9.30.2006

Memories of the Past


On September 30th in 1938, the infamous 'Munich Pact' was signed.

England and France quickly surrendered to Hitler's demands, and the Munich Pact was signed Sept. 30 (but dated Sept. 29). It permitted immediate occupation by Germany of the Sudetenland, but also provided for plebiscites, which were never carried out.

France and Britain guaranteed the new Czechoslovak boundaries. When Chamberlain arrived in London, he announced that he had secured "peace in our time"...

The Munich Pact became a symbol of appeasement and shook the confidence of Eastern Europeans in the good faith of the Western democracies. World War II began about one year after its signing.


* RIP
"On this day in 1955, Actor James Dean was killed in a car accident at the age of 24 near Cholame, CA..."

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More Good News...


Among its final tasks before leaving to campaign, the Senate on Friday night passed and sent to President Bush a bill authorizing 700 new miles of fencing on the southern border...

The fence bill was passed by the House two weeks ago. The Senate vote on it Friday night was 80-19.

In addition to money for starting work on the fence, a homeland security bill passed Friday by the House and later by the Senate includes $380 million to hire 1,500 more Border Patrol agents and money to build detention facilities to hold 6,700 more illegal immigrants until they can be deported.

"We have made giant steps in terms of our ability to control illegal immigration," House Majority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, told reporters.


UPDATE: Democrats have another idea...
"Ritter Plea Bargins Illegals To Avoid Deportation."

Another Concerning Democrat Candidate

Minnesota candidate Keith Ellison is a vivid example of the Liberal Democrat embrace of the misguided extreme.

The mighty Powerline...
"The documents posted above nevertheless by themselves establish that 1) Ellison’s involvement with the Nation of Islam exceeded any 18-month period, 2) Ellison's involvement with the Nation of Islam extended far beyond the promotion of the Million Man March, and 3) that Ellison himself, far from being ignorant of the Nation of Islam’s anti-Semitism, actively supported it."

The Captain writes:
"Ellison has lied and continues to lie about his ties to the Nation of Islam. At one point, he proposed having Farrakhan's organization patrol the streets of Minneapolis in place of the police, and this wasn't during his days as a U of M law student -- it was during his political career. Ellison's lies should concern voters in the Fifth Congressional District, and have them consider their alternatives to Ellison's radicalism."

More Slander from Kos Fans

The Party of Denial Exposed Again

9.29.2006

The Path To 9-11

The Enemy Uses Liberal Diatribe

Murtha Caught On Tape

The mighty AARON at Lifelike Pundits has posted a concerning video with John Murtha from long ago...

The original item can be found at the American Spectator:
Murtha and the FBI: The Director's Cut
By David Holman

For more than 26 years, Congressman John P. "Jack" Murtha (D-Penn.) has not been truthful about his involvement in Abscam, court records and the complete video of his meeting with the FBI show..

Murtha has repeatedly maintained his innocence in the Abscam sting operation, even as recently as this year. However, his November 20, 1980 testimony in the trial of Congressmen Frank Thompson (D-N.J.) and John Murphy (D-N.Y.) and the FBI's complete undercover video of his January 7, 1980 meeting with its agent and informant reveal a man showcasing his political influence and apparently tempted to take a $50,000 bribe. On the tape, Murtha appears eager to arrange his own, long-term deal with the supposed representatives of Arab sheiks, and to cut out Thompson and Murphy.

His testimony reveals that after his January 7 meeting, he looked into helping the sheiks enter the country, rather than contacting the FBI or the Ethics Committee, of which he was a member. Through the years, Murtha has maintained that he only met with the FBI agents to discuss investments in his district. His testimony, the video, and the cases of other congressmen snared in Abscam suggest that "investments in the district" was a common Abscam defense for those accused of bribery.

The Big Picture

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash.htm
The Iranian government is behind shipping components used to make improvised explosive devices to Iraqi insurgents, a senior intelligence official in Iraq said yesterday.

Labels on weapons stocks seized inside and outside Iraq point to Iranian government complicity in arming Shiite militias in Iraq, Army Maj. Gen. Richard Zahner, the deputy chief of staff for intelligence with Multinational Force Iraq, said at a news roundtable.

U.S. officials have said in the past that Iran is fomenting instability in Iraq. In August, Army Brig. Gen. Michael Barbero said that the Iranian government is training many members of the Shiite insurgency in Iraq. Barbero is the deputy operations chief on the Joint Staff.

“Iran is definitely a destabilizing force in Iraq,” Barbero said during an Aug. 23 Pentagon news conference. “I think it's irrefutable that Iran is responsible for training, funding and equipping some of these Shiia extremist groups and also providing advanced (improvised explosive device) technology to them, and there's clear evidence of that.”


And Democrats want to 'run away' from Iraq?

The Cult of Immigration


'Schwarzenegger: No Driver's Licenses for Illegals'

"For the second time in two years, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to get driver's licenses."


The Democrat Party seems to advocate for illegal immigration and the complete removal of all borders.

John Kerry's 'global test', is a vivid symbol for the mindless Liberal advocation of the global community, without regard to the concerning convictions, practices, beliefs, systems, foreign to the fine USA.

Even with the Democrat Partisan folly, immigration remains a complex emotional issue, which has been negligected in this Country for decades.

But slowly, with the admirable efforts of some many fine US Citizens, and serious Conservative Republicans, the problems are improving:
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (Army News Service, Sept. 21, 2006) – The Department of Homeland Security has seen a drop in the number of illegal immigrants crossing the U.S. border with Mexico for the first time, and the National Guard has made the difference.

So said Michael Chertoff, secretary of that department, during the 128th General Conference of the National Guard Association of the United States Sept. 18.

"For the first time, we are seeing a reduction in the flow of illegal immigrants," Chertoff said. "This is the first real … sign we’ve had of success since we began this effort. It could not be done without the National Guard."


The foolish policy of 'catch and release' is finally being ended...
WASHINGTON — Nearly all non-Mexican illegal immigrants caught sneaking into the United States are being held until they can be returned to their home countries, the Bush administration said Wednesday.

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff said this marks the end of the so-called "catch-and-release" policy that for years helped illegal immigrants remain in the United States unhindered.

The new policy, dubbed "catch-and-detain" generally does not apply to Mexicans who are almost immediately returned to Mexico after being stopped by Border Patrol agents.

"Although we're not ready to declare victory — we've got a lot more work to do — it is encouraging and it is something that ought to inspire us to continue to push forward," Chertoff told reporters in Washington.

(* Note: a fine associate suggested this is inaccurate. However, one must distinguish between the change in 'policy', as opposed to proper implementation, which remains the difficulty with a large bureaucracy).

Meanwhile, some strong Republicans in Congress are fighting for increased Security measures...
WASHINGTON — The House voted for the second time in a year to erect a fence along a third of the U.S.-Mexican border, part of a Republican effort to keep illegal immigration an issue before voters.

A new 700 miles of double-layered fencing won approval on a 283-138 vote, a bigger margin than last December when the House passed it as part of a broader bill that also would have made being an illegal immigrant a felony. The nearly 2,000-mile border now has about 75 miles of fencing.


Certainly, this Nation's immigration control is far from perfection. But to empower the Democrat Liberal Partisans would be a disaster.


"Show me a 50-foot wall and I'll show you a 51-foot ladder..." declared Democrat Janet Napolitano.

Voting to rebuke the Democrat Party, and encouraging the Republican Majority to remain firm, is essential.

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Thank You Mr. President

Comedic Relief For Friday

9.28.2006

The Comedian Named Edward

"There is no question that the rush to pass this bill - which is the product of secret negotiations with the White House - is about serving a political agenda," said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass.

Mr. Kennedy is upset about another victory for President GW Bush and our Country in the GWOT, with the passage of a Detainee Interrogation Bill.

Bill Clinton made a similar baseless accusation as well. Suggesting Republicans are not motiviated by serious conviction, but are engaged in pure political manipulation. The husband of Hillary Rodham, attempted to brand the genuine advocation for the firm defense of this fine Nation, as merely being 'scare' tactics.

There is nothing more amusing these days, than the Liberal obsession with sanctimony.

Could they be engaged in the art of 'Projection'?
"The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt."
Regarless of the motive, this poster is truly thankful for the Republican Majority in the House and Senate, and this fine President...

"We are not conducting a law enforcement operation against a check-writing scam or trying to foil a bank heist," said Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. "We are at war against extremists who want to kill our citizens."

The mighty Captain...
"In the end, though, only a third of the Senate stood with the Democratic Party's leadership. That should give Democrats some pause about the direction their party has taken since 9/11, and perhaps voters should consider this as well."

Terrorists In Iraq?

"He (the leader of al-Qaida in Iraq) also said that more than 4,000 foreign insurgent fighters have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003."

Wait a minute...

Aren't Democrats claiming Iraq has no relation to the GWOT?

Iraq has al Qaeda?

Radical Muslim Terrorism is in Iraq?

Why We Fight

No Guts No Glory

A Rogues’ Gallery

9.27.2006

The Terrorists Best Friend

"Will my Democrat friends work with Republicans to give the President the tools he needs to continue to stop terrorist attacks before they happen, or will they vote to force him to fight the terrorists with one arm tied behind his back?"

The answer to Republican House Majority Leader John Boehner's question was "no"...

It seems the Democrats would rather have the authority to interrogate and prosecute President Bush.

Liberal Democrat Dennis Kucinich said, "This bill is everything we don't believe in..."

160 Democrats voted against giving the President, and the mighty USA, the authority to interrogate and prosecute terrorism detainees.

Will UBL be sending an appropriate thank you soon?

UPDATE: the mighty Mr. Hewitt...
"The Democratic Party is not serious about this war, and in collapse generally on matters of national security. Thus any vote for any Congressional Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability."

THE OLD SONG AND DANCE


"Apparently referring to the August 6, 2001 presidential daily briefing, which was entitled "bin Ladin Determined to Strike in US," Senator Clinton suggested that her husband did not receive the same type of warnings that President Bush did.

In fact, President Clinton signed a similar classified document--which contained an explicit warning from the U.S. Intelligence Community that bin Laden intended to strike inside the United States, more than two years prior to leaving office. And the U.S. intelligence community collected numerous pieces of intelligence concerning bin Laden's determination to strike inside the United States during President Clinton's tenure. In addition to the failed plot against the World Trade Center in 1993 and the failed al Qaeda plot against LAX airport in 1999, there were clear indications that bin Laden's terror empire intended to strike targets in the continental United States."


WARNING SIGNS
Hillary Clinton attempts to rewrite history.
by Thomas Joscelyn

Associated Partisan

Jennifer Loven could use a long vacation...

The mighty LGF posts about the "AP Democratic Operative"

The famous Powerline notes the responses of two fine Presidents...
PRESIDENT KARZAI: Ma'am, before I go to remarks by my brother, President Musharraf, terrorism was hurting us way before Iraq or September 11th. The President mentioned some examples of it. These extremist forces were killing people in Afghanistan and around for years, closing schools, burning mosques, killing children, uprooting vineyards, with vine trees, grapes hanging on them, forcing populations to poverty and misery.

They came to America on September 11th, but they were attacking you before September 11th in other parts of the world. We are a witness in Afghanistan to what they are and how they can hurt. You are a witness in New York. Do you forget people jumping off the 80th floor or 70th floor when the planes hit them? Can you imagine what it will be for a man or a woman to jump off that high? Who did that? And where are they now? And how do we fight them, how do we get rid of them, other than going after them? Should we wait for them to come and kill us again? That's why we need more action around the world, in Afghanistan and elsewhere, to get them defeated -- extremism, their allies, terrorists and the like.


But they also note, Ms. Loven's adventure continues:
Ms. Loven lost no time, once the report was made available, in continuing her attack on the Administration in the guise of news reporting...

It remains one of the problems this Country is confronted with, the intentional misrepresentation of information, by the Nation's Larger Media Establishments.

Everyone understands mistakes, even possessing a poor perception, but the unethical manipulation of the facts by Liberal Partisans in the Press, is quite dangerous for all Americans.

How Low Can They Go?

Betting Against The USA

9.26.2006

NOTHING BUT BLUSTER

"...the bullying posture he adopted, did more to delineate the true WJC character (or lack thereof) than anything he could have said."

Ms. Miller is outstanding.

The various temper tantrums of Bill and Hillary Clinton, were well hidden from the American Public...

