by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 26, 1998

Why are Republicans pushing it? The politics of pander aside, there is money involved. Transnational corporations want another large pool of low-wage labor near the United States, so they can unload more of their high-paid American workers. So they have rented out the services of “conservative” lobbyists…

Well, our giant panderers are at it again.
Anticipating an outpouring of enthusiasm from 25 million Hispanics, our poll-whipped Republican Party is about to push Puerto Rico onto the path to statehood. Prediction: If Puerto Rico becomes a state, the GOP reward will be six new Democrats in the House and two in the Senate. Justice for the GOP, but a tragedy for America. We would be on the same road to national crack-up as Britain, Canada, Italy and India.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 23, 1998

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far!” Theodore Roosevelt admonished. Yet not a day has passed lately without Madeleine Albright or Sandy Berger shaking a fist at Saddam Hussein. He has kept his mouth shut. Now it is we who have to backpedal on what U.S. power can accomplish. Due to our hubris, more nations than we might imagine would rejoice in a U.S. humiliation…

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 16, 1998

The precise issue will be a demand by President Clinton for a huge increase in funding and borrowing power for the International Monetary Fund…On Feb. 11, the establishment returned with its warships. In both The New York Times and Washington Post was published an “Open Letter to the Congress of the United States.” The two-page document is a naked ultimatum: Congress is to re-declare allegiance to the New World Order or face the wrath of America’s power elite…

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 16, 1998

Seven years ago, the romance of the age was between America and a Russia newly liberated from Leninism. Ronald Reagan was being toasted even in Moscow as having been right all along about the “evil empire.” Brave Boris Yeltsin stood atop a Russian tank to defy unreconstructed Communists seeking to re-establish the old regime.

How far away that all seems.

Today, Yeltsin blusters that U.S. strikes on Iraq could ignite a “world war,” as Moscow’s defense minister berates William Cohen. Russia ships missile technology to Tehran, sides with Saddam in the Persian Gulf, and establishes a “strategic partnership” with China.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 9, 1998

In October of 1991, George Bush strode into the United Nations as leader of a mighty coalition that had smashed the Iraqi army and liberated Kuwait. To thunderous applause, the conqueror outlined his New World Order. In the hubris of the hour, men spoke of a new Pax Americana, the coming “global hegemony” of the United States.

How far away all that hubris seems now, as America stands virtually alone in the Persian Gulf. Bush’s New World Order has vanished like Woodrow Wilson’s dream of a world government and FDR’s vision of the “Four Policemen” — the United States, Britain, China and Stalin’s Russia — in partnership to maintain the peace of a post-fascist world.

by Patrick J. Buchanan – February 2, 1998

Like Johnnie Cochran and the “dream team” that prevented justice from being done in the O.J. Simpson trial, Hillary Clinton seems to have mastered the “O.J. defense.”
The essence of this defense is first to change the subject from the guilt of the accused to the character of the accusers, second, to suggest a sinister plot, and third, to appeal to the jury’s innate bias.

In O.J.’s trial, the race card was played. A crass appeal was made to black jurors to use the verdict to punish an allegedly racist LAPD, which supposedly had framed O.J., by turning Simpson loose.