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Tuesday, December 30, 2003
Very funny Saturday Night Live transcript of a fake ad featuring Al Gore's endorsement of Howard Dean.
The big USA Today piece on political blogging mentions many friends of ours, including the official Bush blog and links to Bloggers for Bush.
Monday, December 29, 2003
Nice column in The Dallas Morning News by a Canadian who is a "recovering liberal" battling the "hate Bush" types in Canada.
The state of Ohio will most definately be a key battleground in a close election and it looks like both parties will spend whatever they have to to win it.
Here is a profile of soon-to-be-former Ambassador to the Czech Republic, Craig Stapleton, who is now back in the states and gearing up to raise money for the Bush campaign.
The doors are closing over at Right We Are, which basically sucks -- those girls rock. We'll miss ya!
The Bush campaign uses local radio to communicate with the grassroots -- sicne traditional media (and its waning influence) so distort what they deem facts versus editorial comment.
The War on Terror is bringing peace globally by siphoning off terrorist fundraising and cutting off munitions smugglers.
Charles Krauthammer points out the stupidity of Democrats' positions on Bush's foreign policy success--especially John Kerry.
Howard Dean finds Christ now that it's convenient for his political purposes . . . instead of inconvenient from that darn bike path.
"The Argus" has a long and quite interesting post on the fundraising and secrecy habits of MoveOn.org.
The Friendly ghost has a great post on Howard Dean's reckless language regarding Osama bin Laden and the Deaniacs reaction to it.
Back from a brief respite (and about top take another!) but there have been more than a few developments in the last week so I will keep my posts brief and let you decide which posts are worth clicking through!
Tuesday, December 23, 2003
Wesley Clark Coming Unhinged
Considering this is the same guy who claimed he got phone calls from the White House on 9/11 telling him to blame Iraq for the terrorists attacks (subsequently proven false), I am not sure how much credibility this guy had to begin with, but whatever it was it clearly is diminishing rapidly:
Democratic presidential hopeful Gen. Wesley Clark said Sunday that his old boss Bill Clinton - not President Bush - deserved credit for forcing Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi to abandon his weapons of mass destruction programs, even though Gadhafi's turnaround came nearly three years after Clinton left office.And this is the Donkey's best chance to unseat Dean?
"It's a program of squeezing Libya that's gone on for more than a decade," Clark told a Derry, N.H., audience, according to the Concord Monitor. "The Clinton administration was very much involved with this."
In a slap at Bush, Clark said, it "shows that you don't need to use force to get your way in world affairs," adding that Prime Minister Tony Blair deserved credit for the Ghahafi breakthrough as well.
Pin the Tail on the Democrats
David Brooks does an excellent job diagnosing the malaise in every Democratic candidate not named Howard Dean. He takes them to task for shrinking from the fight for their party each time an opportunity arises:
The first crucial moment in this campaign came in early August. Dean was beginning his surge. He was on the covers of the newsweeklies. Instead of trying to confront him when he was still beatable, the rival Democratic candidates suffered what can only be described as a fit of moral panic. Some of those who supported the war in Iraq pretended they opposed it. Months went by and nobody offered more than passing jabs at Dean's integrity and ideas.And this is a group that will protect us from international terrorists? Not likely . . . which coincidentally sums up their presidential prospects.
Today, the Dean campaign is immeasurably stronger, but faces its second test. Bush's recent successes have halted Dean's momentum. Nearly 60 percent of Americans now approve of the president's performance, while roughly a fifth of voters say they hate or strongly dislike him — calling into question a campaign built almost entirely on mobilizing the Democratic base. If there is a moment to rethink Dean's campaign, this is it.
And yet the mood within the Democratic establishment is dour and fatalistic. While most Washington Democrats expect that Dean will get trounced in the fall, they are not trying to head off the catastrophe. Some fear a party feud more than a defeat. Some don't want to get on the bad side of the likely Democratic nominee. Some privately love what Dean says even as they fear he will lead to disaster. Most important, the Democratic establishment lacks the will to stand up for its beliefs.
Monday, December 22, 2003
Madonna's Choice for President Wants to Give Up US Sovereignty
Andrew Sullivan unearths this absolutely ridiculous quote regarding United States self-determination from Wesley Clark:
And I would say to the Europeans, I pledge to you as the American president that we'll consult with you first. You get the right of first refusal on the security concerns that we have. We'll bring you in.I have no problem bringing in a coalition of forces when we act internationally (just like the 60 countries we worked with when invading Iraq), but putting the interests of the UN ahead of the interests of the United States is untenable.
Update: The guys at Captain's Quarters have a nice rebuttal to the arguments made around the blogosphere that Wes Clark's remarks aren't what myself and Andrew Sullivan make them out to be. I stand by my initial interpretation.
Sunday, December 21, 2003
Free Markets Bring Life Back to Iraq
Taking a look at the open markets in Baghdad, the New York Times reports on how the free markets raise incomes and hopes of gaining back much of the way of life suppressed under the Saddam Hussein regime:
"There's some movement now," said Samir Eadan, 23, as he sat before an upright log surmounted by a metal anvil in his family's goldsmith shop. "It's somewhat better than before. We're selling to 20 to 30 shops all over Iraq, and they sell to other people."Adam Smith would be proud.
Mr. Eadan estimated that his store was making a profit of up to 250,000 dinars per month, about $156, in contrast to 100,000 dinars per month, or $62.50, before the invasion...
Around the corner, Abdul Hadi Ibrahim, another shopkeeper, said his monthly profit had increased by a third. "There is freedom of work, freedom of trade," he said.
Iraqis who sold their jewelry and family heirlooms for cash during the impoverished years of the United Nations sanctions are now indulging in such luxuries again. Kurds are coming from the north to look through the shops, no longer afraid that guards working for Mr. Hussein's government will catch them bringing gold back to their semiautonomous region in Iraq. Weddings are on the rise, and so it is not uncommon to see groups of three women — the bride-to-be, her mother and her future mother-in-law — casting appraising looks at shop windows...
Mr. Amar was browsing with his mother, Halah Falih, a 41-year-old teacher. She said she would come back to the market next week with Mr. Amar's fiancée and the fiancée's mother to buy. Since the invasion, Ms. Falih said, her salary has gone from the equivalent of $9 a month to about $110 a month.
Much of the boom in consumer spending throughout Iraq is being driven by people like Ms. Falih, government workers who have experienced a sharp increase in salary. Even pensioners have seen huge jumps in income.
Has the World Been Turned Upside Down?
