How Far We've Come

Victor Davis Hanson has another of his brilliant pieces over at National Review. In the press of events, we have at times lost sight of how far we've come - from our stunned gaze into a hole in Manhattan to the cusp of elections in Iraq, it is sometimes hard to remember what we've gone through, and what we have achieved.

Do we now remember the impassable peaks, the snowy haunts of the Taliban that were too high for us, or Kabul, the dreaded graveyard of all imperial expeditions? It was just a few months ago, it seems now, that we were admonished about the fury of retaliation to come for daring to fight during Ramadan, the impossibility of working with a nuclear and Islamic Pakistan, and the Wild West nature of Afghanistan's tribes so impossible to forge into the stuff of consensual government. And it was worse still than all that: the cries on the hard left of millions of refugees to come; the European warning about thousands of dead from indiscriminate American bombing; the need to adjudicate 9/11 by jurisprudence rather than arms; and the crazy conspiracy theories of pipelines, neo-cons, 'Jews,' Likuds, and CIA plots.

Go read the whole thing here, because as per usual, Mr. Hanson's work repays reading every word.

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15 Straight Months Of Economic Growth...

House Speaker Dennis Hastert noted some very important fact about the economic data released today:

The economy has posted steady job gains for each of the last fifteen months -- creating over 2.4 million jobs since August of 2003 when the tax relief package signed into law by President Bush took effect. The drop in unemployment from its highest point in June of 2003 is lower than the average of the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.

The unemployment rate dropped through all regions of the country with 47 out of 50 states adding more jobs to their payrolls. Employment in the construction, financial services, educational and health services is at an all time high.

The household survey showed a larger gain of over 2.9 million jobs in November.

Hastert said, "With another month of job creation and a lower unemployment rate, it goes to show Republican tax relief is moving America forward ... We still have more work to do in the next Congress to reform our archaic and over-encumbered tax code ... The bottom line is no one should be playing Scrooge this holiday season; American taxpayers deserve to keep more of what they earn."

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Rummy To Stay Aboard

The Associated Press reports that Bush has asked Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld to stay on as SecDef for Bush's second term.

The issue was decided this week in an Oval Office meeting where Bush asked Rumsfeld to remain and the secretary accepted, a senior administration official said Friday. .. Describing Bush's decision, the administration official said the president believed Rumsfeld was "the right person at this moment in our history in fighting the war on terror to lead our armed forces."

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Bush Signs Internet Tax Ban

You can say this is good news for bloggers and all internet users. Today, George W. Bush signed legislation barring state and local governments from "taxing connections that link people to the Internet," from dial-up to high-speed cable connections.

"I cannot envision any time in the history of our country when it would make sense to be imposing taxes on broadband or the Internet, no matter where one is or who one may be," said Sen. George Allen, R-Va.

The new law, which remains in effect until Oct. 31, 2007, will help ensure that less-affluent Americans can afford Internet access, Allen said. Otherwise, Internet access taxes would average 18 percent, he said.

Blog away everyone, blog away!

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Crazies For Kerry

Supporters of Kerry (or more likely haters of Bush) gathered for a their first group therapy session in Florida yesterday, and according to Boca Raton News they screamed "epithets at President Bush as they shared their emotions with licensed mental health counselors."

The first of several free noontime therapy sessions at the American Health Association in Boca Raton was designed to treat what mental health counselors have dubbed Post Election Selection Trauma (PEST). “If I had a cardboard cutout of President Bush, and these people wanted to throw darts at it, I would let them do it,” Robert J. Gordon, AHA executive director, told the Boca News after the session. “It’s no joke. People with PEST were traumatized by the election. If you even mention religion, their faces turn blister-red as they shout at Bush.”

Oh no! Not religion... Ahhhhhhhh! What a sad bunch. Post Election Selection Trauma? I guess that's the new way to describe mental illness that can be blamed on the election. I keep thinking about what Kerry supporters and Bush haters would be doing today if Bush had lost. I imagine that if you multiplied the gloating I've done since November 2, you could increase that 10 fold, and it wouldn't even come close to the kind of activity the Left would have been engaging following a Kerry victory.

Reading through this article, one thing is clear, Bush's victory is not the cause of their mental instability. When you look at the things these anguished people lament about, they are regurgitations of Democratic talking points and Kerry campaign rhetoric.

“I’m scared ... Democracy is at stake and nobody is rising to protest this president.”
“I want to be a patriot, but it’s impossible to be a patriot in an immoral war.”
“Bush is breaking up marriages and dividing families by keeping our troops in Iraq.”

