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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 border=1 valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 bgColor=#f00000 border=1 valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD><CENTER>Do you know of more Rethuglicant hypocrisy? Let Us Know! </CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 border=1 valign="top"><!----Start of Hypocrisy Listings------><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Health Care </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Shrub had fourteen (14!) doctors give him a thorough physical exam to ensure that he was healthy. His pro-HMO scheme would NOT give us peons anywhere near that kind of consideration.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Federal Spending </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"It's a staple of presidential politics, doing a grip-and-grin at a local facility and praising the hometown effort. The drop-by virtually guarantees good local press for a minimum of effort, especially if the commander-in-chief can boast that federal tax dollars are helping the good people of fill-in-the-blank town. That's what President Bush did last month when he visited a job-training center in Portland, Ore. He praised the program's work during the half-hour visit, looking over the shoulders of computer operators working on job listings. There was little mention of this nationally, for this was the day the president told a town-hall meeting that "not over my dead body" would there be a tax increase. But the visit was a big deal locally, generating several favorable stories in the Oregonian. Well, guess what? The Portland center gets slammed in Bush's new budget. That hurts. Ronald Reagan had this problem once, using a senior citizens' center in Buffalo as a campaign backdrop, then proposing to eliminate the program that funds such buildings. The press had a field day." Another hallmark of the Grand Hypocrisy Party style politics. Get the photo-op and make the common man think he's included in their schemes. Then, when nobody's looking- yank the rug right out from under those programs that got them the good press they wanted. Will the Oregonian now tell the people about Shrub & Co.'s blatant hypocrisy???
<CENTER>Source: Washington Post</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>The Shrub White House just gave themselves incredible and disgusting raises while telling Congress and the American people to cut back on spending.
<HR align=center width=300>Cheney pressured Congress to force the Navy to foot the bill for his residence electrical use while everyone else pays through the nose (especially Californians). He CLAIMS (incorrectly at best, deceptively at worst) that this was an initiative started by the former administration. The situation is compounded by his ties to the energy industry and the record profits they are raking in with the aid of Shrub/Cheney.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Drug Abuse </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Reflublicans wouldn't leave Clinton alone about his marijuana use ("I didn't inhale"). Yet, the fact that Shrub was convicted for cocaine possession means nothing.
<HR align=center width=300>Shrub wants to get tough by denying student loans for students who are forced to admit if they've ever used drugs. Yet, he refuses to admit his past cocaine possession conviction. This omission should disqaulify him from receiving his inflated salary while occupying the White House? Sign the petition!
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Investigations </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"As I was saying, journalists seem to heed opinion polls more than politicians. Take the Washington Post's February 9th editorial rejecting Sen. Fritz Hollings' (D-S.C.) call for an Enron independent counsel. "The coziness between the administration and Enron means that the scandal could conceivably implicate political figures in ways that demand an independent prosecutor," the Post concedes. 'But that hasn't happened yet; nobody has credibly alleged a crime by a member of the administration. And as long as the focus of the inquiry remains on crimes by the corporation and its accountants, the Justice Department can handle the matter.' Compare the same newspaper's January 5, 1994 argument that Whitewater 'represents precisely the kind of case in which an independent counsel ought to be appointed. We say that even though-and and this should be stressed-there has been no credible charge in this case that either the president or Mrs. Clinton did anything wrong. Nevertheless, it is in the public interest--and in the president's as well--to put the inquiry in independent hands....Nor is it protection enough to say that the investigation is in the hands of career [Justice Department] attorneys. To whom do they report?'" So much for the "liberal bias" in the media that the hypocritical flying monkey right asserts to ad nauseum. The conservative mainstream media shows its hypocritical and complicitous agenda as a mouthpiece for the fascist right on a daily basis. Thank you, Mr. Lyons, for so clearly illustrating this.
