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Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) may have set a new record for odd language on the Senate floor when he used the Shakespearian word, "fie" not once, but twice when opposing a resolution authorizing force against Iraq in a speech yesterday.
'Tis time the Democrats admit yon Byrd is as a loon.
Speaking of fie, There is nothing anyone can do or say which can excuse the
actions of former President Bill Clinton and two of his most ardent defenders in the U.S. House James McDermott (D-WA) and David Bonior (D-MI)
McDermott and Bonior went over to Baghdad and, as Newt Gingrich said at a meeting in Washington the other day: Spent three hours there during which they determined that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction and so is telling the truth, while the President of the United States is lying.
We have not heard a single member of the Democratic party suggest this was inappropriate behavior on the part of two sitting Members of Congress, much less demand some action.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton, in a speech in England, also claimed that President Bush was off on the wrong track, thus presenting us with the spectacle of a former President criticizing a sitting President on an important matter of foreign policy while in a foreign nation whose leader AGREES with the sitting President.
Clinton, of course, HAS to disagree with the President's Iraqi policy or else he has to explain why he followed - for the eight years of his administration - a policy which included the inspectors leaving Iraq because of Saddam's intransigence, and the US standing idly by while the United Nations did nothing.
Here's what I don't understand about the New Jersey Situation: Frank Lautenberg was the FOURTH choice of the NJ Democratic Party. Why do they believe he will be the FIRST choice of NJ voters?
The best line so far on this New Jersey deal came from ABC News' "The Note" in which they stated that the Senate Republican Campaign Committee would appeal the case to the U.S. Supreme Court "and all the way to the Hague, if necessary."
While Clinton and the Baghdad Boys were bashing the President, he announcing a bi-partisan agreement on a resolution to use force, if necessary, against Iraq.
President Bush has done this so often, we are no longer surprised when he pulls it off: He sets the outlines of what he will accept; he allows Republicans and Democrats to work out the details within that framework; then he invites them to the White House to take as much credit as they want.
The Big Question in Your Nation's Capital this week is: When will the Congress go home? The original target date of today is not going to happen. The chances of them leaving by the next target date - next Friday - is as dim as a star in a galaxy far, far away. Now they are aiming for October 17.
Here's one reason there's no hurry: Assuming there are 30 competitive House races and eight competitive Senate races; that leaves 405 House members and 92 Senators who have no desire to go home.
The 405 House Members who are assured of re-election would rather stay in Washington than pretend to enjoy shaking hands with constituents or - oh, the horror - debate their opponents.
66 Senators aren't even up for re-election and of the 34 who are, two are unopposed and about 24 have no real opposition. They would much rather have their staff cancel campaign appearances because "the Senator is up in Washington working on the Iraq Resolution and the Homeland Security Bill."
There's no people like show people ...
On the Secret Decoder Ring page today: TWO pictures of Bill Clinton. One from his speech in England and the other - eerily similar - when he announced he had "never had sex with that woman, Miss Lewinsky," also the definition of the word "fie," and the world's funniest joke. Seriously.
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