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Bush Country: How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane
amazon.com ^ | 2.23.04 | Mia T, John Podhoretz

Posted on 02/23/2004 8:52:57 AM PST by Mia T

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To: Mia T
President Bush belongs right up there with our greatest presidents!


21 posted on 02/23/2004 4:55:48 PM PST by JulieRNR21 (One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
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To: Southack
Southack praised Bush by writing: "Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit"

That really is a very impressive list.

And during Bush's second term you may well be able to write: "Signed TWELVE bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit." What a legacy that will be.

22 posted on 02/23/2004 8:16:20 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Mia T
bump
23 posted on 02/23/2004 8:21:07 PM PST by dalebert
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To: Mia T; Southack
Thanks. Terrific President. Outstanding Administration.
24 posted on 02/23/2004 8:21:51 PM PST by PGalt
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To: NoLongerLurking
NoLongerLurking said: "You may not like Democrats and their ideas about politics and government. That does not make them evil or the enemies of America."

So tell me then...

In light of the recent Ninth Circus ruling that I, as a Kalifornian, have no right to keep and bear arms, and given the laws which prohibit possession of unregistered ugly rifles, what do you recommend?

Since I refused to register my rifles and they are now located out of state, do I

1) allow myself to be disarmed by the Demoncrats in Kalifornia?

2) bring the rifles back and run the risk of having Attorney General Lockyer kill my family and burn down my house because I have violated a gun law, or

3) Give up the home my wife and I have built over a lifetime and move to Utah or Texas?

You may not consider Demoncrats to be your enemy. But I most assuredly do consider them to be my enemy and I very much consider them evil.

25 posted on 02/23/2004 8:26:09 PM PST by William Tell
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To: NoLongerLurking
Liberals and democrats have the same overall goals as we do. They want America to prosper and be strong. We just disagree and how that will happen and what must be done for it to happen.

Liberals and democrats in general have been on the wrong side of history for 40 years. What was once a noble political party has been hijacked by neobolsheviks who are hell-bent on selling this country down the road to socialism if not downright communism. To wit: some 55 democrat congressmen are directly associated with an organization called the Democratic Socialists of America.

These closet communists hide behind the moniker of the "Progressive" caucus, but there ain't a damn thing progressive about a diseased philosophy that was put forth in 1848 and has been an abject failure everywhere it has been tried.

The Constitution is an impediment to their sordid aims, as is the legislative process. Therefore, stacked courts with extreme left-wing judges making law from the bench is the only way for them to achieve their goals. Judges that will interpret, rather than rewrite the Constitution are anathema to them. Thus the unprecedented fascist actions of 45 or so democrat senators who are staging unprecedented filibusters blocking several of President Bush's judicial appointments.

If you think Marxism will make this a "better" country, I suggest you look at the former Soviet Union, China, North Korea, Cuba, the once-great nations of Europe that have succumbed to the spirit-stifling doctrine of socialism, and the numerous third-world toilets that wil never come out of their funk until they abandon the doctrine of Marx. Why do you think there are widespread attempts to leave these sewers and come here, while there is no overwhelming stampede of Americans trying to move to these socialist paradises (paradii)?

Our system may not be perfect, but it is the best the world has ever offered.

/rant

26 posted on 02/23/2004 8:50:17 PM PST by Morgan's Raider
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To: Mia T
BUMP!
27 posted on 02/23/2004 8:51:36 PM PST by WorkingClassFilth (DEFUND PBS & NPR - THE AMERICAN PRAVDA)
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To: NoLongerLurking
I don't believe they want America to prosper and be strong. They want to create a socialist state which will strip prosperity from all but those in power (the liberal elite). They want to hand our sovereignty to the United Nations, thereby stripping away our strength.

No, FRiend, they are the enemy in my book. FReegards, MCC
28 posted on 02/23/2004 8:55:26 PM PST by MiniCooperChick
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To: Redbob
I think your assessment is unfair. Ronald Reagan was a skilled and studied ACTOR .. giving him a decided advantage over most speakers.

I love how President Bush speaks. Why ?? Because I never have any doubt about what he's saying, and I never have any doubt that the President believes everything he says. To me that is much more important than perfect speech. However, our President does have a comedian's timing, and his punch lines are usually very good zingers.
29 posted on 02/23/2004 9:11:43 PM PST by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: Southack
Mark Steyn said recently, "the 'coalition of the willing' has effected more positive change in the last 10 months than the mutilateral establishment (UN) has in the last 10 years."

And .. while men are still dying in Iraq, no one is dying in NY highrizes, military complexes, US ships, or US embassies [Steyn paraphrase].
30 posted on 02/23/2004 9:17:44 PM PST by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: NoLongerLurking
Yes they are .. because they plot the takeover of our country. All you have to do is read the memos written by Senate democrats and you will see how they have corrupted themselves and are willing to sell America down the river to finance their next election campaign. Sickening.