First the New York Times and now Dana Milbank writes near-puff piece about George Bush and his undeniable foreign policy successes:
It has been a week of sweet vindication for those who promulgated what they call the Bush Doctrine.And what about the change of heart from our "friends" France and Germany:
Beginning with the capture of Saddam Hussein a week ago and ending Friday with an agreement by Libya's Moammar Gaddafi to surrender his unconventional weapons, one after another international problem has eased.
On Tuesday, the leaders of France and Germany set aside their long-standing opposition to the war in Iraq and agreed to forgive an unspecified amount of that country's debt. On Thursday, Iran signed an agreement allowing surprise inspections of its nuclear facilities after European governments applied intense pressure on the U.S. foe. On Friday, Libya agreed to disarm under the watch of international inspectors, just as administration officials were learning that Syria had seized $23.5 million believed to be for al Qaeda.
To foreign policy hard-liners inside and outside the administration, the gestures by Libya, Iran and Syria, and the softening by France and Germany, all have the same cause: a show of American might.
It is unlikely, of course, that France or Germany would acknowledge that they are reacting to U.S. strength. Yet it is noteworthy that they were conciliatory on the issue of Iraqi debt forgiveness after Hussein was captured -- even though they were complaining bitterly just a week before about a Bush plan to exclude them from U.S.-funded Iraq reconstruction projects.Now the expected swipes are taken and the wrong paraphase of the Bush Doctrine on pre-emption is given, but hey, writing anything close to fair about Bush is a welcome change from Dana.
And it is inarguable that Germany and France have taken a more active role in winning Iranian compliance with weapons inspections since the United States invaded Iraq. The foreign ministers of Germany, France and Britain visited Iran in October, overcoming Iran's longtime resistance to signing a monitoring agreement.
Bush Boom Credit Given to President
As we have been regularly reporting the economy has been booming and recent polls are giving credit where credit is due:
Amid rising consumer confidence, President Bush gets good marks for his handling of the economy from a clear majority of voters...I encourage you to read this article--not for the substance (which I believe I excerpted properly above)--but for the repeated editorializing in the negative against Bush. Line after line like: "The economy, primed by low interest rates and tax cuts, is showing mixed signs of recovery.." 'Mixed signs of recover?' Are you kidding me? GDP and productivity growth levels not seen in over 20 years? He then mentions that job growth is evident, BUT "the nation has lost 2 million jobs..." I am sure if I had waited, I could have linked to a more objective write-up of this poll, but is this rediculous or what?
In all, 55 percent of registered voters said they approve of Bush's handling of the economy...
In the new survey, 23 percent said they strongly approve of Bush's handling of the economy, 19 percent said they somewhat approve, and 13 percent initially reported mixed feelings but leaned toward approval...
There are projections of rapid growth for 2004, signs of an improving job picture and a rebound in the stock market...
Bush Grassroots Continue to Gain Momentum
We are seeing the viral effect of the Bush grassroots as state after state embraces the grassroots effort of Bush supporters nationwide. Here we see Georgia and Florida getting into the act:
Eleven months before the polls open, Republicans are already assembling teams to dominate talk radio and letters-to-the-editor columns. They've camped out at citizenship ceremonies with voter registration forms in hand, concentrating on the numerous immigrants from Columbia, Argentina and Brazil. Each county Bush organization has a quota of registered voters to add to the rolls.Do your part today by becoming a team leader for Bush!
The Orlando meeting was one of a dozen gatherings intended to eventually create a web of 69,000 team leaders in Florida. (In Georgia, the quota is 50,000.)...
[E]xperts give the Bush effort the technological edge -- at least in Florida, at least for now.
"The Republicans are into building very sophisticated databases so they can target for direct mail, telephone campaigns and also absentee voting and early voting -- which is becoming much more important. It's a huge technological advantage," said Dario Moreno, a political scientist and pollster at Florida International University in Miami.
But the jewel of the Republican effort is www.georgewbush.com. The interactive Web site has attracted 6 million supporters and offers chat rooms, event calendars and customized campaign tips. A Bush supporter in Florida's Orange County -- or anywhere else -- can enter his or her ZIP code and immediately be given the phone number of every talk radio show in Orlando, plus pointers on what to say.
The emphasis [of the meeting] was on taxation and the economy, and on outreach to sympathizers in normally unsympathetic groups: African-Americans, women and unions.
Saturday, December 20, 2003
Bush Campaign Kicks Off Pennsylvania Efforts
The Bush campaign held four campaign meetings in Pennsylvania (among "scores nationwide") for prospective volunteers -- meetings that amounted to the volunteers' "basic training":
Sign up five other people as Bush "team leaders" willing to do the campaign's grunt work, they were told, and ask those five each to sign up five more. Get e-mail addresses from 10 friends. Write letters to the editor, be host at a block party. Most of all, help register voters and then make sure they go to the polls in November to wrest Pennsylvania, a crucial state for both parties, away from the Democrats...Do your part and get involved today!
[T]he session here on Dec. 8 — one of four held so far in Pennsylvania by the Bush campaign and one of scores scheduled nationwide — was one manifestation of how both parties are turning their attention back to the distinctly unglamorous business of knocking on doors and turning out the vote...
Mr. Bush's team, taking full advantage of its control of the Republican Party apparatus, has a more audacious goal: creating a seamless national political machine that subsumes existing state and local party operations and infuses them with new recruits, money, technology and discipline.
Bush campaign officials say they envision tens of thousands of volunteers, many armed with palmtop computers with access to a database of voters' names and the issues that move them, fanning out through just about every neighborhood in the country in the weeks leading up to Election Day...
The most compelling lessons, Republican officials said, were that it pays to start early and that personal contact by local volunteers carries far more weight with voters than any of the other options. Done right, the Republican studies concluded, the grass-roots operation could result in a difference of three or four percentage points in the outcome, enough to determine a winner in a close race.
Those conclusions were put to use by Republicans with some success in the 2002 midterm Congressional elections, in which the party regained control of the Senate and expanded its majority in the House.
Bush's Campaign Pledges to be Best Organized in History
President Bush’s re-election campaign is pledging to have the best organized in presidential campaign history, and, like everything else, it begins in New Hampshire .
New Hampshire became the first state to have county chairs named for the campaign. And this week, Bush-Cheney ’04 campaign staffers began county-wide meetings for Bush supporters in Cheshire and Hillsborough counties...
Over 100 Bush supporters attended the Bedford meeting to learn what they can do to help Bush win re-election...
