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10
niess you were
Rove leaked the same
John Roberts,
information to Time
who was
magazine.
sworn in as the
— Rep. Tom DeLay,
youngest chief justice
R-Texas, stepped down
of the U.S Supreme
as House majority
Court in 200 years, it
-% leader when he was
was a rough week to
indicted for conspiracy
be around a
charges that involved
Republican in
laundering
corporate
Harry Ki rsbaum
Washington, D.C.
campaign
contribu-
Colum n ist
William "Slot King"
tions for Texas State
Bennett, former edu-
legislative candidates.
cation secretary
He will face charges on
under President
Oct. 21.
Ronald Reagan and drug czar
— On the other side of the
under Bush 41, got a lesson in
Capitol Building, the Securities
phrase placement when he told
and Exchange Commission has
a caller to his syndicated radio
begun an investigation to deter-
show: "If you wanted to reduce
mine if Senate Majority Leader
crime, you could — if that were Bill Frist, R-Tenn., used insider
your sole purpose — you could
information when he dumped
abort every black baby in this
stock in HCA Inc., part of his
country and your crime rate
family's business.
would go down.
The three incidents caused
"That would be an impossibly Democratic National Committee
ridiculous and morally repre-
communications director Karen
hensible thing to do," he added
Finney to utter another state-
one sentence too late, "but your
ment from the other side of the
crime rate would go down."
aisle. "With Karl Rove, Tom
Bennett stood by his remarks, DeLay and now Bill Frist all
repeating the "morally repre-
under investigation, the
hensible" phrasing, but the
Republicans' culture of corrup-
Democrats couldn't sit still.
tion is alive and well in
"What could he possibly have
Washington, D.C.," she said.
been thinking?" asked House
What a surprise. The
Minority leader Nancy Pelosi,
Republicans get themselves into
D-Calif."This is what is so
a heap o' trouble and the
alarming about his words."
Democrats feel the need to call
a press conference.
Want to really surprise some-
Also last week:
body? Take the high road for a
— New York Times reporter
change. Trust people to under-
stand what these indictments
Judith Miller was released from
and investigations mean.
a 12-week stint in the pokey for
refusing to name a source dur-
Don't waste our time making
ing a federal prosecutor's inves-
up slogans to point out the glar-
ingly obvious.
tigation into the person who
leaked the identity of Valerie
Say something like, "We have
Plame, a CIA operative, to
no comment. Don't ask us again
columnist Robert Novak.
what we think of the other side.
Ask us the important questions.
Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Vice
President Dick Cheney's chief of Ask us what plans we have to fix
staff, gave Miller the go-ahead
the problems facing our nation,
to testify and name him as the
and we'll be glad to tell you."
source.
Then tell us. And if you don't,
He joins White House Chief of we'll assume that your plan is to
criticize the other guy, which
Staff Karl Rove on the front
pages of this story. It was
isn't much of a plan, and it
probably won't get you many
learned a few months ago that
votes.
U.S. Rep. Tom DeLay
William Bennett
Greetings...
I'd like to wish all IN readers
a happy and healthy New Year
— to all non-Jewish readers,
have a great week and sorry
about the traffic jams you'll
encounter near the synagogues.
And to all you Wolverine
fans, even though you beat my
Spartans, your football team
still isn't all that good. We'll
have the last laugh when we
take our revenge in the grudge-
match battle for the 23rd spot
on the BCS poll at the Fort
Worth Bowl. Booya!
Harry Kirsbaum's e-mail address
is hkirsbaum@thejewishnews.com .
October 6