<CENTER>Source: Gene Lyons</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>Dan "melonhead" Burton is at it again. While he refuses to investigate real allegations of misconduct against Shrub, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld and Spencer Abraham, he is still hooked on Clinton-bashing. He's still wasting taxpayer dollars on a witch hunt of Sen. Hillary Clinton.
<CENTER>Source: Washington Post</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Free Speech </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"A man who yelled an expletive at former President Bush and disrupted a speech he was giving at the Texas Capitol should be tried for heckling, a state court ruled. Thomas Markovich was a university student in 1998 when he stood up in the House gallery and yelled at Bush, who was speaking as part of the Texas Book Festival. Others joined in the shouting or clapped in support of the former president, making so much noise that Bush stopped talking."
<CENTER>Source: ABC News</CENTER>
Don't you dare curse at a Bush- you'll be arrested and made to stand trial for it. As we all know, there is no guarantee of free speech under the Constitution (what Constitution???) under the glorious Fascist regime led by the dictatorial Bush Family Evil Empire (BFEE). That does not, however, prevent a Bush from lobbing curses at anyone s/he pleases. Remember back on Sept. 4, 2000 (two years after Markovich was arrested) when Shrub called Adam Clymer a "major league *******" in front of a campaign audience? From Salon.com, " Bush spotted New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, who has been with the paper since 1977, serving as national political correspondent during the 1980 presidential race, as polling editor from 1983 to 1990 and as political editor during the successful presidential campaign of Bush's father in 1988. 'There's Adam Clymer -- major league ******* -- from the New York Times,' Bush said. 'Yeah, big time,' returned Cheney." Couldn't you just image Shrub and Cheney being hauled off to jail for their public expletive??? Oh yeah, the Bush crime family and their cronies are above the law! With hypocrisy such as that, who needs law enforcement? </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>The Rabid Right's hypocrisy glows ever brighter these days. For eight years, they did little else but to criticize and denounce President Bill Clinton, and they even went so far as to attempt a bloodless coup by way of impeachment. Now, this same Rabid Right won't tolerate even the slightest hint of dissent against its leader- George "W stands for war!" Bush. They throw around words like "traitor" and "treason" to describe those who dare speak out against Shrub and his "new war." Should we have locked all of them up back in 1993 for their "treasonous" and "traitorous" acts against President Bill Clinton???
<CENTER>Source: ConWebWatch
</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Legislation </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"Gov. Jeb Bush on December 17, 2001 signed into law an agreement to delay a cut in the state's intangibles tax on stocks and bonds for 18 months. The delay was a cornerstone of the deal between Senate President John McKay and House Speaker Tom Feeney to cut more than $1-billion in the state budget to make up for lost revenue. McKay wanted to repeal the cut, while Feeney wanted to keep it. Keeping the tax on the books kept $128-million in revenue, thereby avoiding deeper cuts in state services." Shrub, in a speech at a so-called "Town Hall Meeting" (it was for Rightists only, though), said that delaying or repealing his "welfare to the wealthy" tax scheme would amount to a "tax raise." So, by that logic, can we conclude that Jebby has raised taxes in Florida with the stroke of his pen last December? You can bet that the Rightists will be spinning hard to parrot Shrub's words when it comes to talking about anything Tom Daschle and the US Congress do to stop the corporate welfare hemorrhage. BUT, they'll continue to tell the people of Florida that Jebby is a man who cut their taxes and should be re-elected! Two-faced hypocrisy at its worst....
<CENTER>Source: St. Petersburg Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>Corporate welfare for the airlines seems to be a good thing to keep the economy afloat. Yet, Reflublicans don't seem to feel as "compassionate" about individual American workers who have been laid off because of the same tragedies that have caused woes for the airline industry. Dick Armey states, "The model of thought there, and quite frankly, the model of thought that says we need to go out and extend unemployment benefits and health insurance benefits and so forth is not I think one that is commensurate with the American spirit here."