The power point presentation by DuHaime shows how the campaign is trying to frame the election for supporters. They say President Bush has a strong, bold message on terrorism, education, the environment, health care and the economy. They look at polls to explain Bush has the highest job approval rating compared to every sitting president facing re-election in the last 25 years. They also say that spending by third party groups dedicated to beat Bush will be unprecedented. They also showed a the 2000 election map and suggested that if the same states for Democratic and Republican then Republicans will win have more electoral votes, 273 to 265.
Friday, December 19, 2003
Winning the War on Terror
The United States and Coalition Armies' strength and conviction in ousting Saddam and not tolerating rogue states is getting a convert:
Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi confirmed that his country sought to develop weapons of mass destruction but plans to dismantle all such programs immediately, Prime Minister Tony Blair said Friday.
Britain and the United States have been talking with Libya for nine months, Blair said.
"Libya came to us in March following successful negotiations on Lockerbie to see if it could resolve its weapons of mass destruction issue in a similarly cooperative manner," Blair said in the northern city of Durham.
It's "Letters To The Editor" Friday!
The momentum continues as the grassroots movement for Bush continues its exponential growth. You see gains in the "Blogs for Bush" blogroll, increasing numbers in the state-by-state Yahoo! groups and increasing numbers in the Meet-ups nationwide (a growth that is genuinely organic unlike the Dean and Kerry campaigns who pay Meetup huge sums of money for their services). So, stay active in support of the President by writing letters to the editor TODAY!
You know the drill, the topic of your letter is completely up to you but with so much going on I'll give you a few choice topics to get you started:
» There is the capture of the homicidal tyrant, Saddam Hussein and reaction after reaction from the blogosphere. Even the Democrats for the most part, had good things to say about this. Who didn't? Why, Howard Dean's insane clown possee, of course.
» The staple of the weekly news regarding the booming Bush economy! discussed here and here.
» Then there is Howard Dean's Buddhist Temple (nice one, Matt). I strongly encourage you to write on the most underreported news story so far -- that leftist organizations with ties to Howard Dean and Wesley Clark have raised hundreds of thousands, if not millions, illegally yet few media outlets are saying anything. If this was a conservative group, you can be sure the media would be all over it.
» There is also the former Secretary of State joining the bizzarre Left in further conspiracy theories. I guess she is just getting in line behind their new party leader, Howard Dean.
Now those are just a few, so simply type in your zip code below and find the news outlets in your areas!
If you're a blogger who wants to join this effort, just copy and paste the following ZIP-code lookup box so people can write letters directly from your site for Friday's festivities:
Let's show them what the Bush-blogosphere can do! If you support President Bush, write a letter to the editor today and every Friday!
Arizona Republicans Meet to Plan Campaign Strategy
Top Arizona Republicans and Bush campaign officials met Wednesday night in Phoenix to map out campaign strategies and to encourage grassroots outreach to key constituencies -- including the business community.
Valley Congressmen J.D. Hayworth and John Shadegg attended the organizing meeting, stressing national security and crediting administration-backed tax cuts for the improving economy...
Shadegg and other Bush backers stressed the need to cultivate grassroots support -- including the business community -- and cautioned that despite the President's prolific fund raising, Democratic backers like the AFL-CIO and billionaire financier George Soros are raising plenty of money on the other side of the aisle.
Bush Campaign Puts Together Advertising Team
President Bush's presidential campaign has added two advertising executives to its team of veteran political ad pros, according to an executive with the campaign.
Harold Kaplan, senior vice president and creative director for WPP Group's Y&R Advertising, had done some work for the Bush presidential campaign four years ago after Y&R's former president, Jim Ferguson, became involved following the GOP convention. He is being enlisted early as part of the core team. Mr. Ferguson, now chairman-chief creative officer of Interpublic Group of Cos.' Temerlin McClain, isn't expected to be as involved but could offer some strategy.
Also joining the Bush campaign is Vada Hill, senior vice president of marketing for Fannie Mae, who approved using a Chihuahua to market fast food as a marketing director at Taco Bell.
Bush Campaign Names Texas Team
Former White House counselor Karen Hughes joined U.S. Sens. John Cornyn, Kay Bailey Hutchison and Gov. Rick Perry, all Republicans, on Tuesday to announce the Bush campaign's Texas leadership team.
The Bush campaign already has filed the paperwork to get him on the 2004 primary ballot in Texas. Although the group was confident Bush would have no trouble winning his home state in his re-election bid, a strong showing in Texas would be an important message to send to the rest of the country, Perry said...
Perry will serve as chairman of the Texas campaign. Hutchison and Cornyn will co-chair. Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst also attended the announcement news conference and will be an honorary co-chairman.
Hughes, who as an adviser shepherded Bush through three campaigns for governor and president, said she'll take an active role in the campaign. She said she talks with Bush frequently and has attended campaign strategy meetings.
Bush Campaign Names Iowa "Farm Team"
Republican efforts to re-elect President George W. Bush began in Iowa at the Gateway Center in Ames Wednesday with the naming of an "Iowa farm team," made up of state legislators, farm producers and local agri-business leaders.
Mark Racicot, chairman of the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, said the campaign will put an emphasis in courting the farm vote in the coming year.
"Agriculture has much to do with the soul and temperament of the nation," he said. "Being successful in Iowa is essential to our success."
The "farm team" steering committee is chaired by Glen Keppy, a farmer from Scott County and past president of the Iowa Pork Producers. Ames businessman Rusty Harder will serve as co-chair. Harder runs E-Markets, a local software company that creates inventory management and pricing tools for farmers and cooperatives.
Other committee members present at the announcement were Senate Majority Leader Stewart Iverson, a Republican from Dows whose district includes parts of Story County, and Dean Kleckner, past president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
Thursday, December 18, 2003
Republican National Committee Plans Revealed
I meant to post this yesterday (like I did at PolState) but was busy with that darn job thing. Anyway, both the New York Times and the New York Observer got the lowdown and were both impressed:
Center stage at the Republican National Convention in New York next summer may be round, rotating and built on a platform high above the floor of Madison Square Garden, event organizers said yesterday.Is it too much for me to ask for a speaking role?
While rock bands or performance artists have been known to use center-floor rotating stages, no presidential candidate has received his party's nomination from one at a national convention, organizers said.
Republicans, though, have signaled all along that they want their convention, which will run from Aug. 30 through Sept. 2, to help redefine political conventions, which have become predictable, scripted affairs with little drama or surprise. Theirs will certainly be scripted, but convention officials are hinting that there could be a few more surprises.
At a presentation yesterday by event organizers to about 800 news media representatives, the Republicans said their plans were preliminary and suggested that nothing was a given — from the position of the stage to the location of President Bush when he gives his acceptance speech.
It looks like the Washington Post reporters realize what we have known all along -- Howard Dean makes stuff up and presents it as fact.
The New York Times has reporters fabricating quotes again. What does it take to lose your job at this place?
A rediculous decision by an activist Clinton appointed judge with a history of partisan activities grants murderer and unsuccessful Presidential assassin John Hickley unsupervised visits outside of his mental hospital.
Media Research Center's Quote of the Year
“If she had lived, Mary Jo Kopechne would be 62 years old. Through his tireless work as a legislator, Edward Kennedy would have brought comfort to her in her old age.”
– Charles Pierce in a January 5 Boston Globe Magazine article. Kopechne drowned while trapped in Kennedy’s submerged car off Chappaquiddick Island in July 1969, an accident Kennedy did not report for several hours.
The Washington Post Takes on Howard Dean
In its lead editorial, the Washington Post states that Howard Dean is beyond the mainstream and then calls him to task for his many outragous and contradictory statements:
Yet there are important differences between the Democratic front-runner, Howard Dean, and the other five. In his speech Monday, Mr. Dean alone portrayed the recruiting of allies for Iraq as a means to "relieve the burden on the U.S." -- that is, to quickly draw down American forces. Only he omitted democracy from his goals for Iraq and the Middle East. And only Mr. Dean made the extraordinary argument that the capture of Saddam Hussein "has not made Americans safer."It would be a good read if it didn't read like a DLC/Clinton hit piece. The un-excerpted editorial basically takes Dean's policies and sets them again ex-President Clinton's (thereby arguing that if a candidate's position disagrees with a Clinton policy they must be WAY out of the mainstream). Clearly this editorial board pines away for an establishment (read: Clinton machine backed) candidate and is using their muscle to take the wind out of the sails of Howard Dean. But instead of sticking to substantive arguments that could take down Dean's campaign, they reveal their ideological bias in favor of any of the Clintonistas which won't stop the hard charging Dean campaign. I guess that is our job.
Mr. Dean's carefully prepared speech was described as a move toward the center, but in key ways it shifted him farther from the mainstream. A year ago Mr. Dean told a television audience that "there's no question that Saddam Hussein is a threat to the United States and to our allies," but last weekend he declared that "I never said Saddam was a danger to the United States." Mr. Dean has at times argued that the United States must remain engaged to bring democracy to Iraq, yet the word is conspicuously omitted from the formula of "stable self-government" he now proposes. The former Vermont governor has compiled a disturbing record of misstatements and contradictions on foreign policy; maybe he will shift yet again, this time toward more responsible positions.
Mr. Dean's exceptionalism, however, is not limited to Iraq. It can be found in his support for limiting the overseas deployments of the National Guard -- a potentially radical change in the U.S. defense posture -- and in his readiness to yield to the demands of North Korea's brutal communist dictatorship, which, he told The Post's Glenn Kessler, "ought to be able to enter the community of nations." Mr. Dean says he would end all funding for missile defense...
It is Mr. Dean's position on Iraq, however, that would be hardest to defend in a general election campaign...most Americans understand Saddam Hussein for what he was: a brutal dictator who stockpiled and used weapons of mass destruction, who plotted to seize oil supplies on which the United States depends, who hated the United States and once sought to assassinate a former president; whose continuing hold on power forced thousands of American troops to remain in the Persian Gulf region for a decade; who even in the months before his overthrow signed a deal to buy North Korean missiles he could have aimed at U.S. bases. The argument that this tyrant was not a danger to the United States is not just unfounded but ludicrous...
Mr. Dean may be arguing Saddam Hussein's insignificance in part because he is unwilling to make a commitment to Iraq's future. He appears eager to extract the United States from the Middle East as quickly as possible, rather than encourage political and economic liberalization. His speech suggests a significant retreat by the United States from the promotion of its interests and values in the world ... His most serious departure from the Democratic mainstream is not his opposition to the war. It is his apparent readiness to shrink U.S. ambitions, in Iraq and elsewhere, at a time when the safety of Americans is very much at stake.
Wednesday, December 17, 2003
It's Wictory Wednesday!!!
Polipundit has his weekly missive up and here it is:
Billionaire George Soros on 2004:
Asked whether he would trade his $7 billion fortune to unseat Bush, Soros opened his mouth. Then he closed it. The proposal hung in the air: Would he become poor to beat Bush?
He said, "If someone guaranteed it."
Soros is banding together with other limousine liberals to raise at least $300 million for an unprecedented effort to defeat President Bush. He has already donated $15 million and plans to give more.
What would you give to guarantee a Bush victory in 2004?
All we're asking is that you click here and make a small recurring monthly contribution of $24, $54 or $104 to the Bush '04 campaign. It'll cost you much more than that if an ultra-liberal Democrat becomes president and vetoes any attempt to extend the Bush tax cuts beyond their 2006 expiration date.
Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, dozens of bloggers ask their readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush 2004 campaign.
If you've already donated and volunteered for the Bush campaign, then talk to your friends and enlist them in this battle for America's very soul.
If you're a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays simply by putting up a post like this one every Wednesday, asking your readers to volunteer and/or donate to the Bush campaign. And then e-mail wictory@blogsforbush.com so that you'll be added to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll, which will be part of the Wictory Wednesday post on all participating blogs:
Tuesday, December 16, 2003
The Unholy Alliance Between the Media and Democratic Candidates
Orson Scott Card, an unabashed Democrat, has an extraordinary op-ed bashing the unholy alliance between the Donkey candidates for President and its compliant media:
[T]heir platforms range from Howard Dean's "Bush is the devil" to everybody else's "I'll make you rich, and Bush is quite similar to the devil." Since President Bush is quite plainly not the devil, one wonders why anyone in the Democratic Party thinks this ploy will play with the general public.And then there is the media shilling for the Donkeys:
There are Democrats, like me, who think it will not play, and should not play, and who are waiting in the wings until after the coming electoral debacle in order to try to remake the party into something more resembling America.
But then I watch the steady campaign of the national news media to try to win this for the Democrats, and I wonder. Could this insane, self-destructive, extremist-dominated party actually win the presidency? It might--because the media are trying as hard as they can to pound home the message that the Bush presidency is a failure--even though by every rational measure it is not.
