Let’s Let the Democrats Hang Themselves on This One.

So, Dingy Harry Reid is trying a publicity stint. Fox’s Major Garrett:

Speaking on the Senate floor, Reid said Iraq is the most important issue facing the United States and attempts to block legislation calling for troops to be withdrawn from Iraq will be met with a hardball response.

“We’re going to work on this amendment until we get an up or down vote on it,” he said. Senate Republican leaders, alerted to Reid’s plans on Monday, said they have the votes to keep the president’s surge policy in place, at least for now, and called Reid’s up-all-night gambit a stunt that wouldn’t change any minds.

Senior Democratic leadership aides acknowledged that Reid’s all-nighter — complete with roll-away beds — is meant to draw public attention to GOP demands that any changes to Iraq policy carry a 60-vote majority. “Is this a publicity stunt? Yes,” a senior Democratic aide told FOX News. “This is the only way we know to highlight their complete ignorance of the will of the people!”

The problem with the senior Democratic aide and his assessment of the situation, is that given that Congress has a lower level rating than does president Bush, their assessment of precisely what the will of the people is, is a little off.

As such, and as far as I’m concerned, let’s let the Democrats hang themselves on this one. Let’s let them generate all the publicity that they possibly can. I’m quite serious, here. In the end, the Republicans… and the country as a whole… can only benefit, from the exposure of the Democrats and their cowardly “cut and run” strategy. They’ll never get it passed, anyway.

Republicans predict that amendment will fall well short of the 60 votes required and probably attract no more than 55 votes, possibly fewer. Other non-binding policy changes are expected as well, but nothing is expected to garner the required 60 votes. “The much-discussed Republican revolt has yet to materialize,” a senior GOP aide said.

Update I: (Bit)

Michelle notes the same story and suggests…

f you haven’t read Michael Yon’s latest and Bryan Preston’s latest on Iraq, now’s the time.

Quite. But of greater import, I think is one of the folks in her comments section:

Irrelevance is a bitter pill to swallow, and can lead to meaningless irrational behavior in order to gain attention.

Update II: (David L)

Glenn Reynold, Instapundit, is linking to “Senator Webb announces imminent victory in Iraq.”

I predict that this is another politcal football, Dirty Harry will not get over the goal line.

Update III: (Bit)

Something I noted, on the New York Times website, deserves a brief discussion within this context:

While President George W. Bush continues to pursue his Iraq strategy, and Senate Democrats and Republicans debate the direction of the nation’s war policy, Americans persist in their negativity about how the war is going, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News Poll conducted last Monday through Friday.

Three-quarters of those polled said the war was going badly while just one-quarter said it was going well. This level of negative public opinion has been relatively constant since January.

The party divide on the war remains clear. Republicans are conflicted – they are evenly split, with half saying their president’s war is going well and half saying it is going badly. Democrats, however, overwhelmingly hold a negative assessment of the war, with 92 percent saying the war is going badly.

So, let’s examine this closely.

If, as the article suggests, the level of negative opinion has been relatively stable since the beginning of the year, it means that for all the efforts of the times itself, and for that matter the remainder of the supposedly mainstream media, and the negativity that they’ve been projecting about Iraq, President Bush, etc., and Republicans in general, they’ve not managed to whip up any additional negativity on the part of the electorate, in that area. And boy, have they been trying.
Oddly, the area where the numbers are going down, at a staggering rate, and perhaps because of those efforts, is approval of the Democrats in Congress.  When even the Times admits this amount of polling losses, in whatever venue, it’s an indication of some earthshaking going on.

Think about this; the Democrats have been resisting going to the mat with their “cut and run thinking on Iraq”, because they no that doing so would be extraordinarily unpopular with the American people.   (David Obey, call your office) They resisted the pressure from their extreme left, to put any teeth into their calls for giving up the fight.  They know Americans hate a loser.  They remember well, how they took it on the chin, following Vietnam.

