The Truth About John Ashcroft
by Mac MacArthur

Monday, Jan. 8, 2001 -- WASHINGTON (APJN) -- Senator John Ashcroft, God bless him, is now the illegitimate nominee of an illegitimate president.

After all, Al Gore won the popular vote by well over a half million votes, and he won in Florida too -- but I won't argue this again and can't resist four years of constant entertainment by the  KenneDrunkPort BushBillies, America's pedigreed white trash first family.

But back to Ashcroft.

Best known for having two swearing-in ceremonies when he entered the Senate -- the first conducted by a priest in which Ashcroft "anointed" himself as a messenger from God (with Crisco oil), and the second a usual coronation for his public.

One wonders whether Ashcroft is ashamed that he needs to be anointed in Holy Crisco like some dotty British royal, or that he prefers to lie about it as he seems to do about so many things.

John Ashcroft is disliked by 75% of those sitting in the austere body we call The United States Senate. The Democrats loathe him for his 16th Century mentality, and half the Republicans -- the ones you don't hear flapping their ignorant Lott-like mouths -- would also like this cretin to disappear under the electoral waves.

If you, the reader, believe that Ashcroft will sail through his confirmation hearings, then think again.

And even if he is confirmed, Ashcroft will be stunned by the verbal abuse and the anti-Ashcroft demonstrations he will take during the process.

After studying Ashcroft, I believe him to be a mentally ill born-again Christian who attempts at all times to work the dishonesty of his politics into a literal reading of the "bible" -- that is, Ashcroft's un-Christian interpretation of the bible. His mental illness if often called sociopathy by psychiatrists. Like all sociopaths, Ashcroft is charming -- charming when he tells the truth, and even more charming when he lies. Sociopaths also tend to embrace religion (the stricter, the better) to hide behind God and cloak his real purpose.

He is a indefatigable opponent of all things Woman, unless of course he's on top and she's on her knees.

He is such a vile opponent of women's reproductive freedom that he supports enacting a federal law to amend the Constitution to ban abortions even when a stranger or relative has raped the mother.

Not only is the man ignorant, but also he actually believed he could get such a law passed, and believes it is his religious duty to do so to avoid Armageddon, the war between Christ and Satan.

Leaders in the pharmaceutical industry -- which so overwhelming and foolishly supported the Bush Baby -- are now looking at each other in livid astonishment because Ashcroft is, of course, also an advocate of banning common forms of contraception --  including the multi-billion-dollar birth control pills, IUDs -- and perhaps prophylactics if he gets his chance.

This is the man who is charged with defending the Constitution and its guarantees of liberty and separation of Church doctrine from State policy in the Bush Administration.

That means Ashcroft is in no way fit to serve of the nation's chief prosecutor and legal advisor to the President. His positions on everything from choice to severe and mandatory jail sentences for what many feel are petty crimes go against the grain of mainstream America.  How can a man with such elaborate fantasies enforce laws protecting individual rights?

John Ashcroft is certainly acceptable to Little George because each shares the other's lack of sophistication and intellect, and looks to a word-for-word interpretation (from the standpoint of Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson) of the Good Book to guide them through their imperfect lives. For example, when DumbBellYuh was arrested for drunk driving (and it was not the first time, either), he laughed about putting the lives of his passengers at risk; these days, he laughs at putting the lives of mothers and their unborn children on the same crap table -- a table he will not fund if things don't work out in his  "Leave it to Beaver" world.

Sure, Ashcroft is entitled to be against abortion, but he is not entitled -- and never has been -- to foist his catholic (small c) mores on his constituents. In the Senate, Ashcroft has never been able to pass even a scintilla of that which he prays for at the right hand of his imaginary God.

Ashcroft and his fellow televangelist cult followers wanted to pass a ridiculous law they call "The Human Life Amendment" to the United States Constitution. Ashcroft's fellow fools -- Senator Jesse Helms and that poor excuse for a Senator or even a town clerk, Bob Smith (who actually had the gall to run for the presidency last year even though he can't speak English) --  co-sponsored this bill (S.J.49 and S.2135 in the 106th Congress, "The Human Life Act").

Of course, both measures got exactly nowhere -- the primary reason being that if abortions were disallowed, three quarters of the Congress would be paying multiple child support bills each month!

In these bills there were no exceptions for victims of rape or incest, nor were any exceptions for abortions necessary to prevent injury, including serious or permanent injury, to the woman's health.

With the bills, Ashcroft's clear message to women is " Die -- but bear my children, you worthless bitch."  Ashcroft could not care less about what women think of him, or about him.

In fact, according to the Underwriters Digital Research Poll that sampled 15,000 Americans in October 14th of 2000, nearly 79% agreed that abortion should be legal in cases of rape of incest.

For Ashcroft. Helms and Smith, incest and muddy gene pools play a big and demonstrable role -- especially in their home states. This can be abundantly demonstrating merely by examining the intellectual characteristics of each man.

Unsurprisingly, Ashcroft thinks that human life begins at the nanosecond of fertilization even though not one individual responsible for writing his Bible had any idea how fertilization was accomplished -- or why so many of their wives died giving birth to hideously deformed or otherwise ill children.

