The Stout Republican

Interesting.

Pelosi’s spokesman Brendan Daly said the speaker was reluctant to weigh in on the incident without knowing that such a message would do more good than harm. Daly said the British government had not asked Congress to try to pressure Tehran.

“The leadership discussed it and agreed that inserting Congress into an international crisis while ongoing would not be helpful,” Daly said.

This statement is of course with regard to Iran…not Iraq, where Congress has no problem inserting themselves. I’m happy to have leaders now, who are “reluctant to weigh in on the incident without knowing that such a message would do more good.” So…by saying Iran is bad for holding British soldiers hostage, you might do more harm?

“The spread of evil is the symptom of a vacuum. Whenever evil wins, it is only by default: by the moral failure of those who evade the fact that there can be no compromise on basic principles.” – Ayn Rand

Doesn’t stop the Dems from trying.

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The Democrats are sending a bill through to President Bush filled with pork. Lots of Pork. Juicy meaty pork.

Thank to Chuck Hagel for getting it through the Senate…or “Fredo” as some pundits endearingly call him. So it seems they’re dead set for defeat…or are they?

I propose a new timetable. Since General Pelosi has sworn that she will not give up in pursuing…well…surrender, I suggest that the Republicans provide a bill that has a time-table for the bill that is being pursued. If the bill cannot get through the proper constitutional steps (pass house/senate, veto, pass a much more difficult house/senate) within a preordained amount of time…let’s say…three weeks (”this congress” has been already trying for weeks…that’s plenty of time), then the pursuit of the bill should be abandoned, and the congress shamed.

They’ve said that they’ll never give up trying to give up…but never is such an abstract word. In a world with so much grays, I’m sure their constituents want results…and with the “American Mandate”, I don’t think it’s unreasonable that they let the general public know exactly when their noble endeavor should be abandoned. Pay no mind to the fact that the Republicans would know exactly how long they have to hold out until they get their way…that’s just a ridiculous line of thought. Telling the Republican “freedom fighter” (that’s what they opposition party lieks to be known as) when they’re going to surrender their aspirations of yellow-doggery only puts more pressure on those aides who work for the House and the Senate to draft a quick, concise bill that everyone can get behind…it does nothing to comfort and aide those on the right…

Hmmm…it’s not like they’ve got better things to do:

President Bush’s request for $103 billion to fund the Global War on Terror and hurricane relief efforts has ballooned into a $124 billion measure stuffed full of pork! Much of the additional $21 billion is aimed at projects that have nothing to do with the War or hurricane relief, such $283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract program, $74 million for peanut storage costs, $60.4 million for salmon fisheries, $50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant, and $25 million for spinach growers.

Shoot…what’s with this “buying” of favors. Sounds…well…Clintonian.

P.S. Never Forget

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Delivering on her election promise, Nancy Pelosi’s new intel chair Silvestre Reyes stated ealier today:

“We’re not going to have stability in Iraq until we eliminate those militias, those private armies,” Reyes said. “We have to consider the need for additional troops to be in Iraq, to take out the militias and stabilize Iraq … We certainly can’t leave Iraq and run the risk that it becomes [like] Afghanistan” was before the 2001 invasion by the United States…

When asked how many additional troops he envisioned sending to Iraq, Reyes replied: “I would say 20,000 to 30,000—for the specific purpose of making sure those militias are dismantled, working in concert with the Iraqi military…

When a reporter suggested that was not a position that was likely to be popular with many House Democrats, Reyes replied: “Well again, I differ in that I don’t want Iraq to become the next Afghanistan. We could not allow Iraq to become a safe haven for Al Qaeda, for Hamas, for Hizbullah, or anybody else. We cannot allow Iran or Syria to have a free hand in there to further destabilize the Middle East.”

