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MY OPEN LETTER TO HENRY HYDE
Date: April 17, 2000
To: Henry Hyde
U.S. House of Representatives
"I have a fear---and I hope I'm dead wrong---that some people want the
issue, but they don't want a bill."
--Henry Hyde on gun control, Meet the Press, 4-16-00
Thanks, Henry. We really do appreciate your hard-working efforts to push
through a 'compromise' on the Second Amendment again.
It's not good enough to merely have a GOP Congress sucking up to Red
China---or saying "let's move on" about the near-endless Clinton scandals--or
acting like trained seals regarding the Administration's dangerous, psychotic
foreign policy. It's not enough that the GOP Congress is hiding in the
shadows like a bunch of quivering jellyfish on the Elian Gonzales issue,
leaving the Miami Cubans to fend off the White House and the Liberal Press
all by themselves.
Oh no--we really DO need the GOP establishment undercutting the Right to Keep
and Bear Arms, to add icing to the cake. Without a "post-Columbine" gun law,
Mr. Clinton might actually be deprived of a piece of his precious
Presidential legacy.
Thank you, Mr. Hyde, for lobbying against the Republican platform on national
television. It's obvious why Bob Dole said that he "never read it", after
over three decades of public service in the Legislative branch.
My gut instinct, however, tells me that you have read the platform. You just
evidently don't give a damn, like most of your pampered, patrician colleagues
on Capitol Hill.
Please remind me of all this in six months, when George W. Bush is running
against Pat Buchanan, Howard Phillips, and Harry Browne. When your
Congressional friends and cronies are up for re-election, and they can't
remember why they used to say they wanted to cut taxes or legislate term
limits. When the best thing that any conservative can say in the defense of
GOP Senators is: "Oh well..they were being blackmailed by 975 FBI files, and
Larry Flynt." When the White House is beating its chest again, predicting the
Democrats will take back the
House...and conservatives find themselves asking "What difference will that
make?"
Please remind me that I was one of the conservatives who stood in line in
November of 1998 to cast a straight-ticket ballot for the Republican Party.
And in 1996, before that. And 1994.
And please remind me of what kind of service I got in return for my votes.
Most particularly, I refer to the vital service of upholding and defending
the Constitution of The United States.
Remind me again to vote. The election is only six months away.
Kevin Tuma
Political Cartoonist/CNSNews
Political activist/New Conservative Union
Delcomico@aol.com
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