Liberalism is nothing more than a different word for SOCIALISM. Socialism is just another word for COMMUNISM. I don't want any part of it or them. If you don't think these things are the enemies of America, you are very deceived.
31 posted on 02/23/2004 9:21:28 PM PST by CyberAnt (The 2004 Election is for the SOUL of AMERICA)
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To: NoLongerLurking
Liberals and democrats have the same overall goals as we do. They want America to prosper and be strong. We just disagree and how that will happen and what must be done for it to happen. They are not our enemies, they are are brethren. They are our brothers, sisters, mothers, and fathers. Again, they are NOT our enemies.

Are you talking about the people that use environmental nonsense to stifle business, who toppled a mocking statue of our President in Europe during a "protest", who wish to impose socialism on America (thereby destroying liberty and freedom), who wish to take our guns, who promote homosexuality while also trying to destroy Christianity, who...(the list could go on)..those people? They are indeed the enemies.

They're doing what the Soviets only dreamed of doing to America. Make no mistake, their goal is to bring America down (they believe that the world's ills are caused by America's success). There may be a few liberals who are simply brainsick or misinformed, but the overall goal remains the same: change America into something resembling Canada or Europe (a.k.a. destroy the greatest nation the world has ever seen). They're the enemy. To believe otherwise is delusional.
32 posted on 02/23/2004 9:45:45 PM PST by Jaysun (People will believe anything if you whisper it.)
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To: CyberAnt; Southack; Brian Allen; jla; WorkingClassFilth; MiniCooperChick; NoLongerLurking; ...
ne•o•ne•o•lib•er•al•ism n.
neocommunist political movement, a tipsy-topsy, infantile perversion of the Marxist-Leninist model, global in scope, beginning in the post-cold-war, unipolar 1990s, led by the '60s neoliberal baby-boomer "intelligentsia," that seeks power without responsibility, i.e., that seeks to dilute American power by concentrating power in said '60s neoliberals while yielding America's sovereignty to the United Nations, i.e., while surrendering to the terrorists, as it continues the traditional '60s neoliberal feint: (1) concern for social justice, (2) distain for bureaucracy, and (3) the championing of entrepreneurship for the great unwashed.

 

 
 

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

Mia T, June 9, 1999
THE ALIENS

The Democratic Party's Problem Transcends Its Anti-War Contingent2

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copyright Mia T 2003
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by Mia T, 4.6.03

 

If Act I was a thinly veiled allegory about naked clintonism, then Act II is a parable about the plan for world domination by the Establishment, aged hippies in pinstripes all, with their infantile, solipsistic world view amazingly untouched by time.

 

Mia T, June 9, 1999
THE ALIENS

 

Al From is sounding the alarm. "Unless we convince Americans that Democrats are strong on national security," he warns his party, "Democrats will continue to lose elections."

Helloooo? That the Democrats have to be spoon-fed what should be axiomatic post-9/11 is, in and of itself, incontrovertible proof that From's advice is insufficient to solve their problem.

From's failure to fully lay out the nature of the Democrats' problem is not surprising: he is the guy who helped seal his party's fate. It was his Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) that institutionalized the proximate cause of the problem, clintonism, and legitimized its two eponymic provincial operators on the national stage. The "Third Way" and "triangulation" don't come from the same Latin root for no reason.

That "convince" is From's operative word underscores the Democrats' dilemma. Nine-eleven was transformative. It is no longer sufficient merely to convince. One must demonstrate, demonstrate convincingly, if you will… which means both in real time and historically.

When it comes to national security, Americans will no longer take any chances. Turning the turn of phrase back on itself, the era of the Placebo President is over. (Incidentally, the oft-quote out-of-context sentence fragment alluded to here transformed meaningless clinton triangulation into a meaningful if deceptive soundbite.)

Although From is loath to admit it -- the terror in his eyes belies his facile solution -- the Democratic party's problem transcends its anti-war contingent.

With a philosophy that relinquishes our national sovereignty -- and relinquishes it reflexively… and to the UN no less -- the Democratic party is, by definition, the party of national insecurity.

With policy ruled by pathologic self-interest -- witness the "Lieberman Paradigm," Kerry's "regime change" bon mot (gone bad), Edwards' and the clintons' brazen echoes thereof (or, alternatively, Pelosi's less strident wartime non-putdown putdown)… and, of course, the clincher -- eight years of the clintons' infantilism, grotesquerie and utter failure -- the Democratic party is, historically and in real time, the party of national insecurity.

The Democrats used to be able to wallpaper their national insecurity with dollars and demogoguery. But that was before 9/11.



addendum 12.13.03:
Pathologic self-interest: Richard Miniter's C-SPAN interview, contained in hillary talks:ON TERROR, (below), is absolutely devastating for the clintons. Miniter presents the clintons' monumental failure to protect America in sickening detail.

Note in particular Madeleine Albright's shocking reason given at the time of the USS Cole attack why the clinton administration should not respond militarily. It tell us everything we need to know about the clintons. It tell us why clinton redux is an absolutely suicidal notion.

