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11.30.00
From Robert Novak's most recent column:
"We're screwed," bemoaned one of Al Gore's political lieutenants when he learned last week that the U.S. Supreme Court had accepted the Florida recount case (though he used stronger language than that).
"Justice Kennedy's Vote"
Joe Lieberman gets my Quote of the Day when he said, "We're not going to carry this on to a point where it will hurt this country."
Joe, you're already hurting the country by putting the thought in your supporters' minds that GW Bush is an illegitimate President.
"Gore: Fight Could Last to Dec. 18"
The capital markets have spoken, and what they've said is that Lefty webzine Salon.com stinks. A network news executive even said, "It's become boring. Way too safe and predictable with its left-leaning bias." I haven't visited the site (except to read David Horowitz's latest column) in months.
"Penny Stock? Salon.com Closes at All-Time Low; Risks De-list!"
The all-news channels thought they found another OJ white bronco moment with the extensive coverage of a Ryder truck carrying ballots from Palm Beach County to Tallahassee. Instead, they looked like bufoons desperate to fill up time with psuedo-news. Wait for the Saturday Night Live skit on this one.
"Moving Right Along"
11.29.00
Stiffy Gore's in a conundrum. Which "will of the people" will he respect? The one found in thousands of imaginary votes he thinks haven't been counted for him in Florida, or the one cited in the latest poll that shows a majority of Americans want Al to concede? What's a poll-driven man in a poll-driven administration to do?
"Poll: Majority of Voters Want Gore to Concede"
I watched Gore's speech Monday night. While buttressing his own supporters, he failed to look like a political hack who will stop at nothing to win the Presidency. My view echos Mike's:
Gore is saying one thing - uphold the process and count all the votes - while doing exactly the opposite, and Americans know that. Ironically, his speech Monday night not only made it much less likely that he will ever see the inside of the White House after January 20, but made a clear case why he deserves it less than ever.
"A Swing and a Whiff"
Except for the New York Times, newspaper editorial boards aren't sympathetic to Stiffy Gore's continued election fight.
"Editorials Weigh In on Gore's Election Challenge" [via Desk]
I like Bill Buckley's suggestion that Florida's ballots be burned after this mess is settled. "Otherwise we will have continuing history on the order of what sprang from the pistol found on Sacco and Vanzetti. Another Woodstock typewriter used by Alger Hiss. Another grassy knoll behind which the true killer of JFK hid."
"The 1-2-3 of it All"
11.26.00
I'll make this short and sweet: GW WON!!
The election was close, but tonight, after a count, a recount and yet another manual recount, Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes to win the election. We will therefore undertake the responsibility of preparing to serve as America's next President and Vice President.
"Bush to Begin Transition, Urges Gore not to Contest Florida"
Remarks by Governor George W. Bush
11.25.00
MSNBC's Eric Alterman thinks the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy hit Miami-Dade County this week, and that's why the election board voted to end their hand counting of ballots. Alterman wrote, "that Republican operatives, working out of a Florida-based mobile home, had sent in busloads of hooligans to shut down by force the court-ordered Miami-Dade recount at the Stephen P. Clark Government Center. Republican operatives also set up telephone banks to urge their footsoldiers to join in the riot. Miami's most important Spanish-language radio station, Radio Mambi, issued a summons to all pro-Republican Cuban-Americans to come stir the pot further, with charges of anti-Latino racism against the canvassing board." For Alterman, this was instigating a riot instead of the valid response from a political party that had been kicked in the teeth for over two weeks.
Alterman is even bringing up the infamous Palm Beach County butterfly ballot by saying Stiffy Gore would have easily won Florida with a less confusing ballot (designed by a Democrat without any complaint before Election Day I might add). No mention is made of the constant barrage of lawsuits and judiciary partisanship that might let Stiffy steal the election.
"Winning by Intimidation"
Mike at WOIFM? pointed me to some lefty weblogs who actually think GW is trying to steal the election. Hey, Lyn, you can't steal what you already have. GW won the first ballot count; he one the first recount. Now, even with the Democrats changing ballot standards and throwing out military ballots, Gore still may not end up with a victory.
