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Victorious and triumphant, the new heavyweights on Capitol Hill are also without a plan to ease America’s gravest concern – national security. In the end, an election waged upon the excoriation of President Bush’s foreign policy and the Iraqi war gained the Democrats control of Congress, plus leverage over the hopes of their wounded and disenchanted electorate. Emboldened by the American government’s pronouncements long before the first sortie was executed, Saddam Hussein had the means and support of neighboring Muslim nations to stash his stockpile elsewhere because, ultimately, a Sunni and a Shiite will unite against a westerner and then...

Phew, I'm glad those elections are over . . . (pause for four seconds). Now we can focus on obsessing about the results and extrapolating their meaning over two long years to predict who will win the presidency in 2008. On the Republican side, some party faithful delude themselves that losing is winning -- that the GOP benefits because now the nation will see Democrats at the wheel. Sure, confronted with a lie detector, the GOP candidates would prefer to run against Washington in '08 than defend a stale Republican leadership. But it's never good to be out of power....

On one of his last campaign trips as a "welcome guest", we see John Kerry and the lovely Teresa enjoying themselves in New Hampshire.....

Send a link to John Kerry. These are heroes; he is a cowardly fraud.

video and audio also linked, of John Kerry saying: "“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”"

NEWTOWN, Pa. -- The military record of a Democratic House candidate was under attack. So, Senator John F. Kerry ventured to the Philadelphia suburbs last week to defend Patrick Murphy -- and deliver the kind of speech the senator never quite gave when his own wartime service was called into question in 2004. "Attacking Patrick Murphy for his service is a little bit like Jessica Simpson attacking Albert Einstein's IQ," the Massachusetts Democrat proclaimed Thursday at a chilly outdoor rally at Bucks County Community College. "A lot of these people in the GOP, the Republican Party -- they think somehow...

The news is not surprising that Sens. Kennedy and his fellow Senator/skirt-chaser Tunney were in communication with the Andropov regime to mount a PR campaign countering Reagan's aggressive foreign policy by boosting the USSR. Dr. Sanity in Ann Arbor, a town with thousands of America-haters, has the best summary I have come across. Nut-quote on the old-timey MSM participation: ...if the proposal is recognized as worthy, then Kennedy and his friends will bring about suitable steps to have representatives of the largest television companies in the USA contact Y. V. Andropov for an invitation to Moscow for the interview. Specifically,...

In January on PBS, Jim Lehrer asked Sen. Reid why lobbying reform was moving so slowly. Reid replied, "Jim, it's taken a while for this culture of corruption the Republicans have developed to come into the fore." Aspiring "Speaker Pelosi" just gave a speech at Georgetown University pledging to "drain the swamp" of GOP corruption on Capitol Hill. The Democratic National Committee even had a page on their Website devoted to the "Republican Culture of Corruption." But that "Culture of Corruption" page on the DNC home page has disappeared. Something funny happened on the way to the polls this year....

.."But 2002 was a bad year for Reid's protégés. Besides Erin, he had endorsed Dario Herrera, warning the world to watch out for the next Democratic king in Nevada, only to see him lose in his third congressional district race against Republican Jon Porter. And Erin lost in her race against Lorraine Hunt for lieutenant governor, Reid's old office. Think that stopped Erin from moving on, energetic and ambitious? Hell no, it didn't. In her last months as county commissioner, Erin, promoting herself no doubt for potential employers in the business sector, introduced many items on the commission's agenda that...

Scandal: As the FBI raids Curt Weldon's daughter's house, Harry Reid's sons have benefited from their father's influence undisturbed. Meanwhile, Reid puts campaign funds to personal use and seeks a do-over on his ethics statements. We never cease to be amazed at the double standard applied to the morals and ethics of Democrats and Republicans in Congress. We've already commented on how Republican Mark Foley was forced to resign for sending lewd e-mails to congressional pages, while Democrat Gerry Studds received mere censure and standing ovations after actually having sex with one, being allowed to serve until he decided to...

MANCHESTER, N.H. JOHN KERRY is out to show Granite State Democrats that you actually can teach an old dog new tricks. And judging from the response he got to a Friday night speech here, the voters who helped launch him into orbit in 2004 are at least willing to give him another look as the 2008 campaign cycle approaches. Still, as he plots a second presidential bid, Kerry finds himself in uneasy limbo. After a 2004 effort whose strengths were marred by equally glaring shortcomings, he is neither a particularly compelling aspirant for the Democratic nomination nor a completely implausible...

Videos of interview conducted on 10/13/06 - scroll down to #s 3, 4, 5, 6 Squirmy Harry or Harry Greed?

The following is a partial transcript of the Oct. 15, 2006, edition of "FOX News Sunday With Chris Wallace": HOST OF "FOX NEWS SUNDAY" CHRIS WALLACE: Joining us now, not by cable line, fiber line, from Camp David, but here in the studio with us is the 2004 candidate for president, Senator John Kerry. SENATOR JOHN KERRY: Glad to be with you. WALLACE: Let's start with North Korea. What effect do you think that the U.N. resolution is going to have on North Korea and its effectiveness in trying to stop their nuclear program, and what would you do? KERRY:...

WASHINGTON --Four years to the day after voting to authorize war in Iraq, Senator John F. Kerry today asserted that the vote is his greatest regret of his political career, and said all lawmakers who voted for the war should admit that it was a mistake. "There's nothing -- nothing -- in my life in public service I regret more, nothing even close," Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat, wrote in a dispatch on the liberal blog HuffingtonPost.com. "We should all be willing to say: I was wrong, I should not have voted for the Iraq War Resolution." snip...... Throughout his 2004...

For the first time in 12 years, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy will debate a political campaign opponent. Senator Kennedy and Republican Kenneth Chase will join Chet for their first and only debate on a special edition of The Chet Curtis Report.

DES MOINES, Iowa --Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry lashed out Sunday against a group that bashed him during his last run at the White House. Kerry, who made a weekend appearance in northwest Iowa, said he is concerned that Swift Vote Veterans for Truth is again resorting to "the politics of fear and smear." The group, financed by Texas conservatives, ran commercials questioning his claim of being a decorated Vietnam veteran -- the centerpiece of his presidential campaign in 2004. "We're not going to give them an ounce of daylight," said Kerry, who is considering another run at the Democratic presidential...

BOSTON --Sen. Edward M. Kennedy will hold his only debate with his Republican challenger, Kenneth Chase, next Tuesday. The Massachusetts Democrat will participate in a half-hour discussion moderated by New England Cable News anchor Chet Curtis, who will ask questions about Iraq, the war on terrorism, health care and education. NECN is barring all other reporters from observing the session. It will be taped at 10 a.m. at the cable station's Newton headquarters update: ...."Our exclusive debate between Senator Edward Kennedy and Republican Ken Chase will air Tuesday October 10th from 8:00p.m - 8:30p.m. "

clinton tantrum re-run

clear statement about illegals and security - "squarely behind the President" in regards to security".

Liberal campaign hurts people who need bargains Evergreen Park, Ill., a suburb contiguous with Chicago's western edge, is 88 percent white. A large majority of the customers of the Wal-Mart that sits here, less than a block outside Chicago, are from the city, and more than 90 percent of the store's customers are African-American. One of whom, a woman pushing a shopping cart with a stoical 3-year-old along for the ride, has a chip on her shoulder about the size of this 141,000 square-foot Wal-Mart. She applied for a job when the store opened in January and was turned down...