Bill and Hillary Clinton want to extend their grip on the Executive 
Branch for four more years. I can give you 40 reasons to turn 
them down. In no particular order:

      1. Joycelyn Elders. 

      2. According to the General Accounting Office, ethics
         investigations of the Clintons and their aides are costing 
         taxpayers more than $1 million per month. 
 
      3. Eighty-six men, women, and children died in Waco, Texas,
         after FBI agents used grenade launchers to mount a CS gas
         attack on their compound. 

      4. ``100,000 more police on the streets.'' Seen them yet? 

      5. ``A tax cut for the middle class.'' Seen it yet? 

      6. Clinton went on national television and answered questions
         about his underwear. 
  
      7. The candidate: ``We're going to end welfare as we know
         it.'' The  president: Vetoed two welfare-reform bills before
         finally, reluctantly, signing a third. 

      8. His pet scheme - AmeriCorps - pays college-age
         ``volunteers'' more than $7 an hour. 

      9. Webster Hubbell. 

     10. ``Clinton's an unusually good liar. Unusually good. Do you 
         realize that?''
         - Democratic US SenBob Kerrey of Nebraska.  
         (Medal of Honor recipient)
         

     11. The candidate: ``I think President Bush played racial
         politics with the Haitian refugees. I wouldn't be shipping
         those poor people back.'' The president: ``The practice of
         returning those who fled Haiti by boat will continue.... Those 
         who do leave Haiti ... will be stopped and directly returned 
         by the US Coast Guard.'' 

     12. His ``Cabinet that looks like America'' contained 14 lawyers
         and 10 millionaires. 

     13. Hillary's 1,342-page health care ``reform'' would have  created 
         33 new federal agencies and 200 regional alliances, added $70 
         billion to the federal budget deficit - and taken away your right
         to choose your own doctor. 

     14. Terrorists at the White House I: Yasser Arafat. 

     15. Terrorists at the White House II: Gerry Adams. 

     16. George Bush was right: Clinton did turn the White House
         into the waffle house. 

     17. The candidate: ``[Bush] hasn't fought a real war on crime
         and drugs. I will.'' The president: Slashed the Office of
         National Drug Control Policy; teen-age drug use doubled from
         1992 to 1995. 

     18. First priority of his first week in office: gays in the military. 

     19. Hiked the tax on gasoline to its highest rate ever. 

     20. Shut down two of the four runways at Los Angeles International
         Airport so he could have his hair cut aboard Air Force One 
         by Cristophe of Beverly Hills. 

     21. Cristophe's going rate: $200 per haircut. 

     22. George Stephanopoulos' explanation: ``The president has to
         get his hair cut like everybody else.'' 

     23. Average per-capita federal tax burden, 1992: $4,153. 1996: 
         $5,225. Increase: 25.8 percent. 

     24. Craig Livingstone. 

     25. Clinton calls the Defense of Marriage Act ``gay baiting,
         pure and simple'' - and promises to sign it. 

     26. Midnight basketball: Your federal tax dollars at work. 

     27. Hillary's chats with Eleanor Roosevelt. 

     28. Clinton's 1996 budget proposal forecast $200-billion-plus 
         deficits for the next seven years. 

     29. ``North Korea cannot be allowed to develop a nuclear
         bomb'' - Clinton administration, November 1993. ``[North Korea]
         already has as  many as two nuclear bombs and is continuing
         to develop atomic weapons'' -Clinton administration, April 1994. 

     30. Sent Jimmy Carter to cut a deal with the North Koreans: We 
         agreed to give Pyongyang free oil, two free nuclear reactors,
         diplomatic ties, and increased trade - and Pyongyang agreed to 
         dismantle its bomb- making facilities in 10 years. 

     31. The Clinton tax increase on Social Security recipients hit
         5.5 million retirees. 

     32. At the first sign of controversy, he walked away from Zoe Baird. 

     33. And from Kimba Wood. 

     34. And from Lani Guinier. 

     35. He chose to celebrate the 50th anniversary of V-E Day in
         Moscow - Berlin's ally in invading Poland and starting 
         World War II. 

     36. ``The [Arkansas state] troopers said they were often
         called upon to act as intermediaries to arrange and conceal
         [Clinton's] extramarital encounters. They say they frequently
         picked up and delivered gifts from Clinton to various
         women, and often drove Clinton ... to meetings with women. `We
         were more than bodyguards. We had to lie, cheat and
         cover up for that man,' said Larry G. Patterson, a 26-year
         veteran state trooper'' - Los Angeles Times, Dec. 21, 1993. 

     37. Hazel O'Leary. 

     38. Key Clinton adviser on ``family values'': Dick Morris. 

     39. The candidate: ``We should not reward China with improved
         trade status when it has ... failed to make sufficient progress
         on human rights since the Tiananmen Square massacre.'' The 
         president: ``I am moving, therefore, to delink human rights
         from the annual extension of most-favored-nation trading status.'' 

     40. Clinton argued in court that Paula Jones' sexual harassment 
         lawsuit should be postponed until he leaves office because 
         he is on ``active duty'' as commander in chief. 

There. Forty reasons to turn out the Clintons, and I didn't even get to Warren Christopher. Did I omit your favorite grounds for chanting ``No More Years''? Just them to me in care of The Boston Globe (jacoby@globe.com or Box 2378, Boston, MA 02107). I'll supply another Top 40 list before the election.

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