Thing is, they’ve already lost all the support of mainstream America. They can’t get any worse,  there. The only solid demographics they had remaining, was the hard left,  and so the big loss of polling numbers for them right now is the hard left because of their unwillingness to adopt the whacko policies their extreme left has been calling for.
So, what we are seeing in this publicity stunt that Harry Reid and the Democrats are pushing on us, is a desperate attempt to turn things around, numbers wise. The Democrats are in very serious trouble, here, or they’d not be trying this stunt. That trouble takes on larger proportions when one considers momentum going into the next election.

As you may or may not already be aware, members of the Watcher’s Council hold a vote every week on what they consider to be the most link-worthy pieces of writing around…  per the Watcher’s instructions, I am submitting one of my own posts for consideration in the upcoming nominations process.
Here is the most recent winning council post, here is the most recent winning non-council post, here is the list of results for the latest vote, and here is the initial posting of all the nominees that were voted on.

It’s warm around here again, and it’s been humid, and raining.  So I find myself in my office catching up on my reading.  Here’s some thoughts about what I found…

• Just about everybody on the planet has made comment about this supposedly new Usama BinLaden Tape. James Joyner notes the possibility that this is old tape, rehashed for the purpose of making us believe he’s still alive.  Well, you know how it is, when a band been around for while they release a greatest hits album just keep the sales moving.
• So Dennis “Kooky” Kucinich is claiming that John Edwards is cheating. Trying to rig the election.  (Note, please, my reluctance to use “thinks” in the same para with Kucinich’s name… the two are approximately a separate as Andrea Dworkin from the career of runway modeling.) Well, Look; I certainly wouldn’t put it past John Edwards to cheat.  But why he’d expend that kind of effort on a full goose Bozo like Kucinich, is beyond me. I’m forced to assume that this is a vanity play on the part of Kucinich. I mean, if he thinks Edwards is cheating him out of a chance of winning, he’s worse than even I figured.
• In going over some of the commentary this morning on Michael “The Great Rotundo” Moore’s latest propaganda effort, in occurs to me that what we are dealing with here, is someone who can’t quite bring himself to understand the value of individual liberty and freedom and a sense of personal responsibility.  A quick look at the man, should give you a clue as to whether not he’s ever been able to deal with personal responsibility.  I swear; when that massive MI finally comes, Burger King is going to see its stock severely depressed. Rich Lowry has an interesting bit up on the matter over at RCP.
• John Hawkins over at Right Wing News, comes up with what I consider to be an excellent set of points to add to the overall strategy for 2008 for the GOP.  The disagreement I have with John, of course, is that he’s consulting for Duncan Hunter of this point, and I don’t think Hunter is the man to do that.  I do note however, that the positions thus far taken by Fred Thompson, matched all of John’s points rather nicely.
• I notice Paul Krugman still hasn’t got a clue… he claims: “the opponents of universal health care appear to have run out of honest arguments.”… Well, pardon the hel out of ME…. but, at what point in the past has Krugman ever entertained an honest argument, much less offered one? That’s what’s been so infuriating about dealing with his writings, and for that matter that of the whole of the left in this country, anymore.  It is nearly impossible to argue constructively, given the level of dishonesty coming from the left.  Krugman is but one example of this.
• John Edwards talking about poverty is like Rosie O’Donnell giving out beauty tips.
• I noted earlier today and the upcoming demise of the candidacy of John McCain.  I note with some amusement that Jim Gilmore has withdrawn from the race.  I wasn’t even aware he was still running, actually.  But Gilmore’s dropping out does put the slow motion sinking of the McCain candidacy in context; The actual move to resign is anti climatic after the disaster of the campaign waged.
• The investigation of that multi fatality crash between an SUV driving by 5 cheerleaders, and a tractor trailer rig is now claimed to have been caused by the driver text messaging while driving.  Apparently, telephone company records show some text messages being sent moments before the crash.  Thing is, that doesn’t ring true; there were four other people in the truck.  Further, the driver had just completed a rather complex move getting around slower traffic.  I know people are idiots, but come on.  Sorry, I don’t buy that explanation.
• Good to see Rodney Dill back from vacation, and running OTB’s caption contest again. I was going through wisecrack withdrawal symptoms, there.
• $77 million.  That’s what the new Harry Potter flick brought in over the weekend.  $77 million.  Hey, look, I can take half of one of those 77 if you’re not using it…
• Reports are indicating that the parents of Lance Corporal Justin Sharratt, one of the marines exonerated in the matter at Hadditha… plan to make an appearance at the office of Pennsylvania democrat John Murtha. Murtha, as you know, has yet to gather together the integrity needed to apologize for running his mouth in the matter, and calling the marines “murderers” .  Personally, I’d like to be a fly on the wall at that meeting.