And speaking of the children, did Ashcroft propose that the federal government pay for round-the-clock nursing, full-time servants, funeral expenses, and drivers to take the place of dead mothers? Does he include in his silly legislation moneys for expensive daily rehabilitation sessions for children born with physical or mental handicaps, children without limbs, children in trouble because of ill-conceived in-vitro procedures that result in quads and quints? How about tuition to special schools -- or any schools for that matter? Will he and the tight-fisted GOP pay for college for the majority of other normal children born to poverty-line families without access to private abortion clinics in Holland? 

Or is Ashcroft attempting to create a new underclass to serve the rich and richer? well, if he isn't consciously doing this, he is nonetheless hell-bent on doing so. Does he really believe that it is white middle-class women that will have unwanted children either in or out of wedlock? Of course not! It will be the poor and the undereducated who will continue, at a more rapid pace, to create one baby after another for lack of birth control or freedom to choose.

Ashcroft is so irrational that he believes that any contraceptive that prevents implantation of on egg on the uterus "creates" an abortion. He and groups around him call this type of birth control pill or device an "abortifacient," a word anti-choice Neo-Nazis evidently made up.

Ashcroft has taken steps to attempt to deny pills to women across the nation. He teamed up again with Senators Helms and Smith and a couple other pseudo-Christian Senate wackos to propose that federal employee health insurance not cover the cost of contraceptives. The greatest minority served by federal employment are blacks who earn the lowest federal pay possible -- and would surely earn less if Ashcroft, Helms and the other stealth segregationists in the Senate could just have their way.

In May of 1998, Ashcroft submitted a written statement to Human Events: A Magazine that reads like something out of Der Sturmer, outlining his hateful foolhardiness for the world to read.

Ashcroft renounced the rumor that he "supported" abortion in cases of rape or incest and wrote of his lengthy public record in opposition to abortion. He wrote:

"If I had the opportunity to pass but a single law, I would fully recognize the constitutional right to life of every unborn child, and ban every abortion except for those medically necessary to save the life of the mother." -- Human Events, May 29, 1998

Gee, I think I might want to pass but a single law that outlawed poverty, ghettos, under-education and no access to health care.

And get this: a year later, Ashcroft accepted -- with glee -- an honorary degree from that linchpin of Western intellectual perversity, "Bob Jones" University, and was also honored by something called "The American Life League" -- a band of undereducated or religiously insane people who have nothing better to do than to "save you from yourself."

Don't think for one moment that Ashcroft won't be able to accomplish anything in his War Against Satan as Attorney General.

First, this outrageous Bible-beater will be advising Idiot George, another convenient "born-again," about the law -- specifically, Constitutional law which forbids the mixture of Church and State.  Perhaps he will simply advise Dumbya about how to criminalize the use of prophylactics by declaring them as a method used in the "murder of sperm" -- which he will then move to declare a Federal offense.

He might go further and forbid women to menstruate because they, too, in Ashcroft's sick little mind are, are in essence "murdering" their eggs.

Attorney General Ashcroft would have great power to pervert the meaning of all kinds of laws that protect a woman's right to choose, that guarantee women free access to abortion clinics, and that guarantee the freedom to decide what to do with their own reproductive organs.

With the current hard-right Supreme Court in place -- the one that eagerly became an arm of the Bush Crime Family and made an unprecedented decision to reward George W. the presidency under a perversion of "equal protection" even though Al Gore had won the popular vote and even though the court had no evidence in opposition before it -- anything Ashcroft proposes to Bush should pass Supreme Court review.

Ashcroft would also have the power to influence which judges were appointed to the federal bench. The Attorney General always reviews potential appointments before the president makes his short list. Ashcroft would surely create a litmus test and blackball any pro-choice jurist that crossed his desk; moreover, his racist leanings that derailed the appointment of  Judge White and Surgeon General Satcher will surely guarantee no blacks will be appointed to the Federal Bench -- at least at a high level.

Ashcroft would also be responsible to review proposed legislation and give his opinion to His Illegitimacy Mr. Bush about its "potential" to violate the Constitution. He would also represent the United States in the Supreme Court -- now obviously puppets by George Herbert Walker "Poppy" Bush. 

Roe vs.. Wade would be out the window before one could utter the word "fraud."

Now, let's set aside Ashcroft's ignorance and religious zealotry for a moment, and simply talk about the man.

1. First of all, John Ashcroft is a loser -- as Dick Cheney would say, a "big time" loser who was more loyal to some perverted notion of Godliness than he was to his own constituency in Missouri.  They threw him out of office on November 7th -- preferring to vote for a dead man -- so the Bush Baby appointed him Attorney General in exchange for Ashcroft's
holy supine-ness in His Ex.'s presence.

