Posted on 01/21/2005 2:41:36 PM PST by JohnHuang2
(CBS/AP) The White House is accusing Senate Democrats of "petty politics" for delaying Condoleezza Rice's confirmation as the next secretary of state. Rice cleared a Senate committee on Wednesday, 16-2, and she was hoping to be sworn-in to her new post on Inauguration Day. But Democrats are putting off her confirmation vote until the middle of next week, citing the desire of some senators not on the Foreign Relations Committee to question her. Continues...
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New Doubts on Media's Plan to Ruin Bush Second Term
Did you see the graphic images? No, it wasn't torture, but it came close. Again and again, the interrogators tried to humiliate the detainee, who was forced to sit in stressful positions. The sessions dragged on for hours. They tried roughing up the detainee. They tried waterboarding, but the captive still refused to give up valuable intel. It got so bad, at one point, one of the interrogators was ready to break a chair over the detainee! But enough about the Condi Rice Senate hearings.
Democrats demanded -- and got -- two full days of hearings, to give everyone ample opportunity to beat up the black chick. It's part of the Democrats' new "Southern Strategy."
"We must use American diplomacy to help create a balance of power in the world that favors freedom," Dr. Rice told the committee in opening remarks. Democrats seemed shocked that a nation's top diplomat would pursue diplomacy.
Dr. Rice recounted how she "grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, the old Birmingham of Bull Connor and church bombings and voter intimidation." (Robert Byrd objected saying, 'Hey, I resemble that remark!')
"America and the free world are," noted Rice, "once again engaged in a long-term struggle against an ideology of hatred and tyranny and terror and hopelessness." Then I realized she meant Islamism, not liberalism.
Dr. Rice made it clear that she doesn't see the War on Terror as a limited engagement, but the defining struggle of our time. Democrats say that's a lot of malarkey -- the defining struggle of our time is . . . Halliburton. Or more voting machines in Ohio. Wiping away a tear, Barbara Boxer demanded a timetable for U.S. evacuation of Iraq (I was wondering when we'd hear from Saddam's spokes-hag). Boxer accused Rice of lacking integrity, pounding the table with a fistful of rubber checks from the House bank. "It's hard for me to let go of this war" because you've "not laid out an exit strategy" and "you've not set up a timetable," screamed Boxer, who's racked up 15 billion frequent flyer miles as a space cadet.
Dr. Rice will be the first black woman to be Secretary of State, thanks to these racist Republicans. Dems say they admire her personal story. They just don't admire her. Showing Democrats aren't just some One-Issue party, the opening hours of the confirmation hearing were all about Iraq. The closing hours were all about Iraq. And of how lousy reconstruction is going, the cheery fellas. Things are so bad, say Dems, that if you gauge, say, electrical output in Baghdad, the readout shows only miniscule output. (Hello? That's an EEG hooked to Boxer's brain.)
Dr. Rice is the latest "controversial" nominee -- "controversial" means she disagrees politically with those labeling her "controversial" -- for Bush's second term.
Speaking of which, if you've been reading the newspapers -- the same newspapers whose keen insight amazingly led them to predict Bush was a sure One-Termer -- you'd know Bush has pretty much screwed up his second term. Bush had not yet finished his first term, so it wasn't too early to recount just how Bush screwed up his second term in elaborate detail. In the weeks leading up to Bush's second inaugural -- typically the Honeymoon period -- the media, showing their penchant for fairness, were awash with Honeymoon headlines like, Second Term, Seldom a Charm and Iraq exit uncertain and National Fissure Remains Deep and Wide and Bush gives no date for troops' return and 6 Bush Scandals To Come and Bush will pull troops 'as quickly as possible'. Even DUers, noticing that Bush wasn't heeding their calls to concede to Kerry, had figured out that a Kerry inaugural this Thursday wasn't in the cards, so they hopped on the BUSH-SECOND-TERM-DOOMED! media bandwagon.