Peter Brown, writes for Real Clear Politics:

When one political party tries to influence the other’s presidential primary race the reasonable assumption is that someone is trying to stop the nomination of a candidate that party does not want to face in November.

That’s why a Democrat-aligned group injecting itself into the Republican campaign by alleging that Fred Thompson lobbied for abortion rights is a pretty good indication the other side thinks he has serious potential.

On Blue Crab Boulavard, Garus, adds:

And it has been a remarkable series of negative attacks, obviously planted in a compliant media. I’ve said all along that candidates in both parties should rightfully be frightened of a Thompson run. It sure looks like some are.

And I add, when you read main stream media, think Mrs. Clinton.  If the media is scared of Fred Thompson, it only means that Mrs. Clinton is a afraid of Fred.  Well she should be.

Sen. John McCain’s top three press aides resigned this morning, Republicans close to the campaign said and one of those aides confirmed.

The campaign’s research director and two other press staffers also stepped down.

The departure of Brian Jones, the communications director, Danny Diaz, his deputy, and Matt David, another deputy, had been widely anticipated since last week’s resignation of campaign manager Terry Nelson. All three were Nelson’s proteges and worked closely with departed strategist John Weaver.

Just about everybody on the planet is busy writing John McCain off, including myself.  Of course, we have been, since he declared his candidacy some time ago.  After eight years of the centerist president, the last thing the country wants is a the leftist in centerist clothing that McCain represents.
The deathwatch surrounding John McCain, has brought some predictably partisan comments from the wacko left.  For example Arianna Huffington, who suggests that McCain’s biggest problem was his support for the Iraq war.   And this would seem a plausible argument, until such time as you notice that the leader of the race at the moment, Fred Thompson, also is a supporter of our actions in Iraq.   I guess an argument doesn’t have to make sense for her to print it.  All it really needs to do is fit into the myopic leftist world view.

McCain’s ship is sinking, and will be gone shortly, not because he was leaning right, but because he was listing to the left. Listing so badly in fact that his crew has started to abandon ship.

Look, let’s say this up front… Jim Webb is a blinking squint of an idiot.

here we have a Democrat, trying to do the bidding of this party, by not supporting the troops in the field of battle.  You’d think a Vietnam veteran would know better.  Not this idiot.  And how does he come to the conclusion see does?  It certainly not by way of facts.

“This is one thing I really take objection to — may I speak? — is politicians who try to put their political views into the mouths of soldiers,” Webb said over his opponent’s interruptions. He placed his hand briefly on Graham’s back, then jerked his thumb in the Republican’s direction.

“Have you been to Iraq?” Graham demanded.

“I’ve covered two wars as a correspondent,” Webb said. “I have been to Afghanistan as a journalist.”

Graham: “Have you been to Iraq and talked to the soldiers?”

Webb: “You know, you’ve never been to Iraq, Lindsey.”

The Republican pointed out he’s been there seven times.

“You know,” Webb said dismissively, “you can see the dog and pony shows. That’s what congressman do.

So, when faced with the fact that Gramm had been there, had spoken with the troops, and new far more than Webb did, Webb dismissed the whole thing as irrelevant.

The people who want us to leave Iraq before the job’s done, simply do not know what they are talking about… and Webb is but one demonstration of that lack. 

We made a day trip up to the 1000 islands, over the weekend. Essentially, we were looking for places to camp on our next trip up, and hoped to catch some photos. We were not disappointed in either.

Here’s a snap pf the St Lawrence River , looking northeast from along SR12, east of Clayton.The people who know about such things, tell us that there is more than a thousand islands, there is actually 1700 and change.  Personally, I’m glad I’m not responsible for counting them. 