2. At the height of the impeachment drama, Ashcroft rented a list of his campaign contributors to Pentagon employee Linda Tripp, the woman who helped trigger the White House intern sex "scandal." Ashcroft accepted payments from Tripp's so-called "Defense Fund" (for which she shilled from her taxpayer-financed Pentagon e-mail account) while he was weighing President Clinton's fate. The sleazy senator also became the first to call for Clinton's resignation -- and one of the minority who voted to convict him on both false charges trumped up by Ken Starr and Adulterer Supreme Henry Hyde. The Tripp Legal Defense Fund paid $2,487 to Ashcroft's phony political action committee, The "Spirit of America" (can you believe it?), a Neofascist-religious-zealot fund-raising operation that helped generate more than $2 million in his latest Napoleon Complex presidential bid -- a farce which ended, of course, in a shame-filled whimper as he became the first "name" republican to drop out of the race.

3. Ashcroft attempted to use Clinton's lynching by hijacking the press throughout the Lewinsky "scandal" and publicly condemning the President and admonishing moderate (and much smarter) GOP leaders for keeping quiet.

4. Of course, Ashcroft had to abandon his ludicrous bid for the White House in January of 2000 because the popular Democrat Governor of Missouri at that time, Mel Carnahan, was about to take him to the woodshed and throw him out of the Senate.  Governor Carnahan and his son were killed in a mysterious plane crash close to election day and Mrs. Carnahan -- despite her relative virginity as a political candidate -- tossed Ashcroft out of his seat in a stunning victory that left Ashcroft unemployed.

5. "Senator Ashcroft completely disregarded his responsibility to hear the evidence as a fair and impartial juror," Missouri Democratic Party Chairman Joe Carmichael said concerning Ashcroft's conduct during the failed Clinton impeachment "trial" lynching. "Instead, in the midst of the trial, Ashcroft began taking money from one of Clinton's chief accusers in return for helping her raise money for her own defense."

6. The vice president "should be held responsible for entering the United States into the Kyoto treaty, which would allow some nations to compete very effectively without environmental safeguards but tie down the American economy, which would drive jobs overseas," Ashcroft said. Ashcroft -- ass that he is -- was referring to the treaty negotiated in Kyoto, Japan, by Vice President Al Gore to control emissions of polluting "greenhouse gases" and abate global warming. To Ashcroft's addled mind this meant, "That's the kind of things Gore will have to answer for, not whether the president acted improperly."

7. Ashcroft is such a liar that once he was kicked from the cast of wanna-be GOP Presidential contenders and after he voted to convict President Clinton (based on no evidence at all), he then "did a 180" and preached that Republicans could lose in November if they focused on the so-called Clinton "scandals" -- which is what he had been doing for the past six years. He then began focusing on "tax relief" and Social Security "reform"! Ashcroft also abandoned his small-minded Christian Coalition buddies and changed his agenda from issues that galvanize religious conservatives to a more centrist appeal aimed at the nation's political midsection. Of course, American voters -- even in Missouri -- knew a liar when they saw one and ignored the man... that is, until Gentleman's C George nominated him as Attorney General of the United States. Ashcroft would, if approved by the Senate, be a attorney general motivated only by gutter politics and has already proven that the Constitution and the true rule of law have no place in his Bible-, hate- and racism-driven agenda.

8. Ashcroft's lead-taking and public harping on another man --Bill Clinton -- to offer a "detailed" explanation of his relationship with Lewinsky embarrassed people who attended Ashcroft fundraisers. He called for this display of dirty laundry to OUR children in several cities during 1999 while testing the waters for his own White House bid.

9. Now facing a tough Senate confirmation hearing, Ashcroft is "born again" -- metamorphosing from impeachment Gestapo officer to moderate policy wonk. But what place has a moronic religious fanatic politician have in the chair of the nation's top legal office? (Hint: none.)

10. Ashcroft has said recently about President Clinton's "trial" that "[t]he issue has been resolved. I think people want to move past it" -- this only months after the liar and soon-to-be-perjurer said, "The Starr report will reinforce the strong case for the President's departure made by Bill Clinton's own words... The decent and honorable thing for the president would be to resign. His refusal to do so forces the country to make a terrible decision" -- namely, call for the rejection of Ashcroft as Attorney General.

11. Ashcroft wasted the time and money of a Senate Judiciary subcommittee he chaired. Before being handily defeated by the wife of his dead opponent, Ashcroft actually held hearings on whether "a sitting president is subject to regular criminal processes." Everyone on that subcommittee knew the answer -- Ashcroft's answer -- before the hearings even began. That answer, of course, was YES --  although the issue has been decided in the opposite time and time again. Around this time, Ashcroft -- who now pretends he was a bit player in this Constitutional abortion -- took the stage like a lunatic clown at a gathering of the "CPAC Klan" (the Neofascist "Conservative Political Action Committee," whose members include the very worst of America's corporate citizens and their K Street N.W. lobbyists) and said, "Mr. President, if these allegations are true, you have disgraced yourself and the Office of the Presidency, and you should resign now."

That speech mobilized perhaps the most dangerous man in the nation -- Dr. James Dobson, founder of something called Focus on the Family (or, as I call it, Fuck Up the Family) and the newest popular fascist hiding behind a white clergyman's collar.

"This is the message!!" Dobson actually wrote in a note he faxed to Ashcroft.

