few nations, if any, have found it." --John Adams ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." --Calvin Coolidge {} "There never has been a period of history, in which the Common Law did not recognize Christianity as laying at its foundation." --Justice Joseph Story {} "We have never stopped sin by passing laws; and in the same way, we are not going to take a great moral ideal and achieve it merely by law." --Dwight D. Eisenhower {} "You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer." --Sir Winston Churchill {} "From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step." --Denis Diderot {} "When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." --Edmund Burke {} "It is easy in the world to live after the world's opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude." --Ralph Waldo Emerson {} "The captain of a ship is not chosen from those of the passengers who comes from the best family." --Blaise Pascal {} "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut." --Sam Rayburn {} "That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only." --Thomas Carlyle {} "If we get the federal government out of the classroom, maybe we'll get God back in." --Ronald Reagan ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "The world loves us, bleeding and suffering nobly, at the moral high ground of Ground Zero. To which we say: no thank you. Our paramount national duty today is to prevent another Sept. 11, not to glory in the moral high ground -- the moral vanity -- of the victimhood we suffered last Sept. 11." --Charles Krauthammer {} "The pre-occupation of some in the media -- and of self-styled human rights groups -- with the way Taliban prisoners are being treated (which is better than they have treated us) reveals that too many among us are still not willing to do what it takes to combat terror." --Cal Thomas ++ "They feed us, let us shower, pray, write home. They even gave us a mattress, prayer mats and a copy of the Koran. What a bunch of twits." --Kathleen Parker {} "We would be doing a great disservice to all nations to blur the distinction between combatants and stateless terrorists." --Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld ++ "Even the most humane societies cannot afford to treat agents of terror as regular, uniformed soldiers." --Victor Davis Hanson {} "Modernity, which is another name for the American experience, is incapable of seeing wholeness." --Paul Greenberg {} "The Enron collapse provides an example of how government does so much to prevent the market from working properly in the first place." --Rep. Ron Paul {} "Business is the center of the American economy. You can't have jobs without healthy businesses. And business is what we do best in this country -- better than any other nation on the planet." --Larry Kudlow {} "While it may take a costly grace to maintain it, in the end Christianity blossoms wherever the seeds are planted. What grows out of that seed has roots that are thousands of years old and branches that reach toward the heavens." --Diane Alden ++ "It is easy to see the hand of God behind our rulers. It may be more difficult to see a higher moral authority in the 'fools with robes' whom we tend to elect, but it is still there." --Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ++ "A Christian can believe that God 'ordained' the 'powers that be' -- including political rulers and slaveholders -- for purposes too deep for us to understand fully, and that while they last we must provisionally accept them; but that they were not meant to last forever." --Joseph Sobran ______----********O********----______ STATE OF THE UNION Excerpts from the President's State of the Union Address THE PRESIDENT: As we gather tonight, our nation is at war, our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented dangers. Yet the state of our Union has never been stronger. ... We last met in an hour of shock and suffering. In four short months, our nation has comforted the victims, begun to rebuild New York and the Pentagon, rallied a great coalition, captured, arrested, and rid the world of thousands of terrorists, destroyed Afghanistan's terrorist training camps, saved a people from starvation, and freed a country from brutal oppression. ... Terrorists who once occupied Afghanistan now occupy cells at Guantanamo Bay. And terrorist leaders who urged followers to sacrifice their lives are running for their own. ... The men and women of our Armed Forces have delivered a message now clear to every enemy of the United States: Even 7,000 miles away, across oceans and continents, on mountaintops and in caves -- you will not escape the justice of this nation. ... Last month, at the grave of her husband, Michael, a CIA officer and Marine who died in Mazar-e-Sharif, Shannon Spann said these words of farewell: "Semper Fi, my love." Shannon, I assure you