LOTT TOWEYRICH: TAKE AHIKE
Lott to Weyrtch: Take a Htke Conservative leader Paul Weyrich has walked with a cane since breaking his back in an accident over a year ago. As a courtesy to Weyrich, the Senate sergeant-at-arms...
...He wasn't as smart as the transcript in his book suggests, and Ted Koppel and the executive weren't as crude...
...The gathering was two-thirds men and one-third women...
...In recent weeks, Weyrich has been a severe critic of the Republican congressional leadership, and of Trent Lott in particular...
...Not wanting to miss a single opportunity to copy his Democratic-party gurus in the States, Britain's new prime minister, Tony Blair, has sworn allegiance to toilet reform...
...So to keep his appointment on Thursday, Wey-rich had to make his way with difficulty from the security perimeter to the Capitol Building...
...The King of Schmooze Larry King's USA Today column is, as the many aficionados who read it know, always a treat...
...One of Rauch's most devastating revelations concerns a hearing before the Joint Economic Committee...
...Whether Liberalism...
...First, former AFL-CIO chief Lane Kirkland wrote a devastating letter, published in the Forward, showing how Reich distorted the truth when describing their meetings...
...The really fancy kind, with super high pressure, make a noise like a jet plane and have an annoying tendency to spray refuse up as much as wash it out...
...Reich apparently made it up for dramatic effect...
...The majority leader doesn't like criticism and apparently wanted to show Weyrich that there would be a price to pay for his outspokenness...
...Then a member of the National Association of Manufacturers, John S. Irving, began distributing a large dossier describing how Reich dishonestly portrayed a meeting with that organization...
...Weyrich's office called last Wednesday to routinely clear Weyrich's car and driver through for a meeting with a senator the next day...
...Larry recounts Ted's speech to the ranch hands, who thankfully "were reassured by his earthy approach...
...Reich describes a furious outburst by Republican chairman Jim Saxton...
...Somehow, we're not surprised...
...And a ball of 12 sheets of toilet paper has to go down four times out of five...
...We're not making this up, alas...
...Will Weyrich file suit under the Americans with Disabilities Act...
...Twenty years into what will undoubtedly be a chronicle of their lives from college to death, Wendy Wasserstein's uncommon women are uncommonly unhappy, their lives a mockery of all that early promise...
...Well, you gotta have a 1.6-gallon maximum tank capacity...
...Sorry_ Apologies to Lisa Schiffren, whose review last week of playwright Wendy Wasserstein's An American Daughter had its concluding line amputated by a technical glitch at the printer (yes, it really does happen that way sometimes...
...Rauch got the C-SPAN tape of the hearing and reports that Saxton's alleged outburst never occurred...
...In a campaign document issued last November, "Ending the Waste," the Labour party blasted John Major's Tories for failing to promote the latest technology in flush toilets...
...A transcript of the session shows a respectful exchange...
...But on Tuesday, May 27, he outdid himself...
...But Weyrich's office was told that the Senate majority leader's office had ordered his privilege revoked...
...The Culture of Cltntontsm Robert Reich learned at least one thing from Bill Clinton: a total disregard for the truth...
...It turns out the war must be waged internationally...
...Most of the new ones don't always get everything down on a single flush...
...This and other discrepancies are detailed in a superb article by Jonathan Rauch in Slate magazine...
...Rather than having to get out of their car at the security barrier at the Capitol and walk a few hundred feet to the entrance, they can drive to the door nearest to their meeting...
...What a guy...
...You're only allowed to have a 1.6-gallon tank, down from the old 3.5-gallon standard...
...And what are those EU standards...
...And a clump of resin with the same approximate density as, well, you know, also has to go down four times out of five...
...As a courtesy to Weyrich, the Senate sergeant-at-arms granted him the same privilege that is routinely accorded to members of Congress, dignitaries, and the disabled...
...It seems Lott found a remarkably petty way to make the point...
...They don't work very well, do they...
...England must be "leading the world" in water use...
...His newly published account of his time in the Clinton administration, Locked in the Cabinet, is now being picked apart for its dishonesty and inaccuracy...
...Larry flew there in Ted's private plane, rode a horse, went fishing, hiked, and engaged in lively and witty repartee with Ted and Jane (one highlight from Jane: "It's not much, but we call it home...
...Incidentally, Larry tells us "Jane goes by Mrs...
...What next...
...Here is the last paragraph, as it should have appeared: "And now, the voters are rejecting all the good they want to do...
...So valiant House Republican Joe Knollenberg of Michigan has introduced legislation to nullify this idiotic requirement and return America to its golden plumbing age: 3.5 gallons or fight...
...Indeed, Larry tells us that Ted stopped on the road to remove a snake so it wouldn't get run over...
...Stay tuned...
...Turner in private life," whatever that means...
...Reich described it as an angry confrontation between a brave little labor secretary (himself) and a growling, cigar-smoking, all-male enclave of capitalists...
...And sawdust dropped in a damp bowl must not stick to more than 5,000 square millimeters...
...If you've bought a new home since 1993, you know all about the modern toilets mandated by the last Democratic Congress in the Energy Policy Act of 1992...
...In reality, there was no cigar smoking...
...Failure to adopt European Union standards for water use is simply "not good enough...
...He devoted his entire "News and Views" to his visit with fiancee Shawn to Ted Turner's ranch in northern New Mexico...
...Our own 30-second Nexis search found that a Nightline episode described by Reich as a neat little morality play between himself and a corporate downsizer was in reality not as neat as in Reich's telling...
...What's amazing is how Reich made up stories that were so easily checkable...
...There were no hisses or screams, as Reich alleges in his book...
Vol. 2 • June 1997 • No. 38
