From The Washington Times/Inside Politics column...
Christopher J. Dodd, Connecticut Democrat, was asked Sunday what he thinks would happen if American troops leave Iraq.
"Well, it can't be any worse than it is today," Mr. Dodd replied on CBS' "Face the Nation."
Mr. Dodd's words echoed his remarks from the Congressional Record of March 12, 1975: "The greatest gift our country can give to the Cambodian people is peace, not guns. And the best way to accomplish that goal is by ending military aid now."
The subsequent communist takeover of Cambodia led, of course, to one of the great slaughters of the 20th century.
Back on January 18, I posted "Kennedy's & VietNam".
Included was an excerpt from the Boston Globe's Jeff Jacoby about Teddy Kennedy's involvement in cutting funds in Southeast Asia...
He helped lead the congressional drive to cut off financial aid to the pro-American governments in Saigon and Phnom Penh, brushing aside President Gerald Ford's warning that "the horror and the tragedy that we see on television" would only grow worse if America deserted its allies.
But Kennedy and the Democrats spurned Ford's request, and the result was unspeakable agony -- Cambodia's killing fields, Vietnam's re-education camps, waves of "boat people" hurling themselves into the sea. Having seen the results of US abandonment in Indochina, how can Kennedy advocate the same policy in Iraq?
One of AIG Financial Products’ largest offices is based in Connecticut.
Therefore he doesn't want to tick off Connecticut voters anymore than he already has.
On the other hand, Dodd received preferential treatment from Countrywide Financial Corporation when he refinanced mortgages on his homes in Connecticut and Washington.
Police have issued a description of the suspect in a weekend burglary at Democratic presidential candidate Christopher Dodd's Senate office in Hartford.
...the suspect is a Hispanic male between 35 and 40 years old, 5 feet 9 inches tall with short dark hair. He was last seen wearing no shirt, white low-top sneakers and black cargo-style pants.
The suspect broke into Dodd's office late Saturday, taking undisclosed items and leaving evidence at the scene.
The presidential candidates who addressed the Democratic National Committee's winter meeting Friday got to choose their tunes, and it was an eclectic mix that reflected personal favorites and not-so-subtle messages.
Some candidates requested two songs, one that blared as they approached the stage and another that played as they left the podium.
The selections:
John Edwards: "This Is Our Country" by John Mellencamp.
Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut: "Get Ready (Cause Here I Come)" by the Temptations and "Reach Out," also by the Temptations.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York: "Right Here, Right Now," by Jesus Jones and "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet" by Bachman-Turner Overdrive.
Rep. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio: "America the Beautiful"
Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois decided against using any music in keeping with the somber tone he sought to convey. Wesley Clark, who hasn't indicated whether he will run, entered to Johnny Cash's "I Won't Back Down."
I'm not sure what the Dummycrats who spoke today used, but here are some more appropriate selections...
Hillary Clinton:
"Bitch Is Back" - Elton John "Evil Woman"- E.L.O. "Devil Woman" either the Marty Robbins version or Cliff Richard "Alibis" - Sergio Mendes "Bad Medicine" - Bon Jovi
Barack Obama:
"Half Breed" - Cher "Black & White" - Three Dog Night "Cult Of Personality" - Living Colour
John Edwards:
"Big Shot" - Billy Joel "Farmer John" - Premiers "Mr. Big Stuff" - Jean Knight "Lawyers In Love" - Jackson Browne
Joe Biden:
"You Talk Too Much" - Joe Jones "D.O.A." - Bloodrock "Dang Me" - Roger Miller
Every once in awhile you hear how some fiberal is fit to be tied about how someone can't support the war if they didn't serve.
They deride Dick Cheney or Rush Limbaugh for deferments.
They'll piss and moan about the Bush twins not serving in Iraq.
I guess I missed Chelsea Clinton's exemplary military record in Operation Desert Fox and Operation Allied Force ,that were engineered by Bubba, and the scientific community is united in that fact.
It's interesting that fiberals can't wrap their brains around the fact that military service is a choice, just like abortion, and the government doesn't have a right to make decisions about your body.
