2005 | Scoundrels, Knaves & Fools

My New Year’s Day Prayer is that during 2005 somebody will make Sandy Berger explain under oath what he was doing with all those classified documents stuffed in his socks and underwear. (January 1, 2005)
New York Times columnist William Safire leapt into the prognostication derby January 2 on the new year’s first edition of Meet The Press. Asked by host Tim Russert for his predictions for the 2008 presidential and vice-presidential nominees, he ventured: Evan Bayh and Bill Richardson for the Democrats, and John McCain and Condoleezza Rice for the Republicans. (January 2, 2005)
George Stephanopolous, host of ABC’s This Week program, had Secretary of State Colin Powell as a Sunday guest. Initially, the exchange focused on the world’s disaster relief efforts in Indonesia and other tsunami-stricken locations. But Stephanopolous, a liberal and former Sick Administration White House staffer, quickly steered it toward something more appealing to him and more embarrassing for the Dubya Administration--the ongoing difficulties in Iraq. Powell defended the decision not to postpone the scheduled election in Iraq. But Stephanopolous doggedly kept after it, quoting three different luminaries who want the elections either delayed or turned over to the UN. Each time, Powell, who was in Nairobi for an international conference, responded firmly and politely in defense of holding to the schedule. Finally, Powell, growing tired of George’s badgering, said “George, you keep tossing these naysayers at me one after another. . .". He replied one more time, politely and firmly, and finally Stephanopolous gave up and moved to another subject. George, by the way, was noticeably puffy-faced, as many of us are after pigging out over the Christmas holidays. (January 9, 2005)
Here are two snapshots which illuminate why many Americans are contemptuous of the UN and the radical left. First, Kofi Annan himself ordered United Nations flags flown at half-mast late last year when the execrable Yasser Arafat died. A UN spokesman said this was “standard operating procedure whenever the head of a member state dies in office.” However, Palestine is not a UN “member state.” It has only “observer” status. Then, on the day of Dubya’s second inauguration, protesters burned an American flag in the streets of Washington, D. C. (January 26, 2005)

Another Nightmare For Bush-Haters Everywhere

The elections in Iraq came off with startling success, despite the secret prayers of the American and worldwide left that they wouldn’t. The Democrats thus have now lost two elections in the span of three months, and they still don’t get it. (January 27, 2005)

Reaching Out, Dem-Style

Kleagle Bob Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and former Ku Klux Klansman, compared Republicans to Hitler while attacking, from the floor of the United States Senate, a possible rules change the Republicans are considering to end the Democrats’ filibustering of judicial nominations. No lefty has yet been heard or discovered complaining about the mean-spirited viciousness of this. (March 4, 2005)

Dan Rather’s pestilential presence is no more. Dan resigned as CBS News’s anchor this week. Published accounts suggest he remains in Dan-ial about the unpleasantnesses he’s recently encountered. Conservative magazines have had fun digging into Rather’s past to mine episodes which reflect poorly on his loudly proclaimed objectivity. That argument will go on endlessly, along with the other liberal-versus-conservative debates of the day. Bottom line for me was not only the objectivity issue, but this: Rather was a buffoon, a clown, irrelevant. It was transparent, painful—and comical—to watch. So, another preening dope has left the stage. Good riddance. (March 18, 2005)

“Mr. President, thank you very, very much. . .Mr. President, we appreciate more than we can say in a short time both (your) being on CBS This Morning and taking the extra time to do this. God bless you. Thank you very much. And tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we’re pulling for her. Thank you very much.” –Dan Rather, closing an interview of Bill Clinton he had just finished, on May 27, 1993.

“Mr. President, if we could be one one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners.” --Dan Rather, responding to a remark by then President Bill Clinton that he (Clinton) thought the newly-announced CBS co-anchor team of Rather and Connie Chung “would be great together,” during an interview on May 27, 1993.

A bill in the Indiana legislature which would require voters to show a photo ID card is drawing frenzied opposition from Democrats. They’re positioning themselves as courageous defenders of human rights and fighters against oppression, racism, and Republicans. Here’s my bet for a simpler truth: the people who’d be caught in such a net would largely be voting for Democrats, and that’s why they don’t want any ID requirement. (March 18, 2005)

It’s still tough for conservative road shows in America. William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, took a pie in the face March 29 while giving a speech at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, a Quaker school founded on the tradition of “inclusiveness and respect for the consciousness of others.” Kristol was onstage without sidearms, so, as he wiped his face, he asked the crowd of about 500 students if they would “Let me just finish this point.” They did, and Kristol stayed for 30 minutes after his speech to talk to pie-free members of the audience. The college president was onstage and took some minor collateral pie damage as well. A school spokesman said everyone was just horrified by what had happened. The school president indefinitely suspended the student, dopey little Josh Medlin. But faculty immediately called for tolerance--for Medlin--and other professors publicly wondered why Earlham would have invited Kristol into their midst. In a stunning sidebar, it was revealed by the Indianapolis Star that a recent study of the Earlham freshman class revealed almost 80 percent consider themselves “liberal” or “far left” politically. Meantime, up the road (March 31) at an unidentified college in Michigan, conservative Pat Buchanan was “smeared with salad oil” by an assailant who shouted Medlin’s name as he launched himself at Buchanan. Ah, the groves of academe. . . those beacons of tolerance, diversity, free speech, freedom of thought, academic freedom, peace and understanding. They remain among the most viciously intolerant backwaters in this great land of ours. (April 3, 2005)

It may be time for conservatives to don rubber suits and bring along a garden hose to wash off afterward whenever they appear in public. The pandemic of pie-throwing reached Buter University’s idyllic campus last evening when one-time commie/radical lefty-turned-conservative David Horowitz was struck with a pie during a speech on campus. Butler spokescritter Marc Allan called the episode “deplorable.” The assailants somehow managed to escape. Local radio the next morning quoted one Butler student saying the university should “never have invited people with his (Horowitz’s) views on to campus.” A rumor surfaced that O. J. Simpson had been asked to lead the ceaseless search for the perps. Horowitz fled south to the newly-leafing glades of the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. His speech there the next night was interrupted by hecklers (about a dozen of them, according to the local Herald-Times report) who finally became sufficiently disruptive that authorities, in a surprising display of audacity and courage, actually escorted them outside the hall. (April 8, 2005)

