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This 'n That

Friday, September 5, 2003

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TRAVEL ALERT: Mullings will be going to California to get a first-hand look at the Recall. We will be in the Golden State starting Saturday, September 13. Stay tuned!

To see a list of previous Travelogues, click here.

The Democrats held a much-ballyhooed debate last night in Alburqueque

At 8:00 pm last night, ABC was carrying the pre-game celebration leading up to the opening game of the NFL season: The Washington Redskins v. the New York Jets.
At 8:00 pm last night the local PBS stations here in Your Nation's Capital carried the debate.
Which of those programs do you think got more viewers?

The local Fox broadcast outlet's 8:00 pm listing was: "Stupid Behavior Caught on Tape." This was not, I was disappointed to find out, a replay of the Democrats' debate.

The real debate topic should have been: Will Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton Rodham or NM Governor Bill Richardson be the Democratic nominee for President in 2008?

Miguel Estrada withdrew his name from consideration to be a Judge on the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. First up to claim victory were Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy. Schumer said Senate Democrats would continue to block judicial nominees who were "not in the mainstream."

Chuck Schumer and Ted Kennedy: America's arbiters of "mainstream." Yeah. Like they blend.

I point that out to bring to you this: Retiring Democratic Senator from Georgia, Zell Miller, has a new book about to come out ("A National Party No More") which, according to the publisher "raises serious questions regarding whether the Democratic Party can any longer field a serious presidential challenge."

Keep that in mind as you watch and listen to Democratic apologists over the next year.

French President Jacques Chirac and German President Gerhard Schr�der picked up where they left off when, according to the Financial Times' Hugh Williamson, without laying eyes on a proposed United Nations resolution, they "signaled their rejection of Washington's revised resolution on Iraq."

Here's the real secret to this situation: Going to the UN puts the Democrats on the horns of a dilemma: They will either have to line up behind President Bush and Secretary of State Colin Powell OR behind Jacques Chirac and Gerhardt Schr�der.

One Democratic Texas Senator returned from hiding out in Santa Fe, New Mexico which provides the GOP-controlled Senate the quorum it needs to take up a new redistricting plan which the Dems whine is a "power grab."

Keep this in mind. The Democrats controlled the Texas State House of Reps for 132 years until the elections of 2002. How do you think the Democrats - who have no state-wide offices and now control neither the House nor the Senate, and where President Bush got 70% of the vote in his re-election bid for Governor - managed to draw lines which allowed Democrats to have a 17-15 edge in the Congressional delegation?

They had the power and they used it.

Moveon.Org - the liberal anti-Bush internet outfit - ran a full page ad in the New York Times calling on the President to stay out of the redistricting fight in the Lone Star State.

Why would Moveon.Org run an ad in the NY Times aimed at a President who has nothing to do with what is currently going on in a state which is a time zone away?

Money. Moveon.Org ran that ad as a fund-raising activity for � Moveon.Org. Nothing more, nothing less.

Unintended humor from the Wall Street Journal: On Wednesday, in a piece on rehab specialists working with elderly drivers, this line: "For patients with limited memory loss, the fix may be limiting the drivers to a few well-known routes."

As I am mere minutes away from the Mullings Director of Standards & Practices pinning our home address to my lapel when I leave the house in the morning, I have this question: If I suffered from limited memory loss, how would I remember which roads I was allowed to travel on and which routes were forbidden?

True story: My mom was recently MULLING the purchase of a new car. She asked me what I thought she should get. I said, "Whatever looks good sitting up on blocks in your driveway."

On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: Links to the Financial Times piece on your friends Chirac and Schr�der, an AP piece on the Texas Redistricting thing, and an update on Estrada. Also a pretty good Mullfoto, an excellent WW I war poster and an amusing Catchy Caption of the Day.

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