Yet, the fact remained that Bush would be sworn in on Thursday, and there was nothing Democrats could do to stop it. Dems, after weeks of mapping out new strategy -- recheck Bush's Alabama dental records, trip up that black chick Condi, torture Alberto Gonzalez, capture Rummy and Autopen, put Teddy Kennedy on TV, keep recounting votes in Ohio, launch the Boxer Rebellion, block inaugural prayer -- still can't seem to connect. Beating up blacks and Latinos in Senate hearings probably shored up their base, but not much else. On top of that, a pre-inaugural TIME poll showed Bush's job rating surged to 53 percent after puppy Miss Beazley moved into the White House.
Overseas, in Iraq, the offices of a leading Shiite party was car bombed and gunmen killed three candidates and a Sunni group with ties to al-Qaeda killed a key U.S. ally and "insurgents" fired rockets against targets in Baghdad and 28 Iraqi prisoners escaped during transfer -- so the news wasn't all bad for Democrats. And threats by al-Qaeda to redouble their Jihad in Iraq gave Democrats something to cheer about. Yet, despite the heartening news from Baghdad for Teddy Kennedy and Co., it was Bush, rather than a Democrat, being sworn in this week.
Then, on Monday, appeared another cruel reminder of why Kerry lost and Bush won. The reminder was Kerry, who blasted the election outcome and said he'd not challenge the election outcome. Chomping on sour grapes and chanting We Shall Overcome, he complained that thousands of people were "suppressed" from voting, "voting machines were distributed in uneven ways," people had to stand in long lines, names were purged from voting lists -- voting irregularities all over the place. But enough about Washington State. (Actually, Horseface was talking about Ohio. Kerry ran for president of Ohio and lost.) Back from goose-hunting in France, Kerry blasted Bush's Iraq plan, which includes bringing elections to Iraq and noted in Boston that a nation willing to bring elections to Iraq "cannot tolerate" being "denied" the democracy we're bringing to Iraq. In other words, the bed-wetter says Bush's Iraq election plan is no good and what this country needs is to import Bush's Iraq election plan.
Kerry popped up at Rice's Senate hearing Tuesday. His colleagues looked stunned. Kerry, attending a Senate hearing? He'd not been seen at one of these in many wives. Anyway, after bleating on and on about Iraq in a "statement" stretching halfway into Bush's second term, he turns to Chairman Lugar, and asks, 'May I respond to what I just said?' (OK, just kidding. ;-)
But here's something I ain't kidding about: Thank God for Four More Years of President George W. Bush!
Anyway, that's
My Two Cents...
"JohnHuang2"
The definiton of the word "spite" in the 2005 Webster's Dictionary, should be a group picture of the US Senate democrat party members.
I suspect there are a whole bunch of black parents who would prefer to see their daughters look to Condi as a role model instead of some rapper's blinky blinky.
Are there any black Democrat women in competition with Condi for the #1 black political female?
The RNC called me today looking for another donation..they got an earfull, especially about Condi's treatment...and I refused to give them a cent until I see someone grow a pair and stand up to these rats.
melting into Dr. Strangelovian sinister...
Got me laughing out loud quite a few times there, JH2.
Great post! You nailed it.
I love this part...may I quote you?
One could see whole sKerry's to be cabinet on CSPAN showing the rif-raf "protesting" Bush inauguration. What a collection of human debris!!!
ROFL!!!
Yeah, but they can't see it. I overheard a couple of dims at work talking about the inauguration. One of them said, "well, they'd better enjoy it while they can".
Earth to lib - if it hadn't been for a maroon named Ross Perot - we would have had 25 years of a Republican in the WH. Bubba was the anomaly not W.
Wonderful weekly summary of the hateful silliness of the left. Here's hoping they carry on. You have a great and blessed weekend too, John....
Pray for W and Our Troops
For heaven's sakes. The Dems can only ruin his second term if HE and the rest of the pubbies let them. Wish some in the pubbie party would stand up straight and tall for a change and hit this issue hard.
LOL!!! Good job as usual, John. That's right, the Republicans are the racists, while the Democrats value individuals for what they are and not for political reasons. Oh man, you're so funny.
Have a great weekend as well.
Why did you use the qualifer "former"?
damn right phony of the dems to say they were going to confirm her BEFORE the inaugural, as the media reported over and over, and then to delay it.
The white house needs a PR Attack office. Not just a response team but an attack team.
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