Tuesday, November 9, 2004
ISN'T IT
AMAZING WHAT CAN HAPPEN IN THIS COUNTRY
IN THE COURSE OF ONE WEEK?  THE
TAXPAYER'S ADDENDUM
 Now
that the Republicans have taken control of the Georgia General Assembly I'm
hoping that they'll give another shot at an idea I came up with few years
ago. We'll call it "The Taxpayers Addendum." My idea was
to have a standard addendum added to every piece of legislation introduced in
the Georgia House or Senate. The addendum did nothing to change the nature
of the legislation. It neither increased nor decreased spending. It
was simply an expression of how important the sponsors felt their legislative
idea actually was. The Taxpayer's Addendum simply reads:
"We, the undersigned sponsors of this legislation, hereby state that
it is our belief that it is more important for the government of the State of
Georgia to spend the taxpayer's funds necessary for the implementation of this
legislation than it is for the Georgia private and corporate citizens who
actually earned this money to retain it and to use it for their own
purposes."
Several years ago a Republican state senator introduced a bill requiring The
Taxpayer's Addendum to be added to all spending bills. It never made it to
a committee hearing. How, pray tell, could anyone object to this?
Why would any politician vote to spend taxpayer's money if that politician
didn't think that it was more important for the government to spend that money
than it was for the person who earned it to keep it? Now that the
Republicans are running the show, and pledging fiscal restraint and limits on
government, maybe it would have a chance. We'll see if the Republicans are
serious. SO,
YOU'RE ADULT ENOUGH TO DRIVE A CAR ARE YOU? Another legislative idea of mine will be introduced in the Georgia
legislature this year. Georgians became upset after several incidents in
which 16-year-old drivers committed crimes with their cars, including one
hit-and-run murder, and were then treated as juveniles in the Georgia
courts. I came up with a revision of the criminal code as it relates to
juveniles which would deny access to the juvenile justice system for any
licensed 16-year-old who commits a crime with a car. When the 16-year-old
accepts the driver's license he or she would be submitting themselves to the
jurisdiction of adult courts for adjudication of all crimes committed while
exercising the privileges of that license. This bill actually got to some
hearings last year. We'll see if we can do better this time. HOWARD
DEAN FOR DNC CHAIR
After presiding over last Tuesday's Democratic disaster, Terry McAuliffe is on
his way out as chairman of the Democratic National Committee. So who will
replace him? Someone more moderate? Someone who understands the need to fight
terrorism? A moderate more in line with where the voters are politically?
Well, not exactly. None other than former Vermont Governor Howard Dean is
considering a bid to become chairman of the national Democratic Party. That's
right...the far-left presidential candidate best known for 'The Scream."
What a great idea....that's about 20 steps backward for the Democrats. Put the
candidate who accused George Bush of knowing about 9/11 before it happened in
charge of the entire Democratic party. After Americans show that they're
behind George Bush and his conduct of the war on terror, appoint a Democratic
Party chairman who led the appeasement brigade.
Talk about a boon for the Republicans. If Howard Dean becomes the face of the
Democratic Party, then the takeover of the insane left will be complete. The
Democrats will have chosen the most out-of-the-mainstream person to run their
party. George Bush was reelected, the GOP expanded their majorities in the House
and Senate and now Howard Dean wants to run the Democratic Party.
The Republicans never had it so good. Now if they'll just perform.
BARBRA
STREISAND....WHO CARES
One of the lasting lessons of the 2004 election will be that when it comes to
politics, Hollywood doesn't matter. John Kerry had the entire celebrity crowd
pulling for him...everybody from Michael Moore to Bruce Springsteen to P. Diddy
to any number of leftists. And guess what? Nobody cares. it didn't matter.
We'll watch their movies, sing along with their recordings and collect their
autographs, but we're not all that impressed with their political
expertise. Most voters don't give a flying fornication at a rolling pastry
how some actor or entertainer wants them to vote.
Be that as it may, it was still quite entertaining to read that Barbra
Streisand, ever the liberal, posted some of her political ramblings on her
website. You see, Babs wants her legions of fans to vote and think the way she
does. In response to George Bush's victory last Tuesday, Streisand dug up an old
quote from Thomas Jefferson, who is spinning in his grave at the thought of
being quoted out of context by a socialist: "A little patience, and we
shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people,
recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true
principles."
