Words to Live By Since 1993 A SPIFF Publication Vol. 2, No. 49 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Well, there goes the Eric Clapner fan club! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- MIA (Missing Inaction) Since the devastating Nov. 8 elections, President Clinton, proving that she is undaunted by the results has really buckled down on important policy issues. Just in the last week she has: * Released this year's White House Christmas cards * Placed the star atop the national Christmas tree * Made comments about the alien baby she is reported (ok, by a supermarket tabloid) to be expecting * Lost her shoe while decorating the Christmas tree It was about time she got down to serious business, rather that flirting around with such foolishness as health scare reform. We at Spiff commend her for her strong work to better the nation. What is really going on here? It is obvious that the administration is adrift at the moment. Does it try to work with or even try to trump the new Congress on issues that the people overwhelmingly support? (You know, the things that are found in the Contract with America.) Or do they try to adhere to their guiding principle of liberalism so eloquently pointed out in the 1,000+ pages of President Clinton's Health Scare tome? The answer may have already been given. With Bill's announcement that he would like to see more spent on pay for our men and women in the military, he moved to a position we have been advocating since president Clinton took office and began irresponsibly slashing the military budget. Suddenly, we support a line-item veto. Now, we like a balanced budget amendment. Now, we were always in favor of making Congress live under the same laws they pass onto the people. Now comes word that the administration may be willing to support the oft-promised, oft-forgotten, often-imitated-but-never-duplicated middle class tax cut! If these moves to the "New Democrat" right and the vanishing of President Clinton from the serious policy stage are any indication, the White House may have come to realize that they should have been on this track all along. It comes too late. The revolution the people created on Nov. 8 will sweep away the Clintons one way or another. They will either be driven from Washington based on their policies (or lack thereof) or the truth will come out about their financial dealings, thanks to new Senate Banking Committee Chairman and Whitewater Investigator Extraordinaire Alfonse D'Amato. No cynical shift to the right on tax cuts or any other policy will save this presidency. The people demonstrated that they have figured out who these people are and what they stand for. The clock is running. Ding Dong... It was her own doing. We could even say that she died by her own hand, but we won't. Either way, we can finally say that every fiiiring was a plaaaaaanned, waaaaanted fiiiiring. Yes, your friend and... well, your... uh, anyway, Joycelyn Elders is gone! She is no more. She has ceased to be. She is an ex-surgeon-general. Amid the joy of the Christmas season, two weeks and two days before we celebrate the birth of the Lord, two days after we remember the date which will live in infamy, December 9, 1994 will be long remembered as the day Joycelyn Elders hit the fan, er, road. She resigned (well, Bill resigned her) for a very simple reason. Because she mentioned something she shouldn't? No. She's done that before. Because she and her convicted-for-possessing-large-amounts-of-cocaine-with-intent-to-sell sone believe that illegal drugs shouldn't be illegal? No, One fourth of the administration would be out on its collective if that were the case. She was fired because our guys won the election. In another spineless display of Bill, who now wants retroactive term limits and restored national defense, Joycelyn Elders was fired so Bill can look more conservative. It was a move that took no spine, no guts, and no...brains. That's not to say it was wrong. It was right. But it should have been done a long time ago. Actually, it should have been unnecessary, because she should have been ignored in the first place. Was President Clinton consulted about this? We don't know. (See MIA elsewhere in this issue.) We don't care. She's gone. She's packed her latex bag and gone home. She will not be missed. Oh, sure, we'll miss making fun of her. The tagline on Vol. 1 No. 1 was "Every publication a planned, wanted publication." But she will be replaced by someone else who looks like America, and who, in his own way, will be completely goofy. We understand Jack Kevorkian is looking for something to do. Clinton Bombs Again "Yesterday, December 7, 1941--a date which will live in infamy--the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. "The United States was at peace with that nation and, at the solicitation of Japan, was still in conversation with its government and its Emperor looking toward the maintenance of peace in the Pacific... "Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. "I believe I interpret the will of Congress and of the people while I assert that we will not only defend ourselves to the uttermost but will make very certain that this form of treachery shall never endanger us again... "With confidence in our armed forces--with the unbounding determination of our people--we will gain the inevitable triumph--so help us God." Franklin Roosevelt, Dec. 8, 1941 One day after the 53rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, we lost another battle to the Japanese. Bowing to pressure, yet again, the Clinton administration capitulated to complaints by the government of Japan and ordered the U.S. Postal Service to cancel printing the last of its series of stamps commemorating events in World War II, a stamp depicting the use of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. There are countless ways to criticize the decision. We could point out that this is, without a doubt, the most spineless administration to ever occupy the White House. Or, we could criticize this stupid drive toward political correctness. We could discuss the concern we feel that these fools, who never bothered to learn the significance of the event, not only made the decision, but are in charge of today's armed forces. But we want to focus on the historical aspect of the decision. Never, never forget this. We were attacked. And once we were attacked, this nation came together and used all resources at its disposal to win a war with as few American lives lost as possible. It is common knowledge that the Japanese Empire would never have just surrendered. They would have been defeated by one of two things: use of the atomic bomb or an allied ground assault that would have cost an estimated 1 million American lives. Should we regret the loss of civilian life from our use of the bomb? Yes. Should we have used the bomb? Definitely. One can only guess how much longer the war would have lasted and how many more Americans would have been killed if we had not. Do not forget that the Japanese even refused to surrender after the first bomb was dropped. It took a second explosion to convince them. They would have fought an allied invasion to the last man. If the whimpering liberal apologists in the White House read and learned from history instead of trying to re-write it all the time, they would honor the sacrifice of the men and women who perished in the Pacific during the years between that day of infamy and the August day when mushroom clouds appeared over Japan. They would print the stamp. Quote of the weak: Quote of the strong: "People have taken a lot of "The election of a GOP Congress was things I've said in a most an act of self-defense." unusual way." Don Feder Surgeon General has-been Joycelyn Elders 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.