Laugh of the Day
Fox news. Bush uses presidential power* to trump political power play by Kerry, who opposed Bush’s political appointee over his politics.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: It gets better. Having failed in their freedom-of-speech stifling effort to derail a political appointment over the appointee’s politics, now they want an investigation. Apparently they think it might be illegal for the president to exercise his right to make recess appointments.
Which raises an important question. If it’s wrong for the president to fire political appointees over their politics, doesn’t that make it wrong for senators to oppose political appointees over theirs? Wait a minute. I’m getting confused. The president fired them over their performance, but the Senate only gave a damn about Fox’s politics. So much crap flying around these days, its hard to sort out what’s what. But I think the Dem Cong might need to start holding hearings about itself.
But when I see moves like this, I realize I’m starting to really enjoy the Dem Cong.
*Bush, by the way, is president because America thought Kerry would make a lousy one. Quite aside from his three-scratches-and-a-sayonara battlefield leadership.
Welcome Punditeers! Stick around, make yourself at home. Don’t mind me, I’m just having an Iraq flashback. Who would have thought four years ago we’d be tolerating this kind of nonsense? Or giving our enemies openings like this? You’ll need a cleanser after news like that.
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Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:58 am on Thursday, April 5, 2007
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April 5th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
Bush OutFoxes Kerrycrats (Updated and bumped)
April 5th, 2007 at 5:04 pm
Could Bush get any more petty?
What a small, small man.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Yes, Alphie. Small and impotent. Rush Limbaugh is only one of these.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:03 pm
Alphie,
What’s it all about?
Seriously, you actually think that Kerry is in the same league with W? W has the respect of veterans, who know the skills it takes to fly the old Lawn Dart, equipped with Nuke-tipped SAMS. Someone of Herry’ calibre wouldn’t even be allowed into a squadron that flew those bad boys.
Kerry is the petty-man here. He used his position to bully a good and decent man, a man who spoke the truth about Kerry’s and did the right thing for the nation, and for the honour of all who ever wore our nation’s uniform to keep liveshot out of the White House.
Kerry used his “Winter Soldier” lies to destroy the good name of his fellow veterans, and walk on them into a carreer in politics. That’s being malicious as well as petty.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Tim,
Thank you for confirming that the few deadenders who still support the Iraq fiasco support it not because it has anything to do with America’s security, but because you don’t want to be proven wrong by imaginary left-wing boogeymen.
Bush is going to need all the support he can get in Congress to keep the pork flowing to Iraq for a few more months, but he’s willing to risk the support of his own party just to score a cheap shot against Kerry.
Is it any wonder the man-child has managed to lose two wars?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Uh, seriously, why do y’all keep responding to the troll?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
who cares indeed, when you can remember these marvellous expressions:
“Three-scratches-and-a-sayonara” battlefield
and
“Pelosi hit the ground (of Syria) with a crawl”
!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 7:49 pm
heh,
Responding to the troll is kinda fun, in the way that poking at a dead cat with a stick is kinda fun. Every now and then, if you poke it just right, the dead cat makes a gassy sound, sort of like trolls do….
And Alphie, just what in the wide wide world of sports does that last comment of yours have to do with anything I posted?
April 5th, 2007 at 8:52 pm
AW1 Tim, You’ll learn that Alf has mastered only one thing–the art of the non sequitur. It is the main vehicle by which he displays his monumental ignorance of the world to the world. One can only hope that he never learns the results of living life by the irrational based on the unreal. Right now he is protected from the consequences by the efforts of those he regularly denigrates.
I see that he has brought some of his playmates to romp among the adults. I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that we ought to revert to the old adage about children being seen and not heard.
April 5th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
It has become obvious to me that Alphie has been sent here to amuse us, and to also affirm that conscious, educated thought is the way to go. Every time Alphie posts it reminds me of one of my mother’s favorite sayings. “The best way to win an argument with the politically uneducated is to let them open their mouth and shoot themselves in the foot.”
April 6th, 2007 at 12:52 am
It appears that Pelosi has been blown off by Assad….for a soccer game. [got that from Hot Air, BTW]
Petty investigtions over valid appointment s and worthless trips to dictators……if that’s what the Dhimmicrats are offering the country, I’ll take a plate of hash, thank you.
April 6th, 2007 at 3:40 am
This one’s for Alphie–Why would anyone take a cheap shot at John Kerry?
