Give Public Broadcasting its Freedom…Now
A great case for removing NPR/CPB from the government teat.
Neal Boortz has a firm handle on why Dean’s in trouble:
“How long does it take for the bloom to fade off a rose who:
*Wants to raise taxes on every single living American who actually pays taxes.
*Can’t say that Osama bin Laden was responsible for 9/11 .. but can say that Bush may have known about it beforehand.
*Tells us how happy he would be to to use our military to defend our interests … but only if the United Nations give him ‘permission.’
*Has a campaign driven by a hoard of know-it-all, bulletproof young adults who know the ins and outs of the Internet, but who couldn’t write a cogent paragraph on economic policy if their tongue piercings depended on it.
*Wants Osama bin Laden tried in an international court for attacking Americans on their own soil.
*Shares his amazement with the rest of us that people in the South actually practice their religion openly. “
Again, it’s points of light like this that keep him in my reading list, regardless of the disageemets I have with the man.
Yes, I know, I normally don’t link the NYT, for seveal reasons.
This time, though, there’sa reason. When even THEY admit things like this….
Dean Starts Watching His Words:
“BURLINGTON, Vt., Jan. 7 — With a wary eye on Gen. Wesley K. Clark’s rise in national and New Hampshire polls, Howard Dean’s campaign has begun to limit his availability to the press, and the candidate himself is watching his words after several recent statements unleashed a storm of criticism from opponents.
Dr. Dean, who has spent two years campaigning as the candidate willing to say what he thinks, initially told reporters that he would be ‘happy’ to discuss his tax policy. Then, as aides glared at him, he immediately said a senior adviser had ‘veto power’ over what he would say.”
So, who is going to have the veto power if this idiot gets elected?
Here’s the thing; Dean’s in trouble because he’s getting the press coverage. Not that the press coverage isn’t freindly; it always is to liberal Democrats. But there’s only so far one can “positive spin” morons like Dean. Weasley Clark, meanwhile, hasn’t been getting much press coverage, so his gaffes… and yes, Virginia, they do exist… have not had the exposure as yet. They will, however… particualrly his earlier statements… which while not heavily covered, are on record, and will becomes bones of contention as Dean seeks to redeem himself, by attacking Clark.
And all President Bush has to do is be President, and stand back and watch these two kill each other off.
I mentioned a while ago I was just waiting for some leftist moron to puke up some way of blaming President Bush for the Earthquakes around Bam, Iran.
More Bush Nazi crap.
These idiots are as I say, getting desperate.
The Volokh Conspiracy has some comments on the Bush immigration announcement today. I’ve not fully formed an opinion on this one, yet.
“The key plank is to give illegal workers a three or possibly six-year temporary visa if they step forward with an [illegal] job in hand. When the temporary visa expires, then they have to leave the country. In the meantime they could apply for a greencard, although they would not receive preferential treatment.”
Reasonable. The thing getting addressed here is the *undocumented* illegals, which in terms of security is the biggest problem. Granted that some questionable messages get sent, but now we have a better idea of who’s here. The strategy, at least on that level, and vis’a’vie national security, is sound. I haven’t read the press releases yet…(there’s quite a few) but this is not looking overly bad, security wise. More comments as I learn more.
U.S. forces discover yet another mass grave in Iraq :
“WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. forces in Iraq have discovered another mass grave in Iraq believed to contain the bodies of hundreds of Shiite Muslims slain by toppled President Saddam Hussein’s forces in 1991, a senior U.S. defense official said on Tuesday.”
Go ahead. Tell us how we’d be better of with him in power.
Dennis Prager: Jimmy Carter: ‘Compassion for Mordor’
If anyone needed any confirmation of how Looney the Peanut farmer is, they need only read this article.
Prager, though a bit of storyteling, suggests that Mr. Carter’s logic about how world affairs should be handled, is lacking.