<CENTER>Source: New York Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>"U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, R- Norman, Ok -- who supports the aviation security bill scheduled for a vote this week -- violated security measures outside Will Rogers World Airport on Sept. 28, aides confirmed." It seems that Reflublican lawmakers think they are above the laws they want enacted. Is it their opinion that only we powerless peons be held accountable to the law? Kenneth Star, Dan "melonhead" Burton and the rest of the Clinton-obsessed witch hunters will be sorry to hear that...
<CENTER>Source: NewsOK.com
</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Executive Privilege </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"With the White House preparing for a showdown over its refusal to tell Congress about contacts between Enron and the administration's energy task force, House Republican leaders backed the White House today. After a morning meeting with President Bush, the Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert, and the majority leader, Dick Armey, came down staunchly in the White House camp. Echoing the often-repeated White House position, Mr. Hastert said, 'I think it's proprietary information.' At the White House today, Ari Fleischer, the press secretary, reiterated that the Bush administration believes that investigators are overstepping their authority and that the accounting office is seeking to encroach on records that are covered by executive privilege and whose disclosure would hurt the administration's ability to obtain outside advice" Isn't it amazing that House Republicans, who once demanded Hillary's records on Health Care Reform meetings, are now cospicuously silent or are in favor of Cheney's cover-up operation. Political partisanship is the only game in town for the Grand Hypocrisy Party in the last several years. This time, however, there may be criminal iabilities involved- unlike with Hillary's records. Cheney is willing to waste millions in taxpayer money to hide the fact that he let Enron write the bogus energy policy, and the people should make him reimburse the government for legal fees when it is decided that he, Shrub and the House Republicans are wrong....
<CENTER>Source: New York Times</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>States' Rights </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"In an attempt by the Bush administration to undercut Oregon's unique assisted-suicide law, Attorney General John Ashcroft gave federal drug agents the go-ahead Tuesday to take action against doctors who help terminally ill patients die." Ashcroft won't go after those who terrorize abortion clinics (which contradicts his Senate confirmation testimony), but he has no problem using the DEA to invade the lives of law-abiding citizens. What happened to the conservative mantras of "keeping government out of people's personal lives" and "more sovereignty to the states to control their own affairs?" It seems that Reflublican hypocrisy knows no bounds under Shrub and Co....
<CENTER>Source: Nando Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>The [federal government has] uprooted a marijuana garden run by patients, who under the provisions of California Proposition 215, passed by voters in 1996, have the legal right to smoke pot if they have a doctor's recommendation. Shrub, Ashcroft and company have again undermined states' rights with their actions.
<CENTER>Source: Cannabis News
Info provided by "sl" </CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Infidelity </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"President George [HW] Bush had a 'special' relationship with a staffer named Jennifer Fitzgerald. In fact, Bush had been 'very close' to this Jennifer beginning in Peking back in the days when Bush was our delegate to Red China. So close, in fact, that Barbara Bush had come home to D.C. in a state of 'depression.' Things came to a head one summer up in Kennebunkport when CNN's Mary Tillotson asked President Bush if he was having an 'adulterous' affair? Bush went ballistic and decried the question even being asked. He attacked the reporter for 'what you are doing.' But he never answered the question. Instead he later sent out a spokesman to say, 'The answer to the 'A' question is a big NO.' The spokesman? His oldest son, George W. Bush." So much for that "honor and integrity" crap Shrub spewed to ad nauseum during and since the 2000 campaign!
<CENTER>Source: NewsMax.com</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300><CENTER>The Republican Wife-Cheating
Hall of Fame </CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>The Blame Game </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Donald Rumsfeld, in a Defense Dept. briefing, said, "Well, here is a man who has killed thousands of people. So, using him as the oracle of all truth would clearly be a mistake. He has lied repeatedly- over and over again. He has highjacked a religion. He has hidden and cowered in caves and tunnels while sending people off to die on a uh, uh, ... I almost said a fool's errand. But, I don't know that I should say that." If you didn't know any better, you might think Rummy's talking about Shrub! Thousands of innocent people have been killed in the violence in Afghanistan. Shrub has lied to the American people repeatedly "over and over again." He has been proclaimed the new leader of the religious right. AND, he has hidden himself far, far away from his war (hiding in the White House or his ranch in Texas) while sending countless thousands of military troops to fight his battles. At least now we are clear on what constitutes an "evildoer."
