Talkers magazine has an interview with Joseph Lieberman in its current issue, and the first question asked of whiny Joe is: "Do you think we ought to bring back the Fairness Doctrine?"
His answer: "… yeah, I kind of hanker for the old days of the Fairness Doctrine."
Make no mistake. Democrats hate talk radio. The Democratic Party conducts regular seminars to teach Democratic partisans how to call talk radio shows and put Democratic ideas and principles out over the airwaves.
Why do they have to conduct seminars? Because years of experience have shown them that the typical leftist Democrat caller is usually no match at all for the fact and logic that will be thrown at them by almost any conservative talk show host.
Talk radio is dominated by conservatives and Libertarians. And just why is that? Because you can’t find many people out there who are capable of going on the air three or four hours a day, five days a week – 15 to 20 hours a week – to promote the leftist, statist Democratic point of view.
Sure, it’s easy to use clever little focus group sound bites like "we should count every vote" and " for the children" to promote Democratic ideals. Anyone can spout talking points – for a few minutes. The trouble surfaces when those calls start coming in and leftist wannabe talk show hosts have to back up this focus group language with fact and logic. It’s an impossible task, hence so few liberal talk show hosts.
The Democrats' solution? Muzzle the conservatives. Bring out the force of government to make radio stations take those evil right-wingers off the air. If you can’t debate with them effectively, get rid of them. Shout them down. Call them names. And, if you can get away with it, use the power of government to shut them down.
That united front Richard Gephardt wants you to see in the House Democratic delegation? It's an illusion.
Several House Democrats are cutting loose from the train wreck that is Al Gore's presidential campaign.
Among those making a break from their party:
• North Dakota's Earl Pomeroy, who spent the campaign season criticizing George W. Bush's Social Security plan but said that, if the House were forced to choose the next president, he'd vote for Bush.
• Texas Representatives Charles Stenholm and Ralph Hall, who also said they'd support Bush in a House vote.
• Mississippi's Gene Taylor.
What's the common thread among the House members who are defecting to the Bush side?
They hail from states or districts that supported Bush on Nov. 7. Bush garnered 62 percent of the vote in North Dakota and two-thirds of the vote in Stenholm's home district. Stenholm told Investor's Business Daily, "Unless I have a compelling reason, I vote the wishes of my district. As of now, I don't have a compelling reason."
At last, a group of congressmen who realize that they serve their constituents first and their party second – not the other way around.
Hillary Clinton held an audience on Capitol Hill yesterday and said, among other things, that she would put New Yorkers first and continue to focus on health care.
First, I can guarantee you that Hillary Clinton doesn't especially care about New Yorkers. She's going to run for president in 2004. She won't serve her entire six-year term as senator, so why should she bother to be a responsive politician? She used the state as a stepping-stone to the White House. That's all New York is to her.
Second, let's remember what happened the last time ol' Hitlary worked on health care. It was a disaster.
She tried to institute socialized medicine. She wanted to bring the nation's health care system under government control. Just look across our northern border to see what socialized medicine does to people. In Canada, patients wait months for simple medical procedures. Many have died because they had to wait weeks, even months, for the care they needed.
Do you really want the federal government, which can't do anything right, to be in control of your health care? Do you want Hillary Clinton to shove another one of her socialist pet projects down your throat?
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