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Posted on 05/17/2002 11:03:53 AM PDT by EternalVigilance
Hope you'all enjoy this rebuttal as much as I did.
Quote of the week...
"No nation can be totally secure or more secure unless we're well protected, and unless our borders are well screened. We must know who's coming into our country and why they're coming. We must know what our visitors are doing, and when they leave. That's important for us to know; the knowledge is necessary to make our homeland more secure." --President George W. Bush, this week signing the Enhanced Border Security and Visa Entry Reform Act. (The bill: provides for 400 more Immigration and Naturalization investigators and inspectors processing the 500 million people that cross U.S. borders each year; hikes pay for border patrol agents; creates a database of suspected terrorists accessible at every entry point; provides for machine readable biometric information on entry visas; and bans without special exemption entry from terror-sponsoring nations.)
Open Query...
"When people talk about a 'peace process,' they are usually talking about something that matches their preconception that negotiations end wars. But, if we are really interested in peace, then we have to look at the hard evidence of what has in fact led to peace. What ended the Cold War with the Soviet Union? Was it all the 'summit meetings' that took place for decades on end, while the Soviets sponsored wars of aggression around the world? Or was it Ronald Reagan's much-lamented 'arms race' of the 1980s that put the Soviet economy under more strain than it could handle?" --Thomas Sowell
Actually, I feel the same way...;-)
Even with top-of-the-line leadership, it is going to take us a generation to clean up all of the messes the Clinton Gang left in their wake.
Of course all this happened before 9/11, and I'm concerned and slightly disturbed that the Safety Commissions' recommendations, might have prevented the events of 9/11, however expensive those recommendations may have been.
(Did you all see my head bobbing to emphasize these points, ala tommy?)
J. Edwards was the delegated fence sitter yesterday in true lawyer-like fashion. The rest of America, frankly, would just like those DEMS off of our tv sets. DEM FATIGUE!!!!!
Meanwhile, the Honorable Vice President Dick Cheney was at a big pubbie dinner and IT WAS NICE TO HEAR ANOTHER VOICE OF REASON. Comments anyone on the backlash theory?
Someone might LOUDLY proclaim it in any case! ;-)
Of course all this happened before 9/11, and I'm concerned and slightly disturbed that the Safety Commissions' recommendations, might have prevented the events of 9/11, however expensive those recommendations may have been.
The failures of the Dems are legion, and dangerous to the lives of American citizens.
(Did you all see my head bobbing to emphasize these points, ala tommy?)
Oh yes... ;-)
EV
As far as I'm concerned, she on longer exists. Just like the sh** that you flushed yesterday.
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I think you're right, or at any rate, to the extent that this is not going to help the Dems, even if there isn't a major backlash.
I think what's going to happen is that it will all quietly disappear, because the Dems must surely realize that blaming a man who was in office for 9 months makes no sense when the guy who was in office for 8 years left a very clear paper trail of botched handling of terrorism in general, and Islamics in particular. They don't really want that examined too closely, I'm sure.
Their strategy is to hit and run. I think this will go away very quickly, probably not hurting them too badly, but on the other hand, not helping them.
What I wish would happen is that Bush would use it as an excuse to clean out the Clinton-era holdovers in the security services.
The lady who cut my hair this morning told me that she thought Daschle was just 'in it for himself'.
It would seem that back home, the bloom is coming off the rose.
If anyone is interested in an inside look at how Daschle has stayed in power...by convincing gullible South Dakota Republican voters that he is a 'good guy', and 'for the little guy', here is an old ABC interview with Daschle while he was out and around our beautiful State.
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/nightline/DailyNews/ntl_daschle_transcript.html
I ask people to examine this issue, in the hope that everyone will have a little talk with their friends and relatives in SD about how badly the Daschle Democrats are hurting our country.
Regards...EV
You are the champ, my friend...yes indeed...no one else even comes close...
I'm still laughing... :-)
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