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THE CONSERVATIVE REVIEW
December 11, 2007
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Blocked Vatican Envoy
By Robert D. Novak
Townhall.com
WASHINGTON - President Bush's nomination of Harvard Law
School professor Mary Ann Glendon as U.S. ambassador
to the Vatican is being held up in the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, raising the possibility that the
post may be vacant when Pope Benedict XVI visits the
United States in April.
The selection of anti-abortion advocate Glendon is opposed
by Catholics for a Free Choice. No official holds on her
confirmation have been filed, but failure to schedule a
hearing blocks her confirmation. She is caught up in
blanket Democratic opposition to Bush's final nominees.
Business tycoon Francis Rooney, current ambassador to the
Holy See, has resigned and is expected to be gone by the
time of the pope's American visit.
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IRS DEMAND
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has informed Congress it
must actually pass alternative minimum tax (AMT) relief,
not just promise help, for taxpayers to receive refunds
next year.
On Oct. 30, chairmen and ranking minority members of the
House Ways and Means and Senate Finance committees wrote
Acting IRS Commissioner Linda Stiff that "we want to assure
you that legislative relief is forthcoming so that no new
taxpayers will be subject to the AMT for taxable year
2007." On the next day, Stiff responded that their
assurance was not sufficient for the IRS to recalibrate
computers. "We must ensure that our systems are prepared
to process returns under the law as it exists now," she
said.
This correspondence became known last week with Congress
still having failed to "patch" the AMT. Refunds to income
tax payers may be delayed 10 weeks.
SENATORIAL DISCOURTESY
Moderate Republican Sen. Arlen Specter, who normally
promotes bipartisan amity, was furious Wednesday when
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid declined to come to
the Senate floor to answer Specter's charge that Reid
had violated Senate rules in calling Republican colleagues
"puppets."
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"I have had my staff advise [Reid's] staff," Specter told
the Senate, "that I intended to make some comments about
him so that he would be notified and come to the floor....
His office is right adjacent to the floor. He is a minute
or two away."
In decrying the Senate's year-end logjam, Reid on Tuesday
declared on the floor: "President Bush is the man that's
pulling the strings on the Republican puppets he has here."
Specter responded, "I wonder if [Reid's] up to the job."
A WIN FOR MITCH
The election of Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee as
Republican Conference chairman, third-ranking in the Senate
GOP hierarchy, boosted Senate Republican Leader Mitch
McConnell's authority.
McConnell was embarrassed last year when his choice,
Alexander, was defeated by one vote for Republican whip
by Sen. Trent Lott. When Lott last month announced his
resignation from the Senate, Sen. Jon Kyl became the
unopposed candidate for whip and left open his previous
position as Conference chairman. Alexander beat
conservative-backed Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina
by two-to-one in the closed-door vote of Republican
senators.
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Burr's chance depended on a three-way contest among him,
Alexander and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas, but
Hutchison dropped out. She contemplates running for
governor of Texas in 2010, and colleagues believe she
did not want to risk losing a party leadership race.
UNPATRIOTIC DEAN?
When Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean addressed the
winter dinner of the Washington Gridiron Club, he did not
declare the support for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan
that is expected from politicians speaking to the
journalists' organization.
Satirical Gridiron speeches often conclude with patriotic
rhetoric. Republican National Chairman Mike Duncan, Dean's
counterpart addressing last Saturday night's dinner, wound
up his speech by commending troops in the field.
In contrast to anti-Vietnam War politicians a generation
ago, most Democratic critics of President Bush's Iraq war
policy go out of their way to praise the soldiers while
condemning the policymakers. Dean did not follow that line
in his Gridiron speech.
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