Monday, February 11, 2008
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Saturday, February 09, 2008
Ann Coulter: I'm a Hillary Girl
By: Philip V. Brennan
Because Republicans are nominating what she calls an "open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric, pro-human experimentation 'Republican' — which is to say a Democrat," Ann Coulter's alternative to John McCain is either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
While the onetime "Goldwater girl" says she's deserting the GOP this time around, she doesn't exactly swoon over Hillary, warning that "If Hillary is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster," which is what Coulter wants because it would revive the GOP and win back the White House four years later.
"With Republicans ferociously opposing her," Ann says, it would bring "Republicans zooming back into power, as we did in 1980 and 1994, and 2000. I also predict more Oval Office incidents with female interns."
Hillary, however, is not the target of her newest column — It is John McCain she's after:
"As the expression goes, given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, voters will always choose the Democrat. The only question remaining is: Hillary or Obama?"
"On the litmus test issues of our time, only partially excluding Iraq, McCain is a liberal."
"He excoriated Samuel Alito as too 'conservative.'"
"He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants."
"He abridged citizens' free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold."
"He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo."
"He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."
"He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels."
"The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic," she added.
There was lots more but the above suffices to suggest that Ann doesn't think all that highly of John McCain.
Electing Hillary she suggests would result in the GOP coming back in 2012. Electing McCain on the other hand would ruin the Republican Party.
"If McCain is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with the Republicans in Congress co-opted by 'our' president, followed by 30 years of Democratic rule," Ann concludes.
"There's your choice, America, " she wrote.
By: Philip V. Brennan
Because Republicans are nominating what she calls an "open-borders, anti-tax cut, anti-free speech, global-warming hysteric, pro-human experimentation 'Republican' — which is to say a Democrat," Ann Coulter's alternative to John McCain is either Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama.
While the onetime "Goldwater girl" says she's deserting the GOP this time around, she doesn't exactly swoon over Hillary, warning that "If Hillary is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster," which is what Coulter wants because it would revive the GOP and win back the White House four years later.
"With Republicans ferociously opposing her," Ann says, it would bring "Republicans zooming back into power, as we did in 1980 and 1994, and 2000. I also predict more Oval Office incidents with female interns."
Hillary, however, is not the target of her newest column — It is John McCain she's after:
"As the expression goes, given a choice between a Democrat and a Democrat, voters will always choose the Democrat. The only question remaining is: Hillary or Obama?"
"On the litmus test issues of our time, only partially excluding Iraq, McCain is a liberal."
"He excoriated Samuel Alito as too 'conservative.'"
"He promoted amnesty for 20 million illegal immigrants."
"He abridged citizens' free speech (in favor of the media) with McCain-Feingold."
"He hysterically opposes waterboarding terrorists and wants to shut down Guantanamo."
"He denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth."
"He opposes ANWR and supports the global warming cult, even posturing with fellow mountebank Arnold Schwarzenegger in front of solar panels."
"The only site that would have been more appropriate for Schwarzenegger in endorsing McCain would have been in front of an abortion clinic," she added.
There was lots more but the above suffices to suggest that Ann doesn't think all that highly of John McCain.
Electing Hillary she suggests would result in the GOP coming back in 2012. Electing McCain on the other hand would ruin the Republican Party.
"If McCain is elected president, we'll have a four-year disaster, with the Republicans in Congress co-opted by 'our' president, followed by 30 years of Democratic rule," Ann concludes.
"There's your choice, America, " she wrote.
# posted by Charles @ 10:53 AM
Thursday, February 07, 2008
McCain Sends Chill Down Spine
By: Josiah Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the possibility of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., becoming president "sends a cold chill down my spine."
Reid made his remarks Tuesday outside the Senate chambers when a reporter asked him about McCain, who is running for the Republican Party nomination for president.
Pulling out his wallet and removing a white piece of paper, Reid told the reporter: "All I have to say about that is this. I have it right here, and you can put it in your little recording devices."
Then, reading aloud, and quoting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) from an interview last Friday, Reid said: "The thought of him [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me." Listen to Audio
Reid then placed the piece of paper back in his wallet and continued taking reporter's questions.
By: Josiah Ryan
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said the possibility of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., becoming president "sends a cold chill down my spine."
Reid made his remarks Tuesday outside the Senate chambers when a reporter asked him about McCain, who is running for the Republican Party nomination for president.
