The Griffin weighs in:
My darkest fear is that just like the days, months, years, leading up to 9-11, that the other non-issues will take the spotlight as we lose focus on fighting terrorism. When Bill Clinton became president I recall telling my wife that we should give him a chance. Let’s see what he can do! I respect the office and the fortitude it takes to reach this pinnacle. As I awaited the leadership qualities to emerge on the great issues of 1993, we were inundated the first 8 months with the burning topic of gays in the military. It was endless. There was hand wringing, crying, and intense self medicating going on with every Hollywood film star, every liberal, and with every staffer in the Clinton administration. Hillary was pissed (as usual) and Slick Willy’s bottom lip was chewed raw. In the meantime wacko terrorists were drawing X’s and O’s as they planned the first attack on the WTC. As I awaited the great investigation that would undoubtedly exceed Sherlock Holmes’ wildest dreams, Bill Clinton was playing Johnny Holmes in the White House. Eventually we indicted and convicted those on our soil, but those in the shadows in foreign countries that planned and trained the attack were sipping tea and eating camel cheese in places like Sudan and Afghanistan. The seeds of 9-11 were being nurtured.
As the democrats retake the House and possibly the Senate, they cannot be allowed to fail the American people again as Bill Clinton did in the 1990’s. As they sober up this morning, they must remember that more than ever they are obligated to hold all other issues as secondary. With the rhetoric of the election over, one truth should shine through to all those entrusted to protect this nations citizens from all enemies be they foreign or domestic. That truth is that they have requested and received from their fellow citizens a greater responsibility, as was given President Bush in 2000 and 2004, to protect this nation. The blame for the next attack, which will occur, should as always rest squarely on the shoulders of the murderers that did conceive, plan, and carry out that attack. If anything less than the best efforts of those entrusted with the security of our nation to prevent another 9-11 is given, if in fighting and squabbling over minor issues is consuming their time and wasting ours, and if the political fractures of the past grow wider as they choose to ignore those groups that wish kill us because we are Americans, if our families, friends, and fellow citizens are sacrificed at a political altar built by small minded politicians, the American public will lose further confidence in both parties to resolve all issues large and small. This will be the birth of a third party which will take from the democrats and republicans to form a serious and competitive national movement. The 2006 midterm elections should be interred into our history books, not as a loss of confidence in George Bush or the Republican Party, but as a loss of confidence in America ’s political system to produce politicians that put America first. Graf, corruption, scandal, deceit, pettiness, and self-aggrandizement, cannot continue while our citizens are being threatened and murdered. The winds of political change are still blowing. They did not stop on November 7, 2006.
The Griffin sends.
Thursday, November 09, 2006
Wednesday, November 08, 2006
How bad was it?
Wphew that was a good ol’ fashion arse whippin’.
But as in everything in life, some good news comes from adversity.
- It’s over- almost VA and MT to go! No more commercials or polls or endless prognosticating.
- The sun came up this morning. That’s right, even as the Democrats stand poised to gain control of both houses, the sun has come up. That means that the Democrats will now have to show their cards and stand for something. Carping at Bush and Rumsfeld will not be enough. They’ll actually have to provide some ideas. Scary. They will soon learn that it’s much easier to carp from the sidelines showing where the strong man stumbled than to get inside the arena of ideas and solve things.
- America survived Jimmy Carter, we’re likely to survive this as well.
- Bush won’t back down. There is nothing in his character or any evidence that President Bush will now roll over and play dead. This is important particularly in Iraq.
- Many elected Democrats are more moderate than the fringe lunatics that run the party. Hopefully, when the inevitable Iraq cut and run legislation comes up, the moderate Dems will recognize the tragedies of Viet Nam and Afghanistan and demand a strategy for victory in Iraq. Victory in Iraq is the one thing that never crosses a Democrat mind. But this is deadly serious business. If the Democrats quit Iraq ceding it to terrorists they will, in the process, so destabilize the world that they will pay politically for it for decades.
- Democrat majorities will be paper thin – less than the 15 seat working majority that Reps held before the election. That gives those moderate Dems the hammer. Ronald Reagan masterfully built a winning coalition with blue dog Democrats. But Reagan was also a wildly popular president. Can Bush get his approval numbers up? I think the next time Rumsfeld offers his resignation, Bush, sadly, will accept it. Some non-descript, non-political titan of industry will step in as Sec-Def and Bush will get a 5 point bump in popularity until Democrats revert to form and start trashing the new guy.
- Republicans may actually get back in touch with the base and start talking about low taxes, less spending and smaller government.
- John Kerry mercifully so badly mismanaged the aftermath of his Freudian slip that he’s likely done as a presidential hopeful. But, nobody holds a higher opinion of Kerry than Kerry, so he may have to be slapped down one more time.
The Bad News
- It starts all over again now for the 2008 Presidential Election. A preening MSM will be tell conservatives how they better get behind a moderate like McCain if they don’t want to lose the White House as well. There will be never ending polls showing how only the MSM’s anointed one John McCain can beat the Shrill one. The truth is that John McCain is as responsible as anyone for the Republican demise. His idiocy on taxes, immigration, and judges makes him a gonner in the Republican presidential primaries. But like Kerry, no one seems to appreciate John McCain as much as John McCain. Can you say 3rd party? That’d hand Shrill the White House. Look for McCain to begin his endless appearances on Hardball again starting tonight. Of course, the MSM will stump relentlessly for the Democrat nominee for president and all of that talk about one party rule being bad for America will be out the window when the one party is Democrat.
- Bush ironically is likely to get his no-amnesty amnesty bill for illegal aliens.
- Minimum wage will go up.
- The economy will go down.
- Investigations will start immediately.
- Conservative Judges, difficult to get by McCain and his gang of 14 - now a gang of 12 with Democrats holding a 7 to 5 majority, will be impossible to get by in the new Democrat Senate. Thanks John McCain.
But as in everything in life, some good news comes from adversity.
- It’s over- almost VA and MT to go! No more commercials or polls or endless prognosticating.
- The sun came up this morning. That’s right, even as the Democrats stand poised to gain control of both houses, the sun has come up. That means that the Democrats will now have to show their cards and stand for something. Carping at Bush and Rumsfeld will not be enough. They’ll actually have to provide some ideas. Scary. They will soon learn that it’s much easier to carp from the sidelines showing where the strong man stumbled than to get inside the arena of ideas and solve things.
- America survived Jimmy Carter, we’re likely to survive this as well.
- Bush won’t back down. There is nothing in his character or any evidence that President Bush will now roll over and play dead. This is important particularly in Iraq.
- Many elected Democrats are more moderate than the fringe lunatics that run the party. Hopefully, when the inevitable Iraq cut and run legislation comes up, the moderate Dems will recognize the tragedies of Viet Nam and Afghanistan and demand a strategy for victory in Iraq. Victory in Iraq is the one thing that never crosses a Democrat mind. But this is deadly serious business. If the Democrats quit Iraq ceding it to terrorists they will, in the process, so destabilize the world that they will pay politically for it for decades.
- Democrat majorities will be paper thin – less than the 15 seat working majority that Reps held before the election. That gives those moderate Dems the hammer. Ronald Reagan masterfully built a winning coalition with blue dog Democrats. But Reagan was also a wildly popular president. Can Bush get his approval numbers up? I think the next time Rumsfeld offers his resignation, Bush, sadly, will accept it. Some non-descript, non-political titan of industry will step in as Sec-Def and Bush will get a 5 point bump in popularity until Democrats revert to form and start trashing the new guy.
- Republicans may actually get back in touch with the base and start talking about low taxes, less spending and smaller government.
- John Kerry mercifully so badly mismanaged the aftermath of his Freudian slip that he’s likely done as a presidential hopeful. But, nobody holds a higher opinion of Kerry than Kerry, so he may have to be slapped down one more time.
The Bad News
- It starts all over again now for the 2008 Presidential Election. A preening MSM will be tell conservatives how they better get behind a moderate like McCain if they don’t want to lose the White House as well. There will be never ending polls showing how only the MSM’s anointed one John McCain can beat the Shrill one. The truth is that John McCain is as responsible as anyone for the Republican demise. His idiocy on taxes, immigration, and judges makes him a gonner in the Republican presidential primaries. But like Kerry, no one seems to appreciate John McCain as much as John McCain. Can you say 3rd party? That’d hand Shrill the White House. Look for McCain to begin his endless appearances on Hardball again starting tonight. Of course, the MSM will stump relentlessly for the Democrat nominee for president and all of that talk about one party rule being bad for America will be out the window when the one party is Democrat.
