Atlas Shrugs

MURTHA'S MURDEROUS BLOOD LIBEL: GO RUSSELL

American Thinker is running this dead on  political ad (go here). Atlas has been ACTIVELY ENDORSING BILL RUSSELL for months despite Murtha's skulduggery to keep him off the ticket. If you missed my radio show with Russell go here.

Rep. John Murtha's disgrace in denouncing the Marines of the Haditha incident is not going to fade away gently into the night. William Russell, has returned from a tour of duty in the military and is running against him. His campaign has produced this video featuring Darryl Sharratt, the father of one of the Marines accused by Murtha of being a "cold-blooded killer." His son Justin Sharratt has subsequently been fully vindicated, and all charges dropped.

Watch the ad.

Dhimmi Governor Rendell Bows to Nation of Islam, Does Bidding

  Ed Rendell was Mayor of Philadelphia. It was 1997. It is a bright, shining example of Democrats putting political correctness over all.  Party before country, political expediency over decency. It is why there is no "center" of the Democratic Party. Ed Rendell calls himself a centrist. He also calls himself a Jewish American. He is neither. He is a pig. Watch it and weep.

Pennsylvania Governor Rendell Praises Farrakhan and N.O.I. (Watch the video) hat tip Patti

Islam is a faith that respects their women"

Tell that to the thousands of dead victims of honor killings and the millions of women who have had their clits cut off, you silly tool.

Strong supporter of Obama and leading  Obama Vice-presidential candidate contender has a long, cozy relationship with the Nation of Islam.

He has shared a podium with Farrakhan,  praised the Nation of Islam with Farrakhan nodding in approval, and described Islam as "a faith that doesn't just talk about family values, it lives family values. A faith where men respect thier women and children."

He kisses CAIR's ass and he's a Jew. They'd slit his throat first. The definition of a modern dhimmi.

Remember this April 2007 post: CAIR's King Governor of the Jewicidals

Pelosi Scrubs Bad Book Reviews at Amazon

Pelosi adheres to her illiberal fascism in every aspect of her life. It seems she wields her totalitarian "fairness doctrine" far and wide. Lone Pony is reporting that she is scrubbing Amazon of bad reviews - were there any other kind?

Nancy Pelosi had over 100  BAD reviews of her failed  book disappear from Amazon's site yesterday! Ironically, the name of the book, "Know your Power" ... appropriate and is eerily Chavez-like.  She must have been inspired by Obama's meticulous scrubbing of his website, the surge, and google's removal of  images of his birth certificate.
Boy, they sure can clean for folks so dirty.
Ain't free speech grand.
Screenshot 1

Corrupt Jew Hater Klein Forces ZOA Member to Resign: FLA Jews are you listening

FLORIDA VOTERS: VOTE THIS JEW HATING JEW OUT OF OFFICE. When will the Jewish lay leadership stop acting like the damn Judenrat of Germany and start actively advocating and campaigning for  great Americans - lovers of Israel, America and the those unafraid to confront our mortal enemies. American Jewish lay leadership seem to be escorting us onto the trains (excluding ZOA of course).

How fortunate for Florida that they could throw that bottom feeder Klein out and have an extraordinary thinking hero take over the helm of the 22nd district.

BTW, What Are You Doing Tuesday the 5th? Join us here. GO WEST!

Klein Out of Line: Does this help West?

by John Gizzi (07/31/08)

Ron Klein forces ZOA member to resign...

Last Thursday (July 24th), the president of the Zionist Organization of America, one of America’s the most respected of  Jewish-American organizations, called ZOA South Florida organization chairman Alan Bergstein and gave him an ultimatum:  stop his volunteer work for West or resign from his ZOA post. According to the West campaign, “it was made clear to Bergstein that Ron Klein was necessary to pass congressional legislation important to ZOA and to Israel.  ZOA has an obligation to its membership to ensure that their issues are considered, so the national office clearly felt it had no choice but to deliver the message to Mr. Bergstein.” 

Think about it for a minute, experts:  if Klein is sending a signal for someone to do give an ultimatum to a campaign volunteer for West, does it not follow that he is somewhat concerned about the Republican challenger?

In March, ZOA had arranged a joint appearance between Klein and West.  Two days before the scheduled event, Klein said he was unable to attend and asked ZOA to cancel the event.  The group refused, the event was held, Allen West did speak, and it was very well-attended.

And Bergstein?  Upset that (in his words) “a Jewish congressman has to threaten Israel and world Jewry by whining over one person’s activities, Bergstein chose the better part of valor, resigned his position with ZOA, and will work hard on the West campaign.

I have passed the report of the ZOA and West on to others, including the Republican Jewish Coalition and Rep. Eric Cantor of Virginia, the lone Jewish Republican in the House.  Their response will be interesting—as will those of the political “experts” the next time we review the races.

Allen West responds:

We believe that Mort Klein was put in an untenable position by Ron Klein or his supporters.  Alan Bergstein was given the choice of resigning from either the ZOA or from his volunteer support for Allen West.  We are not aware of any Ron Klein supporters who received a similar phone call.

Mr. Bergstein resigned under protest from the ZOA.  To our knowledge, no mention was made of tax status concerns but even if the question had been raised, the remedy offered was an over-reaction.

Mr. Bergstein honored the group's rules when he set up the candidate forum that started this ball rolling.  Allen West appreciated the hospitality extended to him by the local ZOA and also honored their rules in his comments to them.

This argument is not--and should not be--between Allen West and the ZOA.  It is more properly directed at Ron Klein, without whose inappropriate pressure this would not have occurred.

WEXLER'S RESIDENTIAL FRAUD

One of the most liberal members of Congress in Florida Robert Wexler (Obamapropagandist and notorious leftist)  is not a resident of his district. He has lived in Maryland since the late 90s.  He claims to live in a  house in Del Ray (owned by his mother-law)  in an active adult community  where no children are allowed, though he has three children). You can't live there with kids, it's against the rules of the community.

Another example of Democrat hubris  - I am above the law. It seems he has no connection to Florida at all. Clearly it's a phantom residence, he ain't sleeping on monster-in-law's  couch with his three children.John Fund wrote earlier today (hat tip Larwyn)

An opponent of U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, D-Delray Beach, has accused the six-term congressman of playing a residency shell game, saying Wexler pretends to keep an address in Florida while flagrantly making his home in Maryland.

Edward Lynch, a Republican running for Wexler's congressional seat

"The house he lists on his voter registration is his in-laws' house in a gated 55-and-older community," Lynch said this afternoon. "Legally, he can't move back with children under 18."

