From the Weekly Standard, March 29, 1999, http://www.weeklystandard.com/
INTERNET AL, DOWN ON THE FARM
Washington- You probably thought you knew Al Gore's life story by now. As told in the New Yorker a few years back, the outlines are these: "Gore was a son of politics, a child of Washington, where his father served for thirty-two years as a congressman and a senator. The family residence was an apartment in the elegant Fairfax Hotel, which was owned by a Gore cousin; young Al walked across the street every morning to the Cosmos club, where a bus picked him up for the ride to Washington's most elite prep school, St. Albans, on the grounds of the Washington Cathedral."
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From The RNC Radio Division
Reagan Legacy Moves Forward �
GOP Congress Approves Missile Defense
� 16th Anniversary of Missile Defense: 16 years ago today (Tuesday, March 23) President Reagan stood before the American people and outlined his vision to set up a missile defense system, so every American could put their child to bed at night, safe from the threat of a nuclear missile attack. Last week, the Republican House (317 to 105) and Senate (97 to 3) passed bipartisan bills committing our military to deploy a national missile defense to knock down long-range nuclear missiles.
� Still Democrat Foot-Dragging: After 16 years of Democrat stonewalls, it took allegations that the Communist Chinese were stealing sensitive nuclear technology from the Los Alamos National Laboratory to finally move the Clinton/Gore crowd in the right direction.
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Polls They Don't' Want YOU To See !!
Social Security and China: People Agree With GOP
"Currently surplus social security tax revenues are used to finance government programs such as Medicare, education and other things. The [Republicans] want to change this and keep all Social Security taxes for Social Security only. President Clinton wants to continue the current practice. Would you rather..."
Keep all Social Security revenue for Social Security 74%
Continue to use the surplus to finance other programs 20%
(Fox News Poll, conducted 3/.10-11/99, surveyed 900 registered voters, +/-3% margin of error)
"Considering the nuclear technology transfer to China, the Clinton Administration says the problem has been dealt with while the GOP blames the Administration for slow action and compromising national security. Which side do you favor?"
Administration 27.3%
GOP 55%
Neither side 17.6%
(Zogby America Poll, conducted 3/19/99, surveyed 801 likely voters, +/-3.6% margin of error)
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And as we say�.In Case You Missed It.
Fri day, March 19, 1999
Editorial from today's Washington Post
China Engagement
The Clinton administration likes to tout its policy of engagement with China, but a different kind of engagement has been oddly missing from its reaction to reported Chinese espionage. You would expect President Clinton, Vice President Gore and other stewards of America's nuclear secrets to be indignant -- why not angry? -- at what China has done. But faced with evidence of a serious breach with potentially damaging consequences to U.S. security, their chief response has been to dodge blame and make excuses. It is demeaning. "Well, first of all, on the law enforcement matter that you raise, please keep in mind, that happened during the previous administration," Mr. Gore told CNN. "That happened back in the 1980s."
Everyone understands that governments spy on each other and that the alleged theft of nuclear secrets did indeed take place before Mr. Clinton's term. But people also expect their leaders to make clear when such a theft is uncovered that they find such behavior intolerable and to take immediate steps to prevent a recurrence. Instead, what followed the initial suspicions was a bureaucratic, almost lackadaisical response best illustrated by a letter to this newspaper from former energy secretary Federico Pe�a. Mr. Pe�a "completed an extensive review," briefed many officials, "started implementing changes." Why didn't he just slam shut the door? The administration claims it responded adequately, yet in the past week or so, as the scandal has mushroomed, it has announced many more steps to improve security at federal weapons labs. Either the first steps weren't enough or the new measures are excessive; it would seem the administration can't have it both ways.
The long interval between suspicion and real action is especially discouraging because it seems part of a larger pattern. The Clinton administration has been so eager for warm relations with China's Communist regime that it has raised suspicions it will pay too high a price for such friendship -- including downgrading America's friendship with Taiwan, slighting its alliance with Japan, muting its concern about human rights and, possibly, playing down the significance of alleged espionage.
Mr. Clinton and his advisers oversold the benefits and potential benefits of their policy of engagement, heralding great progress where little had taken place. Now that China's human rights record is revealed to have not improved at all, for example, there are the predictable alarms that the relationship is deteriorating, that momentum has been lost.
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NICHOLSON NAMES BERNSTEIN TO LEAD RNC TEAM 100 PROGRAM
WASHINGTON (March 24) - Republican National Committee Chairman Jim Nicholson and Republican National Committee Finance Chairman Ambassador Mel Sembler today named Stuart Bernstein of Washington, D.C. as a co-chairman of the Republican National Committee's Team 100 fundraising program, joining Julie Finley, also of Washington.
"I am honored that Stuart has agreed to take this position," Nicholson said. "His leadership and political skills will ensure that our party and candidates have the resources to be competitive and be able to set forth our vision for making America a better place."