Sunday, Dec. 31, 2000 – NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (AmpolNS) – Needless to say, all the Sunday chat shows did their Year 2000 wrap-up.  What little time spent talking about "hot issues" was spent defending the appointment of defeated Senator John "Proud Southern Patriot" Ashcroft to the Little George Cadre as Minister of Justice.


FAUX New Sunday

Lucky Tony Snow -- he's spending the New Year's weekend with his wife and family.

Unlucky us -- we were stuck with the terse, sneering Brit Hume as host of FNS.

Lucky us -- the first few minutes were pre-empted in New York for a "Storm Watch Update."

We joined FNS as Brit was trying to put words in the mouth of Treasury Secretary Larry Summers. Summers corrected Brit, saying that he supports a more targeted approach -- but if we're going to have tax cuts it is better, he said, to give them to people who will spend them (i.e. middle-class and poor people). People, he said, need to remember that debt reduction is a tax cut.

We'll point out that this is true IF you pay taxes and IF you pay interest -- which tends to be more true of the middle class than the poor or rich. Summers should have explained this.

Summers also had fun making a lie out of the late-1980s joke that the U.S. may have won the Cold War but Japan and Germany won the economic war. Look, he said, at how well the U.S. economy has done in the 90s.

What a wuss -- Summers should have said that Little George is too stupid to have a notion in his head that is not put there by the real boss, Dick Cheney -- and Cheney IS trying to tank the economy.

Brit tried to get Summers to admit that he thinks Bush is talking down the economy. Summers said instead that one should look to economic leaders and experts.

Brit asked Summers about his thoughts on Paul O'Neill. Summers said he thinks highly of O'Neill's reputation and looks forward to working with him, but did caution that he has not talked with O'Neill and assumes he will go with the Cheney-Card Administration policy -- though he is a "good man."

Following the break, Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) was the guest. Question one -- are any Shrub cadre appointees in trouble? Reid emphatically said that the situation "must play out" after he said he spoke with Ashcroft and before he said he was "gratified" by the speed with which Little George had "made" his appointments (read: thanks for all the juicy targets!). Juan Williams mentioned that Ashcroft blocked the appointment of Judge Ronnie White and many felt Ashcroft had a racial animus. Reid -- like a wussie -- deflected, saying that others had been involved in blocking White.

Reid, you chicken! Ashcroft has a history of racial profiling

Reid said that Democrats planned to follow the "golden rule" while Dems control Congress for 17 days -- and will put forward resolutions that will allow 50-50 representations on committees and that committees are staffed properly.

Fred "The Weasel" Barnes mentioned that Clinton had made a recess appointment of a judge -- would the Senate move to approve the judge? Reid sounded as if he said no -- but did say that he supported Clinton's move. How much is it worth to Senator Ashcroft that he's got colleagues in the Senate? Reid complimented Ashcroft on the manner in which handled his Senate loss.

Jeez -- just what we didn't need, a love-fest. Ashcroft whined about voting patterns in Saint Louis, falsely claiming that blacks had been given special voting privileges -- when in fact there is evidence that poll workers were slowing voting lines to keep blacks from voting!

Sen. John Kyl (R-AZ) was asked by Juan about Clinton's recess appointment, putting a word in Kyl's mouth -- "defiant." Kyl went for the bait, calling it a "breach of comity" and spouting nonsense about the state the appointee is from.

Hey, Kyl -- what about the defiance of hard-righters like Orrin Hatch, who blocked dozens of nominees to the bench for not being conservative judicial activists?

The overrated Ceci Connelly asked about legislation and bipartisanship. Yawn. Barnes asked about that tax cut he so, so wants. Kyl actually talked incrementalism -- for example, eliminating the marriage penalty. Juan asked Kyl about the lack of democrat appointees to the Cheney-Card Administration. Kyl, with fake astonishment, said , "where ARE the Democrats?" -- then said that Little George had made "home run" appointments.

Yeah -- if you consider doddering Poppy Bush retreads a :home run."