Newsday.com: Kucinich Shows Pie Chart on Radio Debate:
“DES MOINES, Iowa — Federal spending was the topic and Democratic presidential hopeful Dennis Kucinich came prepared with a pie chart to argue his point about a bloated Pentagon budget.
But although many listened to Tuesday’s presidential debate, few could see the Ohio congressman’s prop. “
Step away from the crack pipe, Dennis…..
Ohio Woman Claims $162M Lottery Jackpot:
“Rebecca Jemison, 34, of suburban South Euclid, turned in the ticket for the 11-state Mega Millions jackpot at Ohio Lottery headquarters. The lottery validated it Tuesday as the sole winning ticket for the drawing.
The woman with the competing claim, Elecia Battle, filed a lawsuit later Tuesday asking a Cuyahoga County judge to block the lottery from paying Jemison.
‘My ticket was lost. I do recall all the numbers. They are all somehow family related. No one can tell me what I did and did not play. I did it honestly and I have no doubt,’ Battle told The Associated Press at the office of her attorney, Sheldon Starke.
Earlier, Jemison said the competing claim by Battle, 40, of Cleveland, prompted her to quit stalling and collect the prize from the Dec. 30 drawing.
Police, who originally had said Battle’s story was credible, said they were investigating whether she had lied in a police report, a misdemeanor punishable by 30 days to six months in jail.”
Now, the woman the police now suspect of making a false claim, has a bit of a history that will explain quite a bit… Smoking Gun has the details.
DEBKAfile is reporting a similar and more detailed account of my Boortz posting this morning, and again, this is what I’ve been saying all along. How WILL the Democrats react, I wonder?
“Nizar Najoef, a Syrian journalist who recently defected from Syria to Western Europe and is known for bravely challenging the Syrian regime, said in a letter Monday, January 5, to Dutch newspaper “De Telegraaf,” that he knows the three sites where Iraq’s WMD are kept. The storage places are:
1. Tunnels dug under the town of al-Baida near the city of Hama in northern Syria. These tunnels are an integral part of an underground factory, built by the North Koreans, for producing Syrian Scud missiles. Iraqi chemical weapons and long-range missiles are stored in these tunnels.
2. The village of Tal Snan, north of the town of Salamija, where there is a big Syrian airforce camp. Vital parts of Iraq’s WMD are stored there.
3. The city of Sjinsjar on the Syrian border with the Lebanon, south of the city Homs.
Najoef writes that the transfer of Iraqi WMD to Syria was organized by the commanders of Saddam Hussein’s Special Republican Guard, including General Shalish, with the help of Assif Shoakat , Bashar Assad’s cousin. Shoakat is the CEO of Bhaha, an import/export company owned by the Assad family.
In February 2003, a month before America’s invasion in Iraq, DEBKAfile and DEBKA-Net-Weekly were the only media to report the movement of Iraqi WMD, the efforts to bring them from Iraq to Syria, and the personal involvement of Bashar Assad and his family in the operation.
Najoef, who has won prizes for journalistic integrity, says he wrote his letter because he has terminal cancer. “
Also on the story: World Net Daily
SlantPoint suggests that Syria may in fact use these. They link a story in the Asian StraitsTimes, which reports:
LONDON – Syrian President Bashar Assad yesterday rejected British and United States calls to renounce weapons of mass destruction (WMD), saying Syria was entitled to defend itself.
Asked about American and British claims that Syria had such weapons, London’s Daily Telegraph reported that he stopped short of the categorical denial which had been his government’s stock response until now.
So, he’s changed his play just recently huh? Gee, what do you suppose THAT means, eh? Keep a tight watch on this stuff; This week I think will tell the tale, now that the press has hold of it.
Think Americans don’t support what we’re doing in the middle east?
Look at this one, and think again.