The fascinating article of Mr. Sperry, "The Hidden Anger Of Bill Clinton" is not to be missed.

"I'll never forget the maniacal look in his bloodshot eyes. There was a moment, fleeting, where I sensed he wanted to try to take a swipe at me. His volcanic temper, hidden so well from the public by his handlers, erupted less than 12 inches from my eyes."

Did Bill threaten Sandy Berger so intensely, he was scared into stuffing classified documents down his pants?

The Laughter Continues

Clarke was even more damning in his earlier remarks, exposing Clinton's claim that at least he tried to get Osama bin Laden and did more to fight al-Qaida than Bush did in the eight months before 9/11. Clarke noted the Bush team in 2001 "changed the (Clinton) strategy from one of rollback (of) al-Qaida over five years to a new strategy that called for the rapid elimination of al-Qaida."

Clarke said Bush boosted "CIA resources . . . for covert action fivefold to go after al-Qaida." A 1999 Clarke memo, one that Clinton national security adviser Sandy Berger stole from the National Archives, identified Clinton-era national security weaknesses so "glaring," Clarke said, that only sheer "luck" prevented a major attack on his watch.

On Page 223 of Clarke's book, "Against All Enemies," he describes a meeting after al-Qaida's attack on the USS Cole. Clinton in the meeting said neither the CIA nor the FBI would verify al-Qaida's responsibility for the attack. Clarke quotes Mike Sheehan, a State Department official, as saying in frustration: "What's it going to take, Dick? Who the s--t do they think attacked the Cole, f----n' Martians?" Then Sheehan said ironically, "Does al-Qaida have to attack the Pentagon to get their attention?" As it turns out, that was the case.

The Gray Lady Misleads Again

'The Times' reporters and editors that ran Sunday's stories were either chumps who got played by anti-Bush leakers, or purposefully deceptive agenda journalists from the anti-Bush fanatics division.'

Dick Durbin, Jane Harman, Rahm Emanuel, Harry Reid, etc., all carried the misrepresentation to the American Public, and the rest of the world.

Not surprising, the factual basis of this hyped 'classified' report, actually supports Bush Administration Policy.

Will these Liberal Partisans now apologize?

Can we expect a retraction from the 'drive by' Media, (* including the BBC) who promoted this distortion?

Will Democrats end their sad effort to undermine the Free Democracy growing in Iraq?

The mighty Mr. Hewitt has more...
"The Democratic Party and its agenda journalist allies are campaigning for retreat from Iraq, a retreat that would be a decisive victory for the jihadists. Thus any vote for any Congressional Democrat is a vote against victory and a vote for vulnerability.

And that is the conclusion supported by the NIE, touted just 48 hours ago by the left as the key document of this political season."

The Liberal Denial Grows


With the desperate help of the L-MSM, the Party of Delusion has decided to embrace the Clinton Denial even further.

Which has produced sincere Liberal Losses since 1992...

Ironically, Hillary Rodham Clinton is defending her angry Hubby, (no surprise), after he just debased her decision to vote, endorse, approve, authorize the Operation Iraqi Freedom.

"If they want to talk about Iraq, say what they really want about Iraq..."

Do you mean oil Mr. Clinton? Are you too cowardly, to bluntly make the Code Pinky charge of 'no war for oil' ? Where is your Halliburton Bill? Intern got your tongue?

Hillary was 2nd IN COMMAND of what she now oddly calls 'his administration'. And 'no', sorry Ms. Rodham, even the silly 9-11 Commission indicated you were inept, weak, misguided, (actually negligent), facing the rise of Radical Muslim Militancy.

"We were not left a comprehensive strategy to fight al Qaeda," Secretary of State Condi Rice.

This has sincere political importance, in this poster's humble opinion, because Democrats are advocating a return to the folly of the 1990's.

Perhaps, some misguided internal polling, mistakenly led the Liberal Partisans into believing Bill's ugly reputation is now attractive. Maybe this is simply desperation...

However, Democrat campaign messages, attempting to 'Blame Bush' again, and diminish the serious threat of Radical Islamic Terrorism, are now coupled with a renewed embrace of the unethical Clinton past.

Do they ever offer something constructive?

For example, Bill's appearance for Claire "George Bush let people die on rooftops in New Orleans because they were poor and because they were black" McCaskill in St. Louis:

"They could give their crowd shovelfuls of money, as long as they kept America scared," Clinton said. "They think government for special interests is good."

Do they realize, Bill Clinton couldn't even save Joe Lieberman?

Maybe, after declaring the need for tax increases, they can advocate to 'kill' the Patriot Act, and ask Bill Clinton to run for President again...

The impressive IAN of HOT AIR: “my husband did a great job”

IAN also posted Hillary's Husband waving the finger at the late Peter Jennings: 'Clinton Points Finger At Jennings'

(* Note Bill saying he never disgraced this Country publicly? He never let the American People down? Never lied about his job? Who are 'you people' Mr. Clinton?)

*** BIG UPDATE:
Many of this posters favorite Conservative Pundits, Bloggers, etc., feel the need to show their moral decency, and rise above the debate about the past.

The mighty Captain will reference the Clinton Issue as useless:
The Washington Post Fact-Checks A Useless Debate

Mr. Morrissey is indeed one of the finest...
(Knowing the Captain, and his outstanding
record, he is most likely correct again).

But this poster humbly believes our history, is essential to determining policy, focus, resolve, for our future. Even those ugly partisan confrontations. There is little doubt, the negligence of the 1990's failed to address the growing threats we face today.

The current Democrat Party is advocating a return to that past. These Liberals are now using the Clinton Administration as an advertisement for their agenda (exhibited above), aided by their supporters in the MSM.

Sadly, the Democrat Partisans believe in ending the needed Patriot Act, stopping surveillance of Terrorists, abandoning a growing Democracy in Iraq, appeasing Despots who support terrorism, etc...

In fact, the modern DNC, has displayed endless efforts to undermine our fight and weaken our resolve in the GWOT for their own personal political gain, which ultimately threatens our Security.

The issue is clear, do we return to the days of denial, represented and advocated by William J. Clinton and the Democrat Partisans, or do we continue to fight on, with the policy of the current Administration?

The Democrats, including Bill Clinton, have made this the primary debate, and this poster would gladly welcome a different one. Who wouldn't want a more constructive discussion? But the Liberal Partisans are not interested, or capable, of this more admirable direction. They are still slandering the rationale, for using force to remove a monster named Saddam, even when they voted for it.

This poster firmly believes in the aggressive rebuke of terrorists. Even advocated for a greater confrontation of the Islamic Community to confront the insane, oppressive, violence being fostered within their ranks.

How can I not have the same conviction at home in the domestic arena? We must strongly oppose any unethical effort to slander those serving our political interest, especially when it weakens the security of the American Public.

If the Clinton Negligence were more vigirously challenged in our past, we may have been more prepared to deal with the threats we face today. Thus, aggressively opposing the same corrupt offerings presented now, can aid Our Nation for the future.

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More Clinton Comedy

The Clinton Deceit

MYTH: President Clinton Said No One Knew Of Al Qaeda In 1993:

Former President Bill Clinton: "[No one] even knew Al Qaeda was a growing concern in October of '93." (Fox News' "Fox News Sunday," 9/24/06)

FACT: Osama Bin Laden And Al Qaeda Were Well Known By The Time Clinton Was Inaugurated:

Richard Miniter, Author Of Losing Bin Laden: "One of the big myths about the Clinton years is that no one knew about bin Laden until Sept. 11, 2001." ("Clinton's Loss," National Review Online, 9/11/03)

* Miniter: "In fact, the bin Laden threat was recognized at the highest levels of the Clinton administration as early as 1993. What's more, bin Laden's attacks kept escalating throughout the Clinton administration; all told bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of 59 Americans on Clinton's watch." ("Clinton's Loss," National Review Online, 9/11/03)

* Miniter: "President Clinton learned about bin Laden within months of being sworn into office. National Security Advisor Anthony Lake told me that he first heard the name Osama bin Laden in 1993 in relation to the World Trade Center attack. Lake briefed the president about bin Laden that same year." ("Clinton's Loss," National Review Online, 9/11/03)

* Miniter: "In addition, starting in 1993, Rep. Bill McCollum (R., Fla.) repeatedly wrote to President Clinton and warned him and other administration officials about bin Laden and other Islamic terrorists. McCollum was the founder and chairman of the House Taskforce on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare and had developed a wealth of contacts among the mujihedeen in Afghanistan. Those sources, who regularly visited McCollum, informed him about bin Laden's training camps and evil ambitions." ("Clinton's Loss," National Review Online, 9/11/03)

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The Laughter Continues

THE MIGHTY EIB

PATHETIC

9.25.2006

Sanctioned Bribery In New Jersey

The Democrat disaster exposed in the Garden State...
It's "not inconceivable" that the gay former gov's confessions about New Jersey's notorious "pay-to-play" politics and his ties to a parade of corrupt power players could get him criminally prosecuted, a corruption expert told The Post.

"If I were in McGreevey's shoes, I wouldn't have written a book saying that everybody, including me, knew that there was deal-making going on - it's almost taunting the government," said Ed Stier, a former federal and New Jersey state prosecutor, who also headed the state's Department of Criminal Justice before going into private practice. "McGreevey's book may inadvertently supply enough information - or enough leads - to suggest that an already-closed investigation be reopened or expanded."

In the book, "The Confession," McGreevey describes political patronage as "the coin of the realm" in New Jersey, a "form of sanctioned bribery."

"I made [a] decision [to] let others cut deals on my behalf," he divulges, citing land deals and board appointments to the Port Authority, the state Sports Authority and the New Jersey Economic Development Authority as examples of sought-after paybacks.

We Are All Laughing About It

The mighty SISU:
'The rising tide of Islamist fascism swelled during their time at the helm, and now Bubba wants it to just all go away and let his "legacy" rise to the skies even as his successor gets mired in the post-9/11 quagmire that is his true legacy, but the blogosphere ain't gonna let it happen.'

Ms. Willis is absolutely correct as usual...

For instance, HOT AIR is on fire:
Slick Willy's Day Of Rage

Mr. Drudge is curious about the slurring?
'You Do Not Touch the Interviewer'

The impressive Mr. Barnett: 'Damn Right He Wagged the Dog'
"If only Clinton would have flashed as much temper in Osama bin Laden’s direction as he did at Chris Wallace. If he did, then he wouldn’t probably be so angry as he watches his putative legacy swirl down history’s drain."


The vital Tigerhawk writes...
"I wouldn't want more people reading Clarke's book if I were Clinton."

* Fox News must be thrilled:
"FNS" drew its best ratings in nearly three years for this weekend's electric confrontation between former President Clinton and newsman Chris Wallace.

Liberals Attack Ms. Coulter

9.24.2006

Worse Than Imagined


Did Bill Clinton just drop his pants again?

The Political Pitbull has the video of the entire pitiful performance.

* The mighty Mr. Hewitt is not to be missed regarding this implosion:
"What is astonishing is that in the five years since 9/11, the Democratic Party and the nation's media has become even more feckless about the threat from Islamist terror than Bill Clinton was - and remains."

This was once a sitting US President. Tonight's juvenile display was another ugly embarrassment for all Americans.

Sadlly, visions of Bill Clinton mistreating various 'victims' in the past, slowly entered this poster's mind.

At one point, it seemed as if this vicious, unethical fool, was going to ask Mr. Wallace to 'kiss it' or to 'put some ice on it'.

Simply pathetic...

Again, having Americans reminded of the Clinton Negligence, is a sincere problem for Democrats this close to November.

On the other hand, the MSM should listen to the concerns of viewers, and begin to ask the serious questions the American Public desires. Congratulations to Mr. Wallace and Fox News for empowering their audience for this exchange. Another cushy opportunity for a corrupt politician, to promote his agenda, turned into journalism.

Besides, the ratings boom for Fox News Sunday must be enormous. Perhaps other Media Outlets, may begin to ask Hillary and Bill some real questions as well. Will Katie someday ask Hillary, why the Clintons lied about the Genocide in Rwanda, for a ratings boost?

UPDATE: * Hot Air has an impressive Roundup...

Including comments by Mr. Wallace:
"The President was clearly stung by any suggestion that he had not done everything he could to get bin Laden. He attacked right-wingers, accused me of a “conservative hit job” - and even spun a theory I still don’t understand that somehow Fox was trying to cover up the fact that NewsCorp. chief Rupert Murdoch was supporting his Global Initiative. I still have no idea what set him off.

