Posted on 11/13/2002 2:09:16 PM PST by Temple Owl
Second Thoughts
By: William W. Lawrence 11/13/2002
The election did not turn out the way the pollsters and left-wing talking heads predicted. Thank goodness! My guys, for the most part, won.
The Republicans took the Senate and increased their edge in the House. I stayed up late to watch the returns. My smile grew wider as the night passed into morning. There had to be frowns on the faces of some others who were watching. There may have even been a few tears shed.
I am impatiently waiting for a left-wing roadblock to be cleared and for good things to happen. Such as:
* Oil drilling rigs heading for the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve.
* The appointment of federal judges who believe that the Constitution means what it says, not what it says what they mean.
* A patients' bill of rights with a cap on lawsuits.
* A tax cut carved in granite.
* Nonunion workers manning a Department of Homeland Security.
* A ban on late-term abortions.
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Rendell! Rendell! Rendell!
The Inquirer put the national Republican victories inside and under the fold to bring us big black 'Rendell Rules' type headlines.
It sounds like they were celebrating and dancing in the editorial offices. They got their victory.
Fast Eddie, with the help of the Inquirer and other left-wing publications, made believers out of enough Pennsylvanians to allow him to defeat Mike Fisher. Rendell promised us that he would take care of our medical problems, add a billion dollars for education, lower taxes and pull rabbits out of a hat.
He would do for the state what he did for Philadelphia.
The voters ignored the fact that Philly, under Eddie, was and still remains a high-crime, highly taxed city with failing schools and an exodus of middle-class families. The Inquirer, in its quest to get a Clinton wannabe elected, skipped the part about the almost 150,000 who gave up on Eddie and moved to the suburbs.
Philadelphia did not pull in the variety of start-up businesses thriving in other municipalities. Philadelphia, under Eddie, had one new business start for every 275 residents. Compare that with one in 97 in San Francisco and one in 66 in Houston.
We had all better pray that Eddie does not do for Pennsylvania what he did for Philadelphia. And remember: I was right about Clinton.
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To be fair, however, Rendell is not a full-blown sociopath as was the Arkansas Love Machine.
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Among those I suspect who were also watching the returns with me were Saddam Hussein, Jumpin' Jim Jeffords and Outgoing Majority Leader Tom Daschle.
It would have been smart for these folks to place an emergency order for super-sized pampers as the shocking results came in. It was crunch time. The chickens came home to roost.
Or as Al Gore once said,"We are ready for an unforeseen event that may or may not occur."
Saddam is very likely to have unwanted visitors, either tough inspectors or perhaps uncompromising gentlemen dressed in green and carrying M-16s. Jeffords, on the other hand, will not have any visitors. He will be the loneliest man in the U.S. Senate. Well, maybe Frank Lautenberg, the Democrat's star of the future, will talk to him.
Daschle says he is thinking about quitting.
"I've been in this job for a long time, but this is the worst night (Election Night) I have had."
Heh, heh. He will not be missed.
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Trent Lott, the new Senate Majority Leader, says, with Republicans now in control of the White House and both houses of Congress, the logjam of bills is going to be broken.
"We will move the partial-birth abortion bill through (the Senate)," Lott says. "The House did it this year -- (but) once again, Tom Daschle would not call it up (in the Senate).
"I will call it up, we will pass it and the president will sign it. I'm making that commitment -- you can write it down."
Okay, I wrote it down.
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Neil Cavuto, the Fox News financial guru, says he's hearing reports that President Bush is considering a total rewrite of the tax code and that treasury bigwigs are pushing for a national retail sales tax. Wow! If that is true, and Dubya makes it happen, he will join some really neat guys on Mt. Rushmore.
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Off The Internet:
A Good Pun is its Own Reword!
* Energizer Bunny arrested -- charged with battery.
* A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking.
* A pessimist's blood type is always b-negative.
* My wife likes to make pottery, but to me it's just kiln time.
* Dijon vu -- the same mustard as before.
* I fired my masseuse today. She rubbed me the wrong way.
* A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.
* Shotgun wedding: A case of wife or death.
* I used to work in a blanket factory, but it folded.
* I used to be a lumberjack, but I just couldn't hack it, so they gave me the axe.
* If electricity comes from electrons . . . does that mean that morality comes from morons?
* Marriage is the mourning after the knot before.
* A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
* Corduroy pillows are making headlines.
* Is a book on voyeurism a peeping tome?
* Sea captains don't like crew cuts.
* Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
* A successful diet is the triumph of mind over platter.
* Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
* A gossip is someone with a great sense of rumor.
* Without archery life is pointless.
* When you dream in color, it's a pigment of your imagination.
* Reading while sunbathing makes you well-red.
* When two egotists meet, it's an I for an I.
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