Sandy Scissorhands

USA Today is not one of my favorite newspapers, but its editors came up with a world-class caption for an April 5 editorial about the guilty plea by Sandy Berger, Sick Willie’s former national security adviser and a foreign policy adviser for the failed John Kerry presidential campaign, to “unauthorized removal and retention” (code for: he stole ‘em) of classified documents he was “reviewing” (code for: sanitizing) at the National Archives. Good old Sandy, who lied like a stuck Clintonista when first confronted with This Most Recent Unpleasantness, also confessed that he “used scissors” to cut up some of the “accidentally discarded” papers which he then could not return to the Archives with “all the others” he had “inadvertently” hidden in his clothing (not his briefcase, as eager reporters were told when this came to light). USA Today noted all this, and wondered aloud—as though it didn’t know--why Berger was allowed to get off as lightly as he did, and put it all under the caption, “Sandy Scissorhands.” Priceless! (April 5, 2005)
Dubya curiously joined lefties in criticizing the Minuteman Project, which has brought hundreds of citizen volunteers to assist in patrolling a 23-mile stretch of border in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley. “I’m against vigilantes in the United States of America,” said the president. The conservative magazine, National Review, twitted Bush with this rejoinder in its April 25 edition: “So do your job, and they’ll go home.” (April 14, 2005)

April must have been coming-out month for young Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic. He was making the TV talk-show circuit and I had the good fortune to see him interviewed on C-Span by Brian Lamb. Beinart is a liberal and unafraid to admit it. He’s on sabbatical from the magazine to write a book on liberalism and what it must do to save itself. Beinart’s conclusion, after watching the left's performance--especially in the last two presidential elections--is that liberals will remain permanent political outcasts until they can change the public’s perception of them as anti-American and weak on national defense. The latter, Beinart believes, will be a seminal political issue for years to come. He is quite an impressive young man and a much-needed addition to a Democratic political discourse that’s been recently dominated by meanspirited loonies.

Big Shocker

The Pew Research Center released a study of over 11,000 “Deaniacs”—the name given to ardent supporters of the Howard Dean, the newly-anointed chairman of the Democratic National Committee--and concluded that they are still fiercely unified behind their man. But the Gannett News Service story added that “Pew discovered potential bad news for Dean” and his party—the “Deaniacs” are out of step with the nation, and even with fellow Democrats on many issues. (April 14, 2005)

“(Conservatives) write their messages with crayons. We use fine-point quills.” –Quotation attributed to Mario Cuomo, legendary Democrat and former governor of New York State.

“Filibuster Fight Boils In Senate,” yelled the Chicago Tribune’s headline Friday over a story from Wonderland, D.C. about the increasing tension between Democrats and Republicans over the blocking of certain judicial nominations. Good! I thought, and later in the day I e-mailed everybody I could think of on the Republican side telling them my vote is for total war on this issue. No quarter asked, none given. I am confident, though, that the Republicans will fold and cut and run on this issue as they do on so many others. They have no guts for a real fight. (April 22, 2005)

Dubya’s nominee for ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, is under massive fire from lefties. By the sheerest of coincidences, Time, The New York Times, and the Washington Post all came out with weekend exposes larded with Bolton enemies who are swarming like locusts. Unpleasantnesses from more than a decade ago are coming to light. This is a most impressive massing of liberal firepower. Critics say he is rough with subordinates, highly critical of the UN, opposed to the One-World Crowd, salty and blunt with his language. This is exactly the kind of ambassador we need, a no-bullshit, take-no-prisoners kind of guy. Bet money that Dubya will bail out on this and let Bolton die a slow death at the hands of our enemies. (April 24, 2005)

Another Political Hack, Perfectly Positioned

Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana, voted against Dubya’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, and voted for Dubya’s tax cuts in 2002 and 2004

The American System of things is much more understandable when you realize that the Supreme Court is just another political party.

If Dubya has even a molecule of the spirit of impishness in him, he’ll nominate the legendary (and already once-impeached) Alcee Hastings to fill Sandy Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court slot. (July 8, 2005)

Where Do I Send My Check?

There’s an Internet piece spamming around which purports to be an angry liberal’s reply to the Right about all the ridicule the Left’s been getting. The piece is titled Nuevo California. It points out what huge portions of college degrees and intellectual power and lakes and rivers and patents and beaches and golf courses, coastlines, condos, private jets, and so on are located in the “liberal states” and what huge portions of stupid, obese, ugly, retarded, troglodytic and unhygienic people are located in the Republican states. The piece proposes that the liberals take all their wealth and beauty and intellect and money and glory and sleekness and secede, by gosh, from the union to create a new wonderland called Nuevo California. There they can finally all live together in harmony and wonder, leaving the rest of us to fester and decay and poison each other, without them. A lefty acquaintance sent me a copy. I immediately replied to the several hundred on the “mail to” list. “Looks like a great deal for the rest of us!” I cried, excitedly. “I think you should go for it!” And you know it really is a great idea. I’d donate to the limo fund to get ‘em to the airport yet today. (July 10, 2005)

“Poor sad Richard Cohen, unabletomoveon.org after five years, is a fine emblem for the Democrats: Ask not for whom the chad hangs, it hangs for thee.” --Mark Steyn, nationally syndicated columnist and North American editor for a British publication, The Spectator, writing in the August 1-7 issue of the Washington Times about how Bush’s nomination of John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court triggered an immediate angst-ridden column by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, in which Cohen spun an elaborate theory of Republican evil dating back to the 2000 election in which the Court played a decisive role and over which lefties have ranted and screeched for the last five years while continuing to lose one election after another. (August 1, 2005)

Swinging Chad, Dangling Chad, Hanging Chad, and Dimpled Chad—The Four Chads introduced to America by the Democratic Party in 2000—Mark Steyn, columnist, August 1 issue of the Washington Times.

Would The Senator From Chappaquiddick Please Emerge From His Diving Bell So He Can Be Heard More Clearly?

