MONDAY 10/6/03

STALKING ARNOLD

The California recall election is tomorrow.  Over the weekend the opposition pulled out everything they had.  Months of opposition research have turned up a series of women who are stating that Arnold groped them and made improper sexual advances.  Tom McClintock (obviously the most qualified candidate in the race) is stating that if the charges are true Arnold should withdraw from the race.

Just an intemperate question here.  What would the face of American politics look like if every man who has ever been accused of making unwelcome sexual advances to a woman were suddenly disqualified from politics.  And what if every man who had made those advances to the point of a physical touching was forced to resign his elected office?  What would Ted Kennedy be doing now?  How would the nation have fared with Al Gore in the White House after Clinton's resignation.

I think that the most disgusting part of the "Arnold harasses women" campaign is the blatant hypocrisy.  Nothing they have accused Arnold of comes close to the serial sexual exploits of Bill Clinton.  With Clinton we run the gamut from using his position of power to seduce a young woman the age of his daughter, to fondling the breasts of a woman who came to him for a job, to leaving his rape victim bleeding in her hotel bed.  Some of the very same people who gave Clinton a pass on his actions are screaming the loudest over Arnold Schwarzenegger.

CALIFORNIA HASN'T BEEN PUNISHED ENOUGH

Having said all this ... It's clear that California hasn't learned its lesson about hiring Democrats to run their entire show.  From the streets of San Francisco, where Democrats pay urban outdoorsmen to live on city sidewalks, to Sacramento, where Gray Davis and a Democrat legislature have been spending the state into oblivion, California is learning the consequences of electing people who think that America is great because of government.

Just last week Gray Davis signed some legislation that, as I understand it, requires certain employers to provide health insurance for their employees.  Typical Democratic nonsense.  Democrats just love to buy into that idea that the only person who is not responsible for an individual's health care is the actual individual.  This new law will undoubtedly result in even more business failures in California, and more businesses making the decision to move to some other state where employers are expected to pay employees for their actual work, not take them to raise.

Let's continue with this great experiment in  Democratic government in California.  If the voters send Gray Davis packing tomorrow we'll never find out what sort of business-killing taxes he has up his sleeve; we'll ever really find out how Davis is going to tax his way out of his mindless spending binge.

California is on life support.  A huge portion of the budget is dedicated solely to covering the tab for people who are in that state illegally.  Democratic adherence to the dictates of political correctness prevents any meaningful attention to this problem.

On with the show .. and leave Gray Davis at center stage. 

WILL THE CULTURE OF THE JOCK EMERGE?

Tragically, Atlanta Thrashers player Dan Snyder has died of the injuries he suffered in a crushing car crash one week ago today.  Snyder was a passenger in a Ferrari driven by another Thrashers player, Dany Heatley.  Heatley was the number six scorer in the NHL last year and was expected to lead the Thrashers to their first NHL playoff berth this year.  Thus far Heatley is charged with reckless driving, serious injury by vehicle, driving too fast for conditions, driving on the wrong side of the road and striking a fixed object. A police spokesman says charges will be upgraded.  Usually, when a death results from someone driving 80 mph in a 35 mph zone the charges are vehicular homicide.  Let's face it, if the driver of this car was a shift worker at the Ford plant he would be facing many many years in jail.  Our society, though, worships the athlete.  This is as good a time as any to show that the law applies to all of us, whether we make millions a year playing a professional sport, or $25,000 a year working behind the desk of a motel.  Actions have consequences ... for all of us.

By the way.  This was NOT an accident.  It was a crash.  It was the inevitable result of mindless carelessness.  One person is dead because another person, thinking himself bulletproof, thought it would be oh-so-cool to drive his $160,000 sports car down a 35mph residential street at an insane rate of speed.  By the way ... that 80mph thing?  Our police sources tell us it was MUCH higher.

READING ASSIGNMENTS

Now we have Joseph Wilson saying that he and his supposed "undercover" CIA agent wife are worried about her safety.  Wilson has now become the prime campaigner for the Democratic Party against George Bush.  It has yet to be established that Plame was an undercover CIA agent at all.  The only people pursuing that claim are her husband and the Democratic Party.  Now they'll add that "we're concerned about her safety" line.  Wait .. there's more!  Wilson is also saying that a former CIA official, who he won't name, said that his wife "was probably the single highest target of any possible terrorist organization or hostile intelligence service that might want to do damage."

Oh, so not the British TV personality, Anna Richardson, who is claiming that Arnold groped her is threatening to sue.  She's upset because Arnold is denying the incident ever took place.  Well, here we have one difference between Anna Richardson and Juanita Broaderrick, who claimed that Bill Clinton raped her.  Anna can sue over Arnold's denial; claiming that she's been libeled.  Juanita can't.  And why not?  Because Bill Clinton has never claimed that Broaderrick's rape accusation is untrue!

And just why do California's want to get rid of Gray Davis?  Read this!

So ... just who is to blame for state budget problems? The Democratic Party wants to "nationalize" this problem .. and find a way to pin it all on Bush.  This column will give you some good insight on where California's budget problems came from.  You need to know that the 10 states with the worse per-capita budget deficits all voted Democrat in 2000.  Does that tell you something?

Bush is fighting guerrillas in Iraq.  They will be defeated.  The guerrillas fighting Bush here at home are another matter.

Slate, as you may or may not know, is a left-leaning website.  Allen Barra writes in Slate that Rush Limbaugh was right.  He writes: "So far, no black quarterback has been able to dominate a league in which the majority of the players are black. To pretend that many of us didn't want McNabb to be the best quarterback in the NFL because he's black is absurd."

High Praise for David Limbaugh's book "Persecution: How Liberals are Waging War Against Christianity."  Mike Adams says that this may be the most important book written in this country for years.

Those phony poverty numbers the Census Bureau came out with last week?  More and more people are starting to recognize them as a politically motivated absurdity.

We were wondering what last-minute stuff Gray Davis and his Democrat pals were going to come up with.  Well ... here you go.  How about a love child for Arnold!

Here's an excerpt from Joel Mowbray's book "Dangerous Diplomacy, How the State Department Endangers America's Security." Fighting to send arms to Saddam, resisting post-9/11 attempts to toughen visa requirements, doing everything it can to shut down the Iraqi democracy movement -- amazingly enough, this is the record of the U.S. State Department.

Charles Krauthammer.  "On the reconstruction of Iraq, everybody is a genius. Every pundit, every ex-official and, of course, every Democrat knows exactly how it should have been done."

Armstrong Williams says that if Rush Limbaugh had just been born with black skin things would have been a great deal different.  He probably would have been given a raise.

NEALZ LINKS FOR NUZE

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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