That’s Canada on the other side. A rather nice rest stop.

As we were there, a ship came by, headed for the ocean. From our spot, (about a mile away), you could just about hear the engine as they idled along.

Our ultimate turn-around was Ogdensburg, NY

We chose this because it’s on the far side of all the campgrounds we were interested in, and also because the river is only about a mile wide at that point. There’s also some lighthouses up there my wife was interested in seeing. This one’s on the American side, taken from perhaps 3/4 of a mile away. It’s the Ogdensburg harbor lighthouse. That’s the Oswegatchie River, you’re looking across. The lighthouse was intended to mark the river, apparently.

I found myself a little disappointed with the picture, now that I see it.  The lighthouse to my eye looks round in this picture.  It’s not.  I gather, that this particular lighthouse is a private residence, these days. 

There’s a few lighthouses on the Canadian side, too.  This is one that was just within my range, and I’m not sure what the name of it is. Also, my attempts to clean up this photograph were not successful.  So, Ill just post it raw. 

Looking the opposite direction from the lighthouse, we see the dock on which I’m standing at the city park, and in the distance you can make out the Ogdensburg bridge, which was originally erected during the the FDR administration.  Again, that’s Canada on the far side.

The boys found themselves a train to check out, as you’d expect at a working port. Apparently, they’re doing a fair phosphate shipping business, here. The power is an SW8, belonging to the NY and Ogdensburg Railway. Originally built in 1959, it’s getting to be a fairly rare beast. NYOG serves the port and has connections with CSX, via the Montreal Subdivision, as well as the river, of course. A little chunky, this shot, but it’s from over two miles away. It also should give some of you the reason why I had such problems cleaning up the earlier Canadian Lightshouse shot. 

All in all, a nice daytrip. We did manage to find a few places we’d like to camp, so those are going to be in our future travels.

If Congressman [Okinawa Jack] Murtha does not personally apologize to the Hilo Company Marines for his intemperate, false and unsupported charges for his own partisan advantage before Congress recesses, upon its return every single member of Congress should be demanding his censure. And anyone who doesn’t demand his censure clearly does not seriously support the troops.

Clarice Feldman, American Thinker.

More, Michelle Malkin.

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MIAMI -AP- A Miami International Airport terminal was briefly evacuated early Monday after authorities found what appeared to be an explosive device but turned out to be harmless.

A watch and other items were spotted in a box that at first appeared to be part of an explosive device, said Transportation Security Administration spokesman Christopher White. The box was in an X-ray machine scanning checked luggage near a United Airlines ticket counter, he said.

“It was a collection of items that, in total, raised our officers’ suspicions to a level of contacting the Miami-Dade (County police) bomb squad,” White said.

Ask me again, why our family drives everywhere we go.

Reno,NV (AP)- A couple who authorities say were so obsessed with the Internet and video games that they left their babies starving and suffering other health problems have pleaded guilty to child neglect.

The children of Michael and Iana Straw, a boy age 22 months and a girl age 11 months, were severely malnourished and near death last month when doctors saw them after social workers took them to a hospital, authorities said. Both children are doing well and gaining weight in foster care, prosecutor Kelli Ann Viloria told the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Michael Straw, 25, and Iana Straw, 23, pleaded guilty Friday to two counts each of child neglect. Each faces a maximum 12-year prison sentence.

If you’re interested, here’s the MySpace page.  Irony abounds, given the charges they face. She says in part:

What’s Wrong With Our Kids?

Do you really have to ask? Open your eyes. The problem isn’t that the next mass murderer may be sitting right next to you, sleeping in your house, eating at your table, giving you every signal of desperation a person can give. The problem is, you don’t want to see it. How else does a child become an emotionally alienated, psychologically twisted, mass murderer, unnoticed by everyone?

They don’t.

Nobody gets that far gone without anyone noticing. We all recognize behavior that raises our concern. We all know when someone is more than just weird. We see it happening, and yet we ignore it, because if we don’t, we’ll have to take responsibility for doing something about it.