Dubya showed remarkable boldness in using his recess appointment power to name John Bolton the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Lefties responded within seconds, screeching and squawking in outrage. Teddy Kennedy was in highest dudgeon, calling it “shameful and irresponsible” and “a devious maneuver.” Teddy complained that the “cloak of secrecy from the White House continues” and that Dubya was “abusing the recess appointment power by making the appointment while Congress is in (its) five-week recess.” News reports didn’t make it clear, but my guess is that Kennedy was in recess back at Chappaquiddick, still trying to dig out Mary Jo, when he offered these remarks. Just a hunch. (August 1, 2005)

A recent vote on legislation to provide more U.S. border guards shows an important difference between Republicans and Democrats: 18 Republicans abandoned their party’s position and voted “No.” Only two Democrats defied their leaders to vote “Yes.” The measure failed.

The pressure got to columnist and CNN commentator Robert Novak on a recent “Inside Politics” broadcast. Novak swore—that is to say, he used aloud the word millions of us think every day when confronted with media and political emissions, i.e., “bullshit”—and--much better--stalked off the set during a debate with the legendary heart and soul of the Democratic Party, the beetle-browed and reptilian James Carville. Novak has been suspended indefinitely. He’s apologized, but never should have. I’ve sent him a bouquet of roses and warmest congratulations. It’s long past time that guests on radio and TV talk shows stopped taking insults, interruptions and abuse. Unclipping the microphone and walking off is the perfect response. A standing ovation is due Novak. Let’s hope his example emboldens others. (August 4, 2005)

Is Sandy A Candidate For Rafael Palmeiro Fellow In The Supernatural Ingestion Of Classified Or Banned Substances?

Sandy (How Did These Classified Documents Ever Get In My Underwear, Anyway?) Berger, former national security adviser to Sick Willie, was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and give up his security clearance for three whole years for smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003. Both Berger’s lawyers and those from the Justice Department, had asked that Berger be fined only $10,000, but Judge Judy Robinson indicated the fine wasn’t quite enough for the seriousness of the crime. Berger will be on probation for two years and have to do 100 hours of community service. That’ll teach him! (September 9, 2005)

Rush Limbaugh adds to the sting of the court's lash for Sandy Berger, though. Rush has taken to calling him Sandy Burglar. Perfect!

Hurricane Katrina had its predictable “instant coffee effect”—just add water!—when, within hours of its blasting the Gulf Coast, the extreme Left’s bigots, racemongers and Dubya-haters erupted in front of eager network cameras like mushrooms after a spring rain. They found Republican racism and unbridled capitalist greed behind every hapless victim, every flooded home, rotting corpse, drowned cat, stinging insect, marauding germ, broken levee and ruined business. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Sid Blumenthal, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Howard Dean, Charles Rangel and rap singer Kanye West led the pack, which was even joined by the Next Great Hope of The Democratic Party, newly-elected Senator Barak Obama, who showed he can demagogue with the best of them. The vast majority of this is driven solely by the Left’s consuming hatred of George Bush. They should be cheered on, for their obsessive hatred—and corresponding inability to offer voters anything else—is the main reason why Bush keeps winning elections against them. (September 14, 2005)

Once the facts are known, the ranks of those who “failed” to provide leadership before and after Hurricane Katrina will be led by none other than the hysterically racist and incompetent New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the dithering, weepy and incompetent Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. Both are Democrats. (September 14, 2005)

Hey! Who Is That Steaming Toward Us From The Punchbowl’s Distant Shore?

Sonja Steptoe penned an essay titled “The City Tourists Never Knew” in Time magazine’s September 12 issue which threw a dash of cold water on those rhapsodizing about New Orleans. She grew up nearby, and her family left by the late 1970s, disillusioned by a city riven by “deep wealth and class divisions, decayed infrastructure, depleted city coffers, lawless depravity, (a) history of political corruption and incompetent governance.” Not a word about it being Dubya’s fault, and that was refreshing. (September 15, 2005)

Larry Sure Has A Point

“It’ll be a city for beautiful people, but how can you have a city for beautiful people if you don’t have the ugly people to do all the work?”—Larry Camille, a self-described “poor and forgotten” resident of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, quoted in the September 23, 2005, Chicago Tribune, commenting on the mix of rich and poor people who made up the neighborhood before Hurricane Katrina, and on his concern that the poor who lived there will not be able to afford to return to the rebuilt city.

Media reporting on the hurricane aftermath seemed obsessed with presenting New Orleans as a priceless cultural mecca. Dubya, in his big post-hurricane speech to the nation, even said that a world without New Orleans was unimaginable—he was wrong; it most certainly is--and so he was promising to rebuild it. This is double silly and flies in the face of what any reasonably well-informed viewer knows about New Orleans. The truth is much closer to the way National Review characterized the place when it noted that “The alluring qualities of New Orleans that charm visitors—good music, edible food, year-round spring break, voodoo—are entwined with other less charming qualities—corruption, fecklessness, a squalid political class.” The reality is that New Orleans—and with not much of a stretch, the state of Louisiana itself—is—or rather, was, in the city’s case—a festering hellhole of crime and corruption. The music, the Cajun food, and the annual Mardi Gras bacchanal emanating from the place effectively made it a Potemkin village. (September 26, 2005)

“New Orleans offered liberals their very own 9/11. It provided enemies they could understand—wind and water; victims they could understand—poor blacks; and solutions they could understand—bigger government and more money.” –National Review, September 26, 2005, edition.

Nancy Opens The Door, And Cal Comes Barging Through

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined fellow Democrats in heaping scorn on the Republicans and their indicted former House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, but left open the door to a past few Dems care to revisit and to a present-day hypocrisy few of them seem to comprehend, when she tossed around angry comments about Republican “shame” and “corruption.” Acerbic columnist Cal Thomas seemed fairly atwinkle in an ensuing column, in which he noted that Democrats know more about those two words than most of us. Thomas noted first the decade of denial Dems have engaged in to avoid the truth about their last president, the legendary William Clinton. Then Thomas took full flight, alleging that the Clinton Administration gave America its “only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance; the highest number of convictions and guilty pleas by (Clinton’s) friends and associates; the highest number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation; the highest number of witnesses to flee the country; the highest number of witnesses to die suddenly; the first president to be sued for sexual harassment; the first president accused of rape; the first first lady to come under criminal investigation; the largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contributions case; the first president to establish a legal defense fund; the first president to be held in contempt of court; the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions; the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad.” To which I add: Not to mention the first vice president (Al Gore) ever to say that his boss’s administration was the most ethical administration in the nation’s history. Facts are such troublesome things. (October 10, 2005)

Nor May We Put Anything Past The Spikester. . .

