Month: December 2004

Tony Blankley.

Via The New York Observer:

Let’s just get this out of the way now: She’s running.

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has a re-election campaign in front of her in 2006, but as far as many around her are concerned, the train has already departed for a destination two years farther out—the Presidency.

The Kool-Aide is now being mixed up. Drinking will commence shortly.

Rudy?

Via Reuters:

The United Nations, hit by a number of scandals, plans to revise its rules to better protect whistle-blowers, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Tuesday.

Annan told a news conference the world body was looking for ways to make senior managers more accountable, and said, “we are also taking measures to strengthen the protection of whistle-blowers.”

But who’s gonna be Fredo?

…and it is EPIC.

Election fraud underway.

When two tabulations of the governor’s race showed that Republican Dino Rossi had won, he said Democrat Christine Gregoire should do what’s best for the state and concede. This week, with the very real possibility that the nearly completed hand recount could undo Rossi’s victory, Gregoire wants Rossi’s pledge to accept the upcoming results as final — and concede if he loses. She’s pledged to concede if Rossi prevails. (via the Seattle PI)

So, if Gregoire loses three times, she’ll accept defeat, but if Rossi loses 1 (while winning 2), he’s supposed to graciously bow out? It’s obvious that she knows that the recount in King County will give her additional votes.

Utterly disgusting.

Via Palm Beach Post:

U.S. Sen. Bob Graham took the stage Monday night to remind the Democratic Party faithful of all the reasons their beliefs were right even if the curtain was dropped last month on their political dreams.

“I know some Democrats are a little down, some would say depressed,” said Graham, a former Florida governor whose 38-year political career will officially end Jan. 4. “I know some are on political Prozac.”

But, he predicted, the Democratic Party will rise again.

“We’re going to come back and we’re going to come back because we were right. We figured it out,” he said as he strolled around the set of The Florida Stage speaking to about 200 who gathered for a meeting of Palm Beach County Democrats.

Senator Graham was then given his nightly medication (chopped up in applesauce, of course) and pushed into the TV room so as not to miss Wheel of Fortune with the rest of the good folks at the Palm Beach Convalescent Center.

It appears that some on the left are willing to be honest about what Conservatives believe and what Liberals believe (and don’t believe). Too bad this has to come from an unknown non political figure from San Francisco.

Except for the hit on Christian fundamentalists, Cromey presents a even-handed understanding of the consequences of the faux ”separation of church and state” folly.

Via Reuters:

A mortar and rocket attack on a U.S. military base in the Iraqi city of Mosul killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 50 on Tuesday in one of the most deadly attacks on U.S. forces since last year’s invasion.

The Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed responsibility for the attack in a statement on the Internet. It said the attack was a “martyrdom operation” targeting a mess hall in the al-Ghizlani camp.

When are we going to stop playing patty-cake with these guys and pull out the big guns? We need to suspend “politics” for 24 hours and run through the country doing things we wouldn’t normally do. Hiding in a mosque? Bomb it. We still have napalm right? Use it. Our intelligence knows “about” where these guys are (give or take a few dozen miles). Carpet bomb 5 square miles at a time.

I’m tired of it all.

Via Reuters:

Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein appealed to Iraqis from his prison cell to unite against what he called U.S. efforts to sow sectarian divisions, his lawyers said on Sunday.

Doesn’t anyone understand that if you give this guy a microphone, or stand in front of him with a pad and pencil, he’s gonna act like he’s still the president of Iraq? This is especially dangerous. Let me count the ways:

1. Iraq will be electing a new government in just over 30 days. Last I checked, Saddam wasn’t a candidate. Therefore, he shouldn’t be allowed to speak.
2. Who are these lawyers? Shouldn’t they be preparing their client for a court of treason and not be helping him send propaganda messages back home?
3. Has anyone forgotten that there are still insurgent terrorist forces on the ground in Iraq, and if they hear stuff like this from “Father Saddam” it could be counter productive in the effort to win the peace? Never mind that it might actually aid in getting some of our soldiers killed?

If I could speak to the media, I’d tell them to leave these stories alone. Any “Saddam” reporting should be stifled (at least for the time being) and not encouraged. His government is OVER. He has no authority anymore. While his trial might be “entertaining” for some, anytime his words are broadcast or his picture publicized, it creates hope in some people.

Is it too late to manufacture a story about Saddam dying? Has anyone considered how a story like that might help the war effort?

Just after the election, I read this story
highlighting some of the things we could expect from a group of Republicans known as “moderates”. At the time, I
discounted the report as plain ‘ol media fear-mongering. In the last few weeks though, I’ve realized that the media can’t just go to the usual suspects in the Democratic party
(Rangel, Schumer, or anyone from the Congressional Black Caucus) to comment on their disapproval of the Bush administration. It’s not effective anymore. Most people read their comments and immediately call it for what it is, partisan politics.  So now, the media runs to people like Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Richard Lugar of Indiana, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode
Island, and their King, John McCain of Arizona. All “Republicans”. And these guys aren’t timid whatsoever. They willingly run to the TV
cameras and take the phone calls to make comments whenever they’re sought out, as if
they were almost eager to tell everyone how much they disagree with the
president. Perhaps the problem is in the label, “Republican”. It’s too easy for me
to think of Conservatives and Republicans as one and the same. Where I
come from, black is black and white is white. With GOP moderates, this
is not the case. They’re Liberals in sheep’s clothing. While they
wave the flag of the Grand Old Party, they encourage abortion on
demand, support Gay marriage, push affirmative action (and a lot of other items on the
Liberal agenda). Why not just become a Democrat? What threat is there in crossing the aisle?

Then, I read this article today, and it just set me off. I’m getting increasingly annoyed by these guys.

Yes, Rumsfeld has made mistakes. Yes, he should have signed those letters personally. But, replacing him right now would be a mistake. After the elections in Iraq, sure. But asking him to resign now, when so much lies in the balance, would be wrong and could be seen as handing a victory to the insurgent terrorists.

Someone in the GOP needs to pull this group of Benedict Arnolds together and remind them that they belong to the Republican party. They don’t need to be puppets and agree to everything in the party plank, but they don’t have to act like they’re being held Republican against their will.

Either support the party or join the other pansies like Jeffords. Better yet, give Nancy Pelosi a call. In the end, conservatives will be much better off.