Democrats stall, lose traction. Traction? A full week has gone by since Rep. William Jefferson (D-La) was indicted for bribery and racketeering charges and the majority, democrats, can not agree on how to do its own ethics investigation of Jefferson, parallel but not connected to the criminal investigation. Moving with all the deliberate speed of the United Nations, they are busy revamping ethics enforcement.
This investigation isn’t going to happen anytime soon. A week goes by and no action on Jefferson. Following the Bush lead I guess, Speaker Nancy Pelosi is not being moved by an individual case like Jefferson’s. She’s going for the big picture. She’s going for a comprehensive ethics reform plan. Without pressure from the media, it could take years (stall) before they might get around to even opening an investigation.  The criminal process may take care of it for them.
Troubling news for democrats wanting to run for president of the United States. These war on terror deniers should speak to Rep. Jane Harman (D-Ca) about what’s going on in Northern Africa. The govern-less area is ripe with terrorists wanting to set up another training camp and territory to call their own.
They call it . . .
an increasingly dangerous incubator for extremism: a swath of northern and sub-Saharan West Africa, from the Atlantic coast of Morocco and Mauritania to the harsh deserts of Chad.
Then again, if the MSM ignores this little factoid, then chances are the candidates will never have to answer a question like, ‘all those who believe that the war on terror is real raise your hands.’
Alabama Senator Jeff Sessions (R) released a list today of 20 loopholes in the current immigration bill. Watch how little attention this gets in the MSM. But first, check out Session’s press release where he lists the 20 loopholes.
Then get on the phone or email your representatives. Never mind that you may have already done that. Do it again.
I don’t know how my senator, Mel Martinez, can possibly say with a straight face that this immigration bill will amount to a net increase of $70 billion over 10 years. Martinez says . . .
For those concerned about the fiscal impact associated with border security and immigration reform, the Congressional Budget Office reported on May 23rd that the solution we have drafted “would result in a net increase in revenues of $70 billion to $75billion over the 2008-2017 period.”
Bruce Kesler at the Democracy Project has the latest CBO numbers on the fiscal impact of this legislation if passed as proposed. It goes into the tens of billions per year in the red, not surplus as Sen. Martinez, who is also the Chairman of the Republican Party, claims. What’s wrong with this picture?
A republican democrat (what?) just won a third term as Mayor in a city rife with illegal immigrants. Contrary to the McCain, Kennedy, and Martinez crews’ assertions, these American people put America first. Read how a republican won re-election with democrats voting for him as a write-in. He got over 90% of the vote which obviously includes democratic voters. Now there’s bi-partisan support. Someone please tell Sen. Kennedy.
The Hazleton, Pa., mayor who launched a war on the impact of illegal aliens in his city was warned that his future political career would be “haunted” by the decision, but now Louis J. Barletta has won not only the GOP nomination for mayor, which he was seeking, but the Democratic nomination by virtue of 1,200 write-in votes.
There isn’t a bigger, more blatant example of the disconnect between what the politicians and the media think the people want and what the people actually feel about illegal immigration. The Hazleton election is a ‘poll’ no one can dispute. And the only one that counts.
Rep. William Jefferson (D-La) was indicted today by a federal grand jury in a longstanding FBI corruption probe centering on allegations that he took bribes to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa. Now that that threshold has passed, it will be instructive to see what the reaction of his party will be. Will he be expelled or will they circle the wagons and go to court with him?
Will he be removed from Congress? Speaker Pelosi did promise and end to corruption.
That’s what Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says. Let’s see if the mainstream media can pull itself away from naming a NYC street after a guy who ‘hates white people’ long enough to tell you about another madman who hates Jews.
“With God’s help, the countdown button for the destruction of the Zionist regime has been pushed by the hands of the children of Lebanon and Palestine,” Ahmadinejad said in a speech.
related from October 27, 2005: Annan: ‘Dismay’ over Iranian Comments on Israel
We now see the results that ‘Dismay’ gets when it comes to Iran. That’s almost as powerful a weapon as being ‘really really upset’ about it. Then there’s ‘extremely concerned.’ The Useless Nations’ Kofi Annan, the statesman, peacemaker, and, Godfather to corrupt regimes everywhere. Nearly two years later and the problem has only gotten worse and the UN has demonstrated its usual incompetence.
It only makes sense that Sen. Clinton has to have a ‘makeover‘ to show her (mid-western) roots. I hearken back to her first Senate race in New York when she found out she was Jewish, and a New York Yankees fan. Chameleons don’t do makeovers.
[T]the Clinton campaign has embarked on an ambitious effort to present the candidate the way they want her to be seen: as a pragmatic Midwesterner with a compelling life story
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The challenge is more than just getting voters to connect to Clinton: She has extremely high negative ratings to try to counteract.
It’s what happens when you have a candidate that supplants polls for principles.
Apparently not happy with his 5 prayer sessions a day, a prayer rug, and three square religious dietary meals a day, and ocean view, a detainee who hails from Saudi Arabia committed suicide. First early check-out from Club Gitmo.
Saudi Arabian detainee died Wednesday at Guantanamo Bay prison (appropriately named Club Gitmo by Rush Limbaugh) and the U.S. military said he apparently committed suicide. Critics of the detention center said the death showed the level of desperation among prisoners.
The bleeding heart critics have forgotten the level of evil among that bunch of human debris. Watch for the hysteria in the media, and the democrats, to close down Club Gitmo. I think it’s doing just fine, both it and its guests need to stay there, until they’re either adjudicated by the military tribunal to be innocent or until such time that the war is over. They can expect to be there for a couple of decades, if not generations. And that’s just the way it should be.
Socialists and communists everywhere can’t deal with freedom. Especially freedom of the press. As evidenced by the hemisphere’s idiot, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (dba Citgo in America), closes down the only remaining television station that offered the ‘other side’ of the story. No fair and balanced down there.
I guess hosting political debates is out of the question there too.
Belly up to the counter. Politics are on the menu and Ross is on the grill.
immigrants. Contrary to the McCain, Kennedy, and Martinez crews’ assertions, these American people put America first. Read how a republican won re-election with democrats voting for him as a write-in. He got over 90% of the vote which obviously includes democratic voters. Now there’s bi-partisan support. Someone please tell Sen. Kennedy.
corruption probe centering on allegations that he took bribes to promote high-tech business ventures in Africa. Now that that 
evidenced by the hemisphere’s idiot, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez (dba