Previously, Charlie Schumer has always marched in complete lock-step with the Clintons. Now, it appears that the far left Senator Schumer has finally deviated from the party line. That's strange, too, because it's not even an election year for him.

Just a few weeks ago, the White House claimed publicly that the administration may have been "asleep at the switch" on the oil price deal. Consequently, fuel prices rose so high some in the trucking industry were nearly driven out of business. And, that's not to mention how the American automobile driver got socked in the pocketbook.

Last week, Schumer was saying that gasoline prices might hit $2.25 a gallon by fall if something is not done. Specifically, Schumer wants the Clinton administration to release the huge federal oil reserves into the market to help drive down gas prices.

Also last week, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson told the New York Times that Schumer is being an alarmist. Richardson said gas prices will be at a national average price of $1.40 to $1.45 a gallon by the end of summer. Of course, Richardson is the one who was said to be "asleep at the switch."

So, is the far left Schumer leaving the party fold on this matter, or could there be a little to this story that is not being told?

Besides the Arab countries that don't really need the extra money, who actually benefits from high oil prices?

Two interesting candidate countries with bad economies would actually benefit quite a lot. Russia needs the extra profit. Russia has to be one of the world's worst run countries. It teeters on bankruptcy. Some government workers there (and the government still owns many businesses) go weeks, or even months, without a paycheck. Russia sells a lot of oil, so higher prices are a definite plus to their economy.

Another is Mexico. Mexico has many of the same problems as Russia, sans the leftover communism. Mexico is also a major oil producer, so higher prices will do a lot to boost their government coffers.

Interesting, too, that both Russia and Mexico owe the United States, and American banks, a lot of money. They both owe us billions of dollars, actually. And, what better place to get that money than from the wealthy American people?

It appears, therefore, that no one was "asleep at the switch." Rather, it appears that we, the American people, are to pay off part of the debt owed by Russia and Mexico through higher fuel prices.

Add to that a certain amount of price gouging and price fixing by the major oil companies, and we do not expect fuel prices to decrease much for the rest of this year.

We might also add that the oil companies have worked together at pump price fixing for at least fifty years. While working as a kid in the 1950s, pumping gas, it was always a big joke that all gas stations would get the call to raise or lower pump prices within a few minutes of each other. No matter what the company name on the station, they were all required to conform.

And so it is yet today. There are federal laws against price fixing, but they never seem to apply to the oil companies. So, it was no surprise that gas prices increased for last week's holiday weekend, then decreased some by Wednesday. That was not supply and demand. It was business as usual: out and out price fixing, industry wide.

Of course, major oil has a large lobbying crew in Washington and contributes big bucks to campaign committees. Therefore, they also get big breaks in the law.

Not much changed in the last couple weeks. It's sometimes hard to tell if the federal government is working on a self-destruct mode or moving towards complete tyranny.

Obviously, no one in Washington intends to use the Constitution anymore. In truth, many in the administration and on Capitol Hill actually seem to be doing their very best to subvert it. The way they violate the law fighting each other is interesting to watch, too.

For instance: J. Michael Waller of Insight Magazine writes that intelligence and security experts were outraged because the Clinton administration probably used blackmail against Members of Congress when the House impeached President Clinton. No matter, though, the craven Senate refused to impeach when they had the chance. The Lords and Ladies of the Senate all knew about the blackmail. That's probably why they were so quick to get the impeachment trial over with.

The list of the negligent Senators (and House Members) voting against impeachment will probably be posted on Free Republic and other places soon. Maybe we can get rid of a few of them in November.

Over half of them have committed criminal offenses, too.

In a previous Congress, Clinton was able to obtain authority for warrantless wiretaps. That had been defeated after public debate earlier in the year, but some unscrupulous Congress critters hid the provision in the year's huge omnibus budget bill and it passed.

Now we learn that the Anti-Constitutionalists at the Reno Department of Justice are again lobbying Congress to authorize federal agents to illegally enter people's homes, search the homes without benefit of a search warrant, and not tell anyone. That already passed the craven Senate and is now in the House. Truly, very few on Capitol Hill care much about the Constitution anymore.

Anyway, such a bill would never pass on its own, so the DOJ had the Secret Search item hidden in a long bill dealing with methamphetimines. It's disguised with the title of "Notice Clarification." Next week, the House Judiciary Committee will take up HR-2987, the House version of the Senate bill, which contains the buried clause on Secret Searches in section 301. The federal bankruptcy reform bill (which has passed both houses, and is currently in a conference committee) also has the hidden Secret Searches provision.

The provision will pass. It is totally unconstitutional, but then so is much that Congress does nowadays. Few on Capitol Hill care about the Constitution anymore.

We should all remember that, if the Constitution is the highest law of the land, anyone on Capitol Hill supporting any bill with the illegal search provision included is a criminal. The problem is, there are no penalties for anti-Constitutional acts by public servants.

