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Newscom by Rebecca Terrell GOP establishment has its way, the Re- ing the real Newt Gingrich … is essential,” publicans who will go to Washington will said John F. McManus, president of the ust as report cards keep parents be of the neocon variety and will offer John Birch Society and producer of the new posted on their children’s progress in voters looking for alternatives to the lib- DVD The Real Newt Gingrich. “Americans J school, constituents have a tool to let eral Democrats more of an echo than a must realize that they are being persuaded them know how their federal representa- choice. The establishment-favored Newt to follow false leaders, to put confidence tives measure up to their oaths to uphold Gingrich is a case in point. in men who don’t deserve our confidence.” the Constitution. We should expect high Both Gingrich’s congressional track record “grades” from them, because it is not dif- The Republican Answer? and his present activities prove him no bet- ficult to determine whether legislation After more than a decade out of the spot- ter than the current White House occupant. oversteps the clearly delineated, limited light, Newt Gingrich is once again mak- powers of the Constitution. If there is ing headlines as a conservative author and Gingrich Resumé uncertainty, the Bill of Rights tells the basking in media speculation of his pos- Newt Gingrich served in Congress from government everything else is off limits. sibility as a presidential candidate. He is 1979 until 1999. His first Freedom Index Moreover, an oath calls God as witness busy promoting his conservatively themed score (when it was known as the “Conser- to the oath-taker’s honesty and integrity. books and documentaries while touting vative Index”) was 84, but it nose-dived In other words, it is both illegal and im- firm belief in limited government and per- from there. He achieved his lowest scores moral to violate the Constitution. Why are sonal freedoms. Gingrich’s rhetoric brings as Speaker of the House. Gingrich consis- so many Representatives bringing home back memories of his old days as a staunch tently lost points for his propensity to sup- Fs on their report cards? They may mean proponent of cutting taxes, balancing the port unconstitutional legislation. well, but a Congressman’s good intentions budget, reducing bureaucrat- do not fulfill his obligation before God to ic regulations, and strength- vote according to the law. You will find the ening national defense. Newt Gingrich now positions himself Freedom Index on page 22. Just as in those days, Newt as a conservative. But does his So the burden is, as it should be, on Gingrich now positions him- “We the People,” and we have no one to self as a conservative. But definition of conservative mean loyalty blame but ourselves if we continue to does his definition of con- to the Constitution, or loyalty to the send failing Representatives to Washing- servative mean loyalty to the ton. We must use the Constitution as a Constitution, or loyalty to the establishment? litmus test. This will be especially im- establishment? “Understand- portant in 2012 since Obama seems to have a callous dis- regard for the Constitution and his oath to uphold it. As a Senator in the 110th Congress, his cumulative Freedom Index score was 11. But what alter- natives will we have? There are a growing num- ber of candidates for Congress who are running in support of the Constitution. Many of them were motivated to be- come involved as a result of the political phenomenon in the last presidential race that became known as the “Ron Paul Revolution.” But if the

Rebecca Terrell is a marketing rep- resentative in Memphis, Tennessee, where she lives with her family. She is a former congressional staffer for Con- gressman Ron Paul (R-Texas). Rebecca AP Images earned a B.B.A. from the University of Arkansas and an M.B.A. from the Uni- Confused loyalties? Newt Gingrich delivers an address, “A Tri-partisan Majority for Real Change,” versity of North Alabama. in October at Harvard University. Elsewhere, he paints himself as a die-hard Republican. www.TheNewAmerican.com 11 Politics

body, making America’s economic interests entirely at the mercy of the WTO. Gingrich knew GATT sounded the death knell for American sov- ereignty. In testimony before the House Ways and Means Commit- tee prior to the lame-duck session, he said, “We need to be honest about the fact that we are transfer- ring from the United States at a practical level significant author- ity to a new organization.... This is not just another trade agreement. This is adopting something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, the U.S. Congress re- jected.... It is a very big transfer of power.”

4. Contract With America — An- other con-game Gingrich played AP Images was the much-acclaimed “Con- Newt Gingrich led Republicans in the 1994 “Contract With America,” pledging lower taxes tract With America,” the Repub- and smaller government. In reality, congressional spending under Gingrich’s leadership lican Party’s supposed answer to increased dramatically. big government. It turned out to be a public relations smokescreen to cover various unconstitutional 1. Education — Gingrich backed federal for $44.8 billion in foreign aid. He also measures that Congress planned to pass education funding from his earliest days helped push through federally funded loan under Gingrich’s leadership. The Contract in office, though the Constitution gives guarantees to China. Today, that murder- included a “balanced budget amendment,” absolutely no authority over education to ous communist regime is the largest holder which amounted to a Republican excuse to any branch of the federal government. He of U.S. debt in the world. continue spending while claiming to fight helped garner support to create President for fiscal conservatism. If the government Jimmy Carter’s Department of Education 3. NAFTA and GATT — In 1993, Gingrich only spent money on constitutional pro- in 1979. Since then educational spending proved himself invaluable to Clinton and grams, the deficit would take care of itself. has soared while educational standards the Democrats in Congress when he gar- Other areas of the Contract With Amer- have plummeted. Things got worse when nered enough Republican support to pass ica dealt with measures to reduce wel- he was Speaker. In 1996, then-Republican the North American Free Trade Agreement fare programs and relieve tax burdens on Party Chairman Haley Barbour bragged (NAFTA), the precursor for development of families and businesses. That sounds good that “education spending went up under an eventual North American Union, follow- until one considers that the Constitution the Republican Congress as much as it ing the same trajectory that has occurred prohibits welfare programs and taxes that went up under the Democratic Con- in Europe with the emergence of the EU. the Contract proposed only to reduce. If gress.” That is a bit of an understatement (See the October 15, 2007 “North Ameri- Gingrich had been loyal to his oath of of- since Gingrich’s Republican Congress can Union” issue of The New American, fice, he would have worked not to trim but increased education funding by $3.5 bil- especially “NAFTA: It’s Not Just About to purge them. Ironically, but hardly sur- lion in 1996, the largest single increase Trade” by Gary Benoit.) The next year he prisingly, federal spending in all the areas in history. followed suit by supporting the creation of addressed by the 1994 Contract rose in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As subsequent years. Edward H. Crane, pres- 2. Foreign Aid — Gingrich voted numer- Minority Whip, he could have postponed ident of the Cato Institute, observed that ous times throughout his 20 years in Con- the lame-duck vote on GATT (General “the combined budgets of the 95 major gress to increase and expand unconstitu- Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) that sub- programs that the Contract With America tional foreign aid and trade. He supported jected Americans to the WTO. Gingrich’s promised to eliminate have increased by both subsidized trade with the Soviets and Benedict Arnold act helped to hand over 13%.” Crane also pointed out, “Over the federally funded loans to foreign govern- the power to regulate foreign commerce, a past three years the Republican-controlled ments through the Export-Import Bank. power reserved in the Constitution to Con- Congress has approved discretionary Between 1994 and 1995, Gingrich voted gress alone, to an internationally controlled spending that exceeded Bill Clinton’s re-

12 THE NEW AMERICAN • December 7, 2009 quests by more than $30 billion.” Another of the problems with the Contract was that it called for Man of the Year, 1995: Time magazine heralded Newt stronger federal crime-fighting Gingrich as the Republican measures, despite the Consti- answer to Bill Clinton. Later that tution’s prohibition on federal year, Clinton publicly thanked involvement in police matters Gingrich for his support of many outside of piracy and treason. of the President’s projects. Countries that do not have such strict constitutional safeguards on federal police end up with Gestapos, KGBs, and Depart- ments of Homeland Security. Futurist In 1994, Gingrich described 5. School Prayer Amend- himself as “a conservative fu- ment — The proposed bal- turist.” He said that those who anced budget amendment was were trying to define him should not Gingrich’s only attempt look no further than The Third to change the Constitution. Wave, a 1980 book written by He also pushed hard for a Alvin Toffler. The book describes school prayer amendment to our society as entering a post-in- allow America’s children to dustrial phase in which abortion, pray in schools. It was just homosexuality, promiscuity, and

another shameless publicity AP Images divorce are perfectly normal, even stunt, for Gingrich knows virtuous. Toffler penned a letter the main obstacle to prayer in schools military policies, to America’s “founding parents,” is not a faulty Constitution but an over- with a flagrant disregard for the constitu- in which he said: “The system of ambitious Supreme Court. Had he truly tional mandate that Congress alone may government you fashioned, including the wanted to release the federal stranglehold declare war. He made a formal appeal to very principles on which you based it, is on prayer in schools, Gingrich could have the House of Representatives in 1995 to increasingly obsolete, and hence increas- employed Congress’ constitutionally au- “increase the power of President Clin- ingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and thorized power to restrict the Supreme ton” by repealing the War Powers Act. He dangerous to our welfare. It must be radi- Court’s appellate jurisdiction of the issue. praised Clinton’s unconstitutional use of cally changed and a new system of gov- the U.S. military to inflict a communist ernment invented — a democracy for the 6. Clinton’s GOP (Grand Old Pal) — In regime on Haiti in 1994, the same year he 21st century.” He went on to describe our 1995, Time magazine named Newt Gin- voted for an extra $1.2 billion for United constitutional system as one that “served grich “Man of the Year,” characterizing Nations “peacekeeping” missions. He also us so well for so long, and that now must, him as a states’ rights conservative and urged the President to expand U.S. mili- in its turn, die and be replaced.” the Republican answer to Bill Clinton. tary presence in Bosnia the following year. Gingrich recommended The Third Wave The ironic thing about Time magazine’s This partial resumé does not include as essential reading to his colleagues when 1995 claim is that in June of that year, Gin- Gingrich’s support of abortion and an- he became Speaker of the House. In his grich and Clinton both agreed at a debate ti-family measures, federal welfare, a forward to another Toffler book, Creat- in Clare­mont, New Hampshire, that they presidential line item veto, the National ing a New Civilization: The Politics of the were “not far apart” in their views. Later Endowment for the Arts, confiscation of Third Wave, he grieved at the lack of appre- Clinton publicly thanked Gingrich for his private property, amnesty for illegal im- ciation for “Toffler’s insight” in The Third support of the President’s pet projects in migrants, higher taxes, and a myriad of Wave and blamed politicians who had not areas such as welfare, education, labor, the other unconstitutional legislation. But it is applied his model for the “frustration, environment, and foreign affairs. He made enough to prove he lied each special mention of Gingrich’s support of time took his oath of office. the $30 billion Violent Crime and Law En- The question is, why this On numerous occasions, Gingrich showed forcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun disdain for the rule of law? owners with new restrictions, federalized a A close look at Gingrich’s himself a friend to Clinton’s military number of crimes, and handed the feds po- associations provides the policies, with a flagrant disregard for the lice powers that the Constitution reserves answer to why he had such to the states. a propensity for claiming constitutional mandate that Congress On numerous occasions, Gingrich conservatism while voting alone may declare war. showed himself a friend to Clinton’s with the establishment.

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Foreign Relations (CFR), a nationalist). On other occasions Gingrich Another explanation for Gingrich’s liberal group founded in 1921 as expressed his admiration and regard for a think tank of influential establishment insiders Woodrow Wilson, voting record is that he has been a politicians and policymak- Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Church- member, since 1990, of the Council on ers dedicated to sacrificing ill, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and George national independence to Catlett Marshall, praising what they had Foreign Relations (CFR), a group founded create a global government. done to bring about international govern- in 1921 as a think tank of influential He showed his fidelity to in- ment. Gingrich scorned any connection ternationalism in a speech at with “isolationists” (a dirty word used to politicians and policymakers dedicated the Center for Strategic and describe anyone who defines free trade as to sacrificing national independence to International Affairs in July the ability to conduct international busi- of 1995 when he brazenly ness unfettered by unconstitutional regu- create a global government. admitted his disdain for our lations) in a speech given at the Nixon founding document. “The Center for Peace and Freedom on March negativism, cynicism and despair” of the American challenge in leading the world 1, 1995. He cited his work on NAFTA, political landscape. He went on to explain is compounded by our Constitution,” he GATT, and various foreign aid measures, that Toffler advocated a concept called said. “Under our [constitutional system] and concluded saying, “I’m always curi- “anticipatory democracy,” and bragged — either we’re going to have to rethink ous why there’s some presumption that [I that he had worked with him for 20 years our Constitution, or we’re going to have am] in any way isolationist.” “to develop a future-conscious politics and to rethink our process of decision-mak- popular understanding that would make it ing.” He went on to profess an oxymo- Newt and Improved easier for America to make the transition” ronic belief in “very strong but limited What about Gingrich today? Isn’t it pos- to a Third Wave civilization. federal government,” and pledged, “I am sible he has changed since he served in for the United Nations.” That is certainly Congress? He has a new wife and a new The Internationalist no surprise since his mentor is none other religion, converting to Catholicism earlier Another explanation for Gingrich’s lib- than former Secretary of State and Na- this year. He still says he is conservative, eral voting record is that he has been a tional Security Advisor Henry Kissinger but maybe that definition has changed, member, since 1990, of the Council on (also a CFR member and one-world inter- too. Indeed, he positioned himself as a hero of this past April’s Tax Day Tea Party movement, partnering with that group in his position as chairman of American Solutions for Win- ning the Future (ASWF). He issued a general invitation to all Americans on YouTube to join local Tea Parties across the nation. “The fact is that we need a smaller government, a more effective government, and we need lower taxes,” he said. “Let’s communicate to our leaders, ‘We want you to fix it, or we’re gonna want new leaders.’” He used even stron- ger language in a rousing de- livery at the April 15 Tea Party in New York, when he warned big-spending legislators to straighten up or “we’re gonna fire you.” Yet it seems Gingrich is still up to his old tricks. In front of

AP Images a Tea Party crowd, he expounds President Barack Obama boasts a great ally in Newt Gingrich, seen here with Rev. Al the virtues of limited govern- Sharpton and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, speaking in support of Obama’s ment, but elsewhere he is still education reform proposals. the futurist conservative devot-

