This week, the House passed the Child Interstate Abortion Notification Act which underscores parental rights by making it a federal offense to transport a minor across state lines in an effort to circumvent a state’s abortion parental consent laws.

Senators Cover-up for Clinton

Senate Democrats are quietly trying to kill a 10-year, $21 million legal investigation that implicates several Clinton Administration appointees in an IRS cover-up and casts doubt on the character of Hilary’s potential administration should she decide to make a run for president in 2008. Certain Senators, including Kerry, Dorgan, and Durbin are trying to attach an amendment to the war appropriations bill (what one bill has to do with the other is not clear) that would make sure this investigative report on an IRS cover-up never sees the light of day. After 10 years and $21 million, why don’t these Senators think taxpayers deserve to see the report?

The story goes back a few years and involves Mr. Clinton’s former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, Henry Cisneros. In 1999, Mr. Cisneros plead guilty to lying to FBI investigators during his pre-appointment background check about hush-money he paid to a former mistress, on which it also happens he hadn’t paid the requisite taxes. The IRS began investigating Mr. Cisneros’ apparent tax evasion but shortly after beginning the tax probe, the IRS investigation was mysteriously killed. At the time, Mr. Cisneros was a rising star in the Democrat party and there were many people who wanted to save his political future.

The IRS would not have been able to kill the case on its own but would have needed cooperation from the Justice Department. As you can imagine, that would enlarge the scope of the legal investigation to include several important names (and friends) from the Clinton Administration. Today, the report is finished and waiting for publication, but if prominent Democrat Senators get their way, the public may never see it. Abuse of the IRS system is about as serious as corruption can get in America and it should be of bi-partisan concern. Given the ethically-challenged history of the Clinton Administration, the public deserves to see this report and judge for itself whether the IRS and Justice Department were misused for political purposes.

Myth Buster

The Democrat myth machine has been busy lately, asserting that the Dems have a sacred right to block the Senate’s vote on President Bush’s judicial nominees. But it appears that these mercenaries of the filibuster have had a lapse in memory. The facts show that not so long ago Democrats were singing a decidedly different tune. Their so called sacred right to block a simple vote happens to be a privilege they fought hard to extinguish in the past.

In recent weeks, Senator Byrd has pontificated with righteous indignation for his party’s right to prevent a simple up or down vote on the president’s nominees. As it turns out, this same Mr. Byrd also spent the past several decades attempting to enact the “constitutional option” that Republicans are now proposing. Mr. Byrd led the charge to change the Senate rules and allow nominees to be voted on in 1977, 1979, 1980, and 1987. This hypocrisy is widespread among minority party obstructionists. In 1995, nine Senate Democrats all voted to end the judicial filibuster including Senators Boxer, Feingold, Kennedy, Kerry, and Lieberman. Don’t fall for the rhetoric propagated by the Democrat myth machine. History shows that this is one myth that has been busted.

The Oldest Profession

“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan