Global Warming (which we now know has been established as a terrorist act) sweeps across the Plains States. Canada throws out it's Gubba'mint. I'm shocked to find out there are conservatives in Canada. School aroma sends school into panic, it was probably the broccoli-strawberry- raisin-anchovie-artichoke heart-liver spongecake being served up in the school cafeteria for dessert. The story about Iraq that most Americans will never read or hear about. Unless the ACLUseless steps in, a padded cell should await this monstrous wad...
Too bad there aren't more Democrats like Joe Liebermann. Lieberman points out that we can't leave Iraq as it will become a war between 27 million Iraqis and 10,000 terrorists. I can't believe this man ran on the same ticket with Gore in 2000.
Quote of the Day, Joe Lieberman(D) on Iraq:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood--unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.
Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North, there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primarily Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam, and is experiencing greater economic activity. The Sunni triangle, geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress.
There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraqi hands than before. All of that says the Iraqi economy is growing. And Sunni candidates are actively campaigning for seats in the National Assembly. People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.
As I've said before it seems the"Joe Lieberman Wing" of the Democratic Party consists exclusively of Joe Lieberman. War of Words escalates over Iraq: Kerry says Hastert called Murtha a coward, Hastert denies calling Murtha a coward. That tears it !! I'm telling Mom!!
Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president in 2004 who was savaged by a conservative political group that questioned his Vietnam War service, said the Republican attack machine had set its sights on Murtha, and noted: "Dennis Hastert - the Speaker of the House who never served - accused Jack Murtha of being a coward."
However, Hastert's first response to Murtha, D-Pa., while blistering, never explicitly called Murtha a coward. Neither did a subsequent Internet blog, in which Hastert, R-Ill., softened his remarks considerably.
"I need everyone to understand that I have known Congressman (John) Murtha a long time," Hastert wrote just before Thanksgiving. "He's a good man. I have the utmost respect for him. In fact, I'm pretty sure he knows that. I disagreed with the pullout plan he announced last week."
But Hastert's initial response to Murtha's withdrawal announcement accused him and the Democratic Party of adopting a policy of "cut and run."
Furthermore, Hastert said Murtha and the Democrats "want us to retreat. They want us to wave the white flag of surrender to the terrorists of the world." And he said, "We must not cower like European nations who are now fighting terrorists on their soil."
More nuance from Senator Kerry (who was in Vietnam) follows:
A spokeswoman for Kerry said the senator was reacting to Hastert's use of the word "cower" and said that the speaker and other Republican Party leaders "were all calling (Murtha) a coward."
Groan...
Quote of the Day II Neal Boortz:
Boortz encapsulates the main reason I don't get all bent out of shape about political corruption: Only one side's collective feet are held to the fire....
California Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham held a press conference yesterday and announced he would be resigning from Congress and he apologized for taking bribes from defense contractors. Apparently he thought nobody would notice his mansion, yacht and Rolls Royce on a $160,000 a year salary. Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
He's facing a maximum of 10 years in the slammer with sentencing scheduled for February 27, but you can bet he'll do nowhere near that amount of time. He's obviously cut a deal and he'll get a reduced sentence. House Minority Leader and aging San Francisco hippie Nancy Pelosi immediately jumped all over the announcement, saying the whole thing "is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies."
Oh really. Cunningham deserves to go straight to the slammer...but those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Are we supposed to believe there is no corruption on the other side of the aisle? Would Nancy Pelosi like for people to recount the Democratic scandals over the years? Just how many Clinton associates were convicted of corruption? What about the Clinton pardons? Do we need a refresher course on Whitewater and Casa Grande? How about James Traficant....the former Democratic congressman currently sitting in a prison cell for bribery, racketeering and tax evasion? There's plenty to go around.
And watch the media on this one. They will go out of their way to point out that Cunningham is a Republican, yet would bury the party affiliation were he a Democrat.
Let's not talk about the investigations regarding Chuck Schumer (D) New York or the bookish little snot merchant Harry Reid (D) Nevada. That would hurt the cause...
