THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, October 9, 1994 TAG: 9410070027
SECTION: COMMENTARY PAGE: J4 EDITION: FINAL
TYPE: Letter
LENGTH: Short : 36 lines
It now seems that all the liberal Democrats and their media pundits are down on brother North for lying to Congress, and they bring it up at every occasion.
Years before North's address to Congress, that body had used up every lie in the continental limits of the United States explaining why it had to tax all of us some more. Oh, there may have been a few lies left in Alaska, but they were frozen up so tight it would take months to thaw them out, and Congress was down to importing lies from anywhere it could find them.
There was no chance in the world for some little light colonel to get his hands on one. Why the balance of payments on lies at that very time was something like minus 40 billion a year!
How did Clinton and Robb get their hands on the whoppers they told? I'm convinced they had them brought back from one of the space probes, because nobody on this Earth could dream up Clinton's story of smoking marijuana and not making a little love to it, or Robb's story of galloping around half-naked in a hotel room with Miss Virginia and not inhaling her. Those lies have got to be from some other planet!
I say let's send North on up to the Senate and watch the liberals scramble. We'll at least get a good show for our tax money, and, who knows, maybe a little truth may flower!
As the late, great Chub Seawell used to say, ``Call your next witness!''
JOHN WILLIAMS
Franklin, Oct. 4, 1994 by CNB