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(Vol. Fifteen; No. 15) |
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Lobbying Against "Weaker" Law "Late tonight the Senate passed, 97 to nothing, a bill aimed at shoring up investor confidence by creating harsh new penalties and jail terms for corporate fraud....The Senate version now must be squared with a different, weaker measure, that's already been passed by the House." "The Senate has moved with stunning speed to pass this very, very tough legislation, legislation that never would have even been possible a few weeks ago....The question now, Peter, is what will happen to this? Will it become law? The House passed a much weaker version, and the lobbyists are swarming over Capitol Hill to try to get the House to water down what the Senate has done." "The Senate version must be reconciled with the weaker House package. And with some Republicans and the accounting lobby already promising a fight, it's unclear at the moment how tough the final reforms will be."
No Credibility Without Regulation "This is a President who has made no bones about the fact that he is not a great fan of regulation, he talks about cooperation, not regulation. Does he have a credibility problem?"
Scandalous Support for Business "There are also many who say that you have questions to answer about your close ties to corporate America. In fact, in this morning's New York Times there's a headline that says 'Lieberman's Pro-Business Views May Haunt Him.'" "The same President who, for most of his term, has been 'partner-in-chief' with big business, now wants to recast himself as the toughest cop on the street."
Shut Up, Mr. President "Last week the President spoke, the market went down. Yesterday, the President spoke, the market went down. Should he be quiet for a while?"
Judicial Watch's Vanishing Label "A conservative legal group, Judicial Watch, is counting here as well, trying to figure out, it says, what standard Broward officials used when they counted the ballots and found Al Gore the winner." vs. "In May, Judge Royce Lamberth issued an order to the Department of Commerce to produce documents being sought by Judicial Watch. It's a conservative group investigating foreign contributions to Democrats and the Clinton presidential campaign." vs. "Larry Klayman, a conservative lawyer who filed the lawsuit, says the Democrats are trying to hide [Clinton fundraiser John] Huang until after the election." vs.
Incredible Transformation
Making Bush Pay for Whitewater "Consistency counts, and my gut says if the President were Clinton, this decade-old story would be hyped to death all over the radio, through at least half the Congress, probably around more than a few water coolers, and maybe, just maybe, the Justice Department....Would the same people who now urge reporters to drop the Harken story have said the same thing three years ago, a different President from a different party, different times?"
Hysterical Public Missed the Point "For a hysterical moment, [9th Circuit Court Judge] Alfred Goodwin replaced Osama bin Laden as the most reviled man in America. The federal judge's crime was to attack two of the 31 words that constitute the Pledge of Allegiance.... Lost amidst all the flag-waving and God-avowing furor was the fact that Goodwin may have had a point."
Don't Let Good News Ruin Story "New numbers about America's poorest children seem to suggest that things are improving. The National Institutes of Health this week said the poverty rate among kids is holding steady at 16 percent. It's the lowest level since 1979, but according to a recent study that's still higher, in many cases much higher, than in 18 other wealthy countries."
Ruing America's Moral Weakness "The U.S. has to distinguish itself from what I call the 'thugocracies' that rule places, and until recently ruled Afghanistan, that certainly rules Iraq. And to establish moral leadership the U.S. has to establish that it is governed by the rule of law and that it is willing to submit to the rule of law around the world. However, it's a very tricky issue at a time when the U.S. continues to hold citizens of other countries without access to counsel, without access to evidence held against them, in military tribunals, in Guantanamo Bay."
Goofing Up Liberal Talking Points "Cars emit an estimated 60 percent of California's greenhouse gases." "Emissions from cars and light trucks account for 40 percent of the greenhouse gases produced in California."
Public Display of Vindictiveness "Senator, you had many friends who were political opposites. One was George McGovern....Lieutenant George McGovern in 1944, 1945 piloted 24 hazardous B-4 missions over Nazi Germany and Austria. Like you, he was one of the genuine heroes of World War II. Yet some critics, like Newt Gingrich, have lambasted McGovern Democrats as symbolizing a lack of patriotism or anti-Americanism. Is patriotism too often, as Samuel Johnson famously said, the last refuge of scoundrels?"
Gorbasm from Across the Pond "Mr. Gorbachev earned worldwide admiration for ushering in the era of glasnost and perestroika in Russia. He worked relentlessly to force the U.S. and others to join his campaign to cut weapons of mass destruction and improve world security. But yesterday he was despairing of the aggressive agenda coming from the White House...."
Phil Donahue, Model Moderate "'Conservatives have been very successful at defining 'liberal' as anything that is not conservative; they have redefined the center,' said [Alex] Jones, defining a true liberal as someone like Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Noam Chomsky, who considers the New York Times 'a really reactionary tool of the government....I don't think Donahue is anything like Chomsky.'"
Ken Starr Aided Terrorists Geraldo Rivera: "I don't want the country to disintegrate back into that partisan bitterness...that marked the end of the Clinton years where everybody was just hating everybody because of your political party. To me that's so irrelevant."
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