Reyes added that he was “very clear” about his position to Pelosi when she chose him over two rivals—Rep. Jane Harman of California and Rep. Alcee Hastings—to head the critical intelligence post…

[W]hen asked what he told Pelosi about his thinking on Iraq, Reyes replied: “What I said was, we can’t afford to leave there. And anybody who says, we are going pull out our troops immediately, is being dishonest … We’re all interested in getting out of Iraq. That’s a common goal. How we do it, I think, is the tough part. There are those that say, they don’t care what Iraq looks like once we leave there. Let’s just leave there. And I argue against that. I don’t think that’s responsible. And I think it plays right into the hands of Syria and Iran.”

Whew, and I was worried that the Democrats were going to mislead their electorate, and then change their stance on Iraq, and demand that the troops leave. A huge sigh of relief in the Democratic party today as it was confirmed by Democratic leadership that it’s irresponsible to leave Iraq before the job is done, and timetables are a bad idea.

Here’s a flashback as a reminder of what Pelosi said about a year ago, since we seem to forget so easily:

“I’m endorsing what Mr. Murtha is saying…I believe that a majority of our caucus clearly supports Mr. Murtha…and let’s be clear about what it is Mr. Murtha said, ‘Yes, let’s bring the troops home.”
-Nancy Pelosi

There’s two things you can walk away with from this.

1. Nancy doesn’t have control or insight into her nominees for these positions and is being tricked (muhaha).

2. Nancy knew leaving Iraq with a timetable was a bad idea.

Justification prediction?

Now that it’s the Democrats that are in power…it’s okay to keep the troops there longer, because War is only wrong if it’s a Republican majority. We just wanted a new direction in the War…that whole bringing the troop home now thing…never happened…yada yada yada. Time will tell.

Thanks to HotAir for posting the story.

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What If The Democrats had taken a more decisive majority of the Senate? What if they actually enacted their agenda?

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I might be new to all of this, since I only became interested in politics after avoiding indoctrination at a California State University, but I think this is the right opportunity for us. We were beat in the house, and we were beat bad enough to take a step back and say, “Where did we go wrong.” As said amateur, my two cents may be hardly that, but we got cocky. We got fat, happy, comfortable, and started taking our position of power lightly. We didn’t take any risks, and we just slid along simply because we were in power, and it was good. We need to take risks, whether those be social security, border control, aggressive tax cuts or restructuring…but we forgot it was the promise that we would take these risks that got us into power, and it was our unwillingness to stick to those promises that helped us lose this.

Let’s use this opportunity now to start the 08 campaign, and let’s have more than rhetoric, let’s have action, aggressive action and campaigning on real conservative values.

The discourse I’m sure will be enchanting over the next two years.

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It all started back during Andrew Jackson’s presidency, when the Native Americans were given small pox laden blankets by the United States, that was the first thing he did. Even though Jackson was a Democrat, it was his presidency that caused the division between the Democratic Republicans (now the Democrats) and the Whigs (now the Republicans), and you know what? Rove did it all…blankets, “Indian Relocation”, and even threw his voice to insult Jackson’s wife, inciting the legendary duel.

That’s right, even then Rove was behind the scenes as early as the 1829, when Jackson became our 7th President. It was Rove that knew Jackson abuses of the executive power would create the split that formed the Republican party, so he molded and manipulated until the beginnings of the Nazi…I mean Republican Party, was formed.

As a matter of fact, Rove has been the “Where’s Waldo” throughout the last 200 years of American history, all thanks to the time machine Halliburton came up with using their Quadrillion dollar private government contract through the oil extracted from Iraq, and the blood extracted from the veins of the Iraqi children (it’s what gives us our youthful vigor).

What you don’t know is that without the Rovian interference, history would have remained unaltered, and we would be living in a Utopia of Democratic control…in fact, there would only be one party…and they wouldn’t go by Democrats, they’d be identified instead by hugging your neighbor.

AIDS wouldn’t exist, that’s for sure, because Reagan wouldn’t have invented it without the funds funneled from the future to the past, all in the form of IBM stock…again, all part of Rove’s master plan to control the neocons with fear.