The meeting facilitator also said, “The media outlets, especially Rush Limbaugh and his ilk on talk radio, scare our patients to death.” One patient is reported to have that he thinks the country "is now run by fascists." "Another felt personally threatened by the president’s love for big business. Many believe Bush is going to draft their grandchildren. The anxiety may not affect them every day, but it affects their energy level.”

Finally at the end of the article it is revealed that "many of the Kerry supporters had visited [the trauma specialist] for severe mental problems prior to the election." So here we have people with a history of mental problems claiming to have a bogus condition called Post Election Selection Trauma and repeating arguments and accusations made by the Democrats.

Who made these wackos even worse?? John Kerry and the Democratic Party.

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112,000 New Payroll Jobs In November, Unemployment Rate Falls To 5.4%

The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) reported today that in the month of November 112,000 new payroll jobs were created and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4 percent.

Based on the payroll survey and benchmark revision, "2.4 million new jobs have been created since August 2003, and over 2 million new jobs have been created thus far in 2004."

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Economy at 09:29 AM | Comments (9) | TrackBack (2)

The good news is that we will get to enjoy winning yet again

John Kerry and Jessie Jackson on the other hand, will get to taste defeat once again.

Democrats, let me clue you in on a little secret. The only way you are going to see the inside of the White House in the next 4 years is on the guided tour.

UPDATE: Ohio final vote tally

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2004 Weblog Awards ... Vote For Us

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The Degenerating International Elite

I'm sure we've all heard of the recently leaked report by the International Committee of the Red Cross which condemns the United States for its treatment of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. They complain that our actions are "tantamount to torture" because the fact that the prisoners are held indefinitely puts stress upon them and, of course, that they are subjected to psychological stress during interrogation. Nothing of late has so convinced me that the old guard of international organizations is entirely out of touch with reality than this report.

The Geneva Conventions, which the ICRC purports to uphold, are very specific about who is a POW and what may be done with them - and the men we hold in Guantanamo Bay in no way meet the requirements of being a POW; they are men whom, if we so wished, we could put up against a wall without a hearing and shoot them - they are people captured under arms fighting American and allied forces with no recognizable chain of command, nor anything to distinguish them from civilians. Add the fact that they intentionally target civilians, and use them as a shield for their hostile actions, and what you've got is a sort of Stateless scum unprotected by any of the rules of civilized States. That we keep them alive at all is tribute to our extreme generosity.

The Rules of Warfare, so-called, are only rules provided that everyone obeys them - at the closing stages of World War Two, as the Russian armies pounded into eastern Germany, a great number of atrocities were committed; essentially, any female 8 to 80 was raped, and quite often murdered; anything not nailed down was stolen - it was absolutely disgusting - but it wasn't a crime. The Germans had broken the rules of civilized warfare first and the Russians were in no way bound by them when they gained the upper hand. On the flip side, when the Anglo-American armies entered the western part of Germany, no such widespread crimes happened - the Germans had fought a largely civilized war with us and we reciprocated; those Germans who did commit crimes were brought to justice, but there was no blanket removal of the protections of the Geneva Convention for the civil population and captured soldiers.

We are engaged in a sort of war where the other side by definition violates the known rules of warfare - we are, therefore, not bound by them in any way whatsoever. Any mercy we show is entirely out of the generosity of our hearts. We cannot, pace the ICRC, fight barbarians using rules they don't obey - to do so would be essentially to cede victory to them. I believe the elites of the world understand this full well - but they just don't care. Having the United States not win is more important than anything else - groups like the ICRC (and Human Rights Watch, etc) have entirely degenerated; they are now groups which just want to tear down the United States - it doesn't really matter what we do, whatever it is will be deemed unacceptable by the international elite.

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush in category War on Terror at 12:44 AM | Comments (6) | TrackBack (2)

Money Can't Buy You Victory

Money can't buy you happiness, love, and for Democrats it can't buy victory.

Capping a stunning year of record fund raising by both sides, the Democratic National Committee said Thursday it outraised President Bush's GOP this election cycle. Its Republican rival wasn't disputing that, but noted the money didn't buy victory.

Figures the DNC planned to file with the Federal Election Commission showed the DNC took in at least $12 million more than the Republican National Committee since Jan. 1, 2003.

DNC Chairman Terry McAuliffe said he considered the fund raising - combined with a lack of debt - all the more remarkable because the party finished the 2000 presidential race with $18 million in bills to pay. Now, it can spend four years building the groundwork to try to reclaim the White House in 2008, he said.