Pulling out his wallet and removing a white piece of paper, Reid told the reporter: "All I have to say about that is this. I have it right here, and you can put it in your little recording devices."
Then, reading aloud, and quoting Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) from an interview last Friday, Reid said: "The thought of him [McCain] being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He is erratic. He is hotheaded. He loses his temper, and he worries me." Listen to Audio
Reid then placed the piece of paper back in his wallet and continued taking reporter's questions.
# posted by Charles @ 6:06 AM
Late Nite Jokes
Late Show Top Ten
Top Ten Signs John McCain Is Getting Too Cocky
10. Canceled tomorrow's campaign appearances so he doesn't miss "Lost"
9. Spent the afternoon roughing up Romney supporters
8. Last night, he blew half campaign war chest playing Internet poker
7. Already working on his 2012 re-election strategy
6. Plans to campaign for the next three days in "Vodkachusetts"
5. Recently told voter "Keep that ugly ass baby away from me"
4. Now refers to Mike Huckabee as "Mike Suckabee"
3. Has started yelling, "Bingo!" when he doesn't even have bingo (come on, folks, he's old!)
3. Has started yelling
2. Renamed his campaign bus the "Bite Me Express"
1. Went to Mexico with Jessica Simpson
Jay Leno
John McCain was the big Republican winner. One pundit said McCain’s lucky nickel was working. He carries a lucky nickel. It must be lucky — six months ago, that was his campaing war chest.
Hillary Clinton also carries around a lucky nickel. Not for superstitious reasons — she just flips it when she needs a position on Iraq.
Late Show Top Ten
Top Ten Signs John McCain Is Getting Too Cocky
10. Canceled tomorrow's campaign appearances so he doesn't miss "Lost"
9. Spent the afternoon roughing up Romney supporters
8. Last night, he blew half campaign war chest playing Internet poker
7. Already working on his 2012 re-election strategy
6. Plans to campaign for the next three days in "Vodkachusetts"
5. Recently told voter "Keep that ugly ass baby away from me"
4. Now refers to Mike Huckabee as "Mike Suckabee"
3. Has started yelling, "Bingo!" when he doesn't even have bingo (come on, folks, he's old!)
3. Has started yelling
2. Renamed his campaign bus the "Bite Me Express"
1. Went to Mexico with Jessica Simpson
Jay Leno
John McCain was the big Republican winner. One pundit said McCain’s lucky nickel was working. He carries a lucky nickel. It must be lucky — six months ago, that was his campaing war chest.
Hillary Clinton also carries around a lucky nickel. Not for superstitious reasons — she just flips it when she needs a position on Iraq.
# posted by Charles @ 1:14 AM
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
Why They Hate McCain
John Podhoretz
The snowballing anger among conservative opinion leaders toward John McCain — an anger that is not mirrored among Republican rank-and-file, whose approval-disapproval rating for McCain is 72-19, according to the Pew Poll, fifteen points higher than Mitt Romney’s in both categories — suggests they are confusing ideological convictions with political tactics, and infusing a disagreement on how to approach problems with a moral edge it does not deserve.
Whatever John McCain is, he is not a liberal. But he disappoints conservatives because, astonishingly enough, he lacks the Right’s partisan combativeness — which seems surprising, given his background as a warrior and his stiff-necked heroism in staring down his North Vietnamese torturer-jailers. He may be a military man through and through, but he is not a team player, to put it mildly. In partisan terms, he often seems determined not to march in lockstep simply because others expect it of him. That’s why, among other things, he has been so wildly incompetent at using his own perfect pro-life record iin the House and Senate to his own benefit in seeking support from Republicans who share his anti-abortion views. Such a thing would require him to fall in line, and McCain does not fall in line.
These are not words of praise, merely of description. The truth is that this flinty individualism has a profoundly self-destructive aspect to it. He has made his own pathway to the top of his party extremely difficult because he does not wish to play the game the way it needs to be played. He offends people he need not offend, and acts in ways that are considered disrespectful by people who only need him to show them a little kavod. If he becomes the nominee of the GOP, he will be required to mend fences he need not have broken down in the first place.
But his opponents are engaging in a terrible mistake as well. McCain likes to make common cause with politicians across the aisle from him. They can’t stand this. They prefer someone who fights Democrats to someone who makes deals with Democrats. Fair enough. But this is a difference of degree, not of essence. McCain is a deal-maker. Perhaps, having engaged with a real enemy who broke his arms and tortured him and sought to destroy him body and mind and soul, he doesn’t see an enemy when he sees a Democrat but rather just another American whose ideas on many things differ from his but with whom he might share some common ground.
