“Stability and a decrease in violence, they’ve done that – God bless them. I’m not surprised that they did,””I am not surprised, therefore, that when we send 20,000 additional troops and put them in an area of consequence that those 20,000 troops from the best army in the world, the best trained, best equipped army in the world brings a very heightened security,”
Those words were spoken by Steny Hoyer, the Democrat majority leader, when speaking about the SUCCESS of the surge to date. The troops are winning despite what Harry Reid WANTS to believe. These statements are sure to piss of the anti-war faction of the party so he had to tamper it down a little bit, sort of spin it as a positive for him and the rest of the Democrats. How did he do this? Simple, he just said that the president never had enough troops in the first place and he always knew it.
The thing about this is, he is right on both counts. First, the surge is a success, and it must pain him to admit it. Perhaps he is hinting with those statements that the Democrats better hurry up and end the war before it’s too late and we actually win it. Second, we probably never did have enough troops on the ground. We should have gone in there and used the full force of our military and wiped all resistance out. They would not have been able to withstand America’s military at her full force.
With the Democrats unable to end the war and with the surge working, this could be the Democrats new strategy. Unwilling to give the president any credit they are now going to say that we should have sent the surge in sooner, even though they opposed the surge when it was announced and they would have opposed it if it was announced earlier. The Democrats are trying to have it both ways.
Read the article this post was based on here.
Republicans Vote in Favor of Debating Cheney Impeachment
Cross Posted at Grizzly Groundswell
Today Dennis Kucinich pushed forward on his plan to move to impeach Dick Cheney.
“In his conduct while Vice President of the United States, Richard B. Cheney, in violation of his constitutional oath to faithfully execute the office of Vice President of the United States and, to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and in violation of his constitutional duty to take care that the laws be faithfully executed, has purposely manipulated the intelligence process to deceive the citizens and Congress of the United States by fabricating a threat of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction to justify the use of the United States Armed Forces against the nation of Iraq in a manner damaging to our national security interests.”
Democrats including Nancy Pelosi wanted no part of this ridiculous bill and tried to table it. They know that this is just a political game being played and were afraid of the political ramifications. That is when the Republicans decided to vote with Kucinich and force a debate on the issue. They sensed a chance to embarrass the Democrats by making them argue for or against impeachment, because they knew that most Democrats were against impeachment. This would have forced Democrats to either pander to the fringe left wing or vote the way they knew was right and alienate the moonbat left. This was a brilliant move by Republicans and it almost payed off.
Steny Hoyer, the house majority leader stepped in and referred the bill back to the House Judiciary Committee, and that vote was passed. This saved the day for the Democrats, who now don’t have to take a stand on yet another issue. It will be back though, far left liberals never take no for an answer.
Trying to spin today’s waste of time into a positive, Hoyer blamed the Republicans of playing political games with impeachment.
“I am surprised that Republicans would treat an issue as important as the potential impeachment of a Vice President of the United States as a petty political game,” he said in a statement. “It is beneath the dignity of this institution.”
The Republicans voted to send the bill to debate so that there could be a debate on the issue, isn’t that the way it is supposed to work? This is playing a political game? You debate an issue and then you vote on it. But the Democrats never wanted to make a stand, they just wanted to show the far left that they were trying to make a stand. They assumed the Republicans would block the debate and vote and they would be able to spin that to the moonbats by saying “we tried to impeach Cheney, we just didn’t have the votes.” That would have allowed them to appear to have tried, which would please the moonbats, while failing at the same time, which would have allowed them to not go on the record as being for impeachment which would have alienated moderate voters.
The Democrats bring articles of impeachment against the vice president to the table for political reasons. The Republicans vote with the Democrats, they voted FOR something the Democrats supposedly wanted to pass, the Democrats manage to kill the bill that they proposed, and it is the Republicans that are playing games?
Yes the Republicans did play a game on the Democrats here, but I ask you, who started the game?
Hillary Clinton Supports Giving Driver’s Licenses to Illegal Aliens
Cross posted at Grizzly Groundswell
After last week’s debate in which Hillary Clinton said of New York governor Elliot Spitzer’s plan to order government officials to give driver’s licenses to illegal aliens something to the effect of, I support the plan but I don’t endorse it, or I endorse the plan but I don’t support it, or it makes sense but it doesn’t make sense, or I was for it before I was against it, her spokesman came out to clarify Hillary’s position. Don’t you find it funny how often Hillary gives her positions on an issue only to have a spokesman come out and clarify which position she believes in, at least on that day. The next day her spokesman may re-clarify her position to reflect her new opinion depending on the crowd she was speaking to.
Anyway, Hillary came out to tell us what the hell she meant on the issue of giving drivers licenses to ILLEGALS.
“I broadly support what governors like Elliot Spitzer are trying to do.”
