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Insider Report: Hillary Launches Presidential Campaign Special from NewsMax's Most Informed Sources Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories):
1. Blackout Spotlights Democrats' Anti-energy Hysteria
An astute reader from Orlando, Fla., wrote to us Thursday evening:
"Well, does anyone want to start an office pool to see who can come closest to the date and time of the announcement that the power outages in the Northeast are somehow to be blamed upon George Bush? If only he had been in Washington, if only he was more "environmentally friendly," if only he wasn't somehow cozy buddies with people in the oil industry? etc. etc. ad nauseum. And I'll bet it will emanate from the Hildebeast and Chuckles Schumer will be standing next to her leering and grinning for the cameras."
Sure enough, Sen. Hillary Clinton was on national TV attacking the president just hours after the blackout struck. She tried to blame not the Democrats' fanatical opposition to practically any form of energy development (even wind power is a no-no these days; see below) but "deregulation and privatization."
As we reported Friday, she praised the supposed progress under Clinton Energy Secretary Bill Richardson (the clueless dullard who presided over the scandals at Los Alamos National Lab); but right before she phoned in her tirade to CNN, Richardson himself admitted to Larry King: "In the Clinton administration, everybody yawned about this, [saying] oh, we don't need to do this. Oh, we don't have a crisis."
"While deeply troubling, it is not especially surprising to me that there has been a failure of a major North American power grid," committee Chairman Billy Tauzin, R-La., said in a statement Friday.
"Yesterday's massive blackouts, the worst in American history, highlight the critical need for Congress to enact a comprehensive national energy bill this year," he said. "We simply cannot afford to wait any longer. Our economy and our way of life are at stake."
Alan Caruba of National Anxiety Center notes that self-styled "environmentalists" in La-La Land and elsewhere have devastated the nation. "The reason California experienced so many energy problems was that the stupid Californians would not allow power plants to be built and thought they could just keep buying electricity from Colorado, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, and even Canada. No!
"You can't have a massive immigration surge and not expect to use more damned electricity. It's a commodity and, when it gets scarce, the price goes UP," Caruba wrote in a column carried by NewsMax.
We happen to enjoy canoeing, kayaking and hiking. Guess what: Nearly all the people in the outdoors clubs we have joined are Democrat self-styled "environmentalists" who rage against Republicans, who denounce any attempt to develop America's energy resources, who would rather let forest fires burn huge areas of the West than allow desperately needed thinning of forests ... and who drive fuel-swilling SUVs and live in non-solar-powered houses packed with all the latest electronic gizmos.
These are otherwise perfectly nice people, but they just can't see the (100-watt) light. These are the types who fund the Democrat party, which repays them by obstructing oil exploration in Alaska and gas drilling in Colorado.
The saddest thing about yuppie "environmentalists" is that they don't like anything that generates the energy they so gladly guzzle. It's not just fossil fuels that they condemn. Clean-burning nuclear power is of course their biggest bogeyman. But they've opposed geothermal projects because geysers might be disrupted. Hydropower is naughty because a dam might offend some minnow.
Now they're even whining about another non-polluting renewable source of energy, the kind of thing they used to claim they supported: wind power.
Just this past week the Senate's biggest liberal, Teddy Kennedy, joined fellow leftists Robert Kennedy Jr. and Walter Cronkite in denouncing a wind farm in Massachusetts. We're sorry to report that even the excellent historian David McCullough chimed in. They'd rather not have to look at those awful windmills while they're enjoying their yachts and sailboats, they sniff.
It's only the latest example of the NIMBY (Not in My Backyard) snobbery that makes America so dependent on foreign oil.
Despite this obstructionism, far-left Rep. Jerry "Jabba the Hutt" Nadler, D-N.Y., was hogging TV cameras Friday claiming that those wonderful "environmentalists" weren't NIMBYs and did support geothermal and wind power. Jerry, please stop lying and go get another doughnut.
President Bush ought to seize this moment to pound home the folly of the Democrats' anti-energy mania and highlight the need to develop more sources of energy. It's time to put Hillary Clinton, Teddy Kennedy and the other NIMBY-compoops in their place.
The hot air from Teddy alone ought to be enough to power half of Boston.
2. Hillary Launches Presidential Campaign
Speaking of Hillary, some of our Democrat readers (yes, there are tens of thousands of them) express skepticism, to put it nicely, about our reports of her presidential plans. Maybe they'll believe the Detroit News.