The Democratic National Committee can keep the $12 million advantage for all I care... we got the White House!

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Bernard Kerik to head Homeland Security

Rumors and speculation can end. Fox News is reporting that George W. Bush has indeed tapped Former New York Police Commissioner Bernard Kerik to head the Department of Homeland Security.

UPDATE: Scott from Slant Point is disappointed that there wasn't more time for debate and discussion over who could replace Ridge - but still happy with Bush's selection.

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Hillary

I've received my first missive as a Friend of Hillary (we're really not all that close friends) - what I find interesting is that the "Clinton Presidency" is mentioned in paragraph 2, while Hillary's upcoming Senate run has to wait until paragraph 3. Fruedian slip? Forgetting what we're supposed to be immediately concentrating on?

Be that as it may, I found this bit further down to be interesting:

in the last presidential campaign, the impact of negative television advertising – even when it’s not true.

Right wing activists are determined to run the same kind of attacks against Hillary. Their web sites and direct mail boast that they will have an even better funded anti-Hillary campaign than they had last time.

The Vast, Right Wing Conspiracy lives! I guess this plays well with the Rubes who will be writing out checks for Hillary - I don't think they understand that while we know Hillary is out there, we're much more interested in our own agenda than whatever it is a mediocre, leftwing New York Senator is up to.

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French Shepherd and German Poodle (Global Test Proctors)

In a reversal of their more familiar canine roles, we are lucky to be able to witness the assertive French shepherd guiding his obedient German poodle around the world diplomatic stage. As reported today, axis of weasel hall of famer Jacques Chirac (President of France) and his sidekick Gerhard Schroeder have backed Kofi Annan with their full-fledged support:

LUEBECK, Germany, Dec 2 (AFP) - German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and French President Jacques Chirac pledged their support here on Thursday for embattled UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.

"Germany and France reiterate their full support for Kofi Annan whose commitment to the aims of the United Nations is total," Chirac said at a press conference after holding talks with Schroeder.

Schroeder also pledged his support for Annan, whose resignation is being sought by a US senator over the scandal-plagued Iraq oil-for-food program.

We wrote about Sen. Coleman's call for Annan's resignation yesterday. While it is no surprise that France backs Annan so fervently, Germany's position is not quite as easy to comprehend. France, of course, was both a major patron and beneficiary of Saddam Hussein. Providing him with diplomatic cover, and effectively selling him their Security Council veto, France has much to be ashamed of (if that is possible) in this tawdry affair. French elites and companies raked in much of Saddam's largesse, but Germany does not appear to be so implicated in Oil-for-Food.

Perhaps it is simply that Germany has so hitched its future to a Franco-German dominated EU to thwart America that there is no other choice. But it does not make it any less lamentable that so many world "leaders" expend as much energy and passion defending terrorists and their enablers as they do castigating those who fight them.

Count this as another great reminder of how fortunate we are that President Bush has won re-election. Because Chirac and Schroeder, and Annan for that matter, represent the "global test" to which John Kerry was referring when he stated that American action ought to be subject to external approval.

Jonathan Rothenberg blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 02:31 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

Soros's Army Of Losers

If you think you've heard the last of MoveOn.Org, you're wrong:

After President Bush won re-election, many political observers expected MoveOn.org to move into retreat. The sentiment surrounding the liberal online powerhouse was neatly summed up by the satire publication The Onion in its spoof headline: "MoveOn CurlsUp InCorner."

But on a Sunday night just two weeks after the Nov. 2 election, the group was back - hosting 1,600 house parties across the country where some 18,000 members gathered to vent and vote on how MoveOn should refocus after such a decisive Republican victory.

"With 56 million people not signed up to the Bush agenda and the Democratic establishment in exile, people are looking for ways to move in another direction," said MoveOn founder Wes Boyd. "In the current circumstances, we are more needed than ever."

Equally as distraught over the election results as they motivated to continue their battle, they certainly are putting a lot of thought into their future plans. Their message was an anti-war message, and even Democratic consultant Bill Carrick notes the flaws of that approach, "We got all the votes of people who were against the war - what we didn't get were the votes of people who were for the war ... Bush got the votes of people like married white women and Latinos who, despite their affinity with Democrats on other concerns, believed Bush would be stronger in the war on terror. And that wasn't really MoveOn's agenda."

Of course he also failed to note that MoveOn was merely "anti-Bush" and not "pro-Kerry."

But no worries everyone, MoveOn has plans for the future...

