Posted on 01/07/2005 4:04:19 PM PST by goldstategop
I've got some audio sound bites that I want to share with you from yesterday. And to get into this, there's just a tremendous piece today in the Tallahassee news. I'm not sure what the name of the newspaper is, but I've got their website here. It's Tallahassee.com. It's by Bill Cotterell or Cotterell. He's the Capital Curmudgeon and this is a great fun little piece here that illustrates -- I don't know if he intends it to be fun -- but it illustrates the problems the Democrats have. The headline of his piece: "Democrats in Congress Must Walk a Fine Line to Survive -- Imagine a campaign commercial that starts with a grainy, shadowy image of a Nativity scene being ripped from the front lawn of city hall.
"A sad, weary announcer intones, 'President Bush appointed judges who know what made America great ... but Democrats in the Senate used stalling tactics to stifle the will of the people.' The shot dissolves to quick-cut scenes of same-sex couples in tuxedos and wedding dresses celebrating on the courthouse steps. 'Americans want judges who won't substitute their values for ours,' says the voice-over, 'but the Democrats listened to the radical activists.' Next we see some grinning convicts emerging from a prison's revolving door - then a shot of fat, cigar-chomping lawyers congratulating each other. 'The president appointed tough judges to protect our children from criminals and our jobs from frivolous lawsuits,' says the announcer, 'but our senator obeyed his Democrat bosses - he wouldn't even let those appointments come to a vote.' The TV spot suddenly goes full-color, with a confident-looking Republican on a beach, among a cluster of elderly people. Next, we see that candidate in earnest conversation with some cops and soldiers, then surrounded by upward-gazing young people in a church or university setting. 'Fortunately, we don't have to let the Democrats block the president's plans to keep us safe at home... to strengthen Social Security... and to get some judges with common sense,' says the announcer. The commercial closes with the candidate saying he or she approved the message, while shaking hands with Bush before a background of American flags. That's a little preview of the Florida Democratic Party's worst nightmare. It's the sort of thing we might see in 2006 as Sen. Bill Nelson, the party's sole survivor in statewide office, is one of at least six Democrats being targeted for defeat by the White House. How he votes on judicial nominees will, in part, determine how nasty his re-election challenge will be. Supporting a Democratic filibuster against Bush appointees will please only the voters Nelson already has on his side, while giving potential opponents buckets of mud to sling." Or truth I might add.
"James Dobson, founder of Focus on the Family, last month prepared a letter to about one million voters, urging them to watch how their senators act on fedearl court appointments. If the Democrats dismiss this as simply the ravings of the far right fringe of the Republican red states, it will mean that they learned nothing on Nov. 2. Nelson has not exactly turned into an ultra-liberal since his days as a Florida legislator, congressman and Cabinet officer. He has said his votes will depend on the merits of each appointee. Democrats in states Bush carried are in a bind. The party's most vocal constituencies get what they want - abortion, affirmative action, the hard line on church-state separation - from the courts, not the Congress or executive branch. If Bush gets his kind of judges, all of that could go away in the next several years. But if they join a filibuster to block a Senate vote, they could go away as early as 2006. Bush, spending some of the 'political capital' he said he earned in the past campaign, plans to renominate 20 appointees for federal judgeships - including seven were blocked by filibusters and three who were blackballed by Democratic senators from their home states. Some of the others would have been filibustered, or had a 'hold' put on them, but the White House didn't press for floor votes on them. The Democrats still have enough votes to prevent cloture but losing men like Daschle and former Sen. Max Cleland, ought to be educational for the Democrats."
It is the conclusion of Bill Cotterell that either of Bush's court appointees get confirmed this time. Because I guess his theory is that these Democrat senators would rather be reelected than go down to defeat, which they certainly will.
This is just a great illustration of what I told you yesterday: If there's a pile of excrement out there somewhere, Democrats will find it and step in it. They stepped in it big time yesterday. They continue to step in it. Here you have John Kerry on foreign soil in Iraq talking to U.S. troops about Bush bungling the war. Kerry lost the election. He's telling the troops Bush bungled the war. While he's in Iraq; he asks via an e-mail to three million of his supporters for them to flood the phone lines of Denny Hastert and Bill Frist so as to thwart any of Bush's judicial nominees and as well, to support this Ohio objection because there were voting irregularities in that state that Bush won by 118,000 votes. So not only did Kerry not have the guts to show up at the Senate and stand up for his own desires; he is in Iraq bashing our military and our military effort and the president to U.S. troops. The Democrats are never going to learn. Then we saw what happened yesterday at the Gonzales hearings and we saw what happened yesterday when Maxine Waters and Harriet Stubbs Tubman -- I know that's not her name. What is her name? Juliet Stubbs? (interruption) What? (interruption) Whatever. (interruption) Stephanie Tubbs Johnson? Stephanie Tubbs Jones from Cleveland. Kerry carried her district.