Rove has Osama hiding in his beach house, and every now and then they get him out to make a tape to benefit the Republicans.

Remember internment…may have been a Democrat that made that call, but Rove made him make that call with mind control. Don’t believe me? They’re doing again with the crazy claim that racial profiling may save lives. Save lives? HA! I say, “Don’t Tread on Me Rove”.

We need more people to speak this “Truth to Power”, because no one has ever pointed out that Rove is pure evil…and no one has ever stood up to this administration. I say to Rove…Not My President!

If you disagree, you’re probably stupid, ugly, racist, sexist, a homophobe, and want to snuggle in a banana hammock with Hitler at a weekend getaway in Jamaica.

(*cough cough*)

Take a shower hippie. Put down your protest sign. Get a job.

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Googlebomb? Ethically is it fair to level the playing field using the same tools as the enemy? The information is out there…push it to the top of the list right…

Senate

Connecticut: Ned Lamont
Maryland: Ben Cardin
Michigan: Debbie Stanbenow
Missouri: Claire McCaskill
Montana: Jon Tester
New Jersey: Bob Menendez
Tennessee: Harold Ford
Virginia: James Webb

Democrat Held Seats

(CO-03): John Salazar
(GA-03): Jim Marshall
(GA-12): John Barrow
(IA-03): Leonard Boswell
(IL-08): Melissa Bean
(IL-17): Phil Hare
(IN-07): Julia Carson
(NC-13): Brad Miller
(PA-12): John Murtha
(WV-01): Alan Mollohan

Republican Held Seats

(AZ-08): Gabrielle Giffords
(CT-04): Diane Farrell
(CT-05): Chris Murphy
(CO-07): Ed Perlmutter
(IA-01): Bruce Braley
(IL-06): Tammy Duckworth
(IN-02): Joe Donnelly
(IN-08): Brad Ellsworth
(IN-09): Baron Hill
(FL-13): Christine Jennings
(FL-16): Tim Mahoney
(FL-22): Ron Klein
(KY-03): John Yarmuth
(NC-01): Heath Shuler
(MN-06): Patty Wetterling
(NM-01): Patricia Madrid
(NY-20): Kirsten Gillibrand
(NY-24): Michael Arcuri
(NY-26): Jack Davis
(OH-15): Mary Jo Kilroy
(OH-18): Zack Space
(PA-06): Lois Murphy
(PA-08): Patrick Murphy
(PA-07): Joe Sestak
(PA-10): Chris Carney
(VA-02): Phil Kellam
(WI-08): Steve Kagen

MUAHAHAH

I can make a small difference.

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Or not…if you’re a Democrat.

I get the phrase “Innocent until proven guilty,” but at the first suspicion of improptiety, I understand the prudence of restricting a possible leaks access to classified information. Why doesn’t Jane Harmon…is the keg tap going to run dry for the Democrat leak machine otherwise.

This was said in reference to the restriction of a Democrat Staffer who may or may not have leaked the NIE document that sputter and fizzled as far as the significance of the writ, but showed once again that leaks are cool in partisanship play:

The unidentified staff member, a Democrat, was suspended this week by Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., and is being denied access to classified information pending the outcome of a review, Hoekstra’s spokesman, Jamal Ware, said Thursday.

The Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat, Jane Harman of California, wrote to Hoekstra that she was “appalled” by his action, which was “without basis.”

…

In her letter, Harman demanded that Hoekstra “immediately reinstate the staffer’s access to classified information.”

Maybe I’m crazy and I don’t get how government works (rhetorical) but certain things, especially when the military and lives are at stake, are classified for a reason. But, classification doesn’t stand up to “the public’s right to know…” or was it “the Democrats right to smear?”

I guess the statistical model that 98% of leaks are done by Democrats that I came up with over dinner using VisiCalc (old school over here) was correct.

