TagsTagsI might have more respect for Barbara Boxer if she stood by her personal attack on Condoleezza Rice, instead of trying to unctuously weasel out: Senator says she won’t apologize for ‘strong message’. (Hat tip: Bookworm Room.) The smarmiest political statement of the week: Boxer, defending herself against critics from the right, ...
Judging from Barbara Boxer’s disgusting comments yesterday, we’d better get ready for two years of political grandstanding, ugly personal attacks, and undercutting America’s security in time of war. In other words, business as usual for the modern progressive Democrats: Boxer’s Low Blow. January 12, 2007 — Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer, an appalling ...
Everybody wants the credit for the Democrats’ success in the mid-term elections: Al Qaeda Sends a Message to Democrats. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Al Qaeda has sent a message to leaders of the Democratic party that credit for the defeat of congressional Republicans belongs to the terrorists. In a portion of the ...
Politics, 2006 Elections, Democrats, Al Qaeda, Zawahri, Zawahiri
Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Patrick Leahy is promising “real oversight” of the FBI, to make them even more politically correct and useless than ever. And to head a new subcommittee on human rights, Leahy has appointed the man who compared the American military to Nazis, the Soviet KGB, and Pol ...
Politics, 2006 Elections, Democrats, Durbin, Guantanamo, Torture
Dennis Kucinich (Moonbat-OH) has a plan, and an almost childlike faith in the power and goodness of the United Nations: There is Only One Way to End The War in Iraq, Part III. As we make plans to cut off funds for continuing to prosecute a war in Iraq, America must ...
They oppose the Patriot Act, are worried about “civil liberties” (and the Zionist world conspiracy, although the WaPo doesn’t get into that), and favor an open borders policy. Some are connected to Muslim Brotherhood front groups like the Muslim American Society: More Muslims Gaining Political Ground.
In the ongoing saga of Charlie Rangel’s tortured rationale for a draft, he came out today with one of those offhanded slurs that show how the left really feels about military service: Video: Rangel says men join the army only if they can’t have “a decent career”. I want to make ...
When they voted Democrat, I don’t think the Nutroots gang was counting on this: Rep. Rangel will seek to reinstate draft. Rangel says he’s “serious.” Serious about shameless, cynical grandstanding, maybe. WASHINGTON - Americans would have to sign up for a new military draft after turning 18 under a bill the incoming ...
The far-left Democrats’ “anti-war mandate” is melting down faster than a snowman in a heat wave: Should House Democrats dump their new speaker? But wait! There’s more: Speaker Pelosi Tempts Disaster.
On Sunday I predicted no more than a week until Democrats started talking openly about cutting funding for Iraq. Kucinich Calls for Cutting Off Iraq War Funds. “That’s the only way we’re going to end this war.” Nov 15, 2006 Congressman Kucinich called Wednesday for cutting off funding of the Iraq war, as the ...
Oh great. Trent Lott is the new Senate Minority Whip. I won’t try to top Dean Barnett’s comment: If there’s one message that the electorate sent the Republican Party last week, it’s that we hadn’t given them enough of Trent Lott. I cannot adequately express my delight that Senate Republicans have moved ...
Soccer Dad has an eye-opening look at the likely new head of the House Judiciary Committee, John Conyers (D-MI), who last year held a freakish, openly anti-Jewish mock impeachment hearing (so bad it was even condemned by mainstream media): Congressman Conyers and Islam. Conyers is sponsoring the Orwellian House Resolution 288, ...
In December 2002, Senator Patty Murray said to an audience of high school students: “We’ve got to ask, why is this man (Osama bin Laden) so popular around the world?,” said Murray, who faces re-election in 2004. “Why are people so supportive of him in many countries ... that are riddled ...
I’m beginning to get the mother of all headaches: Poll: Most doubt Dems have plan for Iraq. WASHINGTON - More Americans rank Iraq as the top priority of the new Democratic-controlled Congress, but nearly three out of five say the party does not have a plan to deal with the war. ...
Oh, great. Now Matt Groening’s crazy too. Video: The Simpsons salute the lazy and uneducated.
Two of the worst leftist lunatics on the US political scene are about to take control of the House of Representatives: Pelosi backs Murtha as majority leader. WASHINGTON - Rep. Nancy Pelosi, in line to become speaker of the House, stepped into a postelection power struggle among fellow Democrats on Sunday ...
Well, that didn’t take very long, did it? Democrats say will push for Iraq withdrawal. (Hat tip: LawHawk.) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats, who won control of the U.S. Congress, said on Sunday they will push for a phased withdrawal of American troops from Iraq to begin in four to six months, ...
An Investor’s Business Daily editorial sounds the alarm about the possible new chairman of the House Judiciary Committtee, John Conyers: John Conyers And The Muslim Caucus. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) Congress: The likely new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he’s just fighting bigotry in leading a Democrat jihad to ...
A triumphant Rep. John Murtha describes what will happen if he’s elected Majority Leader, to a sympathetic interviewer at NPR: Murtha to Run for Majority Leader in New Congress. (Hat tip: John.) Regarding Iraq: Winning is not a strategy, victory is not a strategy. What the Dems will do: We’re gonna say, here’s ...
Democrats win, France rejoices. From Le Monde: Spirit of War Subsides. (Hat tip: egp.) Last evening in America promised to be an agreeable one. From the outset, one knew that the Democrats were going to have a breakthrough. But real bliss began at dawn, when the spirit of war subsided, with ...
The party of anger and appeasement gets to work; they’ve got a Nutroots base that needs to be repaid for its support: The impeachment drumbeat begins.
When I commented that the Democratic Party’s wins in our elections would prompt celebrations in the Middle East, several Nutroots bloggers immediately accused me of bigotry. And racism. And failing to wash behind my ears. Racism is the standard Nutroots multi-purpose accusation, of course, as we saw in the elections when ...
President Bush just announced that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has resigned, and ex-CIA chief Robert Gates will succeed him.
The United Nations is ecstatic over the election results: U.N. Celebrates Republican Loss? (Hat tip: Black George Bush.)
At the public relations wing of the global jihad, Al Jazeera, there doesn’t seem to be a word yet about the US elections: Aljazeera.Net English - Home Page. LGF reader ratherdashing posted a comment earlier that their Arabic web site was running a photo of Nancy Pelosi, but as I write ...