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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004The Founding Fathers must be rolling over in their graves right now…
Lieberman for Secretary of Homeland Security?
Sunday, November 21st, 2004It’s a scenario that runs from Washington, D.C., to Danbury City Hall. From the Department of Homeland Security to the Connecticut state Senate.
It has local Republicans buzzing, e-mails flying and lukewarm denials rolling off the tongues of intrigued politicians.
And it’s too good not to share.
It goes something like this:
Connecticut Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman, a Democrat, could be named secretary of the Department of the Homeland Security, a department he helped to create.
We can write off the idea as merely political gossip, but the idea is still worthy of discussion. There would be many pros and cons to Lieberman taking that post. Whether the pros outweigh the cons, I’m not sure. Some advantages are obvious. Bush would appear to be “reaching across the aisle” – but Democrats have virtually written off Lieberman anyway, since he supported the war in Iraq. Yet, Lieberman heading Homeland Security would put the Democratic party in a position to artificially place their fingerprints on homeland security successes, and just as easily wipe them off at homeland security failures. With Republicans having an advantage on issues like homeland security and terrorism, is giving Democrats an opportunity to adopt this issue as their own a risk worth taking?
An immediate opportunity this hypothetical appointment offers is the vacancy of Lieberman’s seat in the Senate. Whether or not a Republican is electable in Connecticut to the US Senate is questionable… while the state has elected Republican governors in the past, with the scandal that erupted that surrounded Republican Governor John Rowland’s causing him to resign, Connecticut voters might be less likely to vote for a Republican to fill the vacancy left by Lieberman.
That being said, my instinct still tells me this is merely a rumor and nothing more.
Frist: Filibusters Must End
Friday, November 12th, 2004Hopefully, this is a sign that the Senate GOP is going to do more to stand up to Senate Democrats who have been obstructing the process of giving judicial nominees and up or down vote.\:
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who has long favored a change in Senate rules, said on Thursday “one way or another” procedural roadblocks against federal judicial nominees must end.
Frist noted that Senate Democrats have already used so-called filibusters to deny confirmation votes on 10 of President Bush’s appeals court nominees.
“The Senate cannot allow the filibuster of circuit court nominees to continue,” Frist said in a speech for delivery to The Federalist Society, a conservative group.
“Nor can we allow the filibuster to extend to potential Supreme Court nominees,” the Tennessee Republican said.
“One way or another,” Frist said, “the filibuster of judicial nominees must end.”
Let’s hope the Senate GOP is serious this time.
Arafat Dead
Thursday, November 4th, 2004According to the Turkish Press…
Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat died Thursday in a hospital in France, Israeli private television and military radio reported.
The 75-year-old had been treated at a military hospital on the outskirts of Paris since being flown out of his West Bank headquarters on Friday.
Doctors in Paris had earlier said that Arafat was in a coma while his top advisor had said that he was in a critical condition.
Saddam & The U.N.’s Oil-for-Money-for Al Qaeda Program
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2004Interestingly enough, I missed this story, but during my never-ending quest to finish adding blogs to the Blogroll for Bush (yes, more and more requests are coming in daily) I came across a blog that did find the story, which suggests that Saddam was helping to fund Al Qaeda with UN Oil-for-Food program money.
Did Saddam Hussein use any of his ill-gotten billions filched from the United Nations Oil-for-Food program to help fund Al Qaeda?
Investigations have shown that the former Iraqi dictator grafted and smuggled more than $10 billion from the program that for seven years prior to Saddam’s overthrow was meant to bring humanitarian aid to ordinary Iraqis. And the Sept. 11 Commission has shown a tracery of contacts between Saddam and Al Qaeda that continued after billions of Oil-for-Food dollars began pouring into Saddam’s coffers and Usama bin Laden declared his infamous war on the U.S.
Now, buried in some of the United Nation’s own confidential documents, clues can be seen that underscore the possibility of just such a Saddam-Al Qaeda link — clues leading to a locked door in this Swiss lakeside resort.
Fascinating stuff… I urge you to read the whole story… Why hasn’t this story gotten more attention?
Blogs Get Their TIME in the Spotlight
Monday, September 20th, 2004Would you believe that TIME Magazine has a story on blogs today?
Clearly, the explosion of the RatherGate scandal has generated new interest and attention towards bloggers, perhaps in a bigger way than the DNC and RNC credentialling bloggers this year.
“Blogs are what talk radio was a few years ago,” says Bush campaign
communications director Nicole Devenish. Her staff members regularly write, along with the message for the talk-radio circuit, the one that will go out to blogs and websites that link to the Bush campaign site. Bush staff members rely on technorati.com and truthlaidbear.com, which track political blogs and websites to see what items in local papers, on websites and in blogs are getting the most hits. “If a story moves up through the rankings and linking, we can know,” says one of the Bush staff members assigned to alert the rest of the team about which stories are moving through the blogosphere. “We get indicators about stories before they break elsewhere. It’s like an early-warning system.”
You must be a suscriber to read the whole story.
DNC To Attack Bush’s Guard Service
Sunday, September 12th, 2004Drudge is reporting that that the DNC is going to launch a fresh attack on Bush’s guard duty.
While this is not beneath the Democrats, I find this to be extraordinary hypocrisy of Terry McAuliffe, chairman of the DNC. I caught him on tape at the Republican National Convention after an appearance on the Hugh Hewitt Show (on August 31st) claiming that it is George W. Bush who "wants to talk about a war 35 years ago."
Well, it’s plainly obvious who really wants to make this election about Vietnam.
What The F**K?
Saturday, August 7th, 2004When 13 Democratic members of the U.S. Congress asked United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan to send election monitors to the U.S. this fall, the move outraged many Republicans and other proponents of national sovereignty.
When those same 13 Democratic members of Congress were turned down by Annan, they took their request to Secretary of State Colin Powell – again to the shock of many Republicans and those who warn about foreign entanglements.
This is bull sh*t.
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