14 THE NEW AMERICAN • December 7, 2009 Tax Day Tea Partiers in New York cheered Newt Gingrich’s message to big-spending legislators: “We’re gonna fire you!” Yet Gingrich has a track record as one of Washington’s biggest spenders. AP Images

ed to internationalism. His blog biography Farewell Address: “The great rule of con- a false premise, and any “compromise” brags about his work as Speaker of the duct for us, in regard to foreign nations, solution based on it will be disastrous. House and then boasts of such unconstitu- is in extending our commercial relations, Gingrich’s blog explains further, “There tional credentials as serving on the CFR’s to have with them as little political con- is a big difference between left-wing en- Terrorism task force, co-chairing the UN nection as possible.” Yet National Review vironmentalism … and a Green Conser- task force to “reform” (i.e., strengthen) quoted Gingrich in opposition to the Father vatism that wants to use science, tech- the United Nations, and receiving credit of Our Country. “You can pull out of Af- nology, innovation, entrepreneurs and for the DHS being his brainchild. “Newt ghanistan, and then what?... We pulled out prizes to find a way to creatively invent Gingrich is a leading advocate of in- of Somalia, and now we have pirates,” he the kind of environmental future we all creased federal funding for basic science said, ignoring what U.S. support of the UN want.” (Emphasis added.) He fails to ac- research,” reads the bio. Gingrich’s ASWF puppet regime in that unfortunate country knowledge that the Constitution prohibits endorses federal involvement in areas such has done to promote terrorism, and par- federal involvement in those areas, but the as energy, education, labor and the envi- allel scenarios in Afghanistan and across really troubling word is “prizes.” This has ronment. He also founded the Center for the Middle East. His statements leave little cap and trade written all over it. Gingrich Health Transformation, which advocates doubt as to how Gingrich would conduct already sanctioned cap and trade on sulfur its own version of socialized medicine. himself as Commander in Chief. dioxide emissions in the 1990 Clean Air Act. He claims to oppose Obama’s plan Global Government Gingrich Little Green Man but instead wants the government to lower It would seem the CFR has done a good But he isn’t all fight. There’s also the prices on alternative energy sources, “be- job schooling Gingrich in foreign affairs kinder, gentler Newt who, in April 2008, cause I think you’re going to get faster ac- over the past 10 years as well. No longer cuddled up with current House Speaker celeration of new innovation if you lower the novice, Gingrich supports continuing Nancy Pelosi on a love seat at the Nation- the price of good products … rather than the “war” in Afghanistan despite the fact al Mall to make a “We Can Solve It” tele- raise the price of obsolete products.” So that Congress never actually declared war vision commercial (for Al Gore’s $300 Gingrich’s “conservative” answer to the as required by the Constitution. The Bal- million global-warming ad campaign) concocted energy crisis is price regulation timore Sun noted on October 22 that Gin- urging constituents to pressure their Rep- and government subsidies, both of which grich supports expanding the U.S. military resentatives in Washington to go green. use tax money to stifle the economy, giv- presence in the Middle East. He claimed, He said that “our country must take ac- ing advantage to faulty products and ser- “Afghanistan is a skirmish in a long war.... tion to address climate change.” Yet when vices that cannot support themselves in a We need a much larger grand strategy that he explained his participation at newt. free-market economy. Gingrich’s “Green deals with the whole war.” He even had the org, he admitted, “I don’t think that we Conservatism” seems much like the “left- audacity to invoke George Washington as have conclusive proof of global warming wing environmentalism” that he disap- a model for Obama in making “morally [or] that humans are at the center of it.” proves. correct” decisions in Afghanistan. Care- This is ludicrous. If Gingrich intends to ful, Gingrich, you’re quoting one of those take a side in the debate, he is de facto Education Reform à la Al (Sharpton) nasty noninterventionists! Washington conceding that climate change is real and Pelosi and Gore are not Gingrich’s only had this to say about foreign policy in his humans are the cause. He is yielding to strange bedfellows. He recently toured the www.TheNewAmerican.com 15 Politics nation with Reverend Al Sharpton and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to promote President Obama’s education reforms and charter schools. Of course, there are a number of problems with that scenario, not the least of which is Gingrich’s association with Al Sharpton, a controversial left-wing activist, or his contemptible pan- dering to the dictates of the liberal Obama administration. The main problem, as usual, is Gingrich’s endorsement of patently unconsti- tutional measures. The tour agenda recommends increased local con- trol of schools to be regulated and subsidized by the federal Depart- ment of Education. That’s right: increased local control through increased federal regulation. AP Images The proposal also calls for “the Internationalists Newt Gingrich (right) and Senator George Mitchell address reporters at UN ability of parents to pick the right Headquarters. Gingrich wants to strengthen the United Nations and co-chairs the task force to school for their child.” Parents reform it. would already have that ability if it weren’t for the Department of Education. Rearranging how the federal est in the 2009 elections is to build a of sovereignty to the likes of the UN and government regulates education may be Republican majority,” and to do so it is the WTO, spiraling taxes, and a blood- “reform” of the current system, but the sometimes necessary “to put together a sucking bureaucratic leviathan, America current system is unconstitutional. coalition that has disagreement within can no longer afford to gamble on such a it.” Considering that the publisher of the Jekyll-and-Hyde “conservative” as Newt Republican to the Oh-so-bitter End liberal Daily Kos endorsed Scozzafava as Gingrich. What we need in Washington If all this weren’t enough to expose Gin- “willing to raise taxes” and “to the left of instead are constitutionalists who know grich’s fidelity-at-all-costs to the estab- most Democrats on social issues,” it’s fair that it is against the law to violate the lishment, he endorsed an ultra-liberal Re- to ask if Newt has any principles at all. Constitution no matter what anyone’s publican over a conservative third-party Scozzafava dropped a campaign bomb- opinion may be. The easiest way to tell candidate in New York’s 23rd Congres- shell when she withdrew from the race a phony conservative from the true con- sional District special election held No- just four days before the election, leaving stitutionalist is to ask a few simple ques- vember 3. Republican Dede Scozzafava a two-man fight between Hoffman and tions. Does he support federal education supports same-sex “marriage,” big labor, Democrat opponent Bill Owens. Gingrich and welfare programs? Foreign aid? An and abortion. She won the Margaret then endorsed Hoffman, not on principle, interventionist foreign policy as opposed Sanger Award from Planned Parenthood but to prevent the Democrats from gain- to staying clear of foreign quarrels? If in March of 2008. The liberal ACORN- ing another seat in the House. Owens got yes, he is not a constitutionalist. We will affiliated Working Families Party backs an endorsement from Scozzafava the very never get back to good government un- Scozzafava, and conservatives within next day and proceeded to win the elec- less we urge lawmakers to use the Con- her party call her a RINO (Republican tion by a narrow plurality. So Republicans stitution as their guide, and only support In Name Only). When the New York Post lost a seat in the House, and Gingrich lost candidates who adopt the Constitution as came out in support of her Conservative an enormous amount of credibility among their platform, regardless of party. n Party opponent, Doug Hoffman, it said, conservatives. “a Republican should adhere to certain minimum GOP principles. Scozzafava is Jekyll and just too far to the left too often.” Yet Gin- Hyde vs. the EXTRA COPIES AVAILABLE grich described her in a letter to support- Constitution ➧ Additional copies of this issue of The ers as “our best chance to put responsible With outrageous New American are available at quantity- and principled leaders in Washington.” national debt and discount prices. To place your order, visit Gingrich explained his endorsement on out-of-control fed- www.shopjbs.org or see the card between newt.org, saying his “number one inter- eral spending, loss pages 34-35.

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mericans waiting for the Republi- justice cover-up in an effort to avoid the At this point, many will wonder why can leadership to call Bill Clinton truth we have ever seen in American his- Newt Gingrich would be attacking his fel­ A to account for his perpetual cor- tory. And the time has come to say to the low Council on Foreign Relations member ruption have finally seen Newt Gingrich Democrats and to say to the President: Bill Clinton . Wasn't Gingrich the key to aim some deserved arrows at the President. Quit undermining the law in the United passage of the Clinton-favored NAFTA? Speaking at a GOPAC meeting in Atlanta States. Turn over the evidence, agree to the Didn't Gingrich support the lame-duck on April 27th, the Speaker brought up sev- witnesses , have the hearings . The Ameri- session of Congres s that had been called eral of the matters demanding an answer can people have a right to know." for the explicit purpose of approving the from the President. new GATTlWorld Trade Organi- Gingrich focused on two main zation agreement? Isn't he a sup- points: 1) "The American people porter of the same international have the right to know about basic agenda Bill Clinton embraces ? facts"; and 2) "We're a nation un- Yes indeed. But a close exami- der the rule of law and no person, nation of Gingrich's charges including the President, is above against Bill Clinton shows that the law." Of Mr. Clinton's staff of none would affect in any way the high-powered and low-principled globalist views the two share. The lawyers and their ongoing efforts American people are becoming at dodging pertinent evidence, the more aware of substantive reasons Speaker said: "I am sickened by why Bill Clinton should be im- how unpatriotically they under- peached and removed from office. mine the Constitution of the Unit- IfBill Clinton is to go down, Newt ed States on behalfof their client." Gingrich is only one of many in- ane would think, based on this ternationali sts who don't want his last comment, that Newt Gingrich demise to occur for any truly sig- is a great protector of the Consti- nificant reasons. tution. The reality is that Gingrich Gingrich has pointed to "illegal himself has little respect for the '" money laundering," but not to the venerable document. From push- ~ taking of bribes from China by the ing for more federal authority over ~ President and Vice President. Nor s: local law enforcement, to federal ~ has he brought up the evidence intrusions into family matters, to ~ that Mr. Clinton, in the wakeof re- expansion of NATO, to backing ~ ceiving funds from China, helped the use of U.S. forces for "global " . . .::< the Communist Chinese improve security," and to continued support Glngnch: conservative talk, globalist perspective. their missile delivery systems and for the funding of an array of federal pro- He also pointed to the money given to their ability to wage high-tech warfare grams that are not authorized by the Con- convicted felon Webster Hubbell on his against the U.S. stitution,the Speaker's prized ContractWith way to prison, and asked:"Do you believe He has attacked the suggestion that "hush America shows that he is hardly a cham- there is a single honest American any- money" was given to Webster Hubbell, pion of "the supreme law of the land." where in this country who believes that that executive privilege was sought in or- In his Atlanta speech, Gingrich dwelled Web Hubbell was given over $700,000 and der to cover up alleged hanky-panky in the on the united action of the Democratic it doesn't involve hush money?" White House, and that the Democrats have members of the House Government Re- Finally, he excoriated the President for attempted to destroy the reputation of Ken­ form and Oversight Committee in block- seeking to cite executive privilege as a way neth Starr. If Bill Clinton is forced out of ing the granting of immunity to witnesses to keep Secret Service personnel from sup- office merely on the basis of these charges, of the "foreign, illegal money laundering plying information about what they saw in the internationalist agenda he and Gingrich to the Democratic Party and the Clinton- the White House. In America, Gingrich support will continue unabated. Gore campaign." He claimed to have been said, "it is illegal to cover up crimes . We The bottom line is that Gingrich is help­ "stunned" to learn that immunity for these don't have a Praetorian Guard.... It's out- ing to cover up the worstcrimes of Bill Clin­ individuals had been approved by the Clin- side our model. That was the Roman Em- ton. In addition, he is positioning himself ton Justice Department. Applause then fol- pire not the Roman Republic. In the re- for a future run for the White House by ap­ lowed his summation:"What you have lived public, by definition, we are all subordi- pearing to be a significant opponent of Bill through for two and a halflong years is the nate to the law.That means you can't claim Clinton. But Newt Gingrich is no leader of most systematic, deliberate obstruction of executive privilege for frivolous reasons." those who truly love this nation. •

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was Friday, January 3rd, and Western politicians and media Republican Party Chairman elites, there has been no disband­ I Haley Barbour was trying ear­ ing of the Red Army, the KGB, or nestly to "set the record straight" the nomenclatura. Lots of musical on the Newt Gingrich ethics chairs, bureaucratic reshuffling, probe and the coming vote for and institutional name changing, Speaker of the House of Repre­ but little substantive change . sentatives on Tuesday, January They know also that the so­ 7th. At a packed press conference called "free market" reforms in which was carried on C-SPAN the "former" Soviet Union are a and other networks, Barbour de­ complete hoax and that if market fended the embattled Gin grich conditions exist there at all it is and denounced the attacks on the only temporary and only to the Speaker as "purely political" and extent deemed necessary to keep "partisan" assaults by liberal Dem­ the billions of American tax dol­ ocrats who had failed to defeat lars flowing to Moscow. What's the House Republicans at the bal­ more, they know that it is to lot box. their immense benefit to imple­ The Democrats hated Gingrich, ment pseudo "free market re­ said Barbour, because he was forms" which are intended to fail making them "irrelevant," because miserably so that genuine market he had effectively challenged their policies will be blamed and dis­ decades-long entrenched power credited. This being the case, the and programs. "New t Gin gri ch Reds are more than happy to kick was a tremendously effective and fuss and threaten, and burn Speaker in the I04th Congress," Boris in effigy. declared Barbour, "and I expect Newt Gingrich is a fair compos­ him to be every bit as effective in ite of the co rpule nt, brawling, the coming Congress as he was in blustery Yeltsin and the more "vi­ the last one." '" sionary," cerebral Gorby . And in E the past couple of years he has car- ~ Translation, Please ried out much the same function as Hmmm. Now there is certainly Gingric h sworn in as House Speaker for another term. that bogus duo of revolutionary some truth in these and other comments Russian communi sts love Gorbachev and "reformers." He has made the Democrats made by Chairman Barbour concerning Yeltsin. The Communist Party elites "irrelevant" only in the sense that he has the continuing fuss over Speaker Newt's know that the vaunted "political revolu- consolidated and legitimized much of the ethics problems, but it will take some sort- tion" and "economic reform s" launched gains of their decades-long march toward ing and translating to make any real sense by Comrades Mikhail and Boris are cha- socialism - and done it under Republican of it. Firs t of all, the Democrats - by rades for Western cons umption and that and conservative banners! And, incredibly, which we mean the Clintonista Establish - it's the Party 's job to make those charades he has pulled this off - albeit with much ment Democrats - do not hate Newt convincing by attacking the "reformers" help from the Clinton Administration and Gingrich; they love him. The Clintonistas of the "new" regime. They know that con- the Establishment media - while sad­ love Newt in much the same way that trary to the popular belief promoted by the dling conservati ve Republicans with

