Posted on 01/18/2006 7:03:09 AM PST by FerdieMurphy
President George W. Bush's staff are mad as hell and they're not taking it anymore. They charged that the junior senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton was "out of bounds" when she said Monday that the Bush administration was "one of the worst" in US history and compared the Republican House to "a plantation."
The former First Lady said this at a rally in Harlem to honor Dr. Martin Luther King. Senator Clinton shared the stage with Rev. Al Sharpton and New York City Councilman Charles Barron who once said he'd like to walk up to a white man and slap him just for his own mental health.
During the daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary Scott McLellan was asked about sharp remarks from two nationally prominent Democrats, Clinton and former Vice President Al Gore, who spoke before a crowd at a MoveOn.Org event.
Gore called for an independent probe of the administration program that listened in without a warrant on Americans suspected of talking to terrorists overseas.
Asked about the former Clinton Administration Democrats' comments on the same day, McClellan said, "Well, I think we know, one tends to like or enjoy grabbing headlines; the other one sounds like the political season may be starting early."
Speaking at an event in Harlem honoring Martin Luther King, Jr., the senator said the GOP-controlled House of Representatives "has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talking about. It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard."
GOP leaders, including Congressman Peter King, were outraged over Clinton's comments. They half-jokingly are saying Hillary forgot she was trying to re-invent herself as a moderate, but every once in a while the "real Hillary Clinton -- the radical leftist -- sufaces."
"I listened to the tape of her tirade and she's as shrill as ever. She sounds like an angry, old biddy,"says Sidney Francis a former New York detective and an African-American himself.
She also railed against the Bush administration, predicting it "will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country."
But it was the former Vice President who received the harshest criticism. "If Al Gore is going to be the voice of the Democrats on national security matters, we welcome it," McClellan said in a swipe at the Democrat, who lost the 2000 election to Bush.
McClellan explained that the Clinton-Gore administration had engaged in warrantless physical searches, and he cited an FBI search of the home of CIA turncoat Aldrich Ames without permission from a judge. He said President Clinton's deputy attorney general, Jamie Gorelick, had testified before Congress that the president had the inherent authority to engage in physical searches without warrants.
"I think his hypocrisy knows no bounds," McClellan said of Gore.
Also, the Clinton-Gore Administration were responsible for the spy operation "Echelon" in which indeed Americans -- ever those without ties to terrorists -- had their phone conversations and e-mail monitored by the National Security Agency (NSA).
Gore said Attorney General Alberto Gonzales should name a special counsel to investigate the program, saying Gonzales had an "obvious conflict of interest" as a member of the Bush Cabinet as well as the nation's top law enforcement officer.
When Gore was the subject of an investigation -- for suspected illegal campaign contributions -- by his own Attorney General, Janet Reno, she refused to name an independent counsel to investigate him. Al Gore had stated that there was no conflict-of-interest in having Reno investigate him at the time.
Be careful what you wish for Mr. K.
I think the objective of conservatives who are outside looking into the Republican Party is to direct it to the right. We know as much about Rice as a dog knows about church.
I see you like the word "interesting".
If I liked a word that much, I'd learn to spell it first.
Hey imbecile, your argument boils down to this:
It's ok to warrantlessly search someone for law enforcement reasons but not for national security reasons...and you pea-brains wonder why Americans don't trust Democrats with handling defense.
Congress did not change the constitution, and can't. The claim is that the searches are unconstitutional. Therefore, what could congress do? If a warrant was required constitutionally, and one was not obtained, what difference does it make that Congress now agreed with the constitution?
Congress can make rules overriding the constitution...interesting.
THANK YOU! LOL!
You should be zotted for the overuse of the word 'interesting'.
Let me explain the difference between the two parties with respect to blacks: Democrats have used the blacks a voting block since the 1970s. The irony of it is that the Civil Rights Act would have gone down to defeat without the Republicans. That fact says more about the Republicans lack of political skill than it does Democrats ability to keep promises to the black community.
The Great Society essentially ushered in a new kind of slavery that turned the inner city into ghettos - welfare. Why work, why aspire to anything as long as the check keeps coming? As such, what Democrats have demanded of blacks is that they vote as a block, or the checks stop coming. "Where are you going to go, the Republicans?"
It's not that the Republicans aren't guilty of a variation of the same thing as it applies to core conservatives, but at least there isn't any government cheese involved.
When Gingrich used it in 1994, it was true. When Clinton used it in 2006, it sounded stupid, because last I checked blacks weren't turning out to vote for Republicans in huge numbers, nor were the Republicans incentivizing blacks to have 8 kids in order to maximize that check.
No, even Democrats are going to have to admit that Hillary has none of Bill's skills, and it'll be comments like that which will ensure that a growing black middle class goes Republican.
You should go back and help your party build a pro-America, pro-Family, pro-God platform so that you won't have to rely on vote fraud to retain the tenuous hold over the power your party does retain for now.
Adios
Re: Post#10: Prior30 has been banned or suspended.
Interesting. (/schaedenfraude)
Dont confuse him with those pesky facts!!
Hmmmmmm.
Prior30
Intersting
Sen. Clinton is absolutely correct - this administration IS the worst in history: we have an unwinnable war we never should have entered (and were lied to going in), soldiers dying for lack of the right protective gear, the largest federal budget deficit in our history, the largest trade deficit in our history, we ignore all the science and joke about global warming, and GWB takes his marching orders from Bob Jones and Pat Robertson. No previous administration even comes close to the blundering incompetence in the White House! It would be comical if the consequences for our great nation were not so dire.
Good one...
I agree - he should be talking marching orders from Michael Moore, the neckless fat Dixie Chick, and of course MurryMom. By the way Mommy, have you taken the kids to see Bareback Mountin', yet?
Don't bother. MoronMom always pinches a smelly loaf and runs.
Gringich WAS criticized when he used the term "plantation." And, you didn't mention the warrantless physical searches of Aldrich Ames, conducted during Clinton/Gore.
Interesting that your account is now banned.
Wonder why
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