Spike Lee, voice of reason and one of the spiritual hearts of the National Democratic Party, has announced he will direct a film for HBO about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Lee confided to CNN anchor Daryn Kagan that he, Lee, wouldn’t be surprised to discover that the federal government intentionally destroyed the levees or somehow arranged for the devastating flooding during the hurricane to “displace all the black people out of New Orleans. It’s not too far-fetched. . .I don’t put anything past the United States government.” (October 16, 2005)

Another Troublemaker Spotted—This Time In Roaring Spring

Wayne Bush of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, wrote the editors of the Washington Times to report how amused he was to find, in the paper’s September 19-25 edition, a story on Hurricane Katrina noting that the legendarily wacko lefty Sierra Club was among a colony of environmental groups who sued the Army Corps of Engineers in 1996 to prevent it from raising and fortifying the New Orleans levees to improve hurricane protection, and that, a few pages away, another article noted that the legendarily wacko lefty environmentalist Al Gore was the keynote speaker at the Sierra Club’s annual convention and was blaming Dubya for the Katrina disaster. Too precious! (October 18, 2005)

Dem Nightmare No. 3

The new Iraqi constitution has won approval. This is the third election the Democrats have lost since November of 2004, and they still don't get it. (October 18, 2005)

Time for the empty (but shiny) suits on the Senate Judiciary Committee to stand up and do their solemn duty—send Harriet Miers packing with an 0-11 unanimous vote of No Danged Way. Anything else is utterly gutless. (October 25, 2005)

And if the Judiciary Committee doesn’t have the pecans to do it, then Harriet should withdraw her own nomination, a solution put forth last week by columnist Charles Krauthammer. There is no job on earth worth what this decent (but not even remotely qualified) woman will have to go through before the preening frauds on the Judiciary Committee and in the Senate at large. Why Dubya would do such a cruel thing as this nomination is unfathomable. (October 25, 2005)

Lefties are smirking and rubbing their hands with glee over the indictment of Cheney aide “Scooter” Libby, ever hopeful that this gets them one body closer to their ultimate target, Dubya. They can barely stop crowing about Scooter’s alleged lying to the special prosecutor. They’re convinced that now the shoe’s on the other foot after suffering so many years of criticism and ridicule of their idols, the Clintons. But here’s the difference which should--but won’t--shut them up: the Left spent billions of dollars and billions of hours defending Sick and his bride, and does so to this very day; honorable people on the right will say, if Libby is proven to have committed a crime or behaved dishonorably, string him up. The only people left defending a scoundrel like Libby or any other Bushoid sleazeball--if the facts prove them one—will be exactly the types of hacks and whores who have their lives invested in defending the Clintonistas. (November 26, 2005)

A survey of 764 college and university presidents conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that they voted for John Kerry over George Bush in the 2004 election by a 2-1 margin.

Why Does He Let Them Off So Easily?

“They plan to finish their careers as they started them—in defeatism, betrayal, and national dishonor. Oh, that America might see the last of these fish-eyed sacks of loathsome bile and infamy; unwholesome in their birth; repugnant and stench-forming in their decline.”—Tony Blankley, author and editorial page editor of The Washington Times, commenting in the paper’s November 21, 2005, edition on what he labeled the “Watergate babies,” the group of anti-war Democrats who came to Congress in the 1974 election, led the movement to get the U.S. out of Vietnam, and are now in the forefront of the effort to get the U.S. to leave Iraq.

Perhaps It Depends On What The Meaning Of The Word “Draft” Is

Current New Mexico governor and former member of Sick Willie’s Cabinet, Bill Richardson, has finally come clean. For decades he’s been claiming on his resume that he was drafted in 1966 by the then-Kansas City Athletics, a major league baseball team. The Albuquerque newspaper finally did the research and presented the evidence: no way, Bill. After a few days of staff scrambling to decide what to do, Richardson came forward and admitted it was not true, though he’d sure been convinced of it all these decades. The national media greeted the revelations with a few soft clucks and sighs of indifference—this was just an error in judgment, a mistake, a faulty memory—and quickly decided it was time for us to move on with our lives and the truly important business of the country. Richardson is often mentioned as a potential candidate for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in 2008. He certainly has all the right stuff. (December 1, 2005)

America’s mood seemed sour as the year lurched toward a close. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed Republicans have frittered away their advantages on bedrock issues and that majorities now prefer Democrats for handling taxes, cutting gub’mint spending, dealing with immigration issues and foreign policy. A majority wants Democrats back in control of Congress, too. There’s plenty of time to turn this around, but only if Republicans are paying attention. Right now, Democrats are what we deserve. (December 28, 2005)

Let's Check Back On This

“She wouldn’t carry six states. She might not even win re-election as Senator from New York. She might not even be able to get the party’s nomination.” –Professor Walter Trepling, commenting from his home in Deerfly in rural northern Indiana, on persistent rumors that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2008. Trepling then enumerated the only six states he believes (Hillary) Clinton could carry: New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California and one or two from the threesome of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. He added that a minimum of 12 states are required to get the needed 270 electoral college votes. (December 31, 2005)

Bartender! How About A Trade?--The Kopechne Papers For The Roberts Memos!!