Lynch said Wexler's three children attend Charles W. Smith Jewish Day School in Rockville, Md... Lynch, meanwhile, said he intends to file legal papers about the issue in the coming weeks.

[Since his children can't even legally live there] "...it is not truly his home, and it can't be his home, and he's using that address as his address to vote from," Lynch said... Lynch faces Wexler and no-party candidate Ben Graber in the Nov. 4 election for Florida's 19th Congressional District.

Everyday we have to slog through Democrat skulduggery. Where does he pay his taxes? The man has a giant house in the tony suburb of Potomac where he lives with his wife and family. This is typical democrat behavior - think Charles Rangel  with his 4, yeah 4, rent stabilized apartments in NYC where it is impossible to find housing.

Florida while there is still time! ALLEN WEST'S TIME HAS COME: FLORIDA GO WEST!! ROBERT WEXLER & RON KLEIN: ET TU BRUTE JEWS  ...

ROBERT WEXLER, FLA IS A LIAR AND A KAPO

CLICK ON CONTINUE TO WATCH THE VIDEO OR CLICK HERE.

Here's more from the lowlife Wexler blatantly lying to his constituents, lying to the old people in the Florida community.

Robert Wexler, Barack Obama's leading Congressional cheerleader and the man who has worked mightily to convince supporters of the American-Israel alliance that Obama can be relied upon to enhance Israel 's security against Iranian threats to destroy it, indicates he may very well oppose a Congressional Resolution meant to pressure Iran to comply with international demands regarding its nuclear program.

He willfully misleads -as others on the left have done- on the nature of this resolution. They, and Wexler, believe that the Resolution calls for a naval blockade and characterize this as an act of war. They are wrong. The Resolution merely calls upon the President to initiate an "international effort to impose stringent inspection requirements on all persons, vehicles, ships, planes, trains and cargo entering or departing Iran ". This is not a blockade and willfully misinterpreting it to be so is wrong and this interpretation is supported by very clear language in the rest of the Resolution that expressly states that "nothing in this Resolution should be construed as an authorization of the use of force against Iran ". Inspections are not an uncommon feature of non-proliferation efforts. The Proliferation Security Initiative recognizes the importance of being able to interdict and inspect suspect shipments.

The discovery of a ship containing nuclear research material on its way to Libya was key to the discovering and unraveling of the A.Q. Khan nuclear smuggling network and the terminating of Libya 's nuclear program.    Regardless, how reliable Wexler's assurances are regarding Barack Obama when he advocates, even at the expense of honesty, an appeasement approach that will strengthen Iran .

Of course, Wexler makes this announcement on the left-wing Huffington Post  where he has  a column.   To wit, Wexler writes:   

    In the coming weeks, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which I am a member, may vote on House Concurrent Resolution 362. Given my growing concerns regarding this resolution, including its failure to advocate for direct American engagement with Tehran and open language that could lead to a US blockade of Iran, I will lead an effort to make changes to this resolution before it comes to the Foreign Affairs committee for a vote. Despite being a cosponsor of this resolution -- these changes will ultimately determine whether or not I will continue to support H. Con. Res. 362.

So Barack Obama's chief supporter in the House, a man who the Senator has all but appointed as an Ambassador to the Jewish community, seems willing to misinterpret a Resolution in such a way to serve the interests of Iran .

Jews wake up! You have six million to answer to.

Wexler is a Jewicidal whore for the left who cloaks himself in orthodoxy. He would sellout his mother (and his mother in-law - which is invariably what this is, the sellout of Jewish mothers) to further his leftist, socialist agenda.

UPDATE: Lasky over at American Thinker does some investigating. Wexler is in trouble:

Residency issues/tax issues dog Wexler (extensively updated)

Clarice Feldman adds:

It occurs to me that he's in some big trouble.

It will be interesting to see if he paid income taxes in Md. If he did, he clearly lied when he claimed Fla residence. If he said he was a resident of Fla where there is no income tax, Md should have a tax fraud claim against him.

 

Here is what I found on MD residency:

 

Maryland Residency

What establishes whether or not you're considered aMaryland resident? The answer seems to depend on what the issue is. The Maryland MVA requires you to obtain a MD drivers license 60 days after you become a resident of the State. So, when are you a resident of the State? COMAR11.11.06.02 defines a resident as someone who: (1) Owns, leases, or rents a primary place of residence  in Maryland for more than 6 months; (2) Has no other residence in any other state or country (see COMAR section for further details). For income tax purposes, the definition is similar. There, a resident is defined as:

1. is domiciled in this State on the last day of the taxable year; or 2. for more than 6 months of the taxable year, maintained a place of abode in this State, whether domiciled in this State or not (Tax General Article of the MD Code 10-101). Finally, as far as voter registration, the Maryland Law Encyclopedia quotes Roberts v. Larkin, 340 MD 147, 1995 as defining residence as "the place of a person's fixed domicile." "

posted by Trevor Rosen at 3:30 PM 0 comments

 

Florida's residency requirements:

 

President of the United States: a natural born citizen and resident of the U.S. for the last 14 years.

• United States Senator:a citizen of the U.S. for at least 9 years and resident of the state when elected.
• Representative in Congress: a citizen of the U.S. for at least 7 years and resident of the state when elected.
• Governor and Lieutenant Governor: an elector and resident of the state for the preceding 7 years.
• Cabinet Members: an elector and resident of the state for the preceding 7 years.
• Public Defender: an elector and resident of the circuit upon taking office.
• State Senator: an elector and resident of the district upon taking office and a resident of the state for at least 2 years prior to election.
• State Representative: an elector and resident of the district upon taking office and a resident of the state for at least 2 years prior to election.
• Justice of the Supreme Court: an elector and resident of the state upon taking office.
• Judge, District Court of Appeal: an elector and resident of the state upon taking office.
• County Offices: (See DEO 94-04).

I called Congressman Wexler's office (202) 225-3001 and spoke to a man named "Josh" , asking if the Congressman has issued a formal statement on the issue and whether he has or would make public his income tax returns so we could see if he paid Md taxes or claimed Fla residency. He transferred me to the Congressman's voice mail where I repeated the questions.

The voice mail message says the Congressman regularly listens to his voice mail.

I think the House Ethics Committee ought to be opening a file on the Congressman to see if he has evaded applicable tax laws and violated Florida's residency requirements for running for office. 

