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Insider Report: Ann Coulter: Charge: Bush Stole Mexican Election Special From NewsMax's Most Informed Sources
Headlines (Scroll down for complete stories): 1. Hillary Really Worried About Pelosi Washington insiders who have close contacts with Hillary Clinton's inner circle tell NewsMax that one leading Democrat is not happy about Nancy Pelosi's upcoming rise to speaker of the House Hillary herself. At first blush, feminist Pelosi and her "San Francisco values" would seem to be a good fit with Clinton, who is eyeing a run for president in 2008. But politics is getting in the way. Hillary fears that the California congresswoman will rival her as the leading woman in her party, a position Hillary held before the Democrats took control of Congress in the midterm elections. Another concern for Hillary, according to a source, is that if Pelosi is seen as a failure in her role as speaker, that could convince many that a woman isn't up to handling a top job in Washington.
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"Hillary loses whether Pelosi succeeds or fails," the source said. Others see more problems with the Hillary-Pelosi dynamic. Writing in the New York Post, Deborah Orin-Eilbeck states that Pelosi's rise "might ruin Clinton's 2008 dreams." According to the columnist, "Pelosi comes across as a shrill anti-military, anti-prayer, sharply partisan super-liberal who angrily insults Republican foes as immoral.' "It's just the hard-edged image that Clinton has tried to avoid for herself by co-sponsoring laws with Republicans." One sure sign that Hillary is concerned about Pelosi: You won't see the pair in many photo ops any time soon. Editor's Note: 2. Poll: Nearly Half Wouldn't Support Hillary Fans of Hillary Clinton are passionate in their support for the newly re-elected New York senator in her quest for the White House in 2008. The trouble for Hillary is, so are her opponents. A Gallup poll earlier this year found that 17 percent of Americans would "definitely" back her as a presidential candidate. But nearly half 49 percent said they would "definitely not" support her. Less than 1 percent had no opinion. A more recent Harris Interactive poll found that 47 percent of voters said they would definitely not vote for Clinton, according to U.S. News & World Report, which notes: "Those numbers will have centrist Democrats vying for the '08 nomination arguing that, to keep the momentum of last week's Democratic gains, the party should avoid such a polarizing figure." Editor's Note: 3. Impeach Bush' Effort Heats Up An organization seeking to impeach President George Bush has been given new impetus by the Democratic victories in the midterm election. A mass e-mailing from ImpeachBush.org. reads in part: "The people have repudiated Bush and they demand accountability. There is not a moment to lose. The Democratic majority have been elected because the people want action. We must exert massive grass-roots pressure to ensure that articles for impeachment be filed as the first order of business when the new Congress is sworn in this coming January." The group says it plans to place ads in The New York Times and other newspapers around the country, and to urge members to sends hundreds of thousands of letters to Congress urging officials to "follow their constitutional mandate to impeach government officials who are guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors."
ImpeachBush.org is also promoting a mass impeachment rally in Washington and other cities on March 17, 2007, the fourth anniversary of the start of the "criminal war" against Iraq, according to the e-mail. The organization seeks contributions to support its efforts, and is peddling "ImpeachBush.org" T-shirts, sweatshirts, caps, and bumper stickers. Leading Democrats say they have no plans to impeach Bush. But in the same breath they also say they want to launch several congressional probes into Bush administration activities, such as the Iraq war, no bid contracts, and surveillance programs. GOP insiders tell NewsMax the Democratic strategy will be clear soon: Investigations will turn up big-time allegations. Democrats may still push impeachment as a way to ensure a victory in 2008 for the White House. Editor's Note: 4. Numbers Don't Bode Well for Dems in '08 The Democrats have gained control of the House of Representatives, but the numbers show that they have a precarious hold on power, according to an analysis by Grover Norquist's Americans for Tax Reform. The House now has 59 Democrats who were elected in districts that voted for George Bush in 2004. But there are only nine House Republicans elected in districts that went for John Kerry in 2004. Therefore, the 59 Democrats are in more difficult districts than the nine Republicans. Norquist and his organization calculate that if the Republicans in 2008 won only those districts that voted 58 percent of more for Bush in 2004, they would gain 19 seats. And if they won only those districts that went 55 percent or more for Bush, they would pick up 33 seats. The Democrats elected in districts carried by Bush in 2004 include Chet Edwards in Texas, who won in a district that voted 70 percent for Bush, Gene Taylor in Mississippi (68 percent), and Nick Lampson in Texas (64 percent). But none of the nine Republicans in districts carried by Kerry went for Kerry by more than 54 percent. Editor's Note: 5. China: 10 Years in Jail for Sending an E-mail Amnesty International is working to free Chinese journalist Shi Tao a "prisoner of conscience" who is serving a 10-year sentence for simply sending an e-mail. In April 2004, Shi Tao who wrote for Contemporary Trade News sent an e-mail to a U.S.-based pro-democracy Web site. It summarized a Chinese government order directing news organizations to downplay the 15th anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. Eight months later, he was arrested and charged with "illegally providing state secrets to foreign entities." Authorities used e-mail account holder information supplied by Yahoo! to convict him, and sentenced him to 10 years in prison, according to a release from Amnesty International. He is now laboring in harsh conditions and has inadequate access to medical care. Amnesty International is raising concerns with Yahoo! about their aiding human rights abuses in China, and calling on supporters to join the organization in demanding Shi's unconditional release. Editor's Note: 6. Democrats Narrow Gap in Religious Vote Exit polls showed that Democrats won a larger share of the religious vote in the midterm elections than in 2004, but there is no consensus as to why. Religious liberals point to a concerted effort by Democrats since 2004 to appeal to people of faith. Religious conservatives, on the other hand, argue that Democrats didn't win over religious voters, Republicans lost them. Either way, the polls told the story of what The Washington Post calls "changing views in the pews."
