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THE FEDERALIST(r) CHRONICLE The Conservative e-Journal of Record * Veritas Vos Liberabit * 6 February 2002 Federalist Edition #02-06 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 God Bless Ronald Reagan! Insight Upright Editorial Exegesis Dezinformatsia Sociocrats Village Idiots Short Cuts ______----********O********----______ THE FOUNDATION "All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals." --John Quincy Adams ______----********O********----______ GOD BLESS YOU, SIR! Today marks the fifty-second anniversary of Ronald Reagan's 39th birthday, as he would say. Recently, the Gallup Poll asked Americans "Who do you regard as the greatest United States president?" And more of them named "Ronald Reagan" than any other president. This man of simple origins, a giant of a president, always and unfalteringly did what was right for America. He brought trust, dignity, and humility to the presidency. He was, as William Bennett once observed, "a man in possession of his own soul," and he restored the nation's values, its character, its soul. He is a gentleman and a patriot. We, in turn, humbly thank you, Mr. President, for your unselfish and devoted service to our country. Happy Birthday and may God continue to bless you, Ronald Reagan -- All American. In his own words: "[I]n all of that time I won a nickname, the 'Great communicator.' But I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference: It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full bloom from my brow; they came from the heart of a great nation -- from our experience, our wisdom and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the Reagan revolution. Well, I'll accept that, but for me it always seemed like the Great Rediscovery -- a rediscovery of our values and our common sense. ... [B]ecause we're a great nation our challenges seem complex. It will always be that way. But as long as we remember our first principles and believe in ourselves, the future will always be ours. And something else we learned: Once you begin a great movement, there's no telling where it will end. We meant to change a nation, and instead we changed a world. ... I never thought of myself as a great man, just a man committed to great ideas. I've always believed that individuals should take priority over the state. History has taught me that this is what sets America apart -- not to remake the world in our image, but to inspire people everywhere with a sense of their own boundless possibilities. There's no question I am an idealist, which is another way of saying I am an American." (Reagan2000.com is the Internet's most comprehensive resource on President Reagan's life and achievements, and a touchstone for all patriot conservatives going forward. We invite you to explore Reagan2000.com and share the site with your friends and associates. Visit -- http://www.Reagan2000.com) ______----********O********----______ INSIGHT "You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength'." --Ronald Reagan ++ "A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war." --Sir Francis Bacon ++ "The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law." --Theodore Roosevelt ++ "Contradiction is obliteration of the line of demarcation between good and evil, it means calling humanism what is actually 'sin'." --Pope John Paul II ++ "The firm basis of government is justice, not pity." --Woodrow Wilson ++ "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble." --Helen Keller ++ "Where there is no God, there is no man." --Nicholas Berdyaev ++ "No purpose of action against religion can be imputed to any legislation, state or national, because this is a religious people.... This is a Christian nation." --U.S. Supreme Court (1892) ++ "The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation." --Corrie Ten Boom ++ "All armed prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed prophets have been destroyed." --Machiavelli ++ "The religious person should not seek an accommodation with liberalism; he should seek to rout it from the field, to extirpate it, root and branch." --Stanley Fish ++ "Somehow strangely the vice of men gets well represented and protected but their virtue has none to plead its cause -- nor any charter of immunities and rights." --Henry David Thoreau ++ "There is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act." --Will Rogers ______----********O********----______ UPRIGHT "My budget supports three great goals for America: We will win this war, we will protect our homeland, and we will revive our economy." --President George W. Bush ++ "It really is refreshing -- literally refreshing -- to have a president people admire and can follow cleanly again." --Peggy Noonan ++ "Until now, the war had been about Sept. 11. The campaign against the Taliban and al Qaeda is a campaign of revenge and justice. That campaign is not yet over, but the war, the real war, is not about last Sept. 11. It is about preventing the next Sept. 11 -- and in particular, a nuclear, chemical or biological Sept. 11." --Charles Krauthammer ++ "There are seven nations on the U.S. State Department's list of terrorist states. All shop at Beijing's weapons-of-mass-destruction superstore, though some only buy accessories." --Don Feder {} "...