11.24.00
Peggy Noonan wrote a call to arms in the Wall Street Journal to all patriotic Americans who oppose Stiffy Gore's stealing of an election:
Every writer, scribbler, Internet Paul Revere, talker, pundit, thinker, essayist, voice: Come forward and speak the truth. Howl it.
We must point out what needs be pointed out again and again and not ducked or hidden: The Clinton-Gore operatives are trying to steal the election--and it is wrong. The Democrats in their hunger for power will throw the men and women who protect us with their lives over the side--and it is wrong.
... We must through e-mail and telephone calls and call-ins to radio and television report all of the data we are receiving, all of the evidence that the theft of an election is taking place day by day in Florida. Those on the ground in Florida, in the counting rooms, must even more become part of this. The one thing history needs more of--and the courts need, too--is first-person testimony.
Some have suggested a march. I don't know if that's a good idea, but it should be discussed, and soon. Perhaps a march on Washington, perhaps millions, perhaps dressed in black--in mourning for an attempt to subvert democracy. I suppose it would look like a huge New York dinner party, but it would also look like a people resisting. Perhaps they should march silently, past symbols of democracy that are more eloquent in their silence than we with our sound. Perhaps there should be placards with the names of men and women from military bases whose attempt to vote for their commander in chief has been denied.
Lawn signs. E-mail chains spreading word of what is happening in the counting and the deliberating. Calls to political leaders, to local newspapers, to radio and television, registering our dismay and resistance.
It must of course remain peaceful--peaceful protest, passive resistance, voices strong, clear and modulated. We don't support breaking laws--we support upholding the law.
We all must do our part in fighting this injustice. The nation's very soul is at stake.
"The Greenwood Position"
Instead of finding real criminals, thousands of policemen will waste their time picking of a few irresponsible motorists who are dumb enough not to wear their seatbelts.
"Libertarians Slam National Seatbelt Crackdown" [via ETWOF]
11.23.00
You'll need nourishment for tomorrow's monster shopping expedition. You may be sick of it already (I'm not), but EAT TURKEY!
While eating turkey, sing a few bars of Adam Sandler's "Turkey Song."
Dig out your crayons for a special Thanksgiving treat.
11.22.00
I want to wish all my readers a happy Thanksgiving. I'm thankful for so much, but I do want to say thanks to all who read what I have to say. Mucho kudos to Angus, Mike, Bill, Michael, and John for making weblogging so much fun.
Eat plenty of turkey and convince your Democratic friends and family you'll eat with that Stiffy Gore is a corrupt, lying, no-good man who is trying to steal the Presidency. God, it may be tough downing all that stuffing tomorrow.
Best wishes to Bill's son. He was in the hospital today. I'm sure Bill's quite thankful for the current state of medicine, despite the ways the government messes it up.
There was enough news just today to comment on for a week: Dick Cheney had a heart attack; patriotic Miami Republicans raised a ruckus and forced Miami-Dade County to stop their hand count; a Palm Beach County judge said slightly indented marks on a ballot count as a vote; GW got royally screwed by a State Supreme Court that decided it could write election law better than the state legislature. That's just the tip of the iceberg with a little over 6 hours remaining in the day.
John Leo provides us with Chadology 101. Do you think anyone will name their newborn boys Chad for the next few years?
"It's a Chad, Chad, Chad, Chad, World"
TAM legal scholar Mike on the Florida Supreme Court's pro-Gore decision:
Relying on the "supreme right of the people to vote," the Court went beyond the record in front of it and assumed that hand counts are more accurate than machine counts. I say "assumed" because there was no evidence in the record that the court considered either way. They heard no testimony, no witnesses, no evidence at all on the matter, but still made that factual finding that excluding the late returns would infringe upon voting rights. Assuming a fact without any evidence is something that courts cannot legally do. They have clearly stepped beyond the limits of allowable judicial power and stepped into the bounds of the legislature.
Finally, this ruling virtually guarantees that litigation will continue right until the day the electors cast their votes.