"We still have a long way to go, but what this election showed is that Democrats can begin to compete for the evangelical vote," said Mara Vanderslice, who was director of religious outreach for Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign. "Moving seven points within a community that large can absolutely swing tight races." According to the Post, evangelical leaders blamed corruption and big spending by Congress and not the party's positions on social issues such as same-sex marriage for the Republicans' defeat. Evangelicals are "fed up with the Republican leadership, particularly in the House," said Rev. Richard Land, head of the public policy arm of the Southern Baptist Convention. "They're disgusted that Republicans came to Washington and failed to behave any better than Democrats once they got their snouts in the trough." And James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, said that "many of the values voters of '04 simply stayed at home this year." Editor's Note: 7. NewsMax Scooped Media on Trent Lott Comeback Sen. Trent Lott formally declared his bid for the minority whip post on the evening of Monday, Nov. 13 five days after NewsMax broke the story that he intended to do just that. The Mississippi Republican was elected to the position on Nov. 15, nosing out Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee. A week earlier, on Nov. 8, NewsMax reported: "Former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott will launch a comeback attempt and seek the post of whip in the new Senate . . . According to our report, Lott a close ally of Ronald Reagan "feels that current Majority Leader Bill Frist has not successfully promoted the Reagan agenda, and has done a poor job passing legislation in the Senate. "Lott also believes that the GOP leadership has strayed from its conservative agenda a factor that led to the GOP's poor showing on Election Day." Lott was ousted from the top Senate Republican leadership job four years ago because of remarks considered racially insensitive. Editor's Note: 8. Howard Stern Gives Away His Show Recent efforts to bring more listeners to Howard Stern's show on Sirius satellite radio could be viewed as savvy marketing moves or acts of desperation.
For two days in October, Sirius let listeners get Stern's show for free via its Web site the first time it's given away the show since Stern debuted on Sirius in January. Sirius now lets Internet users get 75 channels without having to buy a satellite radio, for $12.95 a month. And Stern has also begun selling episodes of his on-demand cable TV show for one cent apiece instead of $7.95. Why? "Disconnected from his huge daily audience in the old broadcast world, Stern has slipped as a cultural force," Forbes magazine notes. "His media mentions are down 23 percent year-to-date compared with 2004. Sirius has 5.1 million subscribers up from 4.4 million since it first signed the self-proclaimed king of all media but only a portion of that total tunes in to Stern." On broadcast radio, Stern had a daily audience of 12 million. The financial numbers aren't pretty for Stern and Sirius, either. Sirius lost a record $853 million last year, and its shares have slumped 44 percent, according to Forbes. The 31.3 million shares that Sirius gave Stern in January, worth $236 million at the time, are worth around $115 million today. Editor's Note: 9. We Heard . . . THAT two prominent Republicans were among the many Americans who did not cast a vote in the midterm elections political pundit Ann Coulter and disgraced former Rep. Mark Foley. Foley checked into an alcohol-rehab clinic after he resigned from the House following reports of inappropriate e-mails and instant messages he exchanged with young congressional pages. He did not request an absentee ballot, the Palm Beach Post reported. Foley's replacement in the race for his House seat in Florida, Joe Negron, lost by fewer than 5,000 votes even though Foley's name remained on the ballot. Coulter, who is reportedly under investigation for allegedly voting in the wrong precinct in Palm Beach earlier this year, also sat out the election. Coulter says she is not under investigation and press accounts of the matter are simply wrong. THAT a Vietnamese publishing company has secured the rights to translate and publish Hillary Clinton's memoir "Living History." Hanoi Hillary? THAT liberals are unhappy with the news that former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is on a panel to discuss candidates for Time magazine's annual Time Person of the Year designation. "Tom DeLay? What a terrible choice," writes www.marketwatch.com's senior columnist Jon Friedman. Others on the panel include liberal columnist Arianna Huffington and "ABC Nightly News" anchor Brian Williams. Among the early candidates for Time's honor reportedly are Al Gore, Hugo Chavez, Nancy Pelosi, Condoleezza Rice and North Korea's Kim Jong Il. Even Donald Rumsfeld has been mentioned. Editor's Notes:
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