News you don't see in the newspaper

Many times a newspaper, with contributions from the Associated Press and the politicians in power, will take a story and blow it way out of proportion just to score political points. Then months or even years later after all the dozens of "committee hearings" and the pontificating by wordy senators and house members, and damaging many reputations on the way, it is decided by a court or various legal authorities that there is nothing to the charges that were brought.

The paper either now considers it unimportant or they are unwilling to print a story telling their readers that the person had done nothing wrong in the first place. So, did you know that after months and months of brutal hearings against Bush's former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for firing nine attorneys general and eventually causing him to resign, that the justice department found him completely innocent. Another Democratic plot gone sour.

And did you know that after months and months of more of those made-for-TV committee hearings where the Democrats accused house speaker Tom Delay of wrongdoing, that the justice department has now dropped all charges against him? And one of the really big ones that you probably didn't hear about is the fact that President Bush had the right to do wire tapping. Remember the pages of news coverage on that one?

And did you know that the newly elected Republican governor of the very Democratic State of New Jersey just cut $11 billion from that state's budget and refuses to raise taxes. It can be done. But remember our governor hasn't even mentioned cutting anything. He wants a tax increase. Did you know that not a single Democrat is running on the new health care program that they jammed through Congress? They don't dare.

Roger Dauchy

Wheaton