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Scrapbook A Well-Oiled Amendment Roscoe Bartlett has a plan to close the gender gap. Bartlett, a second-term Republican representative from Maryland, has offered an amendment to the National...
...Dole might want to keep those statistics handy for his acceptance speech at the convention in San Diego...
...Maybe not, but he couldn't take the criticism...
...Al Franken Is a Big Fat Baby Comedian Al Franken, author of the bestselling Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot, made a "joke" about Newt Gingrich, his daughter, and menstruation at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on May 4. The dinner, attended by 2,800 scribblers, politicians, and assorted celebrity hangers-on, was a Clinton love-in...
...We Don't Need No Stinkin' Tax Cut Meanwhile, back at the Dole campaign, Dole's success in using the gas tax as an issue against Bill Clinton has prompted his advisers to consider something bolder in the tax area-maybe a Reagan-style, across-the-board reduction in income tax rates, 15 percent over three years...
...Most of those in attendance leaned away from tax cuts and toward deficit cuts...
...They "can also compromise our defense readiness" by inciting misbehavior like Tailhook and outrages like the recent rape of a schoolgirl on Okinawa...
...The first person to arrive at Gingrich's table with apologies was Vice President Gore...
...Dole mostly stayed mum, but his longstanding discomfort with tax-cutting was revealed in a private meeting with a top Republican who proposed a payroll-tax rebate...
...Pete Domenici and Martin Feldstein, both of whom are supply-side skeptics...
...pornography gums up the gears...
...The governor was aggressive in promoting Arkansas's status as a nonunion, "right to work" state...
...Time for a new book: Al Franken Is a Big Fat Baby...
...The winner gets to be the new Mary Matalin...
...Soon after, Gingrich encountered Franken and told him that, were Gingrich not a public figure, he'd have punched the comic out...
...He recently "thumbed through" a copy of Hustler and made an amazing discovery: According to his personal research, "Three-fourths of all the positions depicted in it are lesbian...
...He said he wasn't...
...What does all this have to do with getting Bob Dole elected president...
...Franken, who had been hard on the president in a previous appearance two years ago, practically blew him kisses this time, as did many in the audience...
...That book is Bouvard and P?cuchet, the last (and uncompleted) novel by Gustave Flaubert, the author of Madame Bovary...
...No surprise here, considering that two of the most vocal participants were Sen...
...Bill Clinton was selling his state as a pro-business paradise with workers just ripe for exploitation...
...Governor Clinton, meet President Clinton...
...Send your suggestions to Let's Close That Gap!, c/o The Weekly Standard, 1150 17th Street, NW, Suite 505, Washington DC 20036...
...And of the fourth that are heterosexual, at least half of those are oral...
...In response, Franken got mad, which led Ross to ask why the comedian was so filled with anger...
...On the other hand, is ridding military bases of soft-core porn really apt to get women excited about the Dole campaign...
...According to Bartlett, such publications aren't simply bad for the morals of enlisted men...
...No kidding...
...What, then, can be done about the gender gap...
...He also described the Team Act-a Dole measure that would allow employers to bargain with their employees independent of the union shop steward-as a "poison pill . . . that will undermine workers' rights...
...She confronted Franken at a Washington brunch the next day and told him he'd gone over the line in his remarks...
...As Bartlett's press secretary Lisa Wright puts it, the military is a "well-oiled machine...
...Or something like that...
...Dole complained such a rebate would be difficult to pay for...
...But a 90-minute private meeting on taxes between Dole, some Senate colleagues, and six conservative economists on May 8 proved a bust, even though it included such bright lights as Chicago's Gary Becker and Harvard's Robert Barro...
...Courtney Sale Ross, the widow of TimeWarner mogul Steve Ross and not known for being a conservative, was as incensed as Gingrich...
...The Reading List In honor of our cover on Extremely Deep Thinkers, we would like to recommend one novel this week, a great book on how Extremely Deep Thinking can get you crosswise of nature itself...
...taking smut out of the PX is a women's issue...
...Maximum Hypocrisy "Raisin g the m inimum wag e," Bill Clinton said last week, "is very important to a lot of us, and more importantly, it's very important to millions and millions of working Americans...
...One of the comic masterpieces of the 19th century, this tale of two fools who try to teach themselves how to farm by reading books has a purity and simplicity of vision that belies the almost heroic labors its author went to in its service: The novel mentions over a thousand books, every one of which Flaubert himself read as research...
...Bartlett should know...
...For the answer, we turn to you...
...Newt Gingrich came by for 20 minutes to push an aggressive tax-cutting strategy, but the dominant voice still belonged to the deficit hawks...
...The governor's office even sent glossy brochures with Clinton's picture on the front boasting of Arkansas's low worker wages and right-to-work laws: "An amendment to our state's constitution guarantees that Arkansas is a right to work state...
...But only a few years ago Gov...
...We think that there is no better way to close the gender gap," he says proudly...
...Everything, says Bartlett...
...So will making up a 20-point deficit in the polls...
...Arkansas ranks among the five lowest states in the nation on average hourly earnings of manufacturing workers...
...I think that there is no way you could look at Hustler magazine and conclude it is not demeaning to women...
...An informal survey taken by Scrap-book staff indicates not...
...The Franken joke was easily as tasteless as the now-infamous Don Imus slap at Clinton at a dinner in March...
...Bartlett, a second-term Republican representative from Maryland, has offered an amendment to the National Security Authorization bill that would ban the sale of nudie magazines like Playboy, Penthouse, and Hustler on military bases...
Vol. 1 • May 1996 • No. 35