11.20.00
Here's an excerpt from my article in the latest Enter Stage Right:
You might just be cynical and say that both political parties are equally bad, but is there any evidence? Are their any instances of Republicans bribing people to vote? Have any poll workers in heavily Republican areas been accused of handing out multiple ballots? Have any Republican judges been so brazen as to force the polls to remain open so more Republicans could vote? I would bet that if any of these examples would have happened, the Democrats and their lap-dog media helpers would be crying out on every news program what evil deeds those mean-spirited, homophobic, environmental polluting, tree hating, gun loving, Bible thumping, Clinton hating, members of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy were doing to corrupt the democratic process.
"Stealing an Election in Broad Daylight"
11.18.00
Peggy Noonan on the biggest story missing from the newspapers: voter fraud by Democrats:
This question--the extent of vote fraud in this election, and the fact that the Republicans think it is governing what is happening in Florida--is not the unspoken subtext of the drama. It is the unspoken text.
Republicans are convinced, and for good reason, that Bill Daley, who learned at his father's knee, and Al Gore, who learned at Bill Clinton's, are fraudulently attempting to carry out an anti-democratic strategy that is a classic of vote stealing: Keep counting until you win, and the minute you "win" announce that the American people are tired of waiting for an answer and deserve to know who won.
Could a political party in this great and sophisticated democracy, in this wired democracy where sooner or later every shadow sees sunlight, steal a prize as big and rich and obvious as the presidency?
Yes. Of course. If the history of the past half century has taught us anything it's that determined people can do anything. What might stop it? If the media would start leading the news with investigations into the prevalence of vote fraud and the possibility that the presidential election is being stolen.
"The Donkey in the Living Room"
Richard Pollock is chiding those of his own political persuasion to stop the mockery of the American political process in Florida:
America's liberals, led by Vice President Al Gore and his aides, are consciously preparing to undermine the legality and legitimacy of the next president of the United States.
"Al Gore's Florida War Room"
11.17.00
Bill Clinton brought his liberal moral equivalence with him to Vietnam. I'll quote directly from a story on his national address:
Clinton also paid tribute to the 58,000 Americans who died in the Vietnam War and the "three million brave soldiers and civilians" who perished in both Vietnamese armies in a "staggering sacrifice."
No mention was made of the brutal government forced upon the Vietnamese people as a result of North Vietnam's victory. Communists and anti-communists were lumped together. No difference was made of the fact that the Communists supported totalitarianism while anti-communitsts fought for freedom.
Clinton's speech--along with his whole trip--drip with irony. Remember, this was the same man who admitted he loathed the military and led anti-war protests overseas. Now, he has the gall to pay tribute to those soldiers who fought in his place.
"Clinton Mania in Hanoi as President Urges Reconciliation" [via Drudge]
John Edstrom provides us with this "cogent" (to use Eric Gustafson's word) perspective on the mess in Florida:
Vice President Gore promised to abide by the result of the recount, but since it has gone against him, he now breaks his word and promises instead to set the country adrift on an uncharted sea of lawsuits, providing us with yet another example of the low standard of honesty observed by Clinton/Gore, and what we might expect of a Gore administration.
Mr. Edstrom also writes that AlGore could "expose himself as the real fraud" by "cheerfully willing to reduce our democratic institutions to the level of a banana republic." This won't bother Stiffy in the least because, in his own deluded, self-righteous mind, he would be saving America from the evil, bigoted, rich-loving Republicans. The ends justify the means when it comes to fighting off evil.
"Yes, We have no Banana Republic Yet"
"America's Finest News Source" has published their funniest issue yet. The Onion has turned the election into a full blown civil war.
11.15.00
GW did the right thing by rejecting AlGore's proposal to recount every county in Florida by hand. One state-wide recount was complete and some (Democratic) counties are counting for the fourth time! Bush has had the lead in every instance. Now, the county totals have been collected by Florida's Secretary of State. All that should be left is to count the overseas ballots and declare a winner. Stiffy opposes this, not because he cares so much about democracy, but because he's behind. While Prince Albert said he would abide by the results of any state-wide recount, don't believe him. This man has said and will say anything to become President.
