THE FOUNDATION: PUBLIC SPEAKING

“Here comes the orator! With his flood of words, and his drop of reason.” —Benjamin Franklin

THE DEMO-GOGUES

This week’s “John Kerry Flip Flop” Award: “No [I don’t agree with giving drivers’ licenses to illegals]. What I have said is that I support what governors are trying to do. And governors are on the front lines because of the failures to get comprehensive immigration reform.” —Hillary Rodham Clinton, who first supported, then didn’t support, and then supported this same proposal ++ “I don’t think they’re [other Demo presidential contenders are] piling on because I’m a woman. I think they’re piling on because I’m winning… I anticipate it’s going to get even hotter, and if you can’t stand the heat get out of the kitchen. I’m very much at home in the kitchen.” —Hillary

She’s clear alright: “I have been very clear about where I stand and what I want to do for the country. I have laid out very specific plans on how we are going to have a different energy agenda, how we are going to have a healthcare plan that covers everybody, how we are going to improve our education system and all of the other issues that people talk to me about, as well as what we need to do to restore America’s leadership around the world. And I have even put out how I’m going to pay for each and every one of the policies that would cost money.” —Hillary Tax the rich, tax the rich and let’s see, tax the rich. Great plan.

Morality on the Hill: “[President Bush] is pouring mountains of cash into the Iraqi civil war, at the same time he’s pouring $60 billion in tax cuts into the pockets of people who make more than a million bucks a year… The American people know that is the wrong economic choice and the wrong moral choice.” —House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI)

Three years late: “We have put together a documented portfolio that frankly puts their lies in such a total light of absurdity and indecency, that should they ever rear their ugly heads again, we have every single ‘t’ crossed and ‘i’ dotted… It’s a shame we weren’t able to produce all that [in 2004].” —John Kerry preparing for the Swift Boat Vets in cases he runs for President again

INSIGHT

“Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all.” —Voltaire

“All propaganda is lies—even when it is telling the truth.” —George Orwell

“It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world.” —Theodore Roosevelt

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” —Groucho Marx

UPRIGHT

“Despite her muddled comments [last] week, there’s no doubt where Mrs. Clinton stands on ballot integrity. She opposes photo ID laws, even though they enjoy over 80% support in the polls. She has also introduced a bill to force every state to offer no-excuse absentee voting as well as Election Day registration—easy avenues for election chicanery. The bill requires that every state restore voting rights to all criminals who have completed their prison terms, parole or probation.” —John Fund

“Senator Clinton is determined not to tell us where she stands on anything. Instead, she has come to believe, probably correctly, that if we knew what she really wants to do as president, we would never vote for her.” —Dick Morris

“For today’s Democrats, resistance to unilateral presidential war-making reflects not principled constitutionalism but petulance about the current president. Democrats were supine when President Bill Clinton launched a sustained air war against Serbia without congressional authorization. Instead, he cited NATO’s authorization as though that were an adequate substitute for the collective judgment that the Constitution mandates.” —George Will

“Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it—or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.” —Mark Steyn

“Washington needs to get out of education altogether. Congressional meddling is unconstitutional: You won’t find ‘education’ or ‘schooling’ anywhere in the federal government’s enumerated powers.” —Neal McCluskey

“Ron Paul’s extraordinary fundraising success is a clear sign that there is a yearning by the Republican grassroots for the party to return to its historic small-government roots. Paul’s message of limited government, free markets and peace obviously has touched a chord. Perhaps the other candidates and the big-government conservatives in Washington should take notice.” —Michael Tanner

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EDITORIAL EXEGESIS

“Al Gore seems to have found a home at the peacock network. Both he and the network’s symbol like to strut a lot and frequently have their feathers ruffled. This week the peacock’s feathers are a solid green as NBC, among other activities, sends its ‘Today’ show stars, as the promo puts it, to ‘the ends of the earth’ to promote Gore’s agenda of saving the planet and repealing the Industrial Revolution… NBC began its Green Week with Sunday night’s Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles football game. Bob Costas solemnly intoned: ‘As part of NBC Universal’s Green is Universal initiative, we have turned out the lights in the studio to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.’ Actually, the studio lights were off for about a minute, during which time you could see the giant stadium screen over his right shoulder and glowing video monitors all over the set. At halftime, Costas tossed it to Matt Lauer standing before some sled dogs in the Arctic, bathed in bright lighting flown in for the occasion. The folks at Newsbusters.org have calculated that flying Lauer and two crew to the Arctic Circle in Greenland—from New York to Thule AFB, a 2,487-mile distance—produced six tons of carbon emissions. That’s one ton each way per person. They used the carbon calculator found on Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Web site. [Al] Roker’s journey from New York to Quito, Ecuador… produced another six tons of carbon emissions. Ann Curry’s trip to Antarctica—11,686 miles in all—produced a total of 12.9 tons of carbon. That’s a grand total of 24.9 tons of CO2 produced for a momentary photo-op while most people were up getting a beer or making a pit stop. According to Gore’s Web site, the average person produces 7.5 tons of CO2 in a year.” —Investor’s Business Daily