"Clinton strikes candidate's pose," the daily reported this past week in an article about her book-signing junket in Michigan, which it likened to a "campaign rally."
"Over two hours, she acted more like a presidential candidate than an author," the News revealed.
Believe it or not, the crowd adored her. "I would love for her to run for president," said Letty Dancel, a real estate broker from Oak Park and native of the Philippines. "She'd have the votes of our family, 16 people."
The News reported: "They were from all over, from Mitzi Esposito of Linden, who admires Clinton's 'bravery,' to Dot Bradsher of Holly, who praised her 'tenacity, her commitment, her values,' to the Rev. Anita Turner of Detroit, who called her 'the greatest woman of her generation.' These weren't readers, they were future campaign workers."
George Murasky, a retiree from Rochester Hills, said, "She's a hell of a woman."
Yes, that's one remark we can agree with.
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3. White House Fears Candidate Wesley Clark
Chatter that retired Gen. Wesley Clark will join the race for the White House is growing. And the Bush campaign is worried.
Administration officials have in recent days checked out the Web site of the organization trying to draft Clark, U.S. News & World Report disclosed Friday.
Even San Francisco Democrat Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, has recently wooed the general, and Arkansas Democrat officials are trying to move up the state's presidential primary to hand the native son an early victory next year, the magazine says.
Clark's supporters say he might wait until October to jump in, which could actually be an advantage over the unimpressive Nine Dwarves.
After all, fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton got a late start in 1992, and look what happened there.
4. 'Doof' John Kerry's Cheesy Blunder
Where's the beef? Don't ask Sen. John Kerry. He'd rather not talk about it.
The White House wannabe has apparently offended all of Philadelphia by ordering Swiss on his cheese steak.
This doesn't seem like that big a deal to us, but then we're not from Philly. Even the pro-Democrat Philadelphia Daily News is in a huff.
The paper says "we may have just witnessed the unraveling of the Democratic front-runner's campaign for the White House right here in South Philadelphia, at 9th and Wharton....
"For presidential candidates, eating a cheese steak in South Philly is a political rite of passage. Clinton did it, and so did Gore. John McCain gobbled one, with hot peppers.
"But this is more than just shaking hands and kissing babies. For a pol, eating a cheese steak is like running the gauntlet - past the surly counterman, through the variety of toppings, finishing it off without looking lame.
"We want to see if you can survive. And if you can't manage a dripping steak, why should we have any confidence that you can handle a slippery character like Osama bin Laden?
"Kerry, you may have heard, failed miserably."
It seems that "ordering Swiss on a cheese steak is like rooting for Dallas at an Eagles game. It isn't just politically incorrect; it could get you a poke in the nose.
"At first, reporters snickered. Then word filtered into the national press that Kerry looked like a doof. Yesterday, the Washington Post compared the debacle to the first President Bush's out-of-touch questions upon encountering a common supermarket scanner."
The daily likens the gaffe to Michael Dukakis' widely mocked photo op in an Army tank, Dan Quayle's misspelling of "potatoe" and Richard Nixon's five o'clock shadow.
"So the man who would be president of the people was photographed delicately gripping the sandwich with his fingertips like he's some kind of Boston blue blood playing the piccolo. You half expected him to ask for a silk napkin, Jeeves."
Well, it might it have been worse. The priss could've asked for Brie.
5. Chuckles, Just for Laughs
We heard that during the blackout New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg dropped into a neighborhood bar. A patron asked the mayor "for a light." The mayor summarily had the man arrested.
Bill Clinton was in New York at his Harlem office when the lights went out. He quickly told his staff with the lights out he would be spending the night in Grand Central Station mixing with passengers. When told that there would be many female commuters crammed into the station, Clinton responded, "I know -- and I plan to have the time of my life."
Did you notice that during the recent blackout, ABC News, CBS News, and NBC News continued to broadcast from New York - while everyone in Manhattan was without power. Wouldn't America be a better place if the reverse were true?
Hillary's bestselling memoir "Rewriting History" is now being compared to another bestselling book that helped another ambitious political figure to grab the leadership of his country, "Mein Kampf." Along those lines, Norm Liebman, a NewsMax Pundit, also recently noted, "In my humble opinion, neither Hillary Clinton nor Eva Braun married well - and neither did their spouses."
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