Politics
Norquist, Grover G.
POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist The Coming Bush Dynasty It will flourish if it knocks down key Clinton pillars. Eight years ago, I wrote an article entitled "The Coming Clinton Dynasty." It...
...Funding earmarked to promote hunting and outdoor sports has been redirected to animal rights groups...
...When Bush re-establishes workers' rights through executive orders and appointments to the Labor Department and National Labor Relations Board, it will cost the labor bosses $400 for every worker who opts out...
...In some states trial lawyers give more to Democrats than union leaders do...
...Carter believed that he and the Great Society liberals were the natural governing majority...
...Thirty-six percent of union members voted for Bush...
...Meanwhile, the INS will not spend the next four years pushing through the naturalization of immigrants with criminal records, as it did under Clinton-Gore...
...The candidate who wins the whole state gets two electoral votes plus one electoral vote for each congressional district he carries...
...If only ten percent exercise their Beck rights and keep their $400, labor boss-es will lose $640 million a year...
...Restoring simple honesty to government will break the five pillars of the Democratic Party...
...In 2oo2, they are up against 20 Republican senators who won despite the Clinton tide of 1996...
...Perhaps President Bush should announce a three-month amnesty for anyone who engaged in voter fraud...
...The first is labor unions, which raise $8 billion a year from 16 million union mem-bers paying an average of $500 dues...
...Americans who turned 21 during the Democratic years 1932-1952 are now 69 to 89 years old...
...But we can provide further protection...
...These taxpayer-funded lobbies are the second pillar of the Democratic Party...
...After eight corrupt years, it's unlikely there is a single government agency whose budget has not been used to benefit the left...
...After the amnesty period the law should be fully enforced...
...If the GOP-dominated state legislatures and COP governors in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania adopted Nebrash/ Maine roles, it would prevent voter fraud in Newark, Detroit, and Philadelphia from overwhelming the rest of the state...
...is already preparing such legislation...
...Bush and a Republican Congress need only insist that funds promised to the poor actually reach the poor to defund the Democrat machines that deliver the votes in Detroit, Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and St...
...Gore states lose six seats...
...They've kept their Democratic leanings, as voters over 7 ~ went 51-43 for Gore over Bush...
...Motor Voter the 2000 election would not have been close...
...Under Clinton-Gore, tens of millions of dollars flowed to left-wing groups through HUD, HHS, and the Department of Edu-cation...
...The prospect of another 12 years in the minority will increase Democratic retirements in 2002...
...Democrats control the governorship and state legislature in five states carried by Bush in 2ooo: Georgia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Alabama, and Mississippi...
...Ten House seats will be lost by Connecticut (1), NewYork (2), Illinois (a), Mississippi (1), Wisconsin (1), Ohio (1), Oklahoma (1), and Pennsylvania (2...
...In July 2ooo the House of Representatives voted 4Ol to 25 to expand the availability of 4offk)s and IRAs...
...It was enough to give Clinton a second term...
...Gould Democrats use this model to hurt Republicans in other states...
...Polls show that Americans of all ages, incomes, and races become more Republican and more conservative when they own stocks...
...Bil-lions of federal contract dollars and billions in extracted tobacco funds went to those who kicked back tens of millions to Demo-cratic candidates...
...Since unions represent only 14 percent of American workers, an uncor-rupted Labor Department would give unions at most 14 percent of such con-tracts...
...If the private sector paid for its own job training programs, taxpayers would keep the billions now sent to unions for recirculation in political kickbacks to Democrats...
...If seri-ous efforts by states to stem voter fraud had not been blocked, Woody Jenkins would today represent Louisiana in the Senate instead of Mary Landrieu...
...The Democrats' Senate hopes are tempered by the realization that in 2ooo they were competing with Republican senators who won in the Gingrich landslide of 1994...
...Even if voter fraud cannot be ended it can be contained...
...Democrats hoping to gain House seats in 2oo2--they only need five more to take the House--learned on election night they had lost the House for the next 12 years...
...With winner-take-all in New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania Gore won 5 ~ electoral votes...
...Although the effort failed, it is estimated that 5,000 felons, mostly Democrats, voted illegally in Florida, and we may never know how many illegal aliens voted...
...Without their artificial support, that party will shrink to its traditional voting strength--i.e., under Humphrey (43 percent), McGovem (38 percent), Carter in 198o (41 percent), Mondale (41 percent), and Clinton in 1992 (43 percent...
...Modest tort reform would deprive pillar number three-greedy trial lawyers -of billions from American consumers...
...resident aliens or illegal aliens who were told to vote have committed a crime that could get them deported...
...Violators streaming in for amnesty would generate three months of headlines, meaning the left could never again laugh about it or suggest it doesn't matter...
...But Bush now has the incentive to level the playing field by stripping the Democrats of their ill-gotten gains...
...Ten will be gained by Texas (2), Nevada 0), Florida 0), Georgia (2), California (1), Colorado (1), and Arizona (2...
...In January 1993, he rescinded the Bush exec-utive order enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision that prohibits unions from using coerced union dues for politics...
...Redistricting should cost the Democrats ten or more seats in 2002...
...By 2oo 4 that will mean 640,ooo fewer Gore voters...
...The advantage of the Electoral College is that the mayor of Chicago cannot invent three million additional votes and steal the national election...
