[neverdem]

How old and out-of-date and empty of real ideas — not to say connection to reality — Kennedy, Biden, Leahy, Durbin, and, above all, Schumer seemed.

--SNIP--

Chuck Schumer drones on like a little spoiled boy who becomes a schoolyard bully just by his superior tone of voice, boring in upon others, coercing them verbally, trying to make them feel as worthless as in his mind they are.

That's my putzhead!

[speedy]

When was Ted Kennedy ever a heroic figure? Maybe at the Round Robin Bar at the Willard, but where else?

[Clint N. Suhks]

I love it when Howard Dean calls abortion "Health Care". Such a specious lie.

It means that being pregnant is "unhealthy"?

How does the health of the baby work out?

[Tom Bombadil]

The pompous rhetorical indignation of Kennedy has become merely pathetic.

Pompous, rhetorical and pathetic are the proper adjectives for someone who got kicked out of Harvard for cheating and graduated last in his class at law school. His lectures to Alito are a joke.

[LS]

It would be a good debate as to which principle "caused" the Dem Party to fall. Anti-war, anti-Americanism actually preceded the abortion position by several years. I would argue that even before it was "pro-death," the Democrat Party became anti-American.

[wildcatf4f3]

That is the best writing Novak ever accomplished.

[Thebaddog]

Now in this instance, would you call FR the tip of the spear or the cutting edge taking down the old way?

[TexanToTheCore]

He was once considered heroic by the press. I guess because he was the last Kennedy brother. But that was the only reason. When he was young he was relatively handsome and I think this may have had a lot to do with it.

He has become a cartoon figure these days, roaring his indignation at straw men, writing children's books featuring his dog "Splash", drinking to excess as always and looking bad all the time.

[StAnDeliver]

"It is painful to watch the ruin of a great party. A great party has come to this.

And most of it happened because of commitment to a policy that cannot be maintained without lies and malicious euphemisms. That is, the killing of innocents in what is supposed to be the most welcoming, safest place on earth — a mother's womb. (Isn't the posture of wishing one were safe the fetal position?)

This radical lie — that what is destroyed in abortion is not a human individual, endowed with human rights — has poisoned a great party, induced a great rationalization in the place of constitutional reasoning in the Supreme Court, and divided a nation unnecessarily over an issue that ought at the very least to have been left to the consent of the people in diverse jurisdictions.

No lie so basic to one's own identity goes unpunished."

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"I think we made a mistake in 2004. Not deliberate. I really believe our nominees were uncomfortable dealing with the deeply religious in our country...I think there was a sense among many devout people -- in my own church, churchmembers -- that John Kerry didn't quite relate to us. And we're a religious nation. On some social issues like abortion I think we ought to modify our position, moderate. I think that the next successful candidate has to have some means to say that we worship the Prince of Peace...We believe that marriage by definition ought to be between a man and a woman..."

Too little too late! Ye Decrepitcrat Party shall reap what ye hath sown.

[Skooz]

Superbly written.

Good job, Mike.

[Old Professer]

The issue is and will always be about the selfishness and callousness of a mechanical elimination of growing tissue destined to be a brand new human being, perfect or flawed, without regard to the damage done to the procsess itself; when a woman gets pregnant, the world itself is a little bit pregnant with the expectation of biological success and this is not a small thing, for the survival of any species depends upon the survival of its individual members.

Certainly, with current population numbers, individual births seem like grains of sand upon a vast beach but it takes little imagination to see a future rocky shore bereft of fineness and smooth form in place of that, all jagged and forlorn.

It was better, sociologically and traumatically, when it was a back alley secret.

[operation clinton cleanup]

It is painful to watch the ruin of a great party. A great party has come to this.

It's not that painful for us gen-xers who never knew a Democrat party that was not vindictive and anti-American.

[neverdem]

Schumer doing his best to make NY look like a state of fools.

The would-be president is messing with ire (NY fans-turned-critics wash their hands of Hillary) Maybe we'll get lucky, and she won't go for the Senate in 2006. Otherwise, NY might be stuck with her for decades.

GOP FEELS OUT DEM SUOZZI FOR GOV RUN (tapping into groups who want Spitzer defeated)

U.S. Threatens to Sue Albany Over Voting

FReepmail me if you want on or off my New York ping list.

[infowarrior]

It is painful to watch the ruin of a great party. A great party has come to this.

The Democratic Party, historically, has *always* been on the wrong (immoral) side. They were the champions of slavery (Dred Scott), racial segregation (Plessy v. Ferguson), and abortion on demand (Roe v. Wade). As my parentehtical appendices demonstrate, they likewise *always* relied on the US Supreme Court to "legalize" their morally abhorrent platforms.

For anyone to aver that the Democratic Party has ever been anything more than an American scandal, throughout it's history, betrays a stunning lack of knowledge about both the history of our nation, and of that "Party" in particular...

the infowarrior