Donkey Kong

***D'ya know who will become Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee if the Democrats manage to slither back into the majority in November? Not Jane Harman, who is certainly no slouch when it comes to defamatory partisan hissing but would be next in line to wield the gavel and does have experience and tenure, but Alcee Hastings, the former federal judge who was impeached and removed by a Democrat Congress back in 1988 for bribery and perjury.

But of course the Dems are nevertheless the natural choice of "values voters," who should be turned off by the Republican "culture of corruption."

***Here's some fresh ammo to hurl at the next president of the United States. You might even call it the "Clintocaust":

According to an astonishing new investigative report...Bill Clinton had cut a deal with the manufacturer of the abortion drug, RU-486 before he had even assumed the Oval Office.

A document search uncovered a letter in the Clinton archives advising him to "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country," as a first step toward the Clinton 'miracle economy.'

The first step toward the 'elimination' of this potential economic drain was to kill them off using RU-486, a drug that the FDA had previously banned as 'too dangerous'. (RU-486 is a drug that causes a spontaneous abortion. It also can kill the woman who takes it.)

Judicial Watch released its report under the title, "The Clinton RU-486 Files." Using documents it obtained last February at the Clinton Presidential Library, Judicial Watch found that Bill Clinton's FIRST OFFICIAL ACT was to order the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and the FDA to coordinate the marketing of RU-486.

Judicial Watch also revealed this chilling bit of correspondence from Ron Weddington, whose attorney wife worked for Roe in Roe v. Wade.

In urging the legalization of RU-486, Ron Weddington wrote in a January 6, 1992, letter to Clinton. "Something's got to be done very quickly. Twenty-six million food stamp recipients [are] more than the economy can stand." The "president-to-be" should "start immediately to eliminate the barely educated, unhealthy and poor segment of the country," Weddington added. "Our survival depends upon our developing a population where everyone contributes," he wrote. "We don't need more cannon fodder. We don't need more parishioners. We don't need more cheap labor. We don't need more babies."

Further, "Weddington's ravings were not relegated to a file for unsolicited constituent correspondence," the Judicial Watch report notes.

"On the contrary, the Weddington letter is, chronologically and philosophically, the foundation document for the Clinton RU-486 files."

None of this is any news flash to us old-hand Clintophobes. But it is something about which Mrs. Clinton should be pressed at every opportunity to maximize the chances of portraying an accurate portrait of what this woman truly tands for before the 2008 ballots are cast.

***Cindy Sheehan, meanwhile - remember her? - thinks Hillary is a warmongering charter member of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy and needs to be "crippled." And she thinks that the Ameriphobe candidate "challenging" Mrs. Clinton - some asswipe named Jonathan Tasini - is just the man to do it, or beat her outright.

I guess Sheehan's is the face looking back out the looking glass at Hillary and Slow Joe Biden. Which would explain their evident tenuous grasp on reality.

***Senator Russ Feingold claims that Democrats cannot win in 2006 or 2008 "by default," but only be being as boldly Bolshevik as he is. Which suggests that Feingold is on Karl Rove's super-secret payroll as much as the "peace mom" is on Hillary's.

Feingold might want to get that memo to RFK, Jr., though, who is still stuck in the old smear mode vis-a-vie Ohio Secretary of State and aspiring Governor Ken Blackwell. Both approaches will produce the same dubious results. But on balance, watching candid libs go up in electoral flames is still the more entertaining.