Democrats 0 for 6 in Congress

The Democrats have been sidetracked by the war in Iraq and by their own “get Bush” agenda.

None of the elements of the newly minted Democrats' congressional agenda have made it to President Bush's desk, and the prospects of signature bills such as federal funding for stem-cell research or homeland-security improvements becoming law any time soon are doubtful.

Much of the Democratic agenda -- dubbed "Six for '06" -- sailed out of the House with bipartisan support, but all of it has stalled in the Senate as leaders scramble to deal with the Iraq war.

"I don't think they've gotten anything done," House Minority Leader John A. Boehner of Ohio said of the Democrats. "How many bills have they sent to the president? None? Somewhere around there."

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House Democrats in disarray: pull DC voting bill

With Speaker Nancy Pelosi absent, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (pictured) trying in vain to do a “balancing act” the Democrats appeared to be in disarray Thursday as the Democrat sponsored bill to grant Washington, DC, a vote in the House was stalled by Republicans.

House Democrats pulled a bill to grant voting rights to Washington, D.C., after Republicans offered a motion that would repeal the gun ban for the District.

The move is a clear signal that Democrats have lost control of the House floor on the voting rights issue after minority Republicans presented the Democratic majority with a politically unpalatable motion that their conservative members would be forced to support for fear of angering the gun rights community.

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Al's warming lies - the REAL 'Inconvenient Truth'

Politicians like to have a scare issue to make us tremble making it easier to raise money -- very little of which goes to fight the cause of the scare.

Today it's Global Warming. Yesterday it was bird flu. Before that it was SARS which was preceded by Acid Rain. Before that it was the Coming Ice Age and so on.

It’s just that the man-made warming scare is one they see as the real winner for them. It will bring in the dollars and political clout they need.

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British Airways set corpse in first class seat

A British Airways passenger travelling first class has described how he woke up on a long-haul flight to find that cabin crew had placed a corpse in his row.

The body of a woman in her seventies, who died after the plane left Delhi for Heathrow, was carried by cabin staff from economy to first class, where there was more space. Her body was propped up in a seat, using pillows

Paul Trinder, who awoke to see the body at the end of his row, last week described the journey as “deeply disturbing”.

What did Mr. Trinder expect? The poor lady would not have fit in the overhead compartments.

What other airlines have done differently? Maybe not.

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Defiant Bush warned Democrats: no show trials

Were the Democrats bluffing when they wanted open hearings on the judge firings? If so, their bluff was called.

A defiant President Bush warned Democrats Tuesday to accept his offer to have top aides speak about the firings of federal prosecutors only privately and not under oath, or risk a constitutional showdown from which he would not back down.

In return the Democrats said they would start authorizing subpoenas as soon as Wednesday for the White House aides.

In a late-afternoon statement at the White House, Bush said he would fight any subpoena effort in court.

Bush finally decided to stand up to the Senate Democrats. He is not willing to let them grandstand and publicly bash the Bush Administration, which is the only reason this was started in the first place.

This whole judge firing is just a partisan ploy as reported here. The Senate Democrats know the media will make this sound like another Watergate, yet when Bill Clinton had Janet Reno fire all 93 federal prosecutors there was hardly a ripple because the media reported it as if it was the proper thing to do.

Bush is a ‘lame duck’ president but that's no reason he should allow Schumer et al to make him into a ‘dead duck’ which is their real intent.

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Has the New York Times turned over a new leaf?

The New York Times usually bends over backward to coddle and protect liberal politicians. Uncharacteristically, the Times recently bashed Al Gore’s global warming movie (link here).

Now the Times seems overly critical of Hillary Rodham Clinton prompting a scathing retaliation from Bill.

The long love affair between Bill and Hillary Clinton (pictured) and The New York Times seems to be over.

At a fund-raiser at the Trump World Tower apartment of mortgage mogul Keith Kantrowitz, the former president spoke for two hours to a select group that had contributed the maximum $2,300 to Hillary's presidential campaign, and much of his talk was devoted to attacking the Times.

He said his wife wasn't getting a fair shake from the Times.

Clinton said the Times is attacking Hillary because she won't apologize for her vote on the war in Iraq.

The Times had always been super supportive in the past.

The shoe is on the other foot now. Usually it’s conservative politicians who feel the wrath of the New York Times.

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Seeking maximum political gain in attorneys uproar

Former Attorney General Janet Reno fired all 93 U.S. attorney’s at the start of the Bill Clinton administration. The media was so overjoyed that a Democrat was finally in the White House they refused to report anything negative about the unprecedented firings.