Oh, NO! Ward Connerly was the next guest -- the black California regent who wants to kneecap affirmative action! We missed the first couple minutes because of a "Storm 2000" update, but we caught Connerly being asked by Juan about Condoleeezzzzzza Rice and Colin Powell, who support affirmative action. Connerly named a bunch of "Uncle Tom" black Republicans as he bad-mouthed affirmative action -- then Connerly bad-mouthed Rev. Jesse Jackson for "reaching out to people who will kick him in the groin." It is clear that Connerly fears the genuine legitimacy Jackson has as he tried to hammer away at it. Connerly whined about people who making race an issue -- when in fact race is still a huge emotional issue in America. He made it sound as if the GOP tried to "appease" the black caucus in Florida, but it may have brought out the white vote. Connerly dismissed the notion that blacks in Florida were disenfranchised through organized scheming.

Is Connerly naïve, stupid, or just another paid GOP shill lying to America? Maybe all three -- he went on to say that the calls of "disenfranchisement" are essentially propaganda to invoke the 1960s and the KKK.

Well, Connerly, get your head out of your butt: we have news for you. We have writers in Florida who have seen institutionalized racism in Florida politics. Sure, there's been some progress since the 1960s -- but not much. Your own lies and propagandizing against programs that heal the racial divide serve only two parties -- GOP cretins that hate "uppity Negroes," and yourself, in that you receive money to hobble your fellow blacks.

Panel time! Who will have trouble getting approved for the Cabinet? Fred said Ashcroft would -- as well as Ms. Norton, Little George's Interior nominee. Fred lied when he said the environmental lobby was one of the most powerful in the Beltway. What a laugh -- they're NOTHING compared to the NRA, big tobacco, big pharma, and big oil! Connelly said that northeast GOPers such as Snowe and Jeffords may object to Norton -- and Juan said that the oilmen in the executive branch have nominated one of their own. There was talk of Cheney being the most conservative in the Cheney-Card Administration; Ceci Connelly was dead wrong when she said the nominees were generally pragmatic as opposed to partisan.

Who writes Connelly's material -- Jim Nicholson?

Fred gushed about Don Rumsfeld as Juan skewered "Star Wars." Fred accurately said that a lack of democrat on the cabinet will become a talking point among democrats. He should have added that once the Democrats are in the majority in the Senate (given Helms's and Thurmond's health, it's inevitable), this means REAL trouble for His Illegitimacy. For Energy, Labor and Transportation, said Fred, there are many Dems who would fit in the Chicken George Kampf quite well. Fred also acknowledged that race will be a volatile issue. Ceci said that in October, the recess appointment Clinton has made will be a barometer of how the Senate handles race issues. Juan said that Clinton has been good to blacks -- and Fred blustered that the NAACP" trashed Bush.

Well, gee, Fred, with his record on executions, Bob Jones University, "no nigras" clauses in the deed to his own home, and Texas colonias, are you honestly surprised? Fred Barnes, by the way, is now a nominee for the American Politics Journal "Lawn Jockey Journalist of the Year" for 2000.

There was some screaming about gun control before Brit wrapped up the pundit blather.

Brit concluded FNS with a pointless "tribute" to the 2000 presidential race -- a collage of vid clips. The funniest moment -- a sequence of Dick Cheney clips to the song "Big Time."

Eat the Press
Stealth Shrub Press Secretary Tim Russert gets a lesson in punditry from Jack Germond

Sen. Tom Daschle, now the Majority Leader for a couple of weeks, told "Fatboy Tim" Russert that BushBaby's record of picking a cabinet is "mixed" and that "we" should be governing more from the center.

Bush, of course, could not care less that he in fact lost the election, and is instead filling vacancies as if he had a mandate from the people -- which he does NOT.

"Senator- in- a-drum" and former janitor Don Nickles (R-Redneck) was also on Eat the Press -- and said that he felt almost all the Smirk cabinet nominees will be confirmed " with overwhelming majorities." Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

John (as in toilet) Ashcroft (or "AssCroft," as our friend in the Beltway cal him) is a well known racist --and was, of course, the real topic of conversation. Will the Democrats bend over for His Illegitimacy and allow this swinish bigot to become the Attorney General?

We will see.  Nickles, who used to clean toilets, should know about racism. Today he told Russert that an unbelievably racist statement Ashcroft made about the Civil War is cool!  "They are scouring the record and will find nothing but 'small' things like this," said Nickles, who then called blacks racist!   Nickles had us laughing out loud!  

Here's a fact: Ashcroft received an award and an honorary degree from BOB JONES UNIVERSITY, the racist pseudo-Christian-Nazi college, which tells its students that Catholics and Mormons are members of cults. Can you imagine what they, and Ashcroft, think of Jews?