And the most vile part of this campaign against Mr. Bush is that the terrorist war is being used as a tool to try to defeat him--which means that if Mr. Bush does not win, we will certainly lose the war. Indeed, the anti-Bush campaign threatens to undermine our war effort, give encouragement to our enemies, and cost American lives during the long year of campaigning that lies ahead of us.
Our national media are covering this war as if we were "losing the peace"--even though we are not at peace and we are not losing. Why are they doing this? Because they are desperate to spin the world situation in such a way as to bring down President Bush.Is it any wonder why this Democrat says he'll vote for Bush?
It's not just the war, of course. Notice that even though our recent recession began under President Clinton, the media invariably refer to it as if Mr. Bush had caused it; and even though by every measure, the recession is over, they still cover it as if the American economy were in desperate shape.
This is the same trick they played on the first President Bush, for his recession was also over before the election--but the media worked very hard to conceal it from the American public. They did it as they're doing it now, with yes-but coverage: Yes, the economy is growing again, but there aren't any new jobs. Yes, there are new jobs now, but they're not good jobs.
And that's how they're covering the war. Yes, the Taliban were toppled, but there are still guerrillas fighting against us in various regions of Afghanistan. (As if anyone ever expected anything else.) Yes, Saddam was driven out of power incredibly quickly and with scant loss of life on either side, but our forces were not adequately prepared to do all the nonmilitary jobs that devolved on them as an occupying army.
What Else Was found on Saddam in his Spider Hole?
Compliments of the funny guys at RegisteredMedia.com.
Democrats Continue to Lose Their Mind Over President Bush
Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., who earned headlines across the globe last year for criticizing President Bush while in Baghdad, is enmeshed in a new controversy over remarks he made about the capture of Saddam Hussein.And the Democrats wonder why they are turning off voters and they keep losing elections.
In an interview Monday with a Seattle radio station, McDermott said the U.S. military could have found the former Iraqi dictator "a long time ago if they wanted."
Asked if he thought the weekend capture was timed to help Bush, McDermott chuckled and said, "Yeah. Oh, yeah."
Of course, it doesn't help when your leading contender for the Presidential nominee says, "The capture of Saddam has not made America safer..." Yea, a guess homicidal dictators on the loose is a good thing for American security...Sheesh.
Bush Approval Rating Climbs
President Bush reaped a quick political benefit from the capture of Saddam Hussein, and his Democratic rivals began adjusting to the development that the president said "changed the equation in Iraq."But the real kicker to the survey was the head-to-head match-ups:
A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll following the weekend seizure of Saddam showed an immediate uptick for Bush, with Americans expressing increased approval of his leadership and the nation’s direction overall...
Bush’s job approval rating bumped up to 58 percent after Saddam was taken into custody from 52 percent before. At the same time, some 76 percent of Americans interviewed after the capture said the U.S. is likely to succeed in Iraq, up from 72 percent before the weekend’s events. The results suggested that the end of Saddam’s eight months on the run could also have policy ramifications by strengthening public support for pushing ahead with Iraq’s reconstruction. In the wake of the capture, Americans said by a 53-percent-to-37-percent margin that removing Saddam from power was worth the human and financial costs; in November, a 46 percent plurality said it wasn’t worth those costs. Perhaps more significant for Bush’s re-election prospects, Americans said by a 62-percent-to-32-percent majority Sunday that the war in Iraq has made the U.S. more secure - contrary to Dean’s assertions - up from a 52-percent-to-43 percent margin in September. And though Democrats have argued that the quest for Saddam represents a diversion from the global war on terrorism, 57 percent said his capture will make that broader war easier to win.
Overall, 55 percent of those polled Sunday said that U.S. troops should remain in that country for as long as five years if necessary, up from 51 percent in November.
More than that, the news seems to have eased some of Americans’ underlying concerns about the Iraqi occupation.
In each survey, Dean ran slightly closer to Bush than did Clark. Following the Iraqi dictator’s capture, Bush led Dean by 52 percent to 31 percent, compared with his 53-percent-to-28-percent lead over Clark.
Selling-out the United States for Campaign Contributions -- It's Just the Democratic Way
A couple weeks back, when discussing the "Shadow" Democratic Party and 527 organizations, I pulled out the famous Clinton line "You gotta do, what you gotta do..." in explaining to Bob Dole why Clinton knowingly ran false ads against Dole. It looks like Moveon.org has taken the 'do what you gotta do' motto to a whole new extreme. They are flouting the laws of the United States in efforts to raise money internationally to assist the campaigns of Howard Dean and Wesley Clark:
Frustrated with the lack of domestic support, left-leaning website MoveOn.org has apparently been reaching beyond American borders to generate cash revenue over the internet!This includes an International Campaign Manager for Moveon.org and Wesley Clark's website explicitly shills for Moveon.org:
The provocative international fundraising strategy threatens to embroil the presidential candidacies of General Wesley Clark and former Vermont Governor Howard Dean.
Both men are named on international fundraising websites suggesting donations to MoveOn.org.
Wesley Clark's official campaign website has been offering a link to "Canada For Clark", which in turn advises Canadians: "Non-Americans can't by law, give money to any particular candidate's campaign. But we can support pro-democracy, progressive American organizations like MoveOn.org, which do their best to spread the ugly truth about Bush and publicize the Democratic message. Click here to donate to MoveOn.org."And a Howard Dean volunteer run site does some shilling of her own:
The top traffic referrer to CanadaForClark.com is Clark's Official Campaign Website.
Dean04Worldwide.com is a noncommercial and volunteer website offered by Corinne Sinclair, a non-US citizen, based in London. Domain registration information indicates the website name servers are owned by PromoHosting.com, a website hosting service based in Portugal. Dean04Worldwide.com encourages non-Americans across the global to help Dean win the 2004 election.With all of this public attention, Moveon.org says they won't acccept any more international money. Did they suddenly see the 'light'? No, they just got busted for doing the shadiest of enterprises -- selling out the US to other countries. Of course, they were just following the lead of their inspirational founder who sold his campaign (and intelligence secrets) to the Chinese. But I guess we should just "Move On" . . . right after they tell us how much money they have taken so far from international sources.
A notice on the website explains how to provide funds to MoveOn.org, since non-Americans cannot donate directly to the Dean campaign.
Monday, December 15, 2003
So, Who Is Upset That A Homicidal Dictator Has Been Captured?
Why the grassroots "Ted Rall" Dean supporters, of course! Their original threads are here, here and here. Check out some of the choicest quotes, compliments of Dean's World:
"I can't believe this. I'm crying here. I feel that we now don't have a chance in this election."
"HEY GUYS WAKE UP!!!
THERE IS NO SUCCESS EXISTS IN THE UNJUSTIFIED WAR WHOEVER WAS CAPTURED!!"
And here are few others, compliments of Compliments of Resurrection Song:
This is great news- with Saddam gone, our Islamic brothers can send the beasts of the Bu$h Nazi war machine to their graves without the taint of Saddam's rule.And this is the best the Democrats have to offer?
Posted by Muslims4Dean at December 14, 2003 12:24 PM
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Initial Effects of Saddam Capture Having Wide-Ranging Impacts
In addition to the obvious positive effects for the Iraqi people from Saddam Hussein's capture, there are far ranging positive impacts not immediately obvious. First, the Global Markets are expected to react quite positively:
The dollar, U.S. Treasuries and global stock markets are likely to get a boost when trading resumes Monday following the capture of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, analysts said Sunday.It is important to know that the drop in oil prices would be a great, great boon for global economies.
Crude oil prices could fall, however, as investors mull the prospect of potentially increased supplies from key oil producer Iraq, and gold prices were not seen straying significantly from their recent trading range.
"I would have thought Saddam's capture would be dollar-helpful and helpful for U.S. assets, but also for equity markets generally," said Michael Derks, chief global strategist at Commonwealth Bank of Australia.
Next, we see specualtion that this would help in the search for Osama bin Laden:
Afghan officials hailed the capture of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, saying Sunday the arrest might blunt the growing insurgency here.Additionally we can direct for of these 'night hunters' to Afghanistan to aid in the search.
They also speculated Saddam's capture after seven months on the run could make it easier to catch the world's other top fugitive — al-Qaida mastermind Osama bin Laden.
"This is obviously good news for the people of Iraq who suffered for so long under Saddam's tyrannical regime and it is a warning to all the other outlaws who are at large like bin Laden, (Taliban chief) Mullah Omar and (renegade warlord) Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, who hopefully sooner or later will be brought to justice," Omar Samad, a spokesman for the Afghan Foreign Ministry, told The Associated Press...
Talat Masood, a Pakistani military analyst who closely follows Afghanistan, said news of Saddam's capture would echo loudly through al-Qaida and the Taliban's mountain lairs.
"There is a psychological synergy between the resistance in Iraq and Afghanistan, so if there is any setback in Iraq it will have a ripple effect in Afghanistan," he said. "Bin Laden and his group will be on the defensive and demoralization may set in."
The capture has also galvinized world opinion with even France hailing his capture:
Worldwide jubilation Sunday at the capture of Saddam Hussein showed how friendless the fugitive Iraqi dictator was.Not a bad day's work.
Even France, Russia, Germany and the world's most populous Muslim nation Indonesia, all fierce opponents of the U.S.-led war to oust Saddam, lauded his arrest by American forces who seized him Saturday without firing a shot.
Congratulations heaped on George W. Bush for the stunning coup thrilled the U.S. president, who said Saddam would now face the justice he "denied to millions" but warned that his capture did not mean the end of violence in the chaotic country.
"You will not have to fear the rule of Saddam Hussein ever again," he said in a message to Iraqis from the White House.
World leaders, especially those who opposed the war, also said Saddam's arrest should speed the transition to a sovereign government and shorten the U.S.-led occupation of Iraq.
"This is a major event which should strongly contribute to the democratization and the stabilization of Iraq and allow the Iraqis to once more be masters of their destiny in a sovereign Iraq," said French President Jacques Chirac.
More Links Between Iraq and Al-Qaeda -- This Time Connected to 9/11
Iraq's coalition government claims that it has uncovered documentary proof that Mohammed Atta, the al-Qaeda mastermind of the September 11 attacks against the US, was trained in Baghdad by Abu Nidal, the notorious Palestinian terrorist.
Details of Atta's visit to the Iraqi capital in the summer of 2001, just weeks before he launched the most devastating terrorist attack in US history, are contained in a top secret memo written to Saddam Hussein, the then Iraqi president, by Tahir Jalil Habbush al-Tikriti, the former head of the Iraqi Intelligence Service.
The handwritten memo, a copy of which has been obtained exclusively by the Telegraph, is dated July 1, 2001 and provides a short resume of a three-day "work programme" Atta had undertaken at Abu Nidal's base in Baghdad.
Saddam Hussein Captured
Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was captured in a farmhouse cellar by U.S. troops during a raid near Tikrit, U.S. officials said in a news conference in Baghdad today.Be sure to check out Jettison's round-up of reactions from the blogosphere.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we got him," L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator in Iraq, said Sunday in his first, pithy comments to a Baghdad news conference. Cheers greeted the announcement.
"The tyrant is now a prisoner," he said, adding the capture was made in the town of Ad Dawr about nine miles south of Tikrit, Hussein's hometown.
Say "Ahhhhhh" . . .
Saturday, December 13, 2003
Bush Foreign Relations -- A Problem of Telling the Truth
David Brooks has a master stroke of a first sentence in his Op-ed today:
I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.I must admit, I couldn't stop laughing whan I read that. While the piece continues in its sarcastic tone emphasing that if Bush had been hypocritical like the wayward "Old Europe" he would have been better received. Of course, that's not his style and that is why we love him so.
An argument can be made that international affairs call for a certain level of subtlety. But France, Germany and our American Left confuse subtlety with dishonesty. Back-stabbing is the name of the game with this crowd (re: France's ambush of Colin Powell at the UN, Germany in its anti-American campaigns and our own Donkeys with any host of actions -- from George Mitchell trading tax increases for never delivered Budget Deficit reduction for Bush 41 through Jay Rockefeller politicizing the Senate Intelligence Committee). There is a difference between subtlety and dishonesty and it drives the hypocritical Left mad that Bush gives them little room to stab him in the back with his "black and white" language. If this Administration would lie a bit more and publically condemn genocidal dictators while privately supporting them our country would have greater international acceptance with the likes of France, et al. Thankfully we do not want their acceptance -- nor do we need it.
Friday, December 12, 2003
You Know It, You Love It . . . It's "Letters To The Editor" Friday!
As we discussed last week, tens of thousands of people have joined the grassroots "Letters to the Editor" fight by generating nearly 30,000 letters since August. It is only you, the grassroots of America, that can keep the press' feet to the fire and report the truth on the developements that honestly reflect the ideals we see in our President. So, stay active in support of the President by writing letters to the editor TODAY!