"Gore Offers Full Recount in Florida" [via Drudge]
Netscape 6 has been released upon an unsuspecting world. I had grown so tired of the wait that the discovery was a pleasant surprise...until I saw that the download was in the 20MB range! I would love to play around with the new interface and see how much faster Gecko (the rendering engine) displays web pages. But the massive size of the beast makes Internet Explorer look fairly skinny (I think IE5 was around 15MB). On the bright side, the AOL-Time Warner marketing machine will be distributing Netscape 6 on disks in Time Warner magazines. I can get it that way.
"Netscape 6 Ships after 32-month Gestation"
Palm Beach County's vote count isn't out of step with the rest of Florida (statistically speaking) even if some voters mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan.
"The Lack of Evidence in Palm Beach"
"Was Gore Harmed by the Buchanan Vote?"
There may still be 1-1/2 months left in the year, but I want to start putting together a bunch of TAM Best of the Year lists. Music, books, news events, athletes, weblog, etc. are all fair game. Give me you suggestions for catagories along with winners.
The Discovery Channel or The Learning Channel should start a series called "Intellectual Deathmatch." It would be like MTV's claymation masterpiece "Celebrity Deathmatch," except it would be really smart people throughout history duking it out with their brains. Lousy television: yes, but I would love to see Hillary Clinton get her clock cleaned by James Madison over the value of the Electoral College.
"Hillary Clinton vs. James Madison"
Rep. Connie Morella--a Republican in name only--has admitted that if the Presidential election were thrown into the House of Representatives that she would back AlGore. Ms. Morella should be stripped of any leadership position she has in the Republican Caucus. Since she has a problem supporting fellow Republicans, then maybe she should remove herself from the party. I wouldn't miss her.
"Maryland Republican Plans To Vote For Gore If House Is Forced To Pick President"
Ever since I've been politically active, I've thought Democrats were misguided or lacked sufficient information on issues and campaigns. That's where I thought my disagreements with them were based. Looking at the Democrats' attempt at stealing the Presidential election, all my years of Dems-are-really-nice-naivety have been tossed aside like a dangling chad. My old political temperment towards the Democrats and the Left wasn't unique. Conservatives in general are more honorable people willing to put country above political victory. AlGore may spew his exaggeration about how he wants to defend democracy (the U.S. is a republic, not a democracy), but the comments from his campaign--which never stopped working past 11.7--and the flock of lawyers he sent to Florida tell a different story: he will do whatever it takes to win the Presidency.
One recount wasn't enough for Stiffy because he was still behind. Then some manual recounts didn't give him a victory. So, back to the machine count. Still no victory. Gore now wants to force some Democratic-rich counties to do manual recounts for still more votes. This after the legal deadline has passed when Florida counties had to submit their final vote tallies.
The Democrats aren't just stopping at endless recounts. Ever since Election Day, they've conducted a massive PR campaign to delegitimize the election. You had the flap over the butterfly ballot that was designed and agreed to by local Democrats. Jesse Jackson organized a demonstration in Palm Beach County demanding a revote--an idea that would turn that county into a Bloody Kansas-like anarchy zone. There was a demonstration in New York City, and there will probably be more demonstrations.
Then I almost forgot to mention the rampant voter fraud in my neck of the woods (Wisconsin). A local TV station caught a big-time NY Democrat paying homeless people with cigarettes to vote in Milwaukee. There's also the many students at Marquette University who admitted to the school newspaper that they committed vote fraud.
Why do Democrats (and the Left) go to all this trouble? Why is this election so important that they will say and do anything to win? It's because of the immense self-righteousness of the Left. When Gore made a passing remark about the election being a choice between good and evil, in his mind, he was right. Any opposition to the Left's agenda isn't just based on wrong facts or reasoning. No, any opposition is evil and a direct threat to the nation. In a dispicable bit of propaganda, ex-Clinton flack, Paul Begala looked at the geographic voting pattern and had this to say:
But if you look closely at that map you see a more complex picture. You see the state where James Byrd was lynch-dragged behind a pickup truck until his body came apart — it's red. You see the state where Matthew Shepard was crucified on a split-rail fence for the crime of being gay — it's red. You see the state where right-wing extremists blew up a federal office building and murdered scores of federal employees — it's red. The state where an Army private who was thought to be gay was bludgeoned to death with a baseball bat, and the state where neo-Nazi skinheads murdered two African-Americans because of their skin color, and the state where Bob Jones University spews its anti-Catholic bigotry: they're all red too.