Troublemakers abound. When the Democratic Senator from Chappaquiddick recently demanded that the attorney-client privilege be waived so he and his lefty colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee could get their hands on long-ago memos written by Judge John Roberts, a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the meddlesome conservative newspaper, Human Events, reported that the Senator’s attorney-client discussions about the drowning death of a young girl in the waters off Chappaquiddick Island had remained sealed in secret under court order for 36 years, and remained so to that very moment. (December 31, 2005)

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(January 2, 2005) George Stephanopolous, host of ABC’s This Week program, had Secretary of State Colin Powell as a Sunday guest. Initially, the exchange focused on the world’s disaster relief efforts in Indonesia and other tsunami-stricken locations. But Stephanopolous, a liberal and former Sick Administration White House staffer, quickly steered it toward something more appealing to him and more embarrassing for the Dubya Administration--the ongoing difficulties in Iraq. Powell defended the decision not to postpone the scheduled election in Iraq. But Stephanopolous doggedly kept after it, quoting three different luminaries who want the elections either delayed or turned over to the UN. Each time, Powell, who was in Nairobi for an international conference, responded firmly and politely in defense of holding to the schedule. Finally, Powell, growing tired of George’s badgering, said “George, you keep tossing these naysayers at me one after another. . .". He replied one more time, politely and firmly, and finally Stephanopolous gave up and moved to another subject. George, by the way, was noticeably puffy-faced, as many of us are after pigging out over the Christmas holidays. (January 9, 2005) Here are two snapshots which illuminate why many Americans are contemptuous of the UN and the radical left. First, Kofi Annan himself ordered United Nations flags flown at half-mast late last year when the execrable Yasser Arafat died. A UN spokesman said this was “standard operating procedure whenever the head of a member state dies in office.” However, Palestine is not a UN “member state.” It has only “observer” status. Then, on the day of Dubya’s second inauguration, protesters burned an American flag in the streets of Washington, D. C. (January 26, 2005) Another Nightmare For Bush-Haters Everywhere The elections in Iraq came off with startling success, despite the secret prayers of the American and worldwide left that they wouldn’t. The Democrats thus have now lost two elections in the span of three months, and they still don’t get it. (January 27, 2005) Reaching Out, Dem-Style Kleagle Bob Byrd, the West Virginia Democrat and former Ku Klux Klansman, compared Republicans to Hitler while attacking, from the floor of the United States Senate, a possible rules change the Republicans are considering to end the Democrats’ filibustering of judicial nominations. No lefty has yet been heard or discovered complaining about the mean-spirited viciousness of this. (March 4, 2005) Dan Rather’s pestilential presence is no more. Dan resigned as CBS News’s anchor this week. Published accounts suggest he remains in Dan-ial about the unpleasantnesses he’s recently encountered. Conservative magazines have had fun digging into Rather’s past to mine episodes which reflect poorly on his loudly proclaimed objectivity. That argument will go on endlessly, along with the other liberal-versus-conservative debates of the day. Bottom line for me was not only the objectivity issue, but this: Rather was a buffoon, a clown, irrelevant. It was transparent, painful—and comical—to watch. So, another preening dope has left the stage. Good riddance. (March 18, 2005) “Mr. President, thank you very, very much. . .Mr. President, we appreciate more than we can say in a short time both (your) being on CBS This Morning and taking the extra time to do this. God bless you. Thank you very much. And tell Mrs. Clinton we respect her and we’re pulling for her. Thank you very much.” –Dan Rather, closing an interview of Bill Clinton he had just finished, on May 27, 1993. “Mr. President, if we could be one one-hundredth as great as you and Hillary Rodham Clinton have been together in the White House, we’d take it right now and walk away winners.” --Dan Rather, responding to a remark by then President Bill Clinton that he (Clinton) thought the newly-announced CBS co-anchor team of Rather and Connie Chung “would be great together,” during an interview on May 27, 1993. A bill in the Indiana legislature which would require voters to show a photo ID card is drawing frenzied opposition from Democrats. They’re positioning themselves as courageous defenders of human rights and fighters against oppression, racism, and Republicans. Here’s my bet for a simpler truth: the people who’d be caught in such a net would largely be voting for Democrats, and that’s why they don’t want any ID requirement. (March 18, 2005) It’s still tough for conservative road shows in America. William Kristol, editor of The Weekly Standard, took a pie in the face March 29 while giving a speech at Earlham College in Richmond, Indiana, a Quaker school founded on the tradition of “inclusiveness and respect for the consciousness of others.” Kristol was onstage without sidearms, so, as he wiped his face, he asked the crowd of about 500 students if they would “Let me just finish this point.” They did, and Kristol stayed for 30 minutes after his speech to talk to pie-free members of the audience. The college president was onstage and took some minor collateral pie damage as well. A school spokesman said everyone was just horrified by what had happened. The school president indefinitely suspended the student, dopey little Josh Medlin. But faculty immediately called for tolerance--for Medlin--and other professors publicly wondered why Earlham would have invited Kristol into their midst. In a stunning sidebar, it was revealed by the Indianapolis Star that a recent study of the Earlham freshman class revealed almost 80 percent consider themselves “liberal” or “far left” politically. Meantime, up the road (March 31) at an unidentified college in Michigan, conservative Pat Buchanan was “smeared with salad oil” by an assailant who shouted Medlin’s name as he launched himself at Buchanan. Ah, the groves of academe. . . those beacons of tolerance, diversity, free speech, freedom of thought, academic freedom, peace and understanding. They remain among the most viciously intolerant backwaters in this great land of ours. (April 3, 2005) It may be time for conservatives to don rubber suits and bring along a garden hose to wash off afterward whenever they appear in public. The pandemic of pie-throwing reached Buter University’s idyllic campus last evening when one-time commie/radical lefty-turned-conservative David Horowitz was struck with a pie during a speech on campus. Butler spokescritter Marc Allan called the episode “deplorable.” The assailants somehow managed to escape. Local radio the next morning quoted one Butler student saying the university should “never have invited people with his (Horowitz’s) views on to campus.” A rumor surfaced that O. J. Simpson had been asked to lead the ceaseless search for the perps. Horowitz fled south to the newly-leafing glades of the Indiana University campus in Bloomington. His speech there the next night was interrupted by hecklers (about a dozen of them, according to the local Herald-Times report) who