How come none of them really "stick up" for Harry Reid? Honestly, Reid is supposed to be one of the top Democrats in all of American politics. He's the Senate Majority Leader. The man who was going to march right up to George W. Bush and the GOP and stick it to 'em. He was going to say "damn the minority" right alongside of Nancy Pelosi and eliminate the conservative cause.
Now he's under serious attack from conservatives for his grandstanding tactics and weasel-like demeanor. How come you don't see Dems coming to his defense?
Oh, wait, I forgot...this is probably why. Even the Dems think he's a disappointment.
Heh, sorry for beating a dead horse, I couldn't resist :)
Friday, June 15, 2007
Palestine is Getting Uglier
So Hamas has taken control of the Gaza Strip, and has effectively cut themselves off from the West Bank. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a member of Fatah, has now resigned himself to controlling only half of Palestine, while the glorified terrorists in Hamas celebrate their victory in Gaza. Citizens poured out into the streets after the end of 5 days of fighting. One would be led to believe that the citizens are fully behind the extremist movement.
However, maybe they're not behind Hamas because they believe in what Hamas is attempting to accomplish. I found this quote by a man, who only goes by "Yousef", very fascinating, because it explains why normal citizens are apparently behind Hamas at this point.
"'Today everybody is with Hamas because Hamas won the battle. If Fatah had won the battle they'd be with Fatah. We are a hungry people, we are with whoever gives us a bag of flour and a food coupon,' said Yousef, 30. 'Me, I'm with God and a bag of flour.'"
That says a lot about the situation in Palestine right now.
However, maybe they're not behind Hamas because they believe in what Hamas is attempting to accomplish. I found this quote by a man, who only goes by "Yousef", very fascinating, because it explains why normal citizens are apparently behind Hamas at this point.
"'Today everybody is with Hamas because Hamas won the battle. If Fatah had won the battle they'd be with Fatah. We are a hungry people, we are with whoever gives us a bag of flour and a food coupon,' said Yousef, 30. 'Me, I'm with God and a bag of flour.'"
That says a lot about the situation in Palestine right now.
The Fear of Fred
The media has it, the other GOP candidates have it, and many Democrats have it. Today, Melanie Morgan further exposes it.
She talks briefly about the Reagan Democrats that are coming to side with Thompson on many left-wing blogs. She also notes that many GOP candidates are trying put an end to the momentum of a Fred Thompson candidacy before it officially takes off.
Mostly, though, Morgan exposes the left-wing MSM's fear of Fred Thompson. She quotes Richard Cohen's piece in the Washington Post about how "Thompson Is No Reagan", where Cohen practically whines about Thompson's lack of "name association" with any real pieces of legislation during his tenure in Congress.
Morgan counters by showing what "name association" has done for current members of Congress. For instance, the backlash that John Kyl is facing in his home state of Arizona and the ruining of John McCain's presidential aspirations (not to mention the backlash faced by Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham in their respective states, too).
Senate Majority Leader Harry "White Flag" Reid is known for leading the attempts to censure the minority during the immigration bill debate and telling our troops that they've lost in Iraq. What has that earned Reid? Well, it's earned him a robust 19% approval rating.
Morgan ends her poignant argument by quoting a critique of Ronald Reagan that sounds eerily familiar to Cohen's statements about Thompson. What makes it more interesting is that the critique was written by, who else, Richard Cohen. I'll leave you with Morgan's final words of the article...
"...time will tell if Thompson is the kind of conservative leader many of us are hoping for.
But it speaks well of Fred Thompson that the best arguments his critics can come up with are the same tired and hollow complaints they lodged against Ronald Reagan a quarter of a century ago."
Truer words have never been spoken.
She talks briefly about the Reagan Democrats that are coming to side with Thompson on many left-wing blogs. She also notes that many GOP candidates are trying put an end to the momentum of a Fred Thompson candidacy before it officially takes off.
Mostly, though, Morgan exposes the left-wing MSM's fear of Fred Thompson. She quotes Richard Cohen's piece in the Washington Post about how "Thompson Is No Reagan", where Cohen practically whines about Thompson's lack of "name association" with any real pieces of legislation during his tenure in Congress.
Morgan counters by showing what "name association" has done for current members of Congress. For instance, the backlash that John Kyl is facing in his home state of Arizona and the ruining of John McCain's presidential aspirations (not to mention the backlash faced by Trent Lott and Lindsey Graham in their respective states, too).
