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We ask all Republicans politicians to help the Connecticut Republican candidate win the senate seat up for election on November 7, 2008. We ask you to do this by: 1. Convincing Republican nominee Alan Schlesinger, who has proven to be a weak candidate, to drop out of the race. 2. Replacing Alan Schlesinger with a strong Republican candidate. 3. Accepting the fact that Republicans, like popular Governor Jodi Rell, can win in Connecticut. 4. Stopping all verbal and financial support of Independent Democrat Joe Lieberman, who has pledged to caucus with the Democrats and continue to vote with them on...

The White House on Monday refused — for now — to endorse the Republican candidate in Connecticut's hotly contested Senate race. White House Press Secretary Tony Snow would not commit President Bush's support of Republican candidate Alan R. Schlesinger, saying there are unique characteristics in play. Asked directly if the president supports Schlesinger, Snow danced around the question. "The president supports the democratic process in the state of CT and wishes them a successful election in November," he said. Asked why he would not commit, Snow said: "I think there's some peculiar characteristics going on in the Republican Party with...

August 15, 2006 -- President Bush made history yesterday - by refusing to endorse a Republican. White House spokesman Tony Snow refused to say whether the president will back little-known GOP candidate Alan Schlesinger in the Joe Lieberman-Ned Lamont Senate race in Connecticut. "The president supports the democratic process in the state of Connecticut and wishes them a successful election in November," Snow said when asked whether Bush is supporting Schlesinger. Bush as a matter of course backs the GOP contender in races, but his aides have voiced support for Lieberman since he was defeated in last week's Democratic primary...

(Washington-AP, Aug. 14, 2006 12:47 PM) _ President Bush's spokesman did some bobbing and weaving, but never did say that Bush supports the Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Connecticut. When asked this morning whether the president supports Alan Schlesinger, Bush spokesman Tony Snow hemmed and hawed. Snow said simply that the president supports the democratic process in the state of Connecticut and wishes them a successful election in November. In follow-up questions Snow was asked whether Bush likes Joe Lieberman better than the Republican candidate. Again, there was no direct answer. Lieberman lost the Democratic primary last Tuesday...

Yesterday I wrote, "For what it's worth - and it's not much - my guess/prediction in today's Democratic Senate primary is Ned Lamont by a small margin - say, 51-49 or 52-48." With 98 percent of the precincts reporting, it's Lamont 51.79 percent, Lieberman 48.21 percent. Feeling my oats, I'm now going to predict that between now and Election Day you're going to see polls showing Lamont up big. And yet, he's doomed. Let's do some math. According to state records, Connecticut has 1.95 million active registered voters as of last year, of whom 653,055 were registered as Democrats, about...

Posted by Mark Finkelstein on August 9, 2006 - 08:06. Howard Dean's 2004 presidential primary run was largely fueled by internet-driven support orchestrated by campaign manager Joe Trippi. That campaign fell famously short in the echoes of Dean's Iowa caucus-night scream. But with Ned Lamont's win, the left wing blogosphere can this morning claim perhaps its first major victory . . . at least in a Democratic primary if not in a general election. And that, in turn, raises the real question. Does the same left-wing blogosphere that can influence the outcome of Dem primaries foist on the party candidates...

Connecticut Republicans may soon have a vacancy to fill for their United States Senate nomination. Former state Representative Alan Schlesinger is being dogged by gambling rumors, and Bradley Beecher, former commanding officer of the state police’s casino licensing and operations unit, says he received a call from Schlesinger on Tuesday, July 11th seeking information on who was checking out his gambling habits. Beecher is now a consultant on casino security and law enforcement. He’s also a critic of Connecticut gaming policies. Beecher, who was familiar with Schlesinger, says the Republican nominee told him he is, in gambling parlance, a card...

The true significance of the disputed 2000 election has thus far escaped public attention. This was an election that elevated the popular-vote loser to the American presidency. But that astounding fact has been obscured: first by the flood of electoral complaints about deceptive ballots, hanging chads, and so on in Florida; then by the political astuteness of the court-appointed president in behaving as if he had won the White House by a landslide; and now by the effect of September 11 in presidentializing George W. Bush and giving him commanding popularity in the polls. "The fundamental maxim of republican government,"...

Back in March, I received an e-mail from a stranger. He identified himself as Dr. Laura Schlessinger’s producer. He explained that they were planning for her to do a one-woman stage show. Although the second act would consist entirely of Dr. Laura’s answering written questions from the audience, they wanted a funny script for the opening act. Would I be interested in having a meeting? Sure, I’m game for just about anything that doesn’t involve heavy lifting or getting on an airplane. So it was that a couple of weeks later, I drove up the coast to Schlessinger’s home in...

This week, while touring the remnants of the former Soviet Union on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, President Bush gave perhaps the greatest diplomatic performance of his career, balancing a host of moral and strategic interests simultaneously. In the Baltic republics, he recognized that the Soviet occupation of Eastern Europe was "one of the greatest wrongs in history." In Russia he carefully avoided alienating the Russians too much. In Georgia he literally danced a jig and championed liberty for the entire world. But the most exciting part of the president's trip, for some...