MoveOn plans a formal announcement in the next few weeks to lay out its agenda for the coming year. But at the November house parties members voted to prioritize efforts to remove barriers to voting, such as requiring electronic voting machines to produce paper receipts. They also vowed to pursue ways to create a media counterbalance to right-tilting Fox News.

"Our whole approach was to take people who are online members and get them into off-line activity," said Adam Ruben, MoveOn's field director. "We can get a lot done on the Internet but we know that to reach beyond the choir, there are essential parts of political activity we can't neglect."

Should be a fun four years ahead of us.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 11:12 AM | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)

Votes for the Lazy, Stupid....and Fraudsters...

Voting is not hard - for anyone who finds it hard, it's an automatic indication they shouldn't be voting.

We broadcast our elections far and wide - the dates one must register to vote are well known; when you register they clearly provide you information on where to vote. If by some chance you lose that bit of information, it's easily available by calling, writing or e mailing the local elections people - or, you can ask your neighbor who will almost certainly have the same precinct as you. Actually casting a vote is simple enough a child could do it - the names of the candidates are clearly listed and if you've taken any time at all to pay attention, you know by election day whom you are voting for. So, as I said - easy. So, what do our Solon's in government propose? Well, in Florida they are actually proposing (among other things) doing away with voting precints....

I don't know if this is just some bizarre strategy to destroy our electoral process, or if it's just plain and simple stupidity - but it's the most horrendous idea in all the history of democratic politics. You simply have to vote in your locality because as soon as you allow people to vote in any locality they choose, you will open up the floodgates of even more voter fraud than we have now. I can just see it - get the phony registrations and then have Joe Fraudster go from voting booth to voting booth casting ballot after ballot...

Look, for every right there is a responsibility - attached to our right to vote is the responsibility to know where and when we're supposed to vote; this isn't brain surgery - this is "you can do it with an IQ of 60" kind of stuff. If this is really too tricky for some, then they just shouldn't be voting.

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush in category Election at 05:55 AM | Comments (16) | TrackBack (0)

Thrilling

If I only thought it would end here.

Ohio counties finished certifying votes in the presidential race Wednesday, and the results showed that election officials accepted about 77 percent of the provisional ballots that were cast.

Ohio's 88 counties reported validating 121,598 provisional ballots from 156,977 checked, according to an Associated Press tabulation. The deadline for counties to certify election results was Wednesday.

Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell plans to certify the final result Monday.

President Bush's margin of victory against John Kerry on Nov. 2 was 136,483 votes. Kerry conceded after figuring he would not get enough of the provisional ballot vote to overtake Bush's total.

If Kerry could figure it out, why can't all the desperate losers who still hang on to the foolish idea that Kerry could still win Ohio.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Election at 01:11 AM | Comments (5) | TrackBack (0)

Christmas at the ACLU

Written by guest blogger Kerry Jacoby of Pardon My English.

[Please note: This is about Christmas. It does not address other seasonal holidays, as I am not qualified to do so. I know there are similar concerns by those of other faiths experiencing similar dilutions of their sacred times and seasons, and I will leave it to them to make their defense.]

Out here in the Red Zone, we love Christmas.

Christmas, for us, means family. It means loving Jesus and baking Christmas cookies and singing "Silent Night" and giving from the heart. Sure, just like the rest of you, we get fed up after a while with the crowds in the stores and the stress and all that. But, when we get tired of shopping, we go home and put on pajamas with the kids and make hot chocolate and watch "It's a Wonderful Life."

But then we turn on the TV set and find out that the Blue People (the atheists, the secularists, the liberals, and all) are trying to put the "Bah, Humbug" back into Christmas. It seems like every time we hear anything about Christmas from the media it's another depressing story of how the ACLU has succeeded in taking the Christ out of Christmas at some godforsaken public school or another.

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3rd Quarter GDP Revised Up To 3.9%

In case you missed it, the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced yesterday that "that real gross domestic product (GDP) grew at a seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 3.9 percent during the 3rd quarter of 2004."

According to the BEA, the revision "was driven by stronger growth in consumer spending and business investment."

The economy saw strong growth through 2004:

Highlights of the BEA news release include

• Strong growth in the 3rd quarter was primarily driven by consumer spending and business investment in equipment and software. Consumer spending grew at an annual rate of 5.1 percent in the 3rd quarter, its fastest pace in three years.
• The upward revision to overall GDP growth was driven by stronger growth in consumer spending and business investment. Consumer spending growth was revised up to 5.1 percent from 4.6 percent, while business investment growth was revised up to 12.9 percent from 11.7 percent.
• During the 3rd quarter, exports and imports grew at seasonally-adjusted annual rates of 6.3 percent and 6.0 percent, respectively.

