Posted on 06/30/2006 12:50:30 PM PDT by Reagan Man
A. The GOP leaders who have claimed that the New York Times has broken the law are totally full of sh!t.
B. The Bush administration knows damn well that the Times has broken the law but has simply refused to uphold the law.
I'm just about 100% certain that (A) is the correct answer here -- and the real turning point for me came last weekend when Rep. Peter King started showing up all over the media to voice his complaints over the "crimes" committed by the New York Times. If there was any truth to this accusation, the GOP never would have had such a dopey, mediocre spokesman to make the point on its behalf.
"On the other hand, Bush doesn't appear to be one to duck a fight - he just picks his battles. I'm hoping that from now until the November elections the Administration will try to gain as much political traction as they can from what happened and then - particularly if they hold on to Congress - they'll pursue the issue legally. Hope."
Hope springs eternal in some people, but the fact is that the President & his party have controlled Congress and the WH for years and produced little for conservatives besides some tax cuts (when what is needed is radical tax reform anyway). We are constantly told to hang on and cough up more campaign donations to keep these people elected, then nothing happens.
The left has learned that Bush is all bark and no bite.
More whining. For your information, legitimate debate and criticism is at the heart of our Republic. Your aim is to stifle free speech and political dissent. Won't work. This is still a conservative website, not a GOP website.
Not for long.
algore usd to be prolife.
All G has to do is say he was wrong.
Like I said, conservative pro-lifers won't buy it.
King's doing that on his own. The criminal statutes would be hard to prosecute, so no GOP leaders are going to be throwing the word "crime" around.
There will be investigations aplenty into the leaking which is unambiguously a crime. Reporters will have to choose between unmasking their sources or doing time.
Nope. There isn't a shred of doubt not only that the Times has broken the law, and not just one of them, but at least two major felony statutes. The violations are egregious and willful. They would be straighforward of proof.
This is a clear case of Politics trumping Duty.
I think this whole thing is going to end up helping the President immensely. He's a great poker player.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1070924/posts
The American Thinker February 3, 2004 | Thomas Lifson
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One final note on George W. Bush’s management style and his Harvard Business School background does not derive from the classroom, per se. One feature of life there is that a subculture of poker players exists. Poker is a natural fit with the inclinations, talents, and skills of many future entrepreneurs. A close reading of the odds, combined with the ability to out-psych the opposition, leads to capital accumulation in many fields, aside from the poker table.
By reputation, the President was a very avid and skillful poker player when he was an MBA student. One of the secrets of a successful poker player is to encourage your opponent to bet a lot of chips on a losing hand. This is a pattern of behavior one sees repeatedly in George W. Bush’s political career. He is not one to loudly proclaim his strengths at the beginning of a campaign. Instead, he bides his time, does not respond forcefully, at least at first, to critiques from his enemies, no matter how loud and annoying they get. If anything, this apparent passivity only goads them into making their case more emphatically.
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Another ten bucks says the New York Times got its "top secret" information from some mid-level civilian hack in Europe who can't be prosecuted under U.S. law in any case.
Yes, there is. I've posted mine a number of times on threads about this subject.
Keep in mind that I also thoroughly debunked the silly notion that the New York Times committed any kind of crime when it "revealed" all that information about a so-called "top secret NSA electronic surveillance program."
"The GOP leaders who have claimed that the New York Times has broken the law are totally full of sh!t."
Well there are constitutional lawyers who disagree with you.
Are you a constitutional lawyer?
See Mark Levin's article "Dealing with the Papers"
http://marklevinfan.com/?p=1222#more-1222
Excerpt:
"Keller and his co-conspirators should be pursued for their unprecedented betrayals, which have endangered the safety of the American people, and forced to defend themselves as any other common defendant. They are at least as disloyal to the nation and the rule of law in aiding and abetting the enemy as those in the government who are leaking to them."
Why don't you call his show and straighten him out?
"Keep in mind that I also thoroughly debunked the silly notion that the New York Times committed any kind of crime when it "revealed" all that information about a so-called 'top secret NSA electronic surveillance program.'"
You mean that your citation of a television newsclip from a liberal television station (to which you couldn't provide a link) was a "thorough debunk"?
It wasn't inadvertent in 1942. This was the same anti-FDR paper that, before the war, published a big "Secret War Plan" story trying to gin up opposition to FDR's preparations (which we desperately needed) in case we were attacked.
Ah. Ok, I see. The answer is, yes, Patsy is that stupid, then. Thank you for clarifying.
And as for "whining"....you are the MASTERWHINER!
Nailed in one and quite deftly! LOL
Oh ducky...you have NEVER been right. ;^)
"For the most part, Pat's opinion on this issue is about right"
What most part? Like AG Gonzales hasn't started an investigation already without being directed the Pres to do so? I'm sure he has.
Pat did us one favor, there is no Reform Party anymore.
" ... Bush is in fact the nation's chief law enforcement officer ..."
Um don't think so. AG Gonzales is, not Pres Bush.
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