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 Hooray for Hastert
* Let's give Speaker Denny Hastert the credit he deserves. He set the bar very high on the tax cut bill and he cleared it. Bravo.
* Imagine the headlines if Dick Gephardt had prevailed and prevented tax relief from passing the House. It would have been the end of the Republican party as we know it. Again.
* President Clinton said he will veto the tax cut bill. One can only hope he invites "Taxin' Al" Gore to the veto ceremony.
* Clinton last week compared Gore to Richard Nixon. This weekend - at a fund raiser for a group of very wealthy, influence-hungry Democrats in Aspen, Colorado - Clinton compared himself to Michael Jordan. Poor "Tobacco Al." Last week he was Nixon, this week Clinton is extolling the virtues of former NBA basketball stars.
* The campaign of Bill Bradley (Guard/Forward, NY Knicks) has offered to pay the expenses for all future Clinton political trips on behalf of Al Gore.
* Unaware his microphone was open, an Orlando TV anchor called Hillary Rodham Clinton an "old battle ax'' as he broadcast her arrival at the Kennedy Space Center last week. This was grossly unfair to the First Lady. She is not that old.
* Television intellectual Jerry Springer is being courted by the Ohio Democratic party to run for Senate against Mike DeWine. I'm for it. It will take the concept of the political debate to a completely different level. If Springer doesn't like something Senator DeWine says, he can have that bald off-duty Chicago cop rush on-stage and wrestle DeWine to the floor.
* The tip-off to Springer's intentions? See if he ends each program with a reading from the Starr Report.
* The Reform party held its convention in Michigan this weekend. Only 350 of the 585 delegates showed up. If you can't even get a 60 percent turnout at your own convention, it can't bode well for your candidate for President. The best news to come out of Michigan? No more Ross Perot on Larry King.
* "Paddlin' Al" Gore's eco-paddle down the Connecticut River last week was augmented by the release of 4 billion gallons of water so his canoe would look better in the drought-shallowed river. A billion gallons here; a billion gallons there; pretty soon you're talking about real water.
* The Gore campaign would have been better off to have canceled the photo op, captured the four billion gallons of water, and bottled it. In the words of the afore-mentioned Ross Perot, "let's look at the numbers, Larry." Standard bottled water costs about two cents per ounce or $2.56 per gallon. Four billion gallons comes to 10 billion, 240 million dollars. Less shipping. And dripping. If they would have labeled it "Evian" it would have been worth almost twice as much.
* The Bush campaign would have figured this out in a heartbeat.
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