So Barbra Streisand is referring to the second Bush administration as the reign
of witches. Well, perhaps we should surrender to Barbra's expertise on
identifying what is and what is not a witch. How nice. Not a single sane
person on this Earth cares what she thinks about politics and not a single
balanced person looks to her for advice on who to vote for. Of course in her
distorted little world of overblown self-importance, her political views don't
actually matter. If they did, then John Kerry would have won in a landslide.
Would you ask your waiter who you should vote for? Same thing when it comes to
singers and actors....when are these liberals in the entertainment business
going to learn that nobody cares what they think. Just shut up and sing.
Damn ... you can sing.
POVERTY
DOESN'T CAUSE TERRORISM
During the war on Islamic terrorism over the past couple of years, we have heard
from time to time from those on the left that we shouldn't be fighting
terrorists directly. Rather, they say we should go after the "root
causes" of terrorism, which we are usually told are the United States'
support for Israel and poverty. The poverty card gets played because somehow
liberals think Islamic terrorists want to blow up innocent people because
they're broke.
So anyway, a study was done at Harvard (of all places,) and guess what? A study
by Associate Professor of Public Policy Alberto Abadie at the John F. Kennedy
School of Government found that terrorist violence wasn't caused by poverty, but
instead was determined by a country's level of political freedom. In other
words, oppression causes terrorism, not poverty.
If that's the case, then what's the best way to fight terrorism? Well .... duh
.... it would be by spreading freedom. Which is exactly what we are doing with
the War on Terror. Spreading freedom and liberty in Iraq and Afghanistan gives
terrorists two less places to go, thus reducing terrorism.
By the way, ever notice that in the last twenty years, all terrorists seem to
come from countries where Islam is the dominant religion? 
READING ASSIGNMENTS It's called "good
old American firepower." U.S. troops storm into Fallujah. Give the voters what they want, conservative
Justices on the Supreme Court. An editorial from The Wall Street
journal complete with a list of the ten Bush appeals court nominees who were
filibustered by the Democrats. Now what if this had come out before the election? John
Kerry wrote in his diary that he met with "terrorists" in Paris during
the Vietnam war. The description of the communists as
"terrorists" was his. We all learned something from last week's election. Democrats
learned that the Electoral College elects presidents. Bruce Springsteen
does not. Newsweek is running an eight-chapter series about the presidential campaign,
including lots of juicy behind-the-scenes tidbits from both campaigns. Check
it out here. From Human Events. Here are ten
steps toward smaller, better government. Thomas Sowell addresses the
problem of RINO Senator Arlen Specter. Do we have another Jim Jeffords
in the making? Howard
Dean to replace Terry McAuliffe as the chairman of the national Democratic
Party? Here's your list of the Ten
Worst Media Distortions of the 2004 Presidential campaign from the Media
Research Center. Democrats. The
Sore Loser Party. What a crying shame. You thought you heard all the good news about the election. Here's
more. Trial
lawyers took a hit too. Should
we feel sorry for liberals? David Limbaugh writes that our poor, poor
pitiful liberal friends had it so much better when they could tell themselves
that they had no juice in Washington because the election was stolen from
them. Now they know they're losers. Jack Kemp addresses the issue of Social
Security reform. Republicans have to be careful not to cut benefits or
raise the retirement age to pay for partial privatization. OK ... I don't often include links to folks selling stuff in the Reading
Assignments, but I
do love the idea of Democrats gritting their teeth as you walk buy in this
"Bush Country" T-shirt. More from the Media Research Center. The
poor poor pitiful left is having such a hard time coming to grips with last
week's election. Golf tournaments featured prostitutes
and strippers along the greens. Now you can have
your Thanksgiving Dinner bottled, in soda form. Refreshing. In California, a
mystery candidate wins race. The web browser Neal uses instead of Microsoft's Internet Explorer is Mozilla's Firefox. The site is getting hammered with traffic right now though. You may want to wait a day or two before heading there. | 
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