Update 4 PM EDT

Here it appears is the relevant Fla law dealing with election fraud:

files below requires the free acrobat reader

• Elections Fraud Complaint Form(pdf,98kb) Requires Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Rule 1S-2.025 Elections Fraud Complaints(pdf,13kb)

"A person who commits or attempts to commit any fraud in connection with voting, votes a fraudulent ballot, or votes more than once in an election can be convicted of a felony of the third degree and fined up to $5,000 and/or imprisoned for up to 5 years."

Elections fraud can rob many Americans of their voice in government and greatly impact the results of elections across the nation. It is the active participation of citizens, like yourself, which aid in our mission to eliminate elections fraud.

Elections fraud means any irregularities or fraud arising out of or in connection with voter registration or voting, or candidate petition or issue petition activities that may constitute a prescribed offense Chapter 104, Florida Statutes. "Elections fraud" does not include violations of Chapter 106, F.S.

Should you observe or witness a potential case of election fraud, we ask that you complete the Complaint Form the form so it may be further investigated (see Rule 1S-2.025, Elections fraud Complaints).

The Division conducts preliminary investigations into any irregularities or fraud involving voter registration or voting, or candidate petition or issue petition activities, in conjunction with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. If there is probable cause that a violation occurred, the Division will report its findings to the statewide prosecutor or the state attorney for the judicial circuit in which the alleged violation occurred for prosecution, where warranted.

Therefore, in order for us to be able to conduct preliminary investigations, it is imperative that you provide us with the date, time, place and any specific circumstances that are witnessed. We need credible evidence (this does not mean suspicion). We also need a means of contacting you to obtain additional information. If you believe you have witnessed elections fraud, please contact our Elections Fraud Hotline at 1- 877-868-3737.

I called an attorney at the General Counsel's office to see if anyone has filed a complaint and if there are any cases dealing with perjury on candidate petition forms.

They responded and said it was a federal matter, not a state one. That as to his present eligibility inquiry should be made to the Speaker of the House of Representatives or a challenge can be made iin federal district court in Florida.

As to whether he is liable for past election fraud, inquiry should be made to the Florida Attorney General.

Read it all over at The American Thinker

UPDATE: Cindy sent me this: "Wexler reacts here (like a crying little girl) Like I posted in the comments, they didn't have any problem ripping apart Rick Santorum for pretty much the same thing."

UPDATE: Corrupt  Wexker is scamming the tax code. That is so ....... Democrat.

DEMOCRAT CONGRESS: HIDES, RESTRICTS COVERAGE - FREE SPEECH UNDER ATTACK AGAIN

Why wouldn't Democrats want the American people, the folks,  to see them at work in Washington. This is an affront to every tenet of AN American government by the people, for the people .... yes, yes the little people.

This is works in tandem with the Democrat's venal Fairness Doctrine that seeks to shut down the few outlets right of center voices have to express their views. No radio station owner is going to run content that no one ants to hear (see Air America for the abject failure of liberal talk radio. Owners will switch formats. Business in business to make money. hello. )  Liberal fascism.

YOU CAN"T POST THIS!

Breaking News: Free Speech Under Attack Congressman John Culberson hat tip David

Today House Republican Leader John Boehner issued a statement indicating that Democrats are seeking to quash the right of Members of Congress to have free speech. According to the statement, the Democrats are looking at restricting Member content on websites outside the house.gov domain. Congressman Culberson is quickly becoming a "real time representative" by posting on Twitter.com, where he sends regular updates from the House floor and the halls of Congress, and on Qik.com, where he films and posts video updates on the Internet. This new technology allows him to bypass the mainstream media and shine sunlight into the darkest corners of Congress. If the Democrats strong-arm this rule, he would no longer be able to use these websites and our fundamental right to free speech will be taken away.

The following is Mr. Boehner's statement:

I’m writing to alert you to an attack on free speech that is making its way through Congress. This attack, which should concern activists of all political affiliations across the ideological spectrum, comes in the form of a new congressional rule that would prohibit Americans from viewing content published by Members of Congress on websites that are not “approved” by the Committee on House Administration, the panel that creates rules governing the internal operations of the U.S. House.

Millions of Americans today utilize free, unregulated and uncensored websites like YouTube on a daily basis to not only obtain information from their elected leaders about what’s going on in their government, but to also give feedback and easily share that information with others. The advent of new media technology has empowered American citizens with real-time information about the policy debates and actions being undertaken by Congress. This has increasingly forced Congress to become more transparent and made it easier for American citizens to hold their elected leaders accountable.

The Committee on House Administration is considering a new rule that could bring this trend to a screeching halt. The Committee is considering the adoption of new rules that would require outside websites such as YouTube to comply with House regulations before Members of Congress could post videos on them. Under the proposal, the House Administration Committee would develop a list of “approved” websites, and Members of Congress could post content only such websites.

If the proposed rule is adopted, the free flow of information over the Internet between Americans and their representatives will be significantly curtailed. Americans who currently use free websites like YouTube to obtain uncensored daily information about congressional policy debates will instead be forced to go to websites “approved” by the House Administration Committee in order to continue getting such information. This would amount to new government censorship of the Internet, by a panel of federal officials that is neither neutral nor independent.

House Republicans, led by Reps. Vern Ehlers (R-MI), Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and Tom Price (R-GA), have expressed their opposition to this attack on Internet freedom and proposed an alternative solution that would allow Members of Congress to continue posting content at sites of their choosing. I will continue to keep you updated as this situation unfolds. 

UPDATE: Democrats strike again! Rep. Mick Capuano (D-MA), who calls the internet a "necessary evil." (more at Redstate hat tip Van)

ANWR, THE DEMOCRATS AND THE BIG LIE

I received this from George whose brother worked in D.C. for a firm that helped companies and other entities present their views on public policy issues with printed materials, speeches and congressional testimony. "The pictures below are some of the ones he used on behalf of his client (not these exactly as these were forwarded to me from a friend who did not identify the source). His client was the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Their headline was “If you care about Mother Earth, you should support opening ANWR.” They went on to explain in detail about the methods and care taken to protect the environment while drilling for the energy that is the lifeblood of our economy –and way of life.    I was surprised, too."

Bottom line. When you hear Demoncrats saying ANWR won't solve all of our oil problems. Let me say - no one answer will (until some genius scientist develops a synthetic oil). Until such time, we must take many proactive actions. ANWR, shale, coastal drilling etc. -- altogether these solutions will relieve us of the horrible dependence we have on jihad oil.

Who the hell are the Dems working for? We elected them - they are public servants. They work for us. /not.