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THE NEW AMERICAN / FEBRUAR Y 3, 1997 2 1 heavy negative ratings based on an image perations of insufferably sanctimonious had sent me a plane ticket for my wife as of the GOP as the party of heartless, dra­ and smug House Bolsheviks like David well, and under the House rules that may conian budget slashers. Bonior and Charles Schumer have worked be a violation. It's ridiculous." to drive the GOP rebels back into Ging­ But there are other dynamics at work in peaker Newt may have been "tre­ rich's corral. Conservative members of the Speaker battle besides just circling the mendously effective," but not in Congress we have spoken with who fer­ GOP wagons against a common enemy or Sthe way the Republican faithful vently wish for a different Speaker, and worrying over the possibility of a capri­ expected or intended . He did not articu­ who under other circumstances might cious ethics probe of one's own activities. late, devise, lead, and fight for the kind have challenged Newt's reign, felt com­ Republican House members who did not of return to smaller, constitutionally pelled to endorse him (or at least refrain support Gingrich for the Speaker position limited government millions of voters from opposing him) in the face of the know there will be retribution for such thought they were getting when they combined assaults of the Democrats and "disloyal" behavior. They may not get the cast their ballots for Republican candi ­ the media. committee assignments they want, will dates brandishing his "Contract with "Many of us have been very upset with not have their legislation brought up, and America" in 1994. He did, however, Gingrich but none of us want to be re­ could expect to be taken to the woodshed prove that, like Gorbachev and Yeltsin, he sponsible for putting [Democrat Minority for a severe thrashing by the Party leader­ could be "tremendously effective" at mas­ Leader] Dick Gephardt in as Speaker," a ship. Which is why all of the congressmen tering the kind of Orwellian Newspeak conservative House Republican told THE we spoke with who were critical of the which allows him falsely to claim the NEW AM ERICAN prior to Gingrich's re­ Speaker requested that we not use their mantle of leadership of the conservative election as Speaker. Besides, most are names. movement while pushing an inferior sub­ aware that the ethics charges against Newt Thus, by creating and exploiting an ar­ stitute intended to discredit and destroy - that he failed to seek proper legal ad­ ray of fears and adroitly manipulating the the movement. vice on the use of tax-exempt activities in levers of power, Gingrich is reestablished Mr. Barbour surely knows this. Shortly the promotion of political objectives, and as the "Maximum Leader" of the revolu­ before the election Barbour himself that he provided inaccurate statements to tion and reannointed as the Establishment's boasted in a televised speech "conservative." It will be his job that "education spending went to see that the new Congress, up under the Republican Con­ controlled by the Republicans gress as much as it went up un­ 227-208, is a repeat of the last der the Democratic Congress. one. And unless a core of House Student loans were increased by members develop the backbone 50 percent. Medicare spending and strategy to break Gingrich's went up seven percent...." And, hold, the 105th Congress may be we might add, the Newt-led " even more disastrous than the Congress also raised the federal 5, 104th. \Q->- minimum wage, blessed Bill N Clinton's unconstitutional mili- I Whether dealing with tary foray into Bosnia, undercut :;; foreign or domestic the GOP's pro-life position, I issues, or moral, eco- funded Clinton's radical Ameri- . ~ nomic , or military matters, the Corps and Goals 2000, ratified Haley Barbour : Sputtered Establishment line on Newt. Gingrich "leadership" has proved billions of dollars in foreign aid, gave the ethics committee about the involve- calamitous time after time. Certainly one President Clinton line-item veto power, ment of his political action committee, . of the most serious dangers to American boosted the Republican Party's "toler- GOPAC, with tax-exempt organizations prosperity, security, and sovereignty is the ance" for the homosexual agenda, acqui-- are of dubious significance and prob- increasing entanglement of the United esced in the Mexico bailout, renewed ably no more serious than similar viola- States in political, economic, and military most-favored-nation status for Red China tions by many other members. In fact, Mr. arrangements with the United Nations, - and on and on. We had better pray that Gephardt was let off without so much as a GATT, NAFfA, the EU, etc. On March Newt Gingrich is not "every bit as effec- reprimand for very similar offenses. So I, 1995 Gingrich delivered a speech at the tive" in the next Congress. there is a natural tendency to feel obliged Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom. not only to defend a fellow Republican Asked if he would be leading Congress in Riding He rd on the Rebels against a blatantly partisan double stan- a more "isolationist" direction, he gave If Speaker Newt is such a boon to the dard, but to consider one's own potential this telling reply: liberal-left, why are they attacking him susceptibility to similar charges. "Every­ so? It makes more sense to ask how he body is scared stiff over this stuff, worried I find that a fascinating question.... could possibly hope to maintain control that they may be next," another conserva­ [T]o have been the leader of the over the disaffected House Republicans if tive congressman confided. "I had to can­ NAFTA fight and have gotten far the Left didn't attack him. As with the ti­ cel a trip for my wife and myself recently more votes on the Republican side rades by Zhironovsky and Zyuganov where I was scheduled to speak at a free than the President got on the Demo­ against Boris Yeltsin, the braying vitu- market educational program because they cratic side and to then have delivered

22 THE NEW AMERICAN / FEBRUARY 3, 1997 on GAIT and to have been the leader in advocating we do the $10 billion loan program to Israel in housing and to have helped get that through and to have consistently worked with Dick Gephardt on a bipartisan basis to maintain aid to Yeltsin, I'm al­ ways curious why there's some pre­ sumption that we're in any way isolationist.

A Kissinger "Conservative" The venue of that event - the Nixon Center - was especially fitting in that Gingrich, like Nixon, is the archetypal embodiment of the oily guile and phony conservatism which has been repeatedly fed to restive voters by the party elites. Amazingly, decades after Nixon had de­ Gingrich's "Contract" helped hamstring conservative momentum during 104th. clared himself a Keynesian (and proved it with his socialist economics), betrayed being delivered up. These are his own no authority whatsoever to transfer any Taiwan and recognized Red China, aban­ words: powers to GATT's World Trade Organi­ doned thousands of American POWs in zation or any other entity. They were Southeast Asia, and established such fas­ [W]e need to be honest about the participating in a raw, illegal, unconstitu­ cist monstrosities as OSHA and EPA , fact that we are transferring from the tional usurpation of power. They were there are yet many Americans so hope­ United States a practical level of sig­ pulling off one of the biggest power grabs lessly feebleminded or thoroughly disin­ nificant authority to a new organi­ in history. They were shredding the Con­ genuous as to describe the disgraced zation. This is a transformational stitution, the real "Contract With America" President as a "conservative." Likewise, it moment. I would feel better if the which they have taken an oath to uphold. defies all sensibility to continue referring people who favor this would just be But constitutional commitments pro­ to Gingrich as a conservative. honest about the scale of change. vide no impediment to Commander Newt, It was also fitting that Gingrich's intro­ I agree ... this is very close to as hinted at in his July 18, 1995 speech to duction at the Nixon .Center was per­ Maastrict [the European Union treaty the Center for Strategic and Interoational formed by none other than Henry Kissinger, by which the EU member nations Studies (CSIS). "Now the American chal­ grand doyen of the one-world foreign have surrendered considerable sover­ lenge in leading the world is compounded policy establishment. A couple of weeks eignty], and 20 years from now we by our Constitution," said Newt. "Now after his Nixon Center debut, the cel ­ will look back on this as a very im­ under our [constitutional system] - either ebrated new Speaker was the guest of portant defining moment. This is not we're going to have to rethink our Consti­ honor at a private, high-level tete-a-tete at just another trade agreement. This is tution or we're going to have to rethink Kissinger's penthouse with the nation's adopting something which twice, once our process of decision-making." Obvi­ top media moguls, including Mortimer in the 1940s and once in the 1950s, ously he has chosen to rethink the Consti­ Zuckerman of U.S. News & World Report, the U.S. Congress rejected. I am not tution, and, like AI Gore, to "reinvent" it Katherine Graham of the Washington even saying we should reject it; I, in nearer to the internationalist design of his Post, Lawrence Tisch of CBS, and Nor­ fact, lean toward it. But I think we CFR confreres . "I think we need a lot of man Pearlstine of Time-Warner - all of have to be very careful , because it is hard thinking about the United Nations," whom, like Kissinger and Gingrich, are a very big transfer of power. he also said. "I am for the United Nations." members of the Council on Foreign Rela­ Now, yes, we could in theory take Moreover, said Newt, "I think, frankly, tions, long the preeminent front of the the power back.... But the fact is we that we need to be working right now on Eastern Establishment cabal which seeks are not likely to disrupt the entire expanding the North American Free Trade the submersion of U.S. national sover­ world trading system [by pulling out]. Area to include, for example, Chile. I eignty in a dystopian one-world socialist And; therefore, we ought to be very think we want to - as rapidly as we can government. careful, because we are not likely to - move south and encourage an integra­ Recall Mr. Gingrich's boast above that take it back. tion of Latin American markets into the he had "delivered" the House vote on United States. I think that we want to GATT - the General Agreement on Tar­ Yes, Newt knew he was leading us into reach across the Atlantic and propose a iffs and Trade. Just what was he deliver­ a trap. After feigning concern about the North Atlantic free trade zone that in­ ing? His own testimony before the House transfer of power and sovereignty, he cludes all of NATO, plus the Common Ways and Means Committee earlier in pushed ahead with it nonetheless. He Market countries that aren't part of NATO, 1994 shows he understood perfectly that surely knew that he and Bob Dole and and begin to move into an integrated sys­ it was American sovereignty that was · their fellow GATI'sters in Congress have tem." In this proposal he was echoing a

THE NEW AMERICAN / FEBRUARY 3, 1997 23 theme sung by Henry Kissinger in a May and happened to be in Beijing at the speech references to Professor Carroll 12, 1995 Washington Post op-ed column, time. He called to lecture the Speaker Quigley, Gingrich's reverential toast to proclaiming the need for a North Atlantic of the House sternly on the need to the "wise men" (as the CFR faithful are Free Trade Association joining the U.S. uphold the delicate one-China policy fond of calling themselves) was a coded with the European Union in the same way - which Mr. Kissinger himself had message that carried no meaning for most that the North American Free Trade As­ invented long ago - and to keep Americans but was fully understood in the sociation had joined us with Canada and quiet. circles of power toward which it was di­ Mexico. It was a theme soon picked up by Not to worry. The Speaker didn't rected. When Secretary of State Warren President Clinton, Secretary of State War­ really mean it. Christopher, a former vice chairman of ren Christopher, the New York Times, and, the CFR, was asked his opinion of Newt of course, Newt Gingrich. Bow Before the "Wise Men" Gingrich, he replied with a single word Of course he didn't mean it. The su­ that would, no doubt, seem cryptic to most n July 18, 1995 the New York premely ambitious Newt means only to do Americans: "internationalist." Consider­ Times provided a revealing and say whatever it takes to keep the new ing the source, that one word spoke vol­ O glimpse into the mind ofSpeaker world order boys at the CFR happy, so umes about the man who runs the House Newt with an article entitled "The School­ they'll keep his star rising. One of his of Representatives and is only two heart­ ing of Gingrich, Foreign Policy Novice." many very obvious and obsequious genu­ beats away from running the country. It opened with this anecdote: flections to the Establishment cognoscenti. By his words, actions, and associations is to be found in his same July 1995 CSIS Newt Gingrich has left no doubt that he is Newt Gingrich created a storm the speech. "I would say to you," Gingrich a committed globalist who cares not a fig other day by saying the United States declared, "if you go back and read Isaac­ about American independence and sover­ should recognize Taiwan as a free son and Thomas' The Wise Men, it's sort eignty. Concerning the United Nations, and independent country. of comforting to know that ... they Newt stated in June 1995, "I'm a big fan The Chinese ominously declared stumbled around a lot, too." The book to of Franklin Roosevelt's. I'm, frankly, a that they would not sit idly by in the which he refers is a glowing hagiographic fan of Woodrow Wilson's. And I think face of such threats to world peace. paean to the most stellar one-worlders in what they were trying to accomplish was He also heard from Henry A. Kis­ the CFR pantheon, all of whom would be terribly important." Newt's heroes and singer, who has become Mr. Ging­ considered "the enemy" by any genuine mentors - the ones to whom he most fre­ rich's favorite foreign policy mentor conservative. Like President Clinton's quently pays homage - Wilson, FDR, The Tofflers' and New Age N

is impossible to understand Newt Gingrich without an appre­ Wave model has kept our politic s trapped in frustration , nega­ ciation of the immense influence exercised upon him by New tivism, cynicism, and despair." Is that so? Apparently Newt is I Age futurist authors Alvin and Heidi Toffler. The Speaker has thoroughly convinced of it. "I first began working with the recommended the Tofflers' works as essential reading for all con­ Tofflers in the early 1970s on a concept called anticipatory de- gressional staff members and has for years incor­ mocracy," he says. "For 20 years we have porated theirideas and vocabulary intohis seminars worked to develop a future-conscious politics and training programs for Republican activists. and popular understanding that would make it Writing in the foreword to the Tofflers ' 1994 easier for America to make the transition" to a book, Creating a New Civilization, Gingrich of­ Third Wave civilization . fered fulsome praise for Alvin's earlier books, So what is the "Third Wave" civilization Future Shock and The Third Wave, and the hus­ Newty is so jazzed about? Like most New Agers, band-wife duo's 1993 treatise , War and Anti­ he believes that mankind is on the verge of a new War. As if oblivious to the ream s of lavish cosmic development. "First Wave" civilization acclaim that have been heaped upon his favorite had an agricultural base. "Second Wave" civili- futurist gurus, he lamented that "there is still re­ ~ zation is based on industry. "Third Wave" civili­ markably little appreciation of how crucial the ~ zation is based on the information explosion. In Toffler 's insight is. Most American politicians, ~ a letter to America's "Founding Parents," in The reporters, and editorial writers have ignored the ~ Third Wave, Toffler wrote: "[T]he system of gov­ ~ implications of The Third Wave. " Not to worry emment you fashioned, including the very prin- Gingrich Guru Toffler: on that score: Swami Newt, as a one-man re­ ciples on which you based it, is increasingly Antagonistic to Founders, cruiter, has converted legions of unsuspecting obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, family, Christian faith. conservative Republicans into fervent acolytes in oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must the Tofflers' New Age army. be radic ally changed and a new syste m of g overnment invented According to Gingrich, the "failure to apply the Toffler Third - a democracy for the 21st century." Moreover, Toffler averred,

24 THE NEW AMERICAN / FEBRUARY 3, 1997 Churchill, Eisenhower, George Catlett articles, Mr. Gingrich has consistently rich forces essentially repudiated the con­ Marshall, JFK, Kissinger - are all left­ supported massive foreign aid giveaways stitutional mandate that Congress alone wing, one-world internationalists. throughout his congressional career. He may declare war. Gingrich himself pro­ So it should have come as no surprise even brags about it openly. Responding to claimed that he was making "an appeal to that one of Gingrich's first ventures into a question on "isolationism" in 1995, the the House to, at least on paper, increase foreign policy as Speaker was to roll out Speaker stated: "I was not only with the power of President Clinton.... I want the red carpet for top South African com­ [former House minority leader Robert] to strengthen the current Democratic munist leader Thabo Mbeki, executive Michel the team leader in passing NAFTA, President because he is President of the deputy president to Nelson Mandela. A the co-leader in passing GAIT, but Michel United States." longtime Stalinist commissar in the South and I went with Gephardt on two trips to A few days later, at a June 11th "de­ African Communist Party, Mbeki built a Russia and have actively and consistently bate" with President Clinton in Clare­ "moderate" image as the terrorist ANC's up through two weeks ago defended aid to mont, New Hampshire, Speaker Newt global "diplomat." According to the Jo­ Russia." complemented Clinton on his use of U.S. hannesburg Star for March 6, 1995, military forces in a UN operation to im­ "Congressional observers remarked on No Dissent Tolerated pose communist thug Bertrand Aristide on how well Mbeki had been received by the One of the newly elected Republican the people of Haiti and declared that Mr. new Republican majority.... Speaker Newt members of the 105th Congress told THE Clinton "deserves to be commended for, I Gingrich hosted his first lunch in his NEW AMERICAN that he had asked to be think, having taken some risk in Haiti." chambers in Mbeki's honour." And Newt placed on the Appropriations Committee "We're not far apart," Speaker Newt in­ could be sure that was the politically cor­ and had been given the assignment. Later sisted, referring to his and the President's rect thing to do since Comrade Mbeki had he was asked about his position on foreign views. "In general, I would agree," re­ just been hosted by the Council on For­ aid. When he explained that he opposed sponded President Bill. And how could he eign Relations. all foreign aid programs as immoral and not agree? unconstitutional, he was kicked off the n area where Speaker Gingrich is committee. No dissent would be tolerated ewt and Bill also find consider­ strikingly at odds with the Con­ concerning that sacrosanct issue in Newt's able agreement on the issue of A stitution, conservative House regime. N "gay rights." This may come as a members, and the public at large is for­ During the June 7, 1995 House "de­ shock to many fervent Newtonistas, but it eign aid. As we have detailed in previous bate" over the War Powers Act, the Ging- wouldn't if they were familiar with the wt's Third Wave Civilization

the Founding Fathers' constitutional "system that served us so racy' for senators and members of the House. We invited Newt well for so long ... now must, in its tum, die and be replaced." Gingrich, probably the only Republican among the many futur­ Not only do the Tofflers find our constitutional system obso­ ists we knew. He attended." What's more, write the Tofflers, that lete, oppressive, and dangerous , they share pretty much the same conference "led to the creation of the Congressional Clearing­ animus toward Christianity and biblical moral values. In all their house on the Future, a group eventually cochaired by a young books they extol the virtues of "alternative" lifestyles and pro­ senator named Al Gore ...." Yes, Newt and Al are longtime mote the normalization of homosexuality, casual sex, divorce, Toffleresque comrades . and abortion. And repressive prudes imbued with bigoted reli­ The significance of the close Gingrich-Toffler association gious principles are ever the recipients of their scorn. In the first spanning three decades has gone virtually untouched in the ma­ chapter of Creating a New Civilization the Tofflers write: "A new jor media, but cognizance of it is crucial to understanding civilization is emerging in our lives, and blind men everywhere Gingrich's strange new brand of "conservatism." In April 1975, are trying to suppress it. This new civilization brings with it new Gingrich and Toffler joined with some 50 other liberal-left activ­ family styles, changed ways ofworking, loving and living, a new ists of the Ad Hoc Committee on Anticipatory Democracy in economy, new political conflicts, and beyond all this an altered signing a letter to Congress urging more congressional interest in consciousness as well." (Emphasis added.) This new "emergent planning for the future and implementing a "futurist" agenda. civilization" is based on "new, non-nuclear families" and "a new . Fellow radical signatories included Betty Friedan, Lester code of behavior for us." The obsolescence of the nuclear family Brown, Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, Elise Boulding, R. Buck­ is an especially dear and recurring theme of the Tofflers. They minster Fuller, Willis Harman, Robert Theobald, and Arnitai would happily see this "dysfunctional" institution replaced by Etzioni (Bill Clinton's guru of "Comrnunitarianism"). These are communal families, lesbian families, serial divorce families, state the same circles in which the Tofflers move today, when not re­ nannies, etc. cruiting Republican talent with the help of Speaker Gingrich ­ In their preface to Creating a New Civilization, the Tofflers the same Newt Gingrich who claims to be working for "tradi­ write: "In 1975 at the request of the Congressional Democrats, tional values." • we organized a conference on futurism and 'anticipatory democ- - W.FJ.

