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To: TigerPaw who wrote (30564)	8/20/2000 3:45:52 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Jr. George has it right. You need to cut off the "oxygen supply" before you can kill government programs. BTW, here's some more of the low road politics that Dan Rather finds so objectionable. Wonder if we hear about this on the Nightly News? newsmax.com Saturday August 19, 2000; 6:29 PM EDT Prudhomme Audited on Eve of Clinton Rape Protest Katherine Prudhomme, the Derry, N.H., housewife who once challenged Vice President Al Gore to say whether he believed Bill Clinton raped Juanita Broaddrick, was hit with an IRS audit on Friday, just hours before she was scheduled to appear at a rape awareness rally outside Hillary Clinton's Manhattan campaign headquarters. "My husband got the IRS's letter yesterday," Prudhomme told NewsMax.com. "They looked at our records from 1998 and decided we have to pay more money." Prudhomme said she's never been audited before and had no dramatic changes recently in her family income, which she described as "middle class." "I feel like we're being harassed," said the feisty crusader. "My husband went over our return last night and couldn't find any red flags that might have triggered an IRS investigation." Along with those who heard her announce the news outside Clinton's New York Senate campaign offices Saturday, Prudhomme suspects that the audit may have been triggered by a different kind of red flag: her determined questioning of Gore about Juanita Broaddrick at a town meeting last December - and her announced intention to get Hillary Clinton to address the same issue. "Well, I don't know what to make of her claim," the veep told the town meeting audience with a nervous laugh in his voice, "because I don't know how to evaluate that story, I really don't." Prudhomme's tax examination comes on the heels of an IRS audit of Broaddrick herself, who had the books of her nursing home business scrutinized in May by an agent who couldn't find anything wrong. The New Hampshirite wasn't so lucky. The IRS says she and her husband owe a whopping $1,500. "I think the timing is pretty suspicious," Prudhomme complained, "coming the very day before we had this demonstration." The odds of yet another Clinton accuser being hit by an IRS audit are mind-boggling. Before Prudhomme and Broaddrick, Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones and Liz Ward Gracen had their tax returns investigated. Gracen even said she was hit with a tax probe after an anonymous caller threatened "you could be audited" if she didn't lay low during Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit. The rally that Prudhomme suspects caught the IRS's eye was attended by "Friends of Juanita Broaddrick" from around the tri-state area, including many who frequent the Web site FreeRepublic.com, where the event was publicized. "Thousands of passers-by heard our message," Prudhomme told NewsMax.com after giving a speech to the crowd condemning Clinton's Broaddrick rape as a "hate crime," not "a personal mistake" - the words Gore used in his response to her nine months ago. After her remarks, Prudhomme entered Hillary 2000 headquarters and personally handed a videotape of Broaddrick's devastating February 1999 NBC interview to a campaign aide with instructions that it be given to the first lady. "The man who took the tape wouldn't tell me who he was," she said. Mrs. Clinton, who has never commented on Broaddrick's charge, was reportedly out of town for the weekend. Besides Prudhomme, the anti-rape protest had the support of Marie-Jose Ragab, president of the Dulles chapter of the National Organization for Women. Ragab sent the following statement, which Prudhomme shared with the crowd: "We are honored to be here today and thank Katherine and the 'Friends of Juanita Broaddrick' for inviting breakaway Dulles NOW to participate in their rally. The unfaltering support it has given to Mrs. Broaddrick has brought encouragement and hope to many women similarly victimized and we admire the dedication they have shown to advance the cause of human rights. "Standing in stark contrast to the strangely silent women's groups formerly convulsed in outrage over Anita Hill's soda can, Katherine Prudhomme embodied the very spirit of true feminism when she courageously asked Vice President Gore in front of a televised audience: 'Do you believe Juanita Broaddrick?' "Possibly aware that no controlling legal authorities were firmly in place at the time of the assault, Mr. Gore's vague reply was indicative of how desperately Democratic faithful want to ignore her very existence. "Asked the same question, Betty Friedan repeatedly professed that she had never heard of Juanita. NOW's Patricia Ireland found her both credible and responsible for the unspeakable crime. Health Secretary Shalala said she had reached no conclusion, busy as she was serving the president. Susan Estrich exhorted all to 'move on.' "This gathering is a reminder that the story of Mrs. Broaddrick has not and will not 'move on' and that it looms larger every day. Katherine and her friends have come here to ask again, 'Do you believe Juanita?' As a candidate for high public office it is a fair question for Mrs. Clinton to answer."

To: TigerPaw who wrote (30564)	8/20/2000 4:57:33 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Tiger, why do you so completely believe a known liar? And a protector of a grosser liar? Seriously, do you really thing we would have anything near a balanced budget if a Republican Congress wasn't elected in 92? Did you miss all the times Clinton/Gore and the Democratic leaders said "we can't balance the budget within 10 years without starving children"? I'm curious, are you paid by some liberal constituents for your opinions, or do you truly believe them? I sincerely hope you're paid for them, because otherwise, your memory and analysis is truly out-of-wack. It's amazing to me how frozen liberal Democratic minds are to objective reality. Let me ask you this...When Gore said in his speech, he believes parents should be in charge of their kids lives. Do you see (mentally) the disconnection between not allowing parental choice in education with that statement? I really want to understand how a liberal mind works. Do they simply not see the disconnection, or do they rationalize it away because they are so drummed up with fear from Republicans? Further, do you really believe Al Gore cares about poor people and what kind of education they're getting? Do you think he wants to help that family in downtown Seattle, who can't afford a decent private school next year to find an alternative solution which will educate their kids NOW? And why do you think so many leading Democratic politicians extol the virtues of public schools, while at the same time, send their kids almost unanimously to private exclusive schools? Don't the poor deserve the same opportunity to a decent education in K-1 thru K-12 as the Democrats are always touting for college bound children? I mean really, if you say (as a Democrat) that you care about children. Why wouldn't you care enough to take on the special interest lobby groups (such as the NEA) who are keeping quality education from poor children? Why wouldn't you want to expand the success so many poor children are experiencing in areas such as Milwaukee to the rest of the children stuck in lousy school districts? The mayor of Milwaukee is a Democrat and strongly supports vouchers and charter schools now that he's seen the results and the desire by parents to expand the programs. Why won't the Democratic leaders put children ahead of a few million dollars in campaign money? Don't our children deserve the BEST education we can give them? Don't they deserve to have Democratic politicians (such as Al Gore) fight for them and a quality education? Instead of fighting for the entrenched bureaucrats in Washington D.C.?