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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59170)	3/24/2005 11:49:33 AM
From: Skywatcher	Respond to of 81568

GWB.... AMERICAN ERRORIST!

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59170)	3/24/2005 7:52:45 PM
From: lorne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

What's the matter with liberalism? March 24, 2005 © 2005 Newspaper Enterprise Assn. The Feb. 28 issue of The New Republic, that venerable liberal journal of opinion, published editorials by half a dozen of its writers discussing what's the matter with liberalism. That something is the matter with it wasn't seriously disputed. Its long-time home, the Democratic Party, is virtually powerless. The Republicans, solidly controlled by the conservative movement, possess not only the White House and Congress, but almost all the major governorships and even the mayoralty of New York City. Time was, 40 or 50 years ago, when the situation was almost exactly reversed. What has gone wrong? The writers advance a number of interesting ideas, but the prize indisputably goes to The New Republic's editor in chief, Martin Peretz. He wastes no time trying to spare his readers pain. He recalls that in the 1950s notable economist John Kenneth Galbraith contemptuously dismissed the conservatives as "bookless" – which was to say that they simply had no seminal ideas. The shoe, Peretz asserts, is now firmly on the other foot: It is the liberals who are "bookless." It has been several decades since they had a really fresh basic idea – what Richard Nixon, or more likely one of his speechwriters, felicitously called "the lift of a driving dream." It wouldn't be fair to say that the liberals haven't come up with any new ideas at all. But since the triumph of the civil-rights movement 40 years ago, liberalism's initiatives have all fallen short of manifest and near-universal appeal. The sound principles of feminism have been caricatured to a point where the president of Harvard is in serious danger of losing his job for hinting that the abilities of the sexes may vary slightly in some academic fields. The essential wisdom of environmentalism has been trampled by demands that the health of the global economy be sacrificed in a desperate and almost certainly futile (as well as risky) effort to maintain Earth's surface temperature at exactly the level that prevails today. And a growing tolerance of homosexuality has been endangered by grotesque demands for "gay marriage." The truth is that liberalism's last two really big ideas – that government should micro-manage the economy to uplift the poor, and that fascism was unrelievedly evil but that communism should be appeased because its aims were noble – both lost resoundingly, in world competition, to the conservative propositions that a free market is the greatest engine of prosperity for everyone and that communism must be opposed and destroyed. The present happy condition of conservatism is simply more support for the old adage that nothing succeeds like success. What, then, should liberals do? The Republicans' old House speaker, Joe Martin, at a comparable time in his party's fortunes, told the story of a pair of rabbits who were chased into a hole by foxes. "What shall we do?" asked the lady rabbit. (This was before Gloria Steinem.) "Well," answered the gentleman rabbit, "I guess we'll just have to stay here till we outnumber them." Good advice, as far as it goes. But liberals need a deeper analysis. To be blunt, they must come to terms with reality. That means accepting the principles of the free market wholeheartedly – not simply with "mouth honor," as Macbeth put it. And it also means coming to terms with the world as it really is. Peretz warns that liberals have invested far too many hopes in the United Nations. He is absolutely right. At a deeper level, liberals must give up the conviction, born of the Enlightenment, that humanity, by the use of reason alone, can design a happy future for itself and the planet. That will entail abandoning their long romance with atheism and accepting a more modest place and role for mankind in God's plan for His universe. worldnetdaily.com

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59170)	3/24/2005 8:26:56 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

abcnews.go.com Democrat Conspiracy To Buy Votes Grows Wider Captain's Quarters ABC News reports that five Democrats have been indicted on federal charges of vote-buying in last year's presidential election: <<< Five East St. Louis Democrats were charged in a scheme to buy votes in November's election in a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. An undetermined number of voters were paid $5 or $10 to cast a Democratic ballot in the Nov. 2 election, court records said. The money allegedly came from the St. Clair County Democratic Committee, though there was no indication the county committee knew how the funds would be used. Federal prosecutors charged four Democratic committeemen and one precinct worker, a day after three other committeemen and a precinct worker pleaded guilty to related vote-buying charges in federal court. >>> It sounds like their co-conspirators cut a deal in order to reduced their jail time, which means they're looking to find bigger fish to fry. The seven committee members fit that bill, but it wouldn't surprise me if the investigation doesn't stop there. Stay tuned. Posted by Captain Ed captainsquartersblog.com

To: ChinuSFO who wrote (59170)	3/24/2005 8:44:32 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 81568

ACVR Refers Ohio Voter Fraud To Department of Justice WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today the American Center for Voting Rights (ACVR) released a copy of a referral letter to the Department of Justice. The letter accompanied a copy of the Ohio Election Report submitted to the House Administration Committee on Monday. ACVR will be releasing similar reports on election activity in Florida, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin and other states in coming weeks. <more at link> ac4vr.com Report Shows Liberal Third Party Groups Efforts to Circumvent Law and Register Illegal Voters in 2004 Blogs for Bush (bumped, from March 23, 6:25 pm) Tuesday, the nonpartisan American Center for Voting Rights released a report that outlines preliminary findings of registration fraud, intimidation, vote fraud and litigation in the state of Ohio for the 2004 election. The report shows how Democrat groups such as ACT, ACORN, and the NAACP were the ones largely engaging in these types of illegal activities. The full report and press release are available online on their website (link below). My first look over this report was illuminating and disturbing. Liberal groups undertook a massive coordinated effort to undermine the voting process in the state of Ohio. Barbara Boxer is... not saying anything about this apparently... UPDATE: Jason Smith is not surprised... Key excerpts posted in extended entry: Page 5: <<< Third party organizations, especially ACT, ACORN, and NAACP engaged in a coordinated “Get Out The Vote” effort. A significant component of this effort appears to be registering individuals who would cast ballots for the candidate supported by these organizations. This voter registration effort was not limited to registration of legal voters but, criminal investigations and news reports suggest, that this voter registration effort also involved the registration of thousands of fictional voters such as the, now infamous, Jive F. Turkey, Sr., Dick Tracy and Mary Poppins. Those individuals registering these fictional voters were reportedly paid not just money to do so but were, in at least one instance, paid in crack cocaine. The fraudulent voter registrations, however, appear to be only part of the effort of these organizations to influence the election. There was an apparently coordinated national litigation strategy to manipulate election laws in battleground states and, specifically, to eliminate the provisions of election law that would prevent vote fraud. >>> Page 7: <<< ACORN/Project Vote's activities in Ohio appear to be just part of a pattern of activities observed across the country, in which their workers submitted fraudulent voter registration information to election authorities. ACORN/Project Vote is closely aligned with ACT, SEIU and NAACP National Voter Fund through the America Votes Coalition, a coordinating council of approximately 30 liberal interest groups. >>> Page 10: <<< Third party organizations were notorious for submitting faulty, incomplete or outright fraudulent registrations across the country. 2 Ohio was not spared this onslaught of fraudulent voter registrations. Boards of elections were flooded with hundreds, if not thousands, of faulty and fraudulent registration cards. Worse still, these groups collected and compiled these cards for months, apparently holding back new voter registration cards and delivering them to election authorities on or shortly before the statutory deadline. This delay in submitting these voter registrations minimized the ability of election authorities to validate the registrations. This delay also left legitimate registrants unable to determine if their registrations were accepted and to timely correct any errors. >>> Posted by Matt blogsforbush.com ac4vr.com texasrainmaker.blogspot.com Ö¿Ö