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Monday, January 31st, 2005In the minutes following the new of Hillary collapsing, ODub goes over to FreeRepublic to gauge their reaction, and cherrypicks quotes to suit his stereotype.
I’m not going to defend the quotes he selected to put on his site, but I’ll just show you he decided to ignore completely:
“Offering prayers”
“Wish her the best in regards to her health…”
“OMG Prayers for her!”
“I hope she is alright and wish her a speedy recovery.”
“Let’s be gracious and generous and send best wishes for her recovery.”
“All politics aside, I wish her well.”
That’s just a few within the first 100 comments…
Do Liberals Ever Focus on The Point?
Sunday, January 30th, 2005As pathetic as it is that liberal bloggers didn’t have anything else to talk about besides Vice President Dick Cheney’s attire at Auschwitz, another dumb liberal blogger criticized my defense of Cheney… and was so completely off the point I have to wonder if he even read my blog entry… This blogger seems to think my beef was the actual use of a photo to criticize someone. In a blog entry titled “It’s almost as if they’re too stupid to realize their blog has a search button,” August J. Pollak writes,
Blogs for Bush is pretending to be outraged at Oliver, Kos, etc. for pointing out how ridiculous (and damaging) Dick Cheney’s decision to whip out his 9/11 Tourist of Death costume was.
For the record, I was not pretending. Nevertheless, the moron goes through the process of sifting through Blogs For Bush (B4B) locating blog entries that include photos—as if that somehow means something:
Which, I guess, makes sense, as pointing out a photo of someone is just juvenile.
We post photos all the time… Is he that stupid he needs to use the search button to figure that out?
Okay, so it’s just the responses from their commentors. They can’t be held responsible. I mean, the actual site owners wouldn’t post a picture and talk about how badly it affects a candidate.
Of course we do. And when it’s funny, we post it under the ‘Humor’ category. Again, I never suggested I had a problem with a liberal blogger posting a photo.
And they would certainly never link to other blogs that did the same.
This guy clearly wasted his time trying to prove that we use photos at B4B… I could have told him that and saved him the time and effort.
In fact, the entire “let’s make fun of ridculous photos” thing is totally beneath them.
It’s amazing isn’t it? We used a photo for caption contest… Wow…
Why this guy obsessed over B4B’s use of photos and completely avoided address the defense of Cheney’s attire is beyond me. This idiot blogger wasted all that time searching for posts on B4B that contained photos, instead of addressing the real issue. If morons like ODub and Kos want to post photos and criticize what’s depicted in them then good for them… we all do it.
They’re so pathetic.
Hey Boxer, Learn To Read
Tuesday, January 18th, 2005Senator Barbara Boxer, today, during Condi Rice’s confirmation hearing:
SEN. BOXER: Well, you should read what we voted on when we voted to support the war, which I did not, but most of my colleagues did. It was WMD, period. That was the reason and the causation for that, you know, particular vote.
What does the resolution supporting the use of force in Iraq actually say? A much larger case was made than just “WMD, period.”
Senator Boxer should go read what she voted on.
Barbara Boxer Signs Democrats’ Death Warrant
Thursday, January 6th, 2005I have to say I’m shocked she actually decided to do it…
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., signed a challenge mounted by House Democrats to Ohio’s 20 electoral votes, which put Bush over the top. By law, a protest signed by members of the House and Senate requires both chambers to meet separately for up to two hours to consider it. Lawmakers are allowed to speak for no more than five minutes each.
“I have concluded that objecting to the electoral votes from Ohio is the only immediate way to bring these issues to light by allowing you to have a two-hour debate to let the American people know the facts surrounding Ohio’s election,” Boxer wrote in a letter to Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones, D-Ohio, a leader of the Democratic effort.
“Baghdad Jim” McDermott Under Investigation
Tuesday, December 28th, 2004No, this isn’t for treasonous behavior, but it’s still not good news for the Seattle Democrat.
The House ethics committee will investigate Rep. Jim McDermott, D-Wash., to determine whether he violated standards of conduct when an illegally recorded telephone conversation was leaked to reporters during a committee investigation.
Committee Chairman Joel Hefley, R-Colo., and ranking Democrat Alan Mollohan of West Virginia formed a four-member investigative subcommittee Tuesday to investigate the 1997 incident. McDermott was ranking Democrat on the ethics committee at the time, and the panel was investigating the conduct of then-Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga.
Click here for a press statement from the Ethics Committee.