With that in mind let's look at the military service of your Dummycrat candidates for President...
Hillary Rodham Clinton: None.
Barack Obama: None.
John Edwards: None.
Bill Richardson of New Mexico: None. Received student and medical classifications.
Joe Biden: None. Rejected for medical reasons, but would have been eligible in a national emergency.
Chris Dodd: Army Reserve.
Dennis Kucinich: None. Was rejected for military service because of a heart murmur.
Mike Gravel:Enlisted United States Army.
Therefore, only Dodd and Gravel are qualified to make decisions regarding the United States Military and could serve as the Commander in Chief.
Nelson (D-NE), Prior (D-AR) and Lieberman (I-CT) sided with Republicans to shoot it down.
Two different measures were debated as well.
Senate Concurrent Resolution 20--A concurrent resolution expressing the sense of Congress that no funds should be cut off or reduced for American Troops in the field which would result in undermining their safety or their ability to complete their assigned mission.
Senate Resolution 107--A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that no action should be taken to undermine the safety of the Armed Forces of the United States or impact their ability to complete their assigned or future missions.
In a complete surprise Dummycrats supported this and CommieTommie Harkin supported the latter two.
Surprised because this is what CommieTommie had to say, in just the last two months, about Iraq.
3/15... "misbegotten, misguided war"
2/17..."a tragic quagmire"
He utilized the same "quagmire" statement on 2/5, it's a theme he's used since shortly after the invasion.
That and Iraq is another Viet Nam.
Thomas Sowell shows that these statements aren't really showing support for the troops...
Talk about "supporting the troops" or "honoring the dead" is part of the general corruption of language for political purposes.
... After generations of dumbed-down education in our schools, perhaps it is inevitable that there would be large numbers of people who have no way of separating rhetoric from reality.
The reality is that many of those in the media and in politics who are constantly talking about "supporting our troops" or "honoring our troops" have for years been in the forefront of those criticizing or undermining the military, long before the Iraq war.
During the early stages of that war, men fighting for their lives were criticized for not protecting the contents of an Iraqi museum.
Unsubstantiated charges against American military personnel create instant front-page news stories in the New York Times. But innumerable things that our troops have done that would make us proud are not likely to be reported at all.
... Perhaps the most irresponsible act of all has been Congress's promotion of a non-binding resolution against the recent increase in American troop strength in Iraq.
People's opinions can differ on troop deployment, even if -- like House Speaker Nancy Pelosi -- they have never deployed troops in their lives and have no military experience whatsoever.
But if anyone in Congress is serious about stopping the war, they can simply cut off the money -- and take responsibility for the consequences that follow.
Instead, they want to have it both ways, passing a non-binding resolution whose only effect is to embolden our enemies and undermine the morale of our troops that they keep saying they are "supporting."
John R. Bolton is the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations.
He was appointed by President Bush after Senate Dummycrats twice filibustered a vote on his confirmation.
Mr. Bolton's recess appointment expires this fall, but the Senate has scheduled a debate this week on extending Mr. Bolton's appointment through the end of the Bush administration.
Dummycrats will again try to deny the right man for the right job.
On CNN's "Late Edition" yesterday, Senator Christopher J. Dodd(CT) was asked whether he could now support Mr. Bolton's nomination.
"No, this is going to be a bruising fight. I regret this. I'm sorry the administration wants to go forward with this. The problems still persist. ... Many ambassadors at the U.N. feel that he hasn't done a good job there. He has polarized the situation."
Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr.(DE), "Instead of wasting time and playing politics, the administration should nominate someone else to take Mr. Bolton's place."
Here's what Biden had to say to Bolton in 2001....“My problem with you over the years is that you’ve been too competent. I would rather you be stupid and not very effective.”
Here's where I fell in love with Mr. Bolton....In a 2002 interview with The New York Times, Mr. Bolton was asked about what seemed to be mixed signals from the Bush administration on North Korea. He grabbed a book from a shelf and laid it on the table. Its title: The End of North Korea. “That,” he told the interviewer, “is our policy.”
