Archive for July 2007
Democrats Seizing Opportunity To Bash Roberts
Please keep Chief Justice John Roberts in your prayers. Roberts fell while having a seizure at his home in Maine. I can see Sen Chuck Schumer licking his lips while rubbing his hands already.
What a whining weenie. They don’t know their elbows from their ankles and both Justices Alito and Roberts were so brilliant, the Democrats could not find a way to argue about their appointments.
Schumer’s address covered his views on the confirmation processes for Alito and Chief Justice John Roberts. Conservatives have hailed Roberts and Alito for their rulings and generally have said that their confirmations may prove to be the single lasting legacy of President Bush’s second term.
But Schumer and liberals were alarmed by many of the 5-4 rulings that went against their interests, as well as the strong denunciations of the right wing of the court by the elderly liberal wing in its dissents. The Roberts court overturned previous rulings on partial birth abortion and campaign finance reform.
That’s what the American public wanted.
Here’s what Schumer said of his own failings:
“Every day, I am pained that I didn’t do more to try to block Justice Alito. Every two years, I look back and take stock of my greatest failings and regrets in the past Congress. Without question, my greatest regret in the 109th Congress was not doing more to block Alito. Alito shouldn’t have been confirmed. I should have done a better job; my colleagues said we didn’t have the votes, but I think we should have twisted more arms and done more.”
Sour grapes. More whining.
There was an effort to filibuster the Alito nomination, led by Sens. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) and John Kerry (D-Mass.), but it did not have the vocal public support of Sen. Harry Reid (D-Nev.), then the minority leader, or Schumer or other members of Democratic leadership. While Reid, Schumer and all four Senate Democrats currently running for president voted to sustain a filibuster, they did little to actively support the idea and sometimes even mocked the effort. Only 25 senators voted to sustain the filibuster, and the next day Alito was confirmed to the seat on a 58-42 vote.
They did everything they could to secure a “no” vote by Democrats. Schumer and Reid couldn’t do it.
Schumer is an unusually strong willed senator. Such a mea culpa doesn’t come out of senators’ mouths very often, and almost never from Schumer.
You can tell how liberal the Washington Post. I’m gagging here.
It’s unclear when the next vacancy will arise on the court, and, if no health concerns come up, next summer is the earliest such a retirement could come. It’s doubtful any liberal justice would retire with Bush still president and the possibility of a Democratic president replacing him or her in 2009, but again, health issues could create a vacancy.
Schumer now believes, looking back on Alito and Roberts, that no nominee of Bush’s will get confirmed by the Democratically controlled Senate: “We should reverse the presumption of confirmation. The Supreme Court is dangerously out of balance. We cannot afford to see Justice Stevens replaced by another Roberts; or Justice Ginsburg by another Alito. Given the track record of this President and the experience of obfuscation at the hearings, with respect to the Supreme Court, at least: I will recommend to my colleagues that we should not confirm a Supreme Court nominee EXCEPT in extraordinary circumstances.”
The Supreme Court is finally upholding the laws of this country, not making new laws to suit the ACLU and the left wing extremists. Americans do not want activist judges. They want laws enforced and criminals prosecuted.
Our prayers and thoughts are with Chief Justice John Roberts and his family.
Better Science, More Hurricanes, Not Global Warming
A study showing that the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf is experiencing more than double the tropical storms every year is being touted as the result of global warming over the last hundred years.
Could the more likely answer really be better equipment at tracking these storms from their beginning to fizzle because of satellites?
Our Worst Ex-President
That the title says “Ex-President” gives you a clue it’s not George W. Bush.
MIke Huckabee Would Make A Great President
I just wish former Governor Mike Huckabee, had more money and have more following to be President in the 2008 election. A grassroots effort to get this man who is a decent, conservative, without a lot of shock and awe temperment, but knows what the issues are, should be encouraged.
Mike Huckabee would make a good President.
If you don’t know what each person stands for, what their record truly is, and what their policies are, please don’t vote in the election.