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The robot is not a universally appreciated dance…I suppose that’s unless you’re a robot. As a white man I have no natural rhythm, unless I’m holding an electric guitar…

I watched this clip on Hot Air, I wasn’t going to say anything really about it, but it did strike me. Bill O’Reilly (of which I flip flop Kerry style on whether or not I like him) had a good point about why the Left hates so much…it’s because they can’t stand on their own debate skills or intellectualism. This was of course in reference to the active shouting down of “The Minutemen” at Columbia University. You’d think for $35,000 a year they’d know free speech means people have the right to say things that you might not agree with, but I guess you can’t buy wisdom…just knowledge.

I read another article today called “How to Talk to a Republican (If You Absolutely Must)“, and it sounded about right. No actual substance, just senseless contradiction and personal attacks, such as:

Because when you are the party of the dumbest Secretary of State to ever hold that office, who got promoted after deciding missile defense was important but Al Qaida was something to ignore, then you’ll have nothing but talking points.

Now this is of course nothing new…but published on a day where the Democratic party is complaining about how the Bush Administration should have done more to protect us from North Korea and their possible nuclear missiles, it seems odd that Schecter chooses to attack promoting missile defense…however, I suppose that would require a grasp of history (which as I’ve said before, to get a Democrat to grasp something, just take a contradictory approach, you’ll be guaranteed they’ll take the opposite).

Example:

Me: I like pancakes.

Democrat: Pancakes were embraced by the Nazis you brown-shirt reflection of Orwellian fiction. You obviously have no education and your oral hygiene is laughable. If you didn’t spend so much time oppressing minorities and the poor, you might have time to brush your teeth. Next thing you’re probably going to say you like maple syrup, which we all know is the favorite treat of pedos and rapists. If there’s a hell (which there is not…only Texas), I know you will burn there.

The article then ends:

Just tell them what they are what their party has stood for. Everyone has the power to bring about the change of which we are in dire need.

Mr. Schecter…we know what we stand for, and you’re not actually daft enough to believe that anecdotal examples and stand alone “bad guys” represent the entire culture of the Republican party…but then, if you weren’t daft, then O’Reilly’s comment at the end of the Hot Air clip wouldn’t ring quite so true to me, but you know what does…the possible future speaker of the House, saying:

The United States does not need a multi-billion-dollar national missile defense against the possibility of a nuclear-armed intercontinental ballistic missile.

Oh Nancy, if only your speech was as smooth as the resulting brow from your quarterly Botox injection. (Rumor – I hear she had to have all running water removed from her office for fear of accidental exposure, and the unavoidable melting that would follow). This of course will be blotted out by the DU and KOS Men in Black flashpen, erasing all history of it in the record…where it will reside in the long lost book of Democratic non-statements (such as the mockery of Iraq, Iran, and North Korea being named as the “Axis of Evil” several years ago…that was just crazy), and will be promptly replaced by, “Why didn’t George Bush do more to promote missile defense when we all knew North Korea was a threat.” Counterpoint….but again, no point anywhere in sight.

And now…I shuffle off to practice my skills of “the worm” with my wife…(bwahaha)…a far less subtle dance.

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Politicians are over-playing their hand it seems. These are the late night pre-bed predictions/observations of the Foley follow-up over the next few weeks.

Predictions

1. New Revelations will come one week before the election. People are played out now.
2. The general public is going to find out that this was a coordinated attack against Foley (which is okay with me…he’s a creep), but are going to be enraged when they find that the Democratic party sat on this information for over a year, setting up fake “unbiased” sources, endangering children so that they could release it at the most politically opportune time.
3. Every scandal is going to continue to come up only a few weeks as new scandals are revealed, and old ones rehashed as a “frame of reference”.
4. Keith Olbermann will blame the President.

Observations

1. It’s sad when not even Republicans can take responsibility of their own actions.
2. Where did the real issues go!
3. “What about the Children?” – it’s going to replace the faux “What about the soldiers?”

On another note…here’s the free speech of the left. This is how you get your ideals across kids…wreak havok.

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