A month later, you might remember, in a highly publicized speech decrying the GOP's wise hesitation to press the social-conservative agenda, Neo-Nazi Dobson threatened to bolt the party and, in a Goebbels-like denunciation, even criticized Ashcroft for not speaking out more vigorously against gay rights.

Jim Nicholson, the Chairman of the RNC must have laughed his head off, for the people Dobson represents cannot even read a ballot and he "controls" perhaps just under 35,000 votes NATIONWIDE.

But make no mistake -- Dobson views Ashcroft with favor and vice versa. "He's a fine man, and he's been a powerful voice in the Senate," says Dobson -- who now must hate Little George Bush for not proposing to burn every homosexual at the stake. Dobson's speech was just another indication of the insane rhetoric of the Religious Right, which Ashcroft, of course, could turn to his use. Dobson made it clear that he preferred Ashcroft and the bizarre violet-eyed midget Gary Bauer, whose similarly phony "Family Research Council" has since thrown him out.

Ashcroft wasn't just another slimy politician courting evangelicals; he is part of the team. He's the son of a "minister," and, laughably, an accomplished gospel singer, not unlike Orrin "Recording Superstar" Hatch of Utah, but with a crackly baritone voice. "Ashcroft isn't simply singing their tune," said one GOP strategist to me on the phone last week, "He's been playing in the band for a long time."

Ashcroft -- the man who we might rely on to maintain the separation of Church and State, actually meets with a small "devotional group" every morning in his office before the day's business begins, and he loves to give visitors copies of his ten-song tape, The Gospel (Music) According to John, which he composed and produced himself.

Orrin Hatch has done much the same -- but Hatch is not the same kind of monster. And he has CDs, not tapes.

"He is one of the most prayerful men I know," says longtime proto-fascist activist Paul Weyrich, an Ashcroft supporter. 

At a Christian Coalition meeting in February last year, a majority of organizational chiefs named Ashcroft as their choice for 2000. Pat Robertson, the King of Televangelist Thieves, was looking for a way to endorse Ashcroft, although I don't recall
he did.

12. John Ashcroft was hit with scandal in the middle of his second term as governor of Missouri. One evening in May 1990, his 12-year-old son needed to look at a book on Elizabethan England for a school assignment. Librarian Monteria Hightower, who later complained about this, was contacted at home by Ashcroft's "security officer" and was forced to agree to drive over to the closed library and unlock the front door of the state library, which is always closed on Sundays. Little Andy Ashcroft spent about two and a half hours conducting his research while, I would guess, the Jewish students had to make do. This is how Ashcroft is raising his own son. Of course, once the cat was out of the bag, Ashcroft quickly apologized.  Certainly this was nothing much, but the incident demonstrated Ashcroft's lust for power and lust for using it -- even in petty and discomfiting ways and in front of his young son. He has not changed.

13. In 1985, Missouri's two Major League baseball teams, the Kansas City Royals and the St. Louis Cardinals, played in the World Series. Instead of rooting for one team over the other, then Governor Ashcroft cheered for both. He even made a special hat with bills on either side, which he flipped around between innings. "I was always for the team that was batting," he said. To many that signals double-dealing and a prevaricative nature. 

14. People who claim that Ashcroft is a racist -- and those close to him whom I know confirm this -- forget that he not only successfully opposed the appointment of a well-qualified black judge, Ronnie White, to the federal bench (and for no
apparent defensible reason), but also opposed black American physician David Satcher as the Surgeon General. Satcher's nomination had been stalled in the Senate for months. Several senators, led Ashcroft, complained about Satcher's opposition to legislation banning some late-term abortion procedures. They were also "angry" (not really) over a Centers for Disease Control study of AIDS in Africa in which some patients were given placebos instead of medication -- a standard and scientifically accepted practice to test the efficacy of pharmaceuticals -- held when Satcher ran that organization from Atlanta." This was the feeble excuse they used to humiliate Satcher. "I believe that America deserves better. America deserves higher quality. America deserves a higher standard of ethics," Ashcroft said. The word "ethics" being the right wing code word for "White Evangelical Christian Male."

15. Another idea Ashcroft thinks he can pitch to a broad audience is so-called "charitable choice," which lets religious institutions administer government-funded social services. He inserted a charitable choice provision into the 1996 welfare reform law and is now trying to expand it. Economic conservatives love it because it privatizes government; social conservatives like it because it lines the pockets of institutionalized religion, and some Democrats like its humanitarianism. "It's not that [conservatives] don't care," Ashcroft told Mother Jones Magazine. "It's that they understand that some of these needs are more effectively met, more comprehensively and compassionately understood, in the context of cultural rather than governmental solutions." What he really believes is that he can buy off religious leaders by moving vast sums of federal money into religious coffers which aid Churches and Synagogues in "holding together" their flocks.

16. Ashcroft has failed to grasp that since the day of Ronald Reagan (a man with whom he compares himself every chance he gets), the range of moral issues has grown to include subjects that pit conservatism's two guiding principles -- morality and free enterprise -- against one another. A case in point is the regulation of industries that prey on addicts. 

17. Ashcroft is supposedly against gambling, and has, according to himself, taken the  side of morality. As governor of Missouri, he opposed riverboat gambling and a state lottery.

