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Politics : Did Slick Boink Monica? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lazarre who wrote (16317)	6/19/1998 2:16:00 PM
From: Bill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

What needs explaining is your inane assertion that Starr is abusing it.

To: lazarre who wrote (16317)	6/19/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 20981

So is Starr shaving a little off each of the 10 or attacking one in particular? Nice symmetry though. Starr violating the 10 amendments; The boy violating the 10 commandments.

To: lazarre who wrote (16317)	6/19/1998 11:16:00 PM
From: Catfish	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 20981

Snuffed! -- GOP Rejects Looters, Tobacco Bill Up In Smoke Manchester Union Leader June 19, 1998 Richard Lessner Watching his big-spending schemes go up in smoke, Bill Clinton fumed that "the only explanation" for the defeat in the U.S. Senate of the execrable tobacco bill was the influence of the cigarette companies' political contributions. We see here how Mr. Clinton, like most venal people, judges others by himself. Because he is so easily bought and sold, because he auctions himself to the highest bidder, Mr. Clinton naturally assumes that everyone has hung out the "For Sale" sign. Because his own motives are impure, our President suspects others are equally corrupt. He finds it inconceivable that any politician might act out of principle, rather than prostitute himself out of base self-interest. Not everyone goes whoring after campaign contributions, Mr. President. Even so, other Democrats picked up their supreme leader's theme. "Big tobacco owns the Republican Party," snarled Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa, "and they've just proven it again." Mr. Harkin's President, we now know, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Red China Inc., and the U.S. defense contractors who gleefully trade away our military secrets to potential enemies. But like many leftist Dems, the senator from Iowa is more worried about cigarettes than Communists. Greed did in the McCain tobacco bill: The greed of the big spenders who longed to plunder the tobacco companies for upward of $600 billion; the greed of the big taxers who wanted to hike the federal levy on cigarettes by $1.10 a pack and stick it to the hardworking middle-class Americans who pay most of this tax; the greed of the health care do-gooders who refused to be satisfied with anything less than tobacco companies driven to ruin; the greed of a handful of trial lawyers who demanded up to $92,000 an hour for their labors. "Our goal is to reduce teen smoking," said House Speaker Newt Gingrich, "not increase taxes." This objective long since has disappeared from sight. Does anyone really suppose that it requires $600 billion to mount a campaign against teen smoking? Do the plunderers really believe that the American people are so gullible as to swallow this whopper? The tobacco bill failed because the people saw through the flatulent liberal rhetoric about children and smoking and recognized this mischief for what it was: Another exercise in government greed and a Democrat payoff to the lawyers. And the bill failed, finally, because Republicans stood up to the Democrats' demagoguery and refused to join the looters. This took some backbone. Republicans are certain to be demonized in the coming election as haters of children. As we have seen, already the screeching has commenced among those who care so much for children that they are willing, even eager, to exploit them for partisan political advantage. Mr. Clinton, for example, has demonstrated his great devotion to children by twice vetoing a bill banning the partial-birth infanticide procedure. Now that the plundering class has been turned aside, perhaps Congress under a responsible Republican leadership can get on with devising a sensible bill aimed at reducing teen smoking without looting the taxpayers or turning a handful of trial lawyers into billionaires. -Richard Lessner --------------------------------------------------------------------------------