Collective Guilt
O'Rourke, P. J.
Collective Guilt To mark the November birthday of Great Americans Joe McCarthy and P. J. O'Rourke, our fifth annual New Enemies List—which this year applies the Nuremberg Laws to all operatives...
...In Washington it's being called "The Vince Foster Vote...
...We never ever had one...
...who, just before the Persian Gulf war, urged federal employees to come forward with any information indicating the Bush administration was withholding the full truth about its actions in the Gulf...
...This is the U.N.-in-Sarajevo school of good works...
...Mickey Kantor While we're on the subject of moral ooze and goo, let us not forget the United States trade representative...
...Strobe Talbott As Com-symps go, the ambassador-at-large to the former Soviet republics gets points for persistence...
...We tend to think of the powerful currents of creative energy circulating through every one of us as benign, but they can be volatile and dangerous if not properly grounded...
...Tipper Gore The September-October 1993 issue of the new magazine for yuppie breeders, Family Life, quotes Mrs...
...She will say, "It was just the same as if someone had come into your yard and taken all your toys and told you they weren't yours anymore...
...a new value-added tax...
...But kids grow up...
...Below is a verbatim transcript from the June 3, 1993, ABC Nightline show where Gore attempted to defend Clinton's withdrawal of the Lani Guinier nomination...
...by P J. O'Rourke T his year the Enemies List has been limited to members and cohorts of the Clinton administration, those simps and ninnies, lava-lamp liberals and condo pinks, spoiled twerps, wiffenpoofs, ratchet-jawed purveyors of monkey doodle and baked wind, piddlers upon merit, beggars at the door of accomplishment, thieves of livelihood, envy-coddling tax lice applauding themselves for their magnanimity with the money of others, their nose in virtue's bum...
...Gore: "We were coming home from lunch with their dad, and the kids pointed out a homeless woman on the street," says Tipper...
...I could be wrong...
...Yet today I call you to my riverside, If you will study war no more...
...Those events are actually a repudiation of the hawkish conventional wisdom that has largely prevailed over the past 40 years...
...Roberta Achtenberg The Clinton-appointee Bad Taste Award goes to the assistant secretary for fair housing at the Department of Housing and Urban Development...
...I refer those with short memories or new subscriptions to Daniel Wattenberg's article, "Clinton's Hard-Line Appeaser" in the February 1993 issue of TAS...
...This brings us to Vince Foster...
...What the true sanctimonious liberal does is "raise public awareness...
...She knows some children who only live with their dads, and children who have two dads...
...There was no disgrace in what he did...
...Here the slavering Martha Sherrill writes: Way in the future, when she's old and probably legendary, Hillary Clinton wants to be able to look back and feel that she led "an integrated life," she says, sitting in her West Wing office last week...
...Robert E. Rubin That layer of hypocritical slime which coats all liberalism has never been thicker than it is upon this chairman of Clinton's National Economic Council and former head of the Goldman Sachs investment house...
...Kelly lists a number of Lerner's other proposals for the Clinton administration: These include: that the Department of Labor order "every workplace" in America "to create a mission statement explaining its function and what conception of the common good it is Clintonspeak "[My first one hundred days] will be the most productive period in modern history...
...interview with USA Today, August 12, 1992 Clinton Doublespeak REPORTER: "We were originally led to believe that you'd have an outline to Congress even before the inauguration and presented on Day One or shortly thereafter...
...We don't want any of that—NAFrA or no NAFTA, this is a Democratic administration...
...Hillary is reported to have greeted Lerner by saying, "Am I your mouthpiece or what...
...The idea of Hillary being the brains behind the Clinton administration is . . . very likely, come to think of it...
...But there are no exemptions for those who are deranged and wacky and bad...
...When will it be ready...
...According to syndicated columnist Don Feder, "Michael Lerner has said, 'This woman is just as smart and sensitive and morally attuned as I am.' " And we couldn't have put it better...
...Wattenberg described how Delta Force commander Col...
...At the horse track they call it "a boat race...
...In reading Michael Kelly's enormously enjoyable Cuisinart job on the First Lady, "Saint Hillary," in the May 23, 1993 New York Times Magazine, we discover that Lerner pulled no punches when invited to the White House by his heavy-breathing acolyte: "I proposed that the Clinton Administration establish a policy where, for any proposed legislation or new program, there would have to be written first an Ethical and Community Environmental Impact Report, which would require each agency to report how the proposed legislation or new program would impact on shaping the ethics and the caring and sharing of the community covered by that agency...