Now, it’s different as members of the media are eagerly backing up Congressional Democrats who are planning a new, two-track strategy for maximizing the political windfall -- and the disclosure of potentially embarrassing information -- from the Bush administration's firings of eight federal prosecutors, according to top party officials.

What the media is not reporting is that the firing of 8 U.S. attorney’s by the Justice Department was because the U.S. Prosecutors had refused to investigate and prosecute Democrat vote fraud.

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Tennessee mine enriched Gore, scarred land

A newspaper that once backed Al Gore is now critical of the Gore hypocrisy.

Al Gore Jr. received more than $500,000 in royalties from the owners of zinc mines who held mineral leases on his farm near Carthage, Tenn. Now the mines have a new owner and are scheduled to reopen later this year.

Before the mines closed in 2003, they emitted thousands of pounds of toxic substances and several times, the water discharged from the mines into nearby rivers had levels of toxins above what was legal.

Maybe Al Gore should have issued himself enough carbon credits to cover up this story.

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Struggling for support of their Iraq policy

A mini-drama in a congressional hallway last week (reported on here) shed some light on the difficulties that Democrats are having in keeping their promise to change the course on Iraq.

They say they have a strategy to reach that goal, but it will take time to line up enough support to pressure President Bush.

They not only don’t have a strategy, they don’t have the votes to stop war funding.

Even if they did, Bush has promised to veto the bill. Link

Another scientist says GW is a myth

A Danish scientist says global warming is more political than scientific.

University of Copenhagen Professor Bjarne Andresen has analyzed the topic in collaboration with Canadian Professors Christopher Essex from the University of Western Ontario and Ross McKitrick of the University of Guelph.

"It is impossible to talk about a single temperature for something as complicated as the climate of Earth," said Andresen, an expert on thermodynamics. "A temperature can be defined only for a homogeneous system. Furthermore, the climate is not governed by a single temperature. Rather, differences of temperatures drive the processes and create the storms, sea currents, thunder, etc. which make up the climate".

He says the currently used method of determining the global temperature -- and any conclusion drawn from it -- is more political than scientific.

Al Gore thought he was ‘home free’ with his quasi-documentary scare film. If scientists around the world keep stepping forward challenging the man-made global warming myth, will Gore back down and revise his movie or quietly stop promoting it and let it die?

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Troops will stay in Iraq if Hillary is elected

Hillary (pictured) says she will leave troops in Iraq if she is elected.

This is the same person who wanted the troops pulled out of Iraq.

In outlining how she would handle Iraq as commander in chief, Mrs. Clinton articulated a more-nuanced position than the one she has provided at her campaign events, where she has backed the goal of “bringing the troops home.”

Well, I guess if Kerry can flip-flop, why can’t she?

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The great global warming swindle

Each week there is more global warming skepticism appearing in various news articles on the Internet.

We don’t see this reported widely here in the United States where the media is still bowing down to the idol of Al Gore and his scare movie.

There is a British documentary called: The Great Global Warming Swindle. An abbreviated ten-minute version can be found here.

And how about the global warming proponents who were trekking the Arctic to prove global warming? They had to call off their trip because one of them got frostbite on their feet because the temperatures were 58-100 below zero.

Their explanation was that the extreme temperatures were typical of global warming. Did they think it never got cold at the north pole before global warming?

Their stunt was useless anyway because it could not have shown that, if they did find evidence of warming, it was man-made.

It seems the poor misdirected souls got frostbite for nothing.

Stories about the video can be found here and here.

Americans see media aiding moral decline

A recent National Cultural Values Survey found:

If the media continue to "singularly promote" secular values while undermining orthodox faith and values, it will be very difficult to reverse America's moral decline.

"Americans who care about the nation's moral condition should insist that the media strive to more fairly represent all views, including those of the orthodox," the report stated.

The survey of 2,000 American adults shows that the nation's culture war is grounded in disagreements over religious issues, such as God's role in life and whether religious belief is essential for a good and moral life.

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White House mulled firing all US attorneys in 1994

At the start of President Bush’s second term, the chief White House lawyer suggested the dismissal of all 93 U.S. attorneys.

The Justice Department objected and eventually recommended the eight dismissals that have generated a political firestorm two years later.

Is there a precedent for such a bold move? Yes, Bill Clinton did it for the first time ever in 1993.

