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Saturday, January 13, 2001 5:23 PMSubject: CONGRESS ACTION:
January 14, 2001
CONGRESS ACTION: January 14, 2001
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VAST LEFT-WING CONSPIRACY: The pretensions
of the extremist left (which now includes virtually the entire Democrat Party)
to diversity and compassion are proven to be nothing but obscene jokes. By
giving shelter to an abused woman who was an illegal alien, Linda Chavez
actually practiced the compassion that the left preaches, and was demonized by
compassionate leftists for doing so. Sanctimonious leftists believe
that compassion is the business of government alone (using other people's money,
of course). The socialist left has turned its venom on Interior nominee Gale
Norton, for the unforgivable sin of understanding the importance of private
property rights to the preservation of freedom. The Founders of this nation also
understood that importance, along with every other non-Marxist economist and
political thinker throughout history, and the Founders protected private
property rights in our Bill of Rights. But anyone who defends private property
rights, and thereby the Constitution and freedom, is on the fringe and outside
the mainstream, according to the socialist left, and is to be demonized and
destroyed. Does there remain any doubt that the radical environmental movement
is the home of unreformed socialists disillusioned by the collapse of their
fallen icon, the Soviet Union? Then there is John Ashcroft, attacked by the left
as a racist for having voted against a black Clinton judicial nominee. To
left-wing extremists, there is not a single solitary reason to ever vote against
a judge who is black -- except racism. Which therefore makes every Senate
democrat who voted against Clarence Thomas a racist. But the democrats are the
ones who demanded confirmation based solely on skin color, so who are the real
bigots? Ashcroft's record of honorable public service puts the lie to the racism
charge, and his enemies know it. The real reason he has incurred the wrath of
that unprecedented coalition of left-wing extremist groups is that he is
devoutly religious and moral. Religious tests for public office were ended in
this nation centuries ago -- but not in the totalitarian and hate-filled world
of the left, where one must act, think, and believe in lock-step with the amoral
religious left, or one is vilified. The left also impugns Ashcroft's honor by
claiming that he might not enforce the laws. Because they are without honor, and
circumventing the law is standard practice with them, many leftists assume that
everyone is as corrupt as they are. What they really fear, however, is that
Ashcroft in fact will enforce the laws, evenhandedly and vigorously.
These hysterical assaults not only prove, again, the truly dishonorable
character of the left; they prove the folly of Trent Lott's attempt to buy peace
by sharing Senate power with democrats, whose only goal is to destroy
conservatives. Appeasement by pre-emptive surrender only emboldens your
enemies.
INDICT CLINTON?: The punditry is swirling
with speculation about whether Bill Clinton will be indicted when he leaves
office. Clinton's impeachment defenders certainly invited such an indictment,
claiming that the legal system alone was the proper venue to punish Clinton's
official wrongdoing, and then only after he leaves office. Of course they
weren't really serious. They just said that during impeachment because, at the
time, it allowed them to assume a phony moralistic stance while defending the
indefensible.
Hypocrisy and unceasing defense of Bill Clinton can be expected from
democrats and other leftists, but pragmatic republicans have also joined the
pardon Bill camp. They all mouth the appropriate abstract principles
-- no man is above the law, we are a nation of laws and not men -- but then
jettisons those principles and suggests that it is time, in the immortal phrase
of the Clintonoids, to just move on. Senator Orrin Hatch --
It's time to let President Clinton fade into whatever he's going to fade
into, and I just don't see keeping it alive any longer. Sorry, Senator
Hatch, Bill Clinton isn't fading away to anywhere; on the contrary, he is
engaged in a vigorous effort to rewrite history to prove that he
never did anything wrong and that republicans should apologize to him for
impeachment; all the while questioning Bush's legitimacy and issuing a blizzard
of executive decrees designed to undermine the Bush administration. Congressman
Henry Hyde, Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee during impeachment --
The president has had his trial, and it is over, and to
follow up with an indictment and put the president on trial would
diminish the institution of the presidency and the nation in the eyes of the
world. Sorry, Congressman Hyde, there