Former President Clinton is a very big man. As he leaned forward - wagging his finger in my face - and then poking the notes I was holding - I felt as if a mountain was coming down in front of me."


More fun...
"#1 Reason Conservatives Ridiculed Clinton:
Because he was "too obsessed" with catching bin Ladin.

Uh-huh."


OH, BY THE WAY...
While on MTP, Bill claims deceit will improve the USA's image:
"And the bigger you are and the wealthier you are and the more traditional power that you have, the more you have to be sensitive to how you’re perceived by other people, the more you at least have to WANT to have people THINK that even if you don’t agree with them, you’re KIND of on their side."

The ANCHORESS is reminiscent:
'Bill Clinton’s Captive Heart - Bill Clinton’s Captive Heart'

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Helping Hamas

THE GRAY LEAKY

"The New York Times' characterization of the NIE is not representative of the complete document," said White House spokesman Peter Watkins.

He declined to comment on information contained in the classified document.

U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte said news reports on the NIE characterize "only a small handful" of the conclusions from a broad strategic assessment of global terrorism.

"The conclusions of the intelligence community are designed to be comprehensive and viewing them through the narrow prism of a fraction of judgments distorts the broad framework they create," Negroponte said in a statement.

Negroponte said the analysis found that if the U.S. effort to establish a stable government in Iraq succeeded, jihadists would be weakened and "fewer jihadists will leave Iraq determined to carry on the fight elsewhere."

Run Hillary Run

Today, many will focus upon the demented anger of Bill Clinton, trying to answer questions about his negligent past.

The vivid reminder of this inept, weak, corrupt existence is a devastating adverstisement for the current Liberal Democrat campaign for November.

The mighty Powerline writes, Bill hurts Ms. Rodham as well...
"Hillary Clinton will never be President. She is too widely disliked to be elected, and too well known for that to change. Plus, when voters focus on the weirdness of putting Bill Clinton back in the White House, she would lose more ground still."

It seems Hillary Rodham has a very poor reputation with Americans:
Poll brings pain for Democrats
"This survey is a further measure of just how unelectable Clinton may be. She loses Iowa, albeit by tiny margins, to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, two relatively unknown guys who lose the state to Democrats Vilsack, Kerry and Edwards. Among all Iowa voters, Clinton is viewed unfavorably by a whopping 49 percent of the electorate. Only 43 percent see her in a favorable light, and 8 percent aren't sure."


But, Ms. Rodham's ugly reputation, should be no surprise...

Leaky Democrat Talking Points


"...'says that the Iraq war has made the overall terrorism problem worse,' said one American intelligence official."

Who said this?
Another close associate of Joe Wilson?
Is this another delusion of reason?
Was a friend of Mary 'Loose Lips' involved?

Yes, it seems Democrats have embraced the Liberal obsession, hoping to 'blame' President Bush again, in another desperate campaign effort.

The Democrat Election Strategy on full display. The pattern is familar. Once again, the NY Times begins slanting a leak of a probable classified report, in an attempt to sway public opinion. Isn't it ironic, the implication mimics the current expression of the Democrat Party?

This Poster noted before, many Democrats actually blame President Bush for Muslim Radical Militancy, with mindless, generic accusations of 'growing terrorism around the World'.

One has to question, the potential of this being another organized Liberal Partisan effort, to promote baseless rumor intending to undermine the current Administration. Espeically with the timing of the leak, so close to November.

Democrats used to say, terrorism is a 'nuisance'. Many Liberals claimed the Bush Administration plays the politics of fear, trying to scare the American Public with a threat that does not exist.

Remember what Michael Moore said after 9-11?
"There is no terrorist threat in this country. This is a lie. This is the biggest lie we've been told..."

But now, Liberal Partisans have adjusted their silly conjecture, suggesting the Bush Administration is building terrorism.

Sadly, these fools sound just like the enemies of the USA:
'Bashar blames Bush: US to blame for attack on its embassy'

The previous folly didn't work, nor will the latest...

Especially because, those Democrats who have schemed of further efforts to tarnish the admirable endeavor in Iraq, have forgotton they once intensely advocated for the Iraqi mission.

Will Democrats ever be constructive, instead of debasing?

UPDATE: The outstanding Captain...
"We had to conclude the Iraq war in order to fight radical Islamist terrorists. We could not afford to allow Saddam to escape the noose -- which our erstwhile allies on the Security Council tried through the corruption of the Oil-For-Food program -- and to have his miltary on our flank in the region. When the planes flew into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on 9/11, that truth finally dawned on Washington DC -- that the long quagmire in Iraq had seriously endangered the US in the region and beyond, and that we had to end the one war as a part of the new war that terrorist had thrust upon us.

To put it bluntly, fighting terrorists and upsetting their plans for regional domination will make them mad. Creating opportunities for liberalizing democratic structures to thrive in their back yard will give them enough resentment among Islamists to recruit more terrorists. If we don't already know that much, then we haven't paid much attention. When George Bush warned us that this would be a long war, this is exactly what he meant. The only way to win this war is to give the people in the region better options than Islamic totalitarianism, and a success in Iraq will go a long way towards that goal."

Billy Don't Be A Hero


The incredible News Busters has the transcript of the interesting interview with Bill Clinton. Apparently, Liberals are already mobilizing to discredit the taping before it airs.

The conversation is truly amusing. Bill remains a dishonest egotist.

WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED ANYHOW?

It seems Mr. Wallace's inspiration for the question, which caused Bill Clinton to lose his dreary temper, originated from the viewing public. Evidence, most Americans want serious questions asked, which are often ignored by the biased Media. Maybe, a reporter will someday ask Mr. Clinton, what Sandy Berger hid down his pants?

For Democrats, Bill's implosion poses a sincere problem. They have been using Bill to campaign for various Democrats for this Fall's election, (mostly to fundraise). Democrats seem to forget the Clinton impotency to influence anyone. The Clintons may drive more away, than they attract.

Having Americans reminded of the Clinton negligence from the past, failing to address serious threats prior to 9-11, enabling problems with inept weakness and appeasement, is a serious problem for Democrats with November looming.

The Democrat Partisans have been promoting a silly political message, the disastrous Clinton effort was better for Americans. As if the threat of Islamic Radical Terrorism could simply go away, if ignored, appeased, or embraced. Like John Kerry's effort in 2003, Liberal Democrats often advocate returning to the dangerous denial of the 1990's.

Some Democrats these days, actually blame President Bush for Muslim Radical Militancy, with generic accusations of 'growing terrorism around the World'. They have tried to obstruct essential measures, which have protected Americans from attack ever since 9-11. The Democrat Party has attempted to 'kill' the Patriot Act, close Gitmo, block interrogations and surveillance of terrorists, even undermine the admirable Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Now, Bill Clinton is personally offering an admonition, a sincere warning against this foolishness with his conceited presence.

UPDATE: First Impression? Worse than previously imagined...

The fascinating Ms. Malkin: 'HE DOTH PROTEST TOO MUCH'

Here is a sampling of the Clinton folly...
WALLACE: When we announced that you were going to be on fox news Sunday, I got a lot of email from viewers, and I got to say I was surprised most of them wanted me to ask you this question. Why didn’t you do more to put Bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business when you were President. There’s a new book out which I suspect you’ve read called the Looming Tower. And it talks about how the fact that when you pulled troops out of Somalia in 1993, Bin Laden said I have seen the frailty and the weakness and the cowardice of US troops. Then there was the bombing of the embassies in Africa and the attack on the USS Cole.

CLINTON: OK..

WALLACE: …may I just finish the question sir. And after the attack, the book says, Bin Laden separated his leaders because he expected an attack and there was no response. I understand that hindsight is 20 20.

CLINTON: No let’s talk about…

WALLACE: …but the question is why didn’t you do more, connect the dots and put them out of business?

CLINTON: OK, let’s talk about it. I will answer all of those things on the merits but I want to talk about the context of which this…arises. I’m being asked this on the FOX network…ABC just had a right wing conservative on the Path to 9/11 falsely claim that it was based on the 911 commission report with three things asserted against me that are directly contradicted by the 9/11 commission report. I think it’s very interesting that all the conservative Republicans who now say that I didn’t do enough, claimed that I was obsessed with Bin Laden. All of President Bush’s neocons claimed that I was too obsessed with finding Bin Laden when they didn’t have a single meeting about Bin Laden for the nine months after I left office. All the right wingers who now say that I didn’t do enough said that I did too much. Same people.

They were all trying to get me to withdraw from Somalia in 1993 the next day after we were involved in black hawk down and I refused to do it and stayed 6 months and had an orderly transfer to the UN.

Ok, now let’s look at all the criticisms: Black hawk down, Somalia. There is not a living soul in the world who thought that Bin laden had anything to do with black hawk down or was paying any attention to it or even knew al Qaeda was a growing concern in October of 1993.

WALLACE: …I understand…

CLINTON: No wait…no wait…Don’t tell me. You asked me why I didn’t do more to Bin Laden. There was not a living soul…all the people who criticized me wanted to leave the next day. You brought this up so you get an answer.

WALLACE: I’m perfectly happy to. Bin Laden says…

CLINTON: And secondly…

WALLACE: Bin Laden says…

CLINTON: Bin laden may have said that…

WALLACE: Bin Laden says it showed the weakness of the US…

CLINTON: It would have shown the weakness if we left right away but he wasn’t involved in that. That’s just a bunch of bull. That was about Mohammed Adid, a Muslim war lord murdering..thousands of Pakistani Muslim troops. We were all there on a humanitarian mission. We had not one mission — none — to establish a certain kind of Somali government or to keep anybody out. He was not a religious fanatic.

WALLACE: But Mr. President…

CLINTON: There was no Al Qaeda…

WALLACE: …with respect if I may. Instead of going through 93.

CLINTON: You asked you. It you brought it up.

WALLACE: May I ask a general question that you can answer. The 9/11 Commission, which you talk about, and this is what they did say, not what ABC pretended they said…

CLINTON: Wait, Wait…

WALLACE: …they said about you and 43 and I quote, “The US government took the threat seriously, not in the sense of mustering anything like that would be….to confront an enemy of the first, second or third rank”

CLINTON: That’s not true with us and Bin Laden…

WALLACE: …the 9/11 commission says…

CLINTON: Let’s look at what Richard Clarke says. You think Richard Clarke has a vigorous attitude about Bin Laden?

WALLACE: Yes I do

CLINTON: You do?

WALLACE: I think he has a variety of opinions and loyalties but yes.

CLINTON: He has a variety of opinion and loyalties now but let’s look at the facts. He worked for Ronald Regan. He was loyal to him. He worked for George Herbert Walker Bush and he was loyal to him. He worked for me and he was loyal to me. He worked for President Bush; he was loyal to him. They downgraded him and the terrorist operation. Now, look what he said, read his book and read his factual assertions — not opinions, assertions. He said we took vigorous action after the African embassies. We probably nearly got Bin Laden.

WALLACE: …

CLINTON: Now wait a minute…

WALLACE: ..cruise missiles..

CLINTON: I authorized the CIA to get groups together to try to kill him. The CIA was run by George Tenet who President Bush gave the medal of freedom to and said he did a good job.. The country never had a comprehensive anti terror operation until I came to office. If you can criticize me for one thing, you can criticize me for this, after the Cole I had battle plans drawn to go into Afghanistan, overthrow the Taliban, and launch a full scale attack search for Bin Laden. But we needed baseing rights in Uzbekistan which we got after 9/11. The CIA and the FBI refused to certify that Bin Laden was responsible while I was there. They refused to certify. So that meant I would have had to send a few hundred special forces in helicopters and refuel at night. Even the 9/11 Commission didn’t do that. Now the 9/11 Commission was a political document too. All I’m asking is if anybody wants to say I didn’t do enough, you read Richard Clarke’s book.

WALLACE: Do you think you did enough sir?

CLINTON: No, because I didn’t get him

WALLACE: Right…

CLINTON: But at least I tried. That’s the difference in me and some, including all the right wingers who are attacking me now. They ridiculed me for trying. They had eight months to try and they didn’t….. I tired. So I tried and failed. When I failed I left a comprehensive anti-terror strategy and the best guy in the country, Dick Clarke… So you did FOX’s bidding on this show. You did you nice little conservative hit job on me. But what I want to know..