- Bush ironically is likely to get his no-amnesty amnesty bill for illegal aliens.
- Minimum wage will go up.
- The economy will go down.
- Investigations will start immediately.
- Conservative Judges, difficult to get by McCain and his gang of 14 - now a gang of 12 with Democrats holding a 7 to 5 majority, will be impossible to get by in the new Democrat Senate. Thanks John McCain.
Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Monday, November 06, 2006
Election fraud is a strategy for Democrats
The election is near and the moonbats are out in force. Take this letter from Thomas Meeks, which garners this week’s highly coveted Weekly Punctilio Award as the biggest waste of ink and newsprint for the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette. Meeks, who apparently is still in therapy since the 2000 presidential election, steals everything but Hugh Hewitt’s book title in his piece on “election fraud.” Hewitt, a great conservative, long ago published a book titled “If it isn’t close, they can’t cheat.”
Because Florida Democrats in one precinct were too stupid to darken the arrow pointing to their candidate’s name on a ballot designed by Democrats; because George Bush never once trailed in Florida; because Bush won the popular vote on election night; the statewide recount; and even the convoluted cherry picking recounts conceived by loser Al Gore in four predominately Democrat precincts; a media recount where every way imaginable of counting the votes was conducted; Meeks concludes election fraud put George Bush in the White House in 2000. That’s considered a sane position for the Moonbat Democrat – I’d say fringe but it’s actually become the mainstream.
Now because brain dead Democrats couldn’t figure out a paper ballot in Florida, our federal government has wasted hundreds of millions of our tax dollars on computer equipment to prevent what didn’t happen in Florida in 2000 from occurring again. Even so, Meeks, giving new meaning to the phrase “he’d kick if hung him with a new rope,” is complaining about the new machines.
I might remind Meeks:
It was Democrat JFK who won the White House on the votes of several thousand dead people in Chicago’s Cook County.
It was Democrats arrested for giving clean underwear and cigarettes to bums in exchange for votes.
It was Democrats who were found guilty of slashing the tires of Republican precinct workers.
It’s the Liberal ACORN organization facing criminal charges for swamping MO with 10s of thousands of fraudulent voter registration cards.
It’s in liberal Memphis, Harold Ford’s hometown, where four voter machine smart cards have gone missing.
It’s Liberals and Democrats who encourage voter fraud by opposing any kind of voter ID.
It’s Democrats who can’t vote with a pencil and paper.
It’s Republicans that have to figure in Democrat shenanigans on Election Day when going over poll numbers.
So congratulations to the Democrat voters in Florida and their like minded moonbats who are dumber than a hoe handle and have earned the this week's Weekly Punctilio Award for the Ft. Wayne J-G.
Because Florida Democrats in one precinct were too stupid to darken the arrow pointing to their candidate’s name on a ballot designed by Democrats; because George Bush never once trailed in Florida; because Bush won the popular vote on election night; the statewide recount; and even the convoluted cherry picking recounts conceived by loser Al Gore in four predominately Democrat precincts; a media recount where every way imaginable of counting the votes was conducted; Meeks concludes election fraud put George Bush in the White House in 2000. That’s considered a sane position for the Moonbat Democrat – I’d say fringe but it’s actually become the mainstream.
Now because brain dead Democrats couldn’t figure out a paper ballot in Florida, our federal government has wasted hundreds of millions of our tax dollars on computer equipment to prevent what didn’t happen in Florida in 2000 from occurring again. Even so, Meeks, giving new meaning to the phrase “he’d kick if hung him with a new rope,” is complaining about the new machines.
I might remind Meeks:
It was Democrat JFK who won the White House on the votes of several thousand dead people in Chicago’s Cook County.
It was Democrats arrested for giving clean underwear and cigarettes to bums in exchange for votes.
It was Democrats who were found guilty of slashing the tires of Republican precinct workers.
It’s the Liberal ACORN organization facing criminal charges for swamping MO with 10s of thousands of fraudulent voter registration cards.
It’s in liberal Memphis, Harold Ford’s hometown, where four voter machine smart cards have gone missing.
It’s Liberals and Democrats who encourage voter fraud by opposing any kind of voter ID.
It’s Democrats who can’t vote with a pencil and paper.
It’s Republicans that have to figure in Democrat shenanigans on Election Day when going over poll numbers.
So congratulations to the Democrat voters in Florida and their like minded moonbats who are dumber than a hoe handle and have earned the this week's Weekly Punctilio Award for the Ft. Wayne J-G.
Saturday, November 04, 2006
Churches are only churches for Republicans
When is the one time liberals will not complain about “separation of church and state”? When Liberals are trolling for votes in black churches, that’s when. Democrats turning a black church into a campaign rally site is nothing new, complete with the choir in robes singing in the background and the reverend delivering a sermon of salvation only if the congregation votes Democrat. They do it all the time. Bill Clinton, 25 pound bible in hand no doubt, recently showed up in Memphis TN to campaign for black TN senate candidate Harold Ford in a black church.
Let George Bush show up in one of those white evangelical mega churches with a live satellite hookup that reaches about 45,000 homes while campaigning for a pro-life candidate. Then watch every program director of every major TV news room and every editor of every major newspaper in the country head for the fainting couch. Once their staff had produced enough salts to bring them back to their non-sense senses, they’d mercilessly attack George Bush or any Republican for shredding the Constitution and trying to establish theocracy. But Democrats politicing in a black church well…that’s just different.
It’s not different. It’s exactly the same. But if you called it a racist double standard, the Libs in the media would just smile knowing there’s not one damn thing you can do about it. If the IRS gets involved, guess who the MSM will paint as the racists?
Harold Ford has run around TN masquerading as a conservative, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-business Democrat just like Al Gore when Al Gore was a conservative Democrat from TN. Now Gore is the unhinged buffoon burning tons upon tons of fuel every day in private jet and fleet of SUVs shouting “the sky is falling, the sky is falling” while to trying get us to give up our 4 cylinder Honda in favor of public transportation.
A good idea for the Corker campaign would have Ford’s picture morph into a pictue of a bloated bearded shouting Al Gore, as the voice under says, “Remember the last ‘conservative Democrat’ senator from TN?”
Let George Bush show up in one of those white evangelical mega churches with a live satellite hookup that reaches about 45,000 homes while campaigning for a pro-life candidate. Then watch every program director of every major TV news room and every editor of every major newspaper in the country head for the fainting couch. Once their staff had produced enough salts to bring them back to their non-sense senses, they’d mercilessly attack George Bush or any Republican for shredding the Constitution and trying to establish theocracy. But Democrats politicing in a black church well…that’s just different.
It’s not different. It’s exactly the same. But if you called it a racist double standard, the Libs in the media would just smile knowing there’s not one damn thing you can do about it. If the IRS gets involved, guess who the MSM will paint as the racists?
Harold Ford has run around TN masquerading as a conservative, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-business Democrat just like Al Gore when Al Gore was a conservative Democrat from TN. Now Gore is the unhinged buffoon burning tons upon tons of fuel every day in private jet and fleet of SUVs shouting “the sky is falling, the sky is falling” while to trying get us to give up our 4 cylinder Honda in favor of public transportation.
A good idea for the Corker campaign would have Ford’s picture morph into a pictue of a bloated bearded shouting Al Gore, as the voice under says, “Remember the last ‘conservative Democrat’ senator from TN?”
Friday, November 03, 2006
The New York Times’ November surprise – surprise
In what I’m sure was meant to be another hit piece on President Bush, the New York Times is saying that a government run web site (read George Bush) designed to expose Saddam’s quest for WMD may actually have been helping Iran in theirs. The Times rather ironically is wondering why the government was releasing these “secrets”. The Times does that. Unless some government traitor is offering secrets to the Times, the Times becomes genuinely concerned for national security.
But the Times fouled up. Its hit piece included this little gem, “Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990’s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.”
Let me see. In 2002 Iraq - or is it Irak – was as little as one year away from becoming a nuclear – or is nukler – power with Saddam Hussein in charge. That would have made Iraq a nuclear power in 2003 – right? So if President Bush had not acted when he did, today - this being 2006 and more than one year from 2002 - help me John Kerry - we’d be facing a nuclear Iraq. Is that right? So does this mean Bush didn’t lie? I’m sure John Kerry and other moonbat Democrats are lined up behind a microphone somewhere waiting to get their chance to offer a sincere apology to the president and thank him for his foresight.