McCain would, there is no question, be a lousy leader of an ideological movement. But the Republican party is not an ideological movement. It is a political vehicle for the American right-of-center. Those who confuse the Republican party with the conservative movement are indulging in a fantasy — that there is purity in politics and that there is something immoral about ideological impurity.
John Podhoretz
The snowballing anger among conservative opinion leaders toward John McCain — an anger that is not mirrored among Republican rank-and-file, whose approval-disapproval rating for McCain is 72-19, according to the Pew Poll, fifteen points higher than Mitt Romney’s in both categories — suggests they are confusing ideological convictions with political tactics, and infusing a disagreement on how to approach problems with a moral edge it does not deserve.
Whatever John McCain is, he is not a liberal. But he disappoints conservatives because, astonishingly enough, he lacks the Right’s partisan combativeness — which seems surprising, given his background as a warrior and his stiff-necked heroism in staring down his North Vietnamese torturer-jailers. He may be a military man through and through, but he is not a team player, to put it mildly. In partisan terms, he often seems determined not to march in lockstep simply because others expect it of him. That’s why, among other things, he has been so wildly incompetent at using his own perfect pro-life record iin the House and Senate to his own benefit in seeking support from Republicans who share his anti-abortion views. Such a thing would require him to fall in line, and McCain does not fall in line.
These are not words of praise, merely of description. The truth is that this flinty individualism has a profoundly self-destructive aspect to it. He has made his own pathway to the top of his party extremely difficult because he does not wish to play the game the way it needs to be played. He offends people he need not offend, and acts in ways that are considered disrespectful by people who only need him to show them a little kavod. If he becomes the nominee of the GOP, he will be required to mend fences he need not have broken down in the first place.
But his opponents are engaging in a terrible mistake as well. McCain likes to make common cause with politicians across the aisle from him. They can’t stand this. They prefer someone who fights Democrats to someone who makes deals with Democrats. Fair enough. But this is a difference of degree, not of essence. McCain is a deal-maker. Perhaps, having engaged with a real enemy who broke his arms and tortured him and sought to destroy him body and mind and soul, he doesn’t see an enemy when he sees a Democrat but rather just another American whose ideas on many things differ from his but with whom he might share some common ground.
McCain would, there is no question, be a lousy leader of an ideological movement. But the Republican party is not an ideological movement. It is a political vehicle for the American right-of-center. Those who confuse the Republican party with the conservative movement are indulging in a fantasy — that there is purity in politics and that there is something immoral about ideological impurity.
# posted by Charles @ 6:10 AM
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Don't Like McCain? Vote Hillary
By:Philip V. Brennan
John McCain is running on a platform that says your jobs are not coming back, the illegals are not going home, and we are going to have more wars, writes Pat Buchanan.
Buchanan advises, "If you don’t like it, vote for Hillary."
In an American Conservative column entitled "The Great Betrayal," Buchanan examines McCain's record on a host of issues, and to most conservatives, it's not a pretty sight.
He finds McCain's "arresting prediction" that we will face more wars scary, quoting the Arizona senator as saying “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going to be other wars. I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.”
He compares Eisenhower's and Nixon's successful efforts to end the wars in Korea and Vietnam with honor to McCain's warning that we may be in Iraq a hundred years and that, “there’s going to be other wars.”
Says Buchanan, "Take the man at his word."
McCain, he writes, "has joked about 'bomb, bomb, bomb — bomb, bomb Iran' and urged the expulsion of Russia from the G8 . . . wants to expand NATO to bring in Georgia and the Ukraine" creating "confrontation between Russia and the United States over whether South Ossetia and Abkhazia should be free of Georgia or ruled by Tbilisi, a matter of zero vital interest to this country."
All this, Buchanan says, is a forewarning that John McCain intends to be a war president, and forecasts that "if Bibi Netanyahu again becomes prime minister of Israel, he and a President McCain will find a pretext for war on Iran."
On many of the great issues, he adds, "McCain has sided as often with the Left and the Big Media as he has with the Right."
His indictment of McCain outlines his offenses:
he voted twice against the Bush tax cuts.
He "colluded to sell out the most conservative of Bush’s judges, and in 1993, voted to confirm the pro-abortion liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
He formed the "gang of 14," seven senators from each party, when Bush set out to restore constitutionalism. All agreed to vote to block the GOP Senate from invoking the “nuclear option”— i.e., empowering the GOP to break a filibuster of judicial nominees by majority vote — unless the seven Democrats agreed.
