Bill Maher Wishes Dick Cheney Were Dead
Here is a link to an article about Bill Maher. He said on his show he is sorry Dick Cheney didn’t die in the assassination attempt last week. This man is a disgrace to the country, he is one of the most dispicable people on television. He is one who routes for our defeat so a liberal Democrat will win in ‘08. Again, I have said it many times on this blog, this just proves it again, the Democrats would rather win the whitehouse in ‘08 than the war on terror. I will keep saying it until we win the war on terror, or until you Democrats come around and realize this is a real war. George Bush is not the enemy, America is not the enemy. Islamo-fascists are the enemy. GET IT THROUGH YOUR HEADS!
Read this:
newsbusters.org/stories/maher_sorry_cheney_assasination_attempt_
failed.html
Romney Tops Conservative Straw Poll
From news.yahoo.com, this could make things more interesting. I wouldn’t consider Romney a true conservative, but he’s better than the candidates on the other side of the isle.
Sam Brownback, one man I have my eye on, did pretty well in this poll. Things are going to get interesting before all is said and done.
Here is the article:
By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON – Mitt Romney won the most support for the Republican presidential nomination in a straw poll of GOP activists attending an annual conference.
Despite his record of inconsistency on some social issues, the former Massachusetts governor got 21 percent of the 1,705 votes cast by paid registrants to the three-day Conservative Political Action Conference. They were asked who their first choice would be for the Republican nomination.
Rudy Giuliani, the former New York City mayor whose moderate stances on social issues irks the party’s right wing, was second with 17 percent.
Both were among the more than half-dozen White House hopefuls who spoke at the conference.
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., who rounds out the top tier of serious GOP contenders, skipped the event — and was punished for it. He got only 12 percent of the vote.
Ahead of him were Romney, Giuliani and two others. Sen. Sam Brownback (news, bio, voting record) of Kansas, a favorite of religious conservatives, got 15 percent, while former House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia, who says he won’t decide whether to run until the fall, got 14 percent.
A year ago, then-Virginia Sen. George Allen received 22 percent of the vote. His presidential chances evaporated last year as he struggled to win — and eventually lost — his Senate re-election race. In that CPAC poll last year, McCain had 20 percent, Giuliani had 12 percent, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had 10 percent, and Gingrich had 5 percent.
Democrats Defend The Culture Of Corruption Part 2
This doesn’t even go into the fact that William Jefferson(D-LA) took resources away from Katrina victims to try and cover up his problem. See here mpinkeyes.wordpress.com/2007/02/28/democrats-defend-the-culture-of-corruption/. Can you imagine if this were a Republican?
From americanthinker.com:
Where’s The Courage?
On or about August 1st of 2005 Rep. William Jefferson (D-La.) was filmed accepting $100,000 in cash from a man wearing an FBI wire. Two days later, the FBI raided Rep. Jefferson’s home and found most of the money tightly wrapped in aluminum foil in his freezer. This was the high point in a 14 month investigation involving allegations of influence peddling, bribe taking and other nefarious activities.Almost a year later and after numerous attempts by the FBI to have Jefferson cooperate in the investigation, the FBI used an 83 page affidavit in obtaining a warrant to search Jefferson’s office in the Rayburn Building. You get caught with $90,000 in bribe money and the FBI expects to find more incriminating evidence in your office? The search itself set of a storm of indignation on Capitol Hill. Not because Jefferson is an alleged thief who has sullied the reputation of lawmakers, but because the sanctity of the equal branch of government has been violated by the search.
In the meantime Jefferson stands for re-election and guess what? Dollar Bill gets returned to the scene of the crime. Now comes some even more bizarre goings on. With the changing of the majority guard in the house, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is now faced with the prospect of Jefferson sitting on the Ways and Means Committee. After repeated refusals of requests for him to resign from the committee and despite the efforts of the House Black Caucus to retain him, House Democrats voted 99-58 to strip him of his membership. It is rather a chilling result when you consider that 58 members of his party felt he was deserving of his seat after it became public that he was accepting cash.
Here we are 2 years and six months since Rep. Jefferson’s film debut and the news today is not about him being indicted or going on trial. The news today is that the “most ethical congress in history” will allow “Dollar Bill” to be appointed to the Homeland Security Committee.Although Speaker Pelosi and House Democrats allowing Jefferson to have any kind of a role while this cloud hangs over him deserves ridicule, it is the Justice Department that is to blame.
The reasoning behind such a slow pace is explained in a piece from the New Orleans City Journal by Jeff Crouere:
“One staffer in the U.S. Attorney’s office in the Eastern District of New Orleans confidentially predicts quick action in the Jefferson investigation after the election is over Dec. 9. Jefferson reportedly will be indicted right after the election regardless of whether he wins or loses. Usually, the federal government shies away from indicting a public official during the midst of a campaign because of the political implications”.