...who aided and abetted ex-CIA agent Philip Agee in his campaign during the 70's to expose the identities of CIA agents overseas, which is believed to have resulted in the murder of the CIA's Athens station chief...
...Laura d'Andrea Tyson The Capital Research Center, which keeps an eye on the sleazy side of our nation's "non-profit" organizations, has caught the chairman of Clinton's Council of Economic Advisers asserting that "there is no relationship between the taxes a nation pays and its economic performance...
...A Whole Bunch of Future Ex-Senators and Soon-To-Be Former Congressmen We know the Democrats love the poor because they just created so many more of them...
...p The American Spectator November 1993 23 Sometimes she (Rental and her best friend, Josh, play trucks...
...Rubin sent a letter from the White House to his former investment banking clients saying, "I also look forward to continuing to work with you in my new capacity...
...In your next lifetime, Matey, a commission awaits you in the Navy of Chad...
...Of course not...
...Apparently the President of the United States gets some licks in, too...
...He's not protecting plant life, he is plant life...
...And they remember...
...We didn't declare a truce in World War II just because Hitler needed lithium...
...The same article in Family Life has Tipper telling us: "The Halloween the kids like to recount best is when Al dressed up as a carrot...
...But wait...
...That is, we were supposed to put a money squeeze on somebody who was sitting on top of a third of the world's oil...
...She wants to have felt unified, whole...
...Of course we loathe her—who are we to disagree with her own husband...
...There's Jeffrey Dahmer to be considered—and Ellen Goodman...
...Warren Christopher Again...
...Ira Magaziner and the Entire Task Force on Health Care They want us all to be as healthy and long-lived as the folks in Ulan Bator and Minsk...
...GoRE: The theories—the ideas she expressed about equality of results within legislative bodies and with—by outcome, by decisions made by legislative bodies, ideas related to proportional voting as a general remedy, not in particular cases where the circumstances make that a feasible idea...
...If only this nation would rise up and tell the NRA to get lost...
...In an extraordinarily fatuous piece titled "Rethinking the Red Menace" in the January 1, 1990 issue of Time, Talbott opined: It is a solipsistic delusion to think the West could bring about the seismic events now seizing the USSR and its "fraternal" neighbors...
...and waited almost thirty hours before giving Vince Foster's suicide note to the authorities...
...Even after the Coms went, he kept on symping...
...Possibly I've failed to learn anything from all the marvelous work that's been done by social scientists over the past three-quarters of a century...
...At Thanksgiving time, Renita's teacher will tell a story about how people from Europe came to the United States, where the Indians lived...
...Those are from a random glance at pages 220-21 in the tree-wasting, error-clogged paperback edition of EITB...
...Nor is this his only foray into white-collar crime...
...bombing of Cambodia in 1969...
...Crowe's previous bright idea was to use economic sanctions to get Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait...
...After her kindergarten class is over Renata goes to a small day-care center operated by a] neighbor who takes care of five children in her home...
...Then Roberta had the nerve to claim that Senator Jesse Helms opposed her nomination because of anti-Semitism...
...Wait a minute, Stretch, "rise up," or at least maintaining the option to do so, is why we've got those guns...
...In the former Soviet Union they've got a word for people like Alice, and, in parts of the former Soviet Bloc, Afghanistan for instance, they know what to do with them...
...Go way back and sit down, Laura...
...gave a thumbs-up to Lani Guinier...
...America suffered from a "sleeping sickness of the soul," a "sense that somehow economic growth and prosperity, political democracy and freedom are not enough—that we lack at some core level meaning in our individual lives and meaning collectively, the sense that our lives are part of some greater effort, that we are connected to one another, that community means that we have a place where we belong no matter who we are...
...She argues that "claims made for the advantages of free enterprise in education have no firm basis in actual experience" and praises "centrally planned economies" because they "provide lifetime security for workers...
...Once the Clintonites are ordinary citizens again, they will be able to receive the mental health care of which they are in such dire need—and all for free, thanks to national health care reforms spearheaded by the First Lady...
...I explained we couldn't do that, but that each of us could do something...
...Collective Guilt To mark the November birthday of Great Americans Joe McCarthy and P. J. O'Rourke, our fifth annual New Enemies List—which this year applies the Nuremberg Laws to all operatives and apologists of the Clinton regime...
...Marian Wright Edelman Head of the Children's Defense Fund and the Fagin of family law...
...She went on to cofound Families for the Homeless, a nonpartisan partnership of congressional, administration and media families to raise public awareness about homeless people and their needs...
...usually it manifests itself over a period of years, or even a lifetime...
...Foster has no place on the Enemies List...