With that record of voting for Clinton justices and joining with Democrats anxious to kill the most conservative Bush’s nominees, Buchanan asks "what guarantee is there a President McCain would nominate and fight for the fifth jurist who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?"
He colluded with liberals to pass McCain-Feingold, "a law that denies to Second Amendment folks and right-to-lifers their First Amendment right to identify friends and foes in TV ads before national elections."
On condemning drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWAR he sides with the liberals, and has moved toward Gore on global warming.
He collaborated with Senate liberals in the McCain-Kennedy amnesty, which was rejected only after a national uprising, failing to do what is needed to control America’s borders and halt the invasion through Mexico.
Buchanan concluded that "on the two issues where Bush has been at his best, taxes and judges, McCain has sided against him. On the three issues that have ravaged the Bush presidency — the misbegotten war in Iraq, the failure to secure America’s borders, and the trade policy that has destroyed the dollar, de-industrialized the country, and left foreigners with $5 trillion to buy up America — McCain has sided with Bush."
By:Philip V. Brennan
John McCain is running on a platform that says your jobs are not coming back, the illegals are not going home, and we are going to have more wars, writes Pat Buchanan.
Buchanan advises, "If you don’t like it, vote for Hillary."
In an American Conservative column entitled "The Great Betrayal," Buchanan examines McCain's record on a host of issues, and to most conservatives, it's not a pretty sight.
He finds McCain's "arresting prediction" that we will face more wars scary, quoting the Arizona senator as saying “It’s a tough war we’re in. It’s not going to be over right away. There’s going to be other wars. I’m sorry to tell you, there’s going to be other wars. We will never surrender, but there will be other wars.”
He compares Eisenhower's and Nixon's successful efforts to end the wars in Korea and Vietnam with honor to McCain's warning that we may be in Iraq a hundred years and that, “there’s going to be other wars.”
Says Buchanan, "Take the man at his word."
McCain, he writes, "has joked about 'bomb, bomb, bomb — bomb, bomb Iran' and urged the expulsion of Russia from the G8 . . . wants to expand NATO to bring in Georgia and the Ukraine" creating "confrontation between Russia and the United States over whether South Ossetia and Abkhazia should be free of Georgia or ruled by Tbilisi, a matter of zero vital interest to this country."
All this, Buchanan says, is a forewarning that John McCain intends to be a war president, and forecasts that "if Bibi Netanyahu again becomes prime minister of Israel, he and a President McCain will find a pretext for war on Iran."
On many of the great issues, he adds, "McCain has sided as often with the Left and the Big Media as he has with the Right."
His indictment of McCain outlines his offenses:
he voted twice against the Bush tax cuts.
He "colluded to sell out the most conservative of Bush’s judges, and in 1993, voted to confirm the pro-abortion liberal Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
He formed the "gang of 14," seven senators from each party, when Bush set out to restore constitutionalism. All agreed to vote to block the GOP Senate from invoking the “nuclear option”— i.e., empowering the GOP to break a filibuster of judicial nominees by majority vote — unless the seven Democrats agreed.
With that record of voting for Clinton justices and joining with Democrats anxious to kill the most conservative Bush’s nominees, Buchanan asks "what guarantee is there a President McCain would nominate and fight for the fifth jurist who would vote to overturn Roe v. Wade?"
He colluded with liberals to pass McCain-Feingold, "a law that denies to Second Amendment folks and right-to-lifers their First Amendment right to identify friends and foes in TV ads before national elections."
On condemning drilling for oil in Alaska's ANWAR he sides with the liberals, and has moved toward Gore on global warming.
He collaborated with Senate liberals in the McCain-Kennedy amnesty, which was rejected only after a national uprising, failing to do what is needed to control America’s borders and halt the invasion through Mexico.
Buchanan concluded that "on the two issues where Bush has been at his best, taxes and judges, McCain has sided against him. On the three issues that have ravaged the Bush presidency — the misbegotten war in Iraq, the failure to secure America’s borders, and the trade policy that has destroyed the dollar, de-industrialized the country, and left foreigners with $5 trillion to buy up America — McCain has sided with Bush."
# posted by Charles @ 6:21 AM
Sunday, February 03, 2008
McCain Always a Democratic Ally
By: Phil Brennan
Sen. John McCain has made a career of siding with Democrats, says former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. And he blames McCain's frequent forays across the aisle for the Arizona senator's involvement in a notorious scandal.