My, how considerate of the government. I wonder just how much consideration you or I would get if we had accepted $100,000 from an informant wearing an FBI wire? I think being cuffed and carted off in a cruiser in front of friends, family or co-workers is the standard treatment for non-congressional alleged felons.Well the election is long over and we have the specter of a suspected major security risk sitting on one of the most sensitive congressional committees and still no action by the Justice Department. What can be the reason? Are they being careful, are they just slow, or are they simply incompetent?
Why I Believe The Surge Is Working
I believe the surge is working. I have noticed a lack of reporting in the mainstream media lately about the Iraq war.
Does this mean nothing is happening over there? Of course not. What it means is that the surge is working. The mainstream media has taken great pleasure in giving us the death toll every chance they get. We hear about evey suicide bombing, and attack on our troops. The lack of reporting on Iraq means the attacks, bombings, and violence are way down.
Freerepublic.com reports the following:
Early indications are that the troop surge into Baghdad is working. It hasn’t been reported on widely, but murders in Baghdad are down 70%, attacks are down 80%, Mahdi Army chief Moqtada al-Sadr has reportedly made off for Iran, and many Baghdadis who had fled the violence now feel it’s safe enough to return.
Does the media deem it necessary to report this? No. Why? Because the surge is working, and that makes the president look good. American troops are securing Baghdad.Does this mean there will be no more American casualties? No. Casualties are an unfortunate part of war.
As soon as there are more casualties to report, rest assured the war will be in the media again. Do you ever hear about our soldiers performing acts of bravery? Or all the good we have done over there? No, because that would also make the president look good.
Even our victories are potrayed as losses. Remember when we killed Zarqawi, this wasn’t portrayed as a victory. The media just said this would increase the violence because we angered our enemy.
So the old adage really does apply here, no news is good news. Unfortunately good news is bad for the Democrats, so it isn’t reported.
Even as the Democrats oppose the surge, the surge seems to be having grea success. This is very bad news for the Democrats as they look to the whitehousr in ’08. As America takes control of Baghdad, and eventually turns the country over to Iraqis, the Democrats will have no clear choise but to support it, which they won’t.
This will end up spelling defeat for the Democrats in ’08,but victory in Iraq for the USA.
I know Iraq will be in the news again as soon as the US takes casualties again, and someone will post a comment to this post that says something like ” how’s that surge working now”. But we have to remember that we are fighting the good fight, the noble fight. We can end Jihad once and for all if we just have the fortitude to see it through to the end. And that is the victory that Republicans(and Joe Leiberman) hope for in ’08
ACLU Suffers Loss In CIA Torture Case
The ACLU suffered a loss in the CIA torture case filed by Khaled el-Masri when the case was dismissed. This is a victory for America, as these people don’t deserve American due process in America’s courts if they are not Americans. They don’t have our rights because they are not Americans. Our constitution doesn’t apply to them.
From news.yahoo.com:
Appeals Court Dismisses CIA Torture Lawsuit
By James Vicini Fri Mar 2, 4:40 PM ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A U.S. appeals court on Friday upheld the dismissal of a lawsuit against former CIA Director George Tenet and 10 CIA employees by a German who says he was kidnapped and tortured by the U.S. spy agency about three years ago.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the appeals court based in Richmond, Virginia, agreed with U.S. government arguments that moving forward with the lawsuit by Khaled el-Masri, a German of Lebanese origin, would pose a risk of exposing state secrets. Read more…
The Democrats’ War
This is from nationalreview.com:
The Democrats’ War
It wasn’t only Bush who thought it was best to invade Iraq.
By Deroy Murdock
In the next few weeks, President Bush should deliver a speech along these lines…
My fellow Americans:
March 2007 marks the fourth anniversary of the U.S.-led liberation of Iraq. Operation Iraqi Freedom’s final outcome remains uncertain. But despite the chaos shown on TV every evening, and the challenges that emerge every morning, this effort has yielded plenty of good. America and its allies deposed a bloodthirsty despot who dispatched 300,000 of his constituents to mass graves. Saddam Hussein now occupies his own grave and no longer threatens his countrymen and neighbors.
Hussein’s general store for Islamofascist terrorists is now kaput, as is the Baathist state that had used and still possessed weapons of mass death, though in smaller quantities than we expected. While we never found warehouses full of WMDs, we did discover a vial of live botulinum, a seven-pound block of cyanide salt, 500 artillery shells filled with mustard gas and sarin nerve agent, and 1.77 metric tons (3,894 pounds) of low-enriched uranium.