I'm sure the editors at the Times are surprised at their surprise.
But the Times fouled up. Its hit piece included this little gem, “Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990’s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.”
Let me see. In 2002 Iraq - or is it Irak – was as little as one year away from becoming a nuclear – or is nukler – power with Saddam Hussein in charge. That would have made Iraq a nuclear power in 2003 – right? So if President Bush had not acted when he did, today - this being 2006 and more than one year from 2002 - help me John Kerry - we’d be facing a nuclear Iraq. Is that right? So does this mean Bush didn’t lie? I’m sure John Kerry and other moonbat Democrats are lined up behind a microphone somewhere waiting to get their chance to offer a sincere apology to the president and thank him for his foresight.
I'm sure the editors at the Times are surprised at their surprise.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Kerry's unedited non-apology apology
Lex has gotten the original text of John Kerry’s non-apology apology. This is Kerry’s original draft before editing by a Kerry staffer who ironically happens to have been an Army sergeant. The clever army sgt merely removed the bold italicized words.
As a combat veteran, who served only three months of a one year tour in Viet Nam before chickening out and heading home with a fist full of medals that I put myself in for for wounding myself I want to make it clear to anyone stupid enough to be in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about you terrorizing Iraqi women and children in the dead of night, and never intended to indicate that I was in any way a thoughtful man or to refer to any troop no matter how stupid, illiterate and foolish who torures our Muslim brothers of peace and has signed up to fight George Bush's war because our troops are too stupid to get a real job.
I sincerely regret since I still can’t bring myself to say I’m “sincerely sorry” because I'm not, that my words as plain and clear as they were, were misinterpreted to wrongly imply that I might have a brain or anything negative about those stupid fools in uniform, and by the way, get over it. It’s not as if I called you wanton murderers and rapists, like I did the men with whom I served in Viet Nam and I personally apologize on this web site to any service member stupid enough to visit it, family member who is probably an equally uneducated rube, or American who was offended at what I still think is an incredibly funny joke. If this flap continues, I my even grow a male part or two and offer this non-apology apology in person.
It is clear the Republican Party, who somehow altered the text of my remarks and somehow altered my two remaining brain waves to make me say what I said, would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy which I voted for before being blow away with the prevailing political winds. I don’t want my verbal slip no matter how much I believe it to be the truth to be a diversion from the real issues which are of course my ’08 presidential run. I will continue to be the pompous Know-it-all ass you've come to know ans love and fight for a change of course to the war which I supported when it was politically popular to provide real security, like hiding under the bed sheets until we all get our throats slit, for our country, which under the current leadership I can’t stand and would rather see defeated and humiliated – France, now there’s a country we could all be proud of, and a winning strategy for my ’08 presidential bid and special education classes for our troops.
As a combat veteran, who served only three months of a one year tour in Viet Nam before chickening out and heading home with a fist full of medals that I put myself in for for wounding myself I want to make it clear to anyone stupid enough to be in uniform and to their loved ones: my poorly stated joke at a rally was not about you terrorizing Iraqi women and children in the dead of night, and never intended to indicate that I was in any way a thoughtful man or to refer to any troop no matter how stupid, illiterate and foolish who torures our Muslim brothers of peace and has signed up to fight George Bush's war because our troops are too stupid to get a real job.
I sincerely regret since I still can’t bring myself to say I’m “sincerely sorry” because I'm not, that my words as plain and clear as they were, were misinterpreted to wrongly imply that I might have a brain or anything negative about those stupid fools in uniform, and by the way, get over it. It’s not as if I called you wanton murderers and rapists, like I did the men with whom I served in Viet Nam and I personally apologize on this web site to any service member stupid enough to visit it, family member who is probably an equally uneducated rube, or American who was offended at what I still think is an incredibly funny joke. If this flap continues, I my even grow a male part or two and offer this non-apology apology in person.
It is clear the Republican Party, who somehow altered the text of my remarks and somehow altered my two remaining brain waves to make me say what I said, would rather talk about anything but their failed security policy which I voted for before being blow away with the prevailing political winds. I don’t want my verbal slip no matter how much I believe it to be the truth to be a diversion from the real issues which are of course my ’08 presidential run. I will continue to be the pompous Know-it-all ass you've come to know ans love and fight for a change of course to the war which I supported when it was politically popular to provide real security, like hiding under the bed sheets until we all get our throats slit, for our country, which under the current leadership I can’t stand and would rather see defeated and humiliated – France, now there’s a country we could all be proud of, and a winning strategy for my ’08 presidential bid and special education classes for our troops.
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
The two Johns
John Kerry’s an even bigger loser than anyone could have imagined. When confronted with his own words, he blamed Republicans. Instead of accepting responsibility for perhaps the dumbest thing ever said by a politician, he claimed his comments were a joke. Whoo, that gives new meaning to the phrase, “some people can’t tell a joke.” But a defiant Kerry tries to turn that phrase on its head by inferring that it’s the American people that can’t take a joke. Hey John Boy – it isn’t funny.
Then dopey claims the unfunny joke was about President Bush and that anyone who thinks he would demean our troops is crazy. Well John Boy there are several miles of tape of you doing just that – calling Viet Nam vets murderers and rapists and claiming that our troops in Iraq are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night. So John Boy the joke’s on you. But hey, thanks for reminding us what a treasonous, gold digging louse you really are. One cannot be reminded enough. Prediction: Before the sun goes down Friday, John Boy will have issued some pathetic non-apology apology. That will, of course, only serve to start the cycle on this story all over again. Thanks for being so much smarter than the rest of us John.
John McCain is campaigning as if he were running for president, and well I guess he is. It’s hard to turn on a TV and not see McCain stumping for some Republican candidate in trouble somewhere and if you believe the media they are all in trouble. McCain knows that if he wants to be president the Republicans need to maintain control of at least one of the legislative bodies. If Democrats run the table next week McCain is done as a presidential candidate.
Here’s why. Democrats are sure to try to do a few things like;
- Roll back the tax cuts – which McCain opposed in the first place.
- Allow amnesty for illegal aliens – which McCain supports.
- Prevent President Bush for reshaping the judiciary in a conservative mold – which McCain and his “gang of 14” support.
If the Democrats try this with McCain support, he’s done in 08. McCain’s only hope is that the Republican maintain control of one house and save McCain from McCain. If the conservative base is frustrated and sits out this mid-term election, ceding both houses to Democrats, conservatives will certainly be energized in the Republican primaries for ’08. That cannot be good for McCain.
If on the other hand we get some compromise no amnesty – amnesty legislation on immigration, tax cut made permanent or kicked out a few years and the president gets his judicial nominations through, McCain could conceivably sail through the primaries under the radar. As always, McCain’s first thought in politics is of McCain.
Then dopey claims the unfunny joke was about President Bush and that anyone who thinks he would demean our troops is crazy. Well John Boy there are several miles of tape of you doing just that – calling Viet Nam vets murderers and rapists and claiming that our troops in Iraq are terrorizing women and children in the dark of night. So John Boy the joke’s on you. But hey, thanks for reminding us what a treasonous, gold digging louse you really are. One cannot be reminded enough. Prediction: Before the sun goes down Friday, John Boy will have issued some pathetic non-apology apology. That will, of course, only serve to start the cycle on this story all over again. Thanks for being so much smarter than the rest of us John.
John McCain is campaigning as if he were running for president, and well I guess he is. It’s hard to turn on a TV and not see McCain stumping for some Republican candidate in trouble somewhere and if you believe the media they are all in trouble. McCain knows that if he wants to be president the Republicans need to maintain control of at least one of the legislative bodies. If Democrats run the table next week McCain is done as a presidential candidate.
Here’s why. Democrats are sure to try to do a few things like;
- Roll back the tax cuts – which McCain opposed in the first place.
- Allow amnesty for illegal aliens – which McCain supports.
- Prevent President Bush for reshaping the judiciary in a conservative mold – which McCain and his “gang of 14” support.
If the Democrats try this with McCain support, he’s done in 08. McCain’s only hope is that the Republican maintain control of one house and save McCain from McCain. If the conservative base is frustrated and sits out this mid-term election, ceding both houses to Democrats, conservatives will certainly be energized in the Republican primaries for ’08. That cannot be good for McCain.
If on the other hand we get some compromise no amnesty – amnesty legislation on immigration, tax cut made permanent or kicked out a few years and the president gets his judicial nominations through, McCain could conceivably sail through the primaries under the radar. As always, McCain’s first thought in politics is of McCain.