...The vast majority of our force has behaved in Iraq with extraordinary forbearance -- including countless acts of kindness. In this respect, its performance has been vastly better than in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.... I can only say... OUR TROOPS HAVE PERFORMED WELL.... [W]e have identified some 300 cases of possible abuse of which fewer than 100 have been confirmed: and a third of those have been at the point of capture. In combat, passions run high. Donald Rumsfeld established our panel to provide an independent and objective assessment of what went wrong in U.S. detention operations in...

WASHINGTON While blaming sadistic night shift workers in a prison ill-equipped to deal with a massive influx of detainees, an independent Pentagon report also took civilian leaders to task Tuesday for “indirect responsibility” in prisoner abuses at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. “You had this 'Animal House' mentality that occurred on the night shift,” James Schlesinger, chairman of the Independent Panel to Review Department of Defense Detention Operations, told a press conference following the report's release. “There was chaos at Abu Ghraib.” The prison and those running it were not prepared to deal with the range of detainees pulled together in...

Since Operation Enduring Freedom began in October 2001, the U.S. has handled about 50,000 detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and other venues of the war on terror. Among those, about 300 allegations of abuse have arisen. And as of this month 155 investigations have resulted in 66 substantiated cases of mistreatment. Only about a third of those cases were related to interrogation, while another third happened at the point of capture.... [T]he report says that "No approved procedures called for or allowed the kinds of abuse that in fact occurred. There is no evidence of a policy of abuse promulgated by...

John Kerry just made the statement in his rantings at a campaign speech that Donald Rumsfeld should resign because of Abu Gurab. Schlesinger specifically stated that the investigation believes that Rumsfelds resignation would be a BOON to our enemies. AGAIN KERRY SIDES WITH THE ENEMY AGAINST THE UNITED STATES. General Giap credited the Kerry ilk with helping the Communist win the VN War. Is Osama Bin Laden going to congradulate Kerry if he Wins in Nov?

..."There was no policy of abuse at Abu Ghraib," said a four-member commission headed by former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger. "Quite the contrary." ...But those heinous acts did not result from any "authorized interrogation" or — as some of the soldiers now under charges have alleged — officially sanctioned attempts at intelligence-gathering. In fact, the report says, they were "freelance activities of the night shift at Abu Ghraib" — a point underscored by the fact that no mistreatment took place on other shifts. Yet circumstances at Abu Ghraib were tailor-made for the abuse that followed. "There was chaos at Abu...

In an effort to galvanize the message Kerry wants to deliver in the time remaining, he convened a powerful roster of journalists and columnists in the New York City apartment of Al Franken last Thursday. The gathering could not properly be called a meeting or a luncheon. It was a trial. The journalists served as prosecuting attorneys, jury and judge. The crowd I joined in Franken’s living room was comprised of: Al Franken and his wife Franni; Rick Hertzberg, senior editor for the New Yorker; David Remnick, editor for the New Yorker; Jim Kelly, managing editor for Time Magazine; Howard...

For some time now, a group of people who classify themselves liberal has been making plans and raising money to launch a broadcast network. For them, the almost total command that conservatives have of radio and TV talk shows has lost them elections. They are tired of hearing that the country is being undermined by socialized medicine, progressive taxation and handouts to the lazy and incompetent. At this moment, this brave band is shopping for broadcast frequencies or a cable network, hiring secretaries, renting office space and raising money up and down Sunset Boulevard and Central Park West. They are...

(CAMPUS : events & lectures) -- What is the true nature of patriotism, anyway? That was the question posed by two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. in his speech to about 300 people Wednesday night in Harris Hall room 107. Schlesinger stressed that disagreement is essential to democracy in his lecture, "Patriotism and Dissent in Wartime." Schlesinger was chosen to speak for the annual Richard W. Leopold Lectureship. Leopold taught a seminar in diplomatic history at Northwestern and has been a close friend of Schlesinger's for more than 70 years. "To rally around the president during a...

We skipped Vietnam -- we shouldn't skip Iraq William Watson National Post Thursday, October 16, 2003 About halfway through the Vietnam War, historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. argued that the damage from incorrect application of the Munich analogy -- if we don't stop them now, we'll have to stop them later -- might eventually outweigh the damage from Neville Chamberlain's decision to appease Hitler by giving him Czechoslovakia in 1938. Schlesinger exaggerated. It will be a long time before anything out-costs the Second World War. But in analyzing what's going on in Iraq, the world in general and Canadians in particular...

How nations perish Posted: September 10, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 Creators Syndicate, Inc. Gray Davis is a desperate man. Facing recall, he has just put the safety of California motorists at risk in a naked bid to buy Hispanic votes. Davis signed into law a bill he had twice rejected, to allow illegal aliens to get driver's licenses. One million illegals, many of them young, single males, will soon be on the roads of California. Inevitably, the toll of traffic dead will soar and California families will pay in the lives of loved ones so Davis can collect...