Tough break for Democrats and liberals who think the economy is bad.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Economy at 07:06 PM | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)

Dollars and No Sense

Despite devastating loses in the elections last month and basically the past four years, Democrats have been raising plenty cash, certainly hoping to build up a war chest to try to save a little bit of face.

The DNC announced Tuesday that it had raised at least $13 million in November. The total includes $10 million collected after the Nov. 2 election in which President Bush won a second term and Republicans strengthened their House and Senate majorities.

Due in part to growth in fund raising over the Internet, the DNC raised more this election cycle than it did before corporate, union and big individual donations known as soft money were outlawed by a 2002 law.

The committee raised at least $400 million in the 2003-04 election cycle, compared to $210 million in 1999-2000, the last presidential election cycle in which it could collect unlimited donations.

Now, the national Democratic and Republican party committees can only collect up to $25,000 a year from each individual donor or political action committee.

All the power to them. Money can't buy a victory. It takes a lot more than good fundraising to win over the voters. Don't believe me? Ask Howard Dean, or the Kos Dozen.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 04:46 PM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

Growing Chorus Challenges UN

Yesterday we posted an item on the hollow attempts of Kofi Annan's UN to "reform" itself. This followed a previous post about Congressional efforts to use America's financial muscle to compel true reform.

It seems that the voices of discontent are growing louder. Whereas the UN was once a sacred cow whose legitimacy was almost unquestioned and whose credibility was considered inherent within its charter, critics are now much more willing to openly call for radical changes. Once the province of isolated individuals who were outside the formerly monolithic political consensus that bestowed upon the UN a chaste and virtuous imprimatur, sharp critiques of the UN, its leadership and its underlying mission are now coming from reputable and mainstream quarters. And these critiques do not only carry the weight of respectability, but they also come with very real power and influence. As such, they cannot be summarily dismissed by preening UN functionaries or self-indulgent international diplomats.

Perhaps most pivotal, thus far, is today's piece by Senator Norm Coleman (R-MN) in the Wall Street Journal. The title, "Kofi Annan Must Go," pretty much says it all.

While many questions concerning Oil-for-Food remain unanswered, one conclusion has become abundantly clear: Kofi Annan should resign. The decision to call for his resignation does not come easily, but I have arrived at this conclusion because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch...

Since it was never likely that the U.N. Security Council, some of whose permanent members were awash in Saddam's favors, would ever call for Saddam's removal, the U.S. and its coalition partners were forced to put troops in harm's way to oust him by force. Today, money swindled from Oil-for-Food may be funding the insurgency against coalition troops in Iraq and other terrorist activities against U.S. interests. Simply put, the troops would probably not have been placed in such danger if the U.N. had done its job in administering sanctions and Oil-for-Food...

As a former prosecutor, I believe in the presumption of innocence. Such revelations, however, cast a dark cloud over Mr. Annan's ability to address the U.N.'s quagmire...

it is clear the U.N. simply cannot root out its own corruption while Mr. Annan is in charge: To get to the bottom of the murk, it's clear that there needs to be a change at the top...

All of this adds up to one conclusion: It's time for Kofi Annan to step down. The massive scope of this debacle demands nothing less. If this widespread corruption had occurred in any legitimate organization around the world, its CEO would have been ousted long ago, in disgrace. Why is the U.N. different?

As chairman of the U.S. Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Sen. Coleman is influential. Less important, but noteworthy, is Dick Morris weighing in today in The Hill.

Whether the United Nations were located in New York or in Geneva, Congress cannot and should not continue to spend our money paying dues to an organization that will not open its records to our elected officials who are seeking to investigate numerous reports of corruption reaching high up in the U.N. organization...

If the United Nations refuses to open its financial records to our congressional investigators, the United States should suspend payment of part of its annual dues as a punishment for the United Nations’ intransigence...

It is usually France’s business, not ours’, if their president, Jacques Chirac, or their interior minister, Charles Pasqua, profited from the oil for food program. It is usually Russia’s business if Putin or his United Russia Party was enriched from the same table. But when Chirac and Putin were influenced by these payoffs to cast their nations’ votes in the United Nations for or against the Saddam Hussein regime, the matter becomes our business. We must not let the U.N. Security Council become an auction in which the corrupt sell their votes to the guilty or the aggrieved based on who can pay them off more handsomely.

The matter is clear and all that remains is to cleanse the inept and corrupt United Nations.

