Posted on 07/03/2006 4:13:23 PM PDT by snugs
The President and First Lady spent the weekend at Camp David returning to the White House on Sunday.
Today the President signed H.R. 5403, the Safe and Timely Interstate Placement of Foster Children Act of 2006
The Vice President had a busy Saturday. First he had a sucessful annual physical, then he and his wife Lynne along with their 3 grandaughters went to Kennedy Space Center for the launch of Discovery which unfortunately due to bad weather did not take-off. They then went to Daytona Beach for the Pepsi 400.
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Did you watch any more of the video?
Thanks for the Dose snugs.
Good one!
Not yet but hopefully I will be able to later in the week
The pix are great, BTW.
Have you seen it Tommy...I won't post it again if you have...it took my breath away....
snugs:
Thanks for posting another AWESOME DOSE tonight . . . I love your "favorite" photos!
MUST READS:
UNITING THE RIGHT
THANK YOU, N.Y. TIMES
July 3, 2006 -- LAST week's wildly controversial Supreme Court ruling about the Guantanamo Bay military tribunals may prove a key moment in healing some of the political and ideological fractures that have opened up on the Right in the past year and a half.
Whatever contemporary American conservatism might be, it isn't this.
You can read the entire commentary at
http://www.nypost.com/postopinion/opedcolumnists/uniting_the_right_opedcolumnists_john_podhoretz.htm
. . . I ENTHUSIASTICALLY salute SallyVee's response (posted at Lucianne) to JPod's column:
"My gripe is with the kooks in Republican ranks these days masquerading as "conservatives" but who are really Bush-bashing, xenophobic, isolationist, anti-free trade conspiracy mongers.
We need to clean up our own house and unite to beat the real enemy. JPod is right, we've been given two well timed, unexpected gifts which could/should illuminate matters in the starkest possible way. He is also correct that the Right has forgotten about the GWoT and descended into family squabbling and crackpottery that is very dangerous and a complete turn-off to mainstream conservatives.
Are we with W or with the terrorists?"
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http://lucianne.com/threads2.asp?artnum=283223
BEST OF THE WEB
BY JAMES TARANTO
Monday, July 3, 2006 3:10 p.m. EDT
. . . happy 60th birthday to President Bush (July 6) and happy 93rd to President Ford (July 14).
HYPING HAMDAN
Have you noticed a theme in the press's coverage of last week's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision? If not, consider these examples:
"The Supreme Court on Thursday repudiated the Bush administration's plan to put Guantánamo detainees on trial before military commissions, ruling broadly that the commissions were unauthorized by federal statute and violated international law. . . . The decision was . . . a sweeping and categorical defeat for the administration."--New York Times
"The Supreme Court yesterday struck down the military commissions President Bush established to try suspected members of al-Qaeda, emphatically rejecting a signature Bush anti-terrorism measure and the broad assertion of executive power upon which the president had based it."--Washington Post
"In a sharp rebuke of President George W. Bush's tactics in the war on terrorism, the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday struck down as unlawful the military tribunal system set up to try Guantanamo prisoners."--Reuters
"The Supreme Court rebuked President Bush and his anti-terror policies Thursday, ruling that his plan to try Guantanamo Bay detainees in military tribunals violates U.S. and international law."--Associated Press
"The Supreme Court on Thursday sharply rejected the Bush administration's use of military commissions to try suspected terrorists, eliminating a central pillar of the president's anti-terrorism strategy. In a blunt dismissal of President Bush's claim that he had unfettered authority to try enemy combatants captured in the war on terror, the court ruled 5-3 that military trials of detainees at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba violated domestic and international laws."--Chicago Tribune
All of these stories go well beyond the facts to engage in editorializing, portraying the ruling as not just a legal defeat for the administration but a "repudiation," "rebuke," "sharp rejection," etc.
But several serious analyses of the Hamdan decision--including our own on Thursday and David Rivkin and Lee Casey's, which appeared Friday in The Wall Street Journal, suggest that there is less to it. Justice Anthony Kennedy declined to join his four liberal colleagues in the most sweeping aspects of their opinion, and even that opinion left many issues unaddressed, so that the court's actual decision was narrower than much of the press coverage suggests.
Why were reporters so eager to portray this as a great defeat for the Bush administration? Partly because of anti-Bush bias: In at least some of the news stories--especialy Linda Greenhouse's Times piece, which we quoted extensively on Friday--it is clear that the reporter is happy with the result. And partly because of a bias in favor of a dramatic narrative.
It's true that some conservatives agree that the opinion was a "rebuke." They believe that it is an unwarranted infringement on executive power, just as liberal commentators see it as a victory over the evil George W. Bush.
That's fine. Commentators are entitled to their opinions. But reporters are not, and they would better serve their readers if they simply explained what the ruling said and refrained from tendentious characterizations of its significance.
You can read the rest of the commentary at
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110008602
LOVE your "Happy 4th" photo!
Is Mike flying the helicopter?!
Yes I saw it. It is a masterpiece, isn't it.
THANKS for the link to a video detailing the preparations for the President's speech at Fort Bragg tomorrow.
I noticed that WRAL plans to provide LIVE coverage of the President's trip (including his speech) at their website:
http://www.wral.com/news/9464676/detail.html?rss=ral&psp=news
Thank you for your great links as always.
Is Mike flying the helicopter?!
No, he wishes...that's his old unit that he took to Iraq....
Yes I saw it. It is a masterpiece, isn't it.
Yes it is...Jonny is very talented.....and Brandon will have this as a keepsake.
Judging from the look on the prez's face, he knows it too.
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