THE NEW AMERICAN / FEBRUARY 3, 1997 25 central role Gingrich has played in "main­ streaming" the homosexual agenda. While bashing GOP conservatives who coura­ geously opposed the pervert agenda, Newt praised the "courage" of (former) Repre­ sentative Steve Gunderson (R-WI), who was the GOP's only open homosexual in Congress. In an interview with the Washington Blade, the premiere sodomite newspaper of our nation's capital, Gunderson noted that "it's no accident that the Contract with America is silent on social issues. Moderate Republicans deserve credit for making sure that happened." According to Gunderson, by binding the 104th Con­ gress tightly to the economic and struc­ tural reforms of the Contract for the first 100 days, Gingrich and company would neutralize and marginalize the social Clinton and Gingrich during "debate" in New Hampshire: "We're not far apart." conservatives who naively had believed mal. It guaranteed that from Election Day of Dr. Henry W. Foster to the Surgeon the promises of the GOP leadership that through April, early April, that the House General post. eventually they would get around to the Republican Party would have to behave in On everything from the budget to the moral and family issues near and dear to a deviant manner from what it would nor­ environment to defense and national se­ them. mally be expected to do. The theory be­ curity issues, the Gingrich legacy has ing that if you could get them through the been disastrous. And there was ample A Friend in Newt first 100 days being deviant, that deviancy warning before he took the Speaker's Rich Tafel, head homo of the Log would become normal." helm in 1995 that we should expect such Cabin Club (the main Trojan Horse of In an interview published in the Wash­ betrayals. Back in August 1994, before the pervert lobby inside the GOP), opined ington Blade, Gingrich dismissed Repub­ the so-called "Gingrich revolution" in that the Newt-led Republican takeover of licans who oppose the homosexual agenda the House elections, Pat Buchanan de­ Congress in the '94 elections "may, in as "not representative of the future" and nounced the Gingrich-inspired defection fact, have been the best thing that could asserted that the GOP is open to homo­ of 42 House Republicans which had have happened to the Gay Rights move­ sexuals "in broad agreement with our ef­ "handed Bill Clinton his biggest victory ment." Said Tafel, "This election marks fort to renew American civilization." since the North American Free Trade the definitive end to the Stonewall gen­ Declared Gingrich, "If you ask me, 'Am I Agreement - on the $30 billion crime eration of politics. Now that the old gen­ comfortable having allies, friends and bill." As Buchanan pointed out, "The bill eration has been repudiated, the next supporters who in their private lives are federalized crimes such as spousal abuse, generation of gay leaders has the opportu­ homosexual?' sure I'm comfortable." But giving the feds police power the Constitu­ nity to redefine the movement." Accord­ he let it be known that while he embraced tion reserves to the states." Declared ing to Tafel, the Newtonian House offered the lavender left, he would extend no tol­ Buchanan: "Now the GOP emerges as the hope that "many more politicians can erance to the red, white, and blue right. unindicted co-conspirators in every Clin­ be educated when they trust the person According to Newt, "the Buchanans and ton victory...." who is trying to persuade them to our the Dornans" are "not representative of The Gingrich ethics charges were used side." Fellow sodomite activist Hastings the future; they're just noisy." to convince Republican House members Wyman, Jr. echoed Tafel's evaluation, that they should go easy on investiga­ noting, "If Speaker Gingrich can make his ro-lifers have also found that Newt tions into the multitude of Clinton scan­ tolerance stick, we can continue our for­ is not the champion of the unborn dals in order to avoid embarrassing ward movement." Pthey had thought him to be. On revelations and uncomfortable investiga­ Which certainly gives additional mean­ April 10, 1995 Gingrich borrowed a "pro­ tions into the Republican Speaker's activi­ ing to remarks Speaker Gingrich made to choice" dodge from the Cuomo-Clinton­ ties. We cannot afford another two years Army officers at Fort Monroe in 1995. Kennedy repertoire to justify a betrayal of of Gingrich-led defeats, lost opportunities, "Nobody fully understands this," he told the pro-life cause he claims to embrace. and betrayals. The American voters are the Army officers, "but if you think of the "My personal view is that this is a coun­ going to have to build fires under Repub­ 'Contract with America,' it was, in fact, a try which is pro-choice but anti-abortion," lican members of the House of Represen­ training implementation document mas­ said Newt in announcing his support for tatives to convince them that if we are to querading as a public relations device federal funding for abortion for women have any chance of restoring good gov­ which .. . was designed as a training imple­ who are victims of rape or incest. He also ernment, they must reject the false leader­ mentation document so the freshmen and urged Republicans to avoid making abor­ ship of Newt Gingrich and begin abiding the brand new chairmen could not be nor- tion "an issue" in Clinton's appointment by the Constitution . •

26 THE NEWAMERICAN/ FEBRUARY 3, 1997 PUBLISHER'S PAGE John F. McManus The Harmful Effect of Gingrich ho can be surprised that the budget with a loophole-filled amend­ bership (along with Bill Clinton's) in Republican Party has chosen ment that would reflect ill of the Con­ the globalist Council on Foreign Rela­ W as its presidential candidate stitution instead of Congress; expand tions says plenty. And the constant re­ Bob Dole, the quintessential Establish­ NATO; deliver more crime control minder from CFR types that Gingrich is ment "conservative." While he has a far power to the federal government; feder­ the leader of the conservative opposi­ more appealing personal history than alize a host of laws dealing with chil­ tion - his being named Time maga­ does Bill Clinton , he will offer hardly dren; etc. zine's Man-of-the-Year, for instance­ any difference on major issues. Like During the I04th, Gingrich became should make any reasonably informed Clinton, he is an internationalist and a deservedly known as a master of offen­ person wonder why the Establishment is big spender. Most of all, he is a compro­ sive brashness and know-it-all bluster. boosting Gingrich . miser. Dole used his considerable clout Before 1995 had ended, he had achieved One of the Speaker's crucially de­ in the Senate to ruin any conservative one of the highest negative ratings ever structive deeds was his pro-GATTI action over the budget, troops to Bosnia, detected by the nation's pollsters . WTO leadership during the Decem­ and gun control. He has also supported ber 1994 lame-duck session of Con­ NAFfA, GAIT, affirmative action, en­ gress. The vote on GAIT should never vironmentalism, tax increases, and have occurred until the far more con- "reform" at the UN rather than U.S . servative new Congress convened in withdrawal from this world govern­ January 1995 . But the Establish­ ment-to-be. ment eagerly wanted America en­ While it is certainly important who tangled in this latest stepping stone fill s the office of President, the real to world government. The Speaker­ battle to restore constitutionally limited to-be could have forced the vote into government will be won in the House of the next Congress, but he performed Representatives where, the Constitu­ well for his internationalist friend s tion says, "All Bills for raising rev­ who got a key item in their de­ enue shall originate...." Simply structive agenda approved. Only put, if the House decides not to recently, GATT's World Trade fund the Department of Education, Organization flexed the muscles military deployment to Bosnia, par­ given it by Gingrich and others to ticipation in the United Nations , agri­ interfere with our nation's importation culture subsidies, etc., there is nothing of oil. We must now submit to the dic­ the Senate, the President, the Supreme tates of a 120-member international Court, or anyone else can do about it. trade confederation. A friend recently summarized the Newt Gingrich won his seat in the dismal performance of the 104th Con­ Congress in 1978. During his first term, gress in the House led by Speaker In the coming election campaign, he supported, among other things, the Newt Gingrich. After expressing his Democrats plan to have their House creation of the Department of Educa­ awareness that many Americans be­ candidates run as hard against Gingrich tion and most favored nation status for lieved the huge influx of freshmen as they do against their Republican op­ Communist China. He later voted to would start unraveling big government, ponents. The tactic threatens to be so supply taxpayer money to facilitate he noted: "Gingrich has achieved some­ successful that numerou s freshmen Re­ trade with the murderous regime in thing almost unthinkable: He has kept publicans have already expressed con­ China. The word was out, however, that Republican freshmen from being con­ cern about their re-election chances. this Rockefeller-supporting Republican servative and yet has set them up for Some, like John Hostettler (R-IN) and must be labeled a conservative, a desig­ possible defeat in November for being Helen Chenoweth (R-ID), have either nation that would prove to be very use­ too conservative! " asked Gingrich to stay out of their dis­ ful for America's internal enemies in The 73 new representatives elected in trict or breathed a sigh of relief when the years ahead. 1994 were overwhelmingly committed the Speaker decided to cancel appear­ Newt Gingrich 's leadership has been to shrinking the size and cost of govern­ ances on their behalf. a disaster for the nation. What he is and ment. But they accomplished next to Gingrich isn 't fooling anyone who what he stands for must become known nothing. Gingrich was their leader and has studied his career. He also isn't if the House of Representatives is to ac­ hi s "Contract with America" was so ld to fooling a lot of th e m edia that continues complish the task it is empowered to do: the nation as good medicine for an ail­ to portray him as a hard-line conserva­ Roll back big government and disen ­ ing country. But the Contract called for tive, even as it characterizes hard-line tangle America from the new world a lot of downright poison: balance the conservatism as detestable. His rnem- order. •

44 THE NEW AMERICAN I APRIL 29. 1996 I FRONT PAGE William F. Jasper Gingrich's Constitution Con

The GOP's "Contract With America 11 is fraught with peril for our nation

ith House Minority Whip Newt Ging­ W rich in the lead, some 300 Republican House incum­ bents and candidates assembled on September 27th on the U.S. Capitol steps to sign a "Con­ tract With America." Before election day, more than 330 Re­ publicans had signed on. The "Contract" was presented as a guarantee that the signatories were dead serious in their com­ mitment to slay the budget defi­ cit dragon, dismantle the New Deal welfare state, wipe the scourge of crime from our neigh­ borhoods, strengthen family stability, cut taxes, beef up national defense, curtail U.S. involvement in UN "peace­ keeping" operations, reduce the federal regulatory burden, stop Newt struck a courageous pose as he introduced the GOP proposals on September 27th. the "litigation explosion," and limit con- the public. seem to have really caught on with the gressional terms. • A three-fifths House majority vote voting public, posting approval ratings As might be expected, the "Contract" to pass a tax increase. of nearly 80 percent in some polls. has been greeted with brickbats from • An end to budget gimmickry by At the moment, a great inany Ameri- the left and hosannas from the right. implementing zero base-line budgeting. cans appear to be especially enamored Most Republicans and conservatives These are praiseworthy reforms that of the balanced budget amendment seem to have embraced it with almost will go a long way toward rectifying the (BBA). "We' re probably going to vote evangelical fervor, even though few corrupt and imperious practices of the on the balanced budget amendment on have read the document and the ten leg- House that have developed under the January 19th, and have that as our first islative proposals connected with it. Democratic leadership of the last few smashing victory," said Newt Gingrich However, it would behoove all Ameri- decades. But they are mere housekeep- in a November 15th speech. A favorite cans to critically analyze both the docu- ing changes compared to the "meat" of hobby horse of "conservative" Republi­ ment and the draft bills it proposes the "Contract With America," which is cans for years, the BBA does indeed before signing on. to be found in the ten bills it proposes. seem virtually assured of easy passage The "Contract" begins on a laudable early in the 104th Congress. The amend- note, pledging that on the first day of the I. The Fiscal ment, which requires a two-thirds ma- 104th Congress the Republican major- Responsibility Act jority, lost by only 12 votes in the ity will pass eight major reforms requir- House and 4 votes in the Senate in 1994. ing: "I t's the economy, stupid," went The newly elected pro-BBA members • Congress to be subject to the same the Clinton slogan in 1992. more than make up for those vote defi- laws it imposes on the rest of America. And what he did to the econ- cits in each house. • An independent audit of Congress omy in just two years had much to do However, BBA enthusiasts who are for waste, fraud, or abuse. with the electoral tidal wave that swept pinning their hopes for a swift return to • Cuts of House committee staff by his party from power on November 8, fiscal sanity on this course of action are one-third. 1994. Taking a page from his own cam- in for a rude awakening . It will never • Term limits on committee chairs. paign book, the Republicans hit hard happen. Why? Because the BBA is a di- • An end to proxy votes in commit- with pocketbook issues: taxes, debts, version and a fraud. Consider: In order tee. and deficits. The "Contract's" balanced to balance the budget by this means, the • Committee meetings to be open to budget amendment and line-item veto amendment must have the support of

