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The Vast Right Wing Conspiracy--Not So
Vast
by Larry Elder
First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton fingers the root cause of her
husband's difficulties--the "vast right wing conspiracy." In
demanding equal rights for all, Martin Luther King once asked and
answered, "How long? Not long." Well, given the credit/blame
attributed to the VRWC, let us ask, "How vast?"
Despite the conspirators'
unlimited clout, power, and money, the VRWC failed to
stop:
- The mainstream
media's near-blackout of the Paula Jones case, until
safely after President Clinton's re-election.
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- The Arkansas judge's
complete dismissal of the Paula Jones lawsuit.
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- The election and
re-election of a liberal president, and an even more
liberal vice-president.
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- More government
involvement in healthcare, including mandates that
hospitals keep women for 48 hours after giving birth; as
well as the expansion of the Family and Medical Leave
Act.
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- A federal minimum
wage hike (which, by the way, causes job losses among
minorities, teens, and single moms.)
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- A federal income tax
hike.
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- The non-closure of a
single cabinet, whether Department of Education,
Commerce, or Energy.
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- The creation of
thousands of taxpayer-paid "volunteers."
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- A welfare reform bill
that, depending upon the state, allows for huge
exemptions; as well as welfare-to-work benefits denied to
the so-called "working poor."
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- The continued
bludgeoning of the tobacco industry as states piling tax
increases on tax increases (never mind that taxpayers
actually "save" money for every dying smoker.
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- The retention of
virtually every single federal Affirmative Action
program, despite Supreme Court rulings narrowing the
applicable race and gender-based preferences.
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- The Supreme Court
rulings confirming the principle of first trimester
abortion on demand.
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- The expansion of
government at all levels--federal, state, and
local--making the government income grab, at 38%, the
largest in our nation's history.
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- The failure of media
to properly cover Travelgate, Filegate, White House
fundraising shenanigans, Whitewater, missing billing
records, missing audio from the White House fundraising
tapes.
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- A new news editor at
CNN who instructed his staff to avoid using the term
"scandal" on stories about White House fundraising
improprieties.
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- The refusal of
government to own up to the funding crises in Social
Security and Medicare.
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- The firing of editor
Michael Kelly from the liberal/moderate "New Republic"
allegedly for too many hard-hitting stories on ethical
problems in the Clinton administration.
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- The refusal of
Attorney General Janet Reno to appoint an independent
counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's alleged
fundraising improprieties.
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- The investigation and
fining of House Speaker (and card-carrying VRWC member)
Newt Gingrich for ethical violations.
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- Deval Patrick, head
of the Justice Department Civil Rights Division, as well
as his successor Bill Lann Lee, both
race-and-gender-based preference huggers.
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- The reduction of
military spending and size, including a nearly 40%
reduction (400,000) of ground troops.
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- The IRS audit of
Clinton sexual harassment accuser Paula Jones; as well as
the use of the IRS against Dolly Kyle Browning, who says
she had a decade-long affair with Clinton; and the
apparent use of IRS audits against "conservative"
groups.
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- The Brady Bill and
the continuous restrictions on assault-style
weapons.
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- The "voluntary"
television rating system.
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- The traveling
"dialogue on race," the better that we may all get in
touch with our inner bigot.
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- The post-Monica
Lewinsky approval rating of nearly 70%, an all-time high
for a president at this stage in a second term.
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In the prison movie "The Shawshank Redemption," Tim Robbins asked
Morgan Freeman whether Freeman did, in fact, commit the crime that
landed him behind bars. Freeman's response was something like, "We're
all innocent. We just had bad lawyers."
And John F. Kennedy was killed by a murderous cabal, including the
FBI, the CIA, Fidel Castro, the Mafia and the military.
According to Sean Lennon, son of Beatle John, the government
killed his father. Sean said his dad was a "pacifist revolutionary,"
and therefore a threat to the government. Since Mark Chapman killed
John Lennon in 1980, this means President Jimmy Carter lead the
government conspiracy. Indictment to follow.
James Earl Ray did not kill Martin Luther King, despite Ray's
fingerprints on the rifle. Sirhan Sirhan did not kill Robert Kennedy,
despite numerous witnesses, as well as Sirhan's apprehension on the
scene. And, of course, the CIA put drugs in the inner city courtesy
of black helicopters.
So let's indict the VRWC. Not for partisan attacks, but for gross
incompetence. The VRWC makes the Keystone Kops look like Desert
Storm. Crooks like this pull a bank heist while carrying ID, drop
their wallets at the crime scene, then run out of gas during the car
chase. They couldn't spell "cat," if you spotted them the "c" and the
"a." The Lord said, "Brain," they thought He said "Train" and asked
for a slow one.
How vast is the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy? Answer: Not vast. In
fact, I'm so disappointed, I quit.
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