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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: steve harris who wrote (703737)	9/24/2005 9:58:02 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 769670

Bad Company Investors Business Daily 9/23/2005 The Home Front: The media have pushed the idea that the demonstration this weekend at the White House was an "anti-war" gathering. What they didn't say was who was behind it. No doubt, many fine, sincere people demonstrated this weekend against the U.S. liberation of Iraq. Being Americans, they're certainly entitled to do so. Maybe they even endorsed the view of those who organized the demonstrations. On Thursday, the organizers ran a two-page ad. On one, they called the Bush administration liars. On the other, they ran the names of all those who have died in Iraq. But we'd be surprised if those well-meaning folks understood whose banner they were marching under, because the media aren't reporting it. For the record, the lead organizer is ANSWER, which the media routinely refer to as an "antiwar group." It is nothing of the sort. In fact, ANSWER is a front group for the Stalinist Workers World Party. And any group that qualifies for that epithet in front of its name deserves special scrutiny, since Josef Stalin was responsible for the murder of as many as 25 million human beings. Well, you might ask, does it really matter? It sure does. Imagine for a moment it was a different group that sponsored the demonstration — say, a neo-Nazi group. Think The Washington Post and other media would report that? You bet they would. After all, Adolf Hitler and his thugs were some of the worst mass murderers of all time. We would expect — no, demand — media to report that a demonstration attended by hundreds of middle class moms, concerned fathers and pacifist students was in fact organized by Brownshirts. So why do communists — particularly those who march under Stalin's flag — get different treatment? And why do thousands of average people feel comfortable marching arm in arm with them? It's a puzzle. After all, according to the "Black Book of Communism" — a widely cited and respected compendium of communism's crimes in the 20th century — communist regimes murdered as many as 100 million people over the last century. That's quite a record. Indeed, all the century's great mass murders — Mao Zedong (65 million), Stalin (25 million), Hitler (21 million), Pol Pot (2 million) — were communists or socialists. Yet many well-meaning people who marched this weekend perhaps didn't know all this. Or perhaps they don't mind having their cause besmirched by people who aren't really anti-war at all, but anti-America, anti-West, anti-freedom and anti-capitalist. It's disappointing that so many marchers will demonstrate, heedless that they're being used by people who hold them — and their bourgeois pacifism — in contempt. Maybe it proves the old adage: Lie down with dogs, wake up with fleas.

To: steve harris who wrote (703737)	9/24/2005 10:15:04 AM
From: paret	Respond to of 769670

SCHUMER IS A CROOK ............................................................... Schumer's Category 1 Scandal Upgraded to a Category 2. Senator Seeks Shelter. HughHewitt.com ^ \| September 23, 2005 \| Hugh Hewitt Chuck Schumer issued a statement on the next SCOTUS nominee: "Please send us a moderate, but if you send someone who is very ideological there'll be a much bigger fight than on Roberts because this is for the O'Connor seat and that's the swing vote on the court." Schumer never issues statements. He always makes statements. To microphones. Why a written statement today? He's hiding from reporters who want answers on Schumer's dirty tricks crew at the DSCC which Schumer hired and still hasn't fired even though the FBI is investigating their use of social security numbers to steal credit data on Schumer's targets. I wonder if they had an enemies list? Anyway, Schumer needs to face the cameras sometimes, and it will be much more a test for the MSM than for Schumer, though he'd better shave and not sweat and answer every question that is put to him. Here's the list for the MSM who aren't used to asking Dems tough questions: • Senator Schumer, how long have you known Katie Barge? • How about Lauren Weiner? • How did you meet Barge? Weiner? • Did you know they had worked for David Brock? • Did you ever discuss them with George Soros? • Who first told you about the theft of Lt. Gov. Steele's personal data? • What did you do? • Did you call FBI Director Mueller? • Do you ever call FBI Director Mueller? • Would FBI Direcor Mueller have taken your call? • Have you spoken with Barge since you learned she was the target of an investigation? Weiner? Not even to say that they'd stay on the payroll? Not even a brief conversation in the hall? • Who did you appoint to replace Barge? Did you give him instructions on the files they would inherit from Barge? • Did Barge get to take her files home? • Did you order the staff to secure all the files for the FBI's use? • Did you get e-mails from Barge? • Have you erased those e-mails? • Has the FBI asked for your computers? • Has the FBI contacted you? When? How about other contacts? Is that all the contacts? • Has the FBI taken material from the DSCC? • What have you been told about Lt. Gov. Steele? Did you get reports from the research department? Can we have those reports? • Are you aware of any other improper conduct by your staff? There are lots and lots more questions, which even a cursory review of any Watergate figure press conference can provide. The key here is obstruction of justice and receipt of stolen goods/information. It is serious stuff, and the new Nixon should avoid declaring that he isn't a crook. One thing is for sure, the work of Schumer's plumbers is a whole lot more interesting than Schumer's theory on the SCOTUS nominee. Don't be fooled into thinking that The Washington Post is being tough with the scandal by running this editorial. The editorial treats the data theft as a stand alone, one-time event --and there is zero reason to believe that it is, or that a senior Schumer staffer acted on her own in deciding to break the law. It is way too soon to start writing "end of the case" editorials. Rather, it is time to find a couple of star young reporters willing to take on the point guy for the Dems' new left attack machine, funded by Soros and connected to the entire network. "All the Senator's Men" might be a catchy title for their memoir.

To: steve harris who wrote (703737)	9/24/2005 1:53:27 PM
From: paret	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Fmr. Atty. General Clark calls for Bush to be replaced by Aristide as President of US C-SPAN (Anti-war Rally) ^ \| September 24, 2005 \| nwrep WASHINGTON, D.C. - Ramsey Clark, Attorney General in the LBJ administration from 1967 to 1969, addressing an anti-war rally in the Capitol today, called for the replacement of President George W. Bush by Jean-Bertrand Aristide, the deposed President of Haiti. Saying Aristide would be a better President of the United States than Bush, Clark called for the impeachment of President Bush.