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Clearly, there is a rationale for public hearings about the 1993 Branch
Davidian tragedy near Waco if those hearings will be evenhanded
and designed to clear the air. No hearings are going to change many
minds on this controversial subject, but the facts ought to be out on the table.
However, it is as if the House Republicans sponsoring these hearings want-
ed to make sure they would be tainted from the outset.
It is largely the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms that is on trial.
(Even Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin says that the ATF botched the origi-
nal raid on the Davidian compound.) Meanwhile, the National Rifle Associa-
tion takes a back seat to no one in the shrillness of its criticism of the ATF
(“jackbooted government thugs”) and its opposition to almost all federal gun
laws. So why would Republican congressional staff people take along NRA-
financed analysts when examining weapons retrieved from the compound?
For the first time, we have privatization of congressional hearings.
Instead of hiring outside experts, the subcommittees holding the hearings
decided to use analysts hired by the NRA. The good faith and honest purpose
of the hearings has been compromised before a witness is called. The incom-
petence of the ATF raiders is matched by the incompetence of the committee
* staff doing the investigation and the chairmen who saw nothing amiss in sell-
' ing a congressional function to an advocacy group.
No good can come of these hearings if, instead of shedding light on how
law enforcement could do a better job, the hearing sponsors have adopted the
NRA/militia agenda of blanket opposition to federal gun laws and those who
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and reaping vast political rewards, and
then this... this godawful New Democ-
rat... this... this hack from Hope had to
go and remind people that it might
really be in the public’s best
interest if everyone got together and
seriously attacked the fiscal crisis.
“We had been making some headway
in beating up on the Republicans over
Medicare,” Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif.,
told the Washington Post. “Most of us
learned some time ago, if you don’t
like the president’s position on a par-
ticular issue, you simply need to wait a
few weeks,” said Rep. David Obey, D-
Wis. Come the primaries, said Jesse
Jackson on CBS’”Face the Nation,” he
and Rep. Richard Gephardt of Mis-
souri, Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska
and other real Democrats would have
to decide whether to support a “Repub-
lican Lite” candidate or put forth a new
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Democratic Party to a basset I
hound because it looks so
pathetic and doesn’t even know it, and
now I feel the need to take that back
and rephrase it.
To equate the Democrats to a basset |
hound is to insult the basset hound.
Dogs sense things and react to things.
The Democrats do not and thus can’t
be dogs. They are some species of
edentate mammal that hangs upside
down and chews on leaves and twigs
and doesn’t move unless poked, and
then only slowly.
Last November, they got stomped by
the opposition and were thereby deliv-
ered a message: The days of expensive
social programs funded with borrowed
money are long gone. We are drowning
in red ink and we have to start balanc-
ing budgets.
Did the Dems get the message?
Nooo. In February, Bill Clinton prof-
fered a budget that called for $200 bil-
lion deficits into the next century.
Then he and fellow Demmies sat back
and smugly defied the Republicans to
come up with some solutions.
And by damn, they did it.
Led by dedicated deficit hawks Pete
Domenici of New Mexico in the Sen-
ate and John Kasich of Ohio in the
House, they took on veterans and
seniors and other special interests that
subsist on borrowed public money and
put two gutsy proposals on the table,
both of which would balance the bud-
get by the year 2002.
In the ensuing weeks, the Democrats
played the fear game to perfection. Oh
those nasty Republicans were going to
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let old folks dry up and die. Oh,
they’re going to starve the poor. Oh,
they’re going to destroy the environ-
ment. Oh oh oh.
Did they really have no clue how
transparent their aims appeared? How
feckless and trite and worn they sound-
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Well, one guy apparently did, and he
was none other than Bill Clinton. Say
what you will about this consummate
pol’s alleged lack of leadership, but he
does have a way of thumbing his nose
at the liberals in his own party and
finding common ground with the pub-
lic whose approval he so covets.
On June 13, Clinton offered a bal-
anced-budget plan of his own. He
would also reduce the rate of growth of
Medicare and other social programs,
but he would stretch the damage out
over a 10-year period. With the cuts,
and assuming some rosy economic
predictions that, if projected by others,
he might refer to as “smoke and mir-
rors,” he proposed to balance the bud-
get by 2005.
The Democrats acted as though they
had been nuked. Here they were, posi-
tioning the Republicans for a real
thrashing. Here they were, successfully
goading the GOP into going on the
record with budgets that in one way or
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By The Associated Press
Today is Tuesday, July 18, the 199th day of 1995. There are 166 days left in
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one.
Of course, Bill Clinton is a self-pro-
fessed centrist, and Bob Kerrey touts
balanced budgets. Indeed, he once
cochaired a commission that called for
steep cuts in entitlement programs.
But, hey, Jesse lives in his own
world—as do too many old-line
Democrats. They have turned into
three-toed sloths, and they really ought
to just munch their leaves and chew
their twigs and go back to sleep. We’ll
wake them when it’s over.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 18,1969, a car driven by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., ,
plunged off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha’s Vineyard. His
passenger, 28-year-old Mary Jo Kopechne, died.
On this date:
In A.D. 64, the Great Fire of Rome began.
In 1536, the authority of the pone was declared void in England
In 1792, American naval hero John Paul Jones died in Paris at age 45.
In 1872, Britain introduced the concept of voting by secret ballot.
In 1927, Ty Cobb hit safely for the 4,000th time in his career.
In 1932, the United States and Canada signed a treaty to develop the St.
Lawrence Seaway.
In 1936, the Spanish Civil War began as Gen. Francisco Franco led an
uprising of army troops based in Spanish North Africa.
In 1944, Hideki Tojo was removed as Japanese premier and war minister
because of setbacks suffered by his country in World War II.
In 1944, American forces in France captured the Normandy town of St.
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In 1947, President Truman signed the Presidential Succession Act.
In 1955, a summit opened in Geneva, Switzerland, attended by President
Eisenhower, Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin, British Prime Minister Antho-
ny Eden and French Premier Edgar Faure.
In 1986, the world got its first look at tire remains of the Titanic as video-
tapes of the British luxury liner, which sank in 1912, were released by
researchers from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Ten years ago: Appearing publicly for the first time since his cancer
surgery, President Reagan waved to photographers from a window at Bethes-
da Naval Hospital, flashing an “OK” sign when asked how he felt.
Five years ago: Dr. Karl Menninger, the dominant figure in American psy-
chiatry for six decades, died in Topeka, Kan., four days short of his 97th
birthday.
One year ago: Bosnia-Heizegovina’s Muslim-dominated parliament
endorsed a peace plan, but later withdrew its support after Bosnian Serbs
rejected it. A car bomb destroyed a Jewish community center in Buenos
Aires, Argentina, killing 95. Tutsi rebels declared an end to Rwanda’s 14-
week-old civil war.
Thought for Today: “Much misconstruction and bitterness are spared to
him who thinks naturally upon what he owes to others, rather than on what
he ought to expect from them.” — Elizabeth de Meulan Guizot, French
( author (1773-1827).
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