I guess we can put Hillary in the camp of rewarding illegal behavior. She supports giving people who broke into the country the PRIVILEGE of driving on our roads legally. I don’t understand how all of the Democrat candidates can look at the polling data and decide that this is a good idea. Perhaps the lure of Mexican voters outweighs the risk of alienating Democrat voters, after all where are they going to go. They will still vote Democrat, this has to be a scheme to expand the voter base. They are willing to sell out the country for a few votes.
She goes on to say the following:
“But finally I do not believe we can resolve this problem unless we bring people out of the shadows,” Clinton said, adding that undocumented immigrants should have a pathway to citizenship but they’d need to register, pay taxes, pay fines, learn English, and wait in line after those who’ve come to the United States legally. Those who have committed crimes, she said, should be deported.
Ah, the old “bring them out of the shadows” line that has become so nauseatingly commonplace during the debate on this issue. I am so sick and tired of hearing that line. The kicker in that paragraph is where we are told she believes if an ILLEGAL commits a crime he/she should be deported. THE FACT THAT THE PERSON IS HERE ILLEGALLY IS A CRIME, DEPORT THEM!I have said it before and I will say it again, and this probably won’t be the last time either, if a person doesn’t respect the laws enough to come to the country in a legal manner, what the hell makes you think they will respect any of America’s other laws? The second they cross the border they have committed a crime, yet this crime is okay in the liberals mind just as long as they don’t commit another crime.
Read the article this post was based on here.
Hillary Clinton’s White House Records, Why can’t We See Them?
In last week’s debate, much to Hillary’s disdain, Tim Russert hit her pretty hard on the issue of why Bill Clinton ordered the documents of Hillary’s record as first lady classified until 2012. She stated the following about her records on healthcare being released:
“Now, all of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available,”
That is not entirely true, in fact it is a lie.
In a letter last year responding to a Freedom of Information Act request by the conservative group Judicial Watch, Melissa Walker, supervisory archivist of the Clinton Presidential Library, wrote that archivists had identified 3,022,030 still-unreleased health-care documents, along with 2,884 e-mails and 1,021 photos covered by the group’s request.
If you are unfamiliar with this Judicial Watch request under the Freedom of Information Act, I wrote about it here. This lie during the debate has prompted Judicial Watch to file a new lawsuit last week asking for immediate release of Hillary’s failed healthcare documents as first lady.
Clinton campaign spokes-man Jay Carson says that as many as half a million health-care papers have now been disclosed, but he acknowledges that many others have yet to be cleared. “There are undoubtedly other documents related to health care in the hundred million pages” of unreleased records at the library, Carson said, but he added that Clinton’s hands were tied because understaffed Archives officials had to review each and every FOIA request—and handle all of them in order. “We don’t control their process,” he said. “We’re not holding anything up.”
Apparently Bill Clinton’s signature ordering the papers to not be released isn’t holding up the release of the papers according to Clinton’s spokesman. It’s not their fault, isn’t that always the way?
Why doesn’t she want us to see them, what is she hiding?
Apparently this has had little effect among Democrat voters as they expect lies and corruption out of the Clinton’s anyway, so why would this change their vote?
Read the article this post was based on here.
2007 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox: A Profile in Courage
Courage is not a word I like to use very often when talking about sports. Does it really take courage for a man to go to the field and play a children’s game while making quite a bit of money? I don’t think so. It may take guts, determination, or even mental toughness to take the field in a big game with the whole world, or at least nation, watching your every move. Knowing one mistake and you will forever be remembered for it could seem a little daunting. But courage? Maybe I am playing a semantic game here, but the word courage should be saved for true heroes. Our military, our firefighters, our police officers, they are the ones who show courage when faced with true danger.
Once in a while a sports story comes along that does inspire you, that brings you back to earth. A story that does show courage. This year’s Red Sox season had one such story. Am I talking about the unbelievable post season pitching of Josh Beckett? No. Am I talking about the clutch hitting of Dustin Pedroia or Kevin Youkilis? No.
Who would I be talking about? I am talking about a man whose life was thrown into turmoil less than one short year ago. Jon Lester. Read more…
Video: The Many Faces of Hillary Clinton
This is a great video put out by, and I can’t believe I am going to say this, John Edwards. It shows several of the issues where Hillary has pulled a John Kerry and flopped all over the place.
Hat Tip: Big Dog’s
Baby Survives Two Abortion Attempts and is Born Healthy
This story is disturbing to me, but the end result was a good one. I could never even try to understand the decision that these parents had to make. Most readers here know that I am pro-life and believe abortion is wrong. I also believe that Roe vs Wade should be overturned as this would not outlaw abortion. This would simply send abortion back to the states and the individual states could then decide on whether to allow abortion or not.
This is the story of an expecting mother of twins whom the doctors told that one of her babies was unhealthy and would die in the womb of a heart attack. They also told her that if the one baby died it could kill the other one.
Mrs Jones said: “They told us that if he died, it could be life threatening for his brother.
“We had to decide whether to end his life and let his brother live, or risk them both.”
They said it would be impossible to keep him alive afterwards as he was so poorly.