The Ugly American
By Victor Davis Hanson
Sen. John Kerry, the 2004 Democratic candidate for president, is at it again with another rude gaffe, this one providing an unintended glimpse of the way many contemporary cosmopolitan elites characterize their homeland when abroad.
In the past, Kerry has said that our soldiers were “terrorizing” Iraqi civilians in their homes. He has also warned that uneducated Americans “get stuck in Iraq” — a supposedly botched joke. Now, he assures an audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, that the United States is a “sort of international pariah.”
Kerry, who appeared on stage in Davos this past weekend with former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, also proclaimed, “When we walk away from global warming, Kyoto, when we are irresponsibly slow in moving toward AIDS in Africa, when we don’t advance and live up to our own rhetoric and standards, we set a terrible message of duplicity and hypocrisy.”
Kerry could learn a few simple rules of etiquette that should guide the “message” of all high American officials when abroad:
Tell the Whole Truth Without Posturing or Spinning
Kerry was clearly directing his criticism at the Bush administration, but the Kyoto Protocol, the international climate treaty, was first rejected by the U.S. in 1997. Ten years ago, President Clinton wisely chose not to refer the treaty to the Senate. Even that was not enough for outraged senators, who went ahead anyway to vote 95-0 to oppose any international agreement on climate control like Kyoto in which China, India and other developing countries would remain exempt. Kerry himself cast one of these votes — an ironic example of what Kerry now calls “duplicity and hypocrisy.”
Nor was the United States “irresponsibly slow” in regard to African AIDS relief. In fact, the Bush administration has devoted $4 billion annually to combat AIDS in Africa. That’s triple what the Clinton administration budgeted. That generosity deserves praise, not scorn.
Remember we are at war.
Kerry’s criticisms are hauntingly similar to al-Qaida’s own talking points. Both Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri have preposterously claimed that America’s past inaction on Kyoto was a good excuse for going to war. In various ways, they have long blamed America for the spread of AIDS, and insisted that the United States is an international outlaw. When Kerry makes similar charges, it only enhances the jihadist propaganda, and weakens the United States in a war that is largely to be decided by relative resolve.
Don’t single out the United States.
Kerry said nothing publicly critical to former President Khatami about his own theocracy’s violation of United Nations non-proliferation accords. He could have lamented Tehran’s support for the terrorists of Hezbollah who are undermining democracy in Lebanon. And he might have deplored the infiltration of Iranian jihadists into Iraq.
“Pariah” status is instead given only to Kerry’s own homeland. Yet, the United States is currently working with the European Union and the United Nations to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons. With NATO, we fight to save Afghan democracy. And we spend blood and treasure alongside an international coalition to offer Iraqis something far better than either dictatorship or theocracy. Some pariah.
Avoid partisanship.
For all his anger at the current administration, Kerry conveniently doesn’t tell his audience that the United States Congress voiced overwhelming bipartisan distrust of Kyoto. He forgets that he and other Democrats in the House and Senate, in traditional bipartisan fashion, authorized wars against Afghanistan and Iraq by large pluralities that are now so controversial.
What then drives John Kerry to say such ugly things?
Kerry must still hurt over his recent loss to the supposedly less sophisticated George Bush. And he and other leftist elites apparently must remind their kindred European counterparts that there are still refined Americans like themselves who are not flag-waving Christians from Texas.
But, mostly, it is intellectual laziness. It is always easier to cite America’s flaws to applause than to take the time to explain the nature of its rare morality to catcalls. In truth, the United States has never been richer or more generous. Its military is preeminent, protects vulnerable allies and fights extremism worldwide. Immigrants risk their lives to reach our shores.
But we are in a deep spiritual crisis when a recent candidate for our presidency either cannot, or will not, patiently explain that to the world. Instead, Sen. Kerry, the new ugly American abroad, glibly misleads a global audience that his own America is a “pariah” — a verdict that is as embarrassing to us as it is stupid for him.
April 6th, 2007 at 7:32 am
Let’s see,
Bush and his cowardly cronies have pissed away half a trillion dollars and slaughtered tens of thousands of people to turn Iraq into a fourth world hellhole.
Kerry spoke poorly of them.
Oh, dear.
Better lash out at Kerry like a drunken Yale cheerleader.