The topic of your letter is completely up to you but, as usual, there has been a lot going on so here are a few great ideas you can write about:
» The weekly drumbeat of the booming Bush economy (which has now become a staple of the weekly news flow!) discussed here and here.
» The Iraqi anti-terrorism protest and the subseqent media black out discussed here and here. And it turns out the Washington Post today has a story on a much smaller Iraqi protest, but that is because it is against Americans. And here are some more thoughts on the media's laziness and anti-Bush reporting of these events.
» The fact that the foreign policy of France, Germany and Russia towards Iraq's reconstruction is trumped by a children's story. (I have to admit, this absolutely kills me).
» How can the Supreme Court who found a right to privacy in the Constitution where there is none, not find the right to free speech where there IS one verbatim in upholding the campaign-finance reform law?
» Then there is the campaign that GOP operatives may some day refer to as the gift that keeps on giving -- Howard Dean presidential campaign. There is Howard Dean as the "Bizarro World" Jay Gatsby; There is the outragous link between Cynthia McKinney and Howard Dean; With Al Gore's endorsement, Howard Dean's campaign could be worse than George McGovern's; There is Howard Dean's idea of diplomacy as the angry American. And that is just this week's!!! Remember last week we learned that Dean wants to break up major corporations, that he still wants to re-regulate the economy, that Dean's ego writes checks his campaign can't cash, that apparently the Berlin Wall didn't come down because the Soviet Union still exists, and that Osama bin Laden's 10 year war of terror against the United States whose climax was 9/11 should not receive justice from Americans but should at most get 30 years to life in prison from the Hague. And this is their front-runner?
Now those are just a few, so simply type in your zip code below and find the news outlets in your areas!
If you're a blogger who wants to join this effort, just copy and paste the following ZIP-code lookup box so people can write letters directly from your site for Friday's festivities:
Let's show them what the Bush-blogosphere can do! If you support President Bush, write a letter to the editor today and every Friday!
Why Are There Gas Lines in Iraq?
Andrew Sullivan asks that today and the answer is quite simple as the gas lines are an outgrowth of the exponential increase in prosperity in Iraq since Saddam has been deposed. There are gas lines in Iraq because there are a minimal amount of gas stations to support what WAS a limited amount of vehicles due to the sanctions against the Iraqis and the over-burdensome tariffs and duties on all vehicles under Saddam. In addition to that, as everyone now knows, Saddam let the country's infrastructure crumble into abysmal disrepair before the US invaded. What has happened since then is a massive influx of vehicles due to all of the tariffs having been lifted and Iraqi car salesmen's ability to sell many more cars because of a) far lower prices and b) far increased Iraqi pay (sometimes 30x greater than during Saddam's reign). Here is a New York Times piece on the growth in vehicles:
IT IS a family ritual played out in second-hand car markets across the globe - a father buying a car for his son...Would it be too much for the media to report stories like this to explain the logical reason why there are gas lines in Iraq? But as you can see if you read the original story and not just my exerpts, the writer for the Times couldn't just report on an economic boom, but threw in at least two 'digs' about "explosions in the distance" and "fears of crime in the streets" due to their new wealth. I guess to the writer it was better for the Iraqis when they had nothing because then no one would want to steal from them. Sheesh.
Aadel Kadhem, 43, and his 23-year-old son Mohammed walked around a pair of black BMWs, opening the doors, staring through the windows. Mr Kadhem snr paints cars for a living, and his income has risen ten-fold since the fall of Saddam Hussein’s government, he said, allowing him to squirrel away £1,700 for a car for his son.
"The situation is still tight for us, but we have a bit to play with," Mr Kadhem snr said. "In the past, the government wanted to fight against the citizens; they wanted this country to be underdeveloped. But my income now is much stronger than before."
Jamal Nasir, the owner of the Black Gold, the car shop, looked on with a glint in his eye and a smile on his lips.
"Because of small salaries before, many people couldn’t buy cars," he said. "Now I sell to all sectors of society. It’s the wheel of life. Everybody’s working, getting better salaries than before." ...
Still, an entire swathe of middle-class society, particularly government workers like doctors, teachers and administrators, has experienced a tremendous jump in income since the United States-led occupation began.
That is driving an exultant boom in demand for luxury goods - cars, televisions, fine clothing, expensive perfumes...
Import tariffs have been scrapped until the end of the year. The UN trade embargo is gone. Stores have sprung up all over the city. Before the invasion in March, for example, people in Baghdad bought cars from two large bazaars. Now they go to dozens of small shops like Mr Nasir’s.
Large trucks carrying used cars are a common sight at border crossings. A spokesman for the oil ministry estimated that 250,000 cars had entered Iraq since spring.
Thursday, December 11, 2003
Howard Dean's Grassy Knoll
Since traditional media has taken a 'pass' on Howard Dean's reckless furthering of conspiracy theories that would implicate the President in treasonous behavior, a number of columnists and bloggers are picking up the slack. Beginning with his NPR visit on Dec. 1 Howard Dean brought up the outlandish theory that the Saudis tipped off the President regarding the impending 9/11 terrorist attacks. When subsequently questioned on furthering these theories by Fox News' Chris Wallace, Dean didn't back-off but merely stated that he himself didn't believe it although he found nothing wrong with bringing up the treasonous theory. Hugh Hewitt's main graph reflects on the media turning a blind-eye to their idealogical equal:
Imagine if President Bush, Vice President Cheney or any administration official were to vocalize any of the assorted Clinton conspiracy memes from the far reaches of the internet, whether about Vince Foster, or the Mena airport, or the list of Clinton associates who have met untimely ends. How furious would the reaction be, and for how long would it endure?The media's lack of attention to anything that would hurt the Democrats seems to be a theme as Roger Simon pointed out:
Do you think for one moment that if thousands had been marching for Saddam... for the fascists... excuse me "insurgents"... it wouldn't have been front page news? I don't. What's going on?Just as the media isn't covering the Iraqi protests, they are turning a bling eye to this reckless behavior by Howard Dean. Behavior that has apparently shown up in near-unbelievable form previously, as Robert Novak points out:
Unlike George McGovern in 1972, Dean's core problem is not ideological. It is loose lips: fabricating the story of a patient impregnated by her father, seeking support from pickup truck drivers with Confederate flags, and seemingly exulting in his draft deferment for a bad back. Nothing so worries old-style Democratic politicians, however, as proclaiming the apocryphal warning from Saudi Arabia.Traditional media may be giving this guy a 'pass' but the American public has long moved past these outlets for their information as evidenced by the success of cable news and blogs themself. If the 2002 elections weren't the loud wake-up call for the Left and their media lackeys, 2004 will be deafening experience.