<CENTER>Source: C-SPAN
(Real Audio file starting at Time: 25:15.0) </CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300><CENTER>Getting bin Laden</CENTER>
When Clinton went gunning for bin Laden in 1998 and the cruise missiles missed him by ten minutes, the conservative hate-radio (and TV) pundits had a field day. All they could screech about was how Clinton bombed an aspirin factory and the attacks were designed to take the focus off of the Lewinski matter. NOW, Shrub has been bombing the heck out of Afghanistan for three months, and he has brought in special forces and the marines. They keep claiming that they have OBL cornered, but somehow he continues to elude them. AND, in the process, over 3,500 civilian Afghans have been killed by all of this. Do the pundits scream? No, they are too busy deluging the American people with the propaganda of what a great president Shrub is and that Bill Clinton is evil incarnate. So, can we conclude that Reflublicans think that aspirin factories are more important than 3,500 lives? Do they feel that two cruise missiles should have been more effective than an all-out assault by the best our military has to offer?
<CENTER>Source: CNN.com</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Military Action </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Trent Lott on December 16, 1998: "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time. Both the timing and the policy are subject to question. I am opposed to endangering the lives of brave American men and women in the military for action in Iraq that will not effect real change in that nation." Source: PBS NewsHour
Trent Lott on February 28, 2002: "How dare Sen. Daschle criticize President Bush while we are fighting our war on terrorism, especially when we have troops in the field." Source: Reuters.com
It appears that duplicity is the current theme for the Grand Hypocrisy Party these days. We had "troops in the field" when good ol' boy Trent spewed his nastiness in 1998. This is grandstanding hypocrisy of the worst kind, and the American people, especially those who are serving in the military, should call these fascists on it!
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Appointments & Nominations </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>What Does Orrin Hatch Have to Say About Recess Appointments?
FROM THE CNN ARCHIVES (1997):
"If [Clinton makes] a recess appointment, then I have to say, it's a finger in the eye of the Senate," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told FOX on Sunday. "I think you'd find there would be an awful lot of repercussions from that."
CNN article
March 30, 2002:
Bush Makes Recess Appointments, Including A Critic of Affirmative Action in Charge of Civil Rights.
New York Times article
That's why they call it the Grand HYPOCRISY Party (GHP).
<CENTER>Source: Buzzflash.com </CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>"The rigor of the federal judicial appointments process was diminished last month when Republicans persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee to refrain from questioning nominees about illegal drug activities and political campaign contributions, and to curtail the scope of questions about criminal records. Critics of the questions about drug use and criminal convictions alleged that these questions would slow down the confirmation process at a time when a record thirteen percent of federal judgeships are vacant." First, there wouldn't be "a record thirteen percent" vacancy if the Reflublicans hadn't obstructed and drug their feet on eight years' worth of Clinton nominations- they have only themselvs to blame for that one. During those eight years, all we heard from Reflublicans was ultra-moralist rhetoric about alleged drug abuse, campaign contributions and criminal activity being reason enough to villify and demonize Clinton. Now that Reflublican judges are being nominated, they shouldn't be questioned about their past activities at all! Go figure....