She’s got all the words in catch phrases down just so.  The trick, apparently, is the application of those high sounding words.  This whole situation screams “a detachment from reality.  ” She’s a leftist, of course, and one assumes HE is, as well. Gee, I’m shocked by this, aren’t you?
Well, given the mentalities and the lack of connection to reality we’re dealing with here, we now, perhaps, have an explanation for the re-election of Harry Reid, hmmm?

According to the headlines last week, the sun is not to blame for recent global warming: mankind and fossil fuels are. So Al Gore is correct when he said, “the scientific data is in. There is no more debate.”

Of that the evangelical BBC had no doubt. There was an air of triumphalism in its coverage of the report by the Royal Society.

It was perhaps a reaction to the BBC Trust’s recent criticism of the Corporation’s bias when reporting climate change: but sadly, it only proved the point made by the Trust.

The BBC was enthusiastically one-sided, sloppy and confused on its website, using concepts such as the sun’s power, output and magnetic field incorrectly and interchangeably, as well as not including any criticism of the research.

But there is a deeper and more worrying issue. Last week’s research is a simple piece of science and fundamentally flawed. Nobody looked beyond the hype; if they had, they would have reached a different conclusion.

The report argues that while the sun had a significant effect on climate during most of the 20th century, its influence is currently dwarfed by human effects. It says that all known solar influences since about 1990 are downward and because global temperature has increased since then, the sun is not responsible.

No. The research could prove the contrary. Using the global temperature data endorsed by the Inter-national Panel on Climate Change, one can reach a completely different conclusion.

That’s David Whitehouse from the Telegraph.

Any article that starts out with that, has got something going for it to begin with.  But of course, it gets better.

It is undisputed that the sun of the later part of the 20th century was behaving differently from that of the beginning. Its sunspot cycle is stronger and shorter and, technically speaking, its magnetic field leakage is weaker and its cosmic ray shielding effect stronger.

So we see that when the sun’s activity was rising, the world warmed. When it peaked in activity in the late 1980s, within a few years global warming stalled. A coincid-ence, certainly: a connection, possibly.

What this very good article does not mention however is the idea that the rest of the solar system was reporting similar increases and temperature.  None of those planets involved the burning of fossil fuel, the SUV, or indeed, mankind at all.

Update:(Bit)

Protien Wisdom passes on a link to an article by Ex BBC’er Anthony Jay, and here’s just a taste:

We belonged instead to a dispersed “metropolitan-media-arts-graduate” tribe. We met over coffee, lunch, drinks and dinner to reinforce our views on the evils of apartheid, nuclear deterrence, capital punishment, the British Empire, big business, advertising, public relations, the Royal Family, the defence budget… it’s a wonder we ever got home. We so rarely encountered any coherent opposing arguments that we took our group-think as the views of all right-thinking people.

It sounds, for all the world, like your average collection of leftists.  And so it is.  Four, these are mainstream media “news” people  .

This ignorance of the realities of government and management enabled us to occupy the moral high ground. We saw ourselves as clever people in a stupid world, upright people in a corrupt world, compassionate people in a brutal world, libertarian people in an authoritarian world. We were not Marxists but accepted a lot of Marxist social analysis. Some people called us arrogant; looking back, I am afraid I cannot dispute the epithet.

We also had an almost complete ignorance of market economics. That ignorance is still there. Say “Tesco” to a media liberal and the patellar reflex says, “Exploiting African farmers and driving out small shopkeepers”. The achievement of providing the range of goods, the competitive prices, the food quality, the speed of service and the ease of parking that attract millions of shoppers every day does not show up on the media liberal radar.

The third factor arises from the nature of mass media. The Tonight programme had a nightly audience of about eight million. It was much easier to keep their attention by telling them they were being deceived or exploited by big institutions than by saying what a good job the government and the banks and the oil companies were doing.

…

For my money, here’s the clincher:

For a time it puzzled me that after 50 years of tumultuous change the media liberal attitudes could remain almost identical to those I shared in the 1950s. Then it gradually dawned on me: my BBC media liberalism was not a political philosophy, even less a political programme. It was an ideology based not on observation and deduction but on faith and doctrine. We were rather weak on facts and figures, on causes and consequences, and shied away from arguments about practicalities. If defeated on one point we just retreated to another; we did not change our beliefs. We were, of course, believers in democracy. The trouble was that our understanding of it was structurally simplistic and politically naïve. It did not go much further than one-adult-one-vote.