McCain was always known among Republicans as “the undependable vote” in the Senate and always “allied with Democrats,” Hastert told the Chicago Tribune.
In a conference call with reporters, Haster said McCain had changed “after the Keating Five scandal.”
The Tribune recalled that McCain was one of five U.S. senators implicated in the 1989 Keating Five scandal, when the lawmakers allegedly pressured federal regulators against pursuing an investigation of Charles Keating, the former chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and a McCain close friend and contributor.
McCain and Democratic Sens. Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, and John Glenn of Ohio met with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in April 1989. They met a second time, along with a fifth senator, Don Riegle.
The FHLBB then waited a full two years to seize Lincoln Savings, and the subsequent bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the era's savings and loan scandals. Lincoln investors lost almost $200 million in the debacle.
In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the meetings between the regulators and senators, who became known as the Keating Five.
McCain was cited by the Senate Ethics Committee for showing “poor judgment” in the matter. B the panel recommended no further action against him.
As a result of McCain’s involvement in the scandal, said Hastert, McCain changed and became “more of a populist.”
“He was gearing up for a run for the presidency in 2000, so he had to change track and clean up his image, from my point of view,” explained Hastert, a Mitt Romney supporter.
According to the Tribune, Hastert has not had a lot of good to say about McCain in recent years. Hastert also insisted that on agenda items under the Republican-controlled Congress, “it just seems like everything we did, John was someplace else.”
“It was McCain-Kennedy, it was McCain-Lieberman, it was McCain-Feingold on campaign finance reform,” Hastert told the Tribune, noting McCain's Democratic co-sponsors on legislation. “He was against us on tax cuts, and his form of immigration reform was to open the gates and let everybody in.”
Asked if he considered McCain a conservative, Hastert said, “In my opinion, he is not. He is a moderate. In almost everything he’s done, he’s done [things] against what mainstream Republicans thought and he’s allied with Democrats. He was always the undependable vote in the Senate.”
By: Phil Brennan
Sen. John McCain has made a career of siding with Democrats, says former House Speaker Dennis Hastert. And he blames McCain's frequent forays across the aisle for the Arizona senator's involvement in a notorious scandal.
McCain was always known among Republicans as “the undependable vote” in the Senate and always “allied with Democrats,” Hastert told the Chicago Tribune.
In a conference call with reporters, Haster said McCain had changed “after the Keating Five scandal.”
The Tribune recalled that McCain was one of five U.S. senators implicated in the 1989 Keating Five scandal, when the lawmakers allegedly pressured federal regulators against pursuing an investigation of Charles Keating, the former chairman of the Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and a McCain close friend and contributor.
McCain and Democratic Sens. Dennis DeConcini of Arizona, Alan Cranston of California, and John Glenn of Ohio met with Ed Gray, chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board (FHLBB) in April 1989. They met a second time, along with a fifth senator, Don Riegle.
The FHLBB then waited a full two years to seize Lincoln Savings, and the subsequent bailout cost taxpayers $2.6 billion, making it the biggest of the era's savings and loan scandals. Lincoln investors lost almost $200 million in the debacle.
In November 1990, the Senate Ethics Committee launched an investigation into the meetings between the regulators and senators, who became known as the Keating Five.
McCain was cited by the Senate Ethics Committee for showing “poor judgment” in the matter. B the panel recommended no further action against him.
As a result of McCain’s involvement in the scandal, said Hastert, McCain changed and became “more of a populist.”
“He was gearing up for a run for the presidency in 2000, so he had to change track and clean up his image, from my point of view,” explained Hastert, a Mitt Romney supporter.
According to the Tribune, Hastert has not had a lot of good to say about McCain in recent years. Hastert also insisted that on agenda items under the Republican-controlled Congress, “it just seems like everything we did, John was someplace else.”
“It was McCain-Kennedy, it was McCain-Lieberman, it was McCain-Feingold on campaign finance reform,” Hastert told the Tribune, noting McCain's Democratic co-sponsors on legislation. “He was against us on tax cuts, and his form of immigration reform was to open the gates and let everybody in.”
Asked if he considered McCain a conservative, Hastert said, “In my opinion, he is not. He is a moderate. In almost everything he’s done, he’s done [things] against what mainstream Republicans thought and he’s allied with Democrats. He was always the undependable vote in the Senate.”
# posted by Charles @ 6:31 AM
