Posted on 05/07/2006 5:33:36 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
Agree!!!
If Ex42 were in charge of NCLB, the dramatic improvement in reading in some very poor districts would be heralded. Instead, we hear complaining that NCLB dictates how teachers must teach, especially by teachers who fight against teaching phonics.
I even heard a talk show host blame NCLB for not having enough physical education in middle school. That change started long before NCLB.
her Father was crooked and her brother had huge problems also, and I do not understand why the People in Baltimore Maryland area do not bring out this aspect of her two faced attitude.
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You are painting with too broad of a brush. What is your source for the father's crookedness, the fact that he has an Italian name?
I'd like to add:
If the congress would pass the tort reform the Pres has been trying to get through for some time, junk lawsuits would go down, so then would (should) the cost of medical insurance, and some of the cost of healthcare. IMHO it could also be reduced if we the taxpayers weren't paying for so many illegals' helhcare (especially since they primarily use a high-cost ER instead of going to a clinic).
placemarking
Me too.
...with Kudlow I doubt it's [Mr Bush] derogatory.
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I'm sure it's not, but why does he feel uncomfortable saying "President Bush?"
Many people still think that Presidentclinton is all one word.
My solution for Bush and Frist is to explicitely seperate these issues. As you say, "first turn off the water." The amnesty crowd is holding border security hostage to "reform" which really equates to amnesty, as it is currently proposed.
I want Bush to table all issues regarding immigration except securing the borders. No new initiatives against illegals who are here already for right now or the employers who hire them (again, for right now). No new proposals about a possible amnesty or some sort of crackdown. Just table it until the borders are secure.
Then turn the question of the borders over to the DOD. I have some fairly specific (though likely flawed) ideas about expanding the role of the Coast Guard to be a general border guard with further responsbility as a rapid reaction force for any domestic disaster or as the lead agency responding to a domestic terrorist attack.
And only when we have clear control of our borders do we open up the question of what to do with the 12+ million who have come here illegally.
By the way, very nice post summarizing and expanding on the key issues in the immigration debate. No simplistic answers and no slogans, just very good analysis and supporting facts. Nicely done.
The opposition to Hayden because he is military, and would make the CIA too military seems to be a talking point. If the CIA was not invented for the DEFENCE of our country, what are we funding it for?
I will see if I can look up that picture from the thread last night, it is striking how they resemble one another. Rove looks heavier (out of shape I guess), and a bit shorter with a bit more hair, and The General looks like he is no nonsense kind of guy but with a twinkle, Rove is all twinkle. LOL!
How do you sthpell Pithy? Pissy? That is more like it with Buchanan. Buchanan sounds like he is copying Sean Hannity complaining about Arianna Huffington rhetoric not matching her flying everywhere in gas Guzzling jets.
Pat is almost always pissy. You are right about that.
Our forefathers also believed in the inherent wisdom of the people. Hence....the first amendment protecting above all else---the freedom of political speech.
John McCain would be well served by reading the Constitution and the writings of those who wrote it.
IMHO, the politician who seeks to stifle political speech--in any form--- has no business being in politics.
ABC This Week
CBS Face The Nation
CNN Late Edition
Fox News Sunday
NBC Meet The Press
"Traditionally speaking those are not her eyebrows" Oh Yuk! I was going to talk about her goat..Nope, I cannot do it, I have too much sympathy and compassion for fellow freepers digestive systems since mine just took a terrific beating lately. While I am touching on that subject, why did Patches Kennedy not ask for the generic version of Phenergan,which is promethazine? That is what I got for $1.46, I guess he is so wealthy he can afford the regular prices. Maybe he did get the generic and they are just calling it Phenergan.
Ooooooo.... if she sees this post and connects it with the one you're replying to... are you in trouble!!!!! <g>
Sweet! Thanks! Did you see this?
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2006/5/7/115339.shtml?s=ic
From Wikipedia:
Pelosi was born Nancy D'Alesandro in Baltimore, Maryland to Italian American parents. She became involved in politics at an early age and her father, Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr., was a U.S. Congressman from Maryland and also a Mayor of Baltimore.
