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Eyes on Kerry's Behind

Jay Tea at Wizbang! unveils the quote of the year in describing former Democratic nominee John Kerry's uncanny ability to be right most of the time in hindsight:

John Kerry spends so much time talking out of his ass, it's no surprise he'd finally slip and say he looks out of it, too.

How true...

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Veterans Day

On this day of remembrance and celebration of our fellow citizens' accomplishments, there is really not much more to say than Thank You.

From President George W. Bush's speech today in Pennsylvania:

Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy pursues totalitarian aims. Its leaders pretend to be an aggrieved party, representing the powerless against imperial enemies. In truth, they have endless ambitions of imperial domination -- and they wish to make everyone powerless, except themselves. Under their rule, they have banned books, and desecrated historical monuments, and brutalized women. They seek to end dissent in every form, to control every aspect of life, to rule the soul itself. While promising a future of justice and holiness, the terrorists are preparing a future of oppression and misery.

Like the ideology of communism, our new enemy is dismissive of free peoples -- claiming that men and women who live in liberty are weak and decadent. Zarqawi has said that Americans are, "the most cowardly of God's creatures." But let us be clear: It is cowardice that seeks to kill children and the elderly with car bombs, and cuts the throat of a bound captive, and targets worshipers leaving a mosque.

It is courage that liberated more than 50 million people from tyranny. It is courage that keeps an untiring vigil against the enemies of rising democracies. And it is courage in the cause of freedom that will once again destroy the enemies of freedom.

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True Colors Shine Through

Not to be bothered by those pesky things called laws, Sen. Kennedy shows his true colors yet again:

"What the American people have seen is this incredible disparity in which those people who had cars and money got out and those people who were impoverished died," Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said in an interview . The question for Roberts, he said, is whether he stands for "a fairer, more just nation" or for "narrow, stingy interpretations of the law to frustrate progress."

God forbid that Judge Roberts might just believe that this is a nation of laws founded on the principle that we have a government by the people for the people.  God forbid that Judge Roberts might just believe that our nation should not be ruled by Philosopher Kings who adhere to the stagnant liberal ideology of a dinosaur like Ted Kennedy. 

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Observation of the Year

I have been out of commission for a few days so I am playing a little bit of catch-up.  The following pretty much sums up my feelings about the "International Community" in words better than I could ever come up with.  From Ken Wheaton:

We get hit by one of the worst storms on record and what do we get? Lectured by Germany about global warming. I'll cut you a deal Germany. You go a century without starting a fucking World War or coming up with some bullshit racial science and you can start lecturing us. And get your facts straight, while you're at it.

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Cindy...In Her Own Words

From today's Drudge Report:

"We are not waging a war on terror in this country. We’re waging a war of terror. The biggest terrorist in the world is George W. Bush!"
So declared Cindy Sheehan earlier this year during a rally at San Francisco State University.

Sheehan, who is demanding a second meeting with Bush, stated: "We are waging a nuclear war in Iraq right now. That country is contaminated. It will be contaminated for practically eternity now."

Sheehan unleashed a foul-mouth tirade on April 27, 2005:

"They’re a bunch of fucking hypocrites! And we need to, we just need to rise up..." Sheehan said of the Bush administration.

"If George Bush believes his rhetoric and his bullshit, that this is a war for freedom and democracy, that he is spreading freedom and democracy, does he think every person he kills makes Iraq more free?"
"The whole world is damaged. Our humanity is damaged. If he thinks that it’s so important for Iraq to have a U.S.-imposed sense of freedom and democracy, then he needs to sign up his two little party-animal girls. They need to go to this war."

"We want our country back and, if we have to impeach everybody from George Bush down to the person who picks up dog shit in Washington, we will impeach all those people."

I'm not sure which part of her tirade is more deranged: (1) her claim that we have set off nuclear weapons in Iraq; (2) her apparent disregard for the 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution which baned involuntary servitude - even for party animals; or (3) her desire to impeach groundskeepers in Washington.  Who's going to pick up the dog doo-doo when the groundskeepers are impeached?

Considering Cindy's measured rhetoric and reasonableness, I can't see why G.W. won't meet with her.

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Iraqis True Feelings

From the NY Post comes this quote from the new Mayor of Baghdad.  While I think that George W is too humble to want such recognition, this is a very interesting sentiment from a people that allegedly sympathize with the insurgent thugs (re: Teddy Kennedy):

"We will build a statue for Bush," said Ali Fadel, the former provincial council chairman. "He is the symbol of freedom."

Yes he is!

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Hypocrisy Revisited

The venerable Senator Byrd hypocritically impugned the character and integrity of Condoleezza Rice in debate this week on her confirmation to the post of Secretary of State. 

Byrd, the Senate's senior member, said Mr. Bush, with Rice's help, steered the country into an unprovoked and unjustified war based on false information that Iraq had been a training ground for terrorists.