Senate Majority Leader Harry "White Flag" Reid is known for leading the attempts to censure the minority during the immigration bill debate and telling our troops that they've lost in Iraq. What has that earned Reid? Well, it's earned him a robust 19% approval rating.
Morgan ends her poignant argument by quoting a critique of Ronald Reagan that sounds eerily familiar to Cohen's statements about Thompson. What makes it more interesting is that the critique was written by, who else, Richard Cohen. I'll leave you with Morgan's final words of the article...
"...time will tell if Thompson is the kind of conservative leader many of us are hoping for.
But it speaks well of Fred Thompson that the best arguments his critics can come up with are the same tired and hollow complaints they lodged against Ronald Reagan a quarter of a century ago."
Truer words have never been spoken.
For My Fellow Fashionable Conservatives...
ThoseShirts.com.
If you haven't seen this site, go to it. Trust me, you'll thank me later. I'm already creating a long wish list from here. It's got some great stuff for conservatives who want to wear there conservatism proudly.
If you haven't seen this site, go to it. Trust me, you'll thank me later. I'm already creating a long wish list from here. It's got some great stuff for conservatives who want to wear there conservatism proudly.
No, no, no!!!
Harry Reid's bringing back the immigration bill that just won't die.
The problem is, if this bill gets passed, this will be a blow to those pushing for more serious border control, as their positions will be weakened by this "compromise"
Despite all of the statistics that show that Americans believe this immigration bill won't work, some are still pushing this bill as some sort of great accomplishment. Or, as amnesty proponent Lindsey "sell out" Graham puts it...
“It’s not that I know more than they do, it’s that I don’t give a sh*t.”
That's right, and if voters don't give a sh*t about you next November, don't be surprised.
I Was Born in a State Full of Idiots
Well...at least unethical, moronic Democrats.
For those who don't know, I'm originally from the state of Maryland. I lived in "inside-the-Beltway" places like Takoma Park, Mount Rainier, and College Park to name a few.
Anyway, in 2002, the state elected a magnificent governor by the name of Robert Ehrlich. Not only was Ehrlich a Republican in a very "blue" state, but he was the first Republican governor since Spiro Agnew in 1967!
He instituted all kinds of initiatives that have made Maryland a better state. He pushed legislation to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, increase funding for public schools like never before in the state's history (most of the funds were diverted to schools in poorer areas, too), created a cabinet post for disabilities (the first of it's kind in America), reinstituted the death penalty, and vetoed a health-care bill that Democrats supported but was ruled illegal anyway by a federal judge. In 2005, Ehrlich fired a staffer for spreading false rumors on the internet about former Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley (a hardcore Democrat), because he didn't want to play dirty politics.
in 2006, the smug and pompous O'Malley ran for governor against Ehrlich. Ehrlich, at the time, was drawing approval ratings in the high 50's. However, because Martin O'Malley had a big "D" next to his name...he won, 52.7-46.2 over the incumbent Ehrlich.
Since then, Martin O'Malley has done nothing to help the state of Maryland. He promised to stop the rate increases in electricity bills for Maryland citizens...and within 5 months, he attempted (unsuccessfully) to increase the rates 50 percent.
O'Malley also pushed through legislation that guarantee's Maryland's electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote in the presidental elections...even if the popular vote in Maryland goes to a different candidate. He has basically given Maryland residents no reason to vote in presidential elections.
Now, in further proof of O'Malley's lack of ethics, he recently fired a state worker because of that worker's ties to former Gov. Ehrlich...but that firing has since been ruled illegal.
Needless to say, my birth-state really knows how to pick 'em...every 35-40 years or so.
For those who don't know, I'm originally from the state of Maryland. I lived in "inside-the-Beltway" places like Takoma Park, Mount Rainier, and College Park to name a few.
Anyway, in 2002, the state elected a magnificent governor by the name of Robert Ehrlich. Not only was Ehrlich a Republican in a very "blue" state, but he was the first Republican governor since Spiro Agnew in 1967!
