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16, 1994
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We Get Letters
P. O. Box 1027 Athens, GA 30603
Brothers and Sisters:
Thank God for Gwen Oloonty
Its the mkJdk of November, its 80 degrees, a tot of people thnk ON* North is a Chration, Arabs
are plotting to kil Yassor Arafat, a Nobel Peace laureate, and Newt Gingrich is Speaker of the House
A little hayseed Hitler who haled the changes two years ogo is haling the reversal, beaming from
Dumbo ear to Dumbo ear on television (The Democratic Administration has been given al of a two-
yea 'chance* to dismantle the government, it's the Republicans turn, and if they fail, well, who will
be left there, beaming, to turn to?)
Thank God fa Gwen Olooney Thank her fa sparing us a milksop schootooy all too willing to
serve the Anyone But Gwen Club who probably still doesn't reckon the lost say he wodd have hod
in beng CEO is 1 do * Thank her for reminding us the entire country hasn't gone .
Gone what? Back? Right? Republican? Nuts?
No Sorry, it just ain't that simple Or perhaps it's too simple, just too damn obvious to see
Man with intnguingly reodable lips who has mode a religion of being abidngly inoffensive to
most white people wins a Big Wa and then gets kicked out of office, its the economy, dummy Man
with an abxkng knock for stirring up questions of chaocter wins the day Commandeers the pas
sage of NAFTA with the little support from his own party; pushes (finaly) meaningful support fa
working mothers, gets a deficit budget proposal without one Republican vote and an omnibus crime
package. Charlton Heston kicking and squealing the whole way; takes a huge faeign pofccy gamble
for no known reason other than perhaps believing its the right thing to do and it turns out the right
thing to do, Bond market booms; economy ro*s along rather nicely, thank you. jobs up. inflation
down, deficit reduction ahead of schedule
And everybody hates BiM Onion Jim Sasser of Tennessee, a model Senator in the eighth grode
civics class sense of the term if ever there was one. gets shelocked Why? He's a Democrat He
knows Bill CSnton He has not pubfcdy recanted either of these focts Jim Sasser is B*N Clinton I hate
Jim Sasser
Was it the queers in the Army? Not having the right to fell a deer with a bazooka? The dark
chance we may be experiencing Government of Compassion Creep? The hundred-dolor haircut?
Dee Dee Myers?
When they dispense thee all too free advice. Those Who Know (George Will, say) always pont
out that democracy requires compromise This is true What we all seem to be (completely) losing
sight of is its requrng patience as well The Creep we should be wary of is the al but unremarked
shift, quickly, toward the politics of annual ultimatum I'm voting you in to change things around
here. hell, change everyttwrg and whie you're at it make sure you do if without government or. at
the very least, government without taxation, and for my childrens and my wife s and my Volvo's
sake, dammit, do it NOW
OK. think global and oct local Where does that leave national?
Thank God for Gwen Olooney This is where I live
Vic Varney
WITH DAVE BARBE
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