finally became sufficiently disruptive that authorities, in a surprising display of audacity and courage, actually escorted them outside the hall. (April 8, 2005) Sandy Scissorhands USA Today is not one of my favorite newspapers, but its editors came up with a world-class caption for an April 5 editorial about the guilty plea by Sandy Berger, Sick Willie’s former national security adviser and a foreign policy adviser for the failed John Kerry presidential campaign, to “unauthorized removal and retention” (code for: he stole ‘em) of classified documents he was “reviewing” (code for: sanitizing) at the National Archives. Good old Sandy, who lied like a stuck Clintonista when first confronted with This Most Recent Unpleasantness, also confessed that he “used scissors” to cut up some of the “accidentally discarded” papers which he then could not return to the Archives with “all the others” he had “inadvertently” hidden in his clothing (not his briefcase, as eager reporters were told when this came to light). USA Today noted all this, and wondered aloud—as though it didn’t know--why Berger was allowed to get off as lightly as he did, and put it all under the caption, “Sandy Scissorhands.” Priceless! (April 5, 2005) Dubya curiously joined lefties in criticizing the Minuteman Project, which has brought hundreds of citizen volunteers to assist in patrolling a 23-mile stretch of border in Arizona’s San Pedro Valley. “I’m against vigilantes in the United States of America,” said the president. The conservative magazine, National Review, twitted Bush with this rejoinder in its April 25 edition: “So do your job, and they’ll go home.” (April 14, 2005) April must have been coming-out month for young Peter Beinart, editor of The New Republic. He was making the TV talk-show circuit and I had the good fortune to see him interviewed on C-Span by Brian Lamb. Beinart is a liberal and unafraid to admit it. He’s on sabbatical from the magazine to write a book on liberalism and what it must do to save itself. Beinart’s conclusion, after watching the left's performance--especially in the last two presidential elections--is that liberals will remain permanent political outcasts until they can change the public’s perception of them as anti-American and weak on national defense. The latter, Beinart believes, will be a seminal political issue for years to come. He is quite an impressive young man and a much-needed addition to a Democratic political discourse that’s been recently dominated by meanspirited loonies. Big Shocker The Pew Research Center released a study of over 11,000 “Deaniacs”—the name given to ardent supporters of the Howard Dean, the newly-anointed chairman of the Democratic National Committee--and concluded that they are still fiercely unified behind their man. But the Gannett News Service story added that “Pew discovered potential bad news for Dean” and his party—the “Deaniacs” are out of step with the nation, and even with fellow Democrats on many issues. (April 14, 2005) “(Conservatives) write their messages with crayons. We use fine-point quills.” –Quotation attributed to Mario Cuomo, legendary Democrat and former governor of New York State. “Filibuster Fight Boils In Senate,” yelled the Chicago Tribune’s headline Friday over a story from Wonderland, D.C. about the increasing tension between Democrats and Republicans over the blocking of certain judicial nominations. Good! I thought, and later in the day I e-mailed everybody I could think of on the Republican side telling them my vote is for total war on this issue. No quarter asked, none given. I am confident, though, that the Republicans will fold and cut and run on this issue as they do on so many others. They have no guts for a real fight. (April 22, 2005) Dubya’s nominee for ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, is under massive fire from lefties. By the sheerest of coincidences, Time, The New York Times, and the Washington Post all came out with weekend exposes larded with Bolton enemies who are swarming like locusts. Unpleasantnesses from more than a decade ago are coming to light. This is a most impressive massing of liberal firepower. Critics say he is rough with subordinates, highly critical of the UN, opposed to the One-World Crowd, salty and blunt with his language. This is exactly the kind of ambassador we need, a no-bullshit, take-no-prisoners kind of guy. Bet money that Dubya will bail out on this and let Bolton die a slow death at the hands of our enemies. (April 24, 2005) Another Political Hack, Perfectly Positioned Senator Evan Bayh, a Democrat from Indiana, voted against Dubya’s tax cuts in 2001 and 2003, and voted for Dubya’s tax cuts in 2002 and 2004 The American System of things is much more understandable when you realize that the Supreme Court is just another political party. If Dubya has even a molecule of the spirit of impishness in him, he’ll nominate the legendary (and already once-impeached) Alcee Hastings to fill Sandy Day O’Connor’s Supreme Court slot. (July 8, 2005) Where Do I Send My Check? There’s an Internet piece spamming around which purports to be an angry liberal’s reply to the Right about all the ridicule the Left’s been getting. The piece is titled Nuevo California. It points out what huge portions of college degrees and intellectual power and lakes and rivers and patents and beaches and golf courses, coastlines, condos, private jets, and so on are located in the “liberal states” and what huge portions of stupid, obese, ugly, retarded, troglodytic and unhygienic people are located in the Republican states. The piece proposes that the liberals take all their wealth and beauty and intellect and money and glory and sleekness and secede, by gosh, from the union to create a new wonderland called Nuevo California. There they can finally all live together in harmony and wonder, leaving the rest of us to fester and decay and poison each other, without them. A lefty acquaintance sent me a copy. I immediately replied to the several hundred on the “mail to” list. “Looks like a great deal for the rest of us!” I cried, excitedly. “I think you should go for it!” And you know it really is a great idea. I’d donate to the limo fund to get ‘em to the airport yet today. (July 10, 2005) “Poor sad Richard Cohen, unabletomoveon.org after five years, is a fine emblem for the Democrats: Ask not for whom the chad hangs, it hangs for thee.” --Mark Steyn, nationally syndicated columnist and North American editor for a British publication, The Spectator, writing in the August 1-7 issue of the Washington Times about how Bush’s nomination of John G. Roberts for the Supreme Court triggered an immediate angst-ridden column by Richard Cohen in the Washington Post, in which Cohen spun an elaborate theory of Republican evil dating back to the 2000 election in which the Court played a decisive role and over which lefties have ranted and screeched for the last five years while continuing to lose one election after another. (August 1, 2005) Swinging Chad, Dangling Chad, Hanging Chad, and Dimpled Chad—The Four Chads introduced to America by the Democratic Party in 2000—Mark Steyn, columnist, August 1 issue of the Washington Times. Would The Senator From Chappaquiddick Please Emerge From His Diving Bell So He Can Be Heard More Clearly? Dubya showed remarkable boldness in using his recess appointment power to name John Bolton the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Lefties responded within seconds, screeching and squawking in outrage. Teddy Kennedy was in highest dudgeon, calling it “shameful and irresponsible” and “a devious