Meet The Press Talks About Democrats’ Failures
Insight of the day from Meet The Press:
Andrea Mitchell, NBC: “…The latest polling does show that the Democrats in the House and Senate are so held in disregard, that there was a poll the other day, that said for that the first time that 71% of those questioned didn’t like their local congressman. That even when Congress was notoriously unpopular, you always liked your local Congressman. There’s something going here, and that this Congress that came in November ’06, has already lost so much support. People are really fed up.”
Dan Balz, Washington Post: “I feel that a lot of that has to do with Iraq and the failure of this Congress to change the President’s policy. Not easy to do obviously, but people believed that they voted for a Democratic Congress, that would bring change. It hasn’t happened.”
What do you expect Dan, when the Democrats have been more alarmed about red-herring partisan investigations and attacking President Bush, than doing something about what really needs to be done?
Here’s what voters want:
- Stop illegal immigration
- Win the war in Iraq
- Health Care/Insurance reform
That’s what real America wants.
Is Fred Thompson The Right’s Republican?
My first choice would be Newt Gingrich, despite his personal life decisons, Gingrich is a conservative. He understands politics, the enemy and the American public. But Newt may not run and I’ve been inundated with emails that Fred Thompson is the person to beat Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Presidential Election. I’ve had reservations, a gut feeling, and I haven’t really been able to put full support behind him.
Debbie Schussel’s column today has given me more proof that my hesitancy in supporting Thompson is legitimate.
He hasn’t entered the Presidential race yet, but Fred Thompson, yesterday, showed us why he’s the scariest Republican Presidential candidate. And maybe the scariest of both parties.
Don’t believe Thompson’s claim that he understands the Islamist jihadist threat to America. His announcement, yesterday, of his choice of Spencer Abraham as campaign manager, told us everything we need to know. Although Abraham, of Lebanese descent, is a Christian, he is a career water carrier for Islamists of the most extremist stripe and made that the cornerstone of his failed, one-term Senate career and equally lousy tenure as Energy Secretary.
As a conservative–but more important, as an American concerned about the future of this country in the face of a terrorist threat–Thompson’s choice of Spencer Abraham was the final nail in the coffin for me in opposing Fred Thompson’s quest for the White House.
Read Debbie Schussel, America’s leading expert and blogger on US-residing Islam/Islamists reasoning that Fred Thompson shouldn’t be the next President of the United States.
I agree with her.
Who Says Muslims Need 72 Virgins?
Muslim Doctor’s Hypocratic Oath
Schussel’s Skookum Review Of Sicko
KFC Is Huge With Black Community
H/T to Laffs.
Memorial Service With Love And Pain
The memorial service was held for Jennifer Hawke-Petit and two daughters, Hayley, and Michaela Petit yesterday at Central Connecticut State University’s auditorium in New Britain. The auditorium was filled to capacity with the throngs of mourners watching video screens in other parts of the school.
Petit’s home life was that of a man pleasantly outnumbered by women. On Monday, that home was destroyed in every sense. Steven Hayes, 44, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 26, are charged with breaking into the home and beating Petit with a baseball bat.
They are accused of raping Jennifer Hawke-Petit and at least one of their daughters, strangling the mother and lighting the Sorghum Mill Drive house on fire. They left the girls to perish upstairs, one still tied to her bed while Petit – having been tied up in the cellar – managed to make it up the stairs and escape through the flames.
But this wasn’t the day for bodies. The graves were filled Friday. This day was for memories, hanging as heavy in the air of the auditorium as the charcoal clouds outside. People came from everywhere, from all over the country. Family and friends came, but so did strangers. As a spokeswoman for the family, Audrey Honig Geragosian, said, “People feel bad and want to do something. We gave them a place to be.”
Saturday’s service started with the eloquence of a pastor used to speaking of loss and rebirth. The morning sun on Monday was darkened by smoke, the Rev. Richard Hawke said: “Three precious persons had lost their lives.”
This topic wasn’t a distant one for Hawke. He is Jennifer Hawke-Petit’s father, and she smiled from an enlarged photo over his left shoulder. “The earth was shaken, and darkness spread across the country.” But to the upturned faces of the crowd – many of the faces shiny with tears – he insisted on a celebration of the lives.
The murderers were convicted felons with extensive records. If Connecticut had a “Three Strikes You’re Out” law like Florida or California, this family would be alive. If this family believed in having and knowing how to use firearms, they may still be alive.
