[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 105 (Wednesday, August 3, 1994)]
[House]
[Page H]
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[Congressional Record: August 3, 1994]
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                       McBLUFF: THE CRIME POODLE

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, a popular ad campaign began several years 
ago. It featured a cartoon dog named ``McGruff'' dressed in a 
trenchcoat. McGruff offered crime fighting tips and ended each with the 
admonition to ``take a bite out of crime.''
  It seems the Clinton administration has come up with another cartoon 
crime fighter. It's called the crime bill.
  However, instead of being McGruff the crime dog, the Clinton crime 
bill is more like McBluff the crime poodle. Not only does it not take a 
bite out of crime, it does not even take the bark out of crime.
  Clinton's crime bill is a little yipping toy poodle that goes for 
crime's ankles rather than its throat.
  It is a fluffy bit of social spending, groomed and manicured with 
arts and crafts, dance, self-esteem, and midnight basketball programs.
  It sports a diamond-studded multibillion-dollar collar of sixties 
social engineering that brought us many of the problems this toy poodle 
is supposed to solve.
  Rather than take a bite out of crime, the Clinton crime bill is a dog 
that will lick its face.

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