It would be kinder to let him die in the womb with his brother by his side than to die alone after being born.
The parents made the heart wrenching decision to abort the one baby. I say baby because this was at 25 weeks pregnant. This was not a fetus, I know the pro death crowd believes a fetus isn’t a baby but this was a living, kicking baby. The doctors tried to kill the baby, however the baby was uncooperative.
The part of this story that is really disturbing to me is the way they tried to abort this baby. It’s bad enough that late term abortions birth the baby half way and then slice the baby’s spinal cord, but at least that is quick, which wasn’t what these doctors had in mind.
At Birmingham Women’s Hospital, when Mrs Jones was 25 weeks pregnant, doctors tried to sever Gabriel’s umbilical cord to cut off his blood supply and allow him to die.
But the cord was too thick, and they could not cut through it.
They tried to cut the cord to let him die from lack of blood slowly. This is humane? When that didn’t work they tried another procedure.
As a last resort they divided Mrs Jones’s placenta so that when Gabriel died, it would allow Ieuan to survive. Mrs Jones said: “I put my hands on my stomach thinking of Gabriel. It was devastating. I had said my goodbyes.”
This to me is unbelievable. I don’t understand how a doctor in good conscience decide that killing a baby slowly is a decent and noble idea. I am at a loss for words. The other thing I don’t understand is this: if the baby dieing inside the womb from natural causes would possibly kill the other baby, then how come the doctors killing the baby inside the womb would not?
Gabriel hung on, and his enlarged heart started to reduce in size. He also gained weight.
The baby managed to hang on to life for another five weeks until the doctors delivered both babies caesarean section. Now the doctors are trying to take credit for saving the life of the baby they tried to kill.
Mrs Jones said: “They thought it may be because the placenta had been divided. Inadvertently, it had evened out the distribution of nutrition between them, allowing Gabriel to survive.’
Both babies are now perfectly healthy and doing well. Just look at this picture below and think to yourself that one of these babies would be dead if the doctors had succeeded in what they wanted to do.
“Hillary Clinton wants to run the largest enterprise in the world. She hasn’t run a corner store. She hasn’t run a state. She hasn’t run a city,” Romney says in the spot. “She has never run anything. And the idea that she could learn to be President as an internship just doesn’t make any sense.”
That quote was from Mitt Romney in a new ad that is now airing in New Hampshire. He was talking about Hillary learning how to govern on the job. She has never been in charge of running anything, as Romney’s quote suggests. Of course this has sparked up controversy over whether he was hinting at the Lewinski scandal. I don’t think he was, but whoever wrote that line probably new what they were doing, it has brought the scandal back into the light, and that can’t be a bad thing. Does America really want to go down(pardon the pun) that road again?
“It’s pointing out that a person like Hillary Clinton has never had the experience of running anything and the government of the United States is the largest enterprise in the world, employs millions of people, trillions of dollars in spending and she’s never run a state, a city or a business,” Romney said.
Whether or not Romney meant it the way it was taken, the fact is somebody in the Romney campaign knew it would garner the reaction it did and I think it was a great line. None of the Democrat candidates have the guts to call out Hillary on the many scandals that plagued her and her husband while she was co-president, and for that reason she is guaranteed the nomination. We need the Republican nominee to show the stones to challenge her on these issues and remind the public of all the scandals and deceit that was in the Clinton white house.
Read the Union Leader article here.
Video:Hillary Clinton, Long on Rhetoric, Short on Answers.
Here is a grat video of Hillary during the last debate followed up by analisys of her answers. Please note that the news coverage isn’t just Fox News, it is also CNN, MSNBC, NBC, and others.
Hat Tip: Grizzly Groundswell
New York Governor is Being Sued to Stop him From Giving Illegal Aliens Driver’s Licenses
Even in liberal New York the people are against Eliot Spitzer ordering the government to give out driver’s licenses to illegal aliens. Spitzer is being sued on behalf of a state taxpayer to halt this insidious program.
“Spitzer wants to use his public office to sanction illegal behavior and put all of us at risk through his plan to give driver licenses to illegal aliens,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which worked with the New York law firm Borovina and Marullo PLLC to file the suit on behalf of Suffolk County resident and taxpayer James Staudenraus.
This is great news, I hope that it has traction. This would be a classic case of rewarding bad behavior. Actually, rewarding criminal behavior. The illegals don’t respect America’s laws enough to follow them to get into the country legally and we are supposed to hand over to them the same rights and privileges that an American citizen or legal alien is afforded. I don’t think so. I am so sick and tired of the argument about how this will bring them out of the shadows and into American society. They don’t belong in American society until they follow procedure and come here legally, it really isn’t that hard to understand. Yet Spitzer and other liberal politicians want to pander to Mexican voters by showing them how much they care about illegal Mexican immigrants that they don’t care about public perception of the future of this country.
It is time for Americans to stand up and say “NO MORE“, and I’m glad to see at least one New Yorker try.