That they even need a trial to convict them to receive the death penalty is a waste of tax dollars and time. These men are guilty. This is why we have rising crime in our country.
The state attorney is being politically correct and unflammatory (pun intended).
New Haven State’s Attorney Michael Dearington, whose office is handling the
case, said Wednesday that he needs more time to review evidence before deciding
whether to pursue charges that could bring the death penalty for the two suspects.“I know the public consensus is they should be fried tomorrow,” he said.
Robert Farr, chairman of the Connecticut Board of Pardons and Parole, said neither suspect had a history of violent crimes when they were granted supervised parole this past spring.
While both men have long criminal records, Farr said there was nothing to show that they were capable of such violent crimes. They committed property crimes, Garnett said.
“They were obviously individuals that had long and extensive records, but they weren’t violent records,” Farr said.
Life is too short for petty crap and even shorter to have to be surrounded with proliferating evil. It’s time to stop misintended superficial compassion and tolerance for society’s malefactors, global terrorists, hate-mongerers, bullies, and mean-spirited people.
Your family’s life may depend on it.
Note: It has been cited over and over again by law enforcement experts in news interviews, that if they had gotten to the Petit home sooner, they would have been able to save them. Police advise keeping 911 in your speed dial and even if you can’t say anything, if the number is pushed, the police will follow up on the call to make sure you’re safe.
Freed Gitmo Club Prisoners Return To Jihad
Courtesy of Democrats, liberals and anti-military organizations up in arms (pun intended) over supposed abusive conditions at Club Gitmo, 31 freed Muslim prisoners of war have been recaptured after their release from Guantanamo to kill more of our troops.
At least 30 former Guantanamo Bay detainees have been killed or recaptured after taking up arms against allied forces following their release.
They have been discovered mostly in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but not in Iraq, a US Defence Department spokesman told The Age yesterday.
Commander Jeffrey Gordon said the detainees had, while in custody, falsely claimed to be farmers, truck drivers, cooks, small-arms merchants, low-level combatants or had offered other false explanations for being in Afghanistan.
“We are aware of dozens of cases where they have returned to militant activities, participated in anti-US propaganda or engaged in other activities,” said Commander Gordon.
His comments follow the death this week of Taliban commander and former detainee Abdullah Mehsud, who reportedly blew himself up rather than surrender to Pakistani forces. In December 2001, Mehsud was captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay until his release in March 2004. He later became the Taliban chief for South Waziristan.
Commander Gordon said the US did not make it a practice to track detainees after their release, but it had become aware through intelligence gathering and media reports of many cases of released detainees returning to combat.
“These former detainees successfully lied to US officials, sometimes for over three years,” he said. “Common cover stories include going to Afghanistan to buy medicines, to teach the Koran or to find a wife. Many of these stories appear so often, and are subsequently proven false, that we can only conclude that they are part of their terrorist training.”
An analysis of 516 Guantanamo detainees found that while there was no evidence linking six of them to terrorist activities, 95 per cent were a potential threat to US interests. This was based on their affiliations with groups such as al-Qaeda, their enthusiasm for violent jihad, their having undertaken small-arms training or having been willing to perform a support role for terrorism.
But only one in three could be definitely identified as a fighter for the Taliban, al-Qaeda or associated groups, according to the analysis by the Combating Terrorism Centre based at the West Point Military Academy.
Most were considered a greater than potential risk due to support they had shown the Islamist cause by fighting for Islamist forces or by undertaking advanced military training, including bomb-making.
Thank you,Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., Rep. David Obey, D-Wis.,Rep. John Murtha, D – PA.,Sens. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and Tom Harkin, D-Iowa for putting our military in harms way and making this war last longer than it should have. Don’t blame President Bush for the insurgency, the United States is not the bad guy. You have nobody to blame but yourselves, the Democrats have succeeded in making this war a major SNAFU.
KISS Manages With Trois
For the first time in KISS history, Paul Stanley did not play center stage with Gene Simmons, Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. The 55-year old Stanley, KISS’s lead singer and guitarist was taken to hospital with heart troubles. No word on how he is doing but I’m sure the doctors won’t be letting Stanley rock and roll all night for a while.
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