To Begala, if you voted for Bush, you're nothing more than an evil bigot whose political voice should be silenced. That's the attitude of the Left. Your opposition to them means you are evil.
They think they have all the answers to every social ill. They think poverty can be fixed with more government programs; they think socialized health care will make Americans healthier; they think that dropping oodles and oodles of cash into failing public schools will help children learn better; and they think that all these ideas are best run out of the bureaucratic morass of Washington, D.C. If you oppose this agenda, you hate the poor, uninsured, and school kids. That's was they say, and that's what they believe.
The veil of political innocence has been lifted from my eyes. No longer will I take the Democrats' claims of compromise and bipartisanship on face value. If GW really wants to be President, he better realize that this is war and he must fight to win.
"Prepare for Political War, GOPers"
"Out of Control in Milwaukee"
"MU Students Voted More than Once, Survey Finds"
11.13.00
Those sedatives I've been taking to calm me down from the mess in Florida has prevented me from properly updating TAM. So, here are some old posts (for me) that didn't get properly displayed to my endearing public.
George Will on the fiasco in Florida:
All that remains to complete the squalor of Gore's attempted coup d'etat is some improvisation by Janet Reno, whose last Florida intervention involved a lawless SWAT team seizing a 6-year-old. She says there is no federal role, but watch for a "civil rights" claim on behalf of some protected minority or some other conjured pretext. Remember, Reno is, strictly speaking, unbelievable, and these things will continue until these people are gone.
"Gore, Hungry for Power"
11.08.00
Jesse Jackson is so scared of being shut out of the White House for four years if GW wins Florida that he is threatening legal action. The recount isn't even finished and Jackson is claiming that civil rights have been thrown out the door in the Sunshine State. "This is a replay of Selma, Alabama all over again," demogogued Jackson. Every piece of anecdotal information Jackson hears is accepted at truth. For Jesse, it's the continual anti-black conspiracy infecting America that could prevent AlGore from becoming President.
"Rev. Jackson Hints Legal Challenge to Fla Vote"
Mike thinks that if GW loses Florida, the GOP will try to woo libertarians in the next election. I would love to see the GOP become stronger constitutionalists, but a Gore victory won't push them towards the libertarians. No, GOP moderates will be emboldened. They'll say that the party will have to go farther to the left to court suburban women and minorites. They'll also cite GW's pitch to die-hard conservatives to beat John McCain in the primaries (remember Bob Jones University?). Moderates will want to forget about educating and persuading women and minorities about the benefits of Social Security privatization, school vouchers, free market environmentalism, and real tax cuts. Instead, they'll push for a pro-choice plank in the party platform and slightly less expensive federal programs than the Democrats. If GW loses, you could see the Republican Party in the governing wilderness for 20 years.
What those 19,000 libertarian voters have to ask themselves is how best to restore limited, constitutional government. The Libertarian Party has been running candidates for President since 1972 with little progress. Of the two major political parties, the GOP is most sympathetic to libertarian ideas. Libertarians need to get over their delusions of political grandure, put away their purist (and sometimes anarchic) political attitudes, and work within the GOP. People like Milton Friedman, Robert Poole, and Martin Anderson are doing just that. Do Florida libertarians really want a Gore administration on their conscience just because GW wasn't ideologically pure enough?
It's the day after Election Day, and we still don't know who won. First Stiffy won Florida. Then GW won the Sunshine State--and with it--the Presidency. Now, with 100% of Florida's vote in, GW has a lead of less than 1000 votes. A recount will happen, but no one knows how long that will take.
Neoflux found the network projections to be a "horrid disservice to the viewers." They jumped the gun on Florida TWICE. A lot of good that exit polling data did.
