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Scrapbook BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? It is no surprise that the world's most prominent wronged wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is feeling underappreciated at home these days. But isn't this taking...
...Biden began his questioning of Ritter by falsely claiming that Ritter was single-handedly trying to determine when the United States should use military force against Iraq...
...Boston Globe, Oct...
...Big-league PR executives commented on Clinton's body language and tone of voice and whatnot...
...Ayatskov should start her work stoppage right away...
...So if we don't get the changes that I think we need, sometime in the 21st century I hope we'll have a global work stoppage inside the home...
...If one day women stopped doing the work they do in the home," Mrs...
...In a discussion with Russian women in Moscow last week, the first lady said that nothing ails the world's women that a good old-fashioned strike couldn't cure...
...Most Michigan Democrats, recognizing Fieger's liabilities, have been shrewd enough not to align themselves too closely with him...
...In deciding about his last two years in office, the good citizen might attempt the maturity Clinton has shown at his best, not the passion he pursued at his worst...
...29, 1992 here is no such thing as truth to A [George Bush...
...That's why they get the limos and you don't...
...It should have read: "We have an uninterrupted democracy stretching back to the eighteenth century...
...THE DEMOCRATS' DAVID DUKE Geoffrey Fieger, the out-of-control Democratic nominee for governor in Michigan, continues to be an embarrassment to the Democratic party...
...They may not be able to maintain their silence too long, though: A Republican campaign theme this fall will be to ask Democrats to clarify whether they stand with Fieger...
...One of them, however, disdained all such talk of style as a news media "obsession" and returned instead to first principles...
...Clinton seems to be confusing the personal with the political...
...But isn't this taking things a bit far...
...But if Al Gore became president, he would name a new vice president, who would be confirmed by the Senate...
...But it wouldn't happen...
...Biden came across not only as insufferably condescending and bullying, but as a man with an unseemly fixation on pay grades...
...Louisville Courier-Journal, Oct...
...There's a further bizarre addendum to the president's Moscow sojourn: The governor of the Russian region of Saratov, a politician called Dmitry Ayatskov, got to meet the leader of the Free World and really, really liked him...
...Maybe Mrs...
...Having recklessly distorted Ritter's position, Biden then berated Ritter—even calling him "Scottie boy"—for holding views he'd never expressed...
...By the same token, they've been unwilling to say anything critical of him...
...Clinton said, "it wouldn't take an economist to understand how important women's contributions are to keeping society going...
...Unlike the French, we haven't had a Second Republic or Third, Fourth, or Fifth...
...It's above your pay grade...
...Newt would stay in third place...
...BILL CLINTON'S GREATEST HITS eople expect you to look them in the eye, tell em the truth, and they evaluate it...
...But hey...
...And The Scrapbook gets its own Fox News show...
...New York counselor Robert Dilenschneider," the newsletter reports, believes a presidential resignation or impeachment is unlikely "because Democrats do not want Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich as Vice President (replacing Al Gore who would become President...
...He just says whatever sounds good...
...SENATOR JOEY BOY Joe Biden of Delaware turned in a shameful performance at last week's Senate hearing with Scott Ritter—the United Nations official who recently resigned because the Clinton administration was blocking his weapons inspections in Iraq (see Matthew Rees's "Smearing Scott Ritter," page 9...
...Otherwise, this year of the French will end as...
...How much...
...The Scrapbook is charmed by the idea of a Dilenschneider Amendment to the Constitution, which would go something like this: If the president gets impeached, the vice president takes his place . . . and everyone else in the country gets to move up a chair, too...
...Not for the first time, Mrs...
...Just in case Ritter didn't understand the first time, Biden repeated the point later: "They get paid more than you, their job's a hell of a lot more complicated than yours...
...Whether or not to take the nation to war . . . that's a real tough decision...
...Yes, that would be a problem...
...That's why they get paid the big bucks...
...Maybe all those hair plugs are getting a little expensive for the senatorial pay grade...
...The Associated Press quoted a dizzy Ayatskov saying, "I envy Monica Lewinsky...
...The president-elect, after the Iran-contra pardons, December 1992 SORRY The printer garbled the final paragraph of Christopher Matthews's review last week ("Clinton v. America...
...IT TAKES A FLACK Jack O'Dwyer's Newsletter, the "inside news of public relations," had a fascinating item in its August 26 edition on the president's televised Lewinsky speech...
...29,1992 am concerned by any action which sends a signal that if you work for the government you're above the law, or that not telling the truth to Congress, under oath, is somehow less serious than not telling the truth to some other body under oath...
...Think of it: Newt gets to be vice president, president pro tempore of the Senate Strom Thurmond becomes the oldest speaker ever...
...Bill Bennett's Book of Outrage...
...It is true that the nation's rules of presidential succession hold—as only a few schoolboys but every speaker of the House knows—that when the president and vice-president are simultaneously incapacitated, the speaker becomes president...
...His failure to retract any of his venomous statements— he's compared Orthodox rabbis to Nazis—prompted Abraham Foxman of the Anti-Defamation League to send him a letter on September 2 saying that such statements are "shockingly offensive, outrageous and unacceptable...
...Betsy McCaughey Ross gets to be governor of New York, Avis takes over as the number-one car-rental agency, and Sammy Sosa wins the home-run title instead of Mark McGwire...
...We have only the one we started with...
...I respectfully suggest, Major," that "they [the secretary of state and secretary of defense] have responsibilities slightly above your pay grade...
...Seeing how they tiptoe around this issue should make for priceless political theater...
Vol. 4 • September 1998 • No. 1