maneuver.” Teddy complained that the “cloak of secrecy from the White House continues” and that Dubya was “abusing the recess appointment power by making the appointment while Congress is in (its) five-week recess.” News reports didn’t make it clear, but my guess is that Kennedy was in recess back at Chappaquiddick, still trying to dig out Mary Jo, when he offered these remarks. Just a hunch. (August 1, 2005) A recent vote on legislation to provide more U.S. border guards shows an important difference between Republicans and Democrats: 18 Republicans abandoned their party’s position and voted “No.” Only two Democrats defied their leaders to vote “Yes.” The measure failed. The pressure got to columnist and CNN commentator Robert Novak on a recent “Inside Politics” broadcast. Novak swore—that is to say, he used aloud the word millions of us think every day when confronted with media and political emissions, i.e., “bullshit”—and--much better--stalked off the set during a debate with the legendary heart and soul of the Democratic Party, the beetle-browed and reptilian James Carville. Novak has been suspended indefinitely. He’s apologized, but never should have. I’ve sent him a bouquet of roses and warmest congratulations. It’s long past time that guests on radio and TV talk shows stopped taking insults, interruptions and abuse. Unclipping the microphone and walking off is the perfect response. A standing ovation is due Novak. Let’s hope his example emboldens others. (August 4, 2005) Is Sandy A Candidate For Rafael Palmeiro Fellow In The Supernatural Ingestion Of Classified Or Banned Substances? Sandy (How Did These Classified Documents Ever Get In My Underwear, Anyway?) Berger, former national security adviser to Sick Willie, was ordered to pay a $50,000 fine and give up his security clearance for three whole years for smuggling classified documents out of the National Archives in 2003. Both Berger’s lawyers and those from the Justice Department, had asked that Berger be fined only $10,000, but Judge Judy Robinson indicated the fine wasn’t quite enough for the seriousness of the crime. Berger will be on probation for two years and have to do 100 hours of community service. That’ll teach him! (September 9, 2005) Rush Limbaugh adds to the sting of the court's lash for Sandy Berger, though. Rush has taken to calling him Sandy Burglar. Perfect! Hurricane Katrina had its predictable “instant coffee effect”—just add water!—when, within hours of its blasting the Gulf Coast, the extreme Left’s bigots, racemongers and Dubya-haters erupted in front of eager network cameras like mushrooms after a spring rain. They found Republican racism and unbridled capitalist greed behind every hapless victim, every flooded home, rotting corpse, drowned cat, stinging insect, marauding germ, broken levee and ruined business. Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Sid Blumenthal, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., Howard Dean, Charles Rangel and rap singer Kanye West led the pack, which was even joined by the Next Great Hope of The Democratic Party, newly-elected Senator Barak Obama, who showed he can demagogue with the best of them. The vast majority of this is driven solely by the Left’s consuming hatred of George Bush. They should be cheered on, for their obsessive hatred—and corresponding inability to offer voters anything else—is the main reason why Bush keeps winning elections against them. (September 14, 2005) Once the facts are known, the ranks of those who “failed” to provide leadership before and after Hurricane Katrina will be led by none other than the hysterically racist and incompetent New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and the dithering, weepy and incompetent Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco. Both are Democrats. (September 14, 2005) Hey! Who Is That Steaming Toward Us From The Punchbowl’s Distant Shore? Sonja Steptoe penned an essay titled “The City Tourists Never Knew” in Time magazine’s September 12 issue which threw a dash of cold water on those rhapsodizing about New Orleans. She grew up nearby, and her family left by the late 1970s, disillusioned by a city riven by “deep wealth and class divisions, decayed infrastructure, depleted city coffers, lawless depravity, (a) history of political corruption and incompetent governance.” Not a word about it being Dubya’s fault, and that was refreshing. (September 15, 2005) Larry Sure Has A Point “It’ll be a city for beautiful people, but how can you have a city for beautiful people if you don’t have the ugly people to do all the work?”—Larry Camille, a self-described “poor and forgotten” resident of Bourbon Street in New Orleans, quoted in the September 23, 2005, Chicago Tribune, commenting on the mix of rich and poor people who made up the neighborhood before Hurricane Katrina, and on his concern that the poor who lived there will not be able to afford to return to the rebuilt city. Media reporting on the hurricane aftermath seemed obsessed with presenting New Orleans as a priceless cultural mecca. Dubya, in his big post-hurricane speech to the nation, even said that a world without New Orleans was unimaginable—he was wrong; it most certainly is--and so he was promising to rebuild it. This is double silly and flies in the face of what any reasonably well-informed viewer knows about New Orleans. The truth is much closer to the way National Review characterized the place when it noted that “The alluring qualities of New Orleans that charm visitors—good music, edible food, year-round spring break, voodoo—are entwined with other less charming qualities—corruption, fecklessness, a squalid political class.” The reality is that New Orleans—and with not much of a stretch, the state of Louisiana itself—is—or rather, was, in the city’s case—a festering hellhole of crime and corruption. The music, the Cajun food, and the annual Mardi Gras bacchanal emanating from the place effectively made it a Potemkin village. (September 26, 2005) “New Orleans offered liberals their very own 9/11. It provided enemies they could understand—wind and water; victims they could understand—poor blacks; and solutions they could understand—bigger government and more money.” –National Review, September 26, 2005, edition. Nancy Opens The Door, And Cal Comes Barging Through House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi joined fellow Democrats in heaping scorn on the Republicans and their indicted former House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, but left open the door to a past few Dems care to revisit and to a present-day hypocrisy few of them seem to comprehend, when she tossed around angry comments about Republican “shame” and “corruption.” Acerbic columnist Cal Thomas seemed fairly atwinkle in an ensuing column, in which he noted that Democrats know more about those two words than most of us. Thomas noted first the decade of denial Dems have engaged in to avoid the truth about their last president, the legendary William Clinton. Then Thomas took full flight, alleging that the Clinton Administration gave America its “only president ever impeached on grounds of personal malfeasance; the highest number of convictions and guilty pleas by (Clinton’s) friends and associates; the highest number of cabinet officials to come under criminal investigation; the highest number of witnesses to flee the country; the highest number of witnesses to die suddenly; the first president to be sued for sexual harassment; the first president accused of rape; the first first lady to come under criminal investigation; the largest criminal plea