Posted on 07/16/2005 7:55:07 AM PDT by RightFighter
On MSNBC a little while ago, they had a story about the "politics of the CIA leak". The reporter was interviewing Pat Buchanan and Democratic strategist Peter Fenn. What follows is the best transcript I could piece together quickly. I've quoted Fenn word for word.
PAT BUCHANAN: It's very, very serious...There is a credibility problem for the press secretary...There is no legal problem for Rove...Reporters in Washington have a gleam in their eye and smiles on their faces, and there's a reason for it...Pat Fitzgerald hasn't been digging for two years and judges haven't been sending reporters to jail because they don't have anything...Everyone in town (Washington) feels there is something very, very serious and today's story in the NY Times where a memo was floating around aboard Air Force One about Wilson's trip to Africa indicates this could be very big stuff.
ALEX: Peter, what kind of big stuff could Pat be referring to?
PETER FENN: Alex, this is not a third-rate burglary. The focus had been on White House staff. Now, as Pat says, with this memo from the State Department about Wilson, about his wife, about the connection, it was brought onto Air Force One by Secretary Powell. I cannot imagine, Alex, that if he's going up and down the aisles with that memo as he was supposed to have been, that he did not discuss it with the President of the United States. I cannot imagine that there were not phone calls from Ari Fleischer, the Press Secretary who was on board, back to the White House about this. This was precisely at the time when Wilson was about to publish his article. Folks knew about his position about weapons of mass destruction. I have a sense that this may go all the way to the top.
S - SAVAGELY
N - NUKING
B - BUSH/
C - CHENEY
There, I feel better now that I have revealed the true meaning of the letters "MSNBC"...
Did I see Hagel in that list? He lived in DC for years working on VA matters. He lives in Nebraska like Clinton lives in Arkansas.
Leave the Mother Ship once in a while...
On your return flight back to Planet Earth you'll find there is now a huge chasm and power struggle within the GOP between Reagan conservatives and globalist Rockefeller RINOs.
We know which way you want us to go.
Thanks. (And can't you just envision the Olbermann interview done in a monkey cage? ;-)
The GOP may control both houses, but they do have enough RINOs who like to be thought of as sympathetic, gracious and 'tolerant' and want to 'reach across the aisle'. They've done it before on issues important to Conservatives. What's to stop them from doing it now when they suffered no consequences or repercussions before? They seem to be sentimental about the days when they were the minority party anyway. I don't believe they'll 'disappoint' us on this either.
"Use the media to stir up the people to join the rallying cry and you've got 'principled' senators and congresspersons who just HAVE to vote with their constituents in mind."
It meant certain "principled" GOP senators and congressphonies consider their only "constituencies" Chrissy Matthews and liberal MSM editorial boards.
Oh, I agree. But you'll note I only said "I hope," not that "I expect" anything like this.
There's lots of things I hope. Many of them involve ....
never mind... ;^>
F16Fighter: ...you'll find there is now a huge chasm and power struggle within the GOP between Reagan conservatives and globalist Rockefeller RINOs.
"Who are you and when did you start listening to what those fools say?"
What fools?
Pelosi, et al.
"It's up to us, the conservative base to put up a candidate who is neither a RINO nor a devisive, pyrite-conservative media whore."
Amen, bro, but unfortunately we hold no sway over what's going on in GOP powerplay backrooms.
Imo, we're getting set up for a RINO presidential candidate.
FRegards,
I'll say it again: not ONE Republican would vote for impeachment of Bush.
No matter how many times you try to twist; not one.
An actual impeachment of the President is almost an impossibility. But that doesn't stop the Democrats from trying to smear the Administration with this non-story.
I guess I'd have to say I do believe that. Maybe not Republicans, but definitely those foolish RINOs who are thinking only of 2008 and their candidacy. You don't think McCain wouldn't vote against President Bush if doing so would give him an edge? I wouldn't be surprised to find out he voted for F'n Kerry in 2004 myself. And he's just one RINO who can't be trusted.
You are 100% spot on, arasina.
Of course, there ARE those in denial who still won't leave the Mother Ship :-D
When was the last time Patsy was right about anything? Sometime in the 1970s?
I'm just repeating what they said. If you think the far left dems will sit by and let this go easy I have some ocean front property in Montana for you.
bump to read later. Long thread.
They're aren't exactly making announcements, but during the Filibuster 'Gag of Seven' you got a whiff.
And oddly enough, our President himself has managed to be a Rockefeller Republican "anti-sovereign type."
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