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Saturday, February 21st, 2004Bush bitchslaps Senate Democrats by installing A.G. Pryor to the federal appeals court.
Post Traumatic Dean Disorder
Friday, February 20th, 2004Conservatives have been saying for months… Howard Dean is crazy… The Left has finally started to catch on…
“Worst president in history?” Far, Far From It!
Thursday, February 19th, 2004DeWaun at voice.in.my.head brought something to my attention the other day. A very interesting Letter to the Editor appeared in the local Durham, Nc paper that just captures the sheer hypocrisy of the Left and their continued quest to hinder George W. Bush’s efforts in fighting the war on terror:
Liberals claim President Bush shouldn’t have started this war. They complain about his prosecution of it. One liberal recently claimed Bush was the worst president in U.S. history.
Let’s clear up one point: We didn’t start the war on terror. Try to remember, it was started by terrorists on 9/11.
Let’s look at the “worst” president and mismanagement claims.
FDR led us into World War II. Germany never attacked us: Japan did. From 1941-1945, 450,000 lives were lost, an average of 112,500 per year.
Truman finished that war and started one in Korea, North Korea never attacked us. From 1950-1953, 55,000 lives were lost, an average of 18,333 per year.
John F. Kennedy started the Vietnam conflict in 1962. Vietnam never attacked us. Johnson turned Vietnam into a quagmire. From 1965-1975, 58,000 lives were lost, an average of 5,800 per year.
Clinton went to war in Bosnia without UN or French consent, Bosnia never attacked us. He was offered Osama bin Laden’s head on a platter three times by Sudan and did nothing. Osama has attacked us on multiple occasions.
In the two years since terrorists attacked us, President Bush has liberated two countries, crushed the Taliban, crippled al-Qaida, put nuclear inspectors in Lybia, Iran and North Korea without firing a shot, and captured a terrorist who slaughtered 300,000 of his own people. We lost 600 soldiers, an average of 30 a year. Bush did all this abroad while not allowing another terrorist attack at home.
Worst president in history? Come on!
Does Kerry Even Know What He’s Talking About Anymore?
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004A big “oops” by the John Kerry campaign went virtually unnoticed by the mainstream media this week while Kerry was in Wisconsin.
Sen. John Kerry’s campaign in Wisconsin’s Democratic presidential primary has dumped a firm it hired to make automated phone calls to voters after learning the calls were routed through Canada, a spokesman for the state campaign says.
“We just didn’t want any part of it,” Bill Burton said Tuesday.
Kerry dumped Sound Media Group, Inc., a firm based in Irvine, Calif., which originated the calls but sent them to Wisconsin through a Canadian switchboard, Burton said.
He said the company had only done one evening of calls for the Kerry campaign.
Yeah, before the campaign got caught.
Bill Burton said they won’t use them again. Sure, it could be a simple mistake – but don’t think for a minute John Kerry wouldn’t be all over Bush if the same thing was discovered about his campaign. We’d all be hearing the cookie-cutter speech from Kerry talking about how bad outsourcing is. Of course, Kerry’s position is a reflection of his lack of understanding of basic economics.
Kerry certainly knows what sounds bad on the surface, but that doesn’t make up for the fact that his positions on many issues, including economic issues, are uneducated.
James K Glassman, of Tech Central Station, addressed the issue of outsourcing last week, he said “Another word for outsourcing is “trade” — an endeavor, as economists learned early on, that benefits both parties to the exchange
While trade can cause pain to some workers, lack of trade causes far more. Imagine if software firms did not search the world for the best labor at the best price. Consumers would pay more, and shareholders would have less to reinvest, which would mean fewer jobs for Americans.
Or imagine if Japan retaliated by taking its plants home. With 13,000 workers, Honda is the largest private employer in central Ohio. As for India, outsourcing helps lift a nation out of poverty and creates markets for U.S. goods and services. According to a study by the McKinsey Global Institute, of the $1.45 of value created from offshoring $1of U.S. labor cost, “the U.S. captures $1.12,” the foreign country 33 cents.
Economists understand this, but, often the public sees only the pain. For that reason, opinion leaders have a responsibility to discuss trade in an adult way.
If John Kerry wants to take a position on an issue – that’s fine, but he might want to actually know what he’s talking about before he criticizes his opponents about it. Each time I hear Kerry open his mouth I believe less and less that he has a full understanding of what he is telling his supporters.
Bruce Bartlett recently wrote about outsourcing:
No nation has ever gotten rich by forcing its citizens to pay more for domestic goods and services that could have been procured more cheaply abroad. Nations get rich by concentrating on doing the things they do best and letting others produce those things they can produce better and more cheaply. It is called the specialization of labor, and it is the foundation for economic growth.
Kerry will be able to wash his hands of this Canadian automated phone calls business. It’s too bad we didn’t get to see him squirm over it more.
Nah Nah Nah-Nah, Nah Nah Nah-Nah, Hey Hey Hey, GOODBYE!
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004Well, looks like Howard Dean has decided to end his bid for the presidency:
Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean planned to announce Wednesday that he was abandoning his bid for the presidency, a day after he lagged far behind in yet another state primary.
Democratic Party sources revealed Dean’s withdrawal from the race, Fox News has confirmed. The former Vermont governor planned to announce the news at a 1 p.m. EST press conference in Burlington, Vt.
The party officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Fox News that the former governor is not shutting down his campaign, but instead ending his formal candidacy for president of the United States.
Howard, it’s been a blast. It’s been great making fun of you, mocking you and exposing you for the worthless liberal slime that you are. You aimed higher than you were capable of achieving. You had too much faith your “grassroots” campaign. You might have had the cash, but you didn’t have the votes. You might have had the organization, but you didn’t have the votes. You might have had the publicity, but you didn’t have the votes. You might have been leading in the polls, but you didn’t have the votes.
Deaniacs thought I was crazy when I said Dean was in a downward spiral. They completely denied it. Well, look who’s laughing now…
I wish Dean still had a chance at the nomination. I would have very much loved to see him lose hard against Bush in November.
Perhaps the Democrats will learn it takes more than being angry Bush hater who decided to be against the war in Iraq to be presidential material.
As I’ve been saying all along, the voters would send Howard Dean back to Vermont. It’s Howard Dean’s fault they sent him back so soon.
It’s Wictory Wednesday
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004If you have any doubt that the lying liberal media will do everything they can to defeat President Bush, you only have to look at their handling of the Democrats’ vicious AWOL slander against the president. The lying liberal media dragged the story out for days and, even now, refuses to believe the president. That’s just a preview of what will be the nastiest presidential campaign ever. And the elites will all be arrayed against the forces of conservatism.
But that doesn’t mean we’re going to lose. You have the power to affect how people vote. Every small contribution of time or money that you make can swing a few votes. Together, we can make the difference in states like Florida.
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Bush: “My Resolve Is The Same …”
Wednesday, February 18th, 2004What’s the key difference between Bush and the Democrats?
Bush actually cares about fighting the war on terror.
Today, while visiting troops at Fort Polk, Bush said:
“The enemy will be defeated. My resolve is the same as it was on the day when I walked in the rubble of the twin towers.. I will not relent until this threat to America is removed.”
I don’t know what the Democrats care about anymore except winning elections… which, I will say, they are not getting any better at.
Kerry Is Really Shoveling It
Tuesday, February 17th, 2004Kerry, who’s recently whined about his record being attacked by the Bush campaign, has now come out and attacked Bush for his attendance as the Daytona 500 on Sunday…
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