In addition, if Baghdad’s elected officials can restore stability, a free and prosperous Iraq could inspire beleaguered Middle Easterners elsewhere to demand the same from their governments.
The valor and sacrifice of American and coalition forces involved in this effort deeply move this grateful nation. But I also want to thank several brave Democrats who helped get us here today.
“Saddam Hussein is a tyrant who has tortured and killed his own people, even his own family members, to maintain his iron grip on power,” Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D., N.Y.) said while debating the Iraq War resolution in October 2002. “He used chemical weapons on Iraqi Kurds and on Iranians, killing over 20,000 people.”
Hussein, Clinton added, “has also given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al Qaeda members.”
Clinton was correct. Saddam Hussein sprayed poison gas on his own people and sprayed cash on terrorists from the West Bank to West Street. After al Qaeda’s February 1993 bombing of Manhattan’s World Trade Center, Saddam Hussein gave Iraqi Abdul Rahman Yasin a stipend and a house in Baghdad. Yasin built the bomb that rocked the Twin Towers, killing six and injuring 1,040.
Clinton was absolutely right in 2002. I thank her for her leadership and for giving me the authority to unseat this butcher.
“It would be naive to the point of grave danger not to believe that, left to his own devices, Saddam Hussein will provoke, misjudge, or stumble into a future, more dangerous confrontation with the civilized world.”
Senator John Kerry (D., Mass.) was justified in saying this. Hussein invaded Iran and Kuwait. He was a highly destabilizing force. Senator Kerry was astute to recognize this danger, and I thank him for empowering me to neutralize this global menace.
As then-Senator John Edwards (D., N.C.) said during that debate: Hussein had “violated the cease-fire agreement. The reality is that we can’t allow him to continue on the track he is. And I also believe that we can’t be secure, and the region can’t be secure, as long as he’s still in power.”
Senator Edwards was on the money. Almost daily, Hussein shot at U.S. and allied military aircraft patrolling over Iraq. Regional peace was likely impossible while Hussein paid $25,000 bonuses to the families of Palestinian homicide bombers who blasted themselves apart on buses in Jerusalem and cafes in Tel Aviv.
I thank Senator Edwards for his wisdom, and for his vote to unplug this thug.
These three, along with 26 other Senate Democrats, joined 82 House Democrats to authorize this conflict. Unreliable as pre-war intelligence may have been regarding the scope of Hussein’s WMDs, these 111 Democrats accepted the analyses that I honestly and sincerely shared with them. In March 2005, the Silverman/Robb Commission said it “found no evidence of ‘politicization’ of the intelligence community’s assessments concerning Iraq’s reported WMD programs.”
Let me thank these three Democrats, and the 108 others who voted to remove Saddam Hussein, for their courage and support as America decided to liberate Iraq. What happens next over there is unclear. What we do know is that America’s mission in Iraq is not just my war — it’s their war, too.
— Deroy Murdock is a New York-based columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a media fellow with the Hoover Institution.
Al Gore Pays Carbon Credits To Himself
Below is a link to a blog called ecotality.com.
This is an article that claims that the company Al Gore buys his cabon credits from is actually his own company. He is paying himself for the enormous amount of energy he consumes. Never mind the fact that he doesn’t follow his own advice and conserve energy to save the planet, he’s profiting from it.
Read about it here www.ecotality.com/blog/?p=350
Mitt Romney In New Hampshire
Mitt Romney was in New Hampshire yesterday and had some interesting comments. I may be coming around on him a little bit.
Here is an article fom the New Hampshire Union Leader about his visit here:
Romney: Spending Cap, Programs Review Crucial
By Garry Gano
New Hampshire Union Leader Staff
MANCHESTER – Republican Presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday proposed a cap on federal spending increases and a “tip-to-toe” re-evaluation of all federal agencies, programs and procurements.
In an interview at the New Hampshire Union Leader yesterday, the former Massachusetts governor said he would limit non-military, discretionary federal spending to the rate of the consumer price index minus 1 percentage point. Read more…
Al Gore Breaches Airport Security
Just an example about how the laws don’t apply to Al Gore. At least he doesn’t think so.
I would make Al Gore go through security too, I think he’s gone insane.
From newschannel5.com:
Former vice president Al Gore was involved in a security breach at the Nashville Airport when an American Airlines employee led him and his entourage around security, a clear violation of policy.
“There are no exceptions. Everyone must go through security,” airport spokesperson Lynn Lowrance said.
Wednesday at the Nashville Airport, Gore arrived with two others and airport. Sgt. Gary Glover with airport police waited for his arrival and to go through security.