...Nonetheless the First Lady has been gravely misunderstood by the right...
...Shalala used the Speech to describe an ideal world of the future, as seen through the eyes of "Renata," a typical 4- year-old kindergarten student in 2004: Renata doesn't know any moms who don't work, but she knows lots of moms who are single...
...Hence the remarkable economic growth in the United Kingdom between the end of World War II and the election of Margaret Thatcher...
...Take our advice, Marian, and stick to Animal Rights or House Plant Liberation or campaigning for Al Gore...
...They are dung beetles in legislation, legislators in the bed chamber, chambermaids on the battlefield, and field marshals in the war against everything reasonable and decent...
...just had had a little too much Miracle Gro that day, try reading his book, Earth in the Balance: The cleavage in the modern world between mind and body, man and nature, has created a new kind of addiction: I believe that our civilization is, in effect, addicted to the consumption of the earth itself...
...a person who is not "grounded" in body as well as mind, in feelings as well as thoughts, can pose a threat to whatever he or she touches...
...Next stop: "Strength Through Joy...
...Donna Shalala The January 23, 1993, issue of Human Events reprinted long excerpts from a speech the secretary of health and human services delivered at the University of Chicago on November 15, 1991...
...Let's run that convertible by the Wailing Wall, Bobbi, and see what kind of reaction you get...
...Perhaps they're sick...
...Give them a buck...
...Play ball...
...Sharp as tacks, those Gore kids—they noticed...
...W hich brings us to the Hill of Beans herself...
...We didn't unilaterally disarm just because Stalin was running with one wheel in the sand...
...What a chowder-skull...
...We call her "harridan," "virago," "termagent," and "The Lady Macbeth of Little Rock...
...George is someone the president can do that to...
...Maybe next time you should try making that speech to the survivors of the Warsaw ghetto, or folks who were in Hungary in 1956 or Czechoslovakia in 1968 or Bosnia right now...
...So Bill and Al are nutty...
...Hillary often quotes from an address book full of inspirational sayings and scripture," says the irony-proof Sherrill...
...The guns would be strictly for protection against threats to the students' health—such as getting shot first...
...And there you have the morality of liberalism in a nutshell...
...We say, "Hey, Donna, you ofay broad, you crap-worshiping putty-faced Stalinist retard, molester of dogs and honorary citizen of North Korea, you're old...
...As Vince Foster said, "Here ruining people is considered sport...
...The FBI is investigating allegations that Brown received $700,000 from the Vietnamese government in return for promoting free trade...
...Hark now to Angelou's "On the Pulse of Morning": Your armed struggles for profit Have left collars of waste upon My shore, currents of debris upon my breast...
...Not to worry, Ron, even if the accusations are true, by the time you get done paying Clinton-era income taxes, that bribery offense will be only misdemeanor-sized...
...He is a former American Civil Liberties Union lawyer who defended the right of the ultraradical Progressive magazine in 1979 to publish a recipe for the hydrogen bomb...
...Ibid...
...Joycelyn Elders You've got to love a Surgeon General who's in such serious need of a StairMaster...
...Landslide Billy's tax package passed the Senate 51 to 50 and the House 218 to 216...
...She opposed efforts by then-Mayor Dianne Feinstein and city health officials to close gay bath houses to stem the AIDS epidemic...
...interviewed Kimba Wood but failed to discover that she had nanny problems, too...
...VICE PRES...
...20 The American Spectator November 1993 help...
...such lying rarely, if ever, centers about a single event...
...Ted Koppel has just asked Gore, "Can you . . . tell me what it is they disagreed on...
...Now that he's got his pile, he's over at the OEOB stealing money from old people and middle-class professionals...
...who unabashedly avowed, in print and in congressional testimony, his opposition to any and all covert intelligence operations...
...They have a need to blow occasionally...
...CI 28 The American Spectator November 1993...
...And suddenly we realize that what we should be calling Hillary is "intellectual dust kitty...
...Harry Thomason and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason "If Mark Twain were alive today, he would be writing in television," said Linda in an interview in the New York Times...
...According to Beckwith, who is one of our country's most highly decorated soldiers, Christopher's reply was, "Well, would you consider shooting them in the leg, or in the ankle or the shoulder...
...You're 45, Ira, not getting any younger, and an intense fellow, we hear...
...The convertible was decorated with a sign reading "Celebrating Family Values...
...And maybe what we think is disorganization, incompetence, mendacity, folly, pandering, and Marxism-sold-by-the-drink is actually a plea for P J. O'Rourke is the author of The Bachelor Home Companion, Give War a Chance, Republican Party Reptile, Holidays in Hell, and A Parliament of Whores...
