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Leaky Leahy was just on CNN's Inside Politics, talking about his call to close the Gitmo stockade. Expanding upon his usual drivel, he just said the following..and this is just about verbatim. "The camp hurts us in the eyes of the world. IMAGINE HOW WE WOULD FEEL IF 200 AMERICANS WERE held under the same facilities for the same number of years..."

DES MOINES --- Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, said Thursday that President George W. Bush's opposition to expanded federal support for stem cell research merely delays the inevitable ---- a point he made with an example from the civil-rights struggle. Bush is "sort of our modern-day George Wallace, standing in the schoolhouse door," Harkin said in a conference call with reporters. Wallace was the governor of Alabama who famously stood in the door of the University of Alabama in an attempt to stop two African American students from registering. "The fact is, that the walls of segregation were going to come...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Tracey Schmitt 202-863-8614 “MoveOn.org’s vulgar depiction of a violent attack on the Capitol -- a building that symbolizes our democracy -- is beyond the pale of acceptable political discourse. Democrats know Senator Frist’s efforts are intended to restore Senate tradition by granting highly qualified judicial nominees the vote they deserve and have received for the past 214 years. It’s sad that the Democrats and their third party allies would choose to play on Americans’ fears instead of engaging in constructive political debate.” - RNC Communications Director Brian JonesMoveon.Org Has Long History Of Airing Inflammatory And Inappropriate Ads...

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Saad What?!? Harry Reid’s Shameful Trampling of Privacy Rights. By N. Beaujon May 14, 2005 Every day the news gets more reprehensible. Yesterday Harry (“Valley Girl”) Reid, a formerly unknown Congressperson, again, made gossipy headlines by illegally exposing the FBI file of Bush judicial nominee, Judge Henry Saad. At a press conference, otherwise known as “Democrat Shrews take to the Mic to Embarrass Themselves”, Reid stated that “"Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway…All you need to do is have a member go upstairs and look at his confidential report from the FBI, and I think we would all agree...

May 13, 2005, 8:59 a.m. Harry Reid Steps Over the Line — Again The GOP calls his description of a Bush nominee "deeply unethical." As the Senate edges closer to a showdown on the issue of Democratic filibusters of the president's judicial nominees, Republicans on Capitol Hill are angry at remarks by Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid which they say smeared one of those blocked nominees. During a debate about the filibusters Thursday, Reid, who has made a series of controversial statements about President Bush, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and others in recent months,...

Minority Leader Harry Reid strayed from his prepared remarks on the Senate floor yesterday and promised to continue opposing one of President Bush's judicial nominees based on "a problem" he said is in the nominee's "confidential report from the FBI." Those highly confidential reports are filed on all judicial nominees, and severe sanctions apply to anyone who discloses their contents. Less clear is whether a senator could face sanctions for characterizing the content of such files. "Henry Saad would have been filibustered anyway," Mr. Reid said on the floor yesterday, about the Michigan Appeals Court judge who is nominated to...

SUNDAY, APRIL 24, 2005 12:00 AM Bolton's ordeal confirms low appeal of high office BY FRANK WOOTEN WANTED: U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Bullies need not apply. OK, so that stipulation isn't in the job description -- yet. But it should be added to future postings if John Bolton, President Bush's nominee, is rejected on the grounds that he berated subordinates, harangued a public-relations specialist and is a browbeating jerk. WANTED: A rational reason for anybody with flaws -- in another word, anybody -- to withstand the agonizing scrutiny now required for high office, elective or appointive. Yes, Bolton,...

In response to what some consider conservative dominance in the arena of media watchdogs, a new organization was launched Tuesday in an effort to keep an eye on the other side. Progressive luminaries praised the debut of Media Justice, launched by author Damian Brach, as, "a quantum leap toward eradicating the pernicious Right Wing bias that permeates television, radio, newspaper, magazine, wire service and Internet news today." Filmmaker Michael Moore, actor Alec Baldwin and singer Linda Ronstadt were among hundreds of guests attending a gala unveiling of the new enterprise in Washington, D.C. Tuesday night, ushering in Brach's efforts to,...

Bill Clinton, addressing the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, Nov. 7, justified the Sept. 11 attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon when he stated that America is "paying the price today" for looking "the other way when a significant number of Native Americans were dispossessed and killed to get their land or their mineral rights or because they were thought of as less than fully human." Apparently, the 5,000 office workers who reported to work at the World Trade Center on the morning of Sept. 11, or those who boarded four passenger planes, deserved to ...