“He made his way to security, waiting for him to come through the check area, then he saw him pop up past security in a sterile area,” Lowrance said.
Gore and his group bypassed the metal detectors, a blatant security breach. Lowrance said an American Airlines employee took Gore around security directly to the gate.
“Everyone who comes through this public airport terminal must be screened, so it’s a breach of rules. It’s serious,” Lowrance said.
The airline employee took Gore down an elevator and then through a secure door. She ran her security card through the electronic lock a total of three times to let Gore and his two colleagues pass through the turnstile one at a time.
Airport police quickly caught up with them and Gore willingly went through security.
It was unknown if the former vice president requested the special treatment or it was offered and he accepted, but it did violate airport policy.
Late Thursday afternoon, a spokesperson for Al Gore said he did not request any special treatment to get around security.
Airport officials said the former vice president made no complaints when confronted. He and his two friends willingly went back through the security system.
Airport police think this may have been a case of the employee simply being too accommodating. Her name was not released. She was cited for a breach of rules, and will be required to retake an airport security class.
Airport police said the incident goes to show just how closely they monitor passenger security.
A person being escorted by an armed federal officer is the only person allowed to bypass security.
Why Republicans Are Happy Right Now
This is an article from time .com:
Why Republicans Are Smiling
1. The surge. Nothing was more demoralizing last year to supporters of the war than the sense that Bush was refusing to alter course out of misguided loyalty to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld and General George Casey. The ouster of Rumsfeld and Casey and the announcement of a new strategy backed up by additional troops and a new commander, General David Petraeus, gave hope to those who still think success is possible in Iraq–which, polls show, is still a healthy majority of Republicans.
2. Congress. The bad news of November 2006 was that the Republicans lost their majorities on Capitol Hill. The good news is that the Democrats are now in control. It’s difficult to be in charge of Congress, especially when your grass roots are pushing you to do something about the war, and it’s hard to do anything without seeming to undercut the troops or denying Petraeus a chance to succeed. Mitch McConnell’s performance as Senate Republican leader has also–for the first time in a long while–given Republicans a congressional leader worth rooting for as he outmaneuvers the Democrats in their efforts to put Congress on record against Bush’s Iraq policy.
3. The 2008 Democratic field. Hillary Clinton, as Hollywood chieftain David Geffen has famously pointed out, looks beatable in a general election. Barack Obama is impressive but Republicans find it hard to believe he’ll be our next President. The second time doesn’t seem to be the charm for John Edwards. And Al Gore, who could be the nominee, still isn’t a natural pol. There are serious Democrats who have won in red or purple states: former Governors Mark Warner of Virginia and Tom Vilsack of Iowa, Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana and Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico. But the first three have dropped out of the presidential race, and Richardson is polling at 2% and looks unlikely to make it into the top tier. Hillary is the least left-wing of the leading Democratic candidates. To a Republican, that says it all.
4. The 2008 Republican field. Republicans look likely to nominate one from a trio of “metro Republicans,” to use the term applied to Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney by Noemie Emery in the Weekly Standard. Emery writes, “None hails from the South, none looks or sounds country, none is conspicuous for traditional piety … [but] each is a strong conservative on many key issues, while having a dissident streak on a few. Each has a way of presenting conservative views that centrists don’t find threatening, and projecting fairly traditional values in a language that secular voters don’t fear.” Each has shown an ability to get independent and even Democratic votes. Democrats won the national vote in 2006 by about 8 points. Republican front runner Giuliani now beats Democratic front runner Clinton in polls by about that margin.
5. Fresh ideas. I don’t sense that conservatism is exhausted. There’s new thinking on domestic policy that could serve as the basis of an interesting agenda for the G.O.P. nominee. Ross Douthat and Reihan Salam explain in their forthcoming book on “Sam’s Club Republicans” how the G.O.P. can do a better job of responding to the anxieties of working and middle-class Americans in areas like tax policy and health insurance, and the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Yuval Levin suggests a complementary policy agenda–“Putting Parents First,” he calls it–aimed at those same swing voters. In foreign policy, the U.S. will still be at war in 2008–and despite Bush’s travails, Republicans still seem likely to be able to claim to be the party of American strength.
It’s worth remembering that off-year elections often aren’t predictors of the outcome of the next presidential one. The 1994 Republican off-year sweep was followed by Bill Clinton’s easy 1996 victory over Bob Dole. The 1986 Democratic take-back of the Senate and the 1987 Iran-contra scandal didn’t prevent then Vice President George H.W. Bush from dismantling Michael Dukakis in 1988. 2006 was a bad year for the G.O.P. 2008 may not be.