WALLACE: Now wait a minute sir…

CLINTON:..

WALLACE: I asked a question. You don’t think that’s a legitimate question?

CLINTON: It was a perfectly legitimate question but I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked this question of. I want to know how many people in the Bush administration you asked why didn’t you do anything about the Cole. I want to know how many you asked why did you fire Dick Clarke. I want to know…

WALLACE: We asked..

CLINTON:..

WALLACE: Do you ever watch Fox News Sunday sir?

CLINTON: I don’t believe you ask them that.

WALLACE: We ask plenty of questions of…

CLINTON: You didn’t ask that did you? Tell the truth

WALLACE: About the USS Cole?

CLINTON: tell the truth.

WALLACE: I…with Iraq and Afghanistan there’s plenty of stuff to ask.

CLINTON: Did you ever ask that? You set this meeting up because you were going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers because Rupert Murdoch is going to get a lot of criticism from your viewers for supporting my work on Climate Change. And you came here under false pretenses and said that you’d spend half the time talking about…

WALLACE: [laughs]

CLINTON: You said you’d spend half the time talking about what we did out there to raise $7 billion dollars plus over three days from 215 different commitments. And you don’t care.

WALLACE: But President Clinton…

CLINTON:

WALLACE: We were going to ask half the question about it. I didn’t think this was going to set you off on such a tear .

CLINTON: It set me off on such a tear because you didn’t formulate it in an honest way and you people ask me questions you don’t ask the other side.

WALLACE: Sir that is not true…

CLINTON: …and Richard Clarke…

WALLACE: That is not true…

CLINTON: Richard Clarke made it clear in his testimony…

WALLACE: Would you like to talk about the Clinton Global Initiative?

CLINTON: No I want to finish this.

WALLACE: Alright

CLINTON: All I’m saying is you falsely accuse me of giving aid and comfort to Bin Laden because of what happened in Somalia. No one knew al Qaeda existed then…

WALLACE: Did they know in 1996 when he declared war on the US? Did no one know in 1998…

CLINTON: Absolutely they did

WALLACE: When they bombed the two embassies…

CLINTON:…

WALLACE: Or in 2000 when they hit the Cole.

CLINTON: What did I do? I worked hard to try and kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since. And if I were still president we’d have more than 20,000 troops there trying to kill him. Now I never criticized President Bush and I don’t think this is useful. But you know we do have a government that think Afghanistan is 1/7 as important as Iraq. And you ask me about terror and Al Qaeda with that sort of dismissive theme when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s book to look at what we did in a comprehensive systematic way to try to protect the country against terror. And you’ve got that little smirk on your face. It looks like you’re so clever…

WALLACE: [Laughs]

CLINTON: I had responsibility for trying to protect this country. I tried and I failed to get bin laden. I regret it but I did try. And I did everything I thought I responsibly could. The entire military was against sending special forces in to Afghanistan and refueling by helicopter and no one thought we could do it otherwise…We could not get the CIA and the FBI to certify that Al Qaeda was responsible while I was President. Until I left office. And yet I get asked about this all the time and they had three times as much time to get him as I did and no one ever asks them about this. I think that’s strange.

WALLACE: Can I ask you about the Clinton Global Initiative?

CLINTON: You can.

WALLACE: I always intended to sir.

CLINTON: No you intended to move your bones by doing this first. But I don’t mind people asking me. I actually talked o the 9/11 commission for four hours and I told them the mistakes I thought I made. And I urged them to make those mistakes public because I thought none of us had been perfect. But instead of anybody talking about those things. I always get these clever little political…where they ask me one sided questions… It always comes from one source. And so…

WALLACE:…

CLINTON: And so…

WALLACE: I just want to ask you about the Clinton Global Initiative but what’s the source? You seem upset?

CLINTON: I am upset because..

WALLACE: …and all I can say is I’m asking you in good faith because it’s on people’s minds sir. And I wasn’t…

CLINTON: There’s a reason it’s on people’s minds. That’s the point I’m trying to make. There’s a reason it’s on people’s minds because they’ve done a serious disinformation campaign to create that impression. This country only has one person who has worked…against terror…under Regan…only one, Richard Clarke. And all I’d say anybody who wonders whether we did wrong or right. Anybody who wants to see what everybody else did, read his book. The people on my political right who say I didn’t do enough spent the whole time I was president saying why is he so obsessed with Bin Laden. And that was wag the dog when he tried to kill him. My Republican sec of defense — and I think I’m the only person since World War II to have a Secretary of Defense from the opposite party — Richard Clarke, and all the intelligence people said that I ordered a vigorous attempt to get Osama Bin Laden and came closer apparently than anybody has since.

WALLACE: alright…

CLINTON: And you guys try to create the opposite impression when all you have to do is read Richard Clarke’s findings and you know it’s not true. It’s just not true. And all this business about Somalia — the same people who criticized me about Somalia were demanding I leave the next day. Same exact crowd..

WALLACE: one of the…

CLINTON: …So if you’re going to do this for gods sake follow the same standards for everybody.

WALLACE: I think we do sir

CLINTON: …be fair.

WALLACE: I think we do. One of the main parts of the global initiative this year is religious reconciliation. President Bush says that the fight against Islamic extremism is the central conflict of the century and his answer is promoting democracy and reform. Do you think he has that right?

CLINTON: Sure. To advocate democracy and reform in the Muslim world? Absolutely. I think the question is what’s the best way to do it. I think also the question is how do you educate people about democracy. Democracy is about way more than majority rule. Democracy is about minority rights, individual rights, restraints on power. And there’s more than one way to advance democracy but do I think on balance that in the end after several bouts of instability do I think it would be better if we had more freedom and democracy? Sure I do. …The president has a right to do it? Sure I do. But I don’t think that’s all we can do in the Muslim world. I think they have to see us try to get a just and righteous peace in the Middle East. They have to see us as willing to talk to people who see the world differently than we do.

WALLACE: Last year at this conference you got 2.5 billion in commitments, pledges, how did you do this year?

CLINTON: Well this year we had 7.3 billion as of this morning.

WALLACE: 7..excuse me…

CLINTON: 7.3 billion as of this morning. 3 billion of that is. That’s over a multi-year. These are at most 10 year commitments. That came from Richard Branson’s commitment to give all his transportation profits to clean energy investments. But still that’s over 4 billion. And we will have another 100 commitments and probably raise another billion dollars. We have a lot of commitments still in process.

WALLACE: When you look at the 3 billion from Branson plus billions that Gates is giving and Warren Buffet, what do you make of this age of philanthropy?

CLINTON: I think that for one thing really rich people have always given money away. They’ve endowed libraries and things like that. The unique thing about this age is first of all you have a lot of people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffet who are interested in issues around the world that grow out of the nature of the 21st century and its inequalities — the income inequalities, the education inequalities, the health care inequalities. You get a guy like Gates who built Microsoft and he actually believes that he can help overcome all of the health disparities in the world. That’s the first thing. Second thing…there are a lot of people with average incomes who are joining me because of the Internet. Take the tsuami for example we had 1.3 billion dollars given….by households. The third things you have all these NGO that you can partner with along with the government. So all these things together mean that people with real money in ways that help people that before would have been only the object of government grants and loans.

WALLACE: I know we’re over but can I ask you two political questions. Let’s talk some politics. In that same New Yorker article you say you’re tired of Karl Rove’s BS. I’ m cleaning up what you said.

CLINTON: I also say I’m not tired of Karl Rove. I don’t blame Karl Rove. If you’ve got a deal that works you just keep on doing it.

WALLACE: So what is the BS?

CLINTON: well every even number year right before an election they come up with some security issue. In 2000 right before the election …In 2002 our party supported them in undertaking weapon inspections in Iraq and were 100% behind them in Afghanistan and they didn’t have any way to make us look like we didn’t care about terror. And so they decided they would…the homeland security bill that they opposed and they put some pill in it that we wouldn’t pass like taking the job rights away from 170,000 people and then say that we were weak on terror if we weren’t for it… This year I think they wanted to make the question of prisoner treatment and intercepted communications the same sort of issue until John Warner came and Lindsey Graham got in there and it turns out there were some Republicans who believe in the constitution and their convictions…some ideas about how best to fight terror.

As long as the American people believe that we take this seriously and we may have our differences over Iraq but I think we’ll do fine this election. Even if they agree with us about the Iraq war we could be hurt by Karl Rove’s new foray if we don’t make it clear that we care about the security of this country. We want to implement the 9/11 commission recommendations which they haven’t in four years. We want to…Afghanistan against Bin Laden. We want to make America more energy independent. If they want to talk about Iraq say what they really want about Iraq.

But Rove is good and why I honor him…I’ve always been amused by how good he is. But on the other hand this is perfectly predictable. We’re going to win a lot of seats if the American people aren’t afraid. If they’re afraid and we get divided again then we’ll only win a few seats.

WALLACE: Do you think the White House and the Republicans want to make the American people afraid.

CLINTON: Of course they do. They want another homeland security bill and they want to make it not about Iraq but some other security issue. Where if we disagree with them we are by definition endangering the security of the country. And it’s a big load of huey. We’ve got 9 Iraq war veterans running for House Seats. President Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy is the democratic candidate for Senate in Virginia. A three star admiral who was on my NSC staff — who also fought terror by the way — is running for the seat of Kurt Weldon’s in Pennsylvania. We’ve got a huge military presence in this campaign and you can’t let them have some rhetorical device that puts us in a box that we don’t belong in. That’s their job. Their job is to beat us. But our job is to not let them get away with it and if we don’t we’ll be fine.

WALLACE: Mr. President thank you for one of the more unusual interviews.

Katie Plays The Game

Bill Lies Again?

While the Nutty Olbermann tries to protect the Slick, Bill Clinton slanders the Bush Administration with another whopper...
"But that's not the same thing as saying we want to abolish the Geneva Convention and practice torture as a matter of course. All it does is make our soldiers vulnerable to torture, make us more likely to get bad, not good information"

No one wanted to 'abolish' the Geneva Convention Mr. Clinton.
So desperate, it becomes humorous...

9.23.2006

Encouraging Hatred

Victor Davis Hanson is not to be missed:
"William Blum said he was pleased by bin Laden’s endorsement, but wouldn’t want the terrorist to call him. But why wouldn’t he, since both agree on the central evil of our times—and the need to address it?

And that’s the point: there is a hot-house plant feel to this shrillness, in which authors sell books, and filmmakers rake in profits, but their invective supposedly doesn’t really weaken the system enough to imperil them and their children. But for a terrorist to read from these American intellectuals that the United States is the greatest source of terror in the world is not to begin a “conversation,” but to embolden them even further to try ending American altogether.

Second, the hysteria of the hate Bush’s America industry has moved the entire critique of the United States far to the left—and now over the edge. Hugo Chavez’s performance trumped Khrushchev’s shoe-thumping, and was right up there with Hitler at Nuremberg. The Council on Foreign Relations welcomed in Ahmadinejad, who once again denied the Holocaust to their faces: would they have invited Pinochet to lecture them about the “lies” that any Chileans were killed, or a P.W. Botha to assure them apartheid was a vast exaggeration?

We live in an age not merely of award-winning films and mainstream novels depicting the assassination of President Bush, but of Venezuelan, Cuban, Iranian, and North Korean thugs relying on just this domestic industry of self-hate for their very message."

More Good News...

"...The leader of Ansar al Sunnah, Muntasir al-Jibouri, has been captured! This is big news. And unlike the bin Laden 'news', this one seems likely to be true.

We should be shouting for joy that the leader of Ansar al Sunnah has been captured. This should just as big as when we got Zarqawi. It is that important.

Ansar al Sunnah's organizational structure is not as well know as al Qaeda's. It appears, though, that al-Jibouri's voice can be heard on at least two hostage murder videos-and probably many many more (thanks to Mike for the reminder). Like Zarqawi, al Jibouri is said to have personally murdered many of Ansar al Sunna's victims.

For awhile, Abu Musab al Zarqawi and the terrorist bastards at Ansar al Sunna appeared to be in a pissing match over who could behead the most civilians. Just this month the group posted a gruesome video of the beheading of 3 Iraqis.