DRUDGE is reporting that:
“A SECOND ADVERT WHICH COMPARES PRESIDENT BUSH TO HITLER STREAMED ON MOVEON.ORG, THE DRUDGE REPORT HAS LEARNED. THE NEW HITLER SPOT FEATURED THE GRAPHIC ‘SPONSORED BY MOVEON.ORG.'”
MOVEON, of course is swearing they didn’t know, they’re not responsible, they regret no having caught the ads before they made it to the site, and so on.
MoveOn.org spokesman Trevor Fitzgibbon said, “we had no idea the Hitler thing even existed.”
So, what Rock have you been living under, Trevor? Have you even been reading the output of your rank and file supporters? A look in alt.politics will give you the clue… Even a shallow search of Google’s Usenet portal displays 328,000 such posts, most going back years.
A similar search on the web pages shows an even larger number of hits. I find it hard to fathom that a group of people so centered on the net wouldn’t know this kind of non-thinking was out there.
Sorry, this innocent act doesn’t wash. This is Soros driving this.
But here’s the bottom line: Even if you assume MOVEON’s innocence in the matter…(a large unwarranted assumption, in my view) this incident still exposes what is driving the left. Sheer hatred, and nothing more.
This is not love of country driving these people, it’s hatred for it.
This is desperation in search of a path back to power.
Consider their plight;
Bush has Iraq in hand, and we now know where the WMD are, that the left has been claiming Mr Bush was lying about.
The Afghan people have a new constitution, and the Taliban, what there is left of them, are on the run.
Their supports removed, the PLO is no longer a major factor.
Libya has fallen into line.
Korea, as well.
Bush has managed to get a drug bill into law that the left has never been able to, even when they held power in all three branches, by a wider margin than the Republicans do today, indicating the success rates they’ll have at getting the job done when given more of a majority.
Bush has the Domestic economy flying high, the markets are sailing along as they have not done since Ronald Reagan was in office.
Look at the numbersfor the last year:
DJIA +25.3%
S&P 500 +26.4%
Nasdaq +50.0%
Jobless rates are coming back down, pay is going up, productivity is also going up. The states are back out of the financial trouble they were in under Bill Clinton.
Speaking of which, the American public need not be concerned anymore about their president having the sexual behavior of the average stray terrier; respect for the office has now been reinstated; Americans are feeling pretty good about their country as a result, and the polls are continuing to show this week on week.
All these trends are looking like they will continue to improve, with Bush at the helm, and all they can offer is movement away from policies and attitudes that are proving correct at every single turn; any move away from what Mr Bush is doing is clearly shown as counter productive. But what else can the Democrats offer?
In any election, the task set before anyone seeking to oust an incumbent, is to convince the voting public that moving away from the incumbent and his policies, are in the interests of that voting public, and the country as a whole.
So, the Democrats are desperate because, bluntly, their task of explaining to the voter why replacing the man responsible for all this good news, is in their best interest, is getting ever more impossible, and frankly downright laughable.
And in the doing, the Democrat’s positions and complaints are looking ever more like the traitorous, raw, power lust it is.
TheAtlanta Journal and Constitution is reporting, this morning, from CNN’s home base that:
“Fox grew the most in prime time, averaging 1.7 million viewers for the 8 to 11 p.m. time slot, a 45 percent increase. CNN averaged 1.1 million, a 22 percent increase. Fox also grew slightly more than CNN among 25- to 54-year-olds, a key demographic for selling advertising.”
“You knew the time would come when Saddam’s Weapons of Mass Destruction would be found, and the Democrats and their liberal pals in the media would have to admit George W. Bush and Tony Blair were justified in invading Iraq and overthrowing Saddam Hussein. Well, set the table and get the crow ready, because according to intelligence sources cited by an exiled opposition party, Syria is hiding Iraq’s WMD in 3 locations. They say they were smuggled in wooden crates and are being hidden by a relative of Syrian President Bashar Assad.”
It is, then, *exactly* as I suggested, both here and on Usenet.
What are the leftists going to do when this news hits the fan? Denial only works for so long…