Ashcroft led the charge against Ronnie White, a black jurist of impeccable credentials and stature, saying he was not "law and order enough". President Clinton made a recess appointment of another black Federal Judge this week -- because he knows that this racist GOP-controlled Senate would never confirm him. " Senator- in- a- Drum" Nickles claimed that the President " flaunted his disrespect" for the Senate. Well, of course! Clinton has no respect for the GOP crackers who control the Senate;  when Clinton submitted four Black American justices to the Federal Bench to the Jim Crow Judiciary Committee, they refused to seat any one of them - - leaving at least judgeship vacant for ten years!

Nickles, the biggest slimeball ever to weasel his way into the Senate from the great state of Oklahoma, defended his fellow racists, including the nutball ex-Klansman Senator Robert Byrd, whose senility has been slowly revealing his true nature -- that of a lynch man.

Russert, who refused to challenge Nickles's closet bigotry, then turned to the latest non-scandal being spun by Clinton-haters: the license plates on the President's limo, which have recently been changed to the new District of Columbia plates, which read "Taxation Without Representation." Nickles, again showing that he's an even bigger swine than the bloated and bloviating Russert, called this "playing the race card."

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!  In the 21st-century Beltway spin wars, exposing a G@d-d#mned racist is "playing the race card." The nation actually owes a debt of gratitude to O.J. Simpson for exposing the despicable reality of racism in modern America -- racism led by the likes of His Illegitimacy George DumbBellYuh Bush!

Here's the truth: the first bill DumbBellYuh will veto is the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform bill - - which we will enjoy seeing, because it will be the first in a the several hundred nails in the DumbBellYuh Illegitimate Presidency.

Nickles said he has been watching the stock market and this has been a tough year -- and that is why we need a tax break. 

Yeah, "Senator-in-a-drum" -- so the idiots that support the GOP can give them more money to lynch black appointees to the courts by NOT " playing the race card."

Nickles said he is praying for mischief during the first 17 days of 2000 and Daschle's leadership, after which Daschle to will be replaced by Lott after Cheney votes him in. Hopefully, Daschle will have the guts to pass the campaign finance reform bill -- and several other bills with which to embarrass DumbBellYuh when he is forced to veto these bills by the Nazis who support him.

Nickles said that the GOP must change its tone. There has, he said, been a loss of civility.

And that's true -- Nickles helped lead this incivility.

DumbBellYuh wants to "reach out," said Senator- in- a- Drum.

Sure - - reach out for more cash.

Twenty seven minutes of this crap was almost too much to take.

But the next half hour was even worse: Russert's round table was nausea-inducing: closet AssCroft supporter David Broder, vampire pundit Robert "Novakula" Novak, and the once-respectable Gwen Ifill, who sold out from PBS for the money.

It was redeemed only by the presence of the great Jack "Fat Man in the Middle" Germond.

David Broder (we're not kidding) actually supported Ashcroft by saying that people are shocked, absolutely shocked, that Ashcroft has been appointed as the A.G. by Shrubya's handlers.  Ifill claimed that Ashcroft is just the target because he is the easiest to hate. It will take a lot to vote against him, said Ifill because he is a "member of the Club"  She is wrong as usual -- Senate Dems will crucify him, and even GOP Senators hate his guts. Jack Germond, the only one fatter that Russert on the screen, said that this will be bloody.

He is right, as usual.

"Novakula" tried to pretend that Ashcroft would be a member of the Cabinet by saying he isn't aware of any Cabinet level position going down on the Senate.  But we are not talking about a run-of-the-mill Cabinet appointment -- we are talking about the Attorney General (shades of Lani Guinier).

The Bush cadre is not reaching out for liberals and minority blacks. Broder defended DumbBellYuh, saying that he has a conservative purpose and that he has to do so - - and then he falls behind Clinton on this late appointment of a black Justice to the Virginia Federal Courts.

Jesse Helms, the Neanderthal excuse for a human being, is behind all these blocks in the Senate -- including that of Bill Lan Lee. "Novakula" piped in, adding that "I don't want that ' taxation without representation' on my license plate!!!"

Then move to Virginia, Novakula.  Property values are down since Linda Tripp moved there -- you can probably pick up a nice "no coloreds" estate at a bargain-basement price.

Liberal blacks do not like these conservative blacks, said Russert -- as if it were some sort of brilliant insight. Ifill defended Idiot Boy George, saying "wait and see." Then she hammered Clinton for not doing exactly as he promised in terms of appointing minorities and women - - a lie, of course.