Campaign Chairman Marc Racicot Asks For Your Help!
A Message from Bush-Cheney '04 Chairman, Marc Racicot:
Our Campaign Manager, Ken Mehlman, recently wrote you about the vicious personal attacks Democrat Presidential candidates are making on President Bush. Now comes news from a Wall Street Journal investigative report that wealthy liberals "have plotted ways around the campaign finance law" to funnel millions in illegal soft money donations "to finance get-out-the-vote efforts and ads slamming Mr. Bush and Republicans."
One billionaire liberal, George Soros, has already pledged $25 million to get these efforts off the ground. Soros even said that President Bush reminds him of the Nazis. Soros got another billionaire leftist, Peter Lewis, an ardent advocate of hard drugs, to promise $12 million as a down payment. Their goal is to raise over $400 million to defeat the President and they're halfway there. To beat these billionaire liberals, we need your help today!
Please, will you send the Bush re-election campaign $25, $50, $75, $100 or whatever you can afford to give today? You can give by using the campaign's secure online donation form. Whatever way you can, please contribute today.
There's one more thing you can do to help the President overcome the smears and invective of the Democrats. We want to reach our goal of 450,000 grassroots contributors to the President's campaign by December 31st. Will you forward this email to five friends with your personal request to join you in supporting the President?
Howard Dean compared President Bush to the Taliban and calls him "the enemy" and "despicable."
Dick Gephardt calls the President "a miserable failure" and the worst President he's ever worked with.
John Kerry compared President Bush to Saddam Hussein, called for "regime change" and accused him of fraud.
Joe Lieberman said President Bush is a "segregationist," compared him to "a felon" and called the Administration "nearly as dangerous" as Iraqi terrorists.
We have 11 months until the election and Democrats are just getting warmed up! They are making this one of the nastiest, vicious and negative campaigns in history. Democrats are reduced to personal slams on our President and outright lies about his record because they lack a positive agenda and hate -- hate -- what he has done for America.
He has restored dignity and honor to the White House. President Bush has led America with moral clarity and purpose and strength in the War against Terrorism. The President provided the leadership necessary to cut taxes and restore economic growth. President Bush's reforms are making America a more compassionate society where no child is left behind. But that positive record ... the President's strong values ... his character and integrity and vision ... that all may not matter.
We can turn back this venomous assault from rage-filled Democrats and overcome the hateful efforts of multi-millionaire liberals to pervert the election process ... But we need your support to do that. Please, will you give $25, $50, $75, or what ever you can afford by using our secure online page or by mailing in our online form with your personal check. Whatever method you choose, please respond today.
The angry, bitter Democrats smearing our President ... the billionaire liberals who will bend the rules to win ... the Democrat soft money groups ... all hope you say "no" or let this important request pass without your taking action. But you understand how important it is to America that we keep this President, his leadership, his values, his character, on the job, working for us for another term. Please make your contribution of what ever you can afford today and email five friends and ask them to join this important effort. It is vital to our country, our President. I know he will be grateful.
Sincerely,
Marc Racicot
Chairman
Bush-Cheney '04
PS: The Wall Street Journal reported that George Soros views "America as the gravest threat to world freedom." Help us overcome this liberal billionaire that is clearly out of touch with real America. Please make your contribution to the President's campaign today and ask five friends to join you in this important effort. With your help, I know we will reach our goal.
Left Media Buries Head in Sand Over Iraqi Protest Against Terrorists
Roger Simon takes on both the fascists in Iraq who are attacking the coalition forces and the Left media who seemingly work against the coalition in hopes we lose. It would appear they will do what they can by at least omission to see it through:
I don't want to think that Noah Oppenheim is correct in writing that many in the media quite seriously don't want us to win, but tonight of all nights it seems more likely that could be so. As I type these words at ten p. m. PDT... maybe I missed something... maybe I didn't click far enough... but I see no reports of the large pro-democracy/anti-terror march of Iraqis in Baghdad today in tomorrow's New York Times or Washington Post or in the Los Angeles Times(at least on their websites). Or on the CNN site. Or on MSNBC.... Do you think for one moment that if thousands had been marching for Saddam... for the fascists... excuse me "insurgents"... it wouldn't have been front page news? I don't. What's going on?At least there was a 6 sentence wire report by UPI (of course, 3 of those sentences had nothing to do with the protests).
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
It All Depends On What The Meaning Of 'Is' Is...
Who knew Bill Clinton was really proposing campaign finance reform when he spoke those fateful words. His point then and the Supreme Court's campaign finance opinion today state quite clearly, that words don't always mean what they are defined to mean. Just as Bill Clinton wanted to change the definition of the verb "is" to suit his ideological/criminal needs, the Supremes today have changed the Bill of Rights meaning of "freedom of speech" to suit their ideological/political needs. Justice Scalia said it best:
This is a sad day for freedom of speech...Who could have imagined that the same Court which, within the past four years, has sternly disapproved of restrictions upon such inconsequential forms of expression as virtual child pornography...tobacco advertising...dissemination of illegally intercepted communications...and sexually explicit cable programming...would smile with favor upon a law that cut to the heart of what the First Amendment is meant to protect: the right to criticize the government.How can the people who found a right to privacy in the Constitution where there is none, not find the right to free speech where it IS in there verbatim?
Coalition of Forces in Iraq Expanding -- Japan Sends in Its Troops
From The Washington Post:
Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's cabinet approved a contentious plan Tuesday to dispatch nearly 1,000 troops along with transport planes and armored vehicles to aid in the reconstruction of Iraq. The deployment will mark Japan's most significant military operation since World War II.
The Japanese forces are scheduled to begin arriving sometime next month and will be responsible largely for distributing water and ferrying supplies in southeastern Iraq. They will be forbidden from engaging in offensive operations.
"We are not going to war," Koizumi said in an address to the nation on Tuesday. "But we have been put to the test to show with action, not just with words, our commitment both to the Japan-U.S. alliance and international cooperation."
Stanford University Provost is Scarier than Child Molesters?
When a Stanford University Provost is viewed as more frightening than accused child molesters, you know you are at a rally for Howard Dean. Last night the self-described "intellectual elite" thought long and hard about what they want to do for this country and came up with: "sh!t" and "f*ck" and a host of other x-rated insults thrown at President Bush, Condolezza Rice and Lynn Cheney among others. Debra Orin covered this