Or did he?

When Republican activists convened in a Mississippi casino earlier this year, Ashcroft showed up and publicly rebuked his hosts in some insane rudeness saying. "Our party should not sell its soul to the gambling lobby," he declared.

18. Ashcroft betrays no such concern for the liquor industry's efforts to own his soul. Despite his personal abstention (the Assemblies of God, forbids it) and his efforts as governor to prohibit Sunday liquor sales in Missouri, beer companies have piled on the cash for Ashcroft with $44,500 since in the last six years. Last year, according to Electronic Media, beer lobbyists met with his staff and the staff of Sen. Conrad Burns (R-Mont.) seeking to exempt beer ads from a hearing to be chaired by Burns on limiting alcohol advertising on television. The lobbyists got their wish after it was announced that Ashcroft would co-chair the hearing (which, in the end, was never held).

Was this a quid pro quo?

Does Imelda Marcos love designer shoes?

19. It's easy to believe liquor companies could buy Ashcroft when they can't even buy him a drink. A few years ago, Ashcroft praised beer-makers in a video tribute produced by the Beer Institute of America. And in a campaign appearance in August, he admired beer vats and worked the assembly line at a brewery owned by Anheuser-Busch, which employs 5,000 Missourians and has donated $20,000 to Ashcroft's PAC. Ashcroft rationalizes. "Beer is a product that is in demand," he argues. "And when it's used responsibly, it's like other products." What other products?

20. What about tobacco? Why did Ashcroft front the defeat of the anti-tobacco bill? He denies he was trying to protect the industry (though he accepted $8,000 from cigarette companies in his 1994 Senate campaign). His hurriedness to head the anti-anti-tobacco movement illustrates a different kind of corruption: coalition politics. Ashcroft had been maneuvering himself to join the GOP's anti-tax lobby, whose interests, coincidentally, correspond with those of the tobacco lobby.

21. Ashcroft's moralism against tobacco regulation -- "that people should be free to make bad choices" -- doesn't mix well with his position on gambling. His use of the tobacco tax issue in campaign appearances stinks of scheming. "If the Democrats want to run in the election this November on an $868 billion tax increase, [taking] from Reagan Democrats that kind of money, well, that's the kind of campaign we'll welcome," he boasted on CNN's Larry King Live. "Reagan Democrats know the path to the Republican Party."

Sure they do, Ashcroft.

22. The best fight Ashcroft makes against tobacco taxes is that they fall heavily on the working poor. His first income tax reform plan, unveiled in January last year, was fraudulently progressive: it lowered the marginal tax rate for the working poor to 10 percent, while leaving the tax rate for the rich at 40 percent. In a speech unveiling the plan, Ashcroft said it was "unfair" to deprive "working Americans" of tax advantages reserved for corporations. When asked why he hadn't cut the top rate, he said the plan was "designed to help the working middle class." But, just like Ashcroft he immediately, after economic conservatives complained, switched to a new plan that essentially would flatten the tax rate at 25 percent. 

If the above wasn't enough for you to support the permanent retirement of this political hack to a God not shared by many, this self-righteous former Missouri twit governor and one-term Senator considers himself a "moral crusader," but he has more than anyone's share of corruption scandals in his past:

- Ashcroft declared an "economic emergency" to push through an 18-mile, $140 million freeway right to his major contributor's property

- Ashcroft received (and didn't report) a favorable deal on a boat from a contributor who got $1 million in Missouri state contracts.

- Ashcroft's own attorney general went to prison for converting state property to his own. Ashcroft claimed he knew nothing about it. Don't make me laugh!

Of course, I was a "subscriber" to Ashcroft's e-mail Newsletters -- always entertaining. One day I got this inspired missive from Little Reverend John. I can't speak to every lie in it -- so I will simply comment a little.

Remember, Ashcroft issued this statement to his supposed supporters -- not to the public which was already calling for his head in the majority:

Topic: White Water 
E-mail from Senator John Ashcroft 

Today the Senate voted that the President was not guilty of impeachment charges brought by the House of Representatives. Because you took the time and effort to let me know your thoughts, I wanted to let you know how I voted and why before the sun sets on this historic day.

When the impeachment trial began, I took an oath to render "impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws: So help me God." This oath requires me to decide this case based on the evidence, arguments of the parties, and the applicable law -- and on no other basis.

(1) WELL IF THIS IS TRUE, WHY DID YOU TAKE AN OATH UNDER GOD?

After sitting in trial for more than a month

(2) ASHCROFT WAS OFTEN ABSENT.

and spending countless hours reviewing the record,

(3) ASHCROFT IS WELL-KNOWN TO HAVE MADE UP HIS MIND ON BILL CLINTONS GUILT BEFORE THE "TRIAL" BEGAN.

I concluded that the President committed grand jury perjury and obstructed justice.

