Category Archives: Politics

What ‘Cut And Run’ Is

Who’s fighting a war, and who isn’t?  The ’06 campaign was all about the difference between winning in Iraq and leaving before winning.  The Right was chastised for calling the Left’s position in Iraq as cut and run.  It was unfair because that is not what it was, they said.  Matter of fact, even through the election we still didn’t know what their position was.  But now we know.  Its cut and run.

“Our troops and the American people have already sacrificed a great deal for the future of Iraq,” the letter from Reid and Pelosi said.

 “After nearly four years of combat, tens of thousands of U.S. casualties, and over $300 billion dollars, it is time to bring the war to a close.”

A more clear example cannot be made, that the democrat party does not get in the slightest that the Iraq war is but a front in the war on terror, than their own words.

Be on the lookout for a MSM headline, ‘They do want to cut and run.’  Just don’t hold your breath.

Corrupt Educators, A Camden Tradition

You may remember in June 2006 that the Camden School District was under investigation for cheating on tests that measure their performance, or rather, the performance of their students. Now, come to find out, corruption in the Camden school district has been going on since the 1980’s.

And again, when the kids are the big losers in the administration’s quest for ? the perfectly educated child, it really exposes the very basic of reasons to support a school voucher system. Administrators like those in Camden, New Jersey have not been interested in educating their kids and it shows in the kids they ‘process.’

Philadelphia Inquirer link

Dem Control Of Senate Tentative

Of course, we all wish Senator Tim Johnson (D) of South Dakota well, and hope that he recovers well from the apparent stroke he suffered today.  But if for whatever reason Sen. Johnson decides to retire his seat, chances are that Gov. Mike Rounds (R) will appoint a republican as his replacement, which if he would, would make the balance 50/50 with VP Cheney making the 51 majority.  And I don’t even want to think about what the democrats (and the media) would do if that were to actually happen.

WP: Sen. Tim Johnson Suffers Possible Stroke

New Democrat Caucus?

Twenty-five years after Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner was killed in the line of duty by ‘former’ Black Panther Mumia Abu-Jamal, the case is still on appeal.  Various communist groups have maintained Jamal’s innocence, despite his guilty conviction and death sentence.  They recently got active in France too in the killer’s behalf.  Paris made him an honorary citizen, and a slum named St. Denis in April 2006 named a street after him.  So in response to these events, one of those non-binding resolutions was put forth by Pennsylvania politicians to voice their displeasure with the actions taken by French authorities.  The measure passed 368-31, with 8 members voting “present.”  

Pardon me for noticing that it wasn’t a unanimous vote in favor.  What does it say when all 31 who voted against the resolution, and all 8 who voted ‘present’ were democrats?  Have cop killers, communists, socialists, and the French become a new special interest for these democrats?

Neil Abercrombie (Hawaii) Carolyn Kilpatrick (Mich.)  Robert Scott (Va.)
William Clay (Mo.) Barbara Lee (Calif.) Jose Serrano (N.Y.)
Emanuel Cleaver (Mo.) Cynthia McKinney (Ga.) Fortney Hillman Stark Jr. (Calif.)
John Conyers (Mich.) Gregory Meeks (N.Y.) Edolphus Towns (N.Y.)
Jim Cooper (Tenn.) Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.) Tom Udall (N.M.)
Danny Davis (Ill.) James Oberstar (Minn.) Nydia Velazquez (N.Y.)
Raul Grijalva (Ariz.) Major Owens (N.Y.) Maxine Waters (Calif.)
Maurice Hinchey (N.Y.) Ed Pastor (Ariz.) Anthony Weiner (N.Y.)
Mike Honda (Calif.) Donald Payne (N.J.) Lynn Woolsey (Calif.)
Jesse Jackson Jr. (Ill.) Charles Rangel (N.Y.)
Eddie Bernice Johnson (Texas)  Bobby Rush (Ill.)

Looks like a Cop Killers Caucus to me too.  James Taranto makes an astute observation.

The most disturbing name on the “no” list is that of John Conyers. Granted, this is only a symbolic vote, but is it really a good idea to entrust the chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee to a man who casts a symbolic vote for a cop-killer and against his victim?

Rep. William Jefferson (D-La) Gets Pass

He gets a total pass involving the bribery investigation that he has been involved in. In that regard, an FBI raid in his New Orleans and Washington D.C. homes discovered $90,000 in cold cash, packed, wrapped, and in his freezer. The cash was marked as the bribe money. Rep. William Jefferson, aka 'Dollar Bill' JeffersonBut the news today is not about that, its about his political future in a runoff election.

How much of this pass is due to his political party affiliation, and how much is due to his race? Or maybe he is being treated as innocent until proven guilty? Same question, how much of that is due to political party, and how much due to race. 50/50? 60/40? 40/60? 25/75? 75/25?

Just looking for an explanation of the double standard for outcomes that exist between the democrat perps and the republican perps.

al-AP link

There’s More Than One, Leaker

Once again, in a matter of only a few weeks since it’s publishing top secret government secrets, they do it again.  The problem is the ‘administration official’ who purportedly offered up the document to the New York Times reporter.  This is not just another secret document, this is a secret report which is an assessment of Iraqi Prime Minister Maliki’s success in putting down the sectarian violence in Iraq, on the day that Maliki and Bush were to meet.  Maybe it’s just a coincidence that the 2-day meeting was cancelled in favor of a 1-day meeting.

An administration official made a copy of the document available to a New York Times reporter seeking information on the administration’s policy review. The Times read and transcribed the memo.

The leakers need to be sought and dealt with.  And I don’t mean like Fitzgerald dealt with the Valerie Plame leaker, Richard Armitage.  I think this time, we should think of the leaker as someone who commits a high crime. 

And now that the SCOTUS has affirmed the government’s right to phone records on one of their earlier release of state secrets, they need to get on the stick today.  While we’re at it, why doesn’t congress do something to protect state secrets?  Good place to start is to make it a crime to publish that which is known to be government secrets.  Protect them with the law and tell the ACLU to take a hike.