<CENTER>Source: Jurist</CENTER>
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<TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 border=1 valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 bgColor=#f00000 border=1 valign="top"><TBODY><TR><TD><CENTER>Do you know of more Rethuglicant hypocrisy? Let Us Know! </CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></TD></TR><TR><TD><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=550 border=1 valign="top"><!----Start of Hypocrisy Listings------><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Health Care </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Shrub had fourteen (14!) doctors give him a thorough physical exam to ensure that he was healthy. His pro-HMO scheme would NOT give us peons anywhere near that kind of consideration.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Federal Spending </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"It's a staple of presidential politics, doing a grip-and-grin at a local facility and praising the hometown effort. The drop-by virtually guarantees good local press for a minimum of effort, especially if the commander-in-chief can boast that federal tax dollars are helping the good people of fill-in-the-blank town. That's what President Bush did last month when he visited a job-training center in Portland, Ore. He praised the program's work during the half-hour visit, looking over the shoulders of computer operators working on job listings. There was little mention of this nationally, for this was the day the president told a town-hall meeting that "not over my dead body" would there be a tax increase. But the visit was a big deal locally, generating several favorable stories in the Oregonian. Well, guess what? The Portland center gets slammed in Bush's new budget. That hurts. Ronald Reagan had this problem once, using a senior citizens' center in Buffalo as a campaign backdrop, then proposing to eliminate the program that funds such buildings. The press had a field day." Another hallmark of the Grand Hypocrisy Party style politics. Get the photo-op and make the common man think he's included in their schemes. Then, when nobody's looking- yank the rug right out from under those programs that got them the good press they wanted. Will the Oregonian now tell the people about Shrub & Co.'s blatant hypocrisy???
<CENTER>Source: Washington Post</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>The Shrub White House just gave themselves incredible and disgusting raises while telling Congress and the American people to cut back on spending.
<HR align=center width=300>Cheney pressured Congress to force the Navy to foot the bill for his residence electrical use while everyone else pays through the nose (especially Californians). He CLAIMS (incorrectly at best, deceptively at worst) that this was an initiative started by the former administration. The situation is compounded by his ties to the energy industry and the record profits they are raking in with the aid of Shrub/Cheney.
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Drug Abuse </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Reflublicans wouldn't leave Clinton alone about his marijuana use ("I didn't inhale"). Yet, the fact that Shrub was convicted for cocaine possession means nothing.
<HR align=center width=300>Shrub wants to get tough by denying student loans for students who are forced to admit if they've ever used drugs. Yet, he refuses to admit his past cocaine possession conviction. This omission should disqaulify him from receiving his inflated salary while occupying the White House? Sign the petition!
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Investigations </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"As I was saying, journalists seem to heed opinion polls more than politicians. Take the Washington Post's February 9th editorial rejecting Sen. Fritz Hollings' (D-S.C.) call for an Enron independent counsel. "The coziness between the administration and Enron means that the scandal could conceivably implicate political figures in ways that demand an independent prosecutor," the Post concedes. 'But that hasn't happened yet; nobody has credibly alleged a crime by a member of the administration. And as long as the focus of the inquiry remains on crimes by the corporation and its accountants, the Justice Department can handle the matter.' Compare the same newspaper's January 5, 1994 argument that Whitewater 'represents precisely the kind of case in which an independent counsel ought to be appointed. We say that even though-and and this should be stressed-there has been no credible charge in this case that either the president or Mrs. Clinton did anything wrong. Nevertheless, it is in the public interest--and in the president's as well--to put the inquiry in independent hands....Nor is it protection enough to say that the investigation is in the hands of career [Justice Department] attorneys. To whom do they report?'" So much for the "liberal bias" in the media that the hypocritical flying monkey right asserts to ad nauseum. The conservative mainstream media shows its hypocritical and complicitous agenda as a mouthpiece for the fascist right on a daily basis. Thank you, Mr. Lyons, for so clearly illustrating this.
<CENTER>Source: Gene Lyons</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>Dan "melonhead" Burton is at it again. While he refuses to investigate real allegations of misconduct against Shrub, Karl Rove, Donald Rumsfeld and Spencer Abraham, he is still hooked on Clinton-bashing. He's still wasting taxpayer dollars on a witch hunt of Sen. Hillary Clinton.