Ifill -- now out for money, not truth -- is someone to watch very carefully to determine truth from fiction from the electronic media.

Broder defended Bush, saying that all his appointees are qualified -- not like Clinton's. Oh please -- as if the Cabinet has to be "qualified".

"Novakula" cannot suppress his absolute GLEE at the Colin Powell appointment. Of course Powell would hate men like Novak, no matter what their political bent. We are sure that Powell in fact hates "Novakula" as much as the rest of America does.

Germond was asked whether Gore will be the nominee in 2004. He said he does not have a chance in hell. Our writers may not agree, but the editors do. Unless we see some extraordinary maneuvering between now and the Coronation of Dauphin George, his political future is over. 

Ifill made some stupid comment about Clinton not just putting his tail behind him - - and that this hurts Gore's chances in 2004. What a joke!  Ifill is not only a sellout liar but also a moron.

Gore can't run again - - because he is now perceived as a loser.

Novak attacked the new DNC chair, Terry McAuliffe, as a man who makes his money in "mysterious ways."

As far as we know it is "Novakula" who makes his money in mysterious ways. He is paid to open his fat thick lipped mouth and spew lies disguised as sage opinion. Now that is a mystery.

"Novakula" also claimed that the Clintons are dictating the new Chairman of the DNC. Nothing could be farther from the truth -- it is House minority leader who is doing that. He is also a great friend and close student of McAuliffe.

"Novakula" then called for Hillary's losing her secret service protection. What else? How about calling for her murder "Novakula?" That is what you are doing.

Gwen Ifill thinks this will be a " fascinating" year. "Novakula" has already lost interest, he said, adding that he is more interested in the next recession. He pushed for tax cuts. Germond is quitting the Baltimore Sun, and asks anyone who wants to hire him to call.

We will!

The McLaugh-In Group
2000 Rear-End...er, Year-End Awards!

This week's McLaugh-In was introduced to the strains of Julius Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators," the most well-known circus march -- how appropriate!

The Group wore formal wear -- though Michael Barone, Tony Blankley and John McLaugh-In would have been more appropriately dressed had they worn clown suits.

Destined for Political Stardom!

Michael Barone: John Breaux
Eleanor Clift: Tom Daschle, who may be majority leader
Tony Blankley: Karl Rove
Larry O'Donnell: Stardom belongs to Hillary
Pope John: Andy Card, whom His Holiness called "unassuming."

...but calculating, John!

Destined for Political Oblivion!

Mike: Bill Clinton (Mike HATES Bill)
Eleanor: Katherine Harris
Tony: Al Gore
Larry: Joe Lieberman -- a dramatic demotion
John: Chuck Schumer, who is to be "dwarfed by Hillary"

Best Political Theatre!
Mike: Election night in Mexico City
Eleanor: Elian mania -- it advanced Cuba-U.S. relations
Larry: Saturday Night Live's political satire
John: The "bourgeois riot" in Miami-Dade

Worst!

Mike: Jesse Jackson in Florida
Tony: Daschle and Gephardt in Tallahassee on a conference call with Al and Joe
Larry: Oh, please!
John: same as Tony

Worst Political Scandal!
Mike: money from Teamsters to the DNC -- Mike was BEGGING for Terry McAuliffe to be investigated
Eleanor: voting debacle in Florida, which handed a huge propaganda tool to America's enemies
Tony: Clinton lobbies for the Nobel Peace Prize
Larry: Using bad technology to count votes -- and why are we breaking up Microsoft?
John: Philippines president Estrada's impeachment -- and all the WOMEN!

Most Underreported Story!
Mike: Drop in juvenile crime
Eleanor: Bush went AWOL from the Texas National Guard
Tony: Vote fraud aimed at Bush that (allegedly) put Gore over the top in two states
Larry: The failure of the war on drugs
John: Sudanese jihad against Christians -- including slavery and religious massacres

Most Overreported Story!
Mike: The GOP commercial "RATS" story -- the New York Times made it front page news. John prompted Mike to call the New York Times "pro-Gore."
Eleanor [to John]: Your show more than balances the New York Times! The tapes at Los Alamos -- BIG DEAL!
Tony: the Bush "sneer" that may or may not exist
Eleanor: It wasn't a sneer, it's a SMIRK
Larry: Campaign finance report
John: Bioengineered foods (Monsanto thanks you, John)