THE NEW AMERICAN / JANUARY 9, 1995 5 two-thirds of the members of both or the Golan Heights? Any of those Loan Mortgage Association, and simi­ houses of Congress (67 votes in the would probably do, judging from recent lar off-budget federal operations now Senate and 290 votes in the House). history. The Republicans' record gives hold liabilities of over $1 trillion in Then it must be submitted to the states no cause for confidence that they would loans and loan guarantees. and ratified by three-fourths of the state block such excuses to keep the red ink Free market economist Hans Senn­ legislatures. The amendment stipulates flowing . In fact, the GOP leadership is holz warns that this budgetary sleight of a seven-year ratification period, with a presently taking Mr. Clinton to task for hand is virtually guaranteed to increase balanced budget target date at least two not expanding the U.S.-NATO role in if a BBA is passed. Dr. Sennholz, who years into the next millennium. As the Bosnia. Dole and Gingrich are urging heads the Foundation for Economic BBA itself states, it will not take effect President Clinton to step up bombing of Education and has been one of the most until "fiscal year 2002 or [on] the sec­ Serb positions. unstinting and perceptive foes of deficit ond fiscal year after its ratification, Of course, emphasis on "balancing spending for decades, rightfully sees the whichever is later." the budget" skews the debate away from BBA as a false hope that diverts public Wait a minute! Are we hearing this the more important issue: stopping and attention from the immediate hard right? At least 67 of the 100 senators reversing the runaway growth of total choices that must be made. In his 1987 and 290 of the 435 representatives are federal spending. A budget which is bal­ book, Debts and Deficits, he also cites going to vote for this balanced budget anced - i.e., one that is fully funded by some of the likely unintended conse­ amendment? If that is the case, they taxes with no borrowing - but which quences of aBBA: have the votes to balance the budget al­ still bankrupts the nation is hardly an ready. It only takes a simple majority improvement over our current deficit fi­ A Constitutional amendment ... (51 Senate votes and 218 House votes) nancing. It should be apparent that we may restore balance through sig­ to pass a budget bill that is in balance. would be much better off with a federal nificant tax boosts, but it may also So it is within reach now, if these tight­ budget of $400 billion and a $50-bil­ lead to massive reorganization of fisted skinflints are really serious about lion-dollar deficit than with a $1.5-tril­ government activity and spending. backing up their words with meaningful lion budget and no deficit. In particular, it may prompt a fed­ action. No need to wait until 2002 or However, even if Congress (by some eral rush to the backdoors of gov­ 2004. No need to mess with the Consti­ extraordinary quirk of nature) should ernment spending, and give rise to tution. No need to subject the taxpayers decide to make good on the BBA, there countless new off-budget agencies and the state legislatures to expensive is no assurance whatsoever that it would and private enterprises under gov­ and divisive amendment battles . do so by drastically cutting back the ernment control. The possibilities But spineless politicians love the size, scope, and cost of government of concealment, deception, pretext, balanced budget amendment because rather than raising taxes . In fact, GOP sophistry, stratagem, and plain it allows them to posture as fiscal con­ Senate leader Bob Dole and many other trickery are endless. Therefore, it is servatives while continuing to spend Republicans have repeatedly sided with rather naive to believe that a bal­ like Imelda Marcos at a Macy 's Christ­ the Democrats in opting for tax hikes anced-budget amendment, enacted mas shoe sale. They're running a con over slashing the fedgov leviathan. by the masters of subterfuge, could here; that much should be obvious. Even the BBA's requirement of a three­ dampen the enthusiasm for federal Want more proof? Section 1 of the BBA fifths majority in both houses to raise largesse. provides that the balanced budget re­ taxes provides no credible barrier, since quirement can be ignored any time Washington's Beltway spendaholics In fact, the federal kleptocrats need three-fifths (60 percent) of both the have proven time after time their capac­ not even trouble themselves with all this House and the Senate decide to start ity to surmount that hurdle with "bipar­ budgetary prestidigitation; they can running the red ink again . Many of the tisan cooperation." simply disregard the BBA in the same budget-busting appropriations of recent There is yet another option. The con­ way that they typically do the rest of the years have easily passed by more than gressional taxacrats may decide to "bal­ Constitution and the Bill of Rights. And that and could do so again. ance" the budget through increased use unless an informed citizenry rises up to But they really don't even need 60 of a favorite act of legerdemain they al­ hold them accountable, they will, no percent to jettison the budget pledge. ready liberally employ: "off-budget doubt, continue on the same path. How about a simple majority - just 51 spending." Congress began this massive "A Constitutional amendment stand­ percent? Section 4 of the BBA says that shell game in the 1970s by moving nu­ ing in the way of a 'greater society' the balanced budget requirement "may merous federal agencies and federally through government spending," ob ­ be waived for any fiscal year in which sponsored (but privately owned) enter­ serves Dr. Sennholz, "would simply be the United States faces an imminent and prises off the budget. The Export-Im­ ignored, repealed, or reinterpreted by a serious military threat to national secu­ port Bank , the Federal Financing Bank , clever judge; or government expendi­ rity and is so declared by a joint resolu­ the U.S Railway Association, the Postal tures would quickly be hidden from the tion adopted by a majority of the whole Service Fund, and other institutions ac­ eyes of outside observers. No Constitu­ number of each House" (emphasis count for billions of dollars in off-bud­ tional amendment, no matter how com­ added). It doesn't even require a decla­ get outlays each year. And the Federal prehensive, could prevent the granting ration of war, but merely a "threat to na­ Home Loan Bank System, the Federal of benefits by government officials ea­ tional security." Like the situations in National Mortgage Association, the ger to bestow them to their beneficiaries Rwanda, Haiti, Somalia, Bosnia, Iraq , Farm Credit System, the Federal Home anxious to receive them." Since the

6 THE NEW AMERI CAN / JANUARY 9, 1995 BBA will bestow no virtue or intestinal great spending programs of our use of which could be perfected to fortitude on venal or gutless politicians time, costing hundreds of billions a fine art. . (or on their constituents), it is ridiculous of dollars, from Social Security to to hope that elected officials who now Medicare and Medicaid, are the Indeed. Which makes it all the more lack the courage and conviction to fol­ handiwork of presidents; the mem­ amazing that after 40 years in the wil­ low the Constitution will somehow bers of Congress fall in with the derness congressional Republicans are magically acquire the same to do so president and lend their votes to his now rushing to give President Clinton once the amendment is passed. ambitious undertaking. the power to crush the "mandate" they Not to worry, however, because Newt claim to have received on November and Company have another all-purpose Moreover, since about half of federal 8th. Unlike the Balanced Budget Amend­ budget solution: the line-item veto. The spending is consumed by "entitlements" ment, which is a constitutional amend­ annual budget battle is a frustrating, not funded by appropriations bills, the ment, the line-item veto is being proposed confusing, and unsightly spectacle, to spending programs most in need of ve­ as a statute, to be enacted by a simple be sure, and one in need of remedy. But toing would not be subject to the line­ majority of both houses of Congress. the line-item veto is not the answer; it item veto. Defense appropriations, one However, an examination of the Consti- is, instead, a dangerous tution and the original proposal that would radi- intent of the Founders cally realign the balance does not give confi­ of powers between the IINo constitutional amendment, dence that this route can executive and legislative no matter how comprehensive, obtain legitimate pas­ branches of the federal sage of the measure. As government and exacer­ could prevent the granting of constitutional scholar bate our budgetary woes. benefits by government officials Thomas J. Norton noted The Founding Fathers in his treatise, Under­ feared the accretion of eager to bestow them to their mining the Constitution power in the Presidency, beneficiaries anxious to receive them." (1950), "There is no and, thus, gave "all leg­ stronger principle of islative powers," includ- American constitutional ing budgeting powers, law than that forbidding to Congress. Under the Constitution, it of the few legitimate, constitutional ar­ the delegation of power." Or, as the Su­ is the President's duty to execute the eas of federal spending, would be the preme Court (in better days) held in budget, not prepare it. The President main target of this veto power. Panama Oil v. Ryan (1934), "Congress, was brought into the budget-making Otherwise, the line-item veto would manifestly, is not permitted to abdicate, process when Congress abdicated its be used merely for tinkering around the or transfer to others, the essential legis­ constitutional budgetary responsibilities edges of our budget monster. Dr. Senn­ lative functions with which it is invested." in 1921, with passage of the Budget and holz cautions that the line-item veto The balanced budget amendment and Accounting Act. Ever since, the White would not in the least alter the pattern line-item veto are, says Dr. Sennholz, House wastrels have assumed increas­ of government spending, but "it surely "empty palliatives and stale panaceas." ing powers to propel the budget sky­ would create more presidential power Yes, and more: They are threats to con­ ward at an accelerating pace. and alter the structure of government." stitutional order and fiscal responsibil­ While it may seem to beleaguered He warns: ity that should be opposed by all taxpayers that congressional spend­ Americans. thrifts have no peers when it comes to It would be a powerful instru­ contests in profligacy, presidential ment of reward and punishment in II. The Taking Back prodigals have proven more than equal the hands of the president. To re­ Our Streets Act to the challenge, according to Dr. Senn­ ward members of Congress for go­ holz. Again from Debts and Deficits: ing along on important presidential n their pathetic "opposition" to the programs, the line-item veto would Clinton crime bill last year, the con­ In nearly every case, the presi­ be held in abeyance.... The presi­ I gressional Republican leadership dent 's commitments to exact and dent's opponents, members of the was reduced to squabbling with the transfer income exceed by far the opposition party, or lonely resisters Democrats over how to divvy up the spending schemes of the members to presidential programs, however, $33 billion in federal booty. Ignoring of Congress. Where individual may face the line-item veto in all the fact that the Constitution gives Con­ Congressmen may engage in pork­ their special concerns and efforts . gress no power to intervene in state and barreling and logrolling, spending The veto power may single them local law enforcement matters, the Re­ millions of dollars, the president out and hold their special projects publicans argued that the Democrats' usually spends many billions on hostage until they see the error of proposals would have too much of the " n at io n a l needs" and "emergen­ their ways and the wisdom of the federal funding that should be going to cies." His interests are nationwide; president. In the hands of a presi­ cops on the beat being wasted instead a Congressman's concern is likely dent with dictatorial inclinations, it on social workers and midnight basket­ to be special and parochial. The may be a powerful instrument, the ball programs. Rather than fighting this

THE NEW AMERICAN I JANUARY 9, 1995 7 blatant usurpation of power that is pro­ ous and indefinite. The former will mean precisely what they plainly say. pelling us rapidly toward a national po­ be exercised principally on external Quoting an opinion by Justice Joseph lice state, the Grand Old Party piled on objects, as war, peace, negotiation, Story written 120 years before, the Su­ with more proposals to further federal­ and foreign commerce.... The pow­ preme Court reaffirmed in 1936 that the ize the criminal code. ers reserved to the several States general government "can claim no pow­ Now the GOP "crime fighters" are will extend to all the objects which, ers which are not granted to it by the back with still more assaults on the in the ordinary course of affairs, Constitution; and the powers actually Constitution, individual rights, and concern the lives, liberties, and granted must be such as are expressly states' rights. Politicians across the properties of the people, and the in­ given, or given by necessary implica­ board are tapping into public anger, ternal order, improvement, and tion." But that was before FDR's "pack­ fear, and frustration over crime and our prosperity of the State. ing" of the New Deal Court, and before criminal injustice system, and the Re­ the subsequent revolutions ushered in publicans are determined to out-macho The view of the Founders on the strict by the Warren and Burger Courts. If we the Clintonistas in their calls for more limitation of federal powers was ably had a federal judiciary today composed stringent punishments, increased use of of jurists truly committed to the Con­ the death penalty, curtailment of ap­ stitution they have taken an oath to peals, more prison construction, manda­ uphold, there is little question that vir­ tory minimum sentences for crimes tually all of the recently passed federal involving a gun, and more federal aid to crime bill and the current Republican police. proposal, along with much of the federal Unfortunately, this legislative agenda, crime legislation of the past 30 years, like most of the "Contract," is deplor­ would be ruled unconstitutional as able both for what it attempts and what surely as the Supreme Court struck it fails to attempt. It attempts unlawfully down the National Recovery Act and to further usurp still more state powers, so many other flagrant New Deal and fails to offer remedies for the fed­ usurpations. eral laws and federal court decisions A judiciary faithful to the Constitu­ which are at the root of so much of our tion would also begin reversing the long current crime dilemma. train of judicial abuses (Mapp, Mallory, In matters of criminal law enforce­ Miranda, Escobedo, et al.) that have ment, the U.S. Constitution restricts the han dcuffed law enforcement and re­ federal government's role to a very warded criminal behavior. However, small purview . Counterfeiting, treason, with so many federal judges taking their "piracies and felonies committed on the cues from the ACLU rather than the high seas, and offenses against the law Constitution, it falls to our elected rep­ of nations" are the only federal crimes resentatives in Congress to abolish un­ spelled out by the Founding Fathers. McDonald understood that the Su­ constitutional laws and to rein in the Law enforcement powers also are im­ preme Court cannot make a law. abuses of the courts . plied from those delegated powers How can Congress remedy usurpa­ concerning immigration, interstate expressed by constitutional scholar tions and abuses by the judiciary? Ar­ commerce, the postal service, the mili­ Thomas J. Norton in his treatise Under­ ticle III, Section 2 of the Constitution tary services, federal installations and mining the Constitution: "What is ex­ provides that "the Supreme Court shall property , the District of Columbia, and pressed in a Constitution is equivalent have appellate jurisdiction, both as to laws concerning bankruptcies, patents , to a prohibition of what is not ex­ law and fact, with such exceptions, and and copyrights. pressed." However, to allay the con­ under such regulations as the Congress The Founding Fathers did not intend cerns of those who yet feared a gradual shall make." In other words, Congress for the federal government to become centralization and nationalization of can - and should - specify that the involved in enacting and enforcing laws power, even more explicit firewalls Supreme Court (and lower federal courts) on murder, rape, robbery, assault, fraud, against federal encroachments were may not have jurisdiction (may not rule) burg lary, theft, drug trafficking, envi­ erected with the Bill of Rights. Most over state cases concerni ng, say, capital ronmental pollution, occupational safety, significant of those, in this respect, was punishme nt, prison conditions, arrest etc. These were matters to be left to the the Tenth Amendment, which states: and sentencing procedures, evidence, states. This principle of subsidiarity was etc. explained by Madison in The Federalist The powers not delegated to the "Please understand, a Supreme Court Papers, #45: United States by the Constitution, decision is not 'the law of the land.:" nor prohibited by it to the States , Congressman Lawrence Patton McDon­ The powers delegated by the are reserved to the States respec­ ald explained in his excellent study of proposed Constitution to the fed­ tively , or to the people. the Constitution, We Hold These Truths eral government are few and de­ (1976). "Indeed," he wrote, "it is not a fined. Those which are to remain in For most of our history, those words 'law' at all. Only legislatures can make the State governments are numer- were taken by our federal courts to laws. A Supreme Court decision is a