The New York Times reported the event on March 24, 1993:

Attorney General Janet Reno [pictured] today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys.

The Bush dismissals are causing a firestorm now, yet when Clinton fired all U.S. Attorneys it hardly caused much more than a ripple largely because the liberal media reported the incident but glossed over the multitude of objections.

Now the liberals want Bush’s Attorney General to resign but there was no hint that Clinton’s Attroney General should have resigned in 1993.

Link here for the current story. The 1993 Clinton firings can be found here.

Claims she is the JFK of 2008

Desperate to grasp at any edge she can, Hillary Clinton (pictured) infers she will be the JFK of 2008.

She compares her desire to be the first woman president to John F. Kennedy who was the first Catholic president.

The comparison is as invalid as any other comparison between her and JFK, other than that they are/were both Democrats.

Hillary is no JFK!

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House bill would block credit cards for illegals

Congresswoman Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) seeks to close the loophole in U.S. banking that allows banks to issue credit cards to illegals who have no social security numbers.

Bank of America caused a stir when they announced the availability of credit cards to illegals. The cards did not require social security numbers.

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Jacques Chirac to step down as leader of France

Jacques Chirac (pictured) announced he would not seek reelection next month after 45 years in front-line politics.

Chirac, 74, has served as head of state since 1995 and leaves behind a checkered record that consists as much of symbolic gestures as concrete policies.

Socialists will hope he is succeeded by another permissive president who will allow further political drifting to the left.

What the country needs is a forceful leader who will nurture capitalism before France has a complete financial collapse.

A more pressing problem facing the new president is out of control immigration from the Mid-East.

Chirac leaves a difficult legacy for his successor, with the economy underachieving, the state heavily indebted, unemployment stubbornly high, and social tensions still simmering after 2005 rioting in poorer suburbs.

The decline of France under the leadership of Jacques Chirac is nearly immeasurable.

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Nevada Democrats will not debate

Democrats refuse to participate in the Fox News debate in Nevada.

Moveon.org, a radical group that has said they ‘own’ the Democratic party, is in complete control of the Nevada Democratic Caucus.

News organizations will want to think twice before getting involved in the Nevada Democratic Caucus which appears to be controlled by radical fringe out-of-state interest groups, not the Nevada Democratic Party.

Bill Edwards has said any Democrat would not get a fair shake with Fox News.

Edwards, along with most of the other Democrats, are afraid of any connection with a news organization that is not pro-liberal. If a news organization is not liberal, Edwards and most of his fellow Democrats, accuse the news source of being prejudiced against them.

Edwards and other Democratic politicians are accustomed to the friendly confines of pro-liberal news organizations such as CNN and MSNBC and, to a lesser degree, CBS and NBC.

ABC Evening News with Charles Gibson has the least liberal bias of the commercial networks. Is that why Gibson has surpassed, and continues to pull ahead of, Katie Couric and Brian Williams?

Democrats have been accustomed to being coddled by the media so much over the years they bristle at the thought of a moderate news organization asking them hard questions.

It is interesting that the moderate Fox News has more viewers than all of the other cable news networks combined as shown here.

The Nevada story is here.

Lying about the Libby case

A Scripps News article here says:

Lewis "Scooter" Libby stands convicted of telling lies to the FBI and a grand jury, whereas happy-faced, opportunistic Democratic leaders and the man who started this whole, awful charade, Joseph Wilson, are merely telling lies to the public.

Unlike the former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, of course, they won't be found guilty of a felony or face the possibility of years in prison, but they should pay a penalty for their misstatements, something on the order of a total loss of credibility and widespread disgust.

It won't happen, I am afraid, because it's been a complicated, slowly evolving case that the left has assiduously misconstrued. When Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid says it's "about time someone in the Bush administration has been held accountable for the campaign to manipulate intelligence and discredit war critics," echoing statements by other Democrats, many citizens will likely think he's merely saying the obvious.

In fact, the statement illustrates that Reid either doesn't have an honest bone in his body or is so utterly incompetent that he failed to grasp two things: what went on in court and a 2004 bipartisan report by the Senate intelligence committee. It showed conclusively that it wasn't the Bush administration doing the manipulating in this case. It was Wilson.

You won’t find this story in the New York Times and you won’t find it on CNN.

The liberal media doesn’t want us to learn that this case was as full of holes as Swiss cheese.

Compare this to the Sandy Berger case as reported here.

Will Rogers had it right

Will Rogers said the problem with political jokes is they often get elected.