...Candidate Bush was a consistent advocate of tort reform...
...Reform would then be unstoppable...
...If the Bush team is as serious and unflinching over the next four years as it was in the battle for Florida, then we have seen the last close presidential election for a long time...
...The Supreme Court had ruled 7-2 in 1989 that much of the union money spent on poli-tics is not legally raised...
...No one need go to jail if he comes forward during the amnesty...
...Voter fraud is the fifth pillar of the Democratic Party...
...A ll these efforts must be defeated if Bush is to win in 2004 . The focus on ballot integrity in Florida should remind Americans that while they must show a picture ID to cash a check or fly on an airline, most states impose no such obligation on voters...
...Felons who voted on November 7 cornmired another felony and violated their parole or probation terms...
...The Democ-rats hope that an outraged base will sweep them back into control of the House and Senate in 2002 and restore the interrupted Clinton-Gore dynasty...
...States can adopt the Nebraska/ Maine rules that apportion electoral votes by congressional district...
...During the Clinton-Gore years, federal funds flowed like wine to labor unions, environmental groups, and other liberal lobbying organizations...
...Sadly, I was correct...
...Motor Voter facilitated voter fraud...
...Bush would not have ignored New Jersey if he thought he could win seven or more congressional districts, and Republicans might not have lost a Senate seat to millionaire Jon Corzine...
...New Jersey State Senator Joe Kyrillos, Jr...
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...Clinton then signed the "Motor Voter" law, requiring all states to liberalize their voter registration lists...
...But Bush won 25 congressional districts in these three states--enough to have won the election without Florida...
...President George W. Bush will benefit from a Republican majority in the House of Representatives that has now been elect-ed four times and a Senate that is balanced 50-50 with Vice President Dick Cheney able to cast the deciding vote...
...Clinton would ensure that the rules were changed to avoid defeat in 1996...
...Other trends bode well for Republicans...
...But each year, 2 million members of that age cohort die, resulting in a net annual loss of 16o,ooo Democratic voters...
...The Supreme Court found that 80 percent of union dues were not allowable under Beck...
...Big City political machines provide a fourth pillar...
...There were nine Democrats and 24 Republican retirements in 2ooo...
...Carter thought he could win a fair re-election...
...He can only steal the electoral votes of Illinois...
...Clinton knew his party represented a minority...
...The whole 36-day circus in Florida was designed to give the local politicians in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties a chance to manufacture or find enough Gore votes, or lose or damage enough Bush votes, to overcome Bush's margin...
...The secret of Clinton's success was not "triangulation" or "moderation," but a sustained effort to change the rules...
...Democrats voted down amendments that would have allowed states to purge from the rolls the names of those who had died or moved...
...The federal computer file of all felons--developed by liberals to enforce the Brady Bill prohibiting felons from buying firearms-can be checked against the list of those who vote...
...Whether for housing, education, vocational training, Medicaid or Medicare, vouchers are unpopular on the left because they cut out party middlemen...
...This is the left's version of "trickle-down economics...
...The National Coun-cil of Senior Citizens, which started life as Senior Citizens for Kennedy-Johnson, receives $70 million each year in federal funds and actively endorses liberal Democ-rats...
...Despite new open-seat advantages and the power of the White House, Democrats gained only two additional House seats last fall...
...The trial lawyers were allowed to pillage the economy as Clinton vetoed all efforts at tort reform...
...Federal legislation could allow states to drop felons, dead people, and noncitizens from registration rolls...
...It rebutted the hope that Bill Clinton would be another Jimmy Carter, destined to defeat in 1996 by Rea-gan II...
...But as payback to their trial lawyer backers Democ-rats will certainly filibuster most tort reform...
...students who voted at school and by absentee at their parents' address, like those in Wisconsin, should by rights go to prison rather than back to school next fall...
...Under Clinton-Gore, the Labor Department became the property of the AFL-CIO...
...Each year, up to $3 billion in contracts goes to labor unions, often with-out bid...
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...But Clinton refused to enforce the law of the land ban-ning coerced union dues in politics...
...Without GROVER G. NORQUIST is president of Americans for Tax Reform...
...Clinton fought hard to insist 58 February 2001 . The American Spectator that federal funds to "help the poor" flow first to mayors and Democrat precinct workers and only then to the needy...
...To do that he'll have to shake the Democrats' five pillars...
...If those states adopted the Nebraska/Maine law, Gore would have gained only 9 electoral votes...
...Even modest reform of the Labor Department's spending could cost the labor bosses $1 billion a year...
...Redistricting will take effect in time for the 2o02 elections...
...Democrats fought to keep overseas and military ballots, which trend Republican, from counting in Florida and other states...
...It was almost enough to steal the 2000 election...
...In 2000 a number of Democrats delayed retirement plans at Dick Gephardt's request...
...A competent OMB working with cab-inet officers and committee staff can put a foot on this air hose...
...Bush states gain eight...
...He might not have won in 1996 if he had fol-lowed the law...
...The number of Americans investing in the stock market will continue to grow...
...POLITICS by Grover G. Norquist The Coming Bush Dynasty It will flourish if it knocks down key Clinton pillars...
...They also fought to keep dead, moved, and non-citizen names on the voting rolls...
Vol. 34 • February 2001 • No. 1