Jonathan Rothenberg blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 09:46 AM | Comments (6) | TrackBack (0)

Wictory Wednesday

Two Congressional races will be decided in run-offs in Louisiana on Saturday. The GOP stands an excellent chance of picking up both these seats, dominating Louisiana's House delegation 6-1, and striking fear into the hearts of House and Senate Democrats from other red states. Help make it happen with a small donation to the campaign of Republican candidate Charles Boustany.

Today is Wictory Wednesday. Every Wednesday, hundreds of bloggers ask their readers to donate to an important Republican campaign.

If you're a blogger, you can join Wictory Wednesdays by e-mailing me at wictory@blogsforbush.com. I'll add you to the Wictory Wednesday blogroll. I'll also send you a reminder e-mail every Wednesday, explaining which candidate to support that day.

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You allowed the murder of my son. I will not allow you to kill my daughters,"

"No bill should pass the Senate, the House, anywhere, unless it contains immigration reform — you secure our borders, you keep my girls alive."

The Families for a Secure America are not going to accept what the Democrats are trying to do.

"The 19 terrorists used more than 60 driver's licenses to operate within this country, board those planes and eventually kill 3,000 people, including my son," said Peter Gadiel, the group's president. "Joe Lieberman doesn't think driver's license reform or any immigration safeguards should be in the 9/11 bill. He's simply making no sense and is obviously letting special interests do his thinking instead of doing what's right for the American people," Mr. Gadiel said.

No big surprise here, Democrats always let special interest groups rule their thinking. They rather have illegal's get driver’s licenses than protect this country.

And they wonder why they keep losing elections? One thing is for certain, I have lost any respect that I had for Joe Lieberman.

The only good Democrat, is an out of office Democrat.

Paul Lewis blogged for Bush in category Homeland Security at 02:41 AM | Comments (11) | TrackBack (1)

The US Constitution is Unconstitutional

Or, it should be, if the ACLU's standard is applied.

An alert reader brought to our attention a bit on Best of the Web Today pointing out that the final paragragh of the Constitution proves the Unconstitutionality of the document:

Done in Convention by the Unanimous Consent of the States present the Seventeenth Day of September in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and Eighty seven and of the Independence of the United States of America the Twelfth.

"Our Lord", of course, refers not to some nebulous diety or Supreme Being, but to the very specifically Christian Jesus. The very document we govern ourselves by acknowledges the Lordship of the Son of God, and we can't so much as sing Christian-inspired Christmas carols at public schools? Methinks the ACLU and other radical, hate-filled anti-Christian groups exaggerate that "wall of separation."

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush in category General at 02:22 AM | Comments (16) | TrackBack (1)

Yet another Federal Judge overruling the voters.

Judge bars Prop 200 from becoming law"

The order, in effect through Dec. 22, will stop the scheduled implementation of the measure, which requires state and local government employees to verify the immigration status of people applying for public benefits and report violators to immigration authorities

Here is the reasoning this judge used:

"It seems likely that if Proposition 200 were to become law, it would have a dramatic, chilling effect upon undocumented aliens who would otherwise be eligible for public benefits under federal law," Bury wrote

Your tax dollars at work.

How quaint.

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Bush Won. Get Over It

Anyone else getting sick of these morons who cannot deal with the fact that Bush won? Apparently losers in Nevada were putting up a fight there too. Today, a judge "tossed out a legal challenge aimed at blocking Nevada's five electoral votes from being cast next month for President Bush."

The plaintiffs in the Nevada case, who described themselves as concerned citizens, had asked the judge to schedule a hearing so they could prove their claims of voter registration fraud and malfunctioning voting machines.

Washoe County District Judge Peter Breen said in dismissing the case that they couldn't show the outcome of the presidential election would change if it went forward.

"An election contest is a great disruption of the regular process," Breen wrote. "The election should not be disturbed nor scrutinized by the court without a reasonable showing of a different outcome or an uncertain result."

Bush carried Nevada by 21,500 votes and won the electoral vote nationally by a margin of 34 electoral votes, 286-252. Bush got 418,690 votes in Nevada to Democratic nominee Sen. John Kerry's 397,190.

Battles over election results apparently were taking place in New Hampshire and New Mexico.

With the probability of a change in outcome virtually impossible, these groups responsible for these challenge succeed only in dividing our country... then they turn around and blame President Bush. Every meaningless challenge brought up because a group wasn't happy with the results is not good for the country. It's a stupid game and it's time for this to end.

I want every liberal reading this to repeat the following sentence out loud:

"George W. Bush won the election."