Biggest Government Waste!
Mike: Bilingual education
Eleanor: Space-based antimissile defense system -- doesn't work, destabilizes the world
Tony: DC education spending
Larry: the war on drugs
John: Boston's "Big Dig" to fix the highway system in the city

Best Gov $$$ Spent
Mike: Wisconsin welfare reform
Eleanor: Social Security, HeadStart, Medicare, take your pick
Tony: Antimissile defense
John: Human genome project

Boldest Political Tactic
Mike: Gore's sighing in debate I
Eleanor: Gore picking Lieberman
Tony: Bush deciding to partially privatize Social Security
Larry: Eleanor and Tony
John: Little George's appeal to the Supreme Court

Best Idea of 2000
Mike: Social Security "reform"
Eleanor: Bush's early cabinet choices
Tony: European tax revolt against gasoline
Larry: the Tivo TV hard drive
John: Hastert's appointment of a Catholic priest as House Chaplain

Worst Idea
Mike: New school construction -- it helps those stinking labor unions!
Eleanor: Depriving Buchanan and Nader of a place at the debates
Larry: The Gore law team decision not to recount ALL of Florida
John: The Los Alamos "controlled burn"

Sorry to See You Go
Mike: Pat Moynihan
Eleanor: Charles Schulz
Tony: Moynihan
Larry: Moynihan
John: Easy money on the NASDAQ

15 Minutes of Fame
Mike: Speaker of the Florida House
Eleanor: Darva Conger
Tony: Judge Sanders Sauls
John: Tom Connelly, the guy who (wrong, John) leaked Dub's DWI

Best Spin
Mike: Bush -- Gore's a liar
Eleanor: Bush -- The votes were counted and recounted
Larry: Gore -- count every vote
John: Adm. Zinni on the USS Cole refueling in Yemen

Most Honest Person
John: Bush and Cheney on Adam Clymer!
Mike: Judge Burton in Palm Beach
Eleanor: McCain on the confederate flag
Larry: Moynihan, who endorsed Bradley saying Gore can't win

Hey, Larry -- Gore DID win by half a million votes -- and over 20 electoral votes if you throw out Florida for systemic electoral fraud!

Deface the Nation

Sen. Chuck Hagel was guest one -- and Bob Schieffer confronted him with this morning's news that Little George has been instructed to act "as if" (emphasis by Bob) he had a mandate -- which he doesn't! Hagel droned on about Little George's programs and plans. Schieffer to Sen. Carl Levin: "Can he get away with it?" Levin lit into Shrub for no signs of bipartisanship so far.

Gloria Borger said that the Washington Post piece makes it look as if the Cheney-Card team will cherry-pick initiatives and issues. Levin said he wants to see a willingness to compromise and work with democrats -- and one or two Dems in his Cabinet will only prove a "superficial" effort.

Will Little George support McCain-Feingold? Hagel said he doesn't -- and he has his own reform bill. "Maybe something will pass next year." Schieffer quoted Sen. Don Nickles saying that McCain should "show deference" to Bush.

What a laugh -- we say it'll happen as soon as neo-fascist Nickles shows deference to Bill Clinton.

Levin said the bottom line is that there will not be a vote to ban soft money on the first vote.

Borger then confronted Hagel on the appointment of Judge Bob Gregory by Clinton -- should Republicans oppose it? Hagel said no! He even admitted that the GOP held judgeships hostage -- but in the context of "both parties do it." He would be surprised if the GOP does oppose Gregory.

Will Ashcroft be confirmed as Attorney General? Levin said he thinks so, but echoed the Democrat mantra of a "full and fair hearing" (read: the grilling that racial profiler Ashcroft deserves). Levin slammed Ashcroft for lying about one black Missouri judge he had opposed. Hagel said Ashcroft has a strong record.

Schieffer brought up the Hillary book deal -- and how it's different from the deal Newt had to back off from. Hagel practically demanded that, because Hillary is a "lightning rod," she should ask the Ethics Committee for a ruling. Levin said he has no problem with that -- there was open bidding for the book.

Levin FAILED to mention that the bidding began well before Hillary decided to run for the Senate whereas Newt was the Speaker of the House when Rupert Murdoch tried to pay him off for services rendered -- in the form of a massive advance on a non-selling book!

Following the break, Richard Berke said he was astonished about the orderliness of the present transition and the lack of questions about the legitimacy of the nominees. Huh? Is Berke living with his head in the sand? A large portion of America sees Little George HIMSELF as illegitimate -- it is the PRESS that is refusing to report on this issue.