Pelosi attended Trinity College (now Trinity University) in Washington, DC, where she met her future husband, Paul Pelosi. When the couple married, they moved to his hometown of San Francisco, where his brother was a member of the city's Board of Supervisors (San Francisco city & county--council).
Once the youngest of their five children became a senior in high school, Nancy Pelosi became involved in Democratic politics, working her way up to becoming party chairwoman for Northern California, and joining forces with one of the leaders of California Democratic Party politics, 5th District Congressman Phillip Burton.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Pelosi
Thomas D'Alesandro, Jr. (August 1, 1903–August 23, 1987) was an American politician who was a U.S. Representative from the third district of Maryland.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, D'Alesandro attended Calvert Business College in Baltimore. Before beginning his political career, he worked as a broker and in insurance, a career he returned to after his political service.
His daughter, Nancy Pelosi, is a Representative from California, currently serving as the House Minority Leader. D'Alesandro's son, Thomas L. J. D'Alesandro III, also served as Mayor of Baltimore from 1967 to 1971.
A Democrat, D'Alesandro served as a member of the Maryland State House of Delegates from 1926 to 1933. After serving in Annapolis, D'Alesandro was then appointed as General Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue, a post in which he served during 1933–1934. He then was elected to serve on the Baltimore City Council from 1935 to 1938.
D'Alesandro was then elected to the 76th Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses, serving from January 3, 1939, until he resigned on May 16, 1947. Following his service in Congress he was Mayor of Baltimore for 12 years from May 1947 to May 1959. He was defeated for renomination by the Democrats in the March primary election in 1958. He was also an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1958.
D'Alesandro was a delegate to every Democratic National Convention from 1944 to 1968 and also served on the Federal Renegotiation Board from 1961 to 1969 before retiring from political life.
D'Alesandro lived in Baltimore until his death there in 1987.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_D%27Alesandro%2C_Jr.
This is all I've been able to find - not sure why he resigned from Congress in 1947. I've also read that he 'was a crook' more than once - not sure specifically what he did.
The Sunday Morning Talk Shows - a Review
By: Mark Kilmer · Section: Other Politics
For Sunday, May 07, 2006On a morning when a popular lefty blogger wails in the WashPost that Hillary ignores the Deaniac netroots at her own peril, Nancy Pelosit (MTP) and Howard Dean (TW) does just that, pointing out that they're not about impeachment and that their campaign will be about "bringing people together."
Pelosi also argued that he(r) gut political instinct tells her that Porter Goss was linked by Osmosis to the Duke Cunningham scandal, and "it reflects on the President." Tim Russert hounded Pelosi about "repealing the Bush tax cuts," but she wouldn't give in. She did hint at tax increases with her "pay as you go" bit, but she never explicitly admitted it.
You know, General Michael Hayden has not been nominated to replace Porter Goss at the Central Intelligence Agency, but this morning, one would think that he had been. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Pete Hoekstra of Michigan opposes Hayden's nomination because of DOD concerns. On TW, Senator Saxby Chambliss indicated the same. Jane Harman, the ranking Dem on House Intell, argued that President Bush was "leading the Senate into a trap" with the Hayden nomination, wherein a vote for Hayden would be a vote for domestic wiretapping. (Pelosi and Diane Feinstein (TW) dig the surveillance program, they say, but they want the President to "follow the law.")
John McCain was uncontroversial on Face the Nation, though he did indicate that General Hayden, USAF, was "more of an intelligence person than a military officer." (He probably meant in his current role, or some such.)
Joe Biden and Arlen Specter on FNS think the Hayden confirmation hearings will offer them a chance to find out what exactly is the NSA domestic anti-terrorism surveillance program.
Pat Roberts on Late Edition firmly dismissed the Duke Cunningham allegations against Porter Goss.
This was a fun week on this end. Read the show-by-show review beneath the fold.
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ROE vs WADE:
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> Ray Nagin, the mayor of New Orleans, was asked about his
> views on Roe vs.Wade.
> He said "he didn't care how people got back to their houses."
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