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Dec. 1, 2003 Insider Report from NewsMax.com
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Democrat Attacks on Bush Backfire
2. Blair Risks Everything to Support Bush
3. FBI Agent Rowley: 'Marked Improvements' Since 9/11
4. Your Checks Could Bounce
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1. Democrat Attacks on Bush Backfire
The Democrat party should hire us as big-bucks consultants. We know what its problems are and how to fix them. Fortunately for the GOP, Terry McAuliffe never asks our advice.
We foresaw months before Al Gore picked his running mate for 2000 how he could win the election: choose Sen. Bob Graham of Florida, which we predicted would be the crucial state. Had Gore done so he would have captured Florida and the White House.
And we knew Gore's attacks on the Second Amendment would cost him dearly.
Sure enough, he lost the Democrat stronghold of West Virginia as well as his home state and Bill Clinton's home state because of his shrill and foolish stance on that issue. That's why the Dems lately have been quiet about their opposition to gun rights, except for the doomed John Kerry.
Now the White House wannabes are repelling Americans by launching one nasty attack after another on President Bush.
This tactic delights the likes of Barbra Streisand and George Soros, but it's starting to panic lefty columnists such as Ellen Goodman and Nicholas Kristof, and it will cost the donkeys another election unless they wise up and start campaigning rationally on the issues.
Even the rabidly pro-Democrat Los Angeles Times admits that Bush is favored for re-election because Americans overwhelmingly like and respect and trust him despite concerns about Iraq and the economy.
"With a year to go until the election, a solid core of Americans emphatically back George W. Bush for a second term - no matter who else is on the ballot. They approve of his conservative values. Mostly, though, they admire his character," the Times writes.
"Simply put: They trust him."
The newspaper sent a reporter from La-La Land to visit Clayton, Mo., and found near-universal support for the president in Middle America, usually scorned by the media elitists as "flyover country."
- Robert Koerper, a restaurateur: "Even if I don't line up with him exactly on all his policies, I want a president who stands up for what he believes in. You always know where he's coming from. That's the kind of leader I want."
- Court reporter Sandy Moriarty: "I hate politics, but he's much more professional than anyone else."
- Ron Cawood, a banker: "What do we have with Bush in office? We have honesty, for one thing. Honesty and a whole lot more integrity than we've had in the White House for a long time."
- Dick McCoy, a cigar salesman who disagrees with Bush on tax relief and social issues: "I would have to give the guy high marks. As a leader, he certainly stands by his guns. He doesn't waver. I'm pleased to have him in there, and I think it will be hard to get him out."
What a shocking admission of truth from the paper that launched a vicious assault on Arnold Schwarzenegger but failed to report Gray Davis' history of violence against women. And what a shocking piece of bad news for Howard Dean, Dick Gephardt and company.
The Dems could boost their chances in '04 by focusing on solutions to America's problems, but their hatred of the president is so blinding that we expect they'll instead continue to poison themselves with their own venom.
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2. Blair Risks Everything to Support Bush
Millions of people pro and con on the war in Iraq are still scratching their heads about one mystery: Why would British Prime Minister Tony Blair alienate his own Labor Party and much of his populace to support President Bush, especially when the two leaders share so little in common?
Finally we can solve the riddle.
"Peter Riddell, assistant editor of The Times of London, is the first to provide an answer to that question," says the New York Times.
In the new book "Hug Them Close," Riddell notes that Blair is a leftist, a policy wonk and a multilateralist, so like Bill Clinton and so unlike Bush. However, Britain's leader continues to back Bush for three reasons:
- Blair subscribes to "the belief that Britain's interests in the world are best secured by a close, even unquestioning alignment with its bigger brother across the Atlantic."
- He "firmly believed in the necessity to oust Saddam Hussein. And that belief was not new - it predated even the horrors of Sept. 11. Its origins can be found in the intelligence briefings Mr. Blair received after he became prime minister, in 1997. They left a deep impression upon him - possibly because, as a novice to power, this kind of information was new to him."
- He has what the New York Times condescendingly dubs a "moralistic streak" (the paper's editors seem to prefer pols with immoralistic streaks). Recall that in supporting NATO's war in Kosovo, Blair described a "battle of good against evil," the sort of comment Bush enrages his detractors by making.
When a socialist colleague grumbled, "People say that you are doing this because the Americans are telling you to do it," the prime minister replied: "I keep telling them that it's worse than that. I believe in it."
According to the N.Y. Times: "And so the paradox is resolved. For Tony Blair, ousting Saddam Hussein was the right thing to do. Mr. Blair got very little in return for his steadfast support of American policy, but then he never expected he would. Decisively dealing with the threat was enough of a reward - even if doing so meant risking his political future."
It's too bad that no prominent American Democrat other than retiring Sen. Zell Miller has half of Blair's backbone.
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3. FBI Agent Rowley: 'Marked Improvements' Since 9/11
America's most famous whistleblower, FBI Special Agent Coleen Rowley, tells how everyone can pitch in against terrorism.
Rowley, who exposed the bureau's failure to investigate information it had on Zacarias Moussaoui before 9/11, told Forum Club of the Palm Beaches this past week that her famous memo to Director Robert Mueller boiled down to "integrity," the only word she typed in all capital letters.
As authorities divert resources from fighting other crimes to preventing terrorism, everyone must raise his own level of ethical behavior, she said.
"We can't be perfect, but we can elevate the line of ethical actions in this country. If we can't raise this line to a higher level, law enforcement does not have enough resources to catch people. It's something that everyone can do."
Since her memo of May 2002, there have been "marked improvements," particularly in the bureau's analysis of intelligence and cooperation between the FBI and the CIA, the Palm Beach Daily News quoted her as saying.
Rowley ended her speech with a quotation from the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
She noted: "This quote was on the napkin in the Enron boardroom. It's got to be more than lip service. Everyone gets to go out and practice what you preach."
Then she added, to chuckles "I took four soaps from The Breakers." Well, at least she is honest!
What Rowley didn't say is that it often doesn't pay to be honest. We hear that many in the Bureau still treat the courageous woman a pariah. The code of silence still demands that FBI agents not speak out about problems, no matter how critical it is for the nation to know.
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4. Your Checks Could Bounce
Good news, bad news: The time it takes most checks to clear will shrink from up to five days to one day, thanks to Check 21, a little-noticed bill signed by President Bush.
The legislation, sought by bankers since the 1980s, "gained urgency after September 11, when the transportation system broke down, halting shipments of checks between banks. The new system will save banks about $2.1 billion a year," BusinessWeek reports.
The only catch: no more writing checks first and depositing money later. But the law won't take effect until October 2004.
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