8 THE NEW AMERICAN / JANUARY 9. 1995 rule that is binding only on the parties has not used this power since the Civil foreigners . involved in the case; and it is enforce­ War period, it is clear from the 1869 Ah, but the "general welfare" clause. able only on that limited group if the ex­ case of Ex Parte McCardle, and from Yes, it has been battered, stretched, ecutive and legislative branches choose numerous statements in Supreme Court twisted, and subverted to justify every to enforce it." The ruling establishes, re­ opinions, that Article III, Section 2, kind of unconstitutional socialist, inter­ inforces, or overturns a precedent, and, means what it says." ventionist program imaginable. None­ as such, provides a guide as to how the In July 1957 a committee of the theless, the Founders left no doubt as to Court is likely to rule on similar cases. American Bar Association called on their intent. Thomas Jefferson held that But it most certainly is not "the law of Congress to exercise its authority under "Congress had not unlimited powers to the land." Article III to pass legislation to eradi­ provide for the general welfare, but This is plain from Article VI of the cate a long string of unconstitutional ju­ were restrained to those specifically Constitution, which states: "This Con­ dicial usurpations and pro-communist enumerated." Likewise, Hamilton as­ stitution, and the laws of the United decisions. Now that the Republicans serted that the welfare clause does not States which shall be made in pursuance have, at long last, gained control of "carry a power to do any other thing not thereof; and all treaties made, or which Congress, it is imperative that they ini­ authorized in the Constitution, either ex­ shall be made, under the authority of the tiate and pursue such initiatives rather pressly or by fair implication." United States , shall be the supreme law than add to the problem with more fed­ The phrase "provide for the common of the land." eral interference in state jurisdictions. defense and general welfare of the Concerning this supremacy clause, Our state and local law enforcement United States" is merely a heading for Alexander Hamilton, in The Federalist agencies can handle our crime problems the enumerated powers of Article I, Sec­ Papers, #33, commented: "It will not, I - if the federal government will get out tion 8 and as such confers no powers not presume, have escaped observation that of the way and take care of its own busi­ listed therein. All current federal "wel­ it expressly confines the supremacy to ness. A legitimate area of federal law fare" programs, therefore, are unconsti­ laws made pursuant to the Constitu­ enforcement that the "Contract With tutional and must ultimately be abolished tion " (emphasis in original). And he America" does not address is the ad­ if we are to return to sound governance. noted further, in #78: equate provision of INS and Border Pa­ However, the "Contract" avoids this trol resources to protect our borders and central issue and focuses the debate in­ There is no position which de­ deal with the huge numbers of illegal stead on policies that merely putter pends on clearer principles than aliens crowding our prisons and perpe­ around the margins. Some of the pro­ that every act of a delegated au­ trating crimes in our society. posals may have merit, but only as in­ thority, contrary to the commission The GOP "Contract" also glaringly terim steps on the path to total under which it is exercised, is void. fails to make any attempt at repealing extrication of Uncle Sam from the No legislative act, therefore, con­ federal anti-gun laws, asset forfeiture Marxist redistribution business. Any trary to the Constitution, can be laws, and other dangerous threats to our credible plan for genuine welfare re­ valid. liberties . form must include a specified time for the federal government completely to Clearly, a federal law which is con­ III. The Personal shed these costly and destructive pro­ trary to the Constitution is no law at all; Responsibility Act grams, and to leave this area entirely to it is null, void, invalid . And a Supreme the states and the people (which in­ Court decision, which is not a "law," elfare reform is always a cludes churches and other private chari­ has no "supremacy" - even if it is popular concern, and never table institutions), as the Founders faithfully interpreting the Constitution. W more so than now. However, intended. So it is the height of absurdity to claim the Republican "Contract" proposals are The Republican plan gives the ap­ that a Supreme Court decision that hardly more convincing than Mr. Clin­ pearance of moving in this direction by manifestly violates the Constitution is ton's of solving our welfare state proposing to turn over many programs the "supreme law of the land." malady. This is primarily due to the fact to the states - along with federal fund­ "It was not until 1958, in the desegre­ that they make no effort to address the ing. But this is more political folderol ; gation case of Cooper v. Aaron, that the fundamental issue involved: that all the taxpayers are still being soaked by Court first made the claim that its rul­ federal "welfare" programs are gross the pols on the Potomac, their earnings ings were the supreme law of the land," arrogations of power that violate the siphoned through Washington and doled notes Dr. Charles E. Rice, professor of Constitution. back to the states, less the federal "car­ Law at Notre Dame University. But the As is clear from the discussion above rying charges," of course - and with Supreme Court is not above the Consti­ in the "Contract's" item 2, the federal the inevitable strings attached. And tution. "The constitutional system of government has only delegated powers, since the plan does not envision com­ checks and balances ," says Rice, "was and those are enumerated in Article I, pletely severing the federal government designed to operate with respect to the Section 8. The Constitution grants power from the redistribution racket, the fed­ judiciary, as well as in other matters. to Congress, for example, " to coin gov welfare infrastructure will likely be Congress has the power to control the money" and "to borrow money on the left pretty much intact, ready to come entire jurisdiction of the lower federal credit of the United States." However, back with a vengeance with the next po­ courts and the appellate jurisdiction of it gives no power to lend money, or to litical changeover. the Supreme Court.... While Congress give it away, either to Americans or to The GOP "contractors" pat them-

THE NEW AMERICAN / JANUARY 9, 1995 9 selves on the back because under their ordinary regulations of police has empty gesture since that reduction is al­ plan adults would be allowed to be on been left to the indi vidual States, read y mandated beginning in fi scal welfare only for two years at a time, and and it cannot be taken from them, 1996 under the current State Depart­ a cumulative total of five years. This either wholly or in part, and exer­ ment authorization bill. only appears to be "conservative" be­ cised und er legislation by Con­ The que stion s that beg to be asked cause Democrats and the media have at­ gress. are: What con stitutional authority is tacked it as "cynical" and "heartless." there, and what moral and practical im­ Then there is the firestorm touched This view was held by the Supreme peratives are there, to justify taxing off by Newt Gingrich's proposal to Court as late as 191I, when it ruled in Americans for 25 percent (or even 1 bring back orphanages as a way to deal House v. Mays that the police power in­ percent) of the UN military budget or to with the problem of the large numbers hering in the states cannot be taken from deplo y any U.S. troops (whether under of children born out of wedlock. Be­ them - or surrendered by them. UN or U.S. comm and) for any UN ven­ sides the obvious contradiction this stat­ ture ? The answer to all of the above: ist solution presents to the Republicans' V. T he American Dream None. But once again Americ a loses by claim to the "family values" banner, the Re storation Act default because the Republicans fail to orphanage debate illustrates perfectly challenge the basic false premi ses un­ the folly of attempt ing to micro-manage ttracti ve features of this pro­ derpinning dangerou s policies and settle social policy from the Beltway. Rather posal include: a $500-per-child instead for minor changes of course. than concentrating on getting the federal A tax credit (more would be bet­ The purpose of the U.S. military is to government out of this area entirely, ter); reduction (why not elimination?) of provide for the common defense of the Republicans are now wasting precious the "marriage penalty " in the IRS Code United States, not to provide for "glo­ political capital and getting themselves that often results in married couples bal security," a "ne w world order," mired down defending their own brand paying more than two single people "peacekeeping," "humanitarian aid," of the welfare state. cohabitating; and reinstating Individual "nation-building," etc. The GOP "con­ Retirement Accounts (IRAs). tractors" fail to assert this important, IV. The Fa mily An even better proposal would be to fundamental point. Reinforcement Act repeal the 16th Amendment, which al­ On the plus side, the draft legislation lows the Marxi st graduated income tax would : increase defense funding to re­ lthough this bill offers some - the source of so many of our fiscal , store combat readines s that even De­ positive tax provisions, such as tax, and social problems. fense Secretary William Perry admits A a $500 tax credit for those tak­ has plunged dramatically; fund deploy ­ ing care of an elderly parent at home, VI. The National Security ment of a "highly effective" anti-missile and a $5,000 tax credit for adopting a Restoration Act defense system; impose stricter limita­ child, the main upshot of the legislation tions on the sharing of sensitive U.S. in­ is to invite Big Brother's ministrations he short summation of this plank telli gence with UN agencies ; and cut into all areas of family law. in the "Contract" says: "No U.S. back Clinton "defense conversion" pro­ Under thi s measure, fed gov child­ T troops under U.N. command and grams that are siphoning billions of dol­ support rules would supplant state laws restoration of the essential parts of our lars out of the Pentagon budget to pay and our all-wise legislators in Washing­ national security fundin g to strengthen for non-defense projects. ton would take more control over sex our national defense and maintain our offenses against children and child por­ credibility around the world." That elic­ VII. The Senior Citizens nography , matters which the Constitu­ its a strong "Amen! " from most Ameri­ Fairness Act tion properl y leaves in the hands of the cans, as it, no doubt, was calculated to states. "The federal Constitution forms do. As with the rest of the "Contract," n 1993, Congress raised taxes on So­ a happ y combination in this respect," however, it is not quite that simple and cial Security benefits for individual wrote Madison in essay # I 0 of The Fed­ clear-cut. I r ecipient s with incomes of mor e eralist Papers, "the great and aggregate The GOP proposal offers the Presi­ than $34,000 and couples with incomes interests being referred to the national, dent an escape hatch to the "No U.S. of more than $44,000. Senior citizens the local and particular [interests] to the troops under U.N. command" require­ who se incomes pass those thre sholds State legislatures." National infringe­ ment if he certifies that doing so is nec­ now must pay taxes on 85 percent of ment upon these local and state "police" essary for "the vital national security their Social Security benefits. Previ­ matters is no small thing. intere sts of the United States." It also ously , the tax was on 50 percent of ben­ Concerning thi s important issue, supports expansion of NATO (a United efits. The GOP plan would repeal that Judge Thomas Cooley, one of the most Nations subsidiary) to include the com­ tax hike. Another provision would allow eminent American jurists of the last munist-run "republics" of Eastern Eu­ seniors between the ages of 65 and 69 century, had this to say in his famou s rope and the "former" Soviet Union, a to earn $30,000 - up from $11,160 ­ work, A Treatise on the Constitutional position that does not appear to deviate without losing any benefits. The bill Lim itations ( 1868): m uc h fro m current C linto n doc trine . also w o ul d allow senior c itizens to The bill would also cut U.S. contribu­ make tax-free withdrawals from their In the American con stitutional tions for UN "peacekeeping" to 25 per­ IRAs, 40 I(k) plans, and pension funds system the power to establish the cent from the current 31.7 percent, an to buy long-term care insurance.

10 THE NEWAMERICAN / JANUARY 9. 1995 VIII. The Job Creation and Wage Enhancement Act ".AA~ ~~ 'ija ~~~~ 10 i~~" 'll~1 ~a ~ec~ WkG I his is an ambitious and wide­ 1~~1 O~ R~eb\~R ranging measure with many ~~ \~~ k\tl\\'\S", a1l\ 7? T commendable proposals on tax reduction, regulatory relief, property rights, and federal mandates. Here are some specifics that it calls for: • Cut the capital gains tax by 50 per­ cent and index capital gains to adjust for inflation . •Require the Congressional Budget Office and Office of Management and Budget to issue a report on the cost of federal regulations on the private sector. •Bring federal regulatory costs down to 5 percent of gross domestic product. •Require federal agencies to com­ plete a regulatory impact analysis when proposing any regulation impacting more than 100 people and costing more than $1 million. •Reduce the federal paperwork bur­ X. The Citizen pressed in The Federalist Papers and in den by 5 percent. Legislature Act Madison's notes on the convention. •Require compensation for land­ Madison records , for instance, the sapi­ owners whose property values decrease ongressmen who signed the ent remarks of Gouverneur Morris on by 10 percent or more due to federal "Contract With America" pledged the defeat of one of those proposals: regulations. C only to support a floor vote on a "The ineligibility proposed by the constitutional amendment to limit con­ clause as it stood tended to destroy the IX. The Common Sense gressional terms, not necessarily to back great motive to good behavior, the hope Legal Reform Act the measure itself. For one thing, the ac­ of being rewarded by a reappointment. tuallanguage of the bill was never final­ It was saying to him, make hay while ew will disagree that the "litiga­ ized; term limit backers could not agree the sun shines ." Or, as Hamilton put it tion explosion" of recent years on whether to limit House members to in The Federalist Papers, #72, "one of F has adversely impacted Ameri­ six years or twelve years in office. They the ill effects of the exclusion [from re­ can society in numerous ways. The high did agree on a l2-year limit for senators. election] would be a diminution of the costs of our litigious proclivities can be The argument for limiting congres­ inducements to good behavior." We seen in clogged courts, higher consumer sional terms by th e constitutiona l need only reflect on the recent perfidy prices, exorbitant insurance rates, useful amendme nt route sho uld have been of the "lame duck" Co ngress on the pro ducts forced off the market, and dealt a severe setback by the results of GATT vote for confirmation of the sa­ businesses that close (or never open) be­ last November 8th. The Constitution al­ gacity of the Founders' views.Term cause of legal costs. Frustration with the ready provides for term limits - every limits would mean that a sizeab le por­ situation is understandable. However, two years for House members and ev­ tion of the House and an even greater since most civi l suits are brought in ery six years for senators. And the elec­ portion of the Senate would be "lame state court, federal "reform" legislation torate made use of it in 1994, retiring a ducks" not just for a few days or weeks would have limited effect on the overall goodly number of those they believed of special session, but for a full two problem - unless it trespasses on state were misrepresenting them. In fact, years or six years, respectively. The op­ authority, which introduces even larger most of members of the House of Repre­ portunities and temptations for "making problems. It appears this may be the sentatives have been in office for less than hay" at the expense of the country and case with the bill's proposal to set new six years, the shortest period of time pro­ the taxpayers would be greatly in­ federal and state standards in product li­ posed by term-limits advocates .There is creased. Congressmen not subject to re­ ability cases . no need to throw out the good congress­ election would have no reason to feel There is merit in the proposals to put men with the bad via term limits - and accountable to the electorate and can be limits on punitive damage awards, to thus limit the franchise of the voters . expected to behave accordingly. prohibit joint liability for retailers, to The Fo unding Fathers co nsidered Constitutionally mandated term lim­ tighten rules on "expert" testimony, and several term-limits proposals at the its will not solve the problems associ­ to discourage frivolous lawsuits with a 1787 Philadelphia convention - and ated with the bad government we've "loser pays" rule in federal cases. How­ wisely rejected them . We would benefit been getting from Was hington, DC. ever, most tort law reform will have to greatly by acquainting ourselves with Merely changing the faces in Congress be tackled at the state level. thei r reasoning on the matter, as ex- is no guarantee of goo d government.