Notwithstanding their cowardice, corruption, perfidy, and to borrow a phrase from Andrew Cuomo, their essential cluelessness, the clintons, according to Albright, made their decision not to go after the terrorists primarily for reasons of their own legacy and power. The clintons reasoned that inaction would MAXIMIZE THEIR CHANCES TO RECEIVE THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. No matter that that inaction would also maximize the terrorists' power, maximize America's danger.

For more than a half decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers.

Spying Isn't the Only Way to Learn About Nukes,
The New York Times, May 30, 1999
William J. Broad


Broad would have us believe we are watching "Being There" and not "The Manchurian Candidate." His argument is superficially appealing as most reasonable people would conclude that it requires the simplemindedness of a Chauncy Gardener (in "Being There") to reason that instructing China and a motley assortment of terrorist nations on how to beef up their atom bombs and how not to omit the "key steps" when building hydrogen bombs would somehow blunt and not stimulate their appetites for bigger and better bombs and a higher position in the power food chain.

But it is Broad's failure to fully connect the dots -- clinton's wholesale release of atomic secrets, decades of Chinese money sluicing into clinton's campaigns, clinton's pushing of the test ban treaty, clinton's concomitant sale of supercomputers, and clinton's noxious legacy -- that blows his argument to smithereens and reduces his piece to just another clinton apologia by The New York Times.

But even a Times apologia cannot save clinton from the gallows. Clinton can be both an absolute (albeit postmodern) moron and a traitor. The strict liability Gump-ism, "Treason is as treason does" applies.

The idea that an individual can be convicted of the crime of treason only if there is treasonous intent or *mens rea* runs contrary to the concept of strict liability crimes. That doctrine (Park v United States, (1974) 421 US 658,668) established the principle of 'strict liability' or 'liability without fault' in certain criminal cases, usually involving crimes which endanger the public welfare.

Calling his position on the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty "an historic milestone," (if he must say so himself) clinton believed that if he could get China to sign it, he would go down in history as the savior of mankind. This was 11 August 1995. (There would be an analogous treasonous miscalculation in the Mideast: clinton failed to shut down Muslim terrorism, then in its incipient stage and stoppable, because he reasoned that doing so would have wrecked his chances for the Nobel Peace Prize. Indeed, according to Richard Miniter, Madeleine Albright offered precisely the Nobel-Muslim factor as a primary reason for not treating the bombing of the USS Cole as an act of war.)

Mia T, 2.11.04
BUSH, THE CLINTONS + WMD PROLIFERATION:
The
REAL "Imminent Threat"

 

 

It is precisely the clintons' bin-Laden-emboldening inaction to the attack on the USS Cole and the clintons' bin-Laden-emboldening token, ineffectual, August 1998 missile strikes of aspirin factories and empty tents that eliminate "bin-Laden-emboldenment avoidance" as the rationale for the latter decision and support "wag the dog," instead.

Taken together, feckless clinton inaction and feckless clinton action serve only to reinforce the almost universally held notion: the clinton calculus was, is, and always will be, solely self-serving.

In the case of the non-response to the attack on the Cole, an unambiguous act of war, the clinton rationale, according to no less than Madeleine Albright, was a clinton Nobel Peace Prize by Arab appeasement. i.e., a clinton Nobel Peace Prize by bin-Laden-emboldenment.

And in the case of the curiously-timed, ineffectual (and, therefore, bin-Laden-emboldening) token missile strikes, the clinton rationale was Lewinsky-recantation distraction -- clearly not bin-Laden-emboldenment avoidance. (This is not to say there wasn't a Nobel factor here, too. Obsolete intelligence, bolstered by the redundancy of a clinton tipoff, ensured that both bin Laden and the Mideast Muslim ego would escape unscathed.)

Mia T, "WAG THE DOG" revisited

 
 

WASHINGTON -- Two Norwegian public-relations executives and one member of the Norwegian Parliament say they were contacted by the White House to help campaign for President Clinton to receive this year's Nobel Peace Prize for his work in trying to negotiate peace in the Middle East.

Clinton Lobbies for Nobel Prize: What a Punk
White House Lobbied For Clinton Nobel Peace Prize Updated
Friday, October 13, 2000
By Rita Cosby

 

 

 

There's been speculation in the last few months that Clinton was pursuing a Mideast peace accord in an effort to win the prize and secure his legacy as president.

AIDES PUSH CLINTON FOR THE NOBEL

 

 

 
At the time, clinton observed: "I made more progress in the Middle East than I did between Socks and Buddy." Retrospectively, it is clear that clinton's characterization was not correct.

Mia T, Buddy Death Report Raises More Questions Than It Answers

 

 

 


hillary talks:ON TERROR
(reinstalling the clintons in the White House has one advantage over suicide)


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missus clinton's REAL virtual office update
http://hillarytalks.blogspot.com
http://virtualclintonlibrary.blogspot.com
http://demmemogate.blogspot.com
http://www.hillarytalks.us
http://www.hillarytalks.org
fiendsofhillary.blogspot.com
fiendsofhillary.us
fiendsofhillary.org
fraudsofhillary.com

33 posted on 02/24/2004 4:41:03 AM PST by Mia T (Stop Clintons' Undermining Machinations (The acronym is the message.))
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