Tuesday, October 31, 2006
John Kerry: educated buffoon
OK, pointing out that John Kerry is pompous, arrogant, chickensh@#, windbag living high off of a dead man’s money ain’t exactly akin to decoding the Rosetta Stone. But given this comment to college students, I thought I’d remind you. Kerry said:
“You know education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and do your homework and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
So what fearless John, the man who chickened out of Vietnam after getting enough 8mm home movies and putting himself in for enough medals for wounding himself to start a political career is telling us is that the troops, whom he claims to support, are too stupid or lazy to get through college. That’s right, according Kerry instead of the best and brightest, selfless patriots, doing tough duty in a faraway land; our troops are nothing more than hapless dopes doing the work illegal immigrants - who liberals ironically praise as the “backbone of the country” - won’t. Very odd.
Kerry’s contempt for the men and women of our armed forces is well documented. He called them murderers and rapists during Viet Nam. He claimed that our troops were terrorizing women and children in Iraq and now this. I know from experience that the enlisted men of 20 years ago were as smart as anyone. In an era before calculators, they flew and tracked weather balloons with a theodolite and then manually calculated the affects that the shifting winds aloft would have on artillery rounds over a seven mile trajectory. They calculated the fall of thousands upon thousands of artillery rounds by interpolating data from stacks of tables with a slide rule in one hand and a cigarette in the other – and they could consistently do it in less than a minute or two – quickly, safely and accurately. In an era before GPS, they could accurately determine location and direction by the stars. They could fix anything with anything. They shared everything. In the process, they kept thousands of men safe and made their “educated” college boy lieutenants – like me – look good
If someone wants to do something worthwhile, they ought to do a documentary contrasting the day in the life of a 20 something year old Marine in Iraq with some worthless 20 year old know nothing, do nothing, be nothing college punk on MTV’s Room Raiders or My World loser. The same goes for “reality tv” like The Apprentice. That show consists of a bunch of “educated” weasels spending week after week trying to figure out how to sabotage each other’s efforts. The prize for being the best cheat is becoming the head peon for Donald Trump. Why would Trump even want one of these backstabbing morons in his organization? I’d take one Marine sergeant over the whole lot.
But I digress – Kerry is treasonous buffoon, an educated treasonous buffoon, but a treasonous buffoon none the less. And yes Mr. & Mrs. America this is yet another reason why it not safe to vote Democrat.
“You know education, if you make the most of it and you study hard and do your homework and make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”
So what fearless John, the man who chickened out of Vietnam after getting enough 8mm home movies and putting himself in for enough medals for wounding himself to start a political career is telling us is that the troops, whom he claims to support, are too stupid or lazy to get through college. That’s right, according Kerry instead of the best and brightest, selfless patriots, doing tough duty in a faraway land; our troops are nothing more than hapless dopes doing the work illegal immigrants - who liberals ironically praise as the “backbone of the country” - won’t. Very odd.
Kerry’s contempt for the men and women of our armed forces is well documented. He called them murderers and rapists during Viet Nam. He claimed that our troops were terrorizing women and children in Iraq and now this. I know from experience that the enlisted men of 20 years ago were as smart as anyone. In an era before calculators, they flew and tracked weather balloons with a theodolite and then manually calculated the affects that the shifting winds aloft would have on artillery rounds over a seven mile trajectory. They calculated the fall of thousands upon thousands of artillery rounds by interpolating data from stacks of tables with a slide rule in one hand and a cigarette in the other – and they could consistently do it in less than a minute or two – quickly, safely and accurately. In an era before GPS, they could accurately determine location and direction by the stars. They could fix anything with anything. They shared everything. In the process, they kept thousands of men safe and made their “educated” college boy lieutenants – like me – look good
If someone wants to do something worthwhile, they ought to do a documentary contrasting the day in the life of a 20 something year old Marine in Iraq with some worthless 20 year old know nothing, do nothing, be nothing college punk on MTV’s Room Raiders or My World loser. The same goes for “reality tv” like The Apprentice. That show consists of a bunch of “educated” weasels spending week after week trying to figure out how to sabotage each other’s efforts. The prize for being the best cheat is becoming the head peon for Donald Trump. Why would Trump even want one of these backstabbing morons in his organization? I’d take one Marine sergeant over the whole lot.
But I digress – Kerry is treasonous buffoon, an educated treasonous buffoon, but a treasonous buffoon none the less. And yes Mr. & Mrs. America this is yet another reason why it not safe to vote Democrat.
Monday, October 30, 2006
The Weekly Punctilio: Scrap the Constitution
This week’s Punctilio Award goes to the Journal Gazette for wasting ink and newsprint to publish this tripe by Sanford Levinson. If you want to waste your time, read the whole thing. The point of Levinson piece is that our US Constitution is so flawed that it should be thrown out and rewritten to meet today’s world rather the world as it existed 200 years ago.
First, if I were allowed to pick “today’s framers”, I suppose that Levinson’s idea would be a good one. But the gathering of modern day framers would no doubt be a hodgepodge of the usual suspects that get throw into the mix whenever elected officials want to duck tough issues. Look at the 9-11 Commission. Half of that commission was more interested in keeping Bill Clinton’s legacy one of a president that diddled the help rather than THE president who helped the terrorists diddle America. So from the gitgo Levinson’s idea is dead in the water. There are no modern day politicians with the statesmanship, the intellect and foresight of the original framers capable of doing the necessary hard work.
Another indicator that Levinson is an idiot is his idea that because President Bush is at about 40% approval rating in the polls that equates to 60% wanting him removed from office as an incompetent. That is utter foolishness. First, if asked if the president should be removed in favor of Vice President Cheney, the president’s approval would probably exceed 80% (I'd be in the 20% favoring Cheney). So unless Levinson is in favor of removing the president for some unnamed, unelected Jed Bartlett type, his entire premise falls flat on its face. If his premise is that house Republicans would then pick one of their own, we’d be looking at Dennis Hastert and again the president’s approval goes up to about 80%. Last, is Levinson so obtuse as to have forgotten when our government was divided and Bill Clinton was president with a Republican House? What would Levinson have happen there? The house, given a half way step to avoid impeachment would certainly have chosen it. Would Levinson have accepted a President Gingrich?
Levinson, who happens to be bilking unsuspecting parents who send their youngsters off to college to be “educated” (in Levinson’s classroom re-educated is probably a better word) out of cash in his job as a “professor” of law at Texas University, makes equally insane arguments about the structure of the senate. Why does Wyoming have as much power as California in senate? Well Sanford (I hear the Sanford and son theme song in my head now) it’s because there is this other little know body in Washington called the House of Representatives. In the house states are given proportional representation in accordance to their population – 1 representative per about every 640,000 people. And that is why we do a census every ten years.
Another thing Fred, uh er, Sanford takes on is the Electoral College. Why not just go with the popular vote. Because Fred, the original framers wanted a two party system to prevent some nut job law professor from fooling enough of the voters on a ballot with 25 other candidates to win an election with a plurality of about 15% of the vote - which ironically would immediately make him eligible for removal from office under Fred’s first idiotic point. Besides, Democrats have proven that they are incapable of figuring out a ballot with only three names. Imagine the nightmare scenario for Democrats trying to find Pat Buchanan’s name on a ballot with 20-30 other names.
First, if I were allowed to pick “today’s framers”, I suppose that Levinson’s idea would be a good one. But the gathering of modern day framers would no doubt be a hodgepodge of the usual suspects that get throw into the mix whenever elected officials want to duck tough issues. Look at the 9-11 Commission. Half of that commission was more interested in keeping Bill Clinton’s legacy one of a president that diddled the help rather than THE president who helped the terrorists diddle America. So from the gitgo Levinson’s idea is dead in the water. There are no modern day politicians with the statesmanship, the intellect and foresight of the original framers capable of doing the necessary hard work.
Another indicator that Levinson is an idiot is his idea that because President Bush is at about 40% approval rating in the polls that equates to 60% wanting him removed from office as an incompetent. That is utter foolishness. First, if asked if the president should be removed in favor of Vice President Cheney, the president’s approval would probably exceed 80% (I'd be in the 20% favoring Cheney). So unless Levinson is in favor of removing the president for some unnamed, unelected Jed Bartlett type, his entire premise falls flat on its face. If his premise is that house Republicans would then pick one of their own, we’d be looking at Dennis Hastert and again the president’s approval goes up to about 80%. Last, is Levinson so obtuse as to have forgotten when our government was divided and Bill Clinton was president with a Republican House? What would Levinson have happen there? The house, given a half way step to avoid impeachment would certainly have chosen it. Would Levinson have accepted a President Gingrich?