We ignored the whole truth, namely that modern Western civilisation stands on four pillars, and elected governments is only one of them. Equally important is the rule of law. The other two are economic: the right to own private property and the right to buy and sell your property, goods, services and labour. (Freedom of speech, worship, and association derive from them; with an elected government and the rule of law a nation can choose how much it wants of each). We never got this far with our analysis. The two economic freedoms led straight to the heresy of free enterprise capitalism – and yet without them any meaningful freedom is impossible.

But analysis was irrelevant to us. Ultimately, it was not a question of whether a policy worked but whether it was right or wrong when judged by our media liberal moral standards. There was no argument about whether, say, capital punishment worked. If retentionists came up with statistics showing that abolition increased the number of murders we simply rejected them.

Of course, this commentary by Mr. Jay goes far deeper than a simple discussion about the mainstream media , in this case including the BBC, prostituting themselves over  “global warming”.  But I think this series of quotes goes a long way toward explaining the lack of mentality that goes into the nonsense we’ve been seeing over “global warming” of late.

Mr. Jay, apparently feels he and his fellow BBC types were useful idiots to borrow Mona’s phrase. but I find it difficult in the extreme to believe that they’re all that way.  They can’t all be that stupid.

• Michelle Malkin, one of my favorite reads, notes that mental midget Ted Rall never changes. She also notes how we can help the Linnik family. that’s the family of the twelve year old girl killed by the illegal alien on July 4.  The latter of the two, needs your help.  The former, I fear, is beyond help.
• James Joyner notes that the film “The Princess Bride” is now twenty years old.  As he says, “inconceivable!”
• I wonder if that’s a fact that Captain Ed knew, when he posted an interesting article on Usama BinLaden, called “Maybe he’s only MOSTLY dead”.
• I see where North Korea has shut down its nuclear reactor at Yongbyon, after a few years of fruitless negotiations.  Of course, the U.N. is loving this as a major accomplishment.  What they don’t mention very loudly is that the reactor was shut down only after a delivery of 6000 tons of fuel oil, and a lot of back and forth over $25 million of blocked bank accounts… accounts that were involved in money laundering, and counterfeiting.  The question now becomes, now that the thing is been shut down, do we actually dismantle it?  I tend to doubt the united nations as thought quite so far ahead.  As a result, the next time North Korea finds itself short of fuel oil were cash, they’ll simply restart , and start the negotiation process all over again.  I would say that North Korea has this blackmail thing down pretty well; except for the idea that the U.N. actually has it working better.
• Noted on Riehl World View: a video on our progress in Iraq…. the story the Democrats, and their pals in the MSM, won’t tell you. I would say that what we’re seeing constitutes some serious progress.  And I wonder if the Democrats are going to admit to this.  I rather tend to doubt it.  It’s interesting; the Democrats have been basically ignoring the idea of the number of territories that the Iraqis have been taking the lead on into care 80, since the search began.  They have instead, tended to focus on the level of violence in the whole of Iraq. I will get into an extended version of this discussion later this week.  But, quickly; at Democrat insistence, we’ve been turning over large areas of the country to Iraqi control.  The people who we are turning this control over two have been quickly gathered and hastily trained, and as such have slightly different methods for controlling such violence.  How the Democrats could now expect anything different than what we’re seeing, given the increased rate of turnover of responsibility to the Iraqis, is the question I think they’d rather not address.
• I have said often enough in these spaces, that the fastest way to destroy a culture, is to stop teaching the young people of that culture, its history.  It is from our history, from which our values rise.  I have also said often enough, that government schools are largely responsible for what failures have occurred in this area.  I have suggested that this is an intentional move on the part of our government schools.  So imagine if you will, my lack of surprise when I see the British government exemplifying my comments. There is, I fear, only one possible outcome from this omission that’s being called for by the British schools.
• Speaking of all that, the Brits are not alone, here. Boortz‘s Friday column, which I finally got round to reading this morning, contains an example of this kinda thing here in the US. Are you aware that in Brooklyn, there is a government paid for, all Muslim school?  The principal there is someone CAIR… a terrorist organization, calls a friend…  The outrage of using our own funds to preach against us, by government force, aside… what of segregation, and where is the argument of separation of church and state?
• William Kristol makes the point today that we’re not involved in a Civil war in Iraq. Know what?  He’s quite correct. His point is simple to prove; the number of external players from Iran, Syria, north Africa, and so on.  A civil war, is by definition, an internal struggle only.  It does not involve outside players. Any questions, Class?

