Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Schwarzenegger No Show in California
2. Deukmejian to Run Against Gov. Davis?
3. Hillary Is 'Driving the White House Nuts'
4. Bush, Powell, Rice Fight to Control Rumsfeld
5. Dems' Double Standard on Confederate Memorial
6. Tax Relief Sickens Leftist Congresswoman
7. Sean Penn, Top Weasel, Takes Out Attack Ad
1. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Celebrity Politician, No Show in California
A leading Southern California Republican tells NewsMax he doubts Arnold
Schwarzenegger will run for governor.
Our source describes Arnold as a "celebrity politician" - who likes to show
up at select events, but has little interest in the hard work of politics, such
as constant meetings, dinners, letter writing and fundraising.
We hear that in mid-May former L.A. mayor Richard Riordan held a fundraiser
at his home for Republican leaders. Arnold was billed as the marquee guest.
He turned out to be a no-show. He decided to stay at the Cannes film festival
and pass up the Riordan party.
Our friend noted that Ronald Reagan knew that celebrity status carried only
so far, and had the drive to work at politics, something Schwarzenegger
disdains.
Still, attendees at the Riordan party were wowed by KABC radio host Larry
Elder, who did show up, and spoke to the group about why he recently changed his
registration to Republican. Elder, a conservative/libertarian radio host, is an
African-American considering a run for the U.S. Senate against Barbara Boxer.
2. Deukmejian for Governor of California
The effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis is picking up so much steam
that Republicans are already talking about who might run for the job.
Under the state recall law, if the drive succeeds, Davis would have to run
for election again.
One name being bandied about is former Gov. George Deukmejian.
Now in private law practice, the two-term governor of California was known as
a low-key conservative who populated the state's judiciary system with solid
judges.
"He looks as good as he did as when he was governor," one Republican official
told NewsMax.
3. Hillary Is 'Driving the White House Nuts'
We all know that President Bush and Sen. Hillary Clinton aren't in any mutual
admiration society. But did you realize she is "driving the White House nuts"?
That's what U.S. News & World Report says, and here's why. She's the wild
card in the president's re-election effort.
The Bush administration, knowing how often she has lied in the past, is
bracing itself in case she breaks her promise to complete her freshman Senate
term. "She's been awfully quiet," one presidential aide worried.
Will she run for the Democrats' presidential nomination in 2004, or wait
until 2008? The continued failure of any of the nine (or is it 19, or 90?)
announced Democrat wannabes to break out of the pack makes this an all-too-real
question.
"Skeptical Bushies say they'll be watching how much of a boost Clinton gets
during her upcoming book tour to gauge her threat to the president," the
magazine reports.
More evidence of Hillary's presidential ambitions surfaced this week. The
Democrat party's house organ, the increasingly scandal-ridden New York Times,
relayed the far left's curious complaint that New York's junior U.S. senator has
devolved into a raging moderate.
"Is she playing to a national audience?" griped Anne Erickson, director of
Greater Upstate Law Project, a group that claims to advocate for poor people in
New York. "As a Democrat with liberal leanings, I can personally say that it is
pretty disappointing to watch her stances on issues."
Appeasement activists, gay groups and the pro-welfare lobby, according to the
Times, are particularly mad at Hillary - or claim to be. Perhaps they doth
protest too much. Could they be in on the party's scheme to pass off the former
first lady as a centrist ... until she takes the Oval Office and cuts loose with
Hillarycare II?
4. Bush, Powell, Rice Fight to Control Rumsfeld
The American public loves the outspokenness of the secretary of defense, but
his fellow Bushies do not.
"President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice and other top officials are spending hours coping with
frequent, unsolicited attempts by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to make
foreign policy," reports Knight Ridder News Service, quoting "senior
administration officials who are directly involved."
The longtime conflict between the hawkish Rumsfeld and the dovish State
Department is common knowledge, but here are startling new details.
According to the report, Bush has derailed the Pentagon boss's plans to:
Those are just a few of the proposals among the thousands of "Rummygrams"
unleashed by the defense secretary's pen.
"It is no secret in Washington that Rumsfeld and Powell disagree frequently
on foreign policy questions. But the leaking of the existence of Rumsfeld's
memos - remarkable in an administration known for its discipline - is a sign
that the bitterness between the camps is intensifying," Knight Ridder reports.
Vice President Dick Cheney, by the way, supports some of Rumsfeld's proposals
behind the scenes.
5. Dems' Double Standard on Confederate Memorial
Remember when Time magazine and other Democrats made asses of themselves by
attacking President Bush for sending a "racially motivated" wreath to the
Confederate Monument at Arlington National Cemetery? The donkeys' faces were
flaming red when it was revealed that Bill Clinton was among the other
presidents who have long carried out the tradition.
Well, another Memorial Day has come and gone, and now the Dems are whining
again that the president still dares to do what it was OK for Clinton to do.
Senate Minority Whip Harry Reid [D-NV] complained that Bush should
discontinue the wreath-laying tradition, "regardless of the past history of the
practice," the Washington Times reported Thursday.
How strange that Reid is more worried about the Confederate wreath than he is
about being in the same party as America's most famous former Ku Klux Klansman,
Sen. Robert Byrd [D-WV].
6. Tax Relief Sickens Leftist Congresswoman
NewsMax has reported how, even before she began her term, freshman Rep. Linda
Sanchez of California ensconced herself in the blame-America-first left wing of
the Democrat party. Notably, while still a congresswoman-elect, she tried to
blame the Beltway snipers on the U.S. military and played down the fact that one
suspect was a radical America-hating Muslim and the other was an illegal alien.
Now we find out from U.S. News that last week she "had an unusual reaction to
the Bush tax cut - she tossed her cookies."
"As the House voted early last Friday, Sanchez, described by observers as
tipsy, rushed off the House floor to a balcony and threw up as a doorman held
her."
A handler insisted that Sanchez wasn't drunk, just dizzy after catching a
heel on the floor and falling. Or was the Big Government gal nauseated at the
idea of taxpayers getting to keep more of their own money?
7. Weasel Sean Penn Won't Admit Mistake
Sean Penn, the 8 of Hearts in NewsMax's new Deck of Weasels, is at it again.
Most of Hollywood's top weasels, who were so wrong about America's war with
Iraq, have taken great pains to keep a low profile.
Not Sean Penn!
Baghdad Penn was one of the most vociferous critics of President Bush, and
even dropped into Iraq before the war to make his complaints about America.
On Friday, Penn took out a full page ad in the New York Times, forking over
$125,000 to the liberal media outlet, to continue his attack on the war and
President Bush.
Hmmm. Where has Sean been? Didn't he see the crowds cheering American troops,
and toppling Saddam statues?
"Our flag has been waving, it seems, in servicing a regime change
significantly benefiting U.S. corporations," wrote Penn, taking the same line as
DNC foreign policy chief Barbra Streisand.
Streisand, Queens of Hearts in the Deck of Weasels, said a giant conspiracy
pulled the string for the war. Streisand said big oil, as well as lumber and
chemical industries, were behind Operation Iraqi Freedom. Go figure.
Penn continued: "We see dead Iraqi civilians. We see no WMDs. We see chaos in
the Baghdad streets. But no WMDs. We see the disappearance of a murderous Iraqi
dictator, who relented his struggle and ran without the use of WMDs."
Did anyone tell Penn that we already have discovered two mobile bio labs?
Such labs could have been the breeding centers for anthrax or smallpox --
weapons as destructive as nuclear bombs.
Penn says his complaints have led to great criticism of him, "even
accusations of treason."
Sorry, Sean, we're not accusing you of treason - just stupidity.
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