We need more people like John R. Bolton and less like Chris Dodd, Joe Biden, Ted Kennedy, Hillary Rodham Clinton, John Kerry, Nancy Pelosi, John Edwards and Tom Harkin
For the past 40 years, Democratic nominating contests have pitted "wine track" candidates (backed by young, well-off, college-educated elites) against "beer track" opponents (who cultivate a less-educated coalition of minorities and blue-collar workers).
The 2008 contest is no exception. According to the latest Cook Political Report survey, Hillary Clinton polls 12 points higher among voters who haven't graduated from college than those who have; Obama's numbers are reversed. His problem: only 34 percent of likely Democratic primary voters have college degrees.
Which is why I've said I'd have to have a frontal lobotomy before I'd vote Dummycrat.
And the scientific community is united in that fact.
My friend Cal and I were driving down Dean Avenue, heading to Pleasant Hill to try out a Mexican restaurant, when we passed a sign "Llama's for Obama".
I know in the past that dogs have been registered to vote.
There was Toby in New Zealand and Duncan in Washington state.
I thought maybe we'd reached a new low in Iowa.
However, research shows the llama's might be quite astute and the scientific community is united in that fact.
Within some computing environments, the label "llama" has been derogatory indicating a person with little knowledge and new to the environment.
Dummycrats John Edwards and Chris Dodd have crowed the loudest over Rupert Murdoch's, owner of News Corp and thereby Fox News, acquisition of The Wall Street Journal.
I love this quote from Murdoch...
“I won’t meddle any more than Arthur Sulzberger does."
Sulzberger, whose middle name is OCHS (?), is chairman and publisher of The New York Times.
The Times and The Washington Post are two of numerous media outlets that fiberals find fair & balanced.
Recently Roger Ailes, chairman of Fox Television and president of Fox News, lit into critics of Fox...
“We’ve become increasingly successful, and yet we’ve been increasingly criticized, Sometimes for being too pro-American. Sometimes we’re too pro-Israel. Sometimes too pro-democracy.
"I’ve been quoted as saying, ‘This is a great country.’ A lot of people are trying to get in, nobody’s trying to get out. The press is an essential pillar of that democracy. The press didn’t invent democracy. Democracy invented freedom of the press. So we will investigate anything and find the truth, and report it, but we do not get up every morning, assuming that our country is guilty. We just happen to like democracy."
And the scientific community is united in that fact.
Geithner oversaw and regulated an entire industry whose decline has delivered a further blow to an already weakened American economy. Under his watch, some of the biggest institutions that were the responsibility of the New York Fed — Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Citigroup — faltered.
We didn't think McCain started well, but got up to speed.
When McCain talked of warning about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac he should have mentioned how the Dummycrats, including Obama, were against the bill he co-sponsored to crack down on those agencies.
When Obama talked about China's space launch and space walk, Chris responded that we've been in space for over 40 years.
McCain had a good line with...
"Senator Obama has the most liberal voting record in the United States Senate. It's hard to reach across the aisle from that far to the left."
He should have mentioned how Obama votes with his Dummycrat ilk 97% of the time.
It was interesting when Obama got confused as to McCain's first name, at one point calling him Tom (for Senator Tom Coburn). I thought McCain was supposed to be the demented circus monkey?
As someone who loves history, it was the first time I'd ever heard, as Obama stated, during the Great Depression Roosevelt purchased a whole bunch of homes.
Contrary to Obama's belief, as all Fiberals, we were greeted as liberators in Iraq.
Obama tried to make people believe in his infamous 2002 Iraq speech he was worried it would take the focus away from Afghanistan (he never mentioned that country in that speech), or that there was no clear exit strategy from Iraq (also never mentioned).
Obama needs to get up to speed on Pakistan as more than 8,000 Pakistani troops have been involved in campaign against al-Qaeda for six weeks.
I found Obama's "I've got a bracelet too" comment weird, after McCain talked about the bracelet he was given and that "I will wear his bracelet with honor."