(4) EVEN THE HOUSE MANGLERS COULD NOT CONCLUDE THAT CLINTON HAD OBSTRUCTED JUSTICE AND HAD NO PROOF OF THIS. NEITHER HAD THEY ANY PROOF THAT CLINTON HAD LIED UNDER OATH. WHAT DID HAPPEN WAS THAT BOTH IDIOT ATTORNEYS FOR PAULA JONES AND THE BOTTOM-FEEDER STARR ASKED SUCH STUPIDLY WORDED QUESTIONS THAT THE PRESIDENT -- FAR WISER THAN ANY OF THEM -- WAS ABLE TO WIGGLE OUT OF TELLING THEM THE SICK LITTLE DETAILS THEY WANTED ON THE FRONT PAGE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES.

While not every allegation against the President was proven, two of the four examples of perjury and five of the seven examples of obstruction of justice were proven beyond a reasonable doubt.

(5) THAT IS A LIE --AND THE MAJORITY OF THE SENATE CALLS ASHCROFT A LIAR HERE. NOT ONE OF THE ALLEGATIONS WAS PROVEN, OTHERWISE THE PRESIDENT WOULD HAVE BEEN FOUND GUILTY AND REMOVED FROM OFFICE -- AND AL GORE WOULD BE THE PRESIDENT-ELECT TODAY.

Inserted in the Congressional Record and on my home page (http://ashcroft.senate.gov) is my analysis of the evidence and law in this case.

(6) ASHCROFT DID NOT WRITE "HIS" ANALYSIS -- IT WAS WRITTEN BY AN AIDE AND IS LAUGHABLE READING FOR A SUNDAY MORNING.

As an example of my reasoning, let me mention one aspect of this case: the President's
conversation with Ms. Betty Currie.

(7) RECALL, PLEASE, THAT OF ALL THE ITEMS ASHCROFT COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO JUMP ON -- HE CHOSE THE PRESIDENT'S CONVERSATION WITH BETTY CURRIE -- A BLACK AMERICAN WOMAN -- SO WHEN ASHCROFT'S OTHER RACIST TRAITS COME UP AT HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING -- REMEMBER THIS ONE.

Ms. Currie told the grand jury that after the President's sworn deposition in the Jones case, the President requested that she make a rare Sunday appearance at the White House. 

(8) BETTY CURRIE DID NOT SAY THIS WAS A RARE OCCURRENCE -- AND IT WAS NOT -- SHOWING ONCE AGAIN THAT ASHCROFT IS A LIAR. 

When she arrived, the President asked her a series of unusual questions, including "Monica came on to me, and I never touched her, right?" "You were always there when Monica was there, right?"; and "I was never really alone with Monica, right?" When asked to explain this to the grand jury, he stated that he was "trying to refresh [his] memory about what the facts were."

(9) IT WAS PROVEN BY THE PRESIDENT'S DEFENSE TEAM THAT CLINTON WAS MERELY CHECKING HIS OWN RECOLLECTIONS WAS HIS FRIEND AND SECRETARY BETTY CURRIE -- ASHCROFT KNOWS THIS YET GOES ON LYING!

This statement is demonstrably false. A person cannot refresh their memory by repeating lies.

(10) WHAT THE HECK IS HE TALKING ABOUT HERE? ASHCROFT IS SPOUTING GOBBLEDYGOOK. HE ASSUMES THAT THE PRESIDENT IS LYING -- ALTHOUGH HE WAS NOT, TO HIS KNOWLEDGE.

The President's leading questions were falsehoods.

(11) ASHCROFT LIES AGAIN -- CALLING THESE "LEADING QUESTIONS" AS IF THE PRESIDENT WERE CROSS EXAMINING CURRIE IN A COURTROOM AS A HOSTILE WITNESS.

For example, the President knew that he had been alone with Ms. Lewinsky.

(12) NO PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES -- INCLUDING EISENHOWER, KENNEDY, JOHNSON, AND GEORGE HERBERT IRAN CONTRA BUSH SENIOR -- WAS EVER ALONE WHILE THEY WERE RECEIVING SEXUAL FAVORS FROM THEIR GIRLFRIENDS OR MISTRESSES. THE PRESIDENT IS SURROUNDED WITH SECRET SERVICE, STAFF THAT CAN WALK IN AT ANY TIME. THIS IS WHY HE HAD TO LOCK HIMSELF IN THE BATHROOM WITH LEWINSKY TO LET HER GIVE HIM HUMMERS SO SHE COULD TELL ALL HER FRIENDS SHE HAD.

The true purpose of the President's conversation with Ms. Currie was not to refresh his memory, but to ensure that she would confirm his false testimony if she were called as a witness.

(13) THIS WAS NOT A FINDING OF FACT AS ASHCROFT ATTEMPTS TO POSE IT, BUT A FINDING OF ASHCROFT WHO WAS COUNTING ON HIS HARASSMENT OF CLINTON TO VAULT HIM INTO THE GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION.

During his deposition, the President repeatedly invoked Ms. Currie as an alibi.

(14) THE PRESIDENT DID NO SUCH THING.

 The President then made sure that Ms. Currie's story supported his testimony.

(15) THE PRESIDENT DID NO SUCH THING.

 The law criminalizes such witness tampering.

(16) BUT  THE PRESIDENT WAS NEVER CHARGED WITH "WITNESS TAMPERING," SOMETHING ASHCROFT BORROWED FROM TV CRIME SHOWS.