Evan Thomas tried to spin the Cheney-Card cadre as "pragmatic, not partisan" -- ha, ha, ha -- yeah, right, Evan -- and that was about the sixth time this weekend we heard this GOP-generated spin. Thomas said that the Cheney-Card team is "unleaky" -- in other words, they are bringing back the day of the smoke-filled room.

Borger said she wonders "how powerful" the cabinet would be -- Clinton's cabinet was not powerful. Berke essentially said that Little George would do little ("Bush is the manager, he'll say 'you guys run things.'"). Schieffer said that given Clinton will be living in DC, will he still be active? Thomas tried to dis Bill by saying that he thinks he'll run the Democratic party.

Well, we'll drop a hint to our readers. Clinton's repeatedly said that he'll have "a lot more to say" about the attempted impeachment coup and the fraudulent Jones lawsuit. But it goes beyond just speaking out -- and the press is oblivious to the possibility that there will be action by Clinton himself on both fronts that will require him to be in DC -- action that now has more than a few hard-right activists and their allies quite worried.

The decision to get a DC residence was strictly practical -- for both Hillary and Bill.

This Weak
With "Scam" Donaldson and "Cocky" Boggs, on their last legs

Senators Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Chuck Schumer (R-NY) were the first suckers on This Weak. Why did they even bother?  Appearing on ABC's low-rent excuse for a political chat show that looks embarrassing beside even FAUX News Sunday can only hurt their reputations!

" Scam" Donaldson wondered about a so-called conciliatory cabinet -- and so does the Washington Post. Hatch ran to hide behind The New York Times today on the issue of the incoming Cabinet Cadre! Now that was a real laugh! 

Charles Schumer said that the issue here is what policy positions the cabinet members will take. Are they willing to reach out to Democrats? If they say "You do what we say," that will not work.  Schumer then took on Attorney General designate John "AssCroft" Ashcroft, saying his positions are " way, way over the line" from the American mainstream. Will he enforce the law on choice, gun control, freedom of speech? He is, said Schumer, far an away the most troubling appointee.

Hatch will be surprised if Ashcroft is not appointed.

And we will be disappointed too -- because we won't have a big, juicy, bigoted, redneck, Luddite, woman-hating whipping boy to pick on in the Cheney-Card Administration -- aside from George the Idiot Boy himself.

Ashcroft also opposed the appointment of Judge Jackson. But he confirmed 26 African- Americans. "John is a very fine man," said Hatch. He will enforce whether he believes in the law or not. Ashcroft needs Democratic support, and he might not get it, offered Schumer.

And we have not heard Hillary weigh in yet!

Roger Gregory was finally appointed to the Fourth Circuit in recess. Hatch said he does not know what will happen when Clinton resubmits his name in January. Hatch repeated the spin of other GOPers this weekend that both North Carolina Senators are upset that Gregory is a Virginian being appointed to a North Carolina judgeship.

Schumer feels that this was a good thing done by Clinton.

Gail Norton, who just go the appointment as Secretary of the Interior, said out of the box is that she will go for exploring the Alaska wilderness for more oil. The Sierra Club is very upset and calls her the James Watt of the DumbBellYuh Administration.  Hatch called her a " consensus leader" and a great state attorney general. Hatch wants more oil to " keep our economy going." Schumer jumped right on Norton. He wants oil too -- but will she reach out and explore carefully? Hatch wants to know whether the environmental or far right radicals will control this. He said neither should.

Maddie Albright was next in her swan song interview with Cokie "Cocky" Roberts. We hoped she would fry Bush and tell us how our allies and enemies are frightened to death about a DumbBellYuh Administration -- and what he could do to destroy the delicate balance that keeps the world at relative peace. Of course, she won't -- lest she be hated by anyone on either side of the aisle.

Madeline was born in Czechoslovakia. Cokie asked what Maddie thinks of the remark that Albright raises her sights to historic proportions. She believes that when the U.S. stood back, terrible things happened, and when we intervened good things happened. 

Powell said that he almost had an aneurysm when Maddie asked about the Balkans -- if we have a military, when not use it?

Maddie hopes that Little George understands that peace in the Balkans was a very proud moment for Europe -- but we're sure he can't even pronounce THE BALKANS -- what do you expect? Maddie added that Powell understands that we can't just up and leave.