And speaking of criminals: last week Judicial Watch reported that

a federal appeals court let stand today a decision in the Filegate civil lawsuit that Bill Clinton and his aides criminally violated the Privacy Act when they authorized the release of documents from Kathleen Willey's government files in an effort to destroy her after she accused Clinton of sexually assaulting her near the Oval Office.

 

And, in the same report we learn:

The ruling came in the course of the $90 million Filegate class action lawsuit against Hillary Clinton, the Clinton-Gore White House and others on behalf of those whose FBI files were wrongly obtained and misused. In sworn interrogatory responses, the Clinton-Gore White House admitted that Hillary Clinton also supported the release, but claimed a bogus 'spousal privilege' over conversations she and Mr. Clinton had about the illegal Willey release.

 

So, of course, this makes them both felons. Again.

It appears that Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman is moving right along on a number of Clinton misdeeds. Will Hillary be arrested before the November election? Maybe. Stay tuned.

The impeached president and his belligerent wife are in for some really bad press shortly. He's being disbarred for some of the perjury and obstruction of justice he committed and she may soon be indicted for many of the same crimes.

By the way, has anyone else noticed that he changes his hair color more often than she changes her pantsuit color?

While we're talking about the criminal class in government, we shouldn't forget the overpaid federal bureaucrats working for the National Park Service out West. These negligent government workers inappropriately started a fire near Los Alamos and burned up nearly 400 homes and a 80 square miles of forest. That would be criminal negligence if a real person started the fire, of course. However, because government workers did it, no one will be arrested. Laws only apply to citizens. Bureaucrats are all above the law. Federal agents have started other negligent fires, which also destroyed dwellings, a few times in the past few years. They always got a free pass.

Such is the state of our government -- and, this is just a small part of the list.

How about that moronic moms march in Washington, eh? One would think, if they were really good mothers, they would be home with their kids on Mother's Day. But, no. Instead there were about ten-thousand of these uninformed Hillary sycophants making like feminist fanatics protesting against the Constitution. It's interesting what a professional media leftist activist can cook up when she has a few million dollars to play with.

By the way: How many of those "mothers" were paid to be there. Quite a number, we're betting.

As we remember, the far left big government supporters in the media gave them a lot of free media advertising time, too. Which goes to prove a point we like to repeat: Many, many in the national media are actively working to support a large, socialist-style central government by actively subverting our Constitution. The free advertising and press this moron mom march received is just one obvious proof.

And who the hell is this dimwitted Hillary sycophant named Rosie O'Donnell? Someone said she was a talk-show host. With a voice and attitude like that? Why? What a blathering idiot!

Apparently, these feminist fanatics don't realize that gun-control laws only work on already law- abiding citizens. Besides, our right to keep and bear arms isn't necessarily just so we can hunt and protect against crooks. One reason we have a right to keep and bear arms is specifically so that we can quickly overthrow a tyrannical government when it tries to steal our freedom.

These big government shills point to the preamble to the Second Amendment (A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State) as some kind of authority pointing to a misconstrued opinion that our freedom to keep and bear arms only applies when we are part of a government controlled militia. But, that only proves their ignorance.

The term "Militia," as used by the authors of our Constitution, means all of the people able to keep and bear arms.

Even one of their own members of the far left, Hubert H. Humphrey, who was both a U.S. Senator and Vice President to L.B. Johnson, knew that much. As Humphrey said back in 1960:

Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of the citizen to keep and bear arms. ... The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America but which historically has proven to always be possible.

 

In the Federalist Papers -- which the U.S. Supreme Court says we should look to as an accurate, and legal, interpretation of the Constitution -- James Madison, (The Federalist Papers #46) writes:

Americans have the right and advantage of being armed -- unlike the citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

 

Thomas Jefferson agreed that our personal guns are to be used to protect us against tyranny. In a letter dated Dec. 20, 1787, Jefferson wrote to James Madison:

What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms.

(Papers of Jefferson, ed. Boyd et al.)

When James Madison presented the Bill of Rights in Congress, there was nearly unanimous agreement and not nearly the amount of debate on the amendments one would expect. However, one Representative rising to speak was Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts:

What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. ... Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.

(spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789). No other Representative in the House disagreed.

Incidentally, the same Congress that passed the Bill of Rights also passed the Militia Act of 1790. That law defined the militia as "every able bodied man of military age."

It must also be noted that nothing in the Bill of Rights was intended to limit any right of the people. Instead, the Bill of Rights is there to instruct government on what they most definitely may NOT do. And, in truth, the Second Amendment is not even necessary. Because, if we repeal the Second Amendment, there is still no authority within the Constitution for the federal government to regulate the ability of the people of the United States to keep and bear arms.

For all of the above reasons -- and many other strong arguments that would require a book to chronicle -- anytime these socialist, anti-Constitutional limousine liberals start mouthing off about restricting our rights, they should immediately be derided and shouted down as nothing more than the useful idiots of those who wish complete control over the American people.