Levinson, who happens to be bilking unsuspecting parents who send their youngsters off to college to be “educated” (in Levinson’s classroom re-educated is probably a better word) out of cash in his job as a “professor” of law at Texas University, makes equally insane arguments about the structure of the senate. Why does Wyoming have as much power as California in senate? Well Sanford (I hear the Sanford and son theme song in my head now) it’s because there is this other little know body in Washington called the House of Representatives. In the house states are given proportional representation in accordance to their population – 1 representative per about every 640,000 people. And that is why we do a census every ten years.
Another thing Fred, uh er, Sanford takes on is the Electoral College. Why not just go with the popular vote. Because Fred, the original framers wanted a two party system to prevent some nut job law professor from fooling enough of the voters on a ballot with 25 other candidates to win an election with a plurality of about 15% of the vote - which ironically would immediately make him eligible for removal from office under Fred’s first idiotic point. Besides, Democrats have proven that they are incapable of figuring out a ballot with only three names. Imagine the nightmare scenario for Democrats trying to find Pat Buchanan’s name on a ballot with 20-30 other names.
Friday, October 27, 2006
Democrats may end up looking like the Stanford marching band
Uh oh! Democrats who started their victory dance five yards from the end zone can now hear Karl Rove’s footsteps closing fast. Polls which had Democrats leaping for joy two weeks ago are now too close to call. Expectations of gaining up to 40 seats in the House have been revised downward to 17-20. Once safe senatorial Democrat candidates in Maryland and New Jersey are now ducking debates with their Republican challengers. Democrats Cardin and Menendez were last seen frantically banging on obnoxious Chucky Schumer’s door begging for more money to protect their heretofore “safe” Democrat seats. Even Conrad Burn, the Montana Republican left for dead on the side of the road months ago, had the nerve to keep campaigning is now within striking distance.
Democrats are now stumbling around field in disbelief like the Stanford marching band watching Karl Rove zigzag his way down the field for the last second score. Fat Ted Kennedy sobered up long enough to write the DNC a check for half a million dollars from his own campaign fund. Pompous John F. Kerry snitched a check out Terezzzzzzzze’s checkbook to do the same. “Yes, yes, we’re so confident of victory we’ll just pony up a million more dollars for the cause” goes the logic. Hmm, seems to me if you’re that confident of victory, you might just save that million for the next big fight.
The bad news is that it is still too close to call. Democrats could still win both houses by slim margins. The good news is that the Republicans are – as predicted - back in the hunt. Whoever wins is likely to do so by razor thin margins. So as trite as it may sound, EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
Democrats are now stumbling around field in disbelief like the Stanford marching band watching Karl Rove zigzag his way down the field for the last second score. Fat Ted Kennedy sobered up long enough to write the DNC a check for half a million dollars from his own campaign fund. Pompous John F. Kerry snitched a check out Terezzzzzzzze’s checkbook to do the same. “Yes, yes, we’re so confident of victory we’ll just pony up a million more dollars for the cause” goes the logic. Hmm, seems to me if you’re that confident of victory, you might just save that million for the next big fight.
The bad news is that it is still too close to call. Democrats could still win both houses by slim margins. The good news is that the Republicans are – as predicted - back in the hunt. Whoever wins is likely to do so by razor thin margins. So as trite as it may sound, EVERY VOTE COUNTS.
Thursday, October 26, 2006
It's still not safe to vote Democrat
President Bush had a pretty good presser yesterday. I say pretty good, because while he laid out clearly what was at stake in Iraq, he then went on equivocate about our commitment there. He seemed to say a couple of times that Iraq was the central front in the war on terror and then say things like “we don’t have unlimited patience” or “we’re not there to be caught in the crossfire of sectarian violence.” Well it seems to me that the president just gave the Islamo-terror-fascists a roadmap. Keep up the sectarian violence and the patience will, at some point, run out.
I’d have delivered the patience message to the Iraqi government in secret. During the presser, I’d have given the terrorists no room for hope. I’d have said something along lines of, “As long as we can kill the enemy in the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, we will stay.” A statement like that would have would-be terrorists scratching their heads thinking, “Well, maybe there is a political way out of this after all.”
The other thing giving the jihadis hope and is probably as responsible as anything for the step up in violence in Iraq is the American election. These guys seem to think that all they have to do to get America to cut and run is get Democrats elected. That flawed thinking is similar to conservatives believing that if you want smaller government and less spending, all you have to do is elect Republicans.
There are probably enough Democrats that understand “redeploying to Okinawa” is idiocy of the highest order to block any such move. There are probably enough Democrats that understand ceding Iraq and its oil revenue to the jihadis would be a strategic mistake 10,000 times worse than letting the Taliban run amok in Afghanistan to block any such move. But then again, given what passes for leadership in the Democrat party at this point in history, maybe there aren’t enough Democrats that appreciate the long-term strategic importance of Iraq. Which is why Mr. & Mrs. America, it is still not safe to vote Democrat.
I’d have delivered the patience message to the Iraqi government in secret. During the presser, I’d have given the terrorists no room for hope. I’d have said something along lines of, “As long as we can kill the enemy in the streets of Baghdad and elsewhere in Iraq, we will stay.” A statement like that would have would-be terrorists scratching their heads thinking, “Well, maybe there is a political way out of this after all.”
The other thing giving the jihadis hope and is probably as responsible as anything for the step up in violence in Iraq is the American election. These guys seem to think that all they have to do to get America to cut and run is get Democrats elected. That flawed thinking is similar to conservatives believing that if you want smaller government and less spending, all you have to do is elect Republicans.
There are probably enough Democrats that understand “redeploying to Okinawa” is idiocy of the highest order to block any such move. There are probably enough Democrats that understand ceding Iraq and its oil revenue to the jihadis would be a strategic mistake 10,000 times worse than letting the Taliban run amok in Afghanistan to block any such move. But then again, given what passes for leadership in the Democrat party at this point in history, maybe there aren’t enough Democrats that appreciate the long-term strategic importance of Iraq. Which is why Mr. & Mrs. America, it is still not safe to vote Democrat.
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
Mike’s biennial disease
Michael Fox has taken to the airwaves in support of, surprise, surprise, Democrats. How odd that another Hollywood know nothing would line up to shill for Democrats. But Mike is a one issue shill. Shaking like one of the chicks on a pole at the Boom Boom room, Mike shows up and shows off the ravages of Parkinson’s. Mike has stated publicly that he goes off his meds when testifying before congress and elsewhere to better demonstrate the effects of his disease.
OK fair enough. If I had a debilitating disease, I’d probably take every advantage to call attention to it as well. But I doubt that I’d place so high a value on my own comfort or life that I’d call for the wholesale destruction of others so that I might have their cells – stem or otherwise. And even if I did support the destruction of others for my personal benefit, I cannot imagine that I’d advocate that position as policy for the Federal government. I think I’d kind of want to hide that side of my personality. But then I think I’d kind of want to hide my infirmities as well rather than foregoing my meds to accentuate them.
But Mike, never one to learn from the past, has taken a page from the 2004 presidential race where faith-healer and snake oil salesman John Edwards claimed Christopher Reeves would walk again if only we’d elect John Kerry president. Fox shills for Democrats only, even one who once who voted against the very legislation he proposes. He says stem cell research is being thwarted by Republicans even though many Republicans like Orin Hatch support governemt sponsored stem cell research, and stem cell research is legal in the very states in which he is now campaigning - MO and MD.
We’ve been down this road before. Stem cell research is not illegal. Mike can give as many of his considerable millions as wants to that research. President Bush is the FIRST president to allocate government resources to that research. Stem cell research is NOT the most promising research being conducted today with regard to paralyses and disease.
The stem cell question when raised in this fashion becomes more political than medical which is the whole point of Mike's coming out every two years to stump for only Democrats - even ones who vote against his stem cell proposals.
OK fair enough. If I had a debilitating disease, I’d probably take every advantage to call attention to it as well. But I doubt that I’d place so high a value on my own comfort or life that I’d call for the wholesale destruction of others so that I might have their cells – stem or otherwise. And even if I did support the destruction of others for my personal benefit, I cannot imagine that I’d advocate that position as policy for the Federal government. I think I’d kind of want to hide that side of my personality. But then I think I’d kind of want to hide my infirmities as well rather than foregoing my meds to accentuate them.