...Anyone who is holding a hostage," said Beckwith, "we intend to shoot him right between the eyes...
...Good Morning America," June 23, 1992 "If I'm elected I'll have the bills ready the day after I'm inaugurated...
...Our venture in revolution and outlawry Has justified itself in freedom's story Right down to now in glory upon glory...
...James's was the only military man above the rank of idiot to support Bill Clinton...
...If this is true and the Clinton administration is a form of mass psychosis, there's only one thing to do...
...Here Mr...
...Ambassador Madeleine Albright, and National Security Adviser Anthony Lake According to the August 19, 1993, edition of America's Izvestia, the Boston Globe, these three lukewarm warriors are urging the president to allow U.S...
...At the very least the public is owed an accounting of who gets to walk the red carpet...
...We must return these people to private life as quickly as possible, by impeachment if necessary...
...The Washington Times, in an editorial on June 28, 1993, described Halperin thus: 24 The American Spectator November 1993 He is a former Nixon administration official who had his phone tapped by the FBI because he was suspected of leaking information to the press about the secret U.S...
...He is a former member of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace who believes the United States should never intervene militarily anywhere without an invitation from the United Nations...
...Michael Kelly, in his Times Magazine article, painted the view from Hillary's head: The Western world, she said, needed to be made anew...
...And an incoherent one...
...She wants her emotional life and physical life, her spiritual life and political life all to fit together, in sync, an orchestra sitting down to play the same song...
...It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval," said Mark Twain in What Is Man...
...Charlie Beckwith briefed President Carter and the nation's top security advisers on the plan to rescue American hostages being held by Iranian Revolutionary Guards...
...He sees nothing wrong with helping the Democratic Party in his off hours to raise money by providing private briefings in his office for big-ticket contributors...
...Perhaps Clinton and his appointees aren't evil...
...She's a bossy little rich snoot of a goody-two-shoes and not real bright who got into a fancy law school when girls were in season...
...How'd you like to have the Post Office perform your triple bypass...
...The president and his spawn, incubi at the public teat, surpass Kennedy in their arrogance, Johnson in their lack of scruples, and Carter in their plain stupidity...
...Managed competition" has a nice ring to it...
...Janet Reno Addressing the National Black Prosecutors Association this August, the attorney general said, "We have to do something about guns...
...Help people...
...When Shalala was chancellor of the University of Wisconsin, she championed a ban on language that would be "demeaning" to any "race, sex, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national ancestry or age...
...Or, if you think the V.P...
...Bruce Babbitt We remember the interior secretary from his 1988 presidential primary campaign...
...The American Spectator November 1993 21 Secretary of State Warren Christopher, U.N...
...The various scads and oodles of children sired by Al ("No goal is more crucial to healing the global environment than stabilizing human population"—EITB, p. 307) Gore are not on this Enemies List, however...
...Note how the left has quit trying to be a vanguard to anybody large or healthy enough to punch them in the nose: modern Bolshies pester the crippled, the diseased, and, of course, kids...
...George Stephanopoulos Beneath contempt in every sense of the phrase—besides, why bother to attack someone when his haircut is doing it for you...
...Suchlike has not passed through that large intestine which is the Executive Branch since Franklin Delano Roosevelt was wheeled up the disabled access ramp to the gates of Hell...
...Instead of hanging him, however, the Clinton administration has nominated him to a newly created position in the Defense Department—the (get this for an Orwellian title) assistant secretary of defense for democracy and peacekeeping...
...the whole town would be Ur...
...As a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors,Roberta took action against the Boy Scouts of America for their policy of barring homosexuals as scoutmasters...
...They are the shih tzus of Poli Sci returning to the vomit of liberalism, little boar pigs looking to rut with that sow-who-eats-heryoung, the welfare state, squamous muck-dwellers bottom-feeding on the worries and disappointments of the electorate—ditch carp of democracy...
...She spoke of . . . a nation crippled by "alienation and despair and hopelessness," a nation that was in the throes of a "crisis of meaning...
...There's a place in the federal system for Robert E. Rubin—the place just vacated by Michael Milken...
...The back yard of the home is a playground which has been constructed with grant money from the city...
...sometimes they play mommy and daddy, and Josh always puts the baby to bed and changes the diapers, just like his own dad does at home...
...We are going to make a rare exception in Mickey's case and quote a New York Times editorial someplace other than in the "Current Wisdom" section of this publication...
...Ex–bucket shop operator Bob made $29.3 million in 1992, taxed at nice, low Republican rates...