<CENTER>Source: Washington Post</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Free Speech </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"A man who yelled an expletive at former President Bush and disrupted a speech he was giving at the Texas Capitol should be tried for heckling, a state court ruled. Thomas Markovich was a university student in 1998 when he stood up in the House gallery and yelled at Bush, who was speaking as part of the Texas Book Festival. Others joined in the shouting or clapped in support of the former president, making so much noise that Bush stopped talking."
<CENTER>Source: ABC News</CENTER>
Don't you dare curse at a Bush- you'll be arrested and made to stand trial for it. As we all know, there is no guarantee of free speech under the Constitution (what Constitution???) under the glorious Fascist regime led by the dictatorial Bush Family Evil Empire (BFEE). That does not, however, prevent a Bush from lobbing curses at anyone s/he pleases. Remember back on Sept. 4, 2000 (two years after Markovich was arrested) when Shrub called Adam Clymer a "major league *******" in front of a campaign audience? From Salon.com, " Bush spotted New York Times reporter Adam Clymer, who has been with the paper since 1977, serving as national political correspondent during the 1980 presidential race, as polling editor from 1983 to 1990 and as political editor during the successful presidential campaign of Bush's father in 1988. 'There's Adam Clymer -- major league ******* -- from the New York Times,' Bush said. 'Yeah, big time,' returned Cheney." Couldn't you just image Shrub and Cheney being hauled off to jail for their public expletive??? Oh yeah, the Bush crime family and their cronies are above the law! With hypocrisy such as that, who needs law enforcement? </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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<CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>The Rabid Right's hypocrisy glows ever brighter these days. For eight years, they did little else but to criticize and denounce President Bill Clinton, and they even went so far as to attempt a bloodless coup by way of impeachment. Now, this same Rabid Right won't tolerate even the slightest hint of dissent against its leader- George "W stands for war!" Bush. They throw around words like "traitor" and "treason" to describe those who dare speak out against Shrub and his "new war." Should we have locked all of them up back in 1993 for their "treasonous" and "traitorous" acts against President Bill Clinton???
<CENTER>Source: ConWebWatch
</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Legislation </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"Gov. Jeb Bush on December 17, 2001 signed into law an agreement to delay a cut in the state's intangibles tax on stocks and bonds for 18 months. The delay was a cornerstone of the deal between Senate President John McKay and House Speaker Tom Feeney to cut more than $1-billion in the state budget to make up for lost revenue. McKay wanted to repeal the cut, while Feeney wanted to keep it. Keeping the tax on the books kept $128-million in revenue, thereby avoiding deeper cuts in state services." Shrub, in a speech at a so-called "Town Hall Meeting" (it was for Rightists only, though), said that delaying or repealing his "welfare to the wealthy" tax scheme would amount to a "tax raise." So, by that logic, can we conclude that Jebby has raised taxes in Florida with the stroke of his pen last December? You can bet that the Rightists will be spinning hard to parrot Shrub's words when it comes to talking about anything Tom Daschle and the US Congress do to stop the corporate welfare hemorrhage. BUT, they'll continue to tell the people of Florida that Jebby is a man who cut their taxes and should be re-elected! Two-faced hypocrisy at its worst....
<CENTER>Source: St. Petersburg Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>Corporate welfare for the airlines seems to be a good thing to keep the economy afloat. Yet, Reflublicans don't seem to feel as "compassionate" about individual American workers who have been laid off because of the same tragedies that have caused woes for the airline industry. Dick Armey states, "The model of thought there, and quite frankly, the model of thought that says we need to go out and extend unemployment benefits and health insurance benefits and so forth is not I think one that is commensurate with the American spirit here."