You don't have to like it, you just have to accept it.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Election at 10:21 PM | Comments (40) | TrackBack (0)

We're Number One

According to Mirriam-Webster Online, "blog" is the #1 word of 2004.

HAT TIP: Slant Point

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Bush Majority Gear

If you ask me, there's always time to gloat about the election... the latest line of Bush Majority Gear has some great stuff you can buy to show your pride and enthusiasm over Bush's victory on November 2.

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category General at 06:03 PM | Comments (4) | TrackBack (0)

Kofi Doubles Down Against USA

Not content with being the most catastrophically inept UN Secretary General in memory (or the most underhandedly malicious, depending on your point of view), Kofi Annan now seeks to reclaim a legacy for himself. Much as Bill Clinton tried to fit the square peg of Middle East peace through the round hole of Palestinian rejectionism in order to cleanse his record of the Lewinsky untidiness, the capstone Annan wishes to place on his career to cover a raft of scandals is something they are calling "reform." Fundamentally, it is a manifesto that seeks to emasculate strong countries and subvert national sovereignty to some international system that is both devoid of any moral underpinnings and lacks any popular legitimacy

AFP reports (via Drudge) that Annan has unveiled a "sweeping" reform proposal to reconstitute this defunct institution. A quick glance at the statement, though, reveals this as nothing more than re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic:

"There is little evident international acceptance of the idea of security being best preserved by a balance of power or by any single -- even benignly motivated -- superpower," the panel said.

"The yearning for an international system governed by the rule of law has grown," it said. "No state, no matter how powerful, can by its own efforts alone make itself invulnerable to today's threats."

Oh, really? There does not seem to be any demonstrated effort by Annan to do anything about threats posed by Iran or North Korea. If the UN refuses to take a stand, America must.

Annan has repeatedly maintained that many people around the globe are concerned about disease and poverty rather than terrorism and weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and much of the report underlines his core argument.

The report identifies a wide variety of threats to international security today, citing organised crime, poverty and failed states along with war, terrorism and WMD.

Perhaps those nations that are stricken with disease and poverty are the ones whose tyrants impose such depravity on them and also use the UN as a protective umbrella to preserve their kleptocracies. Give Kofi credit for chutzpah: the man who oversaw the world's most breathtaking financial fraud that fleeced billions from poverty-stricken people and manages a thoroughly corrupt organization that watches dictators use disease and hunger as weapons must have tons of chutzpah to make such declarations.

It outlines three principles for collective security -- that current threats go beyond national boundaries, that no nation is strong enough to defend itself alone, and that not every nation will be willing or able to protect its own people or refrain from harming its neighbours.

No nation is strong enough to defend itself alone? Tell that to the Israelis, who have been defending themselves alone against armies from at least 6 Arab nations as well as 7 decades of Arab terrorism. Perhaps the UN's assertion that it was entirely proper for UN troops in Lebanon to cover for Hezbollah when 3 Israeli soldiers were snatched and murdered might make some of us skeptical of the notion that nations ought to cede at least some security responsibilities to supranational organizations led by unelected bureaucrats and functionaries with no constituencies to serve.

This entire exercise in "reform" is just so much showmanship and stagecraft. The fundamental problem with the UN is that it is morally bankrupt, and this is not only structural but also cultural. Toying with the org. chart will not cure the UN's ills. When governments such as Cuba and Sudan can not only be shielded from sanction for their apalling oppression but also serve on the "human rights" commission, there is something wrong that is much deeper than structure. When a democratic nation with 5 million Jews and 1 million Arabs (who have full rights and some of whom even serve in government) can be the object of so much condemnation while a profoundly unfree nation like China is completely absolved for its erasure of Tibet, there is something wrong that is much deeper than structure.

Unless and until the UN considers that the spread freedom is its ultimate objective and it decides to side unequovically with free nations and to confront unashamedly tyrannical ones, the UN will lack the moral authority to do anything. Of course, this cannot happen if all countries must be represented at the UN, which is why a Community of Democracies is becoming ever more appealing.

Jonathan Rothenberg blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 03:54 PM | Comments (12) | TrackBack (0)

Baby Killers

No, not a bunch of leftwingers shouting at our troops - but the Dutch. NRO's The Corner brings to our attention this horrifying news report:

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands -- Raising the stakes in an excruciating ethical debate, a hospital in the Netherlands -- the first nation to permit euthanasia -- recently proposed guidelines for mercy killings of terminally ill newborns, and then made a startling revelation: It has already begun carrying out such procedures in a handful of cases and reporting them to the government...