Who are Ansar al Sunna, you say? I don't blame you for not knowing, I blame the ignorant press. And the Democrats. The press because they speak of insurgents in Iraq, and not terrorists. And the Democrats because they speak as if any one who is not formally within al Qaeda is not a terrorist. Eg., Saddam did not support terrorists because there was no link to al Qaeda. Idiots.

Ansar al Sunnah is the second worst terrorist organization in Iraq. They are probably made up of the remnants of Ansar al Islam, and mostly operate in Iraq's North. They are also Kurds. Occasional they pull off an operation in Kurdistan, but the Peshmerga (Kurdish fighters, secularists) have effectively wiped them out. The Kurds know what to do with Islamist terrorists. They kill them."


The mighty Dr. Rusty Shackleford...

9.22.2006

Giggle Giggle

Undermining Our Democracy

"The California legislature has passed a bill to drastically change the way the president is elected – giving the state’s 55 electoral votes to the winner of the nationwide popular vote, regardless of the results within the state."

Liberal Democrats have made another official effort, to destroy the Democracy treasured in the wonderful USA.

Barbara Boxer is infamous for her baseless, pathetic challenge to the legitimate vote in November of 2004, inspired by a phone call from Michael Moore. For the 2nd Time in US History, a pitiful, self indulgent Democrat, tried to undermine Our mighty Democracy.

Liberals are losing elections, so they hope to change the rules...

This tiresome minority works to push their agenda upon us all, to force someone as malfeasant as Hillary Clinton into the White House. Whether it be illegal immigrants, felons, or the deceased voting, the Democrat Partisans could care less about the unethical means used, to empower their desperate agenda.

Now, they hope to wreck Our historic Electoral College, which wisely guarantees a voice for all Americans, in a Federal Election. Thus, keeping this tremendous Republic together, Our fine Nation unified.

This incredible Union which provided Civil Rights, Freedom of Religion, Freedom of Speech, Women's Liberty, Historic Opportunity, etc., is now threatened by the self serving negligence of a few...

Bill Lies Again...


Slick Willy...
“This deal with Iraq makes me want to throw up. I’m sick and tired of being told that if you voted for authorization, you voted for the war. It was a mistake, and I would have made it, too.”

Bill Clinton working on the pathetic Kerry Flop. But Mr. Slick simply has more talent, in the ugly practice with the art of deceit.

Yes, Mr. Clinton, if Hillary Rodham voted for the Joint Resolution, H.J.RES.114 - Title: To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq, she did vote to authorize the use of force in Iraq.

Selected Assessment on HRC:
Americans for Democratic Action rating (2005); 100 percent liberal.

"She’s a polarizing figure. Every Democrat that I talk to says something like this: ‘I like Hillary Clinton, but...'"

“The most divisive candidate in either party, polarizing the nation with her liberal image and cold persona. Bill Clinton is also a double-edged sword because people know he will be moving back into the White House - with less to do.”

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9.21.2006

Say No To CITGO


In Harlem today, Hugo the Communist was busy peddling his oppressive nightmare, offering more fixations with the devil.
"At one point Chavez told the crowd, "sometimes the devil takes human form," a comment that drew some boos-and applause-from the crowd who interpreted the reference to mean President Bush."

The despot from Venezuela is trying to manipulate the Liberal Delusion in the USA, with bribes for the masses from Citgo.
"...a series designed to boost the Venezuelan leader's popularity in the U.S., was organized by Citgo, a Houston-based energy company that is owned and controlled by the Venezuelan government"

Perhaps, Mr. Chavez has experienced some truly bad dreams lately. Dr. Freud may have enjoyed diagnosing this demagogue. Is guilt driving his dementia? Self destructive behavior is often equated with a low self-esteem, and this Marxist is playing with fire.

Could Hugo be insecure? Did Saddam's incarceration, give this autocrat something to worry about? Or maybe the tyrant from Venezuela was attracted to the death of Zarqawi? Does he find his own elimination desirable? Is Chavez longing for his own mortality? Did the fool sign treaties with 'brother' Iran, because of a death wish?


"More troubling, Chavez has openly flirted with a nuclear program. Last May, he expressed interest in opening negotiations with Iran on nuclear power. In February, the speaker of the Iranian parliament said Iran was open to cooperation with Venezuela.

Of course, Caracas - like Tehran - swears that despite the country being awash in oil and gas, a nuclear program is only for peaceful energy production.

Moreover, not only could Iran assist Venezuela with a nuclear program to keep the U.S. off balance in its own neighborhood, Tehran could also share its prodigious ballistic missile capability with Caracas, putting the U.S. within range.

Now, there is no need to be alarmist - not every country that has expressed aspirations for nuclear power is destined for the nuclear weapons club, but considering Chavez's anti-American bile (not unlike Iran's), it certainly should give us significant pause."


UPDATE: The mighty ANCHORESS again...
"If tinpot tyrants and madmen now come to the United Nations and believe they can say anything they wish about The American President, it is because - as some of us have been warning, for some time - while all manner or irresponsible nonsense and hate has been directed at this president…the world has been watching.

And now, these tyrants and madmen sound eerily like the Democrats and the press and the left. One ideology, the world over, had completely lost its bearings, its self-control and its manners concerning one man who has never - not once - repaid them back in kind. Not in speeches. Not to the press. Not to 'friendly audiences'. He came to town talking about “changing the tone,” and that’s what happened, in a perverse way. One side’s tone went rabid, the other side went nearly - silent, but this one man ... kept his tone."


More Fun: The amazing CAPTAIN: Citgo No Go?

The denial is growing: Daily Kos: Who's Pro-Chavez, You Idiot?
"This is rich. Markos 'Screw Them' Moulitsas is being contacted by media to explain the pro-Chavez sentiment at his own site - and Kos denies knowing anything about it..."


More amusement: the impressive Mr. Barnett of HH...
"Part of the reason he knows it’s bad politics is because the progressive blogosphere, which he putatively (but does not in actuality) lead, could not exercise any discipline when Chavez dangled red meat in front of it. Their knees jerked, and they wrote rubbish like how they preferred Chavez and Ahmadenijad to Bush. Any Americans paying attention would be appalled. More importantly, a lot of Americans who don’t really pay attention, i.e. the vast majority of the country, can’t help but notice that America’s enemies are insulting our nation on our soil. And they’re using the rhetoric of America’s left. In a crude equation, therefore, America’s left is the equivalent of America’s enemy."

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Desperate For Liberal Approval


'Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York rushed to donate the maximum amount to his campaign, and is planning a fund-raiser for him in early October.'

Run Hillary Run !

'Asked what kind of advantage Mrs. Clinton might gain from her association with him, Mr. Lamont replied, “I don’t know.”

“I mean, she’s Hillary Clinton and I’m a guy who was pulling fiber optic cable at Georgetown nine months ago,” he said, referring to his company, which installs cable on college campuses.

Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Lamont have not yet appeared publicly together-she invited him to her home in Chappaqua, N.Y., for a confab, but it was closed to the news media. He plans to be by her side at the fund-raiser in October in New York, but has not invited her-or any of the other 2008 hopefuls-to hit the campaign trail in Connecticut.'


Hillary voted and advocated for 'Operation Iraqi Freedom', the major objection Lamont is using to run againt Sen. Lieberman. It was a calculated position, to improve Ms. Rodham's extremely weak reputation on National Security.

Now, HIllary Rodham is quickly running away, trying to blur her voting record, following the infamous flopping of John Kerry.

Ironically, this was after her husband Bill, failed to save Senator Joe Lieberman from the Liberal Democrat base.

Will Hillary Clinton now assure the Party of Cindy Sheehan, she is an anti-American Pacifist, dedicated to the desires of Code Pink?

It remains clear, the unethical Clintons have only one conviction, to further themselves.

More Good News...

"The House voted Wednesday to require Americans to show proof of citizenship in order to vote, and the Senate moved to build a 700-mile fence along the Mexican border as Republicans sharpened attacks on illegal immigration before the midterm elections.

The 228-196 House vote on a new photo ID plan and the Senate's consideration of the fence were both part of a get-tough policy on illegal immigrants that Republicans have embraced after Congress' failure to agree on broader legislation that would set a path for undocumented workers to attain citizenship."


More fun here:
"A House panel on Wednesday first rejected but then approved the Bush administration's plan for prosecuting and interrogating high-value terror suspects while top Senate Republicans met with President Bush at the White House over a compromise plan for handling detainees."

Wasn't the MSM calling President Bush a lame duck?

Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee was truly entertaining,
diplaying her petty partisan disappointment...

More wild adventures in the House Judiciary Committee.

Providential President

Democrats Must Be Proud

'Was the conduct of Klobuchar's staff a federal crime, or was it only unethical?'

The Liberal Democrats working on the Amy Klobuchar Senate Campaign in Minnesota have some serious explaining to do...

Anger Management Time

9.20.2006

Making A Stand

"A cop I spoke to said there were about 35,000 people there which exceed the 15-20 thousand projected number. Two other groups were permitted to rally at Dag Hammerskold Plaza today, one being the Congo and the other a ‘pro middle east’ group [cop’s words]. He said only about 100 of the ‘pro middle east’ group showed up but they were NO WHERE to be seen.

Streets were closed off, police everywhere, limos, sirens, lights. There were so many at the rally that they had to close off 2nd Avenue and keep the crowd on the other side of the street because the Plaza was completely full. Elie Weisel spoke and so did John Bolton and the wife of kidnapped Israeli soldier, Ehud Goldwasser."


The amazing POWERLINE...
"One more note: God bless John Bolton."

UPDATE:
"Just the combination of speakers involved in the demonstration should have attracted a few headlines. How often will people see Alan Dershowitz and John Bolton on the same stage -- or for that matter, George Pataki and Dershowitz? That combination alone should have rated a mention at the Paper of Record, but a scan of their headlines this morning shows no interest at all."

Sticks and Stones Baby...


Chavez Calls Bush 'Devil' in Insult-Riddled Speech to U.N.

Did Cindy Sheehan help write this nonsense?
Or did Dick Durbin send Hugo a few lines?

Chavez is now giving a press conference: "the US empire is on the way down, and it will soon be finished for the good of all mankind."

Sadly, there are Liberal Democrats who love this dementia.

But this proud American, knows the mighty USA, will continue to provide freedom, opportunity, justice, security, and hope for this World, until the very end of time. While Hugo returns to the dust heap of history, providing food for worms.

One has to wonder, if the People of Venezuela are fully aware
of the self destructive insanity they have empowered.

The mighty ANCHORESS...
"THINKING folks on the left cannot be liking this right now. It’s not going to be much help for them, and it could seriously bite their asses in November. Even my left-of-center Li’l Bro Thom is saying, 'he’s nuts!' Why, yes, Thom. And Ahmadinejad, too."

UPDATE:
"When the leader of one sovereign nation uses the UN dais to issue thinly-veiled demands for the annihilation of another nation, and gets followed by a circus act that makes him look like a moderate, then we know that the inmates are running the Turtle Bay asylum. Yesterday, Chavez proved that all the UN is missing is enough straitjackets to go around."

The Lunacy Continues

Run Hillary Run !

9.19.2006

LEADERSHIP

The Liberal Democrat Party foolishly continues to enable the
sincere threats facing the Free World and the USA...

But thankfully, we have Leaders like Republican Nancy Johnson
of Connecticut
who is serious about Our Nation's Security.

* Please see Representative Johnson's impressive video:
'A National Security Ad' (Quicktime)

It's All About Bill And Hillary


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The mighty C&S has posted a video of Slick Willy's narcissism:
''I think I'll have to live a long time before I can do as much
good as the former President as I did as President.''


Like, when the Clintons lied about the Genocide in Rwanda?

Well, Bill and Hillary did pardon Marc Rich...
They brought Yasser to the White House...
And the Clintons raised taxation...

Sorry, I am looking for the 'good', but it is so hard to find.

Bill claims he can bring people together?
He could not even unify the Democrats in Connecticut,
to save Senator Joe Lieberman in the DNC Primary.

It was actually President Bush, who brought Mr. Slick and
Bush Sr. together, to raise funds for the Katrina Tragedy.

Did John Stewart forget this little aspect of reality?

The Laughter Continues

9.18.2006

A Golden Oldie

Just Another Nuisance?

Al-Qaida in Iraq and its allies warned Pope Benedict XVI on Monday that he and the West were "doomed" and proclaimed that the holy war would continue until Islam dominates the world.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella organization of Sunni Arab extremist groups that includes al-Qaida in Iraq, issued a statement on a Web forum about the pope's remarks last week on Islam. The authenticity of the statement could not be immediately independently verified.