ANWR = Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Now… A comparison

And some perspective…

NOTE WHERE THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT AREA IS…

(it's in the "ANWR Coastal Plain")

THIS IS WHAT THE DEMOCRATS, LIBERALS AND "GREENS" SHOW YOU WHEN THEY TALK ABOUT ANWR …and they are right… these ARE photographs of ANWR

ISN'T ANWR BEAUTIFUL? WHY SHOULD WE DRILL HERE (AND DESTROY) THIS BEAUTIFUL PLACE?

WELL… THAT'S NOT EXACTLY THE TRUTH

Check the map .....the map showed that the proposed drilling area is in the ANWR Coastal Plain  

Do those photographs look like a coastal plain to you?  

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

THE ANSWER IS SIMPLE…

THAT IS NOT WHERE THEY ARE WANTING TO DRILL!

THIS IS WHAT THE PROPOSED EXPLORATION AREA ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE WINTER

AND THIS IS WHAT IT ACTUALLY LOOKS LIKE IN THE SUMMER

HERE ARE A COUPLE SCREEN SHOTS FROM GOOGLE EARTH

AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA WHERE THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT DRILLING IS A BARREN WASTELAND.

OH… AND THEY SAY THAT THEY ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE EFFECT ON THE LOCAL WILDLIFE…  

HERE IS A PHOTO (SHOT DURING THE SUMMER) OF THE "DEPLETED WILDLIFE" SITUATION CREATED BY DRILLING AROUND PRUDHOE BAY*… DON'T YOU THINK THAT THE CARIBOU REALLY HATE THAT DRILLING?

HERE'S THAT SAME SPOT DURING THE WINTER.

HEY, THIS BEAR SEEMS TO REALLY HATE THE PIPELINE NEAR PRUDHOE BAY*…

*The Prudhoe bay area accounts for 17% of U.S. domestic oil production

NOW, WHY DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEMOCRATS ARE LYING ABOUT ANWR?

REMEMBER WHEN AL GORE SAID THAT THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD WORK TO ARTIFICIALLY RAISE GAS PRICES TO $5.00 A GALLON?

WELL… AL GORE AND HIS FELLOW DEMOCRATS HAVE ALMOST REACHED THEIR GOAL!

You may want to give credit where credit is due to Al Gore and his global warming campaign the next time you fill your car with gasoline, because there is a direct connection between Global Warming and four dollar a gallon gas.  It is shocking, but true, to learn that the entire Global Warming frenzy is based on the environmentalist’s attack on fossil fuels, particularly gasoline.  All this big time science, international meetings, thick research papers, dire threats for the future; all of it, comes down to their claim that the carbon dioxide in the exhaust from your car and in the smoke stacks from our power plants is destroying the climate of planet Earth.  What an amazing fraud; what a scam. (more from John Coleman herer)

* The New Hampshire Union Leader: “It is conveniently forgotten today that former Vice President Al Gore, among other leftists, once advocated that the government artificially raise gas prices to discourage oil consumption." hat tip Tim Blair

NOW THAT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT IT?

UPDATE: Stogie has this:

ANWR Exploration
House Republicans: 91% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed

Coal-to-Liquid
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 78% Opposed
Oil Shale Exploration
House Republicans: 90% Supported
House Democrats: 86% Opposed
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Exploration
House Republicans: 81% Supported
House Democrats: 83% Opposed
Refinery Increased Capacity
House Republicans: 97% Supported
House Democrats: 96% Opposed
SUMMARY
91% of House Republicans have historically
voted to increase the production of American-
made oil and gas.
86% of House Democrats have historically
voted against increasing the production of
American-made oil and gas.

Another Democrat Abomination: Censure Congressman William Delahunt!

]Where the hell were the Republicans?  Keith Ellison (who took his oath on the Koran) and vile Conyers were interrogating  these fine men like they were Bin Laden.
If you do one thing today, Censure Congressman William Delahunt! Now.
Redstate has the whole thing here:

Damn us all and our party if we let this go
Congressman Delahunt can be reached at 202-225-3111 and by fax at 202-225-5658
By The Directors

It is no secret that public discourse in this country has become very shrill. Blogs on the left regularly feature vulgar diatribes against the right. Some on the right do the same. Keith Olbermann tells the President to "shut the hell up" on his television program. The New York Times publicly reveals the name of a CIA agent who did the dirty work of interrogating captured Al Qaeda operatives. The left says, "So, the right did it to Valerie Plame," treating as morally equivalent the disclosure of the spy no longer spying and the disclosure of one of the men Al Qaeda would love to behead.

Dismissive of the fact that it was Armitage all along.

While Congress has also descended into a more shrill style, until yesterday it had not crossed one line of civility that never should be crossed on either side.

David Addington is the Vice President's Chief of Staff. Yesterday, he testified before Congress.

During the course of the hearing, Congressman and Obama Superdelegate William Delahunt (MA-10) asked Mr. Addington about water boarding. Mr. Addington responded that he would not go into details because Al Qaeda is probably watching.

Congressman Delahunt's response was, "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you."

Mr. Delahunt now denies he meant what he said. But what he clearly said was "I'm glad they finally have a chance to see you." Al Qaeda now knows the face of one of the men who relentlessly pursues its henchmen and deals with their interrogations. Mr. Addington volunteered for public service, not a death sentence with Congressional encouragement. Mr. Delahunt is both a vile liar and a cowardly lion willing to roar down at Mr. Addington while encouraging terrorists to do his dirty work in a war he has been ineffective at stopping.

The left, while attacking Charlie Black for stating the obvious -- that a terrorist incident helps the GOP politically because they are seen as more competent in the national security arena -- is defending this degradation of congressional discourse and vile swipe at Mr. Addington.

This discourse — a member of Congress glad Al Qaeda has a face it can pursue — is beneath the dignity of the Congress and beneath the dignity of civil discourse in this country.

If you do not call your Congressman today and demand the House of Representatives, at the very *least*, censure Congressman Delahunt, well damn us all. We have no right to carry on our fight.

The number is 202-224-3121 and Congressman Delahunt's email address is william.delahunt@mail.house.gov.

And some intrepid reporter should ask Mr. Obama what he thinks of this. After all, Mr. Delahunt was one of Mr. Obama's early supporters and is now an Obama superdelegate. Of course, you can ask Barack Obama yourself at (866) 675-2008.

UPDATE: From RightMarch.com:

THIS IS OUTRAGEOUS! We need to DEMAND that the U.S. House CENSURE this Congressman for inciting Al Qaeda to murder, NOW!

https://secure.responseenterprises.com/addington/?a=7

Thanks to Rep. Delahunt's despicable comments on broadcast television, David Addington and his family will probably need protection from now until the War on Terror is over!