and all who have lost a loved one that our cause is just, and our country will never forget the debt we owe Michael and all who gave their lives for freedom. ... Thousands of dangerous killers, schooled in the methods of murder, often supported by outlaw regimes, are now spread throughout the world like ticking time bombs, set to go off without warning. ... Tens of thousands of trained terrorists are still at large. These enemies view the entire world as a battlefield, and we must pursue them wherever they are. ... [T]error training camps...still exist in at least a dozen countries. A terrorist underworld -- including groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad, Jaish-i-Mohammed -- operates in remote jungles and deserts, and hides in the centers of large cities. ... [S]ome governments will be timid in the face of terror. And make no mistake about it: If they do not act, America will. Our second goal is to prevent regimes that sponsor terror from threatening America or our friends and allies with weapons of mass destruction. ... The Iraqi regime has plotted to develop anthrax, and nerve gas, and nuclear weapons for over a decade. This is a regime that has already used poison gas to murder thousands of its own citizens -- leaving the bodies of mothers huddled over their dead children. This is a regime that agreed to international inspections -- then kicked out the inspectors. This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world. ... [T]hese regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. ... In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic. ... We will work closely with our coalition to deny terrorists and their state sponsors the materials, technology, and expertise to make and deliver weapons of mass destruction. We will develop and deploy effective missile defenses to protect America and our allies from sudden attack. And all nations should know: America will do what is necessary to ensure our nation's security. ... We'll be deliberate, yet time is not on our side. ... Our war on terror is well begun, but it is only begun. This campaign may not be finished on our watch -- yet it must be and it will be waged on our watch. ... History has called America and our allies to action, and it is both our responsibility and our privilege to fight freedom's fight. Now Americans deserve to have this same spirit directed toward addressing problems here at home. I'm a proud member of my party -- yet as we act to win the war, protect our people, and create jobs in America, we must act, first and foremost, not as Republicans, not as Democrats, but as Americans. ... My budget includes the largest increase in defense spending in two decades -- because while the price of freedom and security is high, it is never too high. Whatever it costs to defend our country, we will pay. ... My budget nearly doubles funding for a sustained strategy of homeland security, focused on four key areas: bioterrorism, emergency response, airport and border security, and improved intelligence. Once we have funded our national security and our homeland security, the final great priority of my budget is economic security for the American people. ... To achieve these great national objectives -- to win the war, protect the homeland, and revitalize our economy -- our budget will run a deficit that will be small and short term, so long as Congress restrains spending and acts in a fiscally responsible manner. Americans who have lost their jobs need our help and I support extending unemployment benefits and direct assistance for health care coverage. Yet, American workers want more than unemployment checks -- they want a steady paycheck. When America works, America prospers, so my economic security plan can be summed up in one word: jobs. On these two key issues, trade and energy, the House of Representatives has acted to create jobs, and I urge the Senate to pass this legislation. Good jobs depend on sound tax policy. Last year, some in this hall thought my tax relief plan was too small; some thought it was too big. But when the checks arrived in the mail, most Americans thought tax relief was just about right. Congress listened to the people and responded by reducing tax rates, doubling the child credit, and ending the death tax. For the sake of long-term growth and to help Americans plan for the future, let's make these tax cuts permanent. The way out of this recession, the way to create jobs, is to grow the economy by encouraging investment in factories and equipment, and by speeding up tax relief so people have more money to spend. For the sake of American workers, let's pass a stimulus package. Good jobs must be the aim of welfare reform. As we reauthorize these important reforms, we must always remember the goal is to reduce dependency on government and offer every American the dignity of a job. During