"You infidels and despotic, we will continue our jihad (holy war) and never stop until God avails us to chop your necks and raise the fluttering banner of monotheism when God's rule is established governing all people and nations," the statement said.

The group said Muslims will be victorious and addressed the pope as "the worshipper of the cross" saying "you and the West are doomed as you can see from the defeat in Iraq, Afghanistan, Chechnya and elsewhere ... We will break up the cross, spill the liquor and impose head tax, then the only thing acceptable is a conversion (to Islam) or (killed by) the sword."

Islam forbids drinking alcohol and requires non-Muslims to pay a head tax to safeguard their lives if conquered by Muslims. They are exempt if they convert to Islam.

The statement said that the Quran tells Muslims in many occasions that "jihad continues and should never stop until dooms day where this religion ends victorious."

Socialism Is A Disaster

Sweden: Right Coalition Wins Power

STOCKHOLM: A center-right opposition vowing to streamline Sweden's famed welfare state ousted the Social Democratic government in a close parliamentary election Sunday, ending
12 years of leftist rule in the Nordic nation.


First Germany, then Canada, and now Sweden...

Why did this happen?
"Sweden - where the ruling Social Democrats have been in power for 65 of the last 74 years - holds general elections in September. As the voting approaches, the need for economic reform in the Scandinavian country is becoming greater. Growth is slowing, employment falling and welfare services deteriorating. The Social Democrats have not had an agenda for the future since the fall of socialism and they lack reform ideas. Yet they have remained in power for the last 12 years."

Sure, France continues to sink...

But the real concern remains, Liberal Democrat Partisans foolishly continue to push for the oppressive socialist waste in the mighty USA.

Hillary Rodham Clinton vows...
"We're going to take things away from you..."


UPDATE: "A Thousand Swedes Ran Through the Weeds..."

Meanwhile:
"AP Writer" Liz Sidoti makes very heavy going of attempting to prove that the very strong American economy is anything but.

9.17.2006

Radical Muslims Kill Again

The monstrous Islamic Insanity continues...
Somalian Islamists shot an elderly Catholic nun in the back three times, killing the woman who had served as a nurse to Mogadishu's poverty-stricken people...

...News agencies around the world have tripped over themselves to emphasize that any connection between this cowardly murder by so-called men and the lunatic anger gripping Muslim hordes around the world over one sentence in a speech given earlier this week is somehow "unclear".


* Will Rosie be outraged? Will the demented Ms. O'Donnell slander Christians, or the USA again, by equating so many with this horror?

Here is the actual text of Pope Benedict's expression today:
"I wish also to add that I am deeply sorry for the reactions in some countries to a few passages of my address at the University of Regensburg, which were considered offensive to the sensibility of Muslims..."

The Media originally misrepresented Pope Benedict's expression, when this facade of a tempest began. Now, many MSM efforts have improperly portrayed the Pope's remarks again today.

This poster doesn't see this as some form of retreat, nor was the original offering an attack either. This is an ethical, serious Religious Leader trying to promote understanding, discourse, and peace.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Radicals continue to try to distract from the sick reality. Desperate to portray the Muslim Militant's violent madness as having some basis...

But the fanatical Islamist's screams, threats, and killings, only reiterates their own pathetic dementia. As well as the danger for all.

Paparazzi For Terrorism?

The Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who is way too cozy with terrorists, is being held by the mighty USA.

* the amazing LGF...
"The military said Hussein was captured with two insurgents, including Hamid Hamad Motib, an alleged leader of al-Qaida in Iraq."

Another Democrat Betrays Americans

Comedic Relief For Sunday

The mighty L-Dotters spy another joke from John the Flopper...
"Kerry Says Voters More Receptive Now To His Message"

9.16.2006

The Liberal Democrat Folly


Does anyone remember this performance?
*
O'DONNELL: "September 11 changed a lot of things for me, Bill. I will say this, before September 11, I was definitely mildly myopic in terms of my political agenda. If you were Democrat you were probably right, and if you were a Republican you were probably wrong. Everything changed for me that day."

O'REILLY: "Really?"

O'DONNELL: "My entire worldview changed. If you would have told me September 9 that I would have been at the world series game filming George Bush throwing out the first pitch with my 6-year-old son crying, I never would have believed you, but I was. Because my whole worldview changed."

*
O'DONNELL: "Five hours a week and I've said some really stupid things. And Giuliani, you know what? Like most of the people before September 11, at least the Democrats in New York thought he was a fascist. And that's a very strong word. After the 11th, needless to say, in cheers on my show, I said I have found a tremendous solace and strength in him and his leadership, and I have looked to him as a child would a father and it astounded me.

Also I will say, Bill, that President Clinton and the saga that he went through with Monica Lewinsky profoundly changed my die hard Democratic stance in my own mind."

O'REILLY: "So his conduct offended you?"

O'DONNELL: "Terrifically and still has. And I have yet to see him personally since that day."

*
O'REILLY: "All right. This is what it showed me about Hillary Clinton. Her ambition and her lust for power over road her dignity."

O'DONNELL: "And I think you're right. And what surprised me about Hillary Clinton, to this day, I assumed as soon as she was elected senator she would divorce him. I am shocked that she did not. I told all my friends, as soon as she's in the Senate seat she will be a single senator. From New York."


Wasn't Ms. O'Donnell paid for her comedy act only a few years ago?

Do these fools even understand the definition of the word 'fascism'?

Just How Unethical Are Democrats?

Hospital Leaders Help Fund Effort to Aid Democrats
BY IRA STOLL

"Since Senator Grassley launched an investigation of not-for-profit hospitals, a political action committee funded by the hospital's trustees and executives has given tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions to try to regain a Democratic majority in the Senate, which would have the effect of ousting Mr. Grassley from his post as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee.

The hospital claims that the political action committee is independent of it. "The PAC is independent of NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. I have no information about it and would not be the one to provide information," a spokeswoman for the hospital, Kathleen Robinson, said.

But federal election records show that the treasurer of the political action committee, William Polf, is the hospital's senior vice president for external relations. And virtually every one of the 170 donations to the political action committee disclosed in the federal election records come from a NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital trustee, doctor, or employee."

Who's Upset?

"That's why the New York Times demanded that Benedict apologize."

If the NY Times is upset, then Pope Benedict is truly commendable.

Meanwhile, the Islamic Radical Insanity continues...
"Iraq’s Mujahedeen Army has posted a message on the internet threatening Pope Benedict XVI with a suicide attack."

The amazing Mr. Hewitt writes...
"Perhaps Catholics should say an extra decade today as opportunists in the media have taken the occasion of a very thoughtful and necessary address by Benedict to distort his message and indulge the worst interpretations of the remarks."

UPDATE: Dr. Sanity is not to be missed:
"I think we can safely say that a "genuine dialogue of cultures and religions" is unlikely to occur considering that one of the cultures and one of the religions seems to be in a constant state of quasi-psychotic paranoid agitation."

9.14.2006

Conventional Wisdom Is Often Wrong


Many became 'alarmed' with the Israeli Incursion into Southern Lebanon. Several of this poster's favorite sources, embraced hysteria, jumping into the fog of battle. But, alarmists are never quite accurate.

And they are being proved wrong again...
'Even a cursory perusal of the Arab press, will reveal that Hizbullah's status in Lebanon has changed for the worse, as many Lebanese come to the rather shocking realization that the south of their country, unknown to them, had in fact been transformed into an Iranian and Syrian launching pad against Israel posing an existential threat to their own livelihoods and to their entire country.

Hizbullah is now on the defensive, trying to protect its political assets against a more assertive Lebanese domestic majority, that seems more determined than ever to contain Hizbullah's "state within a state," so that they are not drawn again into a destructive war with Israel, without as much as a word of consultation.'


We have watched an irrational negative perception, sway many since the Election of 2004. So many issues, have been overwhelmed by confusing emotions, losing all objectivity.


'Arabs Increasingly See Lebanon As A Loss'

The Jerusalem Post notes several indicators that the Arabs now discuss that hardly supports the idea that Nasrallah triumphed over Israel:

* Hezbollah lost almost a quarter of its ground forces and had to flee the sub-Litani region; Israel lost 100 men.

* The war left multibillion-dollar damage throughout Lebanon; Hezbollah barely dented Israeli infrastructure.

* Hezbollah lost a number of command-and-control centers that Israel destroyed during its incursion, and will not likely be allowed to rebuild them.

* Almost all of its long- and medium-range rocketry and launch materiel has been destroyed, and the short-range rockets that they have in large numbers proved completely ineffective, both militarily and as a political/terror deterrent. In fact, the failure of the rocketry to force Israel out of the war has severely damaged Hezbollah's main purpose for the Iranians, which wanted Hezbollah and its rockets to serve as a psychological weapon and deterrent against any military action. Now that the Israelis have weathered the worst of Nasrallah's attacks, no one fears them any more.


Mr. Charles Krauthammer was one of the many Conservative Pundits, this poster greatly appreciates, who was convinced the Israeli effort was a disaster. He intensely asserted, Israel had suffered a significant defeat. One may remember, Mr. Krauthammer had previously accepted MSM misrepresentations of the Katrina Tragedy.

Mr. Krauthammer once complained on the Fox News 'Special Report' program, President Bush's pre-declaration of a Disaster Area on the Southern Coast, was an overreaction to the incoming Hurricane. Later, he would mimic various 'drive by' hype, with an emotional rebuke of the Bush Administration as providing an inadequate response.

Everyone is human, everyone makes mistakes, and everyone has their bad days. To provide commentary on Television must be a sincere challenge. And using the Liberal Media as a source is treacherous.

However, it was odd to see such alarmist responses from so many Conservatives. Especially those in such high profile forums. The combat had not even ended in this Battle in Southern Lebanon, and many were convinced of a defeat without significant basis. This poster wanted to send these admired voices a very stiff drink, and strongly advise they leave the Beltway for a needed rest.

Why weren't those prepared for the predictable propaganda of the misleading Muslim Radical Militants? Those who would again fictionalize a fake victory, in attempt to deny reality? Have they forgotten about the manipulation in Janin? Pallywood?

Or that wacky comedian Baghdad Bob?

But for many to blame the Bush Administration for the Israeli effort in Southern Lebanon, seemed entirely unfair. The Israeli Operation in Lebanon should have reminded all, how successful, resolved, strong the Bush Administration, the amazing US Armed Forces, and Allied Coalition truly are in Iraq.

It is not without irony, only a week or so ago on a broadcast of Special Report, Mr. Krauthammer changed his prior convictions entirely. After the fog settled, the mighty Mr. Krauthammer stated 'Hezbollah had lost this Mideast War Politically and Militarily..."

HEZBOLLAH DIDN'T WIN

Having lost more than 500 of its fighters, and with almost all of its medium-range missiles destroyed, Hezbollah may find it hard to sustain its claim of victory. "Hezbollah won the propaganda war because many in the West wanted it to win as a means of settling score with the United States," says Ali al-Ibrahim. "But the Arabs have become wise enough to know TV victory from real victory..."

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An Interview For The Ages

9.13.2006

Thank You Mr. President


* BUMPED FOR THIS FINE PRESIDENT...

THE 'W' IS NOT FOR 'WOBBLE'
Inside the Oval Office, By Rich Lowry

“The ideological struggle is being manifested as radicals attack young democracies. The attack of Hezbollah is destabilizing for Lebanon. That’s where much of the focus has been. But it also destabilized the emergence of a Palestinian democracy. And it should be (where the focus is) - it’s noteworthy that extremists and radicals flocked to Iraq to stop the emergence of a democracy. And it’s just - people say, well, all these problems are overwhelming. No, all these problems help remind us what the task is...”


The mighty Kitty Myers appeared on the Andrea Shea King and Mark Vance Radio Program a little while ago.

Regarding her support for this fine President, Mrs. Myers stated,
"a lesser man would have crumbled".

Considering the horror of 9-11, and the overwhelming bias, slander, deceit, undermining this Man has encountered, Kitty's contention is without a doubt...

video ht: the impressive Sticky Notes

LEADERSHIP

NERVOUS ?

JERSEY'S SENATE FIGHT: NERVOUS DEMS...
By ERIC FETTMANN

NEW Jersey Democrats were speculating all weekend about pulling another bait-and-switch in the U.S. Senate campaign - because their man, incumbent Bob Menendez, is in political hot water himself.

