SPUN FROM THE START

They are no longer to be taken seriously. The M.S.M. is an opposition party, pure and simple. Read this article, please, and not right after eating! This is from the "friend of the court" brief (Amicus Brief) filed by the New York Times!............T
In fact, it appears Plame was first outed to the general public as a result of a consciously loaded and slyly hypothetical piece by the journalist David Corn. Corn's source appears to have been none other than Plame's own husband, former ambassador and current Democratic-party operative Joseph Wilson -- that same pillar of national security rectitude whose notion of discretion, upon being dispatched by the CIA for a sensitive mission to Niger, was to write a highly public op-ed about his trip in the New York Times. This isn't news to the media; they have simply chosen not to report it.

The hypocrisy, though, only starts there. It turns out that the media believe Plame was outed long before either Novak or Corn took pen to paper. And not by an ambiguous confirmation from Rove or a nod-and-a-wink from Ambassador Hubby. No, the media think Plame was previously compromised by a disclosure from the intelligence community itself -- although it may be questionable whether there was anything of her covert status left to salvage at that point, ...

They'll be moving from "Orange" to "Red" now that the bombs are ripping apart London!...T 

The Real France..Don't forget to take the "Guderian Bypass"........T 

The 'Supreme' fight ahead

Barone nails it to the wall: Namely, this abortion business is entirely aside from the point. Stare Decisis ensures Roe V. Wade will stand. If it were somehow overturned, the States would uphold it. But what about all the other vital issues? What about federalism?!........T
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement seems sure to lead to a brutal political battle over the confirmation of her replacement. There is no indication that George W. Bush intends to nominate someone who appeared on a recent list of nominees acceptable to Senate Democrats. This would be to cede the appointing power from the president and the Senate majority to a minority in the Senate.

abortion is one of those issues that divides the electorate along cultural lines into nearly equal Democratic and Republican blocs. It is of great symbolic importance to groups on both sides, and not for trivial reasons. But a brutal battle over abortion -- which is what this battle is going to be about for most voters -- is an argument over an issue that is largely moot. Other issues that exercise legal scholars -- over federalism, for example -- are totally unfamiliar to almost all voters.

Reversing the Bork Defeat

Now we'll see who won the Filibuster compromise! The "Nuclear Option" needs to remain on the table............................T
With a Republican Senate, President Bush has the chance to succeed where Reagan failed by getting a conservative constitutionalist confirmed to the Supreme Court.
ON OCTOBER 23, 1987--a day that lives in conservative infamy--Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court was rejected by a Democratic Senate. Now, 18 years later, George W. Bush has the chance to reverse this defeat, and to begin to fulfill what has always been one of the core themes of modern American conservatism: the relinking of constitutional law and constitutional jurisprudence to the Constitution.

Rove speech exposes fundamental split

They hate America, they always have. I've seen it for decades, first hand....This article illuminates their motives like none I've ever read before..................T
"One reason that the Democrats are squawking so much about Rove's attack on 'liberals' is that he has put the focus on a fundamental split in the Democratic Party -- a split among its politicians and its voters.

On the one hand, there are those who believe that this is a fundamentally good country and want to see success in Iraq. On the other hand, there are those who believe this is a fundamentally bad country and want more than anything else to see George W. Bush fail.

Those who do not think this split is real should consult the responses to pollster Scott Rasmussen's question last year. About two-thirds of Americans agreed that the United States is a fair and decent country. Virtually all Bush voters agreed. Kerry voters were split down the middle."

Now, Democrats want to make Guantanamo an issue when, according to Rasmussen, only 20 percent of Americans believe prisoners there are treated unfairly and only 14 percent believe that treatment is similar to Nazi tactics.

Durbin has now apologized, sort of. And Democrats are watching with glee as Bush's job approval stays stuck below 50 percent. But a party that happily allies itself with the likes of moveon.org and many of whose leading members have lost the ability to distinguish between opposition to an incumbent administration and rooting for our nation's enemies has got serious problems. Especially when it is called on again, as it will be sooner or later, to govern.

The rise of the disdainful Democrats

You will laugh until you are admitted to the emergency room! To be truly funny, an element of truth must be present, but when the tale is entirely truthful, and is only realized to be so at the end of the tale, well then, the hilarity ensues!........T

Senator Robert Byrd's previous occupation as a butcher never seems to come up when the press describes his history. It seems that mundane occupational histories of politicians matter only when they are Republicans. This is a method employed by the liberal media to demean Republicans, implicitly characterizing them as being made of "lesser stuff" and to disparage their intellectual abilities.

It may be a bit of a stretch, but the Democratic Party leadership looks more like the House of Lords and the Republican Party looks more like the House of Commons. Judging by its leadership, one of our political parties can legitimately claim the be the party of the common man and woman. And it isn't the Democrats.