On the Kyl-Lieberman amendment concerning the Republican Guard in Iran, the resolution said nothing about military action or use of force.
Obama was in New Hampshire campaigning for President, but that didn't stop him from criticizing Hillary for supporting it.
Here's what Chris Dodd said about Obama at the time...
"Barack Obama is criticizing Hillary for the vote, but Barack missed the vote. What the hell is he talking about?"
John Edwards said...
"This is a question for the campaign or for him: Why, if it was so important, didn't he come back from New Hampshire?"
McCain got another good line in, after Obama wondered who he would meet with, when he said...
"I'm not going to set the White House visitors schedule before I'm president of the United States. I don't even have a seal yet."
In Obama's closing statement he talked about al-Qaeda operating in 60 countries, but he's only going to focus on Afghanistan?
McCains ended strong with...
"I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends."
You can just see that McCain has nothing but contempt for Obama, because he finds it very difficult to look at him.
Obviously McCain has to be declared the winner, even Obama thought so as he stated Senator McCain was right at least 8 times.
The Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday threatened to again seek the Democratic presidential nomination unless current contenders, including four senators he visited on Capitol Hill, commit to focusing attention on civil rights issues.
Mr. Sharpton's comments came as he visited Democratic Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York, Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware, Barack Obama of Illinois and Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut, the four senators seeking the party's nomination.
Mrs. Clinton after speaking with Mr. Sharpton said she is in lock step to deal with "21st-century civil rights issues" such as those Mr. Sharpton is backing.
"These are issues important to our country and ... an agenda that I support," she said.
Only in the Dummycrat party would Al Sharpton be taken seriously and I see HRC wated no time pandering to the pimp daddy!
Former President Jimmy Carter once complained there were "too many Jews" on the government's Holocaust Memorial Council according to the council's former executive director, Monroe Freedman.
Maybe it's because 6 Million peanut farmers weren't systematically annihilated!
Doesn't Carter's picture look like she should have a set of numbers underneath and accompanied by a second side shot?
My wife Chris used to tell me what a wonderful man he is...she doesn't say that anymore!
NEXT!
Gov. Chet Culver said Monday he would push state lawmakers this session to ease Iowa's limits on embryonic stem cell research and to pour money into a new research center at the U of I to put the science into practice.
Speaking in front of a crowd of at least 200 at the U of I's Medical Education and Research Facility, Culver said a "modest" $12.5 million should be dedicated to creating a center for stem cell research at the U of I.
This appeared in the Ragister and happened Thursday, not Monday!
Can these idiots get anything right?
Chester also said this would "get us back in the game", I saw the video on WHO TV/13.
Embryonic stem cell research is anything but a game!
Culver... also stressed the importance of easing restrictions on a type of stem cell research currently banned in the state.
Iowa's ban - enacted in 2002 by Culver's Democratic predecessor Tom Vilsack - restricts scientists from a method of creating human embryos for research.
...Mark Anderson, a professor of cardiology at the U of I, acknowledged the unknowns of the stem cell research currently banned in Iowa...
...Opponents of loosening the limits on embryonic stem cell research say the research crosses an ethical and moral line while offering few advantages over other forms of stem cell research, such as the use of adult stem cells.
"Stem cells are a huge benefit, but an embryonic stem cell wants to grow into a baby," said Sen. Jerry Behn, a Boone Republican. "To me, the proponents of embryonic stem cells are being deceptive. They are alleging that a cure is around the corner and if you're not for embryonic research you're against progress. But adult cells are where the breakthroughs have come from."
CHESTER NOT STUPID?!?!
Lastly, back to Washington...
Senate Democrats quashed a proposal yesterday that would have dramatically increased civil fines on employers who hire illegal aliens.
The proposal came directly out of the employer-sanctions section of the immigration-reform bill approved with overwhelming Democratic support last year.
It would raise the minimum fine on employers from $250 per hired alien to $5,000 per alien. And it would raise the maximum fine from $10,000 per alien to $40,000 per alien.