...News broke last Friday of a federal investigation into Menendez's finances. Over a period of nearly nine years, Menendez collected $329,353 in rent for what's been described as a "shabby" three-story rowhouse he owns in Union City.

Problem is, the rent came from the North Hudson Community Action Corp., an anti-poverty agency - and, even as he was the group's landlord, then-Rep. Menendez was muscling the federal Department of Health and Human Services to list the outfit as a federally qualified health center.

That designation has allowed the agency to rake in $9.6 million in federal HHS grants since 1998 - indeed, Washington now covers 64 percent of its yearly budget. And grateful NHCAC employees and officials have given thousands to Menendez's campaigns.

As for the building, Menendez sold it in 2003 for $405,000 - a 440 percent profit over what he paid for it two decades before.

MOMENT OF SILENCE

Not Worth Joining

'A photo exhibition telling the U.N. story was staged at the lobby. It stated that 51 countries signed the U.N. Charter as founding members on June 26, 1945 in San Francisco and one of them was the "People's Republic of China"!

This country, however, would not have existed until four years later, on October 1, 1949. That founding member, in fact, should have been the Republic of China. If the U.N. could even alter historic facts like this, I was thinking, then Mr. Bolton's big stick was badly needed.

This reinforces my belief that, among all the factors contributing to the U.N. as a failed organization, China is a key obstacle. And as long as China remains one of the five permanent members, with veto power, at the Security Council, the U.N. has no hope of becoming a more decent body.'


Kofi alone is a nightmare...

The Truth Hurts

"If Only Bin Laden Had a Stained Blue Dress"

OUCH...
'Islamic jihadists attacked America year after year throughout the Clinton administration. They did everything but blow up his proverbial "bridge to the 21st century." Every year but one, Clinton found an excuse not to fight back.

The first month Clinton was in office, Islamic terrorists with suspected links to al-Qaida and Saddam Hussein bombed the World Trade Center.

For the first time ever, a terrorist act against America was treated not as a matter of national security, but exclusively as a simple criminal offense. The individual bombers were tried in a criminal court. (The one plotter who got away fled to Iraq, that peaceful haven of kite-flying children until Bush invaded and turned it into a nation of dangerous lunatics.)

...Clinton's own campaign adviser on Iraq, Laurie Mylroie, says Clinton and his advisers are "most culpable" for the intelligence failure that allowed 9/11 to happen.

Now, after five years of no terrorist attacks in America, Democrats are hoping we'll forget the consequences of the Democrat strategy of doing nothing in response to terrorism and abandon the Bush policies that have kept this nation safe since 9/11. But first, they need to rewrite history...'

The Party of Taxation


Security, Sanity, the GWOT, are not the only sincere reasons
why the Liberal Democrat Party needs to be rebuked...
Unemployment in general is high, too, with some estimates suggesting it could be above 20%, triple the official rate. Plus, on any given day, one-fifth of the workforce is at home sick. Furthermore, around one-quarter of those under 25 are out of work.

But hey, this is the country that other left wing politicians Europe fawn over. Is it the Swedish healthcare system they love so much? This is the same system that let a friend limp around for more than a year as he waited for a surgeon to find time to repair his knee. “We have great healthcare, if you get to see a doctor,” he says sardonically...


Socialism - Communism are oppressive systems. They give power to the few, cement economic classes, kill opportunity, destroy incentive, reduce essential freedoms, and lower the quality of life for all.

"To make matters worse for those wishing to forget it all, Swedes pay around double for their liquor compared to the rest of Europe thanks to state control of alcohol sales."

This is the liberal nightmare, Democrats blindly desire.

We witnessed this disaster of Gray Davis in California, producing massive tax increases, and a vast exodus from the West Coast. And still, the Democrats in California push for more self destructive insanity.

The Democrat Dependency Machine was sadly revealed in Louisiana, during the Hurricane Katrina tragedy. So pathetic was this example, the only thing the liberals apparently offered, was blame for others.

These Liberal Democrats have turned 'the Garden State' into a joke:
"New Jersey's reputation as a tax hell just got worse. The $1.9 billion worth of tax increases in the state's new budget represents a 5 percent increase over last year, far outpacing any other state..."

Meanwhile, Hillary Rodham Clinton vows...
"We're going to take things away from you..."

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9.12.2006

The Vigilant Giants

The mighty SISU burning bright...
"9/11 was, in fact, like Pearl Harbor in that the enemy realized he had awakened a sleeping giant.* In fact, the enemy has awakened two sleeping giants. America stands taller than ever on the world stage, staring down the nattering appeasement crowd on the one hand, and tearing down the terrorist networks and support systems on the other, thanks to the great leadership of President George W. Bush, his remarkable team of seasoned advisors, our superb military and the Coalition of the Willing.

But 9/11 awoke another sleeping giant, one that may have been slouching towards some kind of cyberBethlehem waiting to be born even as world attention was focused elsewhere. We're speaking, of course, of the blogosphere. A virtual lamp beside the golden door, this new medium was a beacon to the virtual "huddled masses yearning to breathe free" in the wake of 9/11, giving voice to those who had been voiceless -- Iraqi bloggers, milbloggers, homefront bloggers and bloggers of every stripe, seekers of wisdom and truth who weren't buying what effete academic elites and mainstream media pack journalists were selling anymore."

Listen To The Airwaves

Bill Lies Again...

Hillary Lies Again...


The mighty Mr. Finkelstien of NB, catches Mrs. Clinton's
vivid deceit, following the retreat of John 'the flop' Kerry:
CBS: "You were among those who advocated going to war in Iraq...

Clinton [indulging in some creative revisionism]: "I did not advocate that. I voted to give the president authority to have the United States congress behind him when he went to the U.N. To put inspectors back in to figure out what Saddam Hussein had. That would not have been the choice, in my opinion, that we should have pursued at that time. But I thought it was reasonable to give him that authority."


Hillary Rodham must believe the American Public,
especially those supporting the DNC, are brainless.

What was that famous Joint Resolution Hillary Voted for?
H.J.RES.114 - Title:
To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq.
Sponsor: Rep Hastert, J. Dennis [IL-14] (introduced 10/2/2002)


10/10/2002: Received in the Senate, read twice.
10/11/2002: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent.
10/11/2002: Passed Senate without amendment and with a preamble by Yea-Nay Vote. 77 - 23.
10/11/2002: Cleared for White House.
10/11/2002: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
10/15/2002: Presented to President.
10/16/2002: Signed by President.
10/16/2002: Became Public Law No: 107-243.


What is your definition of the word AUTHORIZE?

Can anyone guess what the meaning of: "To authorize the use of United States Armed Forces against Iraq" actually is?

Does Hillary Rodham Clinton believe, everyone will forget
her intense advocation for the Resolution she endorsed?
"In the four years since the inspectors left, intelligence reports show that Saddam Hussein has worked to rebuild his chemical and biological weapons stock, his missile delivery capability, and his nuclear program. He has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members, It is clear, however, that if left unchecked, Saddam Hussein will continue to increase his capacity to wage biological and chemical warfare, and will keep trying to develop nuclear weapons." - October 10, 2002

* ht: the mighty Kitty for The Who Said It Game - Iraq Style

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November Looms...

Just a few months ago, Democrats envisioned significant gains in New York, perhaps picking up as many as four seats, possibly even five. But that goal now seems increasingly remote...

"The online polls of Senate and gubernatorial races in 26 states find Democrats, who began this election cycle hoping to capture the Republican-held House and Senate, losing ground in New Jersey. There, incumbent appointee Bob Menendez suddenly finds himself running dead-even with Republican Tom Kean Jr. Menendez had been leading since a June poll."

Democrats depended on winning Pennsylvania as part of their effort to win control of the Senate. At one time, it appeared that the Keystone State seat would drop into their laps, as Santorum's closeness to the Bush administration was deemed to be a millstone which would sink him. Rather than run against the White House, Santorum embraced it - and the timing apparently worked...


Mr. Morris to be proved wrong once again?

9.11.2006

Barbara Kay Olson


December 27, 1955 - September 11, 2001

"She was always full of energy, sparkling all the time."

"She was a passenger on board American Airlines flight 77 when it was flown into the Pentagon in the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attack. She had reported the hijacking to her husband twice by phone about 20 minutes before the plane hit the Pentagon. She was 45...

She had been scheduled to take a different flight, but cancelled and booked herself on that particular flight on that Tuesday in order to celebrate her husband's birthday on Monday, September 10. Her husband's birthday is actually September 11th."


"We can only imagine what went through Ted's mind when his wife talked to him," said the Rev. Franklyn Martin McAfee, a pastor in Great Falls. "We cannot explain the madness that took place on Tuesday. We saw with our own eyes the face of evil."

* Barbara K. Olson warned about the Clinton Malfeasance

See her fine book...
Hell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham Clinton

The work she was developing before 9-11...
The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

Mrs. Olson's savvy wit on display...
“Al Gore seems to have found a great political ploy: Picking up whatever issue he is most vulnerable on and championing the cause.”

The much loved Barbara Olson is sincerely missed.

Yet, her fine memory is often tarnished by ugly Left Wing Partisans. These Demented Liberals create insane conpiracy garbage, defying reality with Pathetic Denial and Nutty Delusions.

UPDATE: the mighty LGF has images of more madness...
* 9/11 Conspiracists Defile WTC Site

What Political Party do these Nuts support?

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Why We Fight


She fell closer to the south tower, he recalls. Logozzo saw her face. She had dark hair and olive skin, a white blouse and black skirt. She fell with her back to the ground, flat, staring up.

"The look on her face was shock. She wasn't screaming. It was slow motion. When she hit, there was nothing left," Logozzo says.

Logozzo cried, "Oh my God!" and raced for the stairs. When he got to the street 45 minutes later, he looked up. By then, his building had been struck by United Airlines Flight 175. From the ground, he saw two more people jump. This time, they were from his building.


Today is the anniversary of 9-11...

There are unethical people in the United States, who have tried to deny, hide, belittle the serious threat facing the Free World.

Many are weak, irresponsible, corrupt, power hungry fools, who will do and say anything to further themselves.

Some are so clouded by bigotry, they have decided to vilify, slander, and blame a sitting President for all the problems on this Planet.

Yet, every day we encounter shocking evidence, of this vivid attempt to conquer, enslave, and destroy. Whether it appears in the form of a suicide bomber, a hijacked plane used for mass murder, or the attempt to ban 'love songs' in a tiny African Country, the threat remains sincere.

"Islamic militants controlling much of southern Somalia shut down a radio station Sunday for playing love songs and other music, the latest step to impose strict religious rule which has sparked fears of an emerging, Taliban-style regime."

Ironically, several years ago in Mogadishu, America's Bravest died fighting in the streets. The corrupt Clinton Administration denied our Military the appropriate firepower for a mission, leading to unecessary, painful losses of our Finest. Thus, the Clinton Negligence began to enable and encourage these monstrous Islamic Fanatics.

The fraudulent Clintons cannot be blamed for Islamic Terrorism.
These killers are solely responsible for their reprehensible acts.

But this Great Nation and the Free World, cannot return to the naive, unprincipled, feeble, delusion provided by today's treacherous Liberal Democrat Party...

We cannot allow another 9-11 to ever happen again.

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9.10.2006

In loving memory of a Mother


"Mom's is what I called you and always were.

You were not only my Momma but my Friend, inspiration and role-model. I now live my life for you. I follow your footsteps, values and teachings. You are my guardian Angel and I feel your presence in my heart. I want you to know that I miss you so so very much and even though you are never coming back home I will look forward to seeing you again in Heaven.

I love you Mom, more than I can explain and you are the reason for why I am living for. I have one wish for a dream come true that I'll live with you forever when my time is do. You are my sun you are my rain you are my protector from all harm that come through. Your beauty will shine like a star in the sky and I will remember that our love is forever thine.

Mom you are my Everything !!
Love your baby Daughter, Liz"


Mary D'Antonio was a wonderful Mother,
whose love will not be forgotten...


"Sometimes I close my eyes for a brief moment ... but when I open them ... the Towers are still not there. Is this site which looks like such a downfall ever to be resurrected?"

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9.09.2006

Just Another Nuisance?

The Clinton Negligence

WHO WAS PRESIDENT WHEN ALL THIS HAPPENED?

