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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (495844)	11/20/2003 9:27:48 AM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

you're dodging answer the question counsel

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (495844)	11/20/2003 9:29:52 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Fate of the Democrats Posted: November 19, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern Last week marked a huge burst of activity from the United States Congress. Not only did Senate Majority Leader Frist lead his Republican colleagues in an excellent exposing of Democratic obstructionism on judicial nominees, but conference committees finished work on two major pieces of legislation. House and Senate negotiators finished work on a major energy bill and on a Medicare-reform bill that includes a prescription-drug benefit. The energy bill contains some traditional pork, but it also authorizes the construction of a new and much needed Alaska natural gas pipeline. The Medicare-reform bill delivers on the president's promise of an affordable prescription-drug benefit for seniors while also bringing some much needed experimentation with competitive models into the Medicare bureaucracy. Democrats from the left have attacked both bills, and true to predictions, Ted Kennedy appeared on Sunday to urge a filibuster of the prescription-drug bill. Teddy would rather have seniors go without much-needed medications than allow the exposure of Medicare as a vast and wasteful bureaucracy that drives prices up even as it results in a rationing of health care through its pricing structure. Teddy cries crocodile tears over seniors even as he threatens to block the one reform of the program which every candidate running for president in 2000 and 2004 has embraced: A prescription-drug subsidy for the elderly. It's not hard to figure the left's hysteria on both bills. George W. Bush is close to becoming the most accomplished president in the category of major legislation since Nixon, and a successful wartime commander in chief as well. This combination is speeding realignment along, and Democrats know they are perilously close to becoming an irrelevant – if still loud – force in American politics. Bill Clinton may have invented triangulation, but George W. Bush has perfected it, and the Democratic Party is in the cross-hairs as a result. The answer for the Democrats is not, however, more obstructionism. If either of these bills is filibustered, every Republican in 2004 will be able to run against every Democrat under the banner of defeating a do-nothing, stop-everything minority party committed only to its superannuated old bulls like Kennedy and Robert Byrd and their ridiculous polemics. The Democratic Party is trapped by its ancient regime into opposing modest but necessary reforms across the legislative landscape and into defeating accomplished jurists because their race or religion is wrong for the Democratic high priests among the interest-group left. The Conservative Party in Canada a few years ago went from a major party to an isolated group of non-entities in a single election. The same fate is beckoning the Democrats. If Ted Kennedy has his way, 2004 may mark the collapse of the Democrats in so thorough-going a fashion as to remove them from significance for a generation to come. worldnetdaily.com

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (495844)	11/20/2003 9:31:11 AM
From: JakeStraw	Respond to of 769670

