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To: LindyBill who wrote (3561)	7/21/2003 8:30:03 PM
From: NickSE	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793548

How to Destroy the Democratic Party in One Brief Presidential Election americandigest.org Memo to the Republican Party: Let me begin by informing you that, with the single exception of Rudolph Giuliani , I have never voted for a Republican in my life. And I've voted in over 15 national elections, including the last Presidential election. This, if our current President stays the course, is about to change. As you know, I am not the only one. If I was on the fence, the last few months of carping and backbiting have pushed me off. I have "Yellowcake" fatigue and compassion fatigue. I have post-September 11th Chronic Fatigue with Appeasers Syndrome. In short, I have so many things going on in my political nature that it is best to say, surveying the current crop of Democratic candidates for President, I have had it up to here with the whole baying pack of them. And yet... and yet... There is a chance, a small chance, that the nation could end up with a Democrat as President after the elections, and with Democrats in control of the Congress. A victory such as this will, in the short or long run, cause the United States to lose a city of some size to her enemies. I am unwilling to consign thousands of my countrymen to death in order to bring the current crop of Democrats back into power. Call me cynical and unsupportive of a Democrat's right to hold any sort of power at this time, but that's just the way I feel. Face it, they haven't been stepping up to the bar and making us feel very secure about the future, have they? Therefore, I feel that it is necessary for the Republicans to take out heavy insurance on the next election. There is only one scenario that seems to me to fit the needs of the United States and the world at this time. And, besides, it is time for it on more than one level. So listen carefully. This is what has to happen. George W. Bush will be nominated as the Republican candidate for President in 2004. There's no dispute here. Richard Cheney will also be nominated as Vice-Presidential candidate for 2004. He's done a great job and there's no reason to break up a winning team. Coming out of the convention, the Bush / Cheney ticket will be a done deal. But it is not, I fear, the ticket that can destroy the Democratic Party. Hence, it simply won't do. After the convention, it will have to change. It will have to change some time after the convention. Not a short time after, but not a long time either. The beginning of August would be about right. Just about then Mr. Cheney's health will become an issue. He will have to have a complete work-up and during that work-up it will be discovered that his heart simply cannot be depended upon. He will, regretfully but for the good of the country and the Republican party, withdraw his name from the ticket. At that time, it will be up to the President to find and confirm, with all appropriate consultation and following the rituals and laws in this regard, another person for the Vice-Presidential slot. It is at this time the President must turn to the only person in his administration that can deliver absolute victory for the Republicans, destroy the Democrats for decades, and move the Republic of the United States of America into the 21st Century. Gentle reader, I give you the next Vice-President of the United States: Condolezza Rice.

To: LindyBill who wrote (3561)	7/21/2003 10:12:00 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793548

Is Howell Raines moving to the BBC? The BBC scandal is sure starting to smell like the New York Times scandal. Now the staff is revolting: Senior BBC executives seemed isolated from their own staff last night when the corporation implicitly accused David Kelly of failing to be entirely open when he appeared before MPs last week. Andrew Gilligan, the journalist at the centre of the row, said he did not misquote Dr Kelly in his original report. Executives believe privately that the scientist, who committed suicide on Thursday, held reservations about Downing Street's involvement in the notorious September dossier which he did not air to the foreign affairs select committee. But journalists, editors and presenters contacted by the Guardian yesterday questioned - on condition of anonymity - the credibility of this stance. They expressed doubt about the positions of Gilligan and Richard Sambrook, the director of news, who has given unswerving support to the reporter since he learned that Dr Kelly was his source. A few even talk darkly of revolt. Support for Gilligan, outside the increasingly fraught confines of the Today programme where he is defence and diplomatic correspondent, is slipping away. "It's one thing if the top brass choose to go to the wall for Gilligan. It's quite another if they expect us to do it too," one insider said. buzzmachine.com

To: LindyBill who wrote (3561)	7/21/2003 10:30:53 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793548

Another good piece from Brownstein. Not surprising. Bill, have you read this education piece in this month's Atlantic Monthly? A New Deal for Teachers Here's how to fix our desperate urban schools: pay teachers more—much more—but tie compensation to performance and allow districts to fire bad teachers quickly by Matthew Miller It's not online so it's not possible to put it here. If you see a copy of the recent Atlantic Monthly at Borders, check out this argument. I think we might find some interesting common ground here.