Pro-Abortion Groups Fear Bush’s Nominees
Friday, December 24th, 2004Andrea Yates and Susan Smith may be in jail, but the armies of women who consider themselves mainstream—but think it’s okay to kill unborn children—fight on, and they are angry as ever. Earlier today, Nancy Keenan, president of the pro-abortion group released a statement in response to President Bush’s renominating twenty for federal judgeships whom Senate Democrats denied an up-or-down vote. “”It looks like Jerry Fallwell got his Christmas wish list into the President on time,” Keenan said, “but even if he drops these nominations down the Senate’s chimney, there’s nothing he can do to make them any less out of the American mainstream. Why doesn’t the President understand that all anyone is asking for is judges who’ll respect personal freedom and privacy?”
The President of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Gloria Feldt, is another Scrooge this holiday season. “The holidays are supposed to be a time of peace and community,” she said, “Instead President Bush has decided to re-nominate judges who do not uphold our fundamental human and civil right to make our own childbearing choices.”
Both Keenan’s and Feldt’s sentiments are morally equivalent to saying slavery should be legal because Americans have right to own property.
It’s very sad that the Pro-Abortion Gestapo have to demonize people who are so “out of the mainstream” to believe that all life is valuable and precious.
From Ohio To Washington… And Back Again
Thursday, December 23rd, 2004Bush’s margin of victory over Kerry in Ohio was approximately 119,000 votes.
Gregoire’s alleged margin of victory over Rossi in Washington is 8 votes. 129 votes*
Why does this matter? What’s the big picture? It matters because both elections resulted in recounts. The former was funded partly by third party candidates, and the Kerry campaign – the differences in the results were negligible. The latter race initially resulted in a 261 vote victory for Rossi. This triggered an automatic recount, which Rossi won again by 41 votes.
In Ohio, allegations of tampering with voting machines were found to be baseless. In Washington, over 700 ballots magically appeared from Democratic stronghold King County during the manual recount. Suspicious to any objective observer.
The reactions of liberals to both these elections has been very similar: Just keep recounting and hope the results change. Alledge this and claim that… In Ohio, Bush’s victory was well outside what I call the “margin of fraud,” but in Washington, the margin of victory for either candidate was easily susceptible to shady practices that could alter the income. Within the margin of fraud.
However, the moment Gregoire was declared—by Democrats—to be the winner by a mere 8 votes, Rossi was called on to concede and liberals across the country and the blogosphere were ecstatic.
To them, a 8 vote victory by a Democrat is more definitive than a 119,000 vote victory by a Republican—and not just any Republican, but George W. Bush.
The Democratic Underground community began celebrating, suggesting that Rossi “concede and get over it.” They also found plenty of ways to champion the 8 vote Gregoire “victory.” Rossi’s initial victory was 33 times larger, and after the first recount 5 times larger…after which Gregoire did not concede.
How many licks does it take to get to the Tootsie Roll center of a Tootsie Pop? How many recounts does it take before you can find enough votes for the Democrat to win?
Recounts in Ohio have had little impact on the results, no tampering was involved, and the vote was certified, yet they still hold out hope that somehow Kerry may have won in despite nearly the 119,000 more votes cast for Bush than Kerry in the state. Eight votes (based on Democrats’ number crunching) in Washington, however, is a done deal?
How long will they contest Ohio and watch the result remain static and their conspiracy theories debunked before they “concede and get over it?”
Liberals cannot claim a definitive victory in Washington without conceding Ohio first. If Kerry can concede, so can they. Instead, they act as if the definition of democracy is the victory of their candidate and their candidate only.
But, democracy is not limited to the victory of their preferred candidates, and they have to learn that sooner than later. Battles are won and lost and crying foul every time you lose does not make you a concerned citizen, but rather a sore loser.
No matter what happens in Washington, the Democrats are the sore losers.
* - The 8 vote margin refers to the first result of the manual recount as reported yesterday. Subsequent reports indiciate the final margin was 10 votes. — then 129 after the the found ballots were included
The End of Power For Iowa and New Hampshire?
Sunday, December 19th, 2004Democratic activist and potential DNC Chairman candidate Simon Rosenberg is speaking out against the tremendous influence Iowa and New Hampshire have in the in the presidential primaries. “Iowa and New Hampshire should not go first in the primary calendar, and we need to create a system that allows other states to have equal footing,” he said. “I have no problem with Iowa and New Hampshire being part of the early states, but their days as the sole arbiters of who our nominee is should come to an end.”
Rosenberg came too late for Howard Dean, who likely would have become the Democratic Party’s nominee had it not been for Iowa and New Hampshire. How serious is this idea? Apparently very serious. A week ago, the DNC formed a 40-member panel “to study whether to shake up the dominance that Iowa and New Hampshire hold in presidential nominations.”
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