Thanks for posting the DOSE tonight and CONGRATS (to all concerned) on the Freepathon!!
MUST READ . . .
Another keeper from Mark Noonan:
DEMOCRATS WARN BUSH AGAINST WINNING WAR
By Mark Noonan at 05:49 PM
Democratic leaders in Congress, worried that victory in the War on Terrorism might harm their electoral prospects in 2008, gave aid and comfort to the Iranians by demanding President Bush get their never-gonna-happen permission before taking action against Iran.
"The president does not have the authority to launch military action in Iran without first seeking congressional authorization," Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., told the National Press Club.
While Democrats have managed to round up a few Republican bed-wetters to support their counter-productive anti-war resolution, Democrats realise that there isn't majority support for engineering defeat in Iraq. Democrats are seeking ways and means to prevent victory without having to take the blame for scuttling the Iraq mission. In service of this goal, the Democratic Co-Chair of the Iraq Surrender Group tried to make talking with Iran's lunatic "President" seem reasonable: "Do we have so little confidence in the diplomats of the United States that we're not willing to let them talk with somebody we disagree with?" Hamilton asked. For Hamilton, "disagree" covers such thing as Iran's desire to wipe Israel off the map. While sources couldn't confirm or deny, it seems that for the Hamiltons of the world, compromise is always possible. What is unknown is just how many Jews Hamilton will allow the Iranians to kill in order to secure peace.
Meanwhile, Speaker Pelosi, asked for comment, had a strange way of keeping up the bipartisan spirit she pledged herself to when elevated to the Speakership: "(Bush) has dug a hole so deep he can't even see the light on this. It's a tragedy. It's a stark blunder", Pelosi said. Sources were unable to say whether liberating 25 million people from tyranny was the tragedy, or whether it was the ending of Saddam's support for suicide bombing in Israel which consituted the blunder. When pressed for comment about the Democrats plan for Iraq, Pelosi was nowhere to be seen.
http://blogsforbush.com/
PRESIDENTIAL PRAYER
REQUESTS FOR
JANUARY 18, 2007
"Pray for President and Mrs. Bush today as they spend the weekend at the Camp David retreat and work on the State of the Union Address... Pray for the content and development of this speech...He will speak to the country on Tuesday night (1/23/07)
You can read the entire "update" at the Presidential Prayer Team website. [BTW: If you scroll down the page you will be able to post BIRTHDAY GREETINGS FOR VP CHENEY, whose birthday is January 30!]
http://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ppt_homepage
Have you read any other volumes of the Adams' family correspondence? If so, do you have others you recommend besides the one I'm now finishing?
Where are the riots.. Where are the tens of thousands of protesters marching in the streets.
Where are the Kent States with the National Guard called out in order to maintain order on college campuses.
Where is the equivalent of the students chanting by the thousands. "Hey Hey LBJ How many people did you kill today"
Where are the huge protests of the war in Iraq?
There are only a few.and they are mostly conducted by 60 something hippies. I have heard that some of them have even bathed at least once since Vietnam. But we know that what they do stinks.
What we have is primarily the media and academia that are really opposed to the war in Iraq.
Consider that it was the Washington post blowing the Virginia campaign out of the water and the corruption of the Taft administration in Ohio that gave the Democrats the Senate. Without those two things it would have been a Republican Senate 51 to 49.
If you look at the house races you will see what the anti-illegal immigration story did to Republican chances.
A significant number of anti illegal immigration candidates lost..
Has it occurred to anyone to ask why the illegal Mexican immigration situation became such a big issue in the press in 2006? It had been going on since the last Mexican immigration bill was passed way back in the Reagan Administration.
During the Clinton administration and the first 5 years of the Bush administration millions of illegal Mexicans came to the USA with out the media or the Democrats making a whimper.
It was widely reported that from the early nineties to the 2004 election the number of citizens of Mexican descent who voted Republican had grown from the teens to over 35 percent. It was expected that the Mexican vote would go well over 40 percent for Republicans in 2008.
Once that number went over 50 percent the Democrats chances of winning control of the house, senate or the presidency were reduced slim and none.
It seems to me that Democrats and the media were well aware of that fact. And used that knowledge to split a few percent of support from the Republican party.
I think the media knew what they were doing with Mexican immigration and Iraqi war coverage. It contributed to the Loss of the House and senate.