"Dr. Rice is responsible for some of the most overblown rhetoric that the administration used to scare the American people into believing that there was an imminent threat from Iraq," Byrd said.

It seems that the Democratic party has made a determination to fight GW Bush every step of the way over the next four years and will choose its mosts strident moonbats like Sens. Byrd and Boxer to state its case.  It is laughable that Senator Byrd would ever raise questions about the character of someone like Condoleezza Rice considering statements he has made in the past such as this (via Captain Ed at Captains Quarters): 

[I will never fight] "with a Negro by my side. Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds"?

Maybe through this statement, we see Senator Byrd's true motivation in opposing the nomination of Dr. Rice.

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Accountability

I am still reading this transcript, but I just love this answer from George W's interview with the Washington Post.

The Post: In Iraq, there’s been a steady stream of surprises. We weren’t welcomed as liberators, as Vice President Cheney had talked about. We haven’t found the weapons of mass destruction as predicted. The postwar process hasn’t gone as well as some had hoped. Why hasn’t anyone been held accountable, either through firings or demotions, for what some people see as mistakes or misjudgments?

THE PRESIDENT: Well, we had an accountability moment, and that’s called the 2004 election. And the American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me, for which I’m grateful.

Special thanks to No Left Turns

As I read further, this is a terrific exchange that shows why you gotta love G. W. Bush (I guess unless you don't love G.W. Bush):

The Post: Why do you think [Osama] bin Laden has not been caught?

THE PRESIDENT: Because he's hiding.

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Fact Check, please

So I managed to slip away for lunch today, and was listening to Rushie in the car.   He played a clip of Teddy Kennedy...and I quote: 

"We Democrats may be a minority on the Hill, but we still represent a majority of the American people."

errrrr.....sorry Ted.  last time I checked, the Republicans won the popular vote by....um...what was that number again?  oh, yeah.   3 MILLION.

Sometimes I can't decide if it's delusion, stupidity or just sheer arrogance.  I suppose a combination of all three.

- gangsta.

Hyperbole is in Fashion this Year

The looney wing of the crazy party spoke yesterday in Congress and it lived up to its billing as nutso fun.  Maxine Waters, Barbara Boxer and, my favorite, Sheila Jackson-Lee, among other fountains of fun opposed certification of Ohio's electoral count and made for great laughs.  The left, however, seemed to actually take this stuff seriously.  A sampling of the quotes I saw on the net today:

I believe history will record January 6, 2005, as the day on which the United States of America completed a 4-year descent from democracy into dictatorship, by abandoning the rule of law in its electoral process, thus ensuring that the party in control cannot be removed.

I believe that when the history of these times is ultimately told, it will adjudge the above mentioned Senator and Representatives*, who stood up to this coup d'etat, as patriots and heroes, and to those who did not, as cowards and traitors.

-R.B.

http://fairnessbybeckerman.blogspot.com/.

Yeah right, we are all going to remember this day.  September 11, 2001, December 7, 1947, December 25, 0000, and....January 6, 2005?  What a funny, crazy man.  His rantings remind me of the great scene in JFK featuring Kevin Costner as the indomitable Jim Garrison:

Could the Mob change the parade route, Bill, or eliminate the protection for the President? could the Mob send Oswald to Russia and get him back? Could the Mob get the FBI the CIA, and the Dallas Police to make a mess of the investigation? Could the Mob appoint the Warren Commission to cover it up? could the Mob wreck the autopsy? Could the Mob influence the national media to go to sleep? And since when has the Mob used anything but .38's for hits, up close. The Mob wouldn't have the guts or the power for something of this magnitude. Assassins need payrolls, orders, times, schedules. This was a military-style ambush from start to finish... a coup d`etat with Lyndon Johnson waiting in the wings.

JFK Quotes (This web site is pretty cool by the way)

Another great Moonbat rant can be found at Blog for Iowa:

Senator Byrd of West Virginia was once a Klansman; but his eloquent leadership against the Iraq War has inspired us all, and he has the courage and fortitude to cap his career with an outspoken battle on behalf of abused African American voters.

I can see why she wants Senator Byrd to speak out on behalf of the "abused African American voters" because of course Senator Byrd has a lot of experience with abusing African American Voters.

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* Hall of Crazies: Reps. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, John Conyers, Corrine Brown, Julia Carson, Bill Clay, James Clyburn, Danny Davis, Lane Evans, Bob Filner, Raul Grijalva, Alcee Hastings, Maurice Hinchey, Jesse Jackson, Jr., Sheila Jackson-Lee, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Dennis Kucinich, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Ed Markey, Cynthia McKinney, John Oliver, Major Owens, Frank Pallone, Donald Payne, Jan Schakowsky, Bennie Thompson, Maxine Waters, Diane Watson, and Lynn Woolsey.