He instituted all kinds of initiatives that have made Maryland a better state. He pushed legislation to clean up the Chesapeake Bay, increase funding for public schools like never before in the state's history (most of the funds were diverted to schools in poorer areas, too), created a cabinet post for disabilities (the first of it's kind in America), reinstituted the death penalty, and vetoed a health-care bill that Democrats supported but was ruled illegal anyway by a federal judge. In 2005, Ehrlich fired a staffer for spreading false rumors on the internet about former Baltimore mayor Martin O'Malley (a hardcore Democrat), because he didn't want to play dirty politics.
in 2006, the smug and pompous O'Malley ran for governor against Ehrlich. Ehrlich, at the time, was drawing approval ratings in the high 50's. However, because Martin O'Malley had a big "D" next to his name...he won, 52.7-46.2 over the incumbent Ehrlich.
Since then, Martin O'Malley has done nothing to help the state of Maryland. He promised to stop the rate increases in electricity bills for Maryland citizens...and within 5 months, he attempted (unsuccessfully) to increase the rates 50 percent.
O'Malley also pushed through legislation that guarantee's Maryland's electoral votes to whoever wins the national popular vote in the presidental elections...even if the popular vote in Maryland goes to a different candidate. He has basically given Maryland residents no reason to vote in presidential elections.
Now, in further proof of O'Malley's lack of ethics, he recently fired a state worker because of that worker's ties to former Gov. Ehrlich...but that firing has since been ruled illegal.
Needless to say, my birth-state really knows how to pick 'em...every 35-40 years or so.
Thursday, June 14, 2007
DPV Shows a Total Lack of Class
As posted at Pravda...err, I mean RK, the Democratic Party of Virginia sent out this "memo" to the Republican Party of Virginia.
In it, the DPV tells whoever will become the new chair of the party how to "fix the mess" that they say has been left behind by previous chair Ed Gillespie. Of course, their first priority is that the Virginia GOP should just do as the Democrats say...
First of all...which party holds the majority in the General Assembly? Secondly, which party is responsible for at least half of the governmental gridlock? And third, and most importantly of all, which party is currently having it's own problems controlling it's members?
Clean up your own mess first, you have plenty of them.
UPDATE
Bearing Drift has the RPV's reply, which is GOLD!
In it, the DPV tells whoever will become the new chair of the party how to "fix the mess" that they say has been left behind by previous chair Ed Gillespie. Of course, their first priority is that the Virginia GOP should just do as the Democrats say...
First of all...which party holds the majority in the General Assembly? Secondly, which party is responsible for at least half of the governmental gridlock? And third, and most importantly of all, which party is currently having it's own problems controlling it's members?
Clean up your own mess first, you have plenty of them.
UPDATE
Bearing Drift has the RPV's reply, which is GOLD!
Can't Buy What's Not For Sale
Especially when it's the public's opinion of this unfortunately-not-dead immigration capitulation. George W. Bush, however, thinks differently.
Bush wants to add a proposal to this amnesty bill that provides $4.4 billion in immediate border control enforcement. This $4.4 billion is supposedly to be paid off from the fees that illegals pay for citizenship and the penalties paid by employers of illegal aliens. Unsurprisingly, John Kyl and Lindsey Graham support this.
While that is a first step of a 10,000 mile journey towards a real piece of immigration legislation, it doesn't say whether or not the current border security budget will eventually increase, decrease, or stay the same...and nobody seems to want to provide an answer to that, either.
I still maintain that I like Fred Thompson's plan, secure the border FIRST, reform the legal path of immigration so it is more efficient...and at the same time deport any and all illegals that we capture in these workplace raids or that are arrested for other crimes. THEN, after all that, we can figure out how to deal with the remaining group of illegal aliens in our nation.
Bush wants to add a proposal to this amnesty bill that provides $4.4 billion in immediate border control enforcement. This $4.4 billion is supposedly to be paid off from the fees that illegals pay for citizenship and the penalties paid by employers of illegal aliens. Unsurprisingly, John Kyl and Lindsey Graham support this.
While that is a first step of a 10,000 mile journey towards a real piece of immigration legislation, it doesn't say whether or not the current border security budget will eventually increase, decrease, or stay the same...and nobody seems to want to provide an answer to that, either.
I still maintain that I like Fred Thompson's plan, secure the border FIRST, reform the legal path of immigration so it is more efficient...and at the same time deport any and all illegals that we capture in these workplace raids or that are arrested for other crimes. THEN, after all that, we can figure out how to deal with the remaining group of illegal aliens in our nation.
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