Too bad there aren't more Democrats like Joe Liebermann. Lieberman points out that we can't leave Iraq as it will become a war between 27 million Iraqis and 10,000 terrorists. I can't believe this man ran on the same ticket with Gore in 2000.
Quote of the Day, Joe Lieberman(D) on Iraq:
I have just returned from my fourth trip to Iraq in the past 17 months and can report real progress there. More work needs to be done, of course, but the Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood--unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn.
Progress is visible and practical. In the Kurdish North, there is continuing security and growing prosperity. The primarily Shiite South remains largely free of terrorism, receives much more electric power and other public services than it did under Saddam, and is experiencing greater economic activity. The Sunni triangle, geographically defined by Baghdad to the east, Tikrit to the north and Ramadi to the west, is where most of the terrorist enemy attacks occur. And yet here, too, there is progress.
There are many more cars on the streets, satellite television dishes on the roofs, and literally millions more cell phones in Iraqi hands than before. All of that says the Iraqi economy is growing. And Sunni candidates are actively campaigning for seats in the National Assembly. People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.
As I've said before it seems the"Joe Lieberman Wing" of the Democratic Party consists exclusively of Joe Lieberman. War of Words escalates over Iraq: Kerry says Hastert called Murtha a coward, Hastert denies calling Murtha a coward. That tears it !! I'm telling Mom!!
Kerry, the Democratic nominee for president in 2004 who was savaged by a conservative political group that questioned his Vietnam War service, said the Republican attack machine had set its sights on Murtha, and noted: "Dennis Hastert - the Speaker of the House who never served - accused Jack Murtha of being a coward."
However, Hastert's first response to Murtha, D-Pa., while blistering, never explicitly called Murtha a coward. Neither did a subsequent Internet blog, in which Hastert, R-Ill., softened his remarks considerably.
"I need everyone to understand that I have known Congressman (John) Murtha a long time," Hastert wrote just before Thanksgiving. "He's a good man. I have the utmost respect for him. In fact, I'm pretty sure he knows that. I disagreed with the pullout plan he announced last week."
But Hastert's initial response to Murtha's withdrawal announcement accused him and the Democratic Party of adopting a policy of "cut and run."
Furthermore, Hastert said Murtha and the Democrats "want us to retreat. They want us to wave the white flag of surrender to the terrorists of the world." And he said, "We must not cower like European nations who are now fighting terrorists on their soil."
More nuance from Senator Kerry (who was in Vietnam) follows:
A spokeswoman for Kerry said the senator was reacting to Hastert's use of the word "cower" and said that the speaker and other Republican Party leaders "were all calling (Murtha) a coward."
Groan...
Quote of the Day II Neal Boortz:
Boortz encapsulates the main reason I don't get all bent out of shape about political corruption: Only one side's collective feet are held to the fire....
California Congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham held a press conference yesterday and announced he would be resigning from Congress and he apologized for taking bribes from defense contractors. Apparently he thought nobody would notice his mansion, yacht and Rolls Royce on a $160,000 a year salary. Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed.
He's facing a maximum of 10 years in the slammer with sentencing scheduled for February 27, but you can bet he'll do nowhere near that amount of time. He's obviously cut a deal and he'll get a reduced sentence. House Minority Leader and aging San Francisco hippie Nancy Pelosi immediately jumped all over the announcement, saying the whole thing "is just the latest example of the culture of corruption that pervades the Republican-controlled Congress, which ignores the needs of the American people to serve wealthy special interests and their cronies."
Oh really. Cunningham deserves to go straight to the slammer...but those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Are we supposed to believe there is no corruption on the other side of the aisle? Would Nancy Pelosi like for people to recount the Democratic scandals over the years? Just how many Clinton associates were convicted of corruption? What about the Clinton pardons? Do we need a refresher course on Whitewater and Casa Grande? How about James Traficant....the former Democratic congressman currently sitting in a prison cell for bribery, racketeering and tax evasion? There's plenty to go around.
And watch the media on this one. They will go out of their way to point out that Cunningham is a Republican, yet would bury the party affiliation were he a Democrat.
Let's not talk about the investigations regarding Chuck Schumer (D) New York or the bookish little snot merchant Harry Reid (D) Nevada. That would hurt the cause...