One of the more interesting parlor questions going into Election Day was whether Bush would win the popular vote, yet be beaten by Gore in the electoral vote. Now, it looks like Gore may have won the popularity contest, but GW wins the Presidency with the electoral vote victory. Will this inspire a popular outcry to toss the Electoral College from the election process? National Review's Mike Potemra cautions against such a rash action:
The Framers of the Constitution set up the Electoral College system for a purpose: They wanted to ensure that the president reflected a broad national consensus. If a candidate were supported by vast majorities in one region, but lost narrowly everywhere else, that candidate would be a sectional, not a national, leader. The writers of the Constitution knew that it would be wise to insulate the presidency from a direct plebiscite, for this precise reason.
If the present results stand and GW is the next President, he will have an uphill climb to win the respect, trust, and a sense of legitimacy of the majority that voted against him.
Election Night 2000 will be one I'll never forget. I can already imagine my grandchildren asking me about last night after they learn about this event in their history class. I'll be able to tell them that I was a nervous wreck with a twisted, churning stomach stuck working at a bookstore while taking periodic glimpses at CNN's website. Write down your memories of last night. For this generation, this may be our Kennedy assasination or our Cuban Missile Crisis. People in the future will wonder at our stories of the most exciting day in U.S. political history.
11.07.00
This will be my last post until late tonight. If you've had trouble seeing the first exit polling data from Drudge, I'll clue you in:
DRUDGE REPORT... TUE NOV 07 2000 14:15:01 ET... UPDATED BY MATT DRUDGE... CAMPAIGNS GET FIRST LOOK AT RESULTS... DEVELOPING: EXIT POLLS: BUSH IN SQUEAKER; HILLARY PUSHES PAST LAZIO Pennsylvania and Florida dead heat, campaign sources tell DRUDGE... Gore up by 3 in Michigan, say campaign sources...
This was copied directly from Drudge to Lucianne.com. So far it looks good for GW. He needs to win either Pennsylvania or Florida, while AlGore needs both states.
Exit Poll Thread at Lucianne.com
If you haven't voted yet, and you're planning on voting for Stiffy, then please stay home. But if you're planning on voting for the next President of the United States, then GO!
I'll be working this evening and can't watch the news coverage while the polls close across the country. However, with races in individual states being so tight and with lots of absentee votes that have to be counted, it may be pretty late until a winner is declared. I will be checking Drudge throughout the afternoon to see if (and when) he'll get the first exit polling data.
"Electoral College Count Too Close to Call"
If AlGore wins by a slight margin in some crucial states it could be because of vote fraud. Some pro-Gore operatives were caught bribing the homeless with cigarettes to fill out absentee ballots in Milwaukee. If this is happening in Milwaukee, you can bet it's happening in other battleground states like Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Missouri. Aside from the political dirty tricks, wasn't AlGore the man who cried his eyes out at the 1996 Democratic Convention about his sister's losing battle with cancer caused by cigarette smoke? Oh, the irony! Stiffy's finally found a beneficial use for tobacco products.
"Wisconsin Homeless Reportedly Given Free Cigarettes For Gore Votes"
"Dem Cig Lady Major DNC, Gore Donor"
"Cigarettes Distributed For Gore Vote"
David Frum is basing his prediction of a Bush victory on available hotel rooms in Austin and Nashville.
"Journalists Smell a Bush Victory"
On a lighter note: Antonio Freeman has made some spectacular catches, but his winning TD catch last night may be his greatest. Freeman caught a ball that bounced off Minnesota Vikings cornerback Chris Dishman's hand, then bounced off Freeman's shoulder pad, then bounced around Freeman's hands. After securing the ball while still on his back, Antonio trotted into the end zone for the victory.
"Singing in the Rain: Freeman, Pack Grab Much-Needed Win"
11.05.00
If Whitney Houston is a good little girl and doesn't make a batch of her secret recipe brownies, then all marijuana possession charges in Hawaii will be dropped.
"Newsbrief: Court Gives Whitney Houston Chance To Avoid Charges"
Wisconsin is so much of a toss-up that even the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel can't make up their mind of which Presidential candidate to endorse.
