Posted on 12/14/2004 2:18:26 AM PST by West Coast Conservative
Liarman is just that, a bare faced liar who denied the military their right to vote in 2000. But this being Bush's last term I'm sure he will do exactly as he pleases, he doesn't have to worry about his base anymore.
Get ready to kiss the FTAA treaty hello in Jan. and goodbye to U.S. sovereignty.
One of the requisites is that he take his orders from the President.
I guess the fact that how many cabinet members are strong conservatives doesn't matter to you. It doesn't matter that Lieberman would not only support preemptive war but the war in Iraq. It doesn't matter that recent tradition has it that the cabinet include one member of the other Party.
What does Lieberman say regarding this provision? I'm always a little leary of things taken out of context.
Why would GW want to appoint a DemoRAT?
What - No qualified Republicans?
Gun Control
Joe Lieberman strongly opposes absolute right to gun ownership. After the tragedy of Columbine in which many innocent students and teachers were killed, Lieberman petitioned to Senate on behalf of trying to amend the law that allows gun owners in 22 states to carry concealed weapons in places outside their home. Lieberman believes that a ban should be put on permitting people to carry guns in schools and churches. He believes that the Columbine tragedy should help promote the ban on the sale of guns to children. Lieberman also contends that all Gun shows should also be doing background checks on every person purchasing a gun and there should be a mandatory waiting period for people to receive their firearms. Gun safety and awareness within the community is a large cornerstone to Lieberman's beliefs on gun control. Ultimately he believes that there needs to be stricter background checks that will not allow people who should not have guns to own them, guns do not belong anywhere in public facilities of worship and education and communities need to come together to educate and learn of the dangers of owning a gun.
http://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~bcs7/lieber.html
I believe strongly that Patrick Fitzgerald is the man for the job of Homeland Security Director.
Patrick J. Fitzgerald
Patrick J. Fitzgerald began serving as the United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois on September 1, 2001. He was initially appointed on an interim basis by Attorney General John Ashcroft, succeeding former U.S. Attorney Scott R. Lassar. Subsequently, he was nominated by President George W. Bush. The United States Senate confirmed his nomination by unanimous consent on October 23, 2001, and President Bush signed his commission on October 29, 2001.
Prior to his appointment, Mr. Fitzgerald served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York for 13 years. He served as Chief of the Organized Crime-Terrorism Unit since December 1995, in addition to holding other supervisory positions during his tenure in that office.
As U.S. Attorney, Mr. Fitzgerald serves as the district's top federal law enforcement official. He manages of staff of approximately 300 people, including 149 Assistant U.S. Attorneys, who handle civil litigation and criminal investigations and prosecutions involving public corruption, white-collar fraud, narcotics trafficking, violent crime, money laundering and cybercrime.
In New York, Mr. Fitzgerald participated in the prosecution of United States v. Usama Bin Laden, et al., in which 23 defendants were charged with various offenses, including conspiracy to murder United States nationals overseas and the August 1998 bombings of the United States embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Seven defendants are in custody in the United States; three defendants are in custody in the United Kingdom; and 13 defendants are fugitives. Four defendants went on trial in January 2001 in New York, and a jury returned guilty verdicts against all four on May 29, 2001. All four were sentenced to life in prison on Oct. 18, 2001.
Mr. Fitzgerald also participated in the trial of United States v. Omar Abdel Rahman, et al., a nine-month trial in 1995 of 12 defendants who participated in a seditious conspiracy that involved the February 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center and a spring 1993 plot to bomb the United Nations, the FBI building in New York, and the Holland and Lincoln tunnels, as well as a conspiracy to assassinate President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. He also supervised the case of United States v. Ramzi Yousef, et al., the 1996 prosecution of three defendants who participated in a conspiracy in the Philippines in late 1994 and early 1995 to detonate bombs simultaneously on 12 American airliners. In 1993, Mr. Fitzgerald participated in the six-month trial of United States v. John Gambino, et al., the prosecution of a Gambino crime family capo and his crew for narcotics trafficking, murder, racketeering, jury tampering and other charges.
Among Mr. Fitzgerald's awards and honors are the Attorney General's Award for Distinguished Service in 2002, the Attorney General's Award for Exceptional Service in 1996, and the Stimson Medal from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York in 1997. In New York, Mr. Fitzgerald's other supervisory posts were National Security Coordinator from February 1996 to January 1999 and Chief of the Narcotics Unit from January to June 1994.
Mr. Fitzgerald is a native of Brooklyn, N.Y. He joined the U.S. Attorney's Office in Manhattan in 1988 after three years as a litigation associate at the New York law firm, Christy & Viener. He graduated from Amherst College, Phi Beta Kappa, with a bachelor's degree in economics and mathematics in 1982, and from Harvard Law School in 1985.
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/iln/patrickjfizgerald.html
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