What's Wrong with These Democrats? by Cary Eldred Posted Feb 8, 2005 There has been a common refrain around our house, for the last five years in particular--"What is wrong with these Democrats?" And if that has been our refrain, our chorus has been, "Who votes for these people?" And listening to the President's State of the Union address and the Democrats' rebuttals delivered the other night; we were again singing our song. Who does vote for these people? My daughter has been studying the American Revolution in her fifth-grade Social Studies class, and I can't help but compare the...

It seems insane for Senator Ted Kennedy to give a high profile speech, three days before the Iraq election, publicly declaring the administration's Iraq policy a "catastrophic failure" and a "disaster." Even if that's what Kennedy thought, why would he put himself in the position where a successful election could make him look at least temporarily like a fool (as, apparently, it has)? ...It's not as if Kennedy differed all that much from Bush in the way of actual recommendations for the future. (Even his much-publicized "timetable" for withdrawing U.S. troops would be something we'd "negotiate;" his 2006 deadline is...

ON THE EVE of the election in Iraq, Democratic senator Edward Kennedy called President Bush's Iraq policy "a catastrophic failure." He demanded that American troops immediately begin to withdraw. "We have no choice," he declared, "but to make the best we can of the disaster we have created in Iraq." Kennedy said the retreat of American forces should be completed "as early as possible in 2006," and suggested that, in Iraq, American troops are a bigger problem than terrorists. Though appalling, Kennedy's statement was not out of character for Democrats these days. "I don't like to impugn anyone's integrity," said...

WASHINGTON - One Senate Democrat called Condoleezza Rice (news - web sites) a liar Tuesday and others said she was an apologist for Bush administration failures in Iraq (news - web sites), but she remained on track for confirmation as secretary of state. Rice, who has been President Bush (news - web sites)'s White House national security adviser for four years, was one of the loudest voices urging war, Democrats said. She repeatedly deceived members of Congress and Americans at large about justifications for the war, said Sen. Mark Dayton (news, bio, voting record), D-Minn. "I don't like impugning anyone's...

SMELLS LIKE A HATE CRIME... [KJL] ...Or a desperate host. From a reader: Did you see Keith Olberman [Friday] night on MSNBC? After savaging Fox News throughout most of his "newscast" he took a "talking Ann Coulter" doll and literally bashed it, smashing it repeatedly across the edge of his dest with a look of pure hatred on his desk, until it was in pieces. After the break he held up the naked legs and buttocks of the doll and said, "This is all that's left of Ann Coulter." Then he threw it at the camera. I wonder if Ann...

This CONSERVATIVE ALERT is a special message for Kenneth Sherman from Alan Keyes: Thursday, Oct. 28 ALERT: The Keyes for Senate campaign is UNDER ATTACK. After Alan's tremendous three debate wins in the Illinois U.S. Senate race -- first, it was the letters. Hate mail. Letters full of some of the most vile, despicable, vitriolic profanity you could possibly imagine. The workers in our donation processing center practically had to wade through the rush of filth that came pouring in. But that was only the beginning. This week, the filth literally DID come in -- someone mailed HUMAN WASTE to...

Sunday, October 31, 2004 Kerry Campaign's New Low KERRY CAMPAIGN’S NEW LOWWilling To Say Anything To Get Elected, Kerry Campaign Falsely Claims President Is Creating Terrorists______________________________________________________________________KERRY SURROGATE CALLS PRESIDENT AL QAEDA’S “BEST RECRUITER” Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA) Said “Bin Laden Is Trying To Help George Bush Because George Bush Is The Best Recruiter That Al Qaeda Has.”  FOX NEWS’ CHRIS WALLACE: “Governor Rendell, let me ask you both but I’ll start with you, how much impact do you think the Bin Laden tape is going to have with voters in your state and which candidate will it help?”  GOV....

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On a local Milwaukee news station WISN - Kerry was asked to respond to the new Bin-Laden tape and bits of it were played for him and he actually had the gall to say something to the effect of: "Well, if Bush hadn't let him get away in Tora Bora..." Can you believe this? After he praised the mission at the time! After Tommy Franks was very clear that no one was sure he was there. After he knows we had Special Forces in there! He uses this awful veriled threat to score political points! I've heard Holbrooke and Begala...

George Bush has exploited the suffering of September 11 and turned back decades of efforts to make the world a safer place, the former president Jimmy Carter says in an interview with the Guardian published today. Attacking Mr Bush and Tony Blair over Iraq, Mr Carter calls the war "a completely unjust adventure based on misleading statements". He also criticises Mr Bush for "lack of effort" on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and accuses him of abandoning nuclear non-proliferation initiatives championed by five presidents. The US "suffered, in 9/11, a terrible and shocking attack ... and George Bush has been adroit at...