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For a little family fun in support of the Second Amendment, be sure to see "The 50 Million Round March" at: <http://www.50mrmarch.com>. Then read what good Americans around the country are saying about it on Free republic at: <http://www.FreeRepublic.com/forum/a39304e1c5d53.htm> .

All we're hearing is whine, whine, whine and lie, lie, lie. Al Gore the lesser says he is running for President of the United States. But you wouldn't know it. I've seen much better campaigns for college class president.

Gore is trying to get people to believe that he is somehow different than Clinton, but that's baloney. He lies as much as Clinton, just about more trivial things. For instance, it's hard to forget that Gore said that he created the Internet, which has been around longer than he has been an adult. And then there's the story that he and Tipper were the models for Erich Segal's 1970s bestseller romantic novel Love Story. But, when asked, the book's author was said to be "befuddled."

We won't forget "no controlling legal authority" Al's illegal campaign practices, either. Forget the illegal fund-raising telephone calls from the White House for a moment. For the 1996 presidential campaign, Bill, Al and others at the White House wrote a bunch of illegal "issue oriented" TV ads for the DNC to run. It was about $44-million worth of them, actually. They were said to be DNC issue ads, but were really Clinton-Gore re-election ads. And, Gore most certainly knew that was illegal.

Gore is also deeply involved in the China connection. Fred Thompson's Senate Governmental Affairs Committee found that Gore had been using the Hsi Lai Buddhist Temple in California as a piggyback for about a decade before he got caught. Check the full story out in Section 17 of the Senate Committee report, titled "The Hsi Lai Temple Fundraiser and Maria Hsia" posted at: <http://www.senate.gov/%7Egov_affairs/sireport.htm>.

As the Senate Committee investigating the matter summarized:

It is also now clear that most of the fundraising that occurred in connection with the Temple event was illegal -- and that the donation-laundering orchestrated by Maria Hsia and carried out by Temple officials in connection with the Vice President's visit was not an aberration. Rather, it was part of a longstanding pattern of illegality undertaken in support of Democratic candidates in national elections that was established at least as early as September 1993 with the laundering of donations to the DNC in connection with another Vice Presidential event organized by Hsia and John Huang.

 

Later, Judicial Watch reported (March 14):

Vice President Albert Gore, who Nolanda Hill has testified was a co-conspirator along with Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton, and Harold Ickes, in devising the illegal scheme to sell seats on Commerce Department trade missions (as well as transfer high technology pursuant to export licenses), has now become a 'reformer with results' -­ when it comes to addressing campaign law violations. Unfortunately for the American people, the 'results' constitute the quashing at the Reno Justice Department of criminal investigations into the Vice President's, Mrs. Clinton's, and Bill Clinton's bribery and wholesale corruption.

 

You see, last March 11, Gore lied yet again. He told the New York Times that he would make overhauling the campaign finance system a central theme of his presidential bid. He said that he learned from all his [illegal] past mistakes and was seizing the issue with the passion of a convert. "I made a mistake going to that Buddhist temple; I made a mistake in making telephone calls from my office," Gore told the New York Times. "And I have learned from those mistakes. I have a passion for campaign finance reform, that is fueled in part because of the pain of those mistakes."

Yeah. Passion and pain. But no confession and repentance. These were felonies.

Hobnobbing with the far left upper crust is no way to win an election, either. Last week, Gore showed up with the lying Clintons at the world's biggest fund-raiser. That put him on stage next to the impeached perjurer who is now known world-wide as a crooked liar and obstructer of justice. Even an elderly life-long Democrat mentioned an old definition of "upper crust" when that fund-raiser was replayed on TV: "A bunch of crumbs held together by their dough." Everyone in the room (mostly "Blue Dog" Democrats) got a big laugh out of that. None of them will be voting for Gore. He's a joke throughout the Midwest.

A lot of us also still remember Gore's feigned tear-jerker at the Democratic Convention in 1996, when he told the convention that he had dedicated his life to fighting the tobacco industry after his sister died of cancer in 1984. However, some of us in tobacco country also knew the fallacy of that because we still recall his 1988 campaign speech to tobacco farmers: "I've hoed it. I've dug in it. I've sprayed it. I've chopped it. I've shredded it." (he forgot the most important parts: setting and stripping). Anyway, none of that is true, either. But, his father's farm did grow tobacco. Part of Al Gore the lesser's personal wealth comes from selling tobacco.

Then there's his book, "Earth in the Balance," which he recently said he still stands by. It's rather well written. However, if truth counts anymore, it's a major failure. Among the things our union friends in Detroit may want to know is that Gore calls for abolishing the internal combustion engine. He gets the limousine, we get horse and buggies and bicycles.

Gore might just as well pack it in now. The American people are very angry with the federal government. There will probably be greater than a 60% turnout for the November election and the vast majority will be voting Republican.

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For "The Best of Al Gore" lies, be sure to visit: <http://www.rnc.org/newsroom/gorecd>.

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