Words to Live By Since 1993 A SPIFF Publication Vol. 2, No. 3 Us? Skeptical? Prove it! Spiff: Serving the Public Good The medialibs couldn't do it. The Congress couldn't do it. The talk show hosts couldn't do it. But, one day after Spiff called upon Attorney General Janet Reno to save her reputation and appoint a special prosecutor to investigate the Whitewatergate S&L-corruption-land-fraud-illegal-campaign-funding scheme, the White House caved into the pressure and directed Mizz Reno to do so. The power is awesome, but we will keep our heads. It's about time. Of course the decision to appoint said prosecutor was immediately met with panicked and shrill complaints from libs across the country. Locally, we were treated to Jan Poole, Nashville Radio Queen, screeching the following words into her microphone again and again: "What do you want?! What do you want?!" The truth would be a nice start. Although Bill keeps claiming that nothing improper was done, there is obviously something foul at work here. On the surface, it once again points out the glaring hypocrisy of this administration. They blasted Republicans for the S&L mess, knowing that they had used the same S&Ls to fund Bill's past gubernatorial campaigns. They told us that there would be "no appearance of impropriety" anywhere in this administration (Tell that to Ron Brown.) like the evil administrations of the past twelve years. They told us a lot. They meant none of it. Now that they have had several months to scrub up the files and get them ready for public view, President Clinton and Bill are prepared to cooperate with a special prosecutor. Frankly, it's too late. Spiff supports Senator Bob Dole's call for a Congressional investigation. Since President Clinton and Bill have had time to perpetrate their cover-up, stronger investigations are needed. Just another day at the White House. Uncle Ned's Crazy Maze We have our first report from the magical land of socialized medicine. A long-time reader of WTLB recently went to her doctor because of a minor ailment. After her checkup, she was asked to present her insurance card at the desk for payment and was met with a wondrous surprise. This particular reader's job is with a company that is based in North Carolina, so because her evil employers provide benefits, her insurance company is also based in North Carolina. When she presented her insurance card, she was told by the nurse that her insurance was no longer accepted in Tennessee, thanks to TennCare. "Then, what am I supposed to do?" was her question. The nurse informed her that if she is stubborn enough to want to keep her insurance, she must pay her medical bills up front, and then make a claim to her insurance company for reimbursement. This is what Governor Ned seems to think improved medical services look like. To be sure, TennCare is a walk in the park compared to President Clinton and Bill's hostile takeover of the health care industry. Anyone who thinks that you will be able to choose your doctor, your care, your program, or basically anything is, without a doubt, inhaling something. Both Sides, without Jesse Jackson Our good friends at the Rainbow Coalition got together last week to discuss crime, welfare, and other problems. We noticed something that has become more than just a trend: people disagreeing with Jesse Jackson's traditional approach of demanding more government programs to cure all of society's ills. This is an example of one such speaker. "I just want to say good afternoon everyone. My name is Mr. Parker. I would have to tend to agree with that gentleman who just spoke that the answers lie in people like Kimmie Gray. You know what's really amazing with this whole welfare reform issue is that I myself, a black male, 30 years old, have done well in corporate America. I didn't need a social worker to tell me how to live. My mother had prepared me and my father had prepared me to live in the right way needed in order to be a positive force in this society. "And that's the same with a lot of these mothers, single parent mothers, who are currently on welfare. You don't need social workers, paid social workers, to tell these people how to live. They also, just like ourselves, have that God-given creativity instilled in them. Let that yearn to be free so that they themselves can know how to live. "What's really so amazing about this welfare reform is that for the past several months I've been working voluntarily on my spare time over in the southeast community, almost got caught up in several drive-by shootings, but you know that's a risk you've got to take. You've got to deal with the brothers over there and you've got to try to do what you've got to do. I find that I see a lot of hypocrisy among our own race. How we can be so quick to blame our problems on guns when guns are nothing but inanimate objects. How we're so quick to blame our problems on drugs when drugs are inanimate objects. When they become destructive is when the human being takes up that tool and then uses that tool in a certain manner. "One thing I find in common with working with the black males over in Berry Farms housing project is that a majority of these black males we're dealing with have one thing in common. The majority of them were raised under government, were raised on government welfare. Not raised in the circle you and I were raised in, a church foundation, a family foundation, an educational foundation, so it's amazing when we say we must reclaim these youths, but these youths weren't claimed in the beginning in the first place because they were raised under a circle of government. "You cannot raise successfully a people under government. Only people can raise themselves successfully." After a resounding absence of applause, Eleanor Holmes Norton responded: "Well! Uh uh I for one think that uh uh uh the notion that what's happening out on the street has to do with the fact that government was raising the children also simplifies the issue. [applause] Uh and we're gonna have uh uh we uh if we're gonna have a kind of partnership that's gonna put our community back together again we better get all the pieces on the table and I for one am not gonna let the government off of its part of the hook or say to some some some 17-year-old who just messed up once and got pregnant that you're on your own. It's not that simple. We've got to instill responsibility. There are carrots and sticks for all of us in life, If there weren't we would never have gotten where we've gotten. but I'm telling you one thing. They don't need to be carrots and clubs." Bobbing for News Let's see what happened last week. Ukraine agreed to give up its nuclear forces, even though it will take seven years. President Clinton and Bill went globe-trotting across Europe. (We are outraged! She is spending too much time on foreign policy!) Bill held a "town meeting" with Russians (an audience more sympathetic to his policies). The White house, at the urging of Spiff, finally agreed to a special counsel in the Whitewatergate S&L-corruption-land-fraud-illegal-campaign-funding scheme. And the Bobbit trial continued in Virginia. Now which of these events do you think got the most attention from the medialibs? If you answered the Bobbit trial, then you get the point of this article. To avoid this kind of spectacle in the future, Spiff endorses the Bobbit Bill, which will impose a five-night waiting period on filet knives. Quote of the weak: "We have something else to thank Dr. Martin Luther King for." Barbara Boxer, explaining how the Rev. King saved so many lives in Monday's L.A. earthquake Quote of the strong: "It appears that Bill and Hillary profited from the greed of the '80s." Pat Buchanan Words to Live By is published every week at about this time by Spiff. You can send a fax to us here in the Spiff Executive Plaza, towering over beautiful downtown Donelson, Tennessee at 615-883-0435.