* January 25, 1993: Mir Aimal Kansi, a Pakistani, fired an AK-47 into cars waiting at a stoplight in front of the Central Intelligence Agency headquarters in Virginia, killing two CIA employees.

* February 26, 1993: Islamic terrorists try to bring down the World Trade Center with car bombs. They failed to destroy the buildings, but killed 6 and injured over 1000 people...


Ms. Miller's amazing work is not to be missed...

Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham will try to lie about their
many failures, but the truth is impossible to hide forever.

The overwhelming negligence of the Clinton Administration
during the 1990's, continues to haunt this fine Country.

So many nightmares could have been avoided, if the dishonest narcissists from Arkansas, remained far from our Capital.

The Liberal Democrat Partisans who lied on their
behalf, are in deep denial over the Clinton Folly.

They continue to foolishly believe the Clintons have some influence with the American Public, eventhough they have proven to be completely impotent outside of New York.

Meanwhile, the Clintonites continue to threaten the L-MSM to obey...
"Lawyers for former President Bill Clinton penned a letter to ABC Friday demanding that the network correct what they consider "fiction" regarding 'The Path to 9/11' docudrama or decide not to broadcast the program."

But REDSTATE is posting a number of the clips here:
The Video Democrats DON'T WANT YOU TO SEE

* the mighty Chris Muir has his characters "feeling surreal..."

The Democrat Folly



Who needs a silly TV Docudrama?

We already know how pathetic the Democrats are...

More Folly In The Garden State

9.07.2006

In loving memory of Mary

"In loving memory of Mary, who brought up two beautiful daughters, Louisa and Elizabeth. Louisa was the soul of patience and kindness to my own two children when they were very small, and Elizabeth a cheerful, lovely light. Mary's legacy lives on in these two fine young women that we are privaleged to know. God bless you all." - Rebekah Oakes (Astoria, NY )

Mary D'Antonio worked in the World Trade Center as an employee of Marsh & McLennan Cos. Inc.

Ms. D'Antonio is a part of the 2,996 loved, who were lost on that tragic day, some 5 years ago.

A fine associate suggested this poster contribute to the moving
'2,996: A Tribute to the Victims of 9/11'

It is a very painful to read the loving comments about Mary. She is truly missed by all, and will not be forgotten.

My thoughts and prayers are with Mary and the D'Antonia Family. I hope to learn more about this fine American, to honor her memory.

My heart breaks for those lost on this day...

Time For Professional Help

How do you know, when you have an unstable mind?

"Around 75 top professors and leading scientists believe the attacks were puppeteered by war mongers in the White House to justify the invasion and the occupation of oil-rich Arab countries.

The claims have caused outrage and anger in the US which marks the fifth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on Monday.

But leading scientists say the facts of their investigations cannot be ignored and say they have evidence that points to one of the biggest conspiracies ever perpetrated.

Professor Steven Jones, who lectures in physics at the Brigham Young University in Utah, says the official version of events is the biggest and most evil cover up in history."


What is the definition of 'top' or 'leading'?
Is that the same as being truly insane?

What Political Party do these Nuts support?
"The Democratic nominee for Congress from Florida’s 15th district believes the 9/11 attacks were a conspiracy orchestrated by Dick Cheney..."



The overt denial of the threats facing the Free World, mimics the level of bigotry Liberal Democrats have for Conservative Republicans.

Perhaps a little 'psycobabble' is appropriate,
to study today's unstable Liberal mind...


For example, when a Republican wins an election, the Liberal Democrat begins to claim it was stolen, without any basis. When Republicans wisely cut taxation to help everyone, Democrat Partisans shout 'conspiracy of the rich'. Etc...

These Liberal fantasies about 9-11, represent their inability to deal with the real world. Perhaps, this is why they continue to push for failed socialist-communist systems, which empower the few, create dependency, destroy incentive, and and ruin opportunity for all.

Blocking the reality of the Terrorism which created 9-11, could be another subconscious attempt to justify the hatred for Republicans. President GW Bush is greatly appreciated by Conservatives for his strong defense of this Nation after 9-11. The dismissal by the Left, of one of the most tragic attacks on American Soil, could be an irrational way for Liberals to cope with this President's support.

By removing the true source (9-11), the Liberal Partisan can feel more at ease opposing the admirable endeavors initiated by this President. Believing there is no justification for the use of Force, the creation of the Patriot Act, the need for the NSA surveillance, etc., the Liberal Democrat can continue to vilify the Republican President without guilt.

Suddenly, the successful Operations in Afghanistan removing the tyranny of the Taliban, and the ouster of a mad Dictator in Iraq, can become a negative in the mind of the so-called 'progressive'. Essential measures required to destroy the serious threats facing the Free World, and protect the American Public, are viewed as another 'vast right wing conspiracy' for the troubled Liberal perception.

If they are able to construct a fantasy of 9-11, denying this horrid act by Muslim Radical Terrorists, Liberals are capable of anything.

9.06.2006

9-11 Remembered

More Good News...

9.05.2006

The Laughter Continues

The all powerful Mr. Drudge has this fun...
"Secretary Rumsfeld is an honorable and able public servant. Under his leadership, the United States Armed Forces and our allies have overthrown two brutal tyrannies and liberated more than 50 million people. Al Qaeda has suffered tremendous blows. Secretary Rumsfeld has pursued vigorously the President’s vision for a transformed U.S. military. And he has played a lead role in forging and implementing many of the policies you now recommend in Iraq. Secretary Rumsfeld retains the full confidence of the President."

Painful for Democrat Partisans to stomach, because it is so absolutely accurate. The truth is a problem for the Liberals these days.

The fine letter written by the capable Mr. Joshua Bolten, the current Bush Administration's Chief of Staff.

Mr. Bolten was responding to the silly Democrats...

Another reminder, why Democrats are simply hard to take seriously. They remind us of amateurs, who have become a parody of themselves. A comedic act, that produces more laughter everyday.

They want Donald Rumsfeld's head on a pike outside the White House, but they can't even gin up the courage to use his name in their letter. They're not the only people calling for Rumsfeld's resignation, but their argument here is just plain silly...

...This letter gives the perfect reason why Democrats can't be trusted with national security -- anyone's national security. They want the Middle East to dismember Iraq with our blessing instead of against our opposition. They want the peace of surrender ... or phased redeployment.

Thank You Mr. Snow

The Party of Taxation


"Capital formation is the key to worker productivity and consumer prosperity. Visionary entrepreneurs, those who discover new technologies or innovate those that exist, must be financed with capital. In the longer term, capital-induced productivity increases lead to greater wage gains and enhanced consumer spending power.

This is precisely what separates the men from the boys in the world economy. Despite all this, the economic Left is rebelling against the Bush prosperity...

...It’s okay to have a pessimistic point of view. But it’s not okay to cherry pick data in order to reveal a worst-case Bush-bashing scenario. It’s equally pathetic when the class warriors on the Democratic left can only carp about one alternative proposal: raise taxes on the rich.

This political loser has relegated the Democratic party to secondary status for twenty-five years. Just take a look at the exit polls from the 2004 election. President Bush carried 49 percent of those earning between $30,000 and $50,000, 56 percent of the $50,000 to $75,000 earners, and 55 percent of the $75,000 to $100,000 earners. Meanwhile, 41 percent said Bush’s tax cuts were good for the economy, as opposed to 32 percent who said they were bad.

Tax cuts are a winner. They throw off benefits across the board: capital formation, profitable business, job gains, wage increases, and consumer spending power.

You’d think the Dems would learn. But they never do."


The Dems Never Learn
LARRY KUDLOW at NRO


The Democrat Partisan Folly Continues...
*** California Taxation Leads to Mass Migration

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OUTSTANDING

The mighty US ARMED FORCES on display...
DELICATE LANDING MANEUVER

The impressive ThirdWaveDave posts an
incredible image of Our Bravest in action.

America's Finest continue to do an amazing Job:
"The new offensive against the Taliban remnants in Afghanistan, Operation Medusa, has dealt a severe blow to the forces of Mullah Omar. Over 200 Taliban fighters have died in the fighting, "

While these misguided Democrat Partisans,
push for the surrender of the Free World...

The Party of Treason


"It's unfortunate so many people took Joe Wilson seriously...
...the person most responsible for the end of Ms. Plame's CIA
career is Mr. Wilson.

Mr. Wilson chose to go public with an explosive charge, claiming - falsely, as it turned out - that he had debunked reports of Iraqi
uranium-shopping in Niger..."


UPDATE: *** Setting the Plame Record Straight

(An email inquired "what is that?")
Thus... one can find the dreaded 'two headed snake' out East, which is quite confusing, because you simply cannot tell the difference between the head or the tail. This is often referred to as a 'Slick Rodham'.

* The mighty Tigerhawk:
"Armitage and Powell: Looking at PlameGate retrospectively"

BUMPED for the amazing HH: Plamegate, RIP
"Perhaps Tom Maguire or some other accomplished Plameologist will provide for us sideliners a convenient scorecard of those whose names ought never to appear in print except as accompanied by the phrase "who was so memorably taken in by Joe Wilson" or "who, it must be remembered, believed deeply in Fitzmas.""

9.04.2006

Those Wacky Terrorists...

9.03.2006

Chuckle Chuckle


"I would not be surprised if she were to decide that the best contribution she can make to her country is to forget about being president and become a consensus-maker in the Senate,” said a leading Democratic party insider.

Ms. Baxter from the Times UK, might actually be a comedian.

Hillary's advisors must feel being the Democrat frontrunner, the establishment's favorite, is hurting her poll data. Perhaps, they are trying to diminish Mrs. Clinton's ugly reputation, being the narcissist with the most obsessive self serving ambition. The idea Hillary would do anything for her 'Country' or her 'Party' is truly laughable.

It is, and will always be, all about Hillary.

Or, the reality is setting in, Mrs. Rodham Clinton will never be able to win in a National Election. Her negatives are simply overwhelming. So in another cowardly move, HRC decides to tire more Americans by going after weak prey, like Sen. Reid.

“The early line is that Hillary would be unstoppable in a Democratic primary but unelectable in a general election.”

The solution, insiders say, is for Clinton to take over as Senate minority leader in 2009 from the lacklustre Harry Reid, senator for Nevada.


It is really quite funny, Hillary could not even convince the Senate, to endorse her feeble attempt to politicize the Katrina Tragedy.

Years ago, this poster asked quite a few Democrats, why didn't Ms. Rodham run against President Bush in 2004? At the time, these Liberals were suggesting Hillary was marvelous, strong, caring, and would win the Presidency in a landslide.

It was an incredible amount of denial on display.

Mrs. Clinton (their self proclaimed 'hero') should have campaigned to save the World back then, as these Liberals hoped. Was her failure to run, a sign of weakness? Was she afraid? Or, was Hillary just stalling to find an easier opportunity to suit her own needs?

Regardless, if Democrats believe the unethical Hillary Clinton is a 'consensus-maker', they are in more trouble than previously imagined.

They seem to forget, Ms. Rodham has a unique tendency to put others down, slander anyone she feels, and has no sense of decency.

UPDATE: the impressive Mr. Finkelstein...
"Toss in some fluff about Hillary wanting to be a "consensus builder" and the picture emerges of a centrist, altruistic figure. Say - isn't that just the kind of person many would like . . . to run for president?"

Further: the mighty Captain...
The most laughable part of the article is the suggestion that Hillary would pass on the presidential run because she wants to dedicate herself to bipartisanship in the Senate. Someone seems to forget that Hillary coined the term "vast right-wing conspiracy"...

An Absence Of Reason

9.02.2006

Minimum Laughter


Democrat Liberals won't pay the minimum wage, to those who work
to advocate for the same minimum wage, on their behalf.

No, no, no, really... "Democrats for Worker Exploitation"

ht: the mighty Powerline

It is very similar, having Nancy Pelosi push Unions on everyone else, while refusing to use Union Labor in her own fancy Hotels.

Or the old Democrat standard, with John Kerry, Hillary Rodham, Teddy Kennedy, etc., desperate to raise everyone else's taxation, while they hide their money in various tax shelters.

Remember this comedic effort?
"We believe in a journalism of verification rather than assertion..."
says Times Managing Editor Jill Abramson.


Further:
"Democratic canvassers in Wisconsin have walked off the job as the Democratic Party refuses to pay them the existing minimum wage."