<CENTER>Source: New York Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>"U.S. Rep. J.C. Watts, R- Norman, Ok -- who supports the aviation security bill scheduled for a vote this week -- violated security measures outside Will Rogers World Airport on Sept. 28, aides confirmed." It seems that Reflublican lawmakers think they are above the laws they want enacted. Is it their opinion that only we powerless peons be held accountable to the law? Kenneth Star, Dan "melonhead" Burton and the rest of the Clinton-obsessed witch hunters will be sorry to hear that...
<CENTER>Source: NewsOK.com
</CENTER></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Executive Privilege </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"With the White House preparing for a showdown over its refusal to tell Congress about contacts between Enron and the administration's energy task force, House Republican leaders backed the White House today. After a morning meeting with President Bush, the Republican House speaker, Dennis Hastert, and the majority leader, Dick Armey, came down staunchly in the White House camp. Echoing the often-repeated White House position, Mr. Hastert said, 'I think it's proprietary information.' At the White House today, Ari Fleischer, the press secretary, reiterated that the Bush administration believes that investigators are overstepping their authority and that the accounting office is seeking to encroach on records that are covered by executive privilege and whose disclosure would hurt the administration's ability to obtain outside advice" Isn't it amazing that House Republicans, who once demanded Hillary's records on Health Care Reform meetings, are now cospicuously silent or are in favor of Cheney's cover-up operation. Political partisanship is the only game in town for the Grand Hypocrisy Party in the last several years. This time, however, there may be criminal iabilities involved- unlike with Hillary's records. Cheney is willing to waste millions in taxpayer money to hide the fact that he let Enron write the bogus energy policy, and the people should make him reimburse the government for legal fees when it is decided that he, Shrub and the House Republicans are wrong....
<CENTER>Source: New York Times</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>States' Rights </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"In an attempt by the Bush administration to undercut Oregon's unique assisted-suicide law, Attorney General John Ashcroft gave federal drug agents the go-ahead Tuesday to take action against doctors who help terminally ill patients die." Ashcroft won't go after those who terrorize abortion clinics (which contradicts his Senate confirmation testimony), but he has no problem using the DEA to invade the lives of law-abiding citizens. What happened to the conservative mantras of "keeping government out of people's personal lives" and "more sovereignty to the states to control their own affairs?" It seems that Reflublican hypocrisy knows no bounds under Shrub and Co....
<CENTER>Source: Nando Times</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>The [federal government has] uprooted a marijuana garden run by patients, who under the provisions of California Proposition 215, passed by voters in 1996, have the legal right to smoke pot if they have a doctor's recommendation. Shrub, Ashcroft and company have again undermined states' rights with their actions.
<CENTER>Source: Cannabis News
Info provided by "sl" </CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Infidelity </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>"President George [HW] Bush had a 'special' relationship with a staffer named Jennifer Fitzgerald. In fact, Bush had been 'very close' to this Jennifer beginning in Peking back in the days when Bush was our delegate to Red China. So close, in fact, that Barbara Bush had come home to D.C. in a state of 'depression.' Things came to a head one summer up in Kennebunkport when CNN's Mary Tillotson asked President Bush if he was having an 'adulterous' affair? Bush went ballistic and decried the question even being asked. He attacked the reporter for 'what you are doing.' But he never answered the question. Instead he later sent out a spokesman to say, 'The answer to the 'A' question is a big NO.' The spokesman? His oldest son, George W. Bush." So much for that "honor and integrity" crap Shrub spewed to ad nauseum during and since the 2000 campaign!
<CENTER>Source: NewsMax.com</CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300><CENTER>The Republican Wife-Cheating
Hall of Fame </CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>The Blame Game </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Donald Rumsfeld, in a Defense Dept. briefing, said, "Well, here is a man who has killed thousands of people. So, using him as the oracle of all truth would clearly be a mistake. He has lied repeatedly- over and over again. He has highjacked a religion. He has hidden and cowered in caves and tunnels while sending people off to die on a uh, uh, ... I almost said a fool's errand. But, I don't know that I should say that." If you didn't know any better, you might think Rummy's talking about Shrub! Thousands of innocent people have been killed in the violence in Afghanistan. Shrub has lied to the American people repeatedly "over and over again." He has been proclaimed the new leader of the religious right. AND, he has hidden himself far, far away from his war (hiding in the White House or his ranch in Texas) while sending countless thousands of military troops to fight his battles. At least now we are clear on what constitutes an "evildoer."