Stephanie Tubbs Jones from Cleveland convinced Barbara Boxer to join their objection, thereby sending the House and Senate to their respective chambers to vote on this irregularity and it went to a screeching defeat as everybody knew it would be, but they made themselves look like idiots because it's now been learned that they were following orders from Michael Moore. Let's go to the audio sound bites to get this all started. First a montage of all these senators, including Hillary, and I think Hillary might have even put a nail in her future coffin yesterday by joining this because she's been trying to position herself as a moderate, pro-war, not ultra left senator. But I'm telling you, her appearance with all these other senators denouncing what happened in Ohio yesterday is proof positive that the Democrats are scared to death of their base. They're doing what the base wants to keep the base happy because it is a political axiom that if you don't have your base you don't have anything. You build off the base. Their base is as far left and kooky fringe as it has ever been, and if they have to bow down and kiss the butts of these people, they're doomed. They are finished. And yesterday they made it known that that's what they have to do. Here's a montage. Barack Obama.
OBAMA: I am absolutely convinced that the president of the United States won this election. I also believe that he got more votes in Ohio.
LAUTENBERG: I want to make it clear, I'm not challenging President Bush's victory in the state of Ohio.
HARKIN: I want to be clear that I do not question the legitimacy or outcome of our 2004 presidential election, nor will I vote to overturn the result of the vote in Ohio.
KENNEDY: While we do not question the outcome, many of us remain deeply concerned that for the second time in a row in a closely contested election, there were so many complaints --
RUSH: It wasn't closely contested. It was over three million popular votes, 118,000 votes in the battleground state you claim you don't even oppose the outcome of. So here they all strode up there, every senator who strode up there made the point first, "Hey, hey, hey! We don't propose to change the outcome. We're not going on to vote against it. I want to make it clear I'm not challenging President Bush's victory in the state of Ohio." They had to say that so, you know, the mainstream Americans here understand, "Hey, don't hold me accountable. I got to do this because my kook fringe base is demanding that I do it," and by the way, I did some little investigation work yesterday, folks and I went to some of these kook left-wing websites, Democrat Underground. You know what they thought yesterday? They actually thought that Conyers had a ticking time bomb and that it was going to be announced and that Bush was going to lose the presidency yesterday.
They actually thought that's what this action meant. I kid you not. These kooks out there. I don't care wherever they are on the left, be it a website, be it a radio network, whatever, they actually thought that the only reason this happened yesterday was because there was something secret they had discovered that was going to throw this election upside down and put Kerry in the White House -- and there was nothing. All you had was a bunch of coward Democrat senators who refused to stand up to their base but, rather, pander to it. Here is a little exchange from Sheila Jackson-Lee. She replaced Mickey Leland from Houston. She's one of the leaders in the house. She wouldn't shut up after her allotted time. Denny Hastert had to try to gavel her to silence.
LEE: How would you like to be in Ohio and be told that the election was on November 3rd, 2004 instead of November 2nd, 2004? Mr. Speaker, the Constitution's due process clause requires fundamental fairness or that a state official not conduct an election or apply vote-counting procedures --
HASTERT: Time has expired.
LEE: -- that are so flawed. Mr. Speaker, I believe --
HASTERT: The gentlemanwoman's time has expired.
LEE: -- that the American people value the value of one vote, one person. All votes counted. Not counted --
HASTERT: The gentlewoman's time was expired.
LEE: I came here as a slave [sic]. I now want the right to vote.
HASTERT: Would the gentlewoman please yield?
RUSH: "I came here as a slave. I now want the right to vote." She didn't come here as a slave. Sheila Jackson-Lee has not been a slave. You find out when they get frustrated and their guards come down exactly where they are. They are stuck 30, 40, 50, sometimes 150 years ago. It's just utterly amazing. Maxine Waters on the Senate floor during the objection to Ohio's electoral vote.
WATERS: Mr. Speaker and members, I dedicate my objection to Ohio's electoral votes to Mr. Michael Moore, the producer of the documentary "9/11" [sic] and I thank him for educating the world on the threat to our democracy and the proceedings of this House on the acceptance of the electoral college votes for the 2000 presidential election. The judiciary -- democratic judiciary committee staff report clearly establishes that the state of Ohio has not met its obligation to conduct a fair election. Ohio's partisan Secretary of State, Mr. Kenneth Blackwell -- I'm ashamed to say an African-American man -- has failed even to follow Ohio's election procedures, let alone procedures that complied with federal law and constitutional requirements. Our ancestors who died for the right to vote, certainly must be turning over in their graves.
RUSH: It's your constituents that are turning over in their soon to be graves. The Democratic Party is in the middle of an implosion that frankly I have wanted to see my whole adult life. If Kenneth Blackwell, "a man you are embarrassed to say is an African American," if he has violated all these laws, then why don't you go to Ohio and charge him? Why are you messing around in the House and the Senate? Go to Ohio and get it straightened out. If all this chicanery happened there, it's waiting to be uncovered. You've got a lawsuit waiting to be won in Ohio. Why don't you go there instead of pontificating for your kooky, looney, utterly contemptible left-wing base, Ms. Waters. Sorry. She is part of that kooky, looney, wacko base. I just wanted you to hear this stuff, folks, because if you want to know what stepping in a pile of excrement is, you just heard a brief portion of it from yesterday.
That pathetic COWARD is still not going to work! He needs to be removed from the Senate now.
Apparently, the People's Republic of Massachusetts doesn't care, or they would do so.
Unbelievable...except, yeah, they also keep re-electing the murdering, traitorous Ted Kennedy.
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