Memos Leaking All Over Dems November 19, 2003 More memos are leaking from Democrat senators. Folks, this is a doozy. Republicans aren't this good. They don't know how to go into all these Democrat strongholds and steal this much stuff. This has to be leaks. This has to be Democrat staffers leaking. When it comes to the judiciary committee I will bet you that there are some staffers, liberal Democrat staffers working for these senators who cannot believe what they are hearing these senators say about minorities. You know, these staffers are the true believers. They carry the staff and the flag into battle. These senators are being very two-faced in private e-mails and memos, calling Miguel Estrada dangerous because he's a Latino. Senator Kennedy called a black female from California, Janice Rogers Brown, a Neanderthal not fit to be on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. You probably have some people on the staff saying, "I can't believe I'm hearing this." These people would never call minorities Neanderthal. So there's probably somebody that's leaking in there. From the Hill newspaper, "Confidential Democratic memos downloaded from a Senate Judiciary Committee database and leaked to the press show that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) overcame the reservations of 15 Senate colleagues to convince Democrats to wage filibusters against some of President Bush’s judicial nominees. "Republican lawmakers and conservative activists have accused Kennedy since the early days of the Bush administration of being the mastermind behind the Democratic decision to block, if possible, the confirmation of such nominees as Miguel Estrada and Charles Pickering Sr." You know, the word "mastermind" and Kennedy just don't go together, yet fourteen internal documents from a Senate computer system illustrate Kennedy's leading role in the current judicial battle and how he orchestrated the Democrat filibuster. Now, some reports of these memos say they were leaked, and others say pilfered. I say they've been leaked. An investigation has been launched into how the memos became public. They're not going to look into what the memos say, but how they got out! More from the Hill, "The memos also cast light on the considerable influence that liberal interest groups such as People for the American Way, the Alliance for Justice, and the NAACP legal defense and education fund have had on Democrat decisions to delay and ultimately filibuster the nominees." This means Senator Kennedy and some of these others are being told what these special groups would prefer - and they've listened to them. So the Democrats are in bed with these people, and that's what these memos show. It's in writing now, folks. This is not speculation. Who the Democrats are, what they've done, and how they've gone about it, is right there in black and white from their own memos.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (495844)	11/20/2003 9:34:55 AM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Racism on Dem plantation Posted: November 19, 2003 I've believed for a long time that many of the leading Democratic politicians in America are racist to the core. And now we have proof. While, superficially, the Democratic Party courts the black vote with promises of favoritism and charity, there's always been something condescending about this attitude. There's always been something patronizing about it. There's always been something insulting about it. I've suspected there are essentially two motivations behind the Democrats' promotion of racial preferences – or what they call "affirmative action": It's a self-empowerment plan to keep minority votes on the new Democratic Party plantation by offering them special race privileges. It is rooted in a visceral feeling that minorities really aren't capable of achieving on their own. In any case, both those motivations are racist. They are unacceptable without transforming America away from the principle of individual rights to a new vision of collective group privileges. Two stories broke recently that demonstrate the racism of the Democratic Party brass. When Senate Democrats successfully blocked three of President Bush's nominees for federal appeals-court judgeships Friday in a 40-hour debate initiated by Republicans, Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., told reporters that he would continue to oppose any "Neanderthal that is nominated by the president for any federal court." Now I don't happen to believe Neanderthals ever existed. But, if they did, the implication is they were something less than human – beings lower on the evolutionary scale. Kennedy was referring to men and woman like Miguel Estrada, a Hispanic, Texas Supreme Court Justice Priscilla Owen, a woman, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Carolyn Kuhl, a woman, and California Supreme Court Justice Janice Rogers Brown, a black woman. Now Kennedy has demonstrated his utter contempt for women in the past – for instance, by leaving a drowning woman and the scene of an accident. But it seems to me Kennedy is speaking in racist code language here. Could "Neanderthal" be the new "N" word he and his colleagues use to discuss minorities who are disloyal to their Democratic Party patrons and others who leave the "progressive plantation"? Then, there are the leaked memos to members of the Senate Judiciary Committee from the special-interest lobby groups with whom the politicians work so closely. In one communication to Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, Estrada was singled out as "especially dangerous" because "he is Latino." It seems to me this memo and Kennedy's racist exhortations are proof positive that the Democratic Party has nothing but contempt for minorities who can think for themselves, who are ruled by their own consciences and who fail to pledge allegiance to the so-called "progressive" political agenda. In fact, it is obvious the Democrats become ruthlessly racist against those minority nominees who cross them politically. What the Democrats like Durbin and Kennedy have managed to do is to immunize themselves against racism charges by currying favor with those hand-picked minorities who pledge absolute loyalty to their party. Other minorities are not even worthy of the back of the bus in the eyes of the new racist Democrats. Other minorities don't even get in the schoolhouse door if the new racist Democrats have anything to say about it. Other minorities are degraded with sub-human characterizations and racist code words. Other minorities are simply not welcome. Thankfully, more than a few courageous minority leaders are blowing the cover on this racist campaign for a new plantation mentality in America. I commend two new books to your attention: "Uncle Sam's Plantation," by Star Parker. The author, my good friend, offers five simple yet profound steps that will allow the nation's poor to go from entitlement and slavery to empowerment and freedom – without the patronizing help of the Kennedys and the Durbins of the world. "Scam: How the Black Leadership Exploits Black America," by Jesse Lee Peterson. In this book, the author, another good friend, shows how the civil-rights establishment has made a lucrative career out of keeping racial strife alive in America – with the help of racists like Kennedy and Durbin. worldnetdaily.com