Maddie said she is pleased that she has put women's issues into U.S. foreign policy. She pointed out that women in the U.S. are well- placed and where we can do that abroad, these other nations also become more stable. 

We support women's rights --but found the questions on this issue boring. Of course she did a great job, but what difference does it make if she was a woman -- except that she had to do battle with sexist Cro-Mags in similar positions abroad (not to mention Jesse Helms). She said that she flirts a bit and that she gets roses and kisses from her peers.

She also talked about how she ran after Arafat during the peace talks. She was in another room. Arafat left, she was in the French Embassy which has a cobblestone courtyard. She screamed to the guards to close the gates, and got into Arafat's car and convinced him to come back.

Maddie found that the Monica " scandal" was a tough time, but she thinks he is a fantastic President, and she did not feel betrayed, and does not think that Clinton will be remembered as the Monica President.

Cokie asks whether Powell can do things for minorities. Albright pointed out that she and Powell are "very good friends"  -- and that he will do help minorities.

Maddie said she now wants to take time explore her Jewishness. Well, it's about time! She added that she visited her grandparents' graves. She realized that she would be there too if but not for her grandparents shipping her off to the U.S. and adoption.

At the end of the interview, Albright said she is now going to just another ordinary grandmother.

"Cokie and Madeline - - what a great roundtable," gushed a grinning "Scam". Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha -- he looked so sincere -- NOT.

George Will, who no longer likes to appear with either " Scam" or " Cocky," interviewed the old man Arthur Schlessinger, one of the few people still surviving from the Kennedy Administration.

Schlessinger said he thinks that the " imperial presidency" is weakened when there is no large world conflict - - for example, the Cold War. Will said he wonders about the next president who promised that drug plans and Medicare will be bolstered along with the military.

Schlessinger said he feels that DumbBellYuh will wrestle with the use of government, not government itself, and pointed out that 60 or 70 percent of DumbbellYuh's acceptance speech was lifted straight from Gore!

Will said he wonders about the economy. In the 50s and 60s unemployment was 20-25%. "Have we become a nation of whiners?"

"No, we have become a nation of victims."

Yes, victims of people like DumbBellYuh.

Schlessinger wants to see more educational reform in the inner cities. Wow, how insightful - - but at least he called this a residue of racism.

Will gave Schlessinger a chance to recant his low rating of Ronald Reagan. We laughed out loud!

And Schlessinger  refused - adamantly!  Good for him!

Oh, dear -- it was time again for the pundit TV equivalent of root canal, the awful This Weak Round Table, "Where we give our strong opinions," said Sam --  and where we can laugh at them as being insane.

Guest panelist E.J. Dionne, a loser, was first -- he wanted to know if this is the Ford or Old Man Bush Administration? DumbBellYuh is a pro- business President.

C'mon -- this is America -- most everyone, including liberals, is " pro- business."

George Will said that DumbBellYuh will run things as DumbBellYuh - - a religious conservative (and a moron).

Gail Norton comes up again -- she wants to drill for oil in wildlife parks. 

Will blamed the EPA for high gas prices in California - - which has nothing to do with allowing power plants to burn coal.

Dionne said that Rumsfeld is like Cheney's daddy - - without saying that.

Linda Douglass tries to get in her two cents every minute and to stretch it is ten cents. She makes sense however. Will seemed so happy that " we will be getting ballistic missile defense." Scam said yes -- as soon as it works!!!!  What a laugh!  Good shot, Sam!  Will got pissed -- but had to admit Scam is right.

Will on the tax cut: the surplus estimate, just this week, was increased by 800 billion! Sure -- from Republicans who are trying to argue that a huge damn tax cut for the rich is needed!

Linda got ten cents in again, this time on campaign finance reform -- McCain wants to push his agenda on Bush first. 

Dionne cannot predict what will happened.

Listen to our advice, DumbBellYuh: go for the campaign finance reform bill - - because it won't pass anyway.  Democrats too worship the almighty dollar. At the same time, introduce legislation that campaign treasuries can be inherited tax- free (as they once were) by the candidates.

Then you will really be loved by Congress!

The final segment debated the biggest story of the year. A lot of talking heads said Elian. Will said he wished Florida would have never become a state -- a total waste. Scam went after Presidente Vicente Fox as a " dreamer."

Oh brother - - what nice way to show support for a true Democrat under siege in Mexico, you moron!

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