The Louder They Howl, the Scareder They Are!
Some Reasons for the GOP and Their Media Enablers' Constant Attempts to Trash 
the Clintons
PLUS: Congratulations, All!
by Tamara Baker

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2001 -- SAINT PAUL, MINNESOTA (APJP) -- Congratulations, Everyone!

You know who you are.

Your constant letters, phone calls, faxes and e-mails to both your GOP politicians and their media enablers have forced Trent Lott to pull the plug on the Senate's attempt to keep alive the Marc Rich FauxGate.

Now, the only one left is that run by Idiot Boy, Watermelon Dan Burton, a man who is taken about as seriously as ear wax in the corridors of power, even by his fellow Republicans.

Rejoice, Citizens! The People have spoken, and the leaders have heeded.

Now, let's start in on impeachment proceedings for Usurper Boy!

Meanwhile, on to the news:

Item: Newest Washington Post poll shows George W. Bush with lowest rating of any new White House occupant since Eisenhower -- even as his predecessor, legitimately elected former occupant Bill Clinton, still enjoys ratings barely dented by the media's continued 24/7 promotion of GOP-created "post-presidency" FauxGates.

Item: Bob Smith, the on-again off-again Republican Senator from New Hampshire, is such political roadkill that Robert Novak has been openly begging John Sununu to run in his place against the likely Democratic challenger, current New Hampshire Governor Jeanne Shaheen. However, Sununu has no stomach for a hard fight with the wildly popular Shaheen, preferring instead to try for the gubernatorial spot she'll be vacating.

Item: Democratic South Carolina Governor denies he'd appoint Strom's ex to Strom's Senate seat if (or is it when?) Senator Thurmond joins that White Citizens Council chapter in the sky within the next two years. In the meantime, Thurmond spends an increasing amount of time being hospitalized for exhaustion, to the point where he has had to forego most of his duties as President Pro Tempore of the Senate.

Item: Jesse Helms is sinking even faster than Thurmond, with rumors floating that he may well have pancreatic cancer in addition to diabetes.

Item: With several GOP Senators expressing strong doubts about the Cheney-Card billionaire tax giveaway (not to mention notable non-greedy billionaires like Warren Buffett, Bill Gates Senior, and George Soros), it looks like that giveaway is DOA on Capitol Hill. 

Item: Our global prestige has dropped, as European citizens (who, thanks to their media, know the story of what really happened in the US election better than 90% of all Americans) hold little but contempt for a nation that gives lip service to democratic ideals, even as it allows itself to be taken over by a corrupt coup. 

Does anyone now wonder why the GOP and their media enablers are upping the 
amplification on their brand-new Clinton FauxGates? 

Whenever a bully is scared, he or she reacts by using screams of rage as a cover, both for the fear and for whatever stinky actions the bully has committed. Pardon the ungrammaticallness of it all, but it's a fact: The louder they howl, the scareder they are. 

The GOP bullies showed what passes for their mettle when their Congressional staffers (working on Government time, naturally), went down to Miami to join members of the Nazi group Stormfront and the anti-Castro "Los Cobardes" CANF in beating, bullying and terrorizing the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board into stopping the vote recounts in what has now become known as the Miami-Dade "Beer Hall Putsch". 

Now, confronted with the unpleasant facts itemized above, the GOP realizes that its dictatorial grip on power is rather tenuous. This, understandably, frightens them. 

Their solution: Scream and kick and bully something -- ANYTHING -- in order to try to distract the people's attention from your precarious position, and also to try to cow your enemies by pretending to have a mandate that doesn't exist, and to weaken them by forcing them to distance themselves from the best weapon in their arsenal, Bill Clinton. 

I remember the ending of a short story by Manly Wade Wellman. His hero, John Thunstone, was holding the dead body of a human-like creature called a Shonokin, using it as a weapon and talisman to keep at bay other Shonokins. They set up a howl and wail of rage, designed to make him drop his weapon. He ignored them, and won the day. 

Democrats, don't let the Republican bullies howl and wail you into letting go of your best weapons. Stand firm and fight back!

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