<CENTER>Source: C-SPAN
(Real Audio file starting at Time: 25:15.0) </CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300><CENTER>Getting bin Laden</CENTER>
When Clinton went gunning for bin Laden in 1998 and the cruise missiles missed him by ten minutes, the conservative hate-radio (and TV) pundits had a field day. All they could screech about was how Clinton bombed an aspirin factory and the attacks were designed to take the focus off of the Lewinski matter. NOW, Shrub has been bombing the heck out of Afghanistan for three months, and he has brought in special forces and the marines. They keep claiming that they have OBL cornered, but somehow he continues to elude them. AND, in the process, over 3,500 civilian Afghans have been killed by all of this. Do the pundits scream? No, they are too busy deluging the American people with the propaganda of what a great president Shrub is and that Bill Clinton is evil incarnate. So, can we conclude that Reflublicans think that aspirin factories are more important than 3,500 lives? Do they feel that two cruise missiles should have been more effective than an all-out assault by the best our military has to offer?
<CENTER>Source: CNN.com</CENTER>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Military Action </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>Trent Lott on December 16, 1998: "I cannot support this military action in the Persian Gulf at this time. Both the timing and the policy are subject to question. I am opposed to endangering the lives of brave American men and women in the military for action in Iraq that will not effect real change in that nation." Source: PBS NewsHour
Trent Lott on February 28, 2002: "How dare Sen. Daschle criticize President Bush while we are fighting our war on terrorism, especially when we have troops in the field." Source: Reuters.com
It appears that duplicity is the current theme for the Grand Hypocrisy Party these days. We had "troops in the field" when good ol' boy Trent spewed his nastiness in 1998. This is grandstanding hypocrisy of the worst kind, and the American people, especially those who are serving in the military, should call these fascists on it!
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></CENTER></TD></TR><TR><TD vAlign=top width=120><CENTER>Appointments & Nominations </CENTER></TD><TD vAlign=top width=390><CENTER><TABLE cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width=370 border=0><TBODY><TR><TD vAlign=top>What Does Orrin Hatch Have to Say About Recess Appointments?
FROM THE CNN ARCHIVES (1997):
"If [Clinton makes] a recess appointment, then I have to say, it's a finger in the eye of the Senate," Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told FOX on Sunday. "I think you'd find there would be an awful lot of repercussions from that."
CNN article
March 30, 2002:
Bush Makes Recess Appointments, Including A Critic of Affirmative Action in Charge of Civil Rights.
New York Times article
That's why they call it the Grand HYPOCRISY Party (GHP).
<CENTER>Source: Buzzflash.com </CENTER>
<HR align=center width=300>"The rigor of the federal judicial appointments process was diminished last month when Republicans persuaded the Senate Judiciary Committee to refrain from questioning nominees about illegal drug activities and political campaign contributions, and to curtail the scope of questions about criminal records. Critics of the questions about drug use and criminal convictions alleged that these questions would slow down the confirmation process at a time when a record thirteen percent of federal judgeships are vacant." First, there wouldn't be "a record thirteen percent" vacancy if the Reflublicans hadn't obstructed and drug their feet on eight years' worth of Clinton nominations- they have only themselvs to blame for that one. During those eight years, all we heard from Reflublicans was ultra-moralist rhetoric about alleged drug abuse, campaign contributions and criminal activity being reason enough to villify and demonize Clinton. Now that Reflublican judges are being nominated, they shouldn't be questioned about their past activities at all! Go figure....
<CENTER>Source: Jurist</CENTER>
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