12/6/93
wswartz@psouth.net
You have to hand it to Bill Clinton-he has world
class"chutzpah," and there is no question about it. I
was stunned to read a headline in the Washington Times recently
that read as follows: "U.S. protests Chinese sale of missile
technology to Iran."
Here's what's so funny about that. First, Clinton and the DNC
rake in millions from the government of communist China, and use
it to help him get reelected. Next, based on China's generosity,
Clinton goes to a guy named Bernard Schwartz, who owns a company
named Loral Inc. and in return for $1,000,000 of Schwartz's
money, grants Schwartz a go ahead to sell missile control
technology to China. Next China sells the same technology to
Iran, recouping part of their investment in Clinton. Now that
must be what made Clinton mad because he has figured out that he
could have sold the technology directly to Iran as well as China
in the first place, thereby eliminating the middleman and doubled
his take, and that's why he's now protesting the sale, right?
What a world.
In a recent televised interview, Dan "Blather" Rather
dropped his phony mask of impartiality and endorsed none other
than Hillary Clinton for president in the year 2000 election
cycle. He also decried the Constitutional restriction limiting
presidents to two terms in office - doubtless he would like
Clinton to continue in office until the grim reaper ends his
presidency, but failing an amendment to the Constitution, he must
feel that Hillary as president is the next best thing!
I saw the funniest thing in my memory this past weekend on one of
the Sunday talk shows. The host had several members of Hyde's
impeachment committee as his guests, and he asked one of them, a
Democratic female from California, if she thought Clinton himself
should testify before the committee. She said absolutely not,
because she thought it would be too demeaning to the office of
the presidency. I thought I'd fall out of my lounger. Someone
should have handed her a cigar and a Barbie doll.
I, of course, am a partisan, right wing bigot, but I think the
activities of the top Democrats on that committee are
disgraceful. Between Conyers, who is nearing 70 years of age and
has two young children with his early 20's wife (you do the
math), Barney Frank, who ran a house of "ill-repute"
for homosexuals from his taxpayer provided home in Washington,
and Maxine Waters, it must be painful to be a registered Democrat
these days.
Keep in mind that top Democrat Richie Gephardt, who has a pretty
good chance to become Speaker of the House after the year 2000
elections, has been caught red handed in a tax evasion case
involving a house he owns on the Maryland shore. Maybe the House
of Representatives ought to censure him now and get it over with
before he assumes his new job? Fat chance of that, I'd say. Of
course, we can't forget the scion of all Congressional Democrats,
Sen. Ted Kennedy, aka Captain Nemo, who is well known for his
underwater exploits using an Oldsmobile in lieu of a submarine.
Does anyone but me find the Mike Espy case fishy? He never even
contested the fact that he accepted gifts, including a full
college scholarship for a girl friend of his, from the firms he
was supposed to be regulating! Now several of the companies
involved in the case admitted to paying bribes to him, submitted
guilty pleas, and paid huge fines as penalties for their
misdeeds. The guy who took the bribe money though, (Espy) and
admitted it, was found innocent of all wrong doing? Of course,
(11) of the (12) jurors were black, as is Espy. Sounded to me
like the OJ Simpson miscarriage of justice all over again.
Espy's lawyers learned the lessons taught by Johnnie "the
Suit" Cochrane very well indeed.
Did you know that Clinton once fired an ambassador to an African
nation for getting himself involved with a subordinate female
employee at the embassy? He deemed the poor guy's actions as
"inappropriate" for a man representing the USA! I told
you Clinton had world class "chutzpah."
And that's what is on my mind this morning.