These are not the only examples of criminal misconduct. 

The President also committed grand jury perjury in claiming he was truthful with his aides and in describing his relationship with Ms. Lewinsky.

(17) THERE WAS NEVER A SCINTILLA OF PROOF THAT THE PRESIDENT LIED TO HIS STAFF OR TO THE GRAND JURY.

The President obstructed justice by encouraging Ms. Lewinsky to file a false affidavit, by providing her with job assistance and by coaching testimony of his aides.

(18) THIS IS THE WORST LIE OF ALL -- IT CAME OUT BEFORE THE TRIAL IN THE SENATE THAT IT WAS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE THAT THIS COULD NAVE OCCURRED -- YET AFTER THE TRIAL ASHCROFT ALLEGES THIS PRIVATELY TO HIS "SUPPORTERS."

The President's actions constitute perjury and obstruction of justice.

(19) OBVIOUSLY NOT.

The Senate's precedents make clear these are high crimes and misdemeanors that require the President's removal.

(20) THAT'S A TOTAL LIE.

Three times in the last fifteen years the House has impeached and the Senate has removed federal judges for perjury or related crimes.

(21) PRESIDENTS ARE NOT JUDGES, AND THE PRESIDENT DID NOT COMMIT PERJURY OR RELATED CRIMES.

Chief Justice Rehnquist has described perjury as a "flagrant abuse of office."

(22) CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST, AS HE PROVED ONLY LAST MONTH IS NOTHING BUT A PUPPET OF THE FEDERALIST SOCIETY CABAL AND OTHER NEONAZI RIGHT-WINGERS.

During the Watergate scandal, the Special Prosecutor thought subornation of perjury by the President was "as demeaning an act as could be imagined."

(23) THAT IS TRUE -- BUT UNLIKE THE FAKE CLINTON "SCANDAL," THE NIXON PERJURY AND SUBORNATION OF PERJURY WERE PROVED -- MANY TIMES OVER.

Perjury and obstruction of justice are high crimes and misdemeanors. The Constitution leaves no discretion -- it states that the President "shall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors."

This is the only conclusion that I believe is consistent with my oath to do impartial justice. This case is, in large measure, about the importance of oaths. The President's failure to honor his oath caused this entire proceeding.

(24) ASHCROFT IS LYING TO GOD.

Although some might see a vote to acquit as the expedient course, I will not do further damage to our culture by disregarding my oath.

(25) THAT'S YET ANOTHER LIE -- ASHCROFT'S "CULTURE" ALSO SUPPORTS DEMEANING BLACK AMERICANS WHO HAVE NOT ROLLED OVER AND SOLD OUT TO BECOME REPUBLICANS. IT SUPPORTS THE PERPETUAL HARASSMENT OF HOMOSEXUALS, THE POOR, AND ANYTHING NON-WHITE NON- CHRISTIAN, NON-MARRIED, AND NOT IN AN APPROVED BIBLE-STUDY INDOCTRINATION PROGRAM.

I regret that the President's conduct has forced the Congress to consider this matter.

(26) CLINTON GETTING A HUMMER IN THE WHITE HOUSE AND NOT OFFERING TO DESCRIBE IT FOR KEN STARR OR PAULA JONES IS NOT CONDUCT THAT "FORCED" THE CONGRESS TO DO ANYTHING. IN FACT, THE CONGRESS NEVER CONSIDERED THIS MATTER. THE ONLY MEMBERS OF CONGRESS THAT DID WERE RIGHT WING FASCIST WHORES ON THE LUNATIC FRINGE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. NOT ONE DEMOCRAT -- UNLESS INANE OR ABOUT TO SWITCH PARTIES -- SUPPORTED ANYTHING THAT HAD TO DO WITH THIS PERMANENT WITCH HUNT.

Now that the trial is concluded, I am eager to accomplish my legislative agenda of tax cuts, retirement security, educational opportunity and safety from drugs and crime.

The letters, phone calls and e-mail that I received from Missouri were a motivation for me to decide this issue carefully. I am grateful you cared enough about our country to share your thoughts. 

Sincerely,

John Ashcroft

Sincerely?

Remember, when the confirmation hearings begin on Ashcroft, that the Senate voted along strict party lines to defeat the nomination of Ronnie White as a federal judge, which showed yet again a decade-long and constantly demonstrated bias by the Republican-controlled Senate against appointing women and minorities to anything. Yvonne Scruggs-Leftwich, executive director of the Black Leadership Forum, agrees, saying, "We're outraged....We think that this is a blatant and outrageous example of racism."

Ronnie White was the first African-American to serve on the Missouri Supreme Court.

Ashcroft and his lynch mob buddies said they blocked the nomination because White was "too soft in his views on the death penalty."

According to Scruggs-Leftwich, though, requiring a nominee to be pro-death penalty biases the process against African-American candidates, who are more likely to oppose capital punishment because the death penalty disproportionately affects African-Americans. 

And think about this -- According to an analysis covering the 1997-1998 congressional term, 53% percent of minority nominees were confirmed, while 85 percent of white men passed the Republican-controlled Senate's "scrutiny."