DEZINFORMATSIA

It’s all about Hillary: “I had a dream that before I died I would see a woman as President of the United States. I think you are the woman and I think this is the time.” —ABC’s Carole Simpson to Hillary Clinton ++ “When [Hillary] Clinton was asked why she wouldn’t release her White House records from the time she was First Lady, her answer was, ‘Well, that’s not my decision to make.’ Baloney, whose decision is it, the Easter Bunny’s? Come on.” —CNN’s Jack Cafferty ++ “The notion that there’s stuff that’s being restricted potentially opens the door to asking questions about, well, the travel office where the independent counsel said she had been factually false. How did her brothers get pardons for two felons after being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars? How did she raise $100,000 trading cattle futures? This stuff hasn’t come up in the campaign, but you could almost hear the opponents beginning to chomp at the bit, waiting to ask, ‘What is she hiding?”’ —CBS political correspondent Jeff Greenfield ++ “[Hillary Clinton] is in a bit of a conundrum, is she not, because she doesn’t want to stake out positions that may haunt her later on if, in fact, she gets the nomination, you know? And at the same time, she risks coming across as if she has no core values or beliefs.” —CBS’s Katie Couric **That’s because she has no core values or beliefs.

Postcards from the Angry Left: “The presidency of George W. Bush has now devolved into a criminal conspiracy to cover the a of George W. Bush…[M]aybe [President Bush] could do what the military fanatics did in Japan in the 1930s and remake a nation into a fascist state so efficient and so self-sustaining that the fascism itself would be nearly invisible.” —MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann

Vietnam prism: “There were a couple of hundred diplomats—this is extraordinary—they rebelled against being ordered to Vietnam. Basically, 40 of them will have to go to Vietnam or lose their, excuse me, go to Iraq. This is the first time this has happened since the Vietnam war.” —NBC’s Andrea Mitchell

Keeping a positive outlook: “Manhattan will be underwater by 2050.” —CBS’s Harry Smith re: global warming

Newspulper Headlines: The Democratic Primary Heats Up: “Living Donkey Meat Ad Sparks Controversy” —Reuters

Help Wanted: “Police Impersonator Sought” —Boston Globe

Food Fight!: “Rice to Turkey: Kurds Are ‘Common Threat”’ —USA Today

But 83 Other Reports Say the Opposite: “State Report Says Texas Has Too Many Reports” —Associated Press

News of the Tautological: “New York City Marathon Winners Cross the Finish Line” —FoxNews.com

News You Can Use: “Squirrels Safe to Eat Again in New Jersey” —Daily News (New York) (Thanks to The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto)

VILLAGE IDIOTS

From the “Hispandering” Department: “This is not about immigration, this is about safety and security. This has been done before. Legal precedent is on our side. We remain confident that our policy change will be upheld in a court of law.” —Jennifer Givner, spokeswoman for New York Demo Gov. Eliot Spitzer re: drivers’ licenses for illegals ++ The “vast, right-wing conspiracy”: “We listened to people make snide comments about whether Vice President Gore was too stiff. And when they made dishonest claims about the things that he said that he’d done in his life. When that scandalous swift-boat ad was run against Senator Kerry. When there was an ad that defeated Max Cleland in Georgia, a man that left half his body in Vietnam. Why am I saying this? Because, I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate we were about to get into cutesy land again.” —First Lady hopeful Bill Clinton re: the NY drivers’ licenses for illegals

Junk science: “It’s the old ‘on the one hand, on the other hand’ approach. There are still people who believe the earth is flat. [But] you don’t search out for someone who believes the earth is flat and give them equal time.” —Al Gore **“Consensus is the stuff of politics, not science.” —Paul Reiter of the Pasteur Institute

“Supporting” the troops: “You know, on the one hand you’ve got a young kid who is patriotic, who loves his country, believes in it and he’s being told, ‘Yeah this is the truth and we’ve gotta go in there to protect your mother and your sister.’ And he goes over and he finds out the job is killing somebody else’s mother and sister.” —singer/songwriter David Crosby on our U.S. soldiers in Iraq