But Mike, never one to learn from the past, has taken a page from the 2004 presidential race where faith-healer and snake oil salesman John Edwards claimed Christopher Reeves would walk again if only we’d elect John Kerry president. Fox shills for Democrats only, even one who once who voted against the very legislation he proposes. He says stem cell research is being thwarted by Republicans even though many Republicans like Orin Hatch support governemt sponsored stem cell research, and stem cell research is legal in the very states in which he is now campaigning - MO and MD.
We’ve been down this road before. Stem cell research is not illegal. Mike can give as many of his considerable millions as wants to that research. President Bush is the FIRST president to allocate government resources to that research. Stem cell research is NOT the most promising research being conducted today with regard to paralyses and disease.
The stem cell question when raised in this fashion becomes more political than medical which is the whole point of Mike's coming out every two years to stump for only Democrats - even ones who vote against his stem cell proposals.
Tuesday, October 24, 2006
bin Laden's vote
Well Lex has defied liberal logic. Yes, I regularly add two plus two and get four, not bad for a public school grad, but what will really stun liberals is that I cast my ballot today. Yep an absentee ballot supporting conservative candidates has been placed in the mail today. Barring some foul-up with the mail, conservative candidates and causes are already one vote to the good, and it’s still two weeks until Election Day.
Am I delighted with weak-keened republicans led by the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Hagle? No. But the alternative to a bunch sissified Republicans is a bunch of near treasonous Democrats. So I voted for the sissies in a party that includes a group of senators that can only find their manhood in a “gang of 14”.
The alternative was much worse. I imagined (and I think this would be a good ad for the RNC) a long election line. In the line is tall bearded man wearing a turbine. The camera zooms in and it’s bin Laden. The camera pans down and in bin Laden’s hand is Democrat voter guide. The voice over comes up, “Who will you be voting for?”
It seems pretty clear to me who Islamo-terror-fascists will be supporting in this election.
Am I delighted with weak-keened republicans led by the likes of John McCain, Lindsey Graham and Chuck Hagle? No. But the alternative to a bunch sissified Republicans is a bunch of near treasonous Democrats. So I voted for the sissies in a party that includes a group of senators that can only find their manhood in a “gang of 14”.
The alternative was much worse. I imagined (and I think this would be a good ad for the RNC) a long election line. In the line is tall bearded man wearing a turbine. The camera zooms in and it’s bin Laden. The camera pans down and in bin Laden’s hand is Democrat voter guide. The voice over comes up, “Who will you be voting for?”
It seems pretty clear to me who Islamo-terror-fascists will be supporting in this election.
Monday, October 23, 2006
Prison locks and houshold locks are not the same
This week’s J-G Punctilio Award goes to this little gem from Scripts Howard:
Mikhail Gorbachev knows his walls. He presided over two of the most infamous, the 4,500-mile Iron Curtain that imprisoned half of Europe and the Berlin Wall that doubly imprisoned the people of East Berlin.
And he was president of the Soviet Union when both of them fell. So he knows whereof he speaks when he speaks of walls.
He was speaking in Midland, Texas, when he gently chided the United States for its plans to build a 700-mile barrier, in places remarkably similar to the Iron Curtain, along the border with Mexico, a nation, he noted, with whom the United States has shared long-standing "cooperation and interaction."
"I don't think the U.S. is so weak and so much lacks confidence as not to be able to find a different solution," said the 1990 Nobel Prize winner, according to an account in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
The former Soviet leader recalled in 1987 when President Reagan visited Berlin and taunted the Kremlin with the demand, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
This is so mortifying.
No, what is so mortifying is that supposed educated people who work in America’s newsrooms and a communist statesman can confuse a wall designed to keep people in so that they cannot escape totalitarian, communist rule with a fence designed to keep terrorists and illegals out. It’s truly sad when 9 year old Lex jr. can distinguish between the locks on prison doors, designed to keep people in, and the locks on the doors of our house, designed to keep people out, but dopes in the MSM and communists can not or will not make that very basic distinction when writing or talking about our border fence.
Mikhail Gorbachev knows his walls. He presided over two of the most infamous, the 4,500-mile Iron Curtain that imprisoned half of Europe and the Berlin Wall that doubly imprisoned the people of East Berlin.
And he was president of the Soviet Union when both of them fell. So he knows whereof he speaks when he speaks of walls.
He was speaking in Midland, Texas, when he gently chided the United States for its plans to build a 700-mile barrier, in places remarkably similar to the Iron Curtain, along the border with Mexico, a nation, he noted, with whom the United States has shared long-standing "cooperation and interaction."
"I don't think the U.S. is so weak and so much lacks confidence as not to be able to find a different solution," said the 1990 Nobel Prize winner, according to an account in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.
The former Soviet leader recalled in 1987 when President Reagan visited Berlin and taunted the Kremlin with the demand, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
This is so mortifying.
No, what is so mortifying is that supposed educated people who work in America’s newsrooms and a communist statesman can confuse a wall designed to keep people in so that they cannot escape totalitarian, communist rule with a fence designed to keep terrorists and illegals out. It’s truly sad when 9 year old Lex jr. can distinguish between the locks on prison doors, designed to keep people in, and the locks on the doors of our house, designed to keep people out, but dopes in the MSM and communists can not or will not make that very basic distinction when writing or talking about our border fence.
Friday, October 20, 2006
Comparisons to Tet encouraging
It’s even better than we thought. ABC, asked President Bush if what was going on in Baghdad right now is comparable to the Viet Cong’s Tet Offensive in Viet Nam in 1968. The president said yeah, it might be.
The Tet Offensive, for dopes in the MSM, was the turning point for the North in the Viet Nam war. Never mind that US troops won every battle. Never mind that the Viet Cong lost between 43-58,000 fighters. Never mind that the Viet Cong were never able to reconstitute themselves as an effective fighting force. It was a loss for the US pure and simple. Why was it a loss? Because know nothings like Wally Cronkite said so. That’s why.
Now we’re in another struggle were the MSM and ¾ of Americans have no idea what’s at stake. George Stephanopolis is trying to be the next Wally C. The MSM wants to create an atmosphere of fear and despair. Better to just to quit and go home than slug it out in Iraq with the Islamo-terror-fascists that are flocking to that country to be killed in droves. Give up the oil revenue to al Qaida, give up the Middle East to Islamic radicals, give up Israel to some Iranian nut job. Retreat back to the US where Liberals can sleep under the bed sheets until Mohamed shows up with his knife in their bedroom. Then soil themselves and die a coward’s death begging for mercy from pigs that have none.
When the MSM and Democrats forced the US to quit Viet Nam, two million Cambodians were slaughtered along with 100,000s of Vietnamese. The stakes are 10,000 times higher in Iraq.
The Tet Offensive, for dopes in the MSM, was the turning point for the North in the Viet Nam war. Never mind that US troops won every battle. Never mind that the Viet Cong lost between 43-58,000 fighters. Never mind that the Viet Cong were never able to reconstitute themselves as an effective fighting force. It was a loss for the US pure and simple. Why was it a loss? Because know nothings like Wally Cronkite said so. That’s why.
Now we’re in another struggle were the MSM and ¾ of Americans have no idea what’s at stake. George Stephanopolis is trying to be the next Wally C. The MSM wants to create an atmosphere of fear and despair. Better to just to quit and go home than slug it out in Iraq with the Islamo-terror-fascists that are flocking to that country to be killed in droves. Give up the oil revenue to al Qaida, give up the Middle East to Islamic radicals, give up Israel to some Iranian nut job. Retreat back to the US where Liberals can sleep under the bed sheets until Mohamed shows up with his knife in their bedroom. Then soil themselves and die a coward’s death begging for mercy from pigs that have none.
When the MSM and Democrats forced the US to quit Viet Nam, two million Cambodians were slaughtered along with 100,000s of Vietnamese. The stakes are 10,000 times higher in Iraq.
Thursday, October 19, 2006
Will conservatives teach America a lesson
“Conservatives, disappointed with an over spending congress, little progress on controlling illegal immigration and scandals, will stay home in droves on Nov 7th to teach the Republican Party a lesson.” If I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it every MSM news broadcast for the last month.
Who knows, maybe the pundits are right in this case. Maybe a large portion of the conservative electorate will sit this election out to teach the Republican Party a lesson. That would be disappointing because the lesson being taught, while hurting the party for an election cycle or two, could do harm to the country for decades.