[T]he Constitution gave us a legislative supremacy government, one that puts the decisive powers in that branch which most closely represents the ultimate holder of sovereignty." --Mark Tapscott {} "But even in wartime, the Constitution doesn't protect just freedom of popular speech, or the right to support the government, or the expression of political views that don't make anyone mad." --Steve Chapman {} "It does not do, to countenance the threat of being killed, to commit suicide." --William F. Buckley {} "If politicians don't respect the law, why should citizens respect politicians?" --Debra Saunders {} "Big government and big campaign money go hand-in-hand." --Rep. Ron Paul {} "Leading is often brutal and thankless, but it has its rewards." --Wesley Pruden {} "Excellence in our calling, which the Bible calls for, makes the most powerful witness for us in the workplace." --Charles Colson {} "Family life is the normal context in which we can learn that a life filled with thinking about others instead of ourselves is the sure road to the most fulfilling joys and satisfactions." --Alan Keyes {} "One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain." --Thomas Sowell ++ "Government has ceased to mean upholding and reinforcing the traditional rights and morals of the governed; it now means compulsion in the service of social engineering." --Joseph Sobran {} "How ironic that instead of honoring the Judeo-Christian tradition underlying our unparalleled liberties, the secular neo-libertarians are trying to eradicate all vestiges of that tradition in the public arena." --David Limbaugh {} "In fact, it is abortion that has diminished women and the entire culture because it cheapens life and leads to a disregard for other lives and relationships." --Cal Thomas ______----********O********----______ EDITORIAL EXEGESIS "Unveiled ...[Monday], the $2.13 trillion budget President Bush proposed for fiscal 2003 has two particularly striking features. The first is that this is clearly a national-security budget. The second is that the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has introduced the welcome concepts of management and accountability into the federal budget process. On the national-security front, 2003 budget authority for the Department of Defense would increase by $45 billion, or 13.5 percent, to $379 billion. It represents the largest percentage increase since Ronald Reagan began reinvigorating America's armed forces in the early 1980s. ...Total spending for homeland security will increase next year to $38 billion, representing a virtual doubling of the pre-September 11 level. ...If national defense and homeland security are budget priorities, other programs are hardly ignored. Non-national-security spending would increase between 2 percent and 3 percent at a time when the consumer price index and other inflation gauges have been running significantly below 2 percent a year. Over 10 years, the budget would allocate nearly $200 billion to reform Medicare, including providing a prescription drug benefit for the elderly. On the management front, OMB has introduced the audacious concept of accountability and performance measurement. This year's budget incorporates the President's Management Agenda, which aims to reform federal management and improve governmental performance through the introduction of five government-wide initiatives. These initiatives measure how well agencies and departments maximize the talent of their human capital; take advantage of competitive sourcing; improve financial performance; exploit the benefits of Internet-based technology; and integrate budget expenditures and performance. ...In its effort to achieve budgetary accountability, OMB did not assess the White House's performance. So, here is a simple standard: Having submitted a reasonable budget for 2003, Mr. Bush should be graded by how often he uses his veto pen and how well he exploits his astronomical political capital to enforce his spending blueprint." --Washington Times ______----********O********----______ DEZINFORMATSIA >From the Commissars of Public Opinion: "What also struck me, aside from how frightening much in this speech was, were the things that were missing. Very little with respect to minorities, the uninsured, the homeless, the elderly, Enron workers who have lost their life savings." --Washington Post reporter Ceci Connolly on President Bush's State of the Union speech {} "You said we do not go around killing innocent people. I take your point, except you've just launched an investigation to see whether in fact we did." --ABC's Sam Donaldson to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Donaldson apparently missed the implicit "intentionally" there. A