Patriotic Americans MUST demand ACTION from Congress on this outrage -- and we've got just the way to do it!

TAKE ACTION: Rep. Delahunt is now trying to "backpedal" on what he said, denying that he didn't mean what his statement plainly inferred. He's even trying to say that he said "I" and not "they" in his statement – when all we have to do is go to YouTube to watch EXACTLY what he said!

Delahunt, at the very LEAST, must be censored by Congress for his remarks. To make sure this happens, we've set up our website so that you can send "Blast Faxes" to EVERY SINGLE U.S. Representative AT ONCE, urging that they CENSURE Delahunt for his outrageous comments TODAY!

For about what it would cost you in time and telephone charges, you can send Blast Faxes to ALL 435 members of Congress – RIGHT NOW: Go Here.

Obama/Gore/Soros/UN= Loss of sovereignty

The one worlders will have you by the throat and suck the life out of it. I hope McCain doesn't squander this opportunity I would bash Obama with this dreck.

Obama's Global Tax Bill Coming Soon Lee Cary, American Thinker

The Global Poverty Act of 2007 (S.2433) is coming up for a Senate vote sometime after the July 4 recess, according the office of Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Once Harry Reid and the Democrat leadership put it on the calendar, we could have as little as a week to prepare for the vote.

The bill is sponsored in the Senate by Barack Obama.  Read about it here.

If passed, it will cost taxpayers $845,000,000,000 over the next 13 years, in addition to our current foreign aid expenditures. 

And the best part is that it will be administered in conjunction with...brace yourselves...the United Nations. The same one of "Food-for-Oil" fame.

It passed (H.R. 1302) earlier by a unanimous voice vote in the House. 

It's about global income redistribution. Their distribution - our income.

Heard much debate about it?   Ah, it's only 8.5 tenths of a trillion.

Liberal Fascism: PELOSI SUPPORTS CONTROLLED SPEECH

Speaker Pelosi made some stunning comments to a group of journalists yesterday regarding her support for the Fairness Doctrine:

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

Of course if this meant that the right would get equal time in and on the mainstream media, then the choke hold the media has in the big message and the national dialogue would forever change. And perhaps America would stay true to her fundamental values. NC, ABC, CBS, New York Times having to give eual time to every leftist position and slant would be the greatest thing that could happen to America. This sadly is not the case. The fairness doctrine would usher in a dark age. The American people have no clue what is going down.

The name itself is Randian "fairness doctrine". It is so Ellsworth Toohey. These folks are frightening, really scary.

 

Pelosi on 'Hush Rush,' and Filibustering FISA

by John Gizzi (more by this author)

The speaker of the House made it clear to me and more than forty of my colleagues yesterday that a bill by Rep. Mike Pence (R.-Ind.) to outlaw the “Fairness Doctrine” (which a liberal administration could use to silence Rush Limbaugh, other radio talk show hosts and much of the new alternative media) would not see the light of day in Congress during ’08.  In ruling out a vote on Pence’s proposed Broadcaster's Freedom Act, Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D.-CA.) also signaled her strong support for revival of the “Fairness Doctrine” -- which would require radio station owners to provide equal time to radio commentary when it is requested.

Experts say that the “Fairness Doctrine,” which was ended under the Reagan Administration, would put a major burden on small radio stations in providing equal time to Rush Limbaugh and other conservative broadcasters, who are a potent political force.  Rather than engage in the costly practice of providing that time, the experts conclude, many stations would simply not carry Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and other talk show hosts who are likely to generate demands for equal time.

At a breakfast hosted by the Christian Science Monitor yesterday, I asked Pelosi if Pence failed to get the required signatures on a discharge petition to get his anti-Fairness Doctrine bill out of committee, would she permit the Pence measure to get a floor vote this year.

“No,” the Speaker replied, without hesitation.  She added that “the interest in my caucus is the reverse” and that New York Democratic Rep. “Louise Slaughter has been active behind this [revival of the Fairness Doctrine] for a while now.”

Pelosi pointed out that, after it returns from its Fourth of July recess, the House will only meet for another three weeks in July and three weeks in the fall.  There are a lot of bills it has to deal with before adjournment, she said, such as FISA and an energy bill.

“So I don’t see it [the Pence bill] coming to the floor,” Pelosi said.

“Do you personally support revival of the ‘Fairness Doctrine?’” I asked.

“Yes,” the speaker replied, without hesitation

Obama's Oil Idiocy

Why does it seem like the Democrats are doing everything in their power to actually prolong the energy crisis?

Not content with hamstringing US oil exploration, they are against Iraq handing out contracts: Senators seek to stop Iraq oil deals

Mustn't let ANYONE provide more oil!  Not us, not Iraq.  I'm surprised they haven' t leaned on OPEC to cut production.

Ben explains:

Note the Dems are a day late and a dollar short, as usual:  Total, a FRENCH corporation, just scored a deal with Iraq.

Obama's ignorance is astounding.  Try applying his "We can't drill our way out of an oil shortage!" logic to any other commodity, and you get:

"More construction of new homes will NOT reduce the housing shortage!"  and

"Increased farming will not ease the food shortage!"

Nothing ever misspoke by Bush has ever been so utterly stupid.  It is one thing to fumble the words while processing a coherent thought.  Obama is a guy who will clearly and plainly speak words of absolute idiocy.

Obama's Blackness Bitchslaps his Whiteness

Have you seen this? Have you seen Obama sinking to the depths of gutter politics. He plays the race card again. Close your eyes, he sure sounds like a racist. It is wild to me that the man that ascended to  one of the most powerful positions in the world - one step away from the White House - is saying this is a racist nation. Would a racist nation put him one stop away from the Whitey House?  And yet he is still playing the race card.  He's black! He's white! He was Muslim, now he's not! He's American but he's a Marxist! He's like a modern day three faces of Eve. (vid hat tip Hot Air)

"It is going to be very difficult for Republicans to run on their stewardship of the economy or their outstanding foreign policy…We know what kind of campaign they're going to run. They're going to try to make you afraid…They're going to try to make you afraid of me. He's young and inexperienced and he's got a funny name. And did I mention he's black?…he's got a feisty wife…We know the strategy because they've already shown their cards." (hat tip Lrawyn via Dinocrat)

This is the most divisive demagogue that has ever reached the pinnacle of power in Modern American history.

