Democrats outshout their voice of reason

Atlanta Jounal-Constitution ^ | November 20, 2005 | Jim Wooten - associate editorial page editor

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Go for it!

Thank you, God, for America***...................Thank you for the freedom of thought that is getting better as our great republic gets older. Technology has enabled millions to voice their opinions, debate government policies and spotlight truth. Though hacks and charlatans have the same ability to voice their opinions as more thoughtful folks, debate is healthier than it's ever been, to the benefit of any democratic system.

Thank you for an economy that is so energetic even large natural disasters are unable to quell it. The American economy continues to generate wealth and prosperity that are the marvels of the world. It continues to encourage other countries to follow our basic principles, which celebrate life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

Thank you that Barbra Streisand, Al Franken and Cindy Sheehan are in the news to remind us how loony America's left really is.

Human comfort

Thank you that my parents, and millions of others just like them, are able to enjoy retirement in such comfort. They have a beautiful home, a new car and a healthy family, and they are enjoying the fruits of their labor in a way that was unimaginable even 50 years ago.

Thank you for competition and free markets, two simple concepts we often take for granted. Competition drives efficiency, which drives down costs, which means the American consumer is able to buy more goods with the same dollar. So accustomed have we become to inexpensive goods, we are free to complain that some companies, such as Wal-Mart, aren't charging enough.

Most of all, thank you for letting me be born in America, where I and millions of others, with a little hard work and sacrifice, can become whatever we wish to be. ***

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

What a line up.

And they keep digging that hole with their socialist ideology.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

No this isn't that Jim Wooten. This is the AJC Wooten

[wingman1]

You may have read Horowitz' letter of Oct 3, 2001.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,35596,00.html

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If you read enough of Wooten's articles, you'll know he is conservative.

Democrats have no agenda
Democrats outshout their voice of reason
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Vendetta all that Democrats have to offer
Benefit 'cuts,' gas prices, ACLU suit
Westmoreland brave to swim against tide

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Excellent!

Thank you for the LINK.

[randita]

That [Lieberman} is the voice of the Democratic Party America once embraced. It is the voice of the Democratic Party that held the South. It is the voice of a party America can trust when our people are threatened.

Lieberman's stature (of lack of it) in the Democrat Party was fully demonstrated when he was drummed out of the 2004 Democrat primary in record time.

[mewzilla]

Lieberman's stature (of lack of it) in the Democrat Party was fully demonstrated when he was drummed out of the 2004 Democrat primary in record time.

And when he aided and abetted Algore's theft of military votes.

[Reconray]

Our founding fathers were truly inspired,thank the GOOD LORD that our constitution keeps the extemists out of power.I can only get on my knees in humility and awe of the founders wisdom.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

***.................But it is true nonetheless. Consider, just for starters, Lieberman's much publicized chastisement of Clinton from the Senate floor in early September 1998. It was a speech entirely devoted to the president's sex life and attendant public lies. Clinton's adulterous dalliance with Lewinsky was "immoral," Lieberman announced. And Clinton's seven-month-long deception about that adultery was "wrong" -- because it tended to undercut the lessons American parents wish to teach their children about honesty. But had Clinton's deception also involved multiple felonies, as the mountain of available evidence clearly indicated? Had Clinton obstructed justice up and down the federal court system, and perjured himself to boot? Was Clinton guilty of something more than immorality, in other words, something that might actually disqualify him from further service in the Oval Office? That, Joe Lieberman was unprepared to say: "We do not know enough in fact" to reach such a conclusion.

This was already a laughable claim when Lieberman made it, and it would grow all the more laughable as Clinton's impeachment and trial proceeded. But it was the rhetorical lifeline the president's defenders stuck to like glue, just the same. If they could not bring themselves to declare Clinton altogether innocent, they insisted, at minimum, that his alleged crimes were "not proven." Not proven -- and on that basis every Democratic senator, and a handful of Republicans, eventually decided that Bill Clinton was fit to finish his presidential term. No senator who voted to acquit has ever explicitly revealed what all must privately have known: that Clinton was as guilty as the sun is bright, and that they simply did not want or dare to do anything about it.

No senator ever went so far, that is . . . except Joseph Lieberman. After the impeachment trial was concluded, many senators quietly published in the Congressional Record lengthy explanations of why they'd voted as they had. Lieberman's explanation was unique. He had wrestled with the matter, don't you know -- wrestle, wrestle, wrestle. And after much tribulation, he had acted to preserve Clinton in office, Lieberman wrote, not because the impeachment charges against the president were less than proved, but despite the fact that both those charges were very probably true. Clinton "made false or misleading statements . . . to a federal grand jury," according to Joseph Lieberman. Clinton's actions likely "had the effect of impeding the discovery of evidence in judicial proceedings." Bill Clinton, in other words, was a felon. And still Lieberman voted to acquit. ***The Meaning of Lieberman

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Bump!

[IonInsights]

Whose hands will the blood be on when the Al Qaeda terrorists start hanging Iraqi women on the soccer field?

[kalee]

ping

[Cincinatus' Wife]

They'll point fingers at others. The lie is all they have.

The left never admits fault for anything. They falsely trumpet the call for "peace" but then slink into the shadows when the killings start. One can only believe that they endorse killing for the purpose of dictatorial order.

[RhoTheta]

Ping

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

David Horowitz's excellent piece cannot usefully be further exerpted, but it can be summarized in a word.

The left is arrogant.

[samtheman]

The Welfare State is the continuation of the Plantation Slavery System by more modern means.

[Vigilanteman]

In all fairness to the French, it isn't a valid comparison considering their refugee class is largely North African Muslims with a mental disease and ours is ambitious South Vietnamese run out of their homelands because they were pro-American.

[Cautor]

This is worth repeating again:

"As now configured, this is a party that cannot be trusted when the nation is at risk. Its blindness to evil will get people hurt. It will, by its fixation on poll numbers, say to the people of Iraq who have trusted our word, that it is a pledge written on insufficient funds. It will, as was the case with the 200,000 rebellious Shiites that Saddam Hussein slaughtered in the aftermath of Desert Storm, leave Iraq exposed to the vengeful brutality of unchecked evil."

These are indeed strange times, when the Democraps have become the part of Move On and Michael Moore. They'll get us all killed if they take power again.