Take court appointments, for example. If the senate is flipped, what kind of judges will be confirmed over the next two years? Only judges like Clinton appointee John Koeltl will get confirmed in a Democrat controlled senate. Koeltl recently let jihadi co-conspirator Lynn Stewart off with a slap on the wrist in the form of a 28 month sentence, instead of the 30 years prosecutors had asked for. Stewart acted as a mule passing notes calling for chaos from her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers in Egypt. In addition to her work defending Islamo-terror-fascists who tried to blow up the World Trade Center 1993, Judge Koeltl sited Stewart’s work with the poor, the Black Panthers, and the Weathermen, to justify the light sentence. Sounds more like justification for a treason trial to me.
So conservatives can stay home to teach the Republican Party a lesson if they think that’s wise. Unfortunately, it’s the country that’s ultimately being given the lesson. And like a kid trapped in a failing inner city school, I just don’t know how much more schooling the nation can take. Politics is the art of the possible. Nobody gets everything they want. You have vote for the candidate that most closely approximates your views on the important issues of the day. Hold your nose if you must, but go vote.
UPDATE: Oh yeah, the time to throw an unresponsive member of your party overboard is during THE PRIMARY ELECTION not the general election where such an action is only sure to elect an even more unresponsive representative.
Who knows, maybe the pundits are right in this case. Maybe a large portion of the conservative electorate will sit this election out to teach the Republican Party a lesson. That would be disappointing because the lesson being taught, while hurting the party for an election cycle or two, could do harm to the country for decades.
Take court appointments, for example. If the senate is flipped, what kind of judges will be confirmed over the next two years? Only judges like Clinton appointee John Koeltl will get confirmed in a Democrat controlled senate. Koeltl recently let jihadi co-conspirator Lynn Stewart off with a slap on the wrist in the form of a 28 month sentence, instead of the 30 years prosecutors had asked for. Stewart acted as a mule passing notes calling for chaos from her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman to his followers in Egypt. In addition to her work defending Islamo-terror-fascists who tried to blow up the World Trade Center 1993, Judge Koeltl sited Stewart’s work with the poor, the Black Panthers, and the Weathermen, to justify the light sentence. Sounds more like justification for a treason trial to me.
So conservatives can stay home to teach the Republican Party a lesson if they think that’s wise. Unfortunately, it’s the country that’s ultimately being given the lesson. And like a kid trapped in a failing inner city school, I just don’t know how much more schooling the nation can take. Politics is the art of the possible. Nobody gets everything they want. You have vote for the candidate that most closely approximates your views on the important issues of the day. Hold your nose if you must, but go vote.
UPDATE: Oh yeah, the time to throw an unresponsive member of your party overboard is during THE PRIMARY ELECTION not the general election where such an action is only sure to elect an even more unresponsive representative.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
BCS poll is out, but games go on
Well the first BCS college football poll came out Sunday. My old school, Ohio State was overwhelmingly ranked #1. But a funny thing has happened since Sunday. Not a single game has been canceled. Michigan coach Lloyd Carr has not told that university’s faithful to expect to be blown out by 30 points in Ohio stadium on 18 Nov. The holiday bowl commissions across the country continue to plan to have games after the regular season. Even an unranked and undermanned Indiana football team is expected to show up in Ohio this Saturday for a noon kick-off against the #1 Buckeyes.
What the heck is the point of being ranked #1 in October if you have to finish your schedule? It’s a cruel trick. A conspiracy if you will against Ohio State. Everyone knows that OSU has the best team so they get ranked #1. But by making them play the rest of their games, the pollsters have placed a huge bull’s eye squarely between the Buckeye’s shoulder blades. Now everyone is just going to try that much harder to beat OSU.
Well on a different front the pollsters have predicted a victory so monumental for Democrats that Nancy Pelosi has already been seen measuring the curtains in Denny Hastert’s office. Can all of these polls be wrong? Well, historically, at this point in the election cycle, they have been. They always show the Republican down by double digits a few weeks out. Then as the election draws closer and with the pollsters’ reputations on the line, the races suddenly tighten. What was a safe Democrat lead is now suddenly within the margin of error. Oddly, Republican leads remain pretty consistent throughout the race.
So what to do? Well just like the Indiana football team is going to show up Saturday against all the odds, I’m going to show up on Nov 7th. And like the Hoosiers, I’ll have a bit more intensity. I’m going to make sure my wife shows up. I’m going to drive my wife’s father and his wife to the polls if they need ride. I’m going to baby-sit a friend’s kids so they can vote, if they need a hand. I’m going to do what I can and see where the chips fall. And like all Hoosier fans, I’ll be ecstatic if we win. But if we don’t, I’ll be happy if we can just cover the point spread. If the worst happens and we get blown out, I’m still not going to cancel next year’s season.
What the heck is the point of being ranked #1 in October if you have to finish your schedule? It’s a cruel trick. A conspiracy if you will against Ohio State. Everyone knows that OSU has the best team so they get ranked #1. But by making them play the rest of their games, the pollsters have placed a huge bull’s eye squarely between the Buckeye’s shoulder blades. Now everyone is just going to try that much harder to beat OSU.
Well on a different front the pollsters have predicted a victory so monumental for Democrats that Nancy Pelosi has already been seen measuring the curtains in Denny Hastert’s office. Can all of these polls be wrong? Well, historically, at this point in the election cycle, they have been. They always show the Republican down by double digits a few weeks out. Then as the election draws closer and with the pollsters’ reputations on the line, the races suddenly tighten. What was a safe Democrat lead is now suddenly within the margin of error. Oddly, Republican leads remain pretty consistent throughout the race.
So what to do? Well just like the Indiana football team is going to show up Saturday against all the odds, I’m going to show up on Nov 7th. And like the Hoosiers, I’ll have a bit more intensity. I’m going to make sure my wife shows up. I’m going to drive my wife’s father and his wife to the polls if they need ride. I’m going to baby-sit a friend’s kids so they can vote, if they need a hand. I’m going to do what I can and see where the chips fall. And like all Hoosier fans, I’ll be ecstatic if we win. But if we don’t, I’ll be happy if we can just cover the point spread. If the worst happens and we get blown out, I’m still not going to cancel next year’s season.
Tuesday, October 17, 2006
The First Weekly Punctilio Award - ever
Like most of us, I get the morning fish wrap and I’m disappointed in the news coverage, save the sports page. But if the news coverage is disappointing, the editorial section is infuriating. Well, the Ft. Wayne, Journal Gazette is the worst of the worse when it comes to its editorial section. It willfully ignores or misstates facts that do not support its editorial position rather than explain or argue against those facts.
The J-G is so wrong so often on its editorial page that I’ve come to refer to it as The Daily Punctilio (DP) the paper of record in Lemony Snicket’s clever, creative, funny, exciting etc. etc. Series of Unfortunate Events. The DP gets every fact, from the most mundane – names, dates and locations – to the most important – who killed who - wrong. The story reader, as an outside observer, can see how misleading and dopey the DP is, but the players in the story unwittingly believe what’s in the DP – even though every bit of it is wrong. The consequences in the story are the exact same as they are in real life, lives are ruined, heroes are vilified, villains are glorified and the public is ill served.
So I’ve decided that I’d do a Weekly Punctilio award for the J-G where I’d take one of the dopiest things appearing in the paper and comment on it.
This is the first Weekly Punctilio Award for the Ft. Wayne, Journal-Gazette. On Saturday in its “Weekly Scorecard” section under the sub-head of “Losers” the J-G aka the D-P printed this about our Republican Congressman Mark Souder:
“Even fellow Republicans are talking about how mean, spiteful and just plain weird his radio commercials have become.”
Lex fired off the following e-mail to the Punctilio:
Does anyone at the J-G find it ironic that this fish wrap would run a “Weekly Scorecard” where it places public figures in a category called “Losers” then in that very section refers to a person as “mean and spiteful”? I’m sure the alert staff of top-notch “journalists” employed by the J-G considered conventions such as rising and falling; peaks and valleys, after rejecting the more pedantic up and down but settled on winners and losers for this section while slugging down a cup of Joe and chewing the fat with the sports guy.
The reason Mark Souder’s ads sound “weird” to you is that he plainly states his position on the issues of the day and contrasts his position with that of his opponent. Phew that is weird! Plain talk from a politician? That’s weirder than a visit from the Easter Bunny.
By contrast a visit to the Hayhurst web site finds the following “issues” listed: Affordable health care (i.e. public health care), Veterans, Jobs and the economy, energy (see below), and immigration (i.e. amnesty). What about that little thing going on in Iraq, the war on terror and taxes? Aren’t those “issues”? What’s Hayhurst’s position? Hayhurst’s site doesn’t say. But, he’s a Democrat. So, we can assume the answers are as follows and in order: Cut and run. What war? And, they’re going up.
