[Congressional Record Volume 142, Number 138 (Monday, September 30, 1996)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1821]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




             FOUR MORE YEARS? HERE ARE 40 REASONS TO SAY NO

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                               speech of

                         HON. ROBERT K. DORNAN

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 27, 1996

  Mr. DORNAN. Mr. Speaker, I submit the following article, written by 
Jeff Jacoby, for insertion into the Record:

                [From the Boston Globe, Sept. 27, 1996]

             Four More Years? Here Are 40 Reasons to Say No

                            [By Jeff Jacoby]

       Bill and Hillary Clinton want to extend their grip on the 
     Executive Branch for four more years. I can give you 40 
     reasons to turn them down. In no particular order:
       1. Joycelyn Elders.
       2. According to the General Accounting Office, ethics 
     investigations of the Clintons and their aides are costing 
     taxpayers more than $1 million per month.
       3. Eighty-six men, women, and children died in Waco, Tex., 
     after the FBI used grenade launchers to mount a CS gas attack 
     on their compound.
       4. ``100,000 more police on the streets.'' Seen them yet?
       5. ``A tax cut for the middle class.'' Seen it yet?
       6. Clinton went on national television and answered 
     questions about his underwear.
       7. The candidate: ``We're going to end welfare as we know 
     it.'' The President: Vetoed two welfare-reform bills before 
     finally, reluctantly, signing a third.
       8. His pet scheme--AmeriCorps--pays college-age 
     ``volunteers'' more than $7 an hour.
       9. Webster Hubbell.
       10. ``Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do 
     you realize that?''--Democratic U.S. Sen. (and Medal of Honor 
     recipient) Bob Kerrey of Nebraska.
       30. Sent Jimmy Carter to cut a deal with the North Koreans: 
     We agreed to give Pyongyang free oil, two free nuclear 
     reactors,diplomatic ties and increased trade--and Pyongyang 
     agreed to dismantle its bomb making facilities in 10 years.
       31. The Clinton tax increase on Social Security recipients 
     hit 5.5 million retirees.
       32. At the first sign of controversy, he walked away from 
     Zoe Baird.
       33. And from Kimba Wood.
       34. And from Lani Guinier.
       35. He chose to celebrate the 50th anniversary of V-E Day 
     in Moscow--Berlin's ally in invading Poland and starting 
     World War II.
       36. ``The Arkansas state troopers said they were often 
     called upon to act as intermediaries to arrange and conceal 
     Clinton's extramarital encounters. They say they frequently 
     picked up and delivered gifts from Clinton to various women, 
     and often drove Clinton . . . to meetings with women. `We 
     were more than bodyguards. We had to lie, cheat and cover up 
     for that man,' said Larry G. Patterson, a 26-year veteran 
     state trooper''--Los Angeles Times, Dec. 21, 1993.
       37. Hazel O'Leary.
       38. Key Clinton adviser on ``family values'': Dick Morris.
       39. The candidate: ``We should not reward China with 
     improved trade status when it has . . . failed to make 
     sufficient progress on human rights since the Tiananmen 
     Square massacre.'' The President: ``I am moving, therefore, 
     to delink human rights from the annual extension of most-
     favored-nation trading status.''
       40. Clinton argued in court that Paula Jones's sexual 
     harassment lawsuit should be postponed until he leaves office 
     because he is on ``active duty'' as commander in chief.
       There. Forty reasons to turn out the Clintons, and I didn't 
     even get to Warren Christopher. Did I omit your favorite 
     grounds for chanting ``No More Years''? Just send them to me 
     in care of the Boston Globe ([email protected]) or Box 2378, 
     Boston, MA 02107). I'll supply another Top 40 list before the 
     election.
       11. The candidate: ``I think President Bush played racial 
     politics with the Haitian refugees. I wouldn't be shipping 
     those poor people back.'' The President: ``The practice of 
     returning those who fled Haiti by boat will continue. . . . 
     Those who do leave Haiti . . . will be stopped and directly 
     returned by the U.S. Coast Guard.''
       12. His ``Cabinet that looks like America'' contained 14 
     lawyers and 10 millionaires.
       13. Hillary's 1,342-page health care ``reform'' would have 
     created 33 new federal agencies and 200 regional alliances, 
     added $70 billion to the federal budget deficit--and taken 
     away your right to choose your own doctor.
       14. Terrorists at the White House I: Yasser Arafat.
       15. Terrorists at the White House II: Gerry Adams.
       16. George Bush was right: Clinton did turn the White House 
     into the waffle house.
       17. The candidate: ``Bush hasn't fought a real war on crime 
     and drugs. I will.'' The President: Slashed the Office of 
     National Drug Control Policy; teen-age drug use doubled from 
     1992 to 1995.
       18. First priority of his first week in office: gays in the 
     military.
       19. Hiked the tax on gasoline to its highest rate ever.
       20. Shut down two of the four runways at Los Angeles 
     International Airport so he could have his hair cut aboard 
     Air Force One by Cristophe of Beverly Hills.
       21. Cristophe's going rate: $200 per haircut.
       22. George Stephanopoulos's explanation: ``The President 
     has to get his hair cut like everybody else.''
       23. Average per-capita federal tax burden, 1992: $4,153. 
     1996: $5,225. Increase: 25.8%.
       24. Craig Livingstone.
       25. Clinton calls the Defense of Marriage Act ``gay 
     baiting, pure and simple''--and promises to sign it.
       26. Midnight basketball: Your Federal tax dollars at work.
       27. Hillary's chats with Eleanor Roosevelt.
       28. Clinton's 1996 budget proposal forecast $200-billion-
     plus deficits for the next seven years.
       29. ``North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear 
     bomb''--Clinton Administration, November 1993. ``North Korea 
     already has as many as two nuclear bombs and is continuing to 
     develop atomic weapons''--Clinton Administration, April 1994.

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