agreement in an illegal campaign contributions case; the first president to establish a legal defense fund; the first president to be held in contempt of court; the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions; the greatest amount of illegal campaign contributions from abroad.” To which I add: Not to mention the first vice president (Al Gore) ever to say that his boss’s administration was the most ethical administration in the nation’s history. Facts are such troublesome things. (October 10, 2005) Nor May We Put Anything Past The Spikester. . . Spike Lee, voice of reason and one of the spiritual hearts of the National Democratic Party, has announced he will direct a film for HBO about Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. Lee confided to CNN anchor Daryn Kagan that he, Lee, wouldn’t be surprised to discover that the federal government intentionally destroyed the levees or somehow arranged for the devastating flooding during the hurricane to “displace all the black people out of New Orleans. It’s not too far-fetched. . .I don’t put anything past the United States government.” (October 16, 2005) Another Troublemaker Spotted—This Time In Roaring Spring Wayne Bush of Roaring Spring, Pennsylvania, wrote the editors of the Washington Times to report how amused he was to find, in the paper’s September 19-25 edition, a story on Hurricane Katrina noting that the legendarily wacko lefty Sierra Club was among a colony of environmental groups who sued the Army Corps of Engineers in 1996 to prevent it from raising and fortifying the New Orleans levees to improve hurricane protection, and that, a few pages away, another article noted that the legendarily wacko lefty environmentalist Al Gore was the keynote speaker at the Sierra Club’s annual convention and was blaming Dubya for the Katrina disaster. Too precious! (October 18, 2005) Dem Nightmare No. 3 The new Iraqi constitution has won approval. This is the third election the Democrats have lost since November of 2004, and they still don't get it. (October 18, 2005) Time for the empty (but shiny) suits on the Senate Judiciary Committee to stand up and do their solemn duty—send Harriet Miers packing with an 0-11 unanimous vote of No Danged Way. Anything else is utterly gutless. (October 25, 2005) And if the Judiciary Committee doesn’t have the pecans to do it, then Harriet should withdraw her own nomination, a solution put forth last week by columnist Charles Krauthammer. There is no job on earth worth what this decent (but not even remotely qualified) woman will have to go through before the preening frauds on the Judiciary Committee and in the Senate at large. Why Dubya would do such a cruel thing as this nomination is unfathomable. (October 25, 2005) Lefties are smirking and rubbing their hands with glee over the indictment of Cheney aide “Scooter” Libby, ever hopeful that this gets them one body closer to their ultimate target, Dubya. They can barely stop crowing about Scooter’s alleged lying to the special prosecutor. They’re convinced that now the shoe’s on the other foot after suffering so many years of criticism and ridicule of their idols, the Clintons. But here’s the difference which should--but won’t--shut them up: the Left spent billions of dollars and billions of hours defending Sick and his bride, and does so to this very day; honorable people on the right will say, if Libby is proven to have committed a crime or behaved dishonorably, string him up. The only people left defending a scoundrel like Libby or any other Bushoid sleazeball--if the facts prove them one—will be exactly the types of hacks and whores who have their lives invested in defending the Clintonistas. (November 26, 2005) A survey of 764 college and university presidents conducted by The Chronicle of Higher Education found that they voted for John Kerry over George Bush in the 2004 election by a 2-1 margin. Why Does He Let Them Off So Easily? “They plan to finish their careers as they started them—in defeatism, betrayal, and national dishonor. Oh, that America might see the last of these fish-eyed sacks of loathsome bile and infamy; unwholesome in their birth; repugnant and stench-forming in their decline.”—Tony Blankley, author and editorial page editor of The Washington Times, commenting in the paper’s November 21, 2005, edition on what he labeled the “Watergate babies,” the group of anti-war Democrats who came to Congress in the 1974 election, led the movement to get the U.S. out of Vietnam, and are now in the forefront of the effort to get the U.S. to leave Iraq. Perhaps It Depends On What The Meaning Of The Word “Draft” Is Current New Mexico governor and former member of Sick Willie’s Cabinet, Bill Richardson, has finally come clean. For decades he’s been claiming on his resume that he was drafted in 1966 by the then-Kansas City Athletics, a major league baseball team. The Albuquerque newspaper finally did the research and presented the evidence: no way, Bill. After a few days of staff scrambling to decide what to do, Richardson came forward and admitted it was not true, though he’d sure been convinced of it all these decades. The national media greeted the revelations with a few soft clucks and sighs of indifference—this was just an error in judgment, a mistake, a faulty memory—and quickly decided it was time for us to move on with our lives and the truly important business of the country. Richardson is often mentioned as a potential candidate for the Democrats’ presidential nomination in 2008. He certainly has all the right stuff. (December 1, 2005) America’s mood seemed sour as the year lurched toward a close. A Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll showed Republicans have frittered away their advantages on bedrock issues and that majorities now prefer Democrats for handling taxes, cutting gub’mint spending, dealing with immigration issues and foreign policy. A majority wants Democrats back in control of Congress, too. There’s plenty of time to turn this around, but only if Republicans are paying attention. Right now, Democrats are what we deserve. (December 28, 2005) Let's Check Back On This “She wouldn’t carry six states. She might not even win re-election as Senator from New York. She might not even be able to get the party’s nomination.” –Professor Walter Trepling, commenting from his home in Deerfly in rural northern Indiana, on persistent rumors that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2008. Trepling then enumerated the only six states he believes (Hillary) Clinton could carry: New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, California and one or two from the threesome of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. He added that a minimum of 12 states are required to get the needed 270 electoral college votes. (December 31, 2005) Bartender! How About A Trade?--The Kopechne Papers For The Roberts Memos!! Troublemakers abound. When the Democratic Senator from Chappaquiddick recently demanded that the attorney-client privilege be waived so he and his lefty colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee could get their hands on long-ago memos written by Judge John Roberts, a nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, the meddlesome conservative newspaper, Human Events, reported that the Senator’s attorney-client discussions about the drowning death of a young girl in the waters off Chappaquiddick Island had remained sealed in secret under court order for 36 years, and remained so to that very moment. (December 31, 2005) Back to top
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