Naturally, Republican leaders vehemently deny charges of bigotry and chauvinism, as is their practice since the O.J. Trial where they learned that they could accuse any enemy exposing organized racism as "PLAYING THE RACE CARD." 

Senator Kit Bond, (R-MO) said the allegations were "unmitigated political hogwash." And of course, then-Senator John Ashcroft , the leader in scuttling White's nomination, tried and failed to distance himself from charges of racism. "It's outrageous for the president to accuse... senators from all over the nation of racial bias," his spokesman said. "Where is one scrap of evidence for such scurrilous suggestions?" 

Well, how about Satcher and White, you moron?  How about the 50% of other minority candidates you refused to confirm?

Do you really assume us to be that stupid, Ashcroft?

But perhaps the most telling story about Ashcroft concerns his (and his fellow Neo-Nazis') anti-women, anti-gay, anti-Jew group of GOP Stasi who hired one Don Sipple -- a wife-beater -- to run their campaigns, knowing about Sipple's violence-prone character all along.

Sipple, who is not only a wife beater, used photos of rape, molestation of children, and other horrible sex crime photos (many including blacks looking like the perpetrators whether they were or not) in his commercials for fascistic GOP candidates in a cheap-shot attempt to convince us that crime was the biggest issue -- even when crime rates were plummeting. Sipple, a woman-hater himself, also worked for George W. Bush.

He has also shaped campaigns for Bob Dole, Poppy George Bush, and one of the biggest racist pig of them all, former California Governor and U.S. Senator Pete Wilson. 

Regina Sipple, one of his wives, would say later, "He just wanted to hurt me, like he used to hurt her" -- referring to Sipple's first wife.

A top GOP media adviser, Sipple helped define "character" as a campaign issue.

That alone speaks volumes on the GOP's stand on the "character" issue.

Sipple's skill at creating emotional and persuasive political advertisements landed him jobs with some of the GOP's top scum balls, and they -- God-fearing men that they are -- knew very well that Sipple had beaten two of his wives unmercifully, and perhaps dozens of other women as reported in other publications.

Remember, when he worked for Ashcroft, it had already been years since his wife-beating was exposed in pubic courtrooms.

Regina and Don Sipple divorced in 1979.

[Illustrated at our web site: Regina in an early modeling photo and after an alleged 1977 beating by Don.]

We have posted to our web site the testimony of both women -- which Ashcroft had to have been aware, not to mention Snot-Nosed George Junior and his Poppy, who also used Sipple's "talents" to make great lying attack ads for GOP politicians.

One of Sipple's lies on video tape was his scary skill at helping Republican male candidates "leap the gender gap;" he seemed to understand how to strike the right note to reach out to stupid women.

Sipple's negative ads are also legendary among his peers. "Don has a reputation for using one thing to discredit someone," says a fellow consultant.

Here's a partial list of Don Sipple's clients:
Kit Bond
Jim Thompson
John Ashcroft
Pete Domenici
Pete Wilson
George H. Bush
Jim Edgar
George W. Bush
Vito Fossella
Susan Golding

And let's not forget our Vice President-Select, who will spend most of his time in the Senate breaking tie votes -- in favor of corporate American, and against the interests of the average Joe.

"Big Time" Dick Cheney, a man who never made more than $85,000 a year in "public service" but earned $50 million less than a decade after he left the Bush White House and after he privatized the nation for President Bush, gave Ashcroft some of his "hard-earned" income.

Hey, Dick -- how did you earn those big bucks?

As for the rumors that Ashcroft is "so well-respected by his peers" -- which is a damned lie perpetuated by every ass-kissing pseudo-journalist on Capitol Hill -- that's a bunch of crap, as Hillary Clinton often says behind closed doors.

Thank God.

Finally, allow me to share one last tidbit:

"At an auction for an unholy alliance known as the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress, Gerald Ford's putter pulled down $700, but the devout Ashcroft's recording of himself singing gospel received no bids."

Amen.

Ashcroft and his staff never forget to compare the Attorney General nominee to Ronald Reagan.

There is no comparison.

Reagan was a simple-minded nice guy who was losing it to a horrible disease in year three of his presidency. I personally like him a great deal -- although I found myself disagreeing with everyone around him who filled his pliant mind with lies and perverted and corrupt policy -- criminals and liars such as now-disgraced ex-Colonel Oliver North.

The only mystery Ashcroft ever shared with Reagan is the naive confidence that comes from ideological brain surgery, a physical barrier between easily roused pious speech-making and the hardhearted economics that comes when a nation is managed not only as corporation, as Failed Businessman George reminds us every day, but managed by corporations who give men like Ashcroft and George w. Putsch the unprecedented amounts of campaign cash needed to fool you into believing whatever they want you to believe. 

John Ashcroft, take my advice: either rip up your Bible and admit the truth about yourself and your pals to the Senators meeting to confirm you and to the American public who kicked you out of the Senate, or cling to that Bible -- your only desperate hope to get out of a one-way ticket to Hell. And, by the by, remove yourself from consideration. 

You are unfit to serve.