later exchange in the interview -- Donaldson: "Some cynics believe, of course, when you were saying that [about the likelihood of a future terrorist attack] you were tying it to the increase in the defense budget. ...I understand these people in Washington, they say the darndest things." Rumsfeld: "There's the understatement." {} This week's "Leftmedia Data Check": In the first two months since the Enron bankruptcy, the Leftmedia have devoted over two and half times as much coverage to it as they did during a comparable period to reporting on the Clintonistas' Whitewater scandal. A Lexis-Nexis search turned up 8,858 mentions of Enron and President Bush from early December to early February, but only 3,297 reports on Whitewater and President Clinton from Dec. 20, 1993, through Feb. 21, 1994. {} This week's "News Nonsensica" Award: "[W]e cannot let the Clinton legacy go. We're living vicariously through Chelsea because as a country we don't want to let a very popular former President out of our hands...." -- E! Online's Ted Casablanca on GMA about Chelsea's new hair style {} Jeepers, creepers.... Aparently Greta Van Susteren, thinking that when she moved to Fox she had to look like one, got herself some "youth cream" from Geraldo. Van Susteren says she had two hours of "cosmetic surgery" to face off against conservatives. (We guess that means Geraldo had twenty hours of facial repairs!) **A Federalist programming reminder: If you cannot tolerate Greta, the Alan Keyes show, in that same time slot on MSNBC, is just a channel change away! ______----********O********----______ SOCIOCRATS This week's "Las Clintonista Leftovers" Award: "It is now clear that our nation's present economic policy is simply not working....I'm concerned about the economy...after all of the hard work that went into eliminating our nation's deficits and building up the strongest American economy in our history, the truth is that America's economic house is no longer in order; the policies are heading in the wrong direction.... I believe Bill Clinton and I did a good job." --Al Gore "rejoining the national debate" {} From the "Je$$e Ja˘k$on" gene pool: "I think what we actually heard in the State of the Union speech was the 'police' State of the Union speech. ...I'm supportive of the President's efforts to fight against terrorism in our country and around the world. But it's increasingly clear that it's coming at the expense of a number of necessary programs for Americans.... The union is clearly less than perfect and the President did not make that case." --Illinois Demo-Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. **Fruit does not fall far from the tree. {} This month's "Demo-Goguery" Award: "Enron has the potential to shape the entire political environment for 2002, impact other issues and reduce confidence in the Bush administration and Republicans.... The concerns people have are powerful and likely to be increasingly corrosive for the Bush administration." --Democrat strategy memo authored by James Carville and two other Demo strategists ++ "I...I've not seen the memo. This is the first I heard about it." --Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the DNC, last Wednesday morning commenting on CNN about James Carville's memo ______----********O********----______ VILLAGE IDIOTS This week's "Periplaneta Americana" Award: "John [Walker] loves America. John did not do anything against America." --Frank Lindh, little Johnny's father. {} This week's "Village Glitterati" Award: "We should be rattling the Bush cage and our elected senators and congressmen, and we should say to them, 'We care about girls' and women's rights and health, and we want you, as our representatives, to care too and to put it into practice with money...." --Hanoi Jane Fonda {} This month's "Gender (and Species) Disorientation Award": "Versions of this idea have been discussed around dinner tables and at parties in the gay community for years as we wondered what would happen to us when we got old. But none of this would have been possible five years ago. ...I dreamed I was dying and realized the only person I could call was my dog. I woke up thinking, 'What is going to happen to me when I get old?'" --John DeLeo, one of two partners behind The Arbours, a development group planning a "homosexual" retirement center near Fort Lauderdale {} This week's "Village Ignorati" Award: "I don't know. I'm what you call a 'newbie'." --Response from a protester brandishing a placard that read, "No New War Against Somalia" at the World Economic Forum when asked if he knew where Somalia was. ______----********O********----______ SHORT CUTS "I can't hear you!" -- George W. Bush to reporters at the White House shouting questions to him as he walked to presidential helicopter Marine One carrying with him some choice reading material: Bernard Goldberg's "Bias: A CBS Insider Exposes How the Media Distort the News." {} "To the faint hearts of Europe, who never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity to stand up to bullies and sneaks who mean them harm, the president had the tough message to give the limberneck to certain of his men in Foggy Bottom and other domestic redoubts of fear and loathing. ...