The Master Speaks!

God Almighty, I wish our President spoke with this clarity! I have seethed and burned for 4 years at their treachery.......long may they serve in the minority............T

Karl Rove came to the heart of Manhattan last night to rhapsodize about the decline of liberalism in politics, saying Democrats responded weakly to Sept. 11 and had placed American troops in greater danger by criticizing their actions.
"Conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 in the attacks and prepared for war; liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers," Mr. Rove, the senior political adviser to President Bush, said at a fund-raiser in Midtown for the Conservative Party of New York State.
Citing calls by progressive groups to respond carefully to the attacks, Mr. Rove said to the applause of several hundred audience members, "I don't know about you, but moderation and restraint is not what I felt when I watched the twin towers crumble to the ground, a side of the Pentagon destroyed, and almost 3,000 of our fellow citizens perish in flames and rubble."

Mr. Rove also said American armed forces overseas were in more jeopardy as a result of remarks last week by Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who compared American mistreatment of detainees to the acts of "Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime - Pol Pot or others."
"Has there ever been a more revealing moment this year?" Mr. Rove asked. "Let me just put this in fairly simple terms: Al Jazeera now broadcasts the words of Senator Durbin to the Mideast, certainly putting our troops in greater danger. No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals."
Amen, brothers and sisters!..............T

Guantanamo Loses Five-Star Rating

She's Baaaackkkkk!.............T
"If you still have any doubts about whether closing Guantanamo is the right thing to do, Jimmy Carter recently cleared that up by demanding that it be closed. With any luck, he'll try to effect another one of those daring 'rescue' attempts. Here's a foolproof method for keeping America safe: Always do the exact 180-degree opposite of whatever Jimmy Carter says, as quickly as possible. (Instead of Guantanamo, how about we close down the Carter Center?) "

Liberal Losers Conduct a Fool's Hearing

It's still stunning to me to see how truly radical, extreme, and dishonest the democrats and the "main stream press" have become. Now more than ever, since the 2004 election, they have lost it.............T
Losers live in their parents’ basement and dream that they are just one hit song away from stardom.
Losers neglect their retirement savings and fantasize about the way they will live after they magically win the lottery.Losers weigh 431 pounds and wish -- through a month full of Twinkies and Diet Coke -- that someone someday will invent a miracle diet pill so that they can be pretty.
And this week, losers met in the basement of the Capitol building and sat behind little mismatched folding tables interviewing each other in an “unofficial investigative hearing” that they believe might allow them to retake power one day -- without them ever having to re-examine who they are, what they stand for, or why most Americans have decided that they and their fellow liberals are a just bunch of losers undeserving of further support.

"Turban" Durbin

The Senator from Al-Queda strikes again!.....T
Turban Durbin

K.F.C. or Popeyes?

Don't forget that Chicken TWICE A WEEK!...T
Club Gitmo

Polls vs. Achievement, etc...

Amen brothers and sisters! These are not his fathers poll numbers. This man is changing the ingrained liberal power structure. He will, in the end, have made a Reaganesque contribution to America's future..............T
TO UNDERSTAND WHY President Bush is relatively unpopular, one only has to look to the case of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California. After his election in November 2003, Schwarzenegger experienced a political honeymoon. He governed mostly by compromise and without pushing for sweeping change. And his popularity, measured by how people feel about his performance as governor, soared. That lasted for more than a year. Now Schwarzenegger has gotten serious. He's called for a special election to limit government spending permanently, curb teacher tenure, and take redistricting out of the hands of the legislature, which is controlled by Democrats. His popularity has plummeted

There's a whole lot of torture going on here! Thank God for Dick Durbin!.........T 

A Quiet Turning Point in Iraq?

"The Race to Stupid" ...oh my, be prepared to laugh until you cry! This is all self evident to me. Which explains why %60 of the population has no clue. Oh, and by the way...Hi Jim!..........................T
Such major mistakes by our enemy are even more important than they should be, because America – burdened by a media establishment that trumpets only our mistakes – is incompetent in the propaganda aspects of War. Even when right, we seem unable to demoralize foes and inspire allies. But we don’t have to inspire our own allies in Iraq. Our enemies have that covered. Consider just one recent example of how the Sunni Arab insurgents are making sure that fellow Iraqis get deadly serious in fighting them. This weekend, the insurgents tried –and failed – to kill the leader of Iraq’s special forces, General Rashid Flaiyeh – by mortar-bombing his mother’s funeral. Now I’m no psychologist, but I have to believe that Gen. Flaiyeh has a very short “To-Do” list for the upcoming decade or so

Senate's sham debate

The real issue is illuminated here. Never in over 200 years has the filibuster been employed to block judicial nominees. Never in 70 years have the liberals been in danger of losing the courts. They are in such danger now, which has lead us to this sad point.................T
"Disagreement came over treatment of imminent Supreme Court nominees. One Republican senator, considered a party-line man, told me he would agree to throw overboard three designated appellate nominees if granted a major concession: a promise never to filibuster the president's Supreme Court choices. But that is a concession not even six Democrats have been willing to make."

