Posted on 11/09/2004 2:50:48 PM PST by USNA74
Reporting that AG Ashcroft and Commerce Sec Don Evans have resigned.
That's not true, quit listening to the Rat parodies.
The nude statue was behind him in the news conferences, so the TV shots & pictures showed a pair of breasts next to his head, which is just weird. They should have just moved the podium to get a better angle, but your "offended" story is made up.
Well, it wasn't just the American-Statesman (may they be covered up forever in pig dung) that supposedly had this story. Every 'Rat in Houston -- well, the active ones, anyway -- had the story, too, and they were passing it around at a political rally, which a 'Rat I know told me about, and I also saw posts about it on FR's Texas board.
Now, was it a roorback? After all, LBJ once smeared a man like that -- "I just want to hear him say it," said Landslide Lint'n. So we know the 'Rats are capable of that kind of thing. Was that the case here?
I don't know, but the story was that the American-Statesman had Perry dead cold, that he was caught out by state employees in the Capitol. Either it did happen, or it didn't happen, but the story was very specific and even named the other party. You can't just ignore stuff like this and just say, well, it's partisan and therefore it's all lies. If it were untrue, Gov. Perry should have sued the story's manufacturer for defamation of character -- but he didn't defend himself, instead he went to the American-Statesman and sued for peace. That alone sounds really bad, right there. He should have bid them defiance, if it were untrue, and fought to the last ditch for his reputation. He didn't do that.
If it was more than even a little bit true, Perry should have resigned instantly. If it were even partly true, he should never have stood for Lt. Governor in the first place. He had no business standing for office while holding himself out to be something he wasn't, and standing for office under circumstances that might later lead to his being personally compromised or blackmailed.
Which, considering that he had to go to the American-Statesman to get the story buried, may be exactly what happened: a bunch of wingo, liberal journoscum blackmailed a Governor of Texas and extracted a secret price for their complicity in keeping his secret -- which he shouldn't have had -- away from the public. From that point on, he's conspiring with Leftist scum against his own party and people.
This isn't a case of "What is the truth? said jesting Pilate/ And would not stay for an answer." This is a case of, Rick Perry clammed up about something we have a right to know about, and only the Leftist scum over at that Austin fish-wrapper know what really was said in their offices.
Well, Bill O'Reilly just went off on another judge. Hooray! This time the judge is saying that enemy combatants (terrorists) captured in Afghanistan and shipped to Gitmo HAVE to be given the rights of a POW and Geneva conventions. Boy oh Boy, Bill was even going off on Judge Napalitano. (Napalitano wimped out on this one!)
Wow, that's an outside the box prediction.
Just in from the Blue States - Al Charleton for AG and Jesse Jettison for Sec of Commerce
I'm not sure I'd go for that. If you think the past two Presidential elections were devisive, they'd be footnotes to this battle. I think it literally could split the country apart, unlike this tough talk no walk crap from the liberals this week.
good for ashcroft, he took a lot of nonsense from the left
Yes, Lungren just won Doug Ose's seat. It was thought he did it to run against Boxer, but he might have designs on Feinstein's seat in 2006 should she retire. But, House seats are filled via special election, not appointments by the Governor.
Ose, not Lungren running in 2006, I mean.
And Democrats these days are a buncha wusses.
I was in law school when Nixon was re-elected in 1972. Worse, I was then a Democrat and sat in then San Francisco Supervisor Dianne Feinstein's office chair on election night fielding phone calls from harassed poll workers who turned very confused Democratic voters over to me to tell them how to vote the straight Democratic ticket. Because the poll workers weren't supposed to do that, and these voters needed all the help they could get just to keep breathing.
My father was then a state Democratic official, and Pop's biggest political disappointment was that his best friend got on Nixon's enemies list while Pop didn't. And Ray never let Pop forget that either.
Democrats were every bit as bummed out in 1972 as they are now, but we weren't quitters then, and came back and won. I left the Democrats after Jean Kirkpatrick did, based on her example, first to be an independent and then a Republican in the fall of 1990 when the Democrats wanted to let Saddam keep Kuwait.
But Democrats today are wusses. Let them go to Canada.
And start the constitutional convention process - just trying to get one will help motivate Congress to pass some Constitutional amendments which the Democrats would otherwise block.
If you don't think Rudy is tough, then you don't know Rudy. When he was the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York he rolled up his leaves and personally took on the job as lead trial counsel in one of the biggest political corruption scandals in the modern history of NYC. Most US Attorneys are pencil pushing policy makers. Not Rudy.
Didn't Teresa Heinz pose for that statue behind Ashcroft? woo wwooo.
Never before coffee -
and Rudy is reform minded - if he got in there, he would start firing people - the place is still loaded with Clinton holdovers.
...saw the headline and don't even have the stomach to read the thread (and haven't done so).
Because I know good and well that the radical social left will be pushing that male Janet Reno from New Yuk.
...sickening, and my answer is no! We need a moral conservative as our US Attorney General--not Ms.-Mr. Caligula.
Ken Starr has already held the position Ted Olson has now...I doubt he'd be interested in going back a second time.
We can only hope. At the very least, some of the those people could find themselves reassigned to the janitorial review committee.
Is it pro-forma or is it real?
Aren't they all supposed to tender their resignations?
California's Howard Jarvis, the author of Prop 13 once wrote, a constitutional convention "would put the Constitution back on the drawing board, where every radical crackpot or special interest group would have the chance to write the supreme law of the land."
That's undeniably true, even if they weren't ultimately successful.
Yep....he has probably done things to keep this country safe that none of us will never know about. He made the left howl here in Missouri for more than 8 years and continued to make them howl when he took the AG job in Washington.
I am proud that he is from Missouri and that he kicked terrorist butt.
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