[JohnHuang2]

Friday, November 7, 2003

Quote of the Day by jeannineinsd

[Bonaparte]

Bush would be crazy to supply these fools with any critical information on intelligence operations.

[Jeff Chandler]

If the GOP pushes this thing, the news story will be another scurrilous leak by the GOP, putting partisan politics above national security. It's crazy, I know, but just watch.

In reality, though, the Pubs have already signalled that if the rats just fire one of their clerks, the matter will be dropped (in spite of the fact that the memo probably came down from the DNC).

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, Georgia Republican and member of the intelligence committee, said Democrats have a responsibility "to tell us where [the memo] came from ... and to have that staffer removed."

[river rat]

The power starved Democrats have become cockroaches..
You don't share with or feed cockroaches....you squash the bastards..

If the Republicans don't draw blood on this one, there is no hope for them....

Semper Fi

[edsheppa]

Senate Republican leaders are such morons.

[backhoe]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1015980/posts

MemoGate- sedition, slander-- or something worse?
Various FR links | 11-06-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy

[squidly]

"Has it been created, or is it really a rift?" Mr. Rockefeller said last night. "There are created rifts and there are rifts, and I'm not sure which category this falls into."

Another great moment in statesmanship, brought to you by the Democratic Senate Caucus.

[Lancey Howard]

Have you seen that Andrew Sullivan thread with the insane post from DU? Well, that's not only the way the bitter, partisan Democrat masses think, that is exactly the way Democrat politicians think, too.

The Democrats believe that their best opportunities to gain power would come from:
1. A struggling economy where people lose their jobs, their savings, and their homes, and
2. A lot of dead soldiers in Iraq.

These are exactly the things that Democrats are (quietly) hoping for.
And probably the things that they are working to make happen.

How sick is that?

[opus86]

"There are created rifts and there are rifts, and I'm not sure which category this falls into."

Is it me or does this sound remarkably Clintonian? I'd be surprised if Rockefeller didn't say this whilst intermittently biting his lower lip and nervously fidgeting with a cigar.

[Fledermaus]

OOOOOOOOOH, I bet the Dems are shaking in their boots with yet another worthless GOP threat to actually act like they are in the majority.

[Nick Danger]

[DarthVader]

Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat and committee member, suggested it was time to move on. "We need to create an environment of bipartisanship cooperation," Mr. Durbin said. "To have this last partisan fling, this doesn't strike me as cooperative."


F*&k Dick Hed Durbin!You're not getting off easy. One of the guilty party speaks.>:-(

Meanwhile, Sen. Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican and former intelligence committee chairman, has called for an investigation into who wrote the memo and why. "I hope no senators are involved," Mr. Specter said. "But on the face of this memorandum, I think an inquiry has to be made. The intelligence committee cannot function with this kind of cloud hanging over it." Mr. Specter added that the memo controversy, if left uninvestigated, "is a built-in excuse for intelligence agencies not to cooperate."

Arlen is right on the mark hear. Give us Durbin and Rockefeller's heads. An example must be made.

[Just mythoughts]

So who is this "staffer" who penned this "plot"?

The idea or suggestion that the "lying liberal plotters" can be trusted on any agreement is a joke.

They are filled with "FEAR" not knowing exactly what President Bush has and that is what they are after.

Two reasons for "Independent investigation" "TRASH President Bush with scandal" and get their hands on that "INTEL" they have not seen, while keeping it out of the "PUBLIC" view.

[doug from upland]

The RATS have been caught red handed but it is not the lead story on Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather. That is the problem. Without talk radio, we wouldn't even know about it.

[CWOJackson]

"Senior Senate Republicans said yesterday that unless Democrats disavow a plot to use the traditionally nonpartisan intelligence committee to wage political attacks on the Bush administration, they would consider taking away Democrats' power-sharing privileges."

This isn't as wishy-washy as it sounds...if followed up with. It forces the dems to openly acknowledge wrong do on the part of some of their members, which would justify reshuffling some positions, or stonewall and justify the Republicans reshuffling anyway.

Interesting.

[TexasCajun]

...they would consider taking away Democrats' power-sharing privileges.

Somebody better check with Rodney King Lott, afterall, this might upset his 'friends'.

[Publius6961]

"The approach outlined above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives."

This certainly seems like sedition and treason to me. How much will it take for "Republicans" to get a clue?

they would consider taking away Democrats' power-sharing privileges.

D'OH!
How much more clearly does it have to be demonstrated that a good portion of the enemy is internal?
Lip service to the safety of our troops, while undermining security and clearly demonstrating a disregard for national safety.

I'm sure there must be a purpose behind it, but I sure can't see it, nor do I care.
These rats must be expelled post haste.

Power sharing? More like a death wish, clearly.

[jackbill]

Democrats also want to know where the memo came from and have called for an investigation into how the document was leaked to the press. Mr. Rockefeller, however, was less enthusiastic about such a move.

"I'm not there yet," he said. "It might come to that.

That's RAT-speak for "lets wait and see if Big Media can help make this blow over"

[awgie2]

1994...that's the time when politics as usual took a steep dive into the murky depths of hyper-partisanship. Lead by democrats as a reaction to loosing the U.S. House of Reps., the "Jack-Ass" party has felt not only justified but sanctified in trashing the rule book in favor of a scorched earth policy.

They are both infuriating and disgusting in their willingness to sacrifice meaningful progress for our economy, society, and national security...if such progress carries the cost of acknowledging the legitimacy of republican lead initiatives.

They are acting like a bunch of spoiled, pampered, self-indulgent prepubescent children compelled by their hyper-emotionalism, who recognize no greater objective than their own selfish need to be the center of the universe.

In many ways the relationship between repubs and dems is that of the patient wise experienced adult dealing with a self-centered self-destructive juvenile deliquent.

Don't give them their way...and they burn down the house.

[Dionysius]

When are the Repubicans in the Senate and elsewhere going to realize that the Dems are the enemy and must be treated as such? One only had to watch the shameless display by Rep. Stark on CNBC (see Post) to know that the overtures extended by the Republicans is, at best, abject futility and, at worse, a sign of weakness inviting more reprehensible activities.

[Walkingfeather]

Even if they wiggle out of this we still now can rub their noses in it every time they come up with some whacked out attack.... " excuse me senator ... are you reading straight from a memo?" We can neutralize their main game.