'NEWSWEEK DISSEMBLED, MUSLIMS DISMEMBERED!'

She's Baaaccckkkkkkk!!!............T
"(Bumper sticker idea for liberals: News magazines don't kill people, Muslims do.) But then I wouldn't have sat on the story of the decade because of the empty threats of a drama queen gas-bagging with her friend on the telephone between spoonfuls of Haagen-Dazs.
No matter how I look at it, I can't grasp the editorial judgment that kills Isikoff's stories about a sitting president molesting the help and obstructing justice, while running Isikoff's not particularly newsworthy (or well-sourced) story about Americans desecrating a Quran at Guantanamo."

"Credible or Not"

Sloppy? Or just left-wing, vitriolic, "get Bush" gotcha journalism?...............T
"No one is quoted in this account. It is not clear if a Newsweek correspondent spoke directly to Bader. There is no evidence that Newsweek even tried to check this story with military authorities or others conversant with what happened at the Kandahar airfield. Is this alleged incident, significant enough to have allegedly caused an apology by the U.S. commander, attested to by anyone else? Did Newsweek make any effort to corroborate Bader's account?"

Newsweek is biased like the rest of the media elite

Speaking of Media bias, now that people have lost their lives, will the left-wing press admit what everyone knows to be true? Naw! This article is written by Clinton's former Chief of Staff, for pities sake.....................T
"Each of those (fraudulent press reports) "mistakes" was biased in favor of the left and was committed in the haste of liberal journalists to get some ammunition to discredit Bush and the Iraq war. But when the same reporter who wrote the current story filed the first disclosure of the Monica Lewinsky affair with his editors at Newsweek, the magazine piously refused to run the story.

In fact, in all the years of the Clinton presidency, I cannot recall a single instance of a similarly inaccurate high-profile story attacking the Democratic president."

Newsweek's explosive allegation was no "honest mistake."

The AMMP strikes back. The beat goes on. Same old story, "Dan Rather, CBS News!"..............T
"Newsweek no longer stands by its story. 'Based on what we know now, we are retracting our original story that an internal military investigation had uncovered Quran abuse at Guantanamo Bay,' editor Mark Whitaker said in a statement yesterday. Sen. John McCain, a moderate Republican, was among those who 'applauded the retraction, but suggested Newsweek must go further,' CNN reports.
To put this in some context, it's worth recalling that essay Howard Fineman wrote in January, on the occasion of CBS's releasing its report on the fraudulent '60 Minutes' hit piece on President Bush. Fineman, Newsweek's chief political correspondent, argued that the what he infelicitously called 'the American Mainstream Media Party' was 'dying.' The 'AAMP,' he said, had formed when the media abandoned their old ideals of neutrality and nonpartisanship to take sides--first against the Vietnam War, then against President Nixon in the Watergate scandal:
The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans. The problem was that, once the AMMP declared its existence by taking sides, there was no going back. A party was born.
It's not just that the media are biased against conservatives and Republicans, though they certainly are. It is that they see every war as another Vietnam and every supposed scandal as another Watergate--at least when Republicans are in the White House, which they usually are.
The obsession with Vietnam and Watergate is central to the alienation between the press and the people. After all, these were triumphs for the crusading press but tragedies for America. And the press's quest for more such triumphs--futile, so far, after more than 30 years--is what is behind the scandals at both Newsweek and CBS.
It's also behind the Valerie Plame kerfuffle, which hasn't been properly recognized as a journalistic scandal. The mainstream media accepted uncritically a Democratic partisan's unfounded allegations of criminal conduct within the Bush administration, suddenly discovering that there was no crime only when the ensuing special prosecutor investigation threatened to put two reporters behind bars.
In response to the Koran-flushing debacle, Newsweek has acknowledged only technical problems with its reporting. This follows the pattern of CBS, which commissioned an "independent" report that allowed the network to claim it was free of political bias. In the Plame case, we don't know of any journalistic outfit that's admitted an error; the Times, for instance, still insists baselessly that Plame's "outing" was "an abuse of power."
The problem in all three cases is that news organizations were so zealous in their pursuit of the next quagmire or scandal that they forgot their first obligation, which is to tell the truth. Until those in the mainstream media are willing to acknowledge that it is this crusading impulse that has led them astray, we are unlikely to see the end of such journalistic scandals.