THE NEW AMERICAN / JANUARY 9, 1995 11 Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom. for a con-con. Three of those states have Now, yes, we could in theory A vigilant, informed, moral electorate is since rescinded their ratifications, leav­ take the power back. Yes, we, de absolutely essential to preserving our ing the total number of states on record jure, as [former Judge Robert Bork] constitutional system. Citizens must un­ in favor of a convention at 29.However, points out, can take the power derstand that once they have elected if those rescissions are challenged in back.But the fact is we are not someone to Congress they then have a court, it is entirely possible that they likely to disrupt the entire world responsibility to watch him and hold might be ruled invalid. Thus, we are, on trading system [by pulling out] . him accountable. The term limits amend­ the short side, only two states away and And, therefore, we ought to be very ment cannot substitute for this basic on the long side only five states away careful, because we are not likely civic responsibility. from the two-thirds majority of the 50 to take it back. states (thirty-four) needed to call a con­ !though not officially a part of vention. If the term-limits or prayer es, Newt knew he was leading the "Contract With America," amendments should fail to get through us into a trap. He must surely A the School Prayer Amendment Congress, there will be added impetus Y have known also that he and became an unofficial 11th plank when for advocates of those measures to re­ Bob Dole and their fellow GATTsters in Newt Gingrich brought it to the fore new the call for a convention. Congress have no authority whatsoever with great fanfare followi ng the elec­ And who would lead the convention? to transfer any powers to the World tion. Predictably, this has embroiled the No doubt, Newt Gingrich would be a Trade Organization or any other entity. country in a raucous debate over "sepa­ central figure, with a long retinue of They were participating in a raw, illegal, ration of church and state" and has even worshipping "Newtsters" in tow. That is unconstitutional usurp ation of power. divided pro-prayer forces over how the a horrifying thought. How so? If the They were pulling off one of the biggest amendment should be worded. What foregoing discussion of the "Contract" power grabs in history. They were has been obscured and forgotten is that has not convinced you of his unsuitabil ­ shredding the Constitution, the real it is a Supreme Court decision that is re­ ity to lead, his duplicity in ramrodding "Contract With America" which they sponsible for evicting God from the the General Agreement on Tariffs and have taken an oath to uphold - while classroom. And Congress is culpable for Trade (GATT) through Congress should using the Republican "Contract" as po­ having let that judicial tyranny go un­ more than suffice . Weare indebted to litical cover for their perfidious deed. checked . As we noted above, Congress Human Events for digging up some very Are these the kind of people you has the power (and responsibility) under revealing comments by Mr. Gingrich would enter into a contract with? Not a Article III of the Constitution to rein in from transcripts of recently released chance; you demand higher integrity the federal courts and to restrict their ju­ House Ways and Means Committee from the contractor you hire to fix the risdiction when they exceed their con­ hearings. As his own words show, kitchen sink . And we're supposed to stitutional authority. There is no need Gingrich knows full well that he was trust these culprits to provide the lead­ for a constitutional amendment with its participating in an enormous fraud ership we desperately need to fix the lengthy and costly ratification process against the American people : Republic? Gingrich, Dole, and company (which would sure ly be followed by have already shown that the only "lead­ even longer and more costly court I am just saying that we need to ership" they will provide is more of the battles). Congress can simply make be honest about the fact that we are same treacherous sort that has gotten us school prayer off limits to the federal ju­ transferring from the United States into our current sorry condition. diciary. Each state would then determine at a practical level significant au­ The new members of Congress must its own policy concerning the matter. thority to a new organization. This be made to realize that when they take Pressing for a constitutional amend­ is a tra nsformational moment. I their oath of office they are not pledg­ ment to solve the school prayer dispute would feel better if the people who ing their loyalty to the Republican when Congress can easily remedy the favor this would just be honest "Contract," but to the Constitutio n of matter is not only foolish, but dangerous about the scale of change. the United States of America.• as well. It reinforces the view that it is I agree ... this is very close to the Constitution that is defective, rather Maastrict [the European Union Extra Copies of than those court decisions and laws treaty by which the EU member which thwart and subvert the Constitu­ nations have surrendered consider­ This Issue Available tion. This places us in the position of able sovereignty] , and twenty years having to amend the Constitution every from now we will look back on this Extra copies of this issue of THE NEW as a very important defining mo­ AMERICAN are available at one copy time the courts or Congress decides to for $2 .50 , 10 for $12.50, 25 for run roughs.od over it. ment. This is not just another trade $22 .50 , 100 for $75.00, postpaid. An even greater cause for concern is agreement. This is adopting some­ Order by mail from : the momentum the "Contract" may pro­ thing which twice, once in the THE NEW AMERICAN vide for a constitutional convention 1940s and once in the 1950s, the Appleton , WI 54913-8040 (con-con) which could completely scrap U.S. Congress rejected. I am not our constitutional system and devise an even saying we should reject it; I, Or place order by telephone: entirely new form of governance. Is that in fact, lean toward it. But I think 414-749-3783 far fetched? Not at all. Thirty -two states we have to be very careful, because (Please have credit card ready.) have already passed resolutions calling it is a very big transfer of power.

12 THE NEW AMERICAN / JANUARY 9, 1995 FRONT PAGE William F. Jasper Speaking for Whom? Can a New Age, CFR functionary lead the Conservative Advance?

,'F ire breather," "bomb thrower," tinction, gutting national defense, regu­ geance. "One of the reasons the Ameri­ "the man mo st Democr ats lating businesses to death, spending the can people are so fed up with the cur­ consider the devil incarnate," nation int o oblivion, and entangling rent political structure," he charged,"is "the guerill a leader of Congress' Re­ America in one UN military operation that they think they send a strong signal publican insurgent s," "McCarthyite," after another had been resoundingly re- on election day and they watch it gradu- "bulldog extremist." These are ally dribbl e away in Washing­ some of the nicer epithets that ton, with all the people in have been hurled at Represen­ Wa shington finding exc uses tative Newton Leroy Gingrich, not to do what they've [been] the Republican minority whip asked to do." Amen. from Georgia' s 6th Congres­ And the signal the American sional District who is expec ted peop le were sending, he said, to be replacing Tom Foley as was "based on a pretty clear di­ Speaker of the Hou se in the rection of less government, less 104th Congress. reg ulation, less interference, To judge from the furious in­ and lower taxes, not ju st at the vective he inspires from sput­ federal level, but at virtually tering Democrat pols and every level across the country media liberal s, this man must in virtually every state...." be far indeed "to the right of Liberal columnist David S. Attila the Hun ." Barely a day Broder was suitably impressed after the seis mic shift of No­ by the address, calling it "a vember 8th that swept the GOP policy speech that was confi­ to power in Congress and in dent, coherent, and in every state houses across the land , way impressi ve . The words Mr. Gingrich had liberal pun­ were strong, the thoughts were ditdom frothing in high dud ­ clear, and no one who heard geon for referring to Bill and him was in any doubt that the Hillary Clinton as "countercul­ House Republicans he leads ture McGoverniks" and to their -a§ will attempt to enac t the con- White House staff as a bunch of :Q servative governing agenda he ~ "left-wing elitists." Even worse, Q) described." he charged that Clinton Demo­ ~ Whoaaaa there, Mr. Broder; crats are the "enemy of normal ~ speak for yourself. For those Americans" and the party of Gingrich 's voting record has conservatives worried. who were listen ing close ly , "total bizarreness, total weird­ there was more than one agenda ness." pudiated in one of the most severe po­ described. And for those familiar with litical massacres of modern times. And history, with politician s in general, and "The Vision Thing" the victors, who had been scorned and with Newt Gingrich in particular, there To millions of Americ ans, of course, excoria ted as nut s, malc ontents, and was plenty of cause for doubt - and Gingrich's words were merely accentu­ "religious extremists," had earned the concern. ating verball y what they had already so right to crow - so mething Gin grich powerfully expressed with their votes. does with unmatched flair. The GATT Man And the media reaction was not only But Newt Gingrich is also a capable Chi ef and most immediate among delicious icing on the cake , but proof ex ponent of "the vision thing." In a those doubts and concerns is Gingrich 's that thei r new champion had hit the poli cy address on Novemb er 11th at zealous commitment to helpin g Presi­ mark . An arrogant, imperial President Washington' s Will ard Hotel, Gingrich dent Clinton secure congressional ap­ and an equall y contemptuous Congress delivered the cons erva tiv e/po pulis t pro val of the General Agreement on intent on imposing homosexuals on the message that many Americans wanted Tariffs and Tradel World Trade Organi­ military, pushing condoms to grade­ to hear, declaring that he was going to zation (GATT /W T O) accord. When schoolers, di sposing of the Se cond pursue the goal of "disciplined, smaller, asked at his November 11 th press brief­ Amendment, taxing families into ex- more frugal government"- with a ven- ing, "Will yo u ra lly the troops fo r

THENEWAMERICA N / DECEMB ER 12, 1994 5 GATT and the World Trade Organiza­ threat of world government; it is a mul­ certainly have not had full access to all tion7" he replied: "Yes. In the first tinational body with legislative, execu­ of this document. place, the Admini stration has accepted tive, and judicial branches wielding • If the Clinton health care program amendments of Senator Dole and my­ formidable powers. The myriad of min­ deserved to be knocked off the "fast self giving Congress dramatically more istries, councils, committees, commis­ track" because it was a costly, bureau­ oversight of the World Trade Organiza­ sions, panels, and boards to be established cratic, socialistic nightmare, GATTI tion, including the right to bring up a under the WTO would make it a global WTO deserves the same. vote on withdrawal every five years in leviathan. It would be far worse than the • The matters with which the GATTI perpetuity, so at any point that we think dozens of international commissions, WTO accord deal clearly qualify it as a it is out of control or inappropriate, we committees, and secretariats created to treaty and therefore require ratification can simply withdraw." oversee and regulate trade between by a two-thirds vote in the Senate. The impression given by his answer Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. under the Gingrich's repeated veneration of the was that he and Dole recently had come 1,700-page NAFTA treaty - which Constitution (not to mention his oath) up with some amendments that would Newt Gingrich gave to Bill Clinton on a will be proven false if he does not de­ allay all concerns about loss of U.S . silver platter. So much for promises mand compliance with this constitu­ sovereignty to, and interference in do­ about kinder, simpler, and less intrusive tional requirement. mestic U.S. concerns by, the proposed government. However, the new Speaker of the supra-national WTO . What he actually House appears to be taking his direction was referring to was Section 125 of the Fast Track to Disaster from the New York Times and from the agreement, entitled "Review of Partici­ However, the dangers of the GATTI Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), pation in the WTO," which hardly pro­ WTO agreement itself are, at this point, the driving organizational force behind vides the security against WTO tyranny of less immediate concern than the im­ GATT (Gingrich is a member of the he pretends to find . One of the most moral and illegal pro cess by which it is CFR), rather than from the Constitution manifest weaknesses of the Section 125 being rammed down our throats. And or "the people" he claims to honor and "protection" is the five-year cycle of op­ this from Mr. Gingrich, who in the same represent. portunity for withdrawing; the WTO breath promises a new "openness" and mega-bureaucracy could do a lot of "honesty" in governing and who calls Rhetoric and Reality damage to American interests in five for greater "participation" and "engage­ Since so many other conservatives years. ment" by the people. It is the rankest have been gulled into embracing GATT Moreover, as far as "congressional hypocrisy to talk about the new "man­ under the false banner of "free trade," oversight" goes, one need only consider date" and "listening to the people" and Newt Gingrich' s role in promoting how little that has been worth in protect­ then to continue with the same sleazy NAFTA and GATT is seen by many as ing U.S. interests at the United Nations , manner of doing "business as usual" in insufficient in and of itself to call into the World Bank , IMF, UNESCO, or any Washington. question his "conservative" bona fides . of the other internationalist ventures Forcing a "fast track" vote on GATTI After all, his rhetoric is as fiercely con­ with which we have become entangled. WTO - what some have called "the servative as anyone's. He once de­ Earlier this year Gingrich hesitated to most important vote of the decade, if not nounced Senator Robert Dole, the support GATT and expressed concern the last 50 years" - in the "lame duck" Republican chairman of the Senate Fi­ that the WTO smacked of world gov­ Congress is an unconscionable act that nance Committee, as "the tax collector ernment. "That is a bizarre turnabout for cannot be justified on any count. It in­ for the welfare state." He labeled all of a man who almost single-handedly tentionally ignores what is obviou s: official Washington "a large, open con­ bailed out the Clinton Presidency by • As Gingrich himself has noted,"the spiracy to take away the mon ey and rounding up Republican votes for a people have spoken," and have elected freedom of the citizen s of this country." similar accord - the North American a new Congress; and that new Congress In 1985, he called President Reagan's Free Trade Agreement - over the op­ should have the right (and responsibil­ rapprochement with Soviet leader position of House Democrats," the ity) to vote on something as important Mikhail Gorbachev potentially "the New York Times chided in a May 8th as GATT. It should not be passed by a most dangerous summit for the West editorial. The Times had a point about body that has been repudiated by the since Adolf Hitler met with Chamber­ Gingrich's NAFTA role, even though voters. lain in 1938 at Munich." Over and over its arguments in favor of GATTIWTO • The GATT system and negotiations again, he has denounced big govern­ were phony. "The W.T.O. would be have been going on since 1947. It is ab­ ment, socialism, high taxes, deficits, more pussycat than tiger - and would surd to suggest that after nearly 50 years welfare, bureaucracy, and the "counter­ protect U.S. interests better than the ex­ we must now rush this new agreement culture. " isting General Agreement on Tariffs through, that it cannot wait a couple True enough, but in politics deeds and Trade," purred the Times. That is more months for the new Congress to speak louder than words. And Newt about as convincing as the claims of consider. Gingrich's deeds all too often do not Clinton, Gingrich, and company that • The GAIT accord runs some 26,000 match his words. Since entering Con­ GATT would, after ten years, "add an pages . No member of Congress has read gress, Gingrich has repeatedly voted for average of $1,700 to the annual income all of this monstrosity. Gingrich prom­ big government, deficit spending, wel­ of every American family." ised to make all bills and documents ac­ fare, foreign aid, regulatory interven­ The WTO does indeed present a cessible to the American people , but we tion, and socialism. He has repeatedly

6 THE NEW AMERICAN / DECEMBER 12, 1994 voted to send U.S. taxpayer dollars to demning deficit spending ever since has so often contradicted his rhetoric communist countries and to grant com­ coming to Congress. In an early 1982 that National Director of TRIM James munist tyrannies such as Red China and speech he called on Congress to reject Toft was prompted to remark: "Profes­ the Soviet Union most favored nation further increases in the National Debt sor Gingrich hopefully will never be (MFN) trade status, while demanding Limit. "Only by using the debt limit as called upon to teach a course in the trade sanctions against South Africa. a leverage point" he bravely declared, proper role of our federal government. He has given support to Nelson Man­ "can we force the changes which clearly His rare votes against bloated big gov­ dela and the terrorist African National the liberal leadership of this body wants ernment usually have been prompted by Congress. He repeatedly has voted for to avoid ." Trouble is, a few months ear­ the partisan wrangling of the moment, extremist environmentalist measures lier, on February 5, 1981, he had voted not by any great respect for, or under­ that are costing Americans billions of with those same "liberals" to raise the standing of, the Constitution." dollars. He repeatedly has catered to the National Debt ceiling by another $49.1 Foreign Aid. If there is anything "counterculture" and the militant homo­ billion to $985 billion. He has gone this more unpopular, unconstitutional, counter­ sexual lobby. same route many times since. productive, fiscally irresponsible, and Newt Gingrich's rating on the Con­ Of course, raising the debt ceiling immoral than welfare for domestic free­ servative Index (CI) of THENEW AMERI­ would not have been necessary had he loaders, it is welfare for foreign free­ CAN, while better than many other practiced what he preached. His votes loaders. But the "tight-fisted" Mr. members of Congress, is far from the against "more frugal government" in­ Gingrich consistently votes to send U.S. stellar rating you would expect from clude: December 21, 1987 - $603 .9 tax dollars to kleptocrats and tyrants one heralded as "the theoretician in billion for 13 regular appropriation bills abroad: June 27, 1990 - $15.7 billion chief' of the conserva- in foreign aid for fiscal tives in Congress. His CI 1991; June 20 1991 ­ ratings for his eight terms Since entering Congress, Gingrich has $12.4 billion for fiscal in office have fluctuated 1992 and $13 billion for between fairly good to repeatedly voted for big government, fiscal 1993; June 25 , mediocre to abysmal: 1992 - $13.8 billion 96th Congress: 84 deficit spending, welfare, foreign aid, for fiscal 1993; August 97th Congress: 77 regulatory intervention, and socialism. 6, 1992 - $12 .3 billion 98th Congress: 74 for the International 99th Congress: 80 Monetary Fund and $1.2 100th Congress: 80 billion for the "repub­ IOlst Congress: 57 larded with many wasteful, extravagant, lics" of the former Soviet Union; June 102nd Congress: 60 and unconstitutional items (it passed by 17, 1993 - $13 billion for fiscal 1994; 103rd Congress: 78 a vote of 209 to 208); May 4, 1989 ­ September 29, 1993 - $12.9 billion, The following sample of votes shows outlays of $1.165 trillion and a deficit of including $2.5 billion to Russia; August only some of the many decidedly $99 billion for a dishonest and spend­ 4, 1994 - $13.8 billion for foreign aid uncon servative votes Gingrich has cast: thrift 1990 budget designed to barely for fiscal 1995. Welfare Madness. During his 16 skim in under the Gramm-Rudman Eco-Lunacy. Gingrich, a longtime years in Congress, Gingrich has in­ $100 billion deficit limit; March 10, member of the Georgia Conservancy veighed vociferously against the evils of 1994 - a vote against a responsible ("an aggressive environmental group the New Deal/Great Society welfare amendment offered by Representative comprised largely of upper-middle class state - while voting for every kind of Gerald Solomon (R-NY) to balance the urbanites" - Newt's own words) co­ welfare program imaginable: for the budget by 1999 through $698 billion in founded by Jimmy Carter, organized elderly, children, the "homeless," busi­ spending cuts (a mere 3.5 percent cut) one of the early environmental studies nessmen, farmers, bankers, leftwing over five years. programs back in 1970 while a profes­ broadcasters, etc. Those votes include: Considering these and other votes sor at West Georgia State College. Ac­ March 21, 1991 - $30 billion to begin against sound fiscal policy, it is not sur­ cording to Current Biography, the the unconstitutional bailout of failed prising that Gingrich's spendthrift ways success of his early congressional cam­ savings and loan institutions; June 26, have carried over into his personal fi­ paigns was due in large part "to the sup­ 1991 - $52.6 billion for agriculture nances . The 1992 House banking scan­ port of environmentalists." Besides programs, subsidies, and food stamps; dal revealed that he had run 22 being blatantly unconstitutional, virtu­ October 5, 1992 - $66.5 billion for overdrafts on his checking account, and ally all federal environmental legislation housing and community development; this in spite of having voted himself a involves gross violations of states' September 22, 1994 - $250.6 billion in huge pay raise and having a taxpayer­ rights and the property rights of private appropriations for the Departments of provided, chauffeur-driven car. Nor is it individuals, both of which Gingrich Labor, HHS, and Education. surprising that his rating from the Na­ claims to champion. Newt's "green" Budget-Busting Profligacy. A Bal­ tional Taxpayers Union during the lat­ votes include: May 16, 1979 - the anced Budget Amendment form s the est session of Congress (the 103rd) was Alaska Lands Bill, locking up 68 mil­ core of the first plank of Gingrich's a meager 75 percent. His tax-and-spend lion acres as untouchable "wilderness"; "Contract with America." He has been record over the years on votes tabulated December 17, 1987 - $307 million for calling for such a measure and con- by Tax Reform IMmediately (TRIM) continuation of the fraudulent and un-