Rockman wrote,

...it was the Southern Democratic Party in alleigance with the Ku Klux Klan that brought back servitude and the denial of Black Rights. The Democratic Party. It is no secret that White Southerners were responsible for Slavery and the founding of the Confederacy. It is no secret White Southerners, excepting a few very brave souls who left the South after their lives were threatened, endorsed, applauded, and supported the denial of Black rights.

Andrew Johnson, Ben Tillman, Woodrow Wilson,Tom Watson, John Rankin, Theodore Bilbo (the last three vicious Jew-baiters as well as Black haters), George Wallace, Lester Maddox, Fulbright (yes, the Lib's darling), Faubus, and lest we forget - Senator KKK Byrd and Jimmy Carter, who began his career as an Klan acolyte - the list of White Southern Democrat bigots goes on and on.

Yes, the Republican Party, formed to fight Slavery in 1856, that elected a President who fought to preserve the Union and end Slavery, a President murdered by the same mentality that gave us the Ku Klux Klan. A Party willing to do the right thing to save America and send 600,000 boys to their graves - maybe that too, was an unnecessary war, right?

And Julian Bond calls it the Taliban. But hey, it gets worse.

What party did Bond owe his allegiance to? Why the Democrats, even with the scores of bigots and those who hadn't exactly discarded their white sheets (Byrd, for example). Or their "new" hero, Jimmy Webb, who at www.jameswebb.com openly admires the Confederacy and an ancestor who fought for Nathan Bedford Forrest. At Fort Pillow, no doubt.

Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters, the Charlie Barron guy in New York City who wanted to slap white faces, the "victicrat" list goes on and on, not to mention the shameful - if not groveling, collaboration with White Southern bigots on the part of Black Democrats. And Lo and Behold, we've got the Lincoln disser, the guy who brought Jerry Wright, and by extension Farrakhan to the table. The guy who befriends Ayers, Dohrn, anti-Semites like Brezinzski, McPeak, Power, Islamofascists like Said and Khalidi. And yes, the guy who once proclaimed that "Republicans discovered Black people" while he admires and respects Robert Byrd.

Not once has any of the above demanded Byrd's resignation. Obama? You've got to be kidding! You would think there's a sense of honor and dignity, but no. It's Trent Lott, Tom DeLay, and Republicans they'll go after and call the Taliban or much worse.

For all his Ivy League learning, Obama never learned a damn thing about History - and neither, apparently Bill Moyers in not mentioning once the disgusting history of the White Democratic Party in the South between 1865-1970.

So yes, for this former Civil Rights worker, there is a lot of anger towards a Racial Hypocrite like Obama. My blood is on the ground so that he, Jesse Jackson and Condi Rice can make total assholes of themselves, or that we can have Black Nazis like Jerry Wright. But hey, this is America.

And while we are on the subject, read "Dixiecrats Triumphant" at Reason Online.

UPDATE: Baldilocks opines here:

Most people couldn't care less about your name and your color, Senator Obama. They fear being lead by you because you have no substantive legislative record, you're a chronic liar and, after explicitly stating that you choose your friends carefully, you have repeatedly and systematically made friends with people who hate this country.

You would "bridge the divide," Senator, by burning that bridge.

 

BUSH:LIFT OFFSHORE OIL DRILLING BAN

Long long overdue. Serious Democrat dementia has put this nation's security at risk.No driling offshore! No drilling in the frozen tundra! No nuclear power plants! No refineries!

The energy deable will be discussed at length on my show with Jameds Woolsey tomorrow.  Empowering jihad nations and throwing America in front of the bus has fueled the Islamic world's dream of the return of caliphate.

Languid Larwyn sent me this. I suggest all my readers contact their Congress

Breaking: Bush Will Call On Congress To Lift Ban On Offshore Drilling Tomorrow Gateway

 

President George W. Bush will call on Congress to lift the ban on offshore drilling tomorrow.
--Via FOX News.

For decades Democrats have set up "No Zones" where they will not allow drilling or development:

(Republican Senator Craig put together this map.)
As Americans pay more for gas than ever under this Congress--
Democrats continue to vote against drilling and oil exploration.

Over the past 30 years:

Democrats have blocked the development of new sources of petroleum.
Democrats have blocked drilling in ANWR.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the coast of Florida.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the east coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off of the west coast.
Democrats have blocked drilling off the Alaskan coast.
Democrats have blocked building oil refineries.
Democrats have blocked clean nuclear energy production.
Democrats have blocked clean coal production.

67% of Americans support offshore- 64% say it will lower gas prices.
Rasmussen reported:

A new Rasmussen Reports telephone survey—conducted before McCain announced his intentions on the issue--finds that 67% of voters believe that drilling should be allowed off the coasts of California, Florida and other states. Only 18% disagree and 15% are undecided. Conservative and moderate voters strongly support this approach, while liberals are more evenly divided (46% of liberals favor drilling, 37% oppose).

Sixty-four percent (64%) of voters believe it is at least somewhat likely that gas prices will go down if offshore oil drilling is allowed, although 27% don't believe it. Seventy-eight percent (78%) of conservatives say offshore drilling is at least somewhat likely to drive prices down. That view is shared by 57% of moderates and 50% of liberal voters.

Barack Obama opposes drilling for oil.

In related news... Al Gore's home consumed 10% more electricity this year than last.

Apologize you fat bastard

Haditha charges dropped against top Marine officer (hat tip Van)

So when is that lying sack of dirt Murtha going to apologize (check this out)? BILL RUSSELL FOR CONGRESS. Atlas/Russell interview here.

UPDATE: Ben Johnson over at Frontpage:

Murtha Lied; Marines Were Tried (And Acquitted)

On May 17, 2006, John Murtha, he of the unassailable “war hero”/“patriot” mythos, assailed his fellow Marines in Haditha as murderers “in cold blood.” The super-patriot made this indictment, in front of an international audience, before an investigation had concluded. His spurious charges seem to have done those eight men charged little legal damage – but they have caused incalculable harm to the United States armed forces still in the field.

At Camp Pendleton yesterday, military judge Col. Steven Folsom dismissed all charges against Lt. Col. Jeffrey R. Chessani, the highest-ranking officer accused in the Haditha massacre-of-justice. The ruling makes him the seventh of eight accused in the Haditha skirmish to have charges dismissed. In Chessani’s case, his charges were dropped without prejudice – meaning they could be filed again later, but CentCom could not be part of the process, as there had been fear the judge had an inappropriately close relationship with one of the investigators. Chessani had been accused of violating a lawful order and dereliction of duty in reporting the incident.