If you can scare up a real journalist somewhere around there, send him out to talk to Hayhurst about his energy plan which calls for a light rail system in northeast Indiana. Questions:
Q: What population and/or industrial centers will the rail system connect?
A: We plan to spend several million dollars and three years studying that.
Q: What supporting public transportation systems (buses, taxis, metro systems etc.) are in place or will be required at those centers to move light rail riders to their final destinations?
A: Supporting public transportation? Hmm, I never thought of that. We’ll add $20 million and throw that question into the study.
Q: How much will it cost to build a system to connect those centers?
A: We’ll add another $50 million to the study and I’ll get back to you on that in ten years.
Q: How will the fare rate be structured so the line can turn a profit?
A: Well, like all public transportation it’ll be free to those who are already on the public dole and unaffordable to everyone else. The free riders will tear the system up in three years so that no respectable person will ride it. Then we’ll fund a study to fix the project. But, like most public transportation, my vision of our light rail system is one where it will definitely be cheaper and more convenient to just drive yourself.
Q: How many profitable light rail systems are there in the US today serving areas with populations of less than, say, 3 million?
A: Oh, nearly one.
Q: Have you ever heard of AMTRAK?
A: Huh?
The J-G is so wrong so often on its editorial page that I’ve come to refer to it as The Daily Punctilio (DP) the paper of record in Lemony Snicket’s clever, creative, funny, exciting etc. etc. Series of Unfortunate Events. The DP gets every fact, from the most mundane – names, dates and locations – to the most important – who killed who - wrong. The story reader, as an outside observer, can see how misleading and dopey the DP is, but the players in the story unwittingly believe what’s in the DP – even though every bit of it is wrong. The consequences in the story are the exact same as they are in real life, lives are ruined, heroes are vilified, villains are glorified and the public is ill served.
So I’ve decided that I’d do a Weekly Punctilio award for the J-G where I’d take one of the dopiest things appearing in the paper and comment on it.
This is the first Weekly Punctilio Award for the Ft. Wayne, Journal-Gazette. On Saturday in its “Weekly Scorecard” section under the sub-head of “Losers” the J-G aka the D-P printed this about our Republican Congressman Mark Souder:
“Even fellow Republicans are talking about how mean, spiteful and just plain weird his radio commercials have become.”
Lex fired off the following e-mail to the Punctilio:
Does anyone at the J-G find it ironic that this fish wrap would run a “Weekly Scorecard” where it places public figures in a category called “Losers” then in that very section refers to a person as “mean and spiteful”? I’m sure the alert staff of top-notch “journalists” employed by the J-G considered conventions such as rising and falling; peaks and valleys, after rejecting the more pedantic up and down but settled on winners and losers for this section while slugging down a cup of Joe and chewing the fat with the sports guy.
The reason Mark Souder’s ads sound “weird” to you is that he plainly states his position on the issues of the day and contrasts his position with that of his opponent. Phew that is weird! Plain talk from a politician? That’s weirder than a visit from the Easter Bunny.
By contrast a visit to the Hayhurst web site finds the following “issues” listed: Affordable health care (i.e. public health care), Veterans, Jobs and the economy, energy (see below), and immigration (i.e. amnesty). What about that little thing going on in Iraq, the war on terror and taxes? Aren’t those “issues”? What’s Hayhurst’s position? Hayhurst’s site doesn’t say. But, he’s a Democrat. So, we can assume the answers are as follows and in order: Cut and run. What war? And, they’re going up.
If you can scare up a real journalist somewhere around there, send him out to talk to Hayhurst about his energy plan which calls for a light rail system in northeast Indiana. Questions:
Q: What population and/or industrial centers will the rail system connect?
A: We plan to spend several million dollars and three years studying that.
Q: What supporting public transportation systems (buses, taxis, metro systems etc.) are in place or will be required at those centers to move light rail riders to their final destinations?
A: Supporting public transportation? Hmm, I never thought of that. We’ll add $20 million and throw that question into the study.
Q: How much will it cost to build a system to connect those centers?
A: We’ll add another $50 million to the study and I’ll get back to you on that in ten years.
Q: How will the fare rate be structured so the line can turn a profit?
A: Well, like all public transportation it’ll be free to those who are already on the public dole and unaffordable to everyone else. The free riders will tear the system up in three years so that no respectable person will ride it. Then we’ll fund a study to fix the project. But, like most public transportation, my vision of our light rail system is one where it will definitely be cheaper and more convenient to just drive yourself.
Q: How many profitable light rail systems are there in the US today serving areas with populations of less than, say, 3 million?
A: Oh, nearly one.
Q: Have you ever heard of AMTRAK?
A: Huh?
Monday, October 16, 2006
Figures lie; liars figure
Lex responds to misinformation in the Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette aka The Daily Punctilio (From Lemony Snicket’s Series of Unfortunate Events) :
Not that the editor of this page would care but, there was a significant error in a letter submitted by Yecenia Tostado in Sunday’s letters section. Ms. Tostado wrote “The American Cancer Society states that ‘secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. killing 38,000 to 65,000 non-smokers every year.”
The following comes directly from the ACS web page: (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Secondhand_Smoke-Clean_Indoor_Air.asp):
“Secondhand smoke can be harmful in many ways. In the United States alone, each year it is responsible for:
- an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not current smokers (Emphasis added)
- about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking adults”
In the first bullet, one might conclude that the 35,000 to 40,000 deaths in people who “are not current smokers” at one time were smokers. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make more sense to blame the death on firsthand rather than secondhand smoke? Also notice the deaths are attributed to heart disease.
So if I’m a 68 year old who weighs 600 pounds and smoked a couple of packs cigarettes a day up until 2 years ago, and am married to a smoker, when I die of a heart attack, because I'm a "current non-smoker" married to a smoker, the ACS will attribute my death to secondhand smoke, rather than the proximate cause of my death - my obesity, cigarette smoking and relative longevity.
The figure in the second bullet looks familiar. Oh Yeah, that’s the figure I used in my letter, which is the accepted high figure of deaths attributable to secondhand smoke from an EPA study on the subject.
The Surgeon General’s figure (50,000) quoted in Ms. Tostado's letter is equally misleading. But hey, it’s easy to throw big numbers out there – 650,000 deaths in Iraq. It’s much harder to do the work required to get it right in 300 words or less. END OF LETTER
The point of my letter was not that smoking is a wonderful thing. The point was that the county government has no business telling people how to run their business with regard to cigarette smoking, which the last time I looked is a legal product.
Not that the editor of this page would care but, there was a significant error in a letter submitted by Yecenia Tostado in Sunday’s letters section. Ms. Tostado wrote “The American Cancer Society states that ‘secondhand smoke is the third leading preventable cause of death in the U.S. killing 38,000 to 65,000 non-smokers every year.”
The following comes directly from the ACS web page: (http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Secondhand_Smoke-Clean_Indoor_Air.asp):
“Secondhand smoke can be harmful in many ways. In the United States alone, each year it is responsible for:
- an estimated 35,000 to 40,000 deaths from heart disease in people who are not current smokers (Emphasis added)
- about 3,000 lung cancer deaths in nonsmoking adults”
In the first bullet, one might conclude that the 35,000 to 40,000 deaths in people who “are not current smokers” at one time were smokers. If that’s the case, wouldn’t it make more sense to blame the death on firsthand rather than secondhand smoke? Also notice the deaths are attributed to heart disease.
So if I’m a 68 year old who weighs 600 pounds and smoked a couple of packs cigarettes a day up until 2 years ago, and am married to a smoker, when I die of a heart attack, because I'm a "current non-smoker" married to a smoker, the ACS will attribute my death to secondhand smoke, rather than the proximate cause of my death - my obesity, cigarette smoking and relative longevity.
The figure in the second bullet looks familiar. Oh Yeah, that’s the figure I used in my letter, which is the accepted high figure of deaths attributable to secondhand smoke from an EPA study on the subject.
The Surgeon General’s figure (50,000) quoted in Ms. Tostado's letter is equally misleading. But hey, it’s easy to throw big numbers out there – 650,000 deaths in Iraq. It’s much harder to do the work required to get it right in 300 words or less. END OF LETTER
The point of my letter was not that smoking is a wonderful thing. The point was that the county government has no business telling people how to run their business with regard to cigarette smoking, which the last time I looked is a legal product.
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