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 I'm Not Unemployed, I'm a Consultant
* Let me start the new week with a piece of self-absorption: I am no longer at GOPAC. I leave that excellent organization, with its remarkable staff, in the capable hands of Congressman David Dreier, who took over as its leader this past March.
* The answer to your next question is, "I don't know. Whattaya got?"
* Senator Bob Smith of New Hampshire, who is running for President, has indicated he will not run as a Republican, but will run on the American Taxpayers Party line. The notion that a Senator who is all but unknown outside of his office staff would have any impact on this election is laughable.
* Smith wasn't even doing well in the polls in New Hampshire. Why does anyone think voters in California or Illinois will flock to his cause? Even assuming he can get on the ballot in those states.
* If Senator Smith leaves the Republican party, he will have to eat lunch every day with Congressman Bernie Sanders of Vermont who is the only independent in the U.S. House and, as an avowed Socialist, Smith's polar opposite.
* Meanwhile the President For All The People All The Time, Bill Clinton, announced the other day in an LA Times interview that he - not George W. Bush - had invented the concept (if not the phrase) "compassionate conservative."
* Know what that means? It means that the White House has poll-tested "compassionate conservative" and it rings true with the electorate.
* Know what else it means? It means he cannot stand having the spotlight shining on Hillary and Tobacco Al. Clinton will continue dance a fandango across the political stage at every opportunity to try and show he is still relevant.
* He can have lunch every day with those two other paragons of relevance: Bob Smith and Bernie Sanders.
* With the Texas legislative session is over, and quite a success, the Democrats are trying to re-write history and pretend George W. sat on his porch and drank sweet tea for the first six months of this year. "The Governor of Texas is a Constitutionally weak office," they point out.
* But while the six month session was going on, the national Dems were tracking every bill, every amendment, and every vote to see how they could use it against him.
* Astronaut Pete Conrad died last week in a motorcycle accident. He makes the Mullings hall of fame for three things: (1) when he stepped off the LEM as the third human in history to walk on the moon his first word was, "Whoopee;" (2) During psychological testing for the program he was asked to comment on a blank card he was shown. "It's upside down," he said; and, (3) He was of the Biblically perfect height for a human adult male: 5'6".
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