"The Choice for President"
11.04.00
Milwaukee celebrated 10 years of its pioneering school choice program.
As [Howard] Fuller narrated the contributions of the many participants in the struggle for parental empowerment, it became clear not only that "one person can make a difference," but also that different people with different talents are needed to make the difference at different points in time: legislator, parent, principal, community organizer, governor, philanthropist, legislative aide, lawyer, mayor, school board member, newspaper editor, business leader, and more.
As they would say on Sports Center, "You can't stop it, you can only hope to contain it."
"Milwaukee Celebrates 10 Years of School Choice"
The liberal Washington Post editorial board is sympathetic to the pro-voucher initiatives in Michigan and California.
California and Michigan will vote next Tuesday on two very different school voucher schemes. Opponents say both plans carry risks. We agree. But being a public school student in a poor urban district in this country also carries risks--risks that are well-known, quantifiable and persistent over decades. That scandalous fact leaves us reluctant to dismiss out of hand those states that seek to give such students more options.
"Voucher Wars"
Some things never die. Taxes are one of them.
"Clinton Sustains Spanish-American War Tax"
11.03.00
While the Gore campaign is denying they leaked the news that GW was arrented for a DWI in 1976, Stiffy's supports are trying to use the incident to discredit Bush. On MSNBC, Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-TX) said GW's character was now in doubt because he didn't disclose the incident sooner. Bush's reason for keeping the arrest secret is that he didn't want his twin daughters to find out.
GW said that flat out last night, and his campaign is trying to get as much information out to the media as possible. Compare this to AlGore, who as yet to admit that he knew his infamous visit to a Buddhist temple was a campaign fundraiser. He still refuses to admit it even though memos and e-mail show Gore knew the reason for the event. Then recall his slippery excuse for making campaign fundraising calls on government property: "there's no controlling legal authority." I don't even think most lawyers know what the hell that means.
Comparing GW's straight-forwardness with Stiffy's weaseling is comparing night with day.
"Bush Admits 1976 Drunken Driving 'Mistake'"
Boston Globe conservative columnist Jeff Jacoby will get his job back starting 11.08. He was unfairly suspended for writing a column on the Founding Fathers that was too much like a message floating around the Net.
"Boston Globe Columnist Jacoby to Return After Election"
There may be massive voter fraud this year because of loosened restrictions on absentee ballots and vote-by-mail. "With a mail-in system, every stage in the process is open to fraud, from older people being pressured by kids or caretakers to postal workers dumping ballots in the trash," said political scientist Susan Moore of Hofstra University.
"Record Absentee Turnout for General Election Fuels Fears of Fraud"
Here are a couple good bits from the always entertaining Camile Paglia:
"Rage in the Middle East" [via ETWOF]
Ross "Crazy Little Man with Big Ears" Perot endorsed GW, saying Bush "has demonstrated the ability to be a person who knows how to administer and govern and have the responsibility at the state"
"Ross Perot Endorses Bush for Presidency"
Napster's deal with BMG offers a way for both music lovers and makers to ethically and legally download music.
"Napster, BMG Parent Form Alliance"
I'm still absorbing the new U2 album, All That You Can't Leave Behind. "Beautiful Day" is a solid, catchy rock song that hasn't been heard on the radio in years. "Stuck in a Moment..." is U2 as a white R&B band. It's the type of album that grows on you the more you listen. It's definitely one of the best of the year.
11.01.00
According to state polls compiled by National Journal GW just needs to hold on to the states he currently leads and either win Pennsylvania or Florida. But a poll released last night gives GW a 7-point lead over Stiffy in Wisconsin. If that's the case, then GW just needs to win Pennsylvania, Florida, or Washingon (Go Ralph Go!) It's looking even better for GW.
Current Electoral College Map
"Bush Gains Edge in State"
Dave Kopel thinks a vote for Ralph Nader is the best one for limited government.
"Why I'm Voting for Nader"
Sean Hackbarth
Writer/Bookseller
Allenton, WI
https://www.angelfire.com/wi/shackbar
shackbar@free-market.net
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