The antiwar Left morphed reporting errors into a “cover-up,” much as it deformed a self-defense operation against terrorists hiding amidst Iraq’s civilian population as an imperial assault on 24 blameless Iraqi civilians cowering “as if in prayer.”

Lt. Col. Chessani can now be reunited with his six young children.“We hope it’s over,” said his attorney Brian Rooney.” We believe it should be over.” Rooney added, “We’ve had to go through a two-year process to prove what we knew from the beginning.”

Rooney referred to the report of the military’s internal investigation, issued in March 2006, two months before Murtha denounced his own military before the world. (\Watch Murtha slander our troops.\) The report concluded, “there is no evidence that the Marines intentionally set out to target, engage, and kill non-combatants.”

Every trial to date has proven the report truthful and Murtha a calumnious liar: continue reading it all

Read it, understand just who and what the Democrat leadership of this country is.

US GOVT AIDS ABETS CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE COVER UP IN ISLAMIC JIHAD ACADEMY

*******UPDATE: Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, who led the protest today against the jihad Islamic academy will be on my radio show tomorrow at 12 noon after CIA Director James Woolsey.********

An evil  Democrat tool, Gerry Connolly, offered strong defense of the Islamic school that teaches jihad, Jew hate and aids and abets child sexual molestation. Gerry Connolly, who is the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia's 11th District -- offered a strong defense of the school and accused the school's critics of slander during the meeting in which the lease was approved. Connelly is runningfor Congress. Who would vote for this jihad lover, whatever your party affiliation? Accusing great Americans of slander, it is he who is slanderous. I would love to read his list of donors, I betcha it is chuck full of Saudi blood money.

The mainstream media is finally catching up on this story and it's a jaw dropper. Connelly should be arrested for aiding and abetting the enemy on native soil.

The State department refuses to release the ugly, spew hating textbooks that were corrected with, get this ... white-out.

Note the headline "child abuse" -- it's sexual molestation ---the MSM are such dangerous clowns.

Islamic School Director Arrested NBC News hat tip Patrick Poole

Al-Shabnan Charged With Failure To Report Child Abuse

The director of a Saudi government-funded Islamic school has been arrested and charged with failing to report a child abuse allegation, adding to scrutiny of the northern Virginia academy as protesters came out Tuesday to call for a federal investigation of its teachings.

 

Abdalla I. Al-Shabnan, director of the Islamic Saudi Academy, was also charged with obstruction of justice, according to a police report about the June 9 arrest.

The misdemeanor counts come at a time when the private school is under heavy criticism from a federal commission and others over textbooks that allegedly teach violence and hate. More than a dozen protesters lined up outside the school Tuesday, waving signs that read "Saudi hate is not an American family value" and "Islamic Shariah teaches violence and hate."

Go Great Americans go!

The protesters, including the conservative Traditional Values Coalition, want the Justice and State departments to investigate the school. The State Department last year obtained copies of the school's textbooks but has so far refused to make them public.

Andrea Lafferty, executive director of the Traditional Values Coalition, said the arrest of al-Shabnan is just further evidence of problems at the school. "The academy is a virtual one-stop shopping center for law enforcement," she said, citing the case of a former school valedictorian, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, who was convicted of joining al-Qaida after leaving the school and plotting to assassinate President Bush.

Al-Shabnan's arrest came after police alleged he covered up an incident in which a 5-year-old girl attending the school reported that she was being sexually abused by her father. According to court papers, Al-Shabnan, 52, of McLean, told police that he didn't believe the girl, and advised the girl's parents to put her into counseling. But state law requires school authorities to report alleged child abuse within 72 hours of learning of the allegation.

Al-Shabnan is free pending trial. Police said in court papers that Al-Shabnan ordered a written report about the girl's complaint, which had been prepared by other school officials, to be deleted from a school computer.

Al-Shabnan has not returned repeated phone calls and e-mails from The Associated Press seeking comment over the last week. Last week, a federal commission issued a report detailing numerous troubling passages from school textbooks. A 12th-grade text on Quranic interpretation teaches students that it is permissible for Muslims to kill adulterers and converts from Islam, according to the investigation by the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a panel created by Congress that monitors religious freedom rights around the world.

12th grade? They are teaching this sedition and treason and murder to 17 year olds and the State department is protecting them. Who the hell is the State department working for?

Other passages in the school's textbooks state that "the Jews conspired against Islam and its people" and that Muslims are permitted to take the lives and property of those deemed "polytheists." The school issued a statement saying the textbooks had been mistranslated and misinterpreted and that some of the textbooks studied by the commission are no longer in use. But the statement offered no detailed explanation of the specific passages cited by the commission, and school officials have not returned calls seeking comment.

Generally, the school has said in the past that some of the textbooks it uses come from Saudi Arabia and contain harsh language inappropriate for use in the United States. The school has said it revises the textbooks as needed. Indeed, the commission found evidence that individual passages were removed from individual textbooks, sometimes covered up with correction fluid.

But John Cosgrove of Springfield, Va., one of the protesters outside the school, said the revisions are even more troubling given the passages cited in the commission's report that were not deleted. "It stands to reason that the material they left in is material they think is acceptable," Cosgrove said. The commission and other critics of the school say the State Department ought to take a more assertive role in regulating the school because it functions as an arm of the Saudi embassy.

Also, the school's lease with Fairfax County specifically gives the State Department the right to intervene if it has concerns about the academy. Protesters also criticized the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors for voting unanimously last month to extend the school's lease. The lease was extended after county officials conducted their own review of the textbooks and said they didn't find any serious problems.  The board's chairman -- Gerry Connolly, who is the Democratic nominee for Congress in Virginia's 11th District -- offered a strong defense of the school and accused the school's critics of slander during the meeting in which the lease was approved.

Update" Pamela provides coverage of the protest of the sick Saudi school:
Andrea Lafferty at today's Saudi Islamic School protest

scenes from the demo

They offered water in front of the press, but refused to talk about the textbooks or the schools complicity in covering up the sexual abuse of a 5 year old.

On the sex charges:

More video here

LOAN SLEAZE SPREADS: DIRTY DODD AND CROOKED CONRAD

Looks like the Frends of  (I can't vet the vetters) Obama loan scandal is spreading and it involves a couple of pillars (hic) of the Democrat. America wants change? Good luck with that.

LOAN SLEAZE SPREADS 2 SENATORS GOT 'EXEC PAL' DEALS NY Post hat tip rut

Two influential US senators got "VIP" loans from a leading subprime mortgage lender that saved them tens of thousands of dollars, it was reported last night.