...Admiral William J. Crowe The former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the next ambassador to the Court of St...
...So, when your boy is ordered into battle backwards, armed only with a sharp stick, by Eleventy-Star General Mumbungle Butthole of the Republic of Bulemia, you'll know where to address your letters of complaint...
...continued on page 28) The American Spectator November 1993 25 Michael Lerner When it comes to cordless bungee-jumping into the abyss of bad ideas, it's hard to beat editor of Tikkun, Hillary guru, and general dispenser of sociopolitical meadow dressing Lerner...
...If she can hand out condoms in the schools, why can't we hand out pistols...
...Bernard Nussbaum The White House counsel advised Clinton to fight for Zoe Baird's nomination despite her illegal nanny troubles...
...Alice M. Rivlin Capital Research has also tipped us to the ideology of the Office of Management and Budget's deputy director: Rivlin favors higher taxes, especially on energy use...
...This makes every pol who said "aye" personally responsible for the economic rape of the nation...
...Yet perhaps it's time for us to reassess our opinion of Hillary Rodham Clinton...
...It's likely that the president himself is crazy, at least if the Psychiatric Dictionary published by Bill's alma mater Oxford University is anything to go by: lying, pathological...
...Back in the sixties, the halls of academia were three deep with them...
...Shalala finished her speech by saying that these things would come to pass because "we made it our top priority in our communities and in our Congress...
...countenanced White House staff pressure on the FBI during Travelgate...
...I would want to have another one of those 100-day periods like Roosevelt did...
...Tipper, America's bag ladies thank you from the bottom of their, um, paper bags...
...And (we hope this wasn't a related development) she obtained city funding for a recreation and counseling center for homosexual youth...
...and a unified state-level tax on corporations, incomes and real estate to eliminate competition for low-tax states...
...When have we seen such an administration of pukes and feebs...
...Morton Halperin Talbott is a mere useful idiot and fellow traveler...
...The following appeared on May 27, 1993: Mickey Kantor . . . is a busy man...
...Actually, strike Bernie off our list—he's obviously an RNC plant...
...No one dies of disgrace in Washington...
...combat troops to regularly serve in United Nations peace-keeping missions under the command of U. N. officers...
...If the Soviet Union had ever been as strong as the threatmongers believed, it would not be undergoing its current upheavals...
...And we don't want to heap abuse on someone who has so recently become a Good Democrat...
...Halperin is an actual traitor to his nation...
...In San Francisco's 1992 Gay Pride Parade, Roberta rode in a white convertible kissing and embracing her girlfriend, San Francisco Municipal Court Judge Mary Morgan, while Judge Morgan's 7-year-old son was in the car...
...Maya Angelou Thirty-two years ago, dead, white, European male Robert Frost wrote a poem for a presidential inauguration...
...But let us examine a lickspittle piece in the May 6, 1993 Style section of the Washington Post...
...Falsification entirely disproportionate to any discernible end in view...
...It went, in part, like this: Some poor fool has been saying in his heart Glory is out of date in life and art...
...Such is progress in the Clinton years...
...We can hear it now: Tomorrow Is the First Day of the Rest of the Month...
...CLINTON: "I don't know who led you to believe that, but I'm the only one who's authorized to talk about that...
...sponsor 'Honor Labor' campaigns designed to highlight the honor due to people for their contributions to the common good," and "train a corps of union personnel, worker representatives and psychotherapists in the relevant skills to assist developing a new spirit of cooperation, mutual caring and dedication to work...
...I'll send them to Congress and we'll have a hundred-day period...
...Ron Brown Clinton's secretary of commerce is suspected of having engaged in—you guessed it—commerce...
...Barnes quotes a senior White House official as saying, "Every president has a lot of frustration...
...He's in charge of the nation's effort to reduce foreign trade barriers and increase opportunities for American businesses to expand abroad...
...They wanted to take her home...
...I would want to have a whirlwind set of early proposals to the Congress and early successes...
...And the kids would be told that abstaining from killing people is always a valid option...
...Of course, the vice president is a loon, too...
...We would kick this man but we have too much respect for our shoes...
...Dee Dee Myers, January 12, 1993serving and how it is doing so...
...P.S.: We didn't notice any NRA officials shooting people in Waco...
...We certainly hope mere verbal abuse is being discussed here and that the senior White House official was making no innuendos...
...According to Fred Barnes in the September 6, 1993 issue of the New Republic, George's principal role in the West Wing is "lightning rod for Clinton's temper tantrums...
...press conference, January 14, 1993 Clinton Doublespokesperson "People of the press are expecting to have some 100-day program...
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