April 6th, 2007 at 10:21 am
“Bush is going to need all the support he can get in Congress to keep the pork flowing to Iraq for a few more months”
goodness, that’s awfully culturally insensitive of you. don’t you have any nuance when dealing with our islamic ‘friends’?
April 6th, 2007 at 12:18 pm
Hey alphie, you think Bush is petty because of a recess appointment. What about Bill Lan Lee?
April 6th, 2007 at 1:39 pm
“Alphie” has to be a plant. No one can be so one-dimensional and uncomprehending. Or maybe we’ve discovered a Densicrat. Facts, logic, rational arguments bounce right off “Alphie”–a virtual black hole for reasonable debate.
Every time you hit the keypad you sink your cause a little further. No matter what is presented to you somehow you boomerang back to the town crier announcement that ‘(Republican) wars cost too much money and people die! Oh, and every death in the war is blamed on Bush’—not the Iranians, the Syrians, Arab jihad tourists, or al Qaeda but Bush. Congratulations—a broken watch is right twice a day.
Last time I checked there was only America, not a democrat America or a republican America. I doubt many people in other countries make such distinctions when listening to an American trash his country abroad. They do love listening to it regardless.
FYI: Victor Davis Hanson is a classical historian who categorically calls out Kerry for his hypocrisy and misrepresentation on calling America a “Pariah” while abroad. The evidence of Kerry’s duplicity and misleading slander spans several administrations. It is undeniable as it exists in the form of his votes and comparative amounts of aid given during different administrations. He claims we are “walking away from AIDS” yet we give 4 billion annually. 3 billion more than Clinton did.
This also goes to speaking with one voice for our foreign policy. Nancy Pelosi was not “fact finding”; she was naively destabilizing an explosive situation for domestic political gain. Dhimmicrats are uniformly uniformed, ignorant, case proven, thank you Nancy.
Nancy also set back women’s rights in the Mideast by wearing a hajib. Do you see Condoleeza Rice wearing a hajib when she’s in the Mideast? NO. The reform party of Syria is disgusted and appalled by her ignorance.
But that is not the point. With Pelosi’s disastrous Mideast foreign policy experiment it has become apparent that to the dhim cong the world is just a spring broad for their domestic dhimmicrat agenda and a stage to play out the soap opera that is America politics.
That is to say the people of the world are just pawns to Dem Cong Like “Alphie” and Pelosi. She was in way over her head. She had no appreciation of the stakes involved with (Mideast) foreign policy. I’m sure she thought, “how hard can it be?”
One liberal blogger wrote, “I bet Condoleeza Rice is jealous”, telling words indeed. These are not social engagements or photo ops. Condi gets that; the Syrians are vipers with no intention of breaking away from Iran for Iran props up the Syrian regime with cheap oil, other subsidies, and weapons for its terrorist proxies which give it power. Condi may be flawed as a realist (in my opinion) but she is undeniably brilliant. The best way to understand Syria is to watch “the Sopranos”. They are just as ruthless, even more so.
The Israelis saw through Pelosi’s paper thin façade immediately and new this was nothing more than domestic politics on a world stage.
“In Israel, the episode was seen as related more to Washington partisan rivalries than to Middle East diplomacy. “This has to do with internal American politics,” the former Israeli ambassador in Washington, Daniel Ayalon, told The New York Sun.”
The dhimmicrats, like Pelosi, are their own worst enemy. With each self-serving move they expose their true motivations—the white house 2008 and implementing their socialist agenda. After years of ridiculing Bush’s “incompetent” foreign policy the dem cong’s best attempt is now on display. It shows a lack of basic knowledge and skills needed to navigate the world’s complex web of deceit and cold-blooded aggression.
Fortunately, America is watching.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:58 pm
4iraqisfuture
“Alphie” has to be a plant.
Yes, I was thinking the same…Jerusalem Cherry, but it’s anti-Semite, I believe. Maybe its just a Crocus. Well, one can always hope. (IT will never get that one)
April 6th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
4Iraq,
You can’t be a mindless partisan and also pretend to be rational.
As a nation building execise, Iraq is a failure.
There are better things we can be spending the $100+ billion a year we’re pissing away in Iraq on right here at home.
All the pro war crowd’s childish namecalling can’t change that.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:10 pm
Awwww, poor little plant.
April 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
They say if your talk to plants, they grow. Need some water, little plant?
April 6th, 2007 at 6:19 pm
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