The Democratic pols, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Kent Conrad of North Dakota, both received the highly favorable loans under the designation "Friend of Angelo," a reference to embattled Countrywide head Angelo Mozilo, Condé Nast Portfolio reported.

Dodd is chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, while Conrad is chairman of the Budget Committee and a member of the Finance Committee. The two senators refinanced properties through the VIP program in 2003 and 2004, the report said.

[...]

Citing company documents and e-mails, the report says the FOAs paid lower fees, and if rates fell while a loan was pending, the VIPs would get a free "float-down" while regular customers had to pay a surcharge.

Dodd reportedly received two loans through the program in 2003 - $506,000 to refinance his Washington town house, and $275,042 to refinance a home in Connecticut. The more favorable terms saved him about $70,000, the report says.

The company has also contributed $21,000 to Dodd's campaigns since 1997, but the senator proposed a bill last year that was averse to the company's lending practices, the report noted.

Conrad borrowed $1 million to refinance his vacation home, and saved at least $10,000.

Crooked bastards.

 

ROCKEFELLER AND CO: INCAPABLE OF INTELLIGENCE

First off, must read editorial in The NY SUN: "These are inconvenient facts for Democrats that decided some time in 2004 that they could wash their hands of the war for Iraq by claiming they were duped by the president and his conservative backers. It turns out that even their own investigation mocks their claim."

Party before country, baby,  party before country. Always.

"Our evidence suggests that Baghdad is strengthening a relationship with al-Qaeda that dates back to the mid-1990s, when senior Iraqi intelligence officers established contact with the network in several countries."

"We have some evidence that Iraqi Intelligence has been in contact with elements in the northeastern area. And the al-Qaeda operatives there are in regular contact with other operatives located in Baghdad. The Iraqi government has also received information from other sources alerting it to the presence of al-Qaeda operatives in Baghdad."

"We have hard evidence that al-Qaeda is operating in several locations in Iraq with the knowledge and acquiescence of Saddam's regime."

***

Guess who wrote that? If you have been following the Democratic Party's narrative on Iraq, you might guess Ahmad Chalabi, Douglas Feith, Vice President Cheney or some neoconservatives hell bent on twisting intelligence to overstate the connection between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. But those words are from Carl Ford, assistant state secretary for intelligence and research, whose bureau was singled out for praise after the war for its dissenting assessment of Iraq's nuclear program.

Read it all.

Also the committee looked at only the finished intelligence products but not the daily spot analyses the intelligence community produces for senior administration officials. Mr. Rockefeller decided to exclude a handwritten note from the CIA's terrorism analyst of the Mr. Bush's 2002 speech in Cincinnati on the eve of the Congressional vote authorizing the war saying the paragraphs about Iraq and terrorism were "all-Okay." Wrote Senators Bond, Chambliss, Hatch, and Burr in an addendum to the report: "Apparently the majority did not think this was something the public needed to know since they denied our request to include it and did not allow a vote on the amendment offered to fix this shortcoming."

There were reports over the weekend that Congressmen are going to have an agenda in Congress to promote Obama. Rockefeller-big Obama supporter-in part of this campaign. (hat tip Lasky) Over at WaPo:

But dive into Rockefeller's report, in search of where exactly President Bush lied about what his intelligence agencies were telling him about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein, and you may be surprised by what you find.

On Iraq's nuclear weapons program? The president's statements "were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates."

On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president's statements "were substantiated by intelligence information."

On chemical weapons, then? "Substantiated by intelligence information."

On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information." Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? "Generally substantiated by available intelligence." Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? "Generally substantiated by intelligence information."

As you read through the report, you begin to think maybe you've mistakenly picked up the minority dissent. But, no, this is the Rockefeller indictment. So, you think, the smoking gun must appear in the section on Bush's claims about Saddam Hussein's alleged ties to terrorism.

But statements regarding Iraq's support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information." Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda "were substantiated by the intelligence assessments," and statements regarding Iraq's contacts with al-Qaeda "were substantiated by intelligence information." The report is left to complain about "implications" and statements that "left the impression" that those contacts led to substantive Iraqi cooperation.

In the report's final section, the committee takes issue with Bush's statements about Saddam Hussein's intentions and what the future might have held. But was that really a question of misrepresenting intelligence, or was it a question of judgment that politicians are expected to make?

After all, it was not Bush, but Rockefeller, who said in October 2002: "There has been some debate over how 'imminent' a threat Iraq poses. I do believe Iraq poses an imminent threat. I also believe after September 11, that question is increasingly outdated. . . . To insist on further evidence could put some of our fellow Americans at risk. Can we afford to take that chance? I do not think we can."

Rockefeller was reminded of that statement by the committee's vice chairman, Sen. Christopher S. Bond (R-Mo.), who with three other Republican senators filed a minority dissent that includes many other such statements from Democratic senators who had access to the intelligence reports that Bush read. The dissenters assert that they were cut out of the report's preparation, allowing for a great deal of skewing and partisanship, but that even so, "the reports essentially validate what we have been saying all along: that policymakers' statements were substantiated by the intelligence."

Why does it matter, at this late date? The Rockefeller report will not cause a spike in "Bush Lied" mug sales, and the Bond dissent will not lead anyone to scrape the "Bush Lied" bumper sticker off his or her car.

But the phony "Bush lied" story line distracts from the biggest prewar failure: the fact that so much of the intelligence upon which Bush and Rockefeller and everyone else relied turned out to be tragically, catastrophically wrong.

And it trivializes a double dilemma that President Bill Clinton faced before Bush and that President Obama or McCain may well face after: when to act on a threat in the inevitable absence of perfect intelligence and how to mobilize popular support for such action, if deemed essential for national security, in a democracy that will always, and rightly, be reluctant.

For the next president, it may be Iran's nuclear program, or al-Qaeda sanctuaries in Pakistan, or, more likely, some potential horror that today no one even imagines. When that time comes, there will be plenty of warnings to heed from the Iraq experience, without the need to fictionalize more.

OBAMA'S CHANGE? VOTER FRAUD

"Nine out of ten people will vote the way I want them to"

 

Interesting Video of a Poll Worker from Chicago telling how he violates the law to get people to vote for Obama!!! You will not believe this crap....

Libertas over at Hip Hop Republican exposes with unnerving nonchalance the shocking revelations about how crooked the Obama machine is. This ain't change I can believe in. Foe shizzle.

Election Journal interviews Clarence Yancey, who has served as 43rd legislative district Democrat Chairman since 1982. EJ notes:

If candidates are looking