[W]e heard squeaks from the timid immediately. The mice are upset not by threats posed by outlaw regimes but by the president's description of the Axis of evil -- Iran, Iraq and North Korea -- as the 'Axis of evil.' ...The Germans are upset because a strenuous effort at fighting terror would reduce sausage-eating time, and the French are upset as the French always are, lest the war on terror interfere with selling cheese." --Wesley Pruden {} "Whether the terrorists in Guantanamo are getting enough Froot Loops is not where the country is right now." --Ann Coulter {} "If one octopus made a deal with another octopus could you call it a squid pro quo?" --Lyn Nofziger {} "I did not have political relations with that man -- Mr. Lay." --Demo Sen. Ernest Hollings on his dealings with Enron's chairman. {} "The tall, nude female statue at the Justice Department in Washington is now hidden behind a recently installed $4,000 curtain. Wouldn't a burqa have been cheaper?" --Mark Russell {} "Foundering Father: Though his name sounds familiar to me,/ I'm still wondering who he could be:/ In the index I look/ In my history book,/ But George Washington's name I don't see." --F.R. Duplantier Jay Leno.... The president's address was translated in Spanish, Arabic and Mandarin Chinese last night. I guess he's trying to connect with all the people in California. .... The American Taliban kid, John Walker, is getting 10 life sentences. He's happy about that -- in Taliban terms that's about 360 virgins. .... Did you see the Super Bowl? Or, as the Patriots call it, "The Silence of the Rams!" .... This Super Bowl had one thing that most Super Bowls don't -- a fourth quarter. .... President Bush called the Patriots -- that's tradition for the president to congratulate the winning team. President Bush is such a classy guy, he even called the Rams and gave them advice on what to do after choking. .... The Olympics are coming up! They have built a monorail system that can transport over 100,000 people per day -- and that's just Osmonds! .... It was cold last night! It was so cold out that rap stars were actually chilling out. It was cold! What was the temperature? The temperature was five below Hillary. .... Kmart stock is now down to 99 cents per share. The sad thing is that you can buy it at Walmart for 89 cents! David Letterman.... I just came from backstage, and the Rams have tied it up again! .... Did you enjoy the exciting commercials? The government ran several anti-drug commercials. They ran right between the seventh and eighth Budweiser commercials. .... Today there was a big party in Boston. There hasn't been a winning team in Boston since the Continental Army. .... President Bush lifts weights. He likes to stay in shape. He can bench 180 pounds -- or, as Clinton calls it, "half an intern"! Argus Hamilton.... The Super Bowl crowd booed Bill Clinton during his turn to read Abe Lincoln's words before the ballgame. Their booing made no sense at all. You would think that after five or six nights in the French Quarter, they would see things his way. .... The Super Bowl caused a record amount of wagering at Las Vegas hotel sports books Sunday. Gambling has become a national epidemic. Americans will spend $60 billion on games of chance this year and that doesn't include weddings and elections. .... Gennifer Flowers opened a nightclub on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans just in time for the Super Bowl. The neighborhood continues to improve. The building formerly housed a brothel and before that it was a law school. .... Madeleine Albright told the Today Show that President Bush made a big mistake by describing Iran, Iraq and North Korea as the Axis of Evil. Remember her? She served under Bill Clinton and was the only one who didn't take him to court for it. .... North Korean generals ridiculed President Bush's military ultimatum Tuesday. They said their missiles could destroy South Korea's Hyundai factory in fifteen minutes. So this could be the first war in history that saved lives in the long run. .... President Bush agreed Monday with Dick Cheney's refusal to name anyone he has consulted on energy policy. How many members of the Bush Administration does it takes to screw in a light bulb? We don't know, they're still keeping us in the dark. ... The Wall Street Journal worried ... that the White House might be hiding something about Enron. Fear of phony accounting is spooking the market. This could cause the first rupture between the Wall Street Journal and a sitting Republican president since Abraham Lincoln declared Confederate war bonds to be null and void. .... Janet Reno fainted during a speech in Florida Thursday and was hospitalized overnight. She said she fainted because she got hot and sweaty onstage. 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