Posted on 03/21/2006 12:16:05 PM PST by Baconian
That President Bush has seemingly gone to extraordinary lengths to sabotage his presidency and alienate his base cannot be denied. This has presented the party of "doom and gloom" an immeasurable opportunity to constructively reshape the debate by advancing workable policy initiatives. They, however, are intent upon proving themselves to be "lapinesque," i.e., they can hop around and make a mess – but they can't produce.
The failed Dubai Ports sale and the president's threatened veto, versus nonexistent border security measures and the need for rigid enforcement of immigration policies, offered Harry Reid, D-Nev., John Kerry, D-Mass., Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others the opportunity to show they are as manly as those in their party not so born.
The ports deal presented liberal lawmakers and their minions with a perfect posteriori moment. They could have claimed the moral high ground, vis-à-vis decisive policy actions succored by a budding efflorescence with the public, based on the appearance that they were more attentive to tangible homeland security.
Instead, based on what many say appeared to be racial profiling, they objected to our ports being taken over by the United Arab Emirates for reasons, they argued, of national security. But they are left without explanation when asked how they reconcile, not just attacking and impugning the president's reasons for domestic eavesdropping, but encouraging Russ Feingold, D-Wis., to engage in ipse dixit as he calls for censuring the president.
Such is their contumacious duplicity. They blatantly oppose one of our key security resources while offering no reasonable alternative. To further calcify the over-the-top partisanism of their attacks in the eyes of the voters, they omit mentioning their ranking member's comments on the House Intelligence Committee, who said:
"As the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, I have been briefed since 2003 on a highly classified NSA foreign collection program that targeted al-Qaida. I believe the program is essential to U.S. national security and that its disclosure has damaged critical intelligence capabilities." – Jane Harman, D-Calif., statement on NSA electronic surveillance program, press release, Dec. 21, 2005.
It should also be noted that Jamie Gorelick, deputy attorney general for the Clinton administration, saw such surveillance programs as "[providing] critical information" and "[having] frustrated terrorist plots to strike targets within the United States." (Letter to editor, "The 'Black Bag' Exception," the Washington Post, Aug. 5, 1994)
My very first editor was a self-described liberal. One of the many maxims I learned from him in our brief association was that no one is as far left or as far right as they believe. Somewhere in their postulations is a middle ground – present company excluded of course. The tautomeric incestuousness between liberal Democrats and extremism prevents them from seeing this and accordingly prevents them from making gain.
Albeit hard to imagine, they could be more favorably entrenched in public schools if not for their embracing of extremism. One of the president's earliest so-called successes was the $87 billion spending feat that went to public schools. Yet today, we see Kennedy insisting a 15 percent increase is needed to fund education. I submit, as do most taxpayers, that $87 billion would solve the financial concerns of 99 percent of America's businesses – yet they call for more school spending instead of more teacher and parent accountability.
Abortion will be a hot button issue until such time as it is recognized as evil and murder. However, liberals could temper the debate by supporting abortion only in instances of rape, incest or the so-called threat to life of the mother.
Don't mistake my personal convictions – I am unapologetically anti-abortion under any circumstances, but because of the liberal position of "kill your baby for any reason at any time," they make those like me look reasonable, because we are for saving lives – moderation favors us because of their extreme pro-abortion position.
Bill Clinton may have been an alley cat, an accused serial molester, a liar and a disgrace to the office he held – but he knew how to take advantage of opportunity (no pun intended). When Republicans came up with their "Contract with America," Clinton took credit, regardless of whether certain elements of same were passed, vetoed or changed in negotiations. There's a reason he was ruefully referred to as "slick" while liberals today are called oleaginous.
As the president approaches the back straight of a rapidly concluding term of office, even those of us who ardently supported him when the situation called for it realize he is no Ronald Reagan. On the other hand, liberal Democrats of today are no Bill Clinton – which just might be the port in the storm conservatives need in November 2006 and November 2008.
Mychal Massie is a nationally recognized political activist, pundit and columnist. He is host of the widely popular talk show "Straight Talk." He has appeared on the Fox News Channel, CNN, MSNBC, NBC, Comcast Cable and talk radio programming nationwide. He is a former self-employed business owner of over 30 years and a member of the conservative public policy institute National Center for Public Policy Research-Project 21.
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If that's what WND wants...they need to join the democrats.
To quote Morton Blackwell, "you can't beat a plan with no plan."
THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES by Paul Harvey
Conveniently Forgotten Facts Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black panther named Alex Rackley needed to die. Rackley was suspected of disloyalty.
Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on him. When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven, Conn. Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black Panthers.
In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers was still in jail.
The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a scholarship to Harvard and became good friends with none other than Al Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State College. Isn't that something? As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head and a few years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! Only in America!
Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a California School Board.
How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy?
Maybe it was in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of the Panthers. These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their trial.
One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee.
Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton.
O.K., so who was the other Panther defender?
Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean?
No, neither! The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale University at the time. She is now known as the "smartest woman in the world" (and may well become the next president of the United States). She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story".
I've always believed that the Democrats could put themselves in a stronger position, politically, if they would simply come out in favor of a ban on partial-birth abortion, and align themselves with the position taken by about three-quarters of Americans. The fact they demogogue on the PBA issue indicates how beholden the Democrats are to the crazed left.
Please stop with this CRAP!!! As much as I dislike the Clintons, it does no one any good spreading these stupid stories.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/clintons/panthers.asp
Sorry, you are correct. I got froma normally good source.
I'm sorry, but I trust Snopes over your source. No offense.
No offense taken, but the owners of snopes are admitted liberals. Some times it shows in what they write on, particularly things that are about politics.
Snopes is OK in debunking e-mail virus hoaxes, but thats as far as I trust them.
This is how the "Castrioti" (thanks for the new word RUSH!) writes about Great Leaders like President Bush. "OUR" President wears attacks like these as a badge of honor! He knows it is the sign that they hate his "Manliness" (thanks again Rush!).
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hahaha - best line of the day
Liberals or not, the "facts" of this story are easy enough to dispatch. If there is a shred of truth in the story, don't surround it by a bunch of easily disproved lies. It makes us look like kooks and does not help us when the truth really IS on our side. I apologize, but this sort of thing really irritates me.
"First off, I disagree with your commentary. All I did was provide another source to Snopes, so you don't like them fine. I find truthorfiction.com much more balanced when it comes to things that are political in nature."
That's fine. Go to whoever you feel has the best information. My point is that even truthorfiction.com disputes much of what this story purports. It was clearly written by a person with an axe to grind and should not be believed hook, line and sinker. These email hoaxes may sound good to the susceptible, but we need to fight with facts, not muddy the waters with half-truths.
A lot of my friends from NY (where I'm from) think hating President Bush is a religous tenet!
Even then some of them are still my friends... I turned around. I'll turn them around too!
Ridiculous! Im tired of everyone hating Bush.
Noone should be like Cliton... a stuck-up person that did nothing
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