...The Groningen Protocol, as the hospital's guidelines have come to be known, would create a legal framework for permitting doctors to actively end the life of newborns deemed to be in similar pain from incurable disease or extreme deformities.

The "death with dignity" people were always telling us that they'd only do it with consent - and now, just as we opposed to euthanisia always stated, we've got the first cases of people being killed without their consent. This is not "assisted suicide" - this is intentional homicide. For now its being done on babies with horrible problems unlikely to find a cure - but there has been a step by step process into barbarism here, and the next step is to start killing entirely upon convenience. If you want to know where the human species gets people who think that killing is a good thing I'll tell you: it's the same place we got those who ran the Nazi gas chambers, the Soviet Gulag and the Cambodian killing fields.

We have to put a stop to this - being pro-life is a matter of simple survival; if we don't stop these barbarians then eventually each and every one of us will be killed when some government bureaucrat determines our life no longer worthwhile.

Mark Noonan blogged for Bush in category Moral Values at 03:02 PM | Comments (15) | TrackBack (1)

Tom Ridge To Resign

Via Fox News...

Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge is resigning, FOX News confirmed Tuesday. He is expected to announce his decision at a 2:45 p.m. EST press conference.

In an e-mail circulated to senior Homeland Security officials, Ridge praised the department as "an extraordinary organization that each day contributes to keeping America safe and free." He also said he was privileged to work with the department's 180,000 employees "who go to work every day dedicated to making our company better and more secure."

UPDATE: Michelle Malkin reacts to his press conference and offers a response to conservatives who want Rudy Guiliani to take Tom Ridge's place.

She laments, "I'm not sad to see Secretary Ridge go. But I'm not very optimistic that his replacement will fare any better."

I wonder who she would recommend?

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category Breaking News at 01:47 PM | Comments (10) | TrackBack (2)

Home For The Holidays

Want to help out our troops this holiday season? Check out "Let's Bring Em Home" a non-profit organization with the mission of taking donations to purchase plane tickets for "junior enlisted military personnel, allowing them the opportunity to fly home and spend the holidays with their families."

Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category General at 11:58 AM | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

More Info To Help Steve Gardner

Powerline has been heading up the effort to help Steve Gardner.

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Matt Margolis blogged for Bush in category General at 11:55 AM | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)

Democrats Trippi-ng Over Themselves

In a Wall Street Journal op-ed today, former Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi expounds upon the Democratic party's problems. Republicans reading this will no doubt be overjoyed, considering Trippi's prescription is to mimic Karl Rove's breathtaking success by playing to the party's base. The problem to which Trippi seems to be blind, because surely he cannot know it and simply choose to ignore it, is that the nation's center is to the right of where Trippi thinks it is and is closer to the GOP's base than it is to the Democratic base. Surely, if the GOP succumbs to hubris by using government to disperse tribute to favored patrons rather than shrinking it or high-handedness by veering too far right, the Democrats will benefit. But the impact of the Reagan Revolution, the lesson that Bill Clinton should have taught the Democrats about at least appearing as centrists and the argument made by Zell Miller are all lost on Trippi. Consider Trippi's observations:

Since the Democratic Leadership Council, with its mantra of "moderate, moderate, moderate," took hold in D.C., the party has been in decline at just about every level of government...

Democrats can't keep ignoring their base. Running to the middle and then asking our base to make sure to vote isn't a plan. And to those who say talking to your base doesn't work--Read the Rove 2004 playbook!...

The one thing we learned in the Dean campaign was that the 30 people in Burlington weren't as smart as the 650,000 Americans who were part of our campaign. Instead of a DLC in D.C., Democrats should be holding Democratic Grassroots Councils in every county...

our party has got to find innovative ways to support organized labor's growth. A declining union membership is not good for the country, it's not good for working people, and it certainly isn't good for the Democratic Party.

Trippi's denigration of moderates and his plan to play to the grassroots (i.e. the activists who are almost by definition the most extreme) will only serve to drag the Democrats further away from the mainstream. And his plea to restore unions to their previous heights of power belies a faith in collectivism, and a corresponding contempt for meritocratic individual responsibility, that is out of touch with the increasingly information-driven economy of the future.

This should be music to Republicans' ears and we should hope that Trippi's voice is heard within his party. Already Tom Vilsack has dropped out of the running for DNC chair, leaving Howard Dean as the most prominent contender to lead the Democratic Party.

Jonathan Rothenberg blogged for Bush in category Loser Watch at 09:27 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)