THENEW AMERICAN/ DECEMBER 12. 1994 7 constitutional Endangered Species Act, radical National Education Association; tervention into the private workplace in putting the "rights" of owls, bugs, rats, May 9, 1989 - $1.4 billion in federal order to stop "discrimination" in hiring snakes, and newts above those of aid for "applied techno logy education," on the basis of disability, includi ng people; March 28, 1990 - elevating the the new federalese for vocational edu­ AIDS; June 13, 1990 - $2.76 billion unconstitutional Environmental Protec­ cation; May 16, 1990 - $2.9 billion for for various AIDS programs demanded tion Agency to Cabinet-level status; Head Start and Follow Through pro­ by the militant homosexual lobby; July May 23, 1990 - the badly misnamed grams for fiscal 1991, rising to $7.7 bil­ 12, 1990 - the final version of the Clean Air bill, requiring radical cuts in lion in 1994; July 20, 1990 - $1.1 Americans With Disabilities Act. industry and automobile emissions, add­ billion for a variety of education pro­ On July 26, 1990 Gingrich voted with ing tens of billions of dollars annually grams , none of which the federal gov­ the majority in refusing to support a in new costs to our already stringent and ernment has authority to fund; May 12, resolution by Representative William costly air standards. 1994 - "such sums as may be neces­ Dannemeyer (R-CA) to expel Represen­ Federalizing Education. The Com­ sary" for the $3.3 billion -per-year Head tative Barney Frank (D-MA) for felony munist Manifesto calls for nationalizing Start program and $2.6 billion for fiscal criminal offenses related to his homo­ education, while the U.S. Constitution, 1995 for three low-income and child sexual activities. He actively supported to the contrary, prohibits federal in­ abuse prevention programs. the re-election of Representative Steve volvement in educational matters. These Counterculture Values . Despi te Gunderson (R-WI), an open hom o­ votes cause one to wonder which docu­ playing to the "religious right," Ging ­ sexual, and praises Gunderson's "cour­ ment's philosophy is guiding Newt rich has racked up a surprisingly "mod­ age" for being "gay" and Republican. Gingrich's education policy decisions: erate" record on homosexual "rights." Nationalizing Law Enforcement. May 10, 1979 - for creation of the new His tro ubling votes incl ude: May 22, On October 22, 1991, Gingrich voted Cabinet-level Department of Education 1990 - the Americans with Disabilities for an amendment to the federa l crime demanded by President Carter and the Act, permitting massive new federal in- bill offered by Representative David New Age Newt: A Futurist "Co

n a post-election address to the Washington Research Group "Comrnunitarianism"). on November 1I , 1994 , Representative Newt Gingrich In 1978, Toffler wrote the introduction for Anticipatory De­ I chided the Washington press corps ' propensity for stereotyp­ mocracy, a collaborative effort by 20 New Left and New Age au­ ing politicians and offered this description of himself: thors, including Newt Gingrich, whose chapter,"The Goals for Georgia Program," was a glowing endorse­ The best description of me is that I'm a ment of Governor Jimmy Carter 's socialist con servative futurist. Marianne [Ging­ "planning" agenda! Among the radical left, rich's second wife] and I have for a long occult, globalist, enviro-extremist, human­ time been friends of Alvin and Heidi ist, and New Age organizations the book Toffler, the authors of Future Shock and promoted as "citizen groups on the cutting The Third Wave. We really believe it's edge of alternative futures" were ACORN , useful to think about the 21st century .... Center for Science in the Public Interest, Earthrise, Environmental Action, Findhorn Moreover, Gingrich recommended "to all Community, Lindisfarne Association, World­ congressional staffs" that they read "the new watch Institute, Public Citizen, Spark, Union Progres s and Freedoms Foundation report of Concerned Scientists, and the Conference on Alvin Toffler's works." on Alternative State and Local Public Poli­ The tight Gingrich-Toffler connection cies. The book throughout extolled the virtues spanning three decades has received little at­ of "participatory democracy ," a revolutionary tention in the major media, but consider­ slogan dear to the likes of Tom Hayden, ation of it is essential to an understanding of ~ Derek Shearer, and Bill Clinton, and one Mr. Gingrich 's strange new brand of "con­ ~ drawn directly from the eighth plank of the ~ servatism." In April 1975, Gingrich and HumanistManifesto II (1973). Toffler joined with some 50 other liberal­ Newt has hobnobbed with New One of Gingrich' s Anticipatory Democ­ left activists of the Ad Hoc Committee on Age luminaries since the 1970s. racy co-authors was Representative Charlie Anticipatory Democracy in signing a letter Rose, ultra-liberal Democrat from North to Congre ss urging more congressional interest in planning for Carolina , who has a cumulative rating of seven percent on THE the future and implementing a "futurist" agenda . Fellow signato­ NEW AMERICAN'S Conservative Index, lower even than admitted ries included Betty Friedan, Lester Brown, Margaret Mead, Jonas Socialist Congressman Bernie Sanders (16 percent). Rose's chap­ Salk, Elise Boulding, R. Buckminster Fuller, Willis Harman, ter is entitled "Building a Futures Network in Congress ." In 1976, Robert Theobald, and Amitai Etzioni (Bill Clinton's guru of together with a bevy of leftwing Democratic members of Con-

8 THE NEWAMERICA N / DECEMBER 12, 1994 McCurdy (D-OK) to establish a Na­ America" would speed us further down stitutional convention.* tional Police Corps. Although he didn't the road toward a national police state. The problems with Newt Gingrich 's vote for the $30-billion Clinton crime "conservatism" go back to his "roots." bill of 1994, he resurrected it and helped Newt's Roots Current Biography Yearbook for 1989 make passage possible. As Representa­ Llewellyn Rockwell, president of the gives this snapshot of his early career: tive Susan Molinari (R-NY), one of Ludwig von Mises Institute and pub­ Newt's cheerleaders, explained to lisher of The Free Market, observes After graduating from Emory Michael Kinsley on CNN's Crossfire, that, rhetoric notwithstanding, "Newt [University in Atlanta] in 1965, "If it wasn't for Newt Gingrich, you Gingrich is a Rockefeller Republican, a Gingrich received a master's de­ wouldn't have a crime bill." big-government 'Conservative' who gree from Tulane University in Indeed . The Gingrich-led opposition talks a good line, but like Ronald Re­ 1968 and a Ph.D. degree in modem "threw" the game, failing to challenge agan will give us higher taxes, more European history in 1971. His be­ the bill's fundamental flaw - that the government, and more spending. His havior at Tulane appeared to belie federal government has no constitu­ 'Contract With America' is a fraud; it his future conservatism and hawk­ tional authority to take over state and should be called a 'Press Conference ish foreign-policy views. He ac­ local crime-fighting duties - and fo­ with America.'" Or, perhaps , a "Con­ cepted student deferments rather cused instead on "pork" in the bill. tract On America." Newt's "Contract," than face the draft during the Viet­ "That crime bill stank to high heaven," with its calls for amendments to balance nam War, experimented with mari­ charged Pat Buchanan. "[I]t federalizes the budget and impose term limits, juana, led a campus demonstration crimes such as spousal abuse, giving the seems to imply that our original con­ defending the school paper's right feds police power the Constitution re­ tract, the U.S. Constitution, is gravely serves to the states." And the crime deficient. This could give new impetus * Mr. Ja sper will ex amine the "Contract With package in Newt's "Contract With to the dangerous movement for a con- America" in our January 9, 1995 issue. servative" for the 21 st Century

gress, Rose formed the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Fu­ dia" that Gingrich loves to attack, has for three decades been the ture, which Gingrich joined upon his election to Congress. In fact, leading "prophet" of social revolution and "transformation." Newt became a member of the executive committee, providing Even more than for his socialistlredistributionist political and the critical Republican and "conservative" cover the group needed economic views, Toffler has been the bane of all true conserva­ to camouflage its obvious leftist agenda. One of Newt's Clearing­ tives committed to preserving Judeo-Christian culture for his avid house comrades was Senator Al Gore, whose pathetic eco-diatribe, championing of group marriage, polygamy, serial marriage, ho­ Earth in the Balance, although the butt of conservative jokes, mosexual marriage, the "liberating" effect of divorce, and child closely fits the Toffler-Gingrich "futurist" world view. Leading rearing by "professional parents ." Edge, an influential New Age newsletter, reported on October 17, On October 3, 1990, Gingrich and Representative Edward 1983 that Congressmen Gingrich and Gore introduced a bill to Markey (D-MA) sent a "Dear Colleague" letter inviting all mem­ advise the President on "critical trends and alternative futures." bers of Congress and staff members "to join us at a reception hon­ The February 27,1984 issue of New Options, a publication ed­ oring best-selling author Alvin Toffler on the eve of publication ited by leading New Age "philosopher" Mark Satin, identified of his new Bantam book Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth and Gingrich as a top "decentralist/globally responsible" congress­ Violence at the Edge ofthe 2Jst Century." man, a revealing kudo. "Alvin Toffler's seminal works , Future Shock (1970) and The Mark Satin is also the author of New Age Politics (1978), a Third Wave (1980), each helped to define its decade, add new guide to New Age political thought. In that guide Satin calls for words to the language, and significantly alter the way we think planetary governance, "a system of world taxation (on resource about change," Markey and Gingrich wrote. "His new book use)," "an increased transfer of wealth from rich to poor coun­ promises to shake up our vision of the future once again," they tries," and "complete military disarmament." What's more, he enthused, stating further that "Toffler's ideas will likely become has it in for the nuclear family, traditional marriage, and hetero­ an important resource in focusing national debate on the chal­ sexual society: "The nuclear family can be devastating to parents lenges facing our nation in the post-Cold War era." and children alike," and "it tends to embody the first four sides Like Charlie Rose, Markey is an odd ally for "conservative" of the Prison in almost pure form";"Compulsive heterosexuality Gingrich. Markey has a cumulative five percent rating on our cuts us off from half the world as love partners"; "Compulsive Conservative Index . But those are the kinds of folks Newt runs monogamy may have served some essential purpose two or three with at the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, where he million years ago," but today it tends toward "a more or less mo­ helps move our lawmakers leftward by bringing them speakers notonous day-to-day living together." such as Toffler, Mikhail Gorbachev, Carl Sagan, Marian Wright In all these radical positions Satin is in tune with Toffler, Edelman, Lou Harris , Ellen Goodman, Daniel Yankelovich, and whose books he admiringly quotes and recommends. Toffler, the John Jacob . • intellectual darling of the "counter culture" and the "liberal me- - W.F.J.

THE NEW AMERICAN / DEC EMBER 12, 1994 9 to print a nude photograph of a fac­ reer ever since. CFR·Crafted Conservative ulty member, and campaigned for In 1981 this writer asked Georgia However, by beating his chest more Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller of Congressman Larry McDonald for an loudly, trumpeting his message more New York in 1968 because of the evaluation of the rising Republican star stridently, and pursuing power more governor's support of civil rights. from his neighboring 6th District. His re­ ruthlessly than all others , Gingrich has ply was surprising, at the time . Newt won the title of Maximum Leader of the Nelson Rockefeller, of course, was Gingrich, he said, was a devious and "Conservative Revolution." Not that it the bane of all conservatives, the epit­ ambitious politician masquerading as a was all his own doing, by any means; ome of effete internationalism, and a conservative and not one to be trusted . the CFR-dominated "liberal" media member of the CFR (run by his brother Gingrich had gone out of his way, Dr. have been only too accommodating in David) and the ruling elite of the East­ McDonald said, to obstruct and to under­ crafting conservative bona fides for one ern Establishment. In his unsuccessful mine support of conservative members of their own. It is a sickeningly familiar runs for Congress in 1974 and 1976 of Congress for some of McDonald's redux . Gingrich showed no deep conservative legislative efforts. This was particularly In 1976, CFR front man Jimmy leanings. He was, and remains, a mem­ disturbing since Representative McDon­ Carter was presented to us by the same ber of the NAAC P, the World Futurist ald was the most conservative member of CFR media elites as a "conservative" Society, and the New Age-oriented Congress - by virtually all ratings sys­ Southern Baptist from Georgia who Congressio nal Clearinghouse on the Fu­ tems - and would have been a natural would give us the "change" America ture. In 1978 Congressional Quarterly ally of Gingrich if Gingrich were truly needed. In 1992 it was CFR mem ber gave this bio of the freshman congress­ conservative. In July 1983, the Conserva­ Bill Clinton, another "conservative" man: "In his previo us campaigns Ging­ tive Digest compared the voting scores of Sou thern Baptist fro m Arkansas who rich was considered unusually liberal the leading conservatives in Congress was sold to the country as the ticket to for a Georgia Republican. But this year based on ratings from the American positive "change," the "New Democrat" he relied on the tax cut issue, using an Conservative Union, the Committee for with "traditional values" and a "New empty shopping cart to emphasize his the Survival of a Free Congress, the Na­ Covenant." Now comes "conservative" concern about inflation." He also capi­ tional Conservative Political Action Southern Baptist and CF R member talized on the widespread anger over Committee, and THE NEW AMERICAN'S Newt Gingrich, with promises of dras­ President Carter's Panama policy and own Conservative Index. Congressman tic "change" and a new "contract." tr headed up "Georgians Against the Pan­ McDonald topped the list at a combined you're beginning to sense another im­ ama Canal Treaty." He has been using 98.3 percent. Congressman Gingrich minent betrayal, congratulations: you're conservative issues to advance his ca- weighed in at an anemic 77.5 percent. catching on. •

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