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THURSDAY 14 IANUARY 1999
nt, RECORD
opinion
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The next new speaker
Hiyww< knew th# WuhNigton Po«t National Weekly Edition
I HK HOUSE REPUfUJCANS ww* nrum* of
| i hew ebrtMl In4mhi|i la the last (’unfl'ea* The
Mm had naniarad Umohm<Ko> lhal the party
maid wt* th* November atorthaa gala»—u in the
Hoaa* tf only I (void nnargMr it* moo faithful
supporter* They starred lit* party arcuHtagty.
tainrktmg I abeam. managed «r* and other Nib that
hoi brood appeal bat thry fcered ovoid offend bo
putUM foenutuenne* They *odad op bang Ibr
rierUoe and don* bub #*•* toil aupserhutg lit*
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up whS* lh«r» b doom
Oar orbaar legislative eff<rl* were squelched in
thb mbraboioUao w*» Rap Dennis Maatert of IUi-
ttob. whom Speaker Nrwl Gingrich had mad* the
head of a hroith car* taak furr* When th* Utk fore*
bi May ram* op abb a aat of modest but rraaonabb
preliminary proposal* for regulating managed
care, lb* apeaker htmartf sent it bark to ibr drawing
board on ground* thr proposal* aw too bureau-
rraUr H* said b* wanted a plan that would "embrace
Elat century thinking “ In fart, what h* wanted waa
a fig bad that wouldn't offend th* insurance tnduatry
H* finally got ft. hot tba Dmnocrau got lb* uou*.
wbtrh they naod to apparent good effort in lb* cam
patgn
Now Mr Hasten b about to succeed the ousted
Mr Gingrich and Mr Gb«nrh't succeseor. Bob Li> -
mgbon. a» speaker Hr doaa ao not aa a rebel or
inxatdar. aa deputy whip, hr hbnaeif waa part of thr
leadership la thr laal Congress. and he haa a faith
fully nnaacrairve voting record But the well-liked
farmer wreeUing caerh has a reputation aa baa of a
hard Uner than thaa* who have srtth* party's course
since a took cantroi of ('ongrvea in 19M. including
Tom DtLay. the whip for whom he worked and who
became the driving force behind the Impeachment
vqUr Tbt ip—krr f1m>fnRtf It Mid lobtiD older*
faahbmed bgbbtar whaea Instincts wffl ht to seek a
degree of amanmodaum m th* Hones. both within
Ms ewn party and across party Mnaa The House can
ua* thr help
Just the other day cam* evidence of how, is the
tepflulMMKil dwhoitf. thi laadenhlp urtppul cvw
Rapuhtkxm* of option* at n triad to (area a raeult
four moderate Republican*—Mbte Caatia, 8har-
wood Borhlert, Jama* Greenwood, and B«o GO
man im a letter to Senate Majority leader Trent
| i«i to the WTert their votes far tmpearhmrat
would not ha “taurpreted to mean that wo view
I<"*|1w*«tbaMly iVMMMilleKnerilMWm
of tbb caae*—and no matter that the article* of
bnpaarhm*** *ay axpbritly that the PrsbdesH’a eon
dart does warrant removal Th* votes wore sat op in
such a wgy that they fok they had ao ehcioa, the four
have explained. There’s a better way to run the
House—fairer, not ao ugly—and wo hope Mr. Haw
tart Had* ft.
THE NEWEST NEWS HOUND at our office is a yellow Labrador
retriever named “Django." named after gypsy jaz* guitarist Django
Reinhardt Thb four-footed. Uil-wagging. ne.-. lie-toothed wonder was
a Christmas present from my family. I mentis ier now because we are
deeply immersed in the moot critical stages of training—she training
me. that b—and my capacity to concentrate on the written word has
been canine-challenged
Vbbors to the Record office may be greeted by Django, who particu-
larly etyoys expensive leather shoes with long laces. If they’re banker's
shorn, all the better For the rather too enthusiastic performance of her
duties as Record receptionist, Django receives dog biscuits and a great
ded of attention, both of which she retehes.
Granddaughter Maddie may be largely responsible for this new
presence in my Hfe. I’m told she lobbied Santa Claus rather heavily for
“a puppy for Laurie." It was only one of two requests that Maddie made
of Santa—the other being a robot for herself. I’m happy to report that
both were delivered on Christmas Day
It’s intervwting to note that only one of these Christmas gifts requires
high maintenance. The robot lives to serve, and patrols Maddie’s house
with arms poised to dettver * beverage of choice and the correct change.
At night when Maddie’s energy is drained, the robot can be silenced
with a flick of a switch, and sent to the closet for storage without first
lining the floor with newspapers.
Django, on the other hand, reeptires massive amounts of high dollar
dog food from Doc Praeger. and unwavering attention and lightning
fast fret when her nose suits tniffing the ground. But she’s a keeper,
and has already earned her Aral prixe—this custom-made trophy
awarded by Maddie st the end of » wooderfulOhristmai Day:
«£&T PR*".
WlSfA* «* uv* )
Thanks, Maddie and by the way. doe* your Robot mop floors?
A FAVORITE COLUMNIST, Ellen Goodman of the Bottom Globe,
annually offers whet the refers to as her “Media Culpe"—an honest, if
sometimes tongoe-in-eheek, critique of the mistakes she hss committed
over the last year I've long thought it a wise practice—wiser by far
than the more popular tradition of offering New Year’s resolution*.
Of course, Goodman’s list of errors i* far more exotic than any
inventory of bloopers and blunders I can muster. The point is, though,
that—ss former president Richard Nixon once offered—“mistake*
wera made.* And who should know better?
Whfle preparing our annual “Year in Review “it was my occasionally
painful taak to survey th* last fifty-two issue* of this newspaper. PD
spare you the details, but will admit that I discovered many heretofore
overlooked mistakes, and redbeovered a few that were better left
forgotten. 1 offer thb general admission of guilt, and a hearty—if
intentionally vague—apology for our inaccuracies. I n our defense, I will
only say thb: You’d be amazed if you knew how many of those suckers
we caught before they made It into print.
One that gut away, though, graced the front page of thb year's first
edition The masthead on Page One was unchanged from the previous
week, and is a result, there will never be an Issue #1 of The Canadian
Retard for the 7** day of the first month of 1999.
The irony of thb particular error b that my co-worker, Kim McKin-
ney, and I had raeoived—in a moment of pure daring—never to publish
a newspaper with the incorrect date again. Kim and I typically spend
the waning hours of each Wednesday laying out the newspaper, and
have too often in our blurry-eyed exhaustion overlooked a dateline or
masthead that was wrong.
Our particular road to heU last week was paved with good—if
bopaieoaly unattainable—intention* What was insidiously impercepti-
ble Wednesday night a* we waxed and rolled down each page of the
newspaper was glaringly obvious to the first customer who walked
through our doors to pick up the latest edition Thursday around
noon, and to the next, and next and next
Th* good news b that we have 61 more weeks to make up for ft thb
year. Or as Mary Smithee cheerfully offered last week amidst Kim’s
and my anguished groans whan we realised our oversight “At least
you’ve got that resolution out of the way." 8o another one bites the dust
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Ezzell, Nancy & Brown, Laurie Ezzell. The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 109, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 14, 1999, newspaper, January 14, 1999; Canadian, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth746578/m1/2/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Hemphill County Library.