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7.7.08 @ 12:01AM

LET THE RESEARCHER BEWARE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s Clinton and Me at Georgetown:

In his "Clinton and Me" entry for Thursday, Bob Tyrrell wonders how his concluding aphorism might be rendered in Latin. Herewith my translation, suitable perhaps for inscription on the podium of a presidential bronze:

De vitis Clintonum caveat investigator

Happy Fourth!
-- John R. Dunlap
Department of Classics
Santa Clara University

Why are there not more men like you who will stand up and say "He's Naked? No Clothes!"?

I can only thank the few who are willing to call out the liars and I do thank you sir for your service to our country.

God bless you and your household.
-- Lea Pearce
Providence, North Carolina

This article would make a great epilogue for The Clinton Crack-Up.Will it appear in the next printing?
-- Stan Welli
Aurora, Illinois

JINDAL JITTERS
Re: Joseph Lawler's Cajun Seasoning:

Wow. They were going to recall him because he didn't veto something he had promised to support fast enough. Those sound like staunch, loyal, hardcore supporters. I presume they are also circulating recall petitions against all the legislators who a) actually voted for the pay raise and b) would actually have benefited from it. Wait, maybe they are!

As far as I can tell, whatever pain Jindal is now feeling can't be anywhere near as bad as those legislators that voted for it, which I assume were his political opponents. If any of them complain that he broke his promise, all he has to do is say the people have spoken. What are they going to do?
-- Roy Koczela.

I read Joseph Lawler's article "Cajun Seasoning" and I must say that during the time when this issue was center stage, I thought just as Mr. Lawler. However, in retrospect and in consideration of just how smart Jindal is, it may be that the Governor is just too smart for normal people to understand what he is really doing. True, the Governor could have stated immediately that he would veto the bill and then done so. This would have eliminated the crises, pleased the citizens, and infuriated the legislature. We citizens would have forgotten the issue but the legislature would remember it forever and taken it out on Governor Jindal by halting his reforms. We Louisiana citizens would have been fat, dumb, happy, and screwed like always.

By waiting until the last minute to veto the raise, Jindal gave the citizen's blazing anger the opportunity to build into a fire storm, 95% of which is directed at the legislature where it belongs. Governor Jindal is a hero again with the citizens and the Legislature better not block anything the Governor wants to do because we are all watching them like hawks. Way to go Bobby.

Governor Jindal, I think you may be qualified for first place on the ticket with the moderate (liberal) McCain as your VP.
-- Joe Fezio
Covington, Louisiana

Jindal's critics who bemoaned his Reaganesque pragmatism on the legislative pay issue (to increase pay from $16,000-$32,000) are illustrative of why conservatism is in a downward spiral -- too many conservatives seem to relish attacking their own rather than fighting Democrats. Ryan and Kourtney Fournier's juvenile recall petition that had the potential of helping incompetent and corrupt Louisiana Democrats speaks volumes to what is wrong in our movement. If the Fournier's are representative of a majority of conservatives we are doomed to return to decades in the wilderness reminiscent of the late '50s, '60s, '70s and '80s even if Obama is President.

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