these last few months, I've been humbled and privileged to see the true character of this country in a time of testing. Our enemies believed America was weak and materialistic, that we would splinter in fear and selfishness. They were as wrong as they are evil. ... [A]fter America was attacked, it was as if our entire country looked into a mirror and saw our better selves. We were reminded that we are citizens, with obligations to each other, to our country, and to history. We began to think less of the goods we can accumulate, and more about the good we can do. For too long our culture has said, "If it feels good, do it." Now America is embracing a new ethic and a new creed: "Let's roll." In the sacrifice of soldiers, the fierce brotherhood of firefighters, and the bravery and generosity of ordinary citizens, we have glimpsed what a new culture of responsibility could look like. We want to be a nation that serves goals larger than self. We've been offered a unique opportunity, and we must not let this moment pass. America will lead by defending liberty and justice because they are right and true and unchanging for all people everywhere. No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity: the rule of law; limits on the power of the state; respect for women; private property; free speech; equal justice; and religious tolerance. The last time I spoke here, I expressed the hope that life would return to normal. In some ways, it has. In others, it never will. Those of us who have lived through these challenging times have been changed by them. We've come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed. Beyond all differences of race or creed, we are one country, mourning together and facing danger together. Deep in the American character, there is honor, and it is stronger than cynicism. And many have discovered again that even in tragedy -- especially in tragedy -- God is near. Our enemies send other people's children on missions of suicide and murder. They embrace tyranny and death as a cause and a creed. We stand for a different choice, made long ago, on the day of our founding. We affirm it again today. We choose freedom and the dignity of every life. Steadfast in our purpose, we now press on. We have known freedom's price. We have shown freedom's power. And in this great conflict, my fellow Americans, we will see freedom's victory. Thank you all. May God bless. ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Democrats are saying that President Bush's 'irresponsible' tax cut has swallowed up all of the federal budget surplus and is now 'raiding' the pensions of American seniors. Never mind that this is the same tax cut that 12 Senate Democrats voted for. Meanwhile, Republicans are blaming Democratic spenders, though they have only themselves to blame for any political vulnerability because they were the first to propose the lunacy of a 'Medicare lockbox' in 1999. This has now become the first refuge of budget scoundrels. The pols know that a lockbox can't be enforced, and even if it could, it would protect trust funds that don't really exist. But talking about it lets them avoid dealing with the real Social Security and Medicare problem, which is their long-term solvency. It's a bipartisan con job." --Wall Street Journal ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA This week's "Propagandum Magnum" Award: "Though no network news executive openly suggested that the Bush administration had timed the Lindh hearing to coincide with the start of the Enron hearings, several executives said they would not be surprised if Bush officials had planned it that way." --New York Times columnist Bill Carter **This would be the same Bill Carter who was silent when Bill Clinton chose to bomb an aspirin factory on the eve of his Senate impeachment vote. {} This week's "Leftmedia Parrots" Award: "In the wake of the Enron fiasco, will Congress finally put its votes where its mouth is?" --Dan Rather ++ "Could this be the straw that breaks the camel's back that makes people say, 'Enough is enough! This has got to happen! We don't care what those folks on Capitol Hill say'?" --Katie Couric {} This week's "Leftmedia Buster" Award: "To Dan Rather and to a lot of other powerful members of the chattering class, that which is right of center is conservative. That which is left of center is middle of the road." --Bernard Goldberg ++ This week's "Bryant Gumball" Award: "I think [Bush's] sending a message to the media, 'Watch out, because I know you're all liberals. I know you're all against me, and I buy that myth,' which is the oldest myth in the business. There's not a word of truth to it." --CNN's Bill Press on Mr. Bush reading a copy of Goldberg's book "Bias" about the Leftmedia. **Since the Leftmedia applauded former President Bill Clinton "sending messages" via cruise missiles, shouldn't they consider themselves ... spared? {} From the "Nitpicking" Department: "Am I nitpicking though if I go back to that graphic, Joe, if you can put that up again? You look from November 2001 until now it's gone down six points." --Matt Lauer to Tim Russert on a New York Times Bush approval ratings poll showing the president at a record high running 82%, lower than some polls which continue to show Mr. Bush at a record high running 88% approval rating. ______----********O********----______ SOCIOCRATS "[Former New York City Mayor Rudy] Giuliani will screw you every time." --Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, whose husband has taught her much on this score, we know! {} This month's "Demo-Goguery" Award: "I don't think the politics of personal destruction, Bob, have any place in the public debate. So much for changing the tone in Washington." --Tom Daschle to Tim Russert responding to Dick Cheney's labeling him as an obstructionist to Mr. Bush's economic recovery legislation. {} The New York City Board of Education doesn't want any blessing going on around there! After a teachers union representative questioned whether the parents association of Beach Channel High School in Queens may constitutionally enact their First Amendment rights of "free speech" and "free exercise of religious faith" by posting a "God bless you" sign, the education board banned the phrase "God bless you" from school property. **We suppose this means the board would be perfectly OK with a "God Not Allowed" sign instead! {} From the "Dumb and Dumber" Department: Washington state lawmaker Hans Dunshee is frothing mad over a little piece of history -- a stretch of state road designated Jefferson Davis Highway No. 99 in 1913, as part of the United Daughters of the Confederacy program to establish a chain of highways across the country. Jefferson Davis, of course, was the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, and Dunshee wants to rename the road the "William P. Stewart Memorial Highway," for a man from one of the first black families to settle in Snohomish County and who fought with the Union during the Civil War. Dunshee declaimed, "In this state, we cannot have a monument to a guy who led the insurgency to perpetuate slavery and killed half a million Americans." ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Village Victimitis" Award goes to San Diego State University, which just unveiled its new treatment of the school mascot, now said to be more closely based on Aztec culture than the affectionately cartoonish former warrior mascot "Monty Montezuma." The school's new "ambassador," who sports a plumed headdress and a violet brocade gown, has been called a "guy in a purple dress," although the student portraying the role, Alberto Martinez, claims he will "celebrate, honor, respect and educate people on Aztec culture." Manny Lieras, president of the Native American Student Alliance that initiated the drive to "Ban Monty" in favor of a more historically accurate character, responded: "What the hell is this? This is horrible. ...This guy is no different than what we had before." {} Another item from the "Road Rage" Files: The American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue Mayor Carolyn Risher, of Inglis, Florida, for issuing and posting a proclamation banning Satan from her small town. The ACLU is requesting repeal of the "No Devils Allowed" ban and repayment of expenses for printing the posted edicts. **We guess that ACLU chapter has taken to heart all those jokes with a punchline where Satan asks God, "Where are you going to find a lawyer?" {} From the "Village Academic Curriculum" Files: "We pledge allegiance of the red, black and green/ Our flag, the symbol of our eternal struggle,/ and to the land we must obtain./ One nation of Black people,/ with one God for us all,/ Totally united in the struggle for Black Love,/ Black Freedom, and Black determination." --"Black Pledge of Allegiance" posted on the Web site of Millwood Middle School students in Oklahoma City. (The pledge is reputedly the work of Maulana Ron Karenga, founder of the violent 1960s Marxist group United Slaves, and originated in California.) ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "Jeffrey Dahmer's parents undoubtedly would have said he was a vegetarian." --Dennis Prager on comments by John Walker Lindh's parents that he "loves America" and did no treasonous acts. {} "Poor old Peter, Tom, and Dan, Hanging on as long as they can. Replace those fossils With three John Stossels. Topple TV's Taliban." --F.R.. Duplantier {} "Today's kids, and even law students, are taught that the Constitution is a 'living document.' (Do you give it mouth-to-page respiration if it stops breathing?)" --David C. Stolinsky {} "George Stephanopoulos's memoir, 'All Too Human,' is on bookstores' remainder tables, selling for $1. Apparently there are plenty of them at this price. Hurry down." --Gary Aldrich {} "Maybe they figured how do we beat Bill O'Reilly? Maybe we create a two-hour program and call it Chung-King?" --Fox's Shephard Smith on the announcement Connie Chung has jumped to CNN. {} "VP Cheney, on why all energy meeting notes haven't been released: 'There's an important principal involved here'." --Freudian slipping item from National Journal's "Hotline" {} "Muslim religious leaders who are all males are known as Imams. Do you suppose if they ever let women have the job they'll call them Ima'ams?" --Lyn Nofziger {} "You may have seen that both [Al] Sharpton and [Jesse] Jackson have rushed down to Houston, to pose for pictures and agitate in front of Enron. To call these two 'ambulance-chasers' is almost a waste of breath now. But aren't they ever embarrassed? Aren't their supporters?" --Jay Nordlinger {} "Andrea Yates, the Houston woman charged with murder for drowning her five young children, is doing much better, her brother tells the Houston Chronicle. 'She's continuing to improve,' says the brother, Andrew Kennedy. 'She is coherent and talking more.' Well, what lovely news. The condition of Yates's five children, meanwhile, is unchanged." --Wall Street Journal's Best of the Web {} "Doctoring images and removing or adding people for political purposes is what backward and repressive societies do. Part of the amusement of watching the Soviet empire was seeing officials being airbrushed out of old photos taken during parades in front of Lenin's tomb. Reality was unimportant. Images were at the mercy of politics. Do we want our images to go that way too?" --John Leo on plans for an "ethnically corrected" statue to fallen firefighters on 9-11. **Hey, did anyone notice that the proposed "revised" flag-raising monument did not include a female firefighter, homosexual or transgendered person! Jay Leno.... The New England Patriots beat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sunday. And this time, the Patriots did it without help from the refs! ... American Taliban fighter John Walker is now in the process of a plea agreement. The charges might drop from traitor to just idiot. Did you see Johnny Walker's father on TV saying, "My son loves America"? Yeah, right -- like O.J. loves his wife. .... The Disney Corporation has been hired by many airlines to train security personnel on how to be more cheerful while on duty. I was at the airport the other day and the only two security workers I saw on duty were Dopey and Sleepy. .... I went to Wal-Mart today and guess what I picked up -- Kmart! As you know, Kmart has declared bankruptcy, due to its two closest competitors, Goodwill and the Salvation Army. Kmart stock is now under 99 cents. That means it is now affordable for Kmart shoppers. David Letterman.... Letterman's Least Effective Opening Lines For Telemarketers: "How would you like to own land in Afghanistan?" "Can you call me back? I don't want to run up my bill" "Hi -- I'm phoning from prison" "Meow" "Dude, did you know your phone number spells 'cabbage'?" "Do you have 3 hours to talk about insurance?" "I'm selling a new video 'The Best of David Letterman'" "What are you wearing?" "There's still time to buy New Jersey Nets season tickets" "Good afternoon, my name is Osama" Argus Hamilton.... President Bush said ... he won't turn over papers about his contacts with Enron. He said none of his people did anything wrong and Enron's collapse is not his fault. Somehow you know this is going to end with Susan McDougal going to jail. .... The Battleground 2002 poll said Republicans lead the Democrats on the issues of the economy, education and national security. What a huge turnaround in one year. Thank goodness the public loves sex scandals or the Democrats would be finished. .... Congress sent a delegation to Guantanamo to inspect the prison that holds al Qaeda terrorists. It wasn't a pretty picture. They saw torture, malnourishment, and hopeless faces, but the Navy is not responsible for Castro's side of the fence. .... The White House announced ... the United States will ship $122 million worth of wheat to the people of Afghanistan. The Afghan people don't know how lucky they are. If Tom Daschle's state grew broccoli, they would be eating broccoli. .... Telepictures Productions announced Rosie O'Donnell will be replaced by comedienne Caroline Rhea on its afternoon talk show. Daytime shows have to stay fresh. This week, Martha Stewart will show viewers how to make potpourri out of a Kmart stock certificate. .... Robert Redford will receive a lifetime Oscar in March honoring his entire movie career. He's played a bank robber, a con artist, a Washington Post reporter, and a billionaire who bribes housewives to sleep with him. For thirty years, the Democratic nomination has been his for the asking. 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