I find myself as pleased about this as I have been about anything on this site in a long time…. Please allow me to welcome back to my Blog Roll, Snugg Harbor.

I lost track of Guy there for a while, and frankly feared we’d lost him.  So imagine my smiles when I noted a crosslink today from my automatics.  It’s good to see you, Guy. I must say, that you’re writing , good as it was back in the day, has improved with this new site.

• Power Line: Shall I hold my breath waiting on the apology?
• Rich Lowry at The Corner: I wonder if Mr. Murtha will now issue an apology to the Marines he’s slandered.  I somehow doubt it.
• Palmetto Football Talk: Perhaps it’s time for him to apologize.
• Free Republic: Should We Demand That John Murtha Apologize to Lance Cpl. Justin L. Sharratt?
• Murtha Must Go:Will Jack Murtha, who has stated over and over again that he steadfastly supports our troops, render an apology to those brave Marines whose lives were completely destroyed, largely due to his efforts?
• Diana Irey, Republican Congressional nominee to the 12th district:”The only REAL question remaining is, is Jack Murtha man enough to admit he was wrong and apologize to the Marine officers he smeared?”

….and so it goes. These are merely a handful of the people asking the question “Where is the apology, John Murtha?” 

And where are the Democrats on this one, the rank and file, who were so busy following this moron, Murtha, when he was so popular because he was mounting anti-Bush and anti-Military, and frankly, anti-American sentiments? Where is their integrity?  Why are the Democrats not taking Murtha to task?  They should be apologizing, as well.  And where is the press, on this one?  Why are they not pressuring Murtha? Why were they so quick to jump on the bandwagon he invited them on?  Why were they not fact checking, for themselves?
Alas, I think neither of them have the integrity to do so.
Recently, we had the case of a Democrat prosecutor in North Carolina  who decided to use a rather shaky and frankly unprovable case, to bolster his reelection chances.  In other words he played politics with the lives of the people that he was prosecuting.  That is now days, we referred to as “being Nifong’d”.

Having the same thing happen when the over-eager mouth belongs to a congress critter, looking to bolster HIS political power, should henceforth be called a “Murtha”.

Michael Moore is as mad as heck, and he is not gong to take it any more.  Moore is still steamed by being trashed by Wolf Blizter, and is now threatening CNN:

Well, the week is over — and still no apology, no retraction, no correction of your glaring mistakes.

I bet you thought my dust-up with Wolf Blitzer was just a cool ratings coup, that you really wouldn’t have to correct the false statements you made about “Sicko.” I bet you thought I was just going to go quietly away.

Think again. I’m about to become your worst nightmare. ‘Cause I ain’t ever going away. Not until you set the record straight, and apologize to your viewers. “The Most Trusted Name in News?” I think it’s safe to say you can retire that slogan.

Moore says he about to become CNN’s worst nightmare. I sure they going to lose a lot of sleep in Atlanta.

Addendum: (Bit)

Consider the irony here:
CNN has become a target, for simply telling the truth about a liberal. CNN telling the truth about a liberal is something that’s happened so rarely before that I’m sure Rotundo feels himself singled out.

But let’s consider most closely, the charge of CNN pulling this to improve ratings.  What the Great Rotundo is tacitly admitting to, here, is that a huge number American people… dare I say a majority… would like to see him taken down several pegs.

Kinda makes you wonder, about the reasons behind his trying to create a new Healthcare system so we’ll all have “free” health care, doesn’t it? Why would someone so universally disliked, one to perform such a “public service”?