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

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (745774)	7/20/2006 10:33:09 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Stem cell veto shores up base but poses problems for others By GEORGE E. CONDON Jr., Copley Washington Bureau Chief timesreporter.com WASHINGTON – President Bush’s stem cell veto Wednesday undoubtedly heartens religious conservatives. But it will cause trouble for other Republicans – and hands a potentially valuable issue to Democrats who already were finding audiences embracing the notion that the Bush administration has tilted too far in favor of religion over science. It is never helpful for a Republican president to cast himself as opposing the wishes of a GOP icon like Nancy Reagan, and no politician wants to be seen as standing in the way of cures that could rid so many American families of the heartache caused by Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s or any of the other diseases that today are death sentences. The spotlight is even harsher on this president because he so assiduously avoided casting his first veto for almost six long years, saving it for this issue so dear to the hearts of religious conservatives. Longtime Republican strategist Charles Black acknowledged, though, that the veto will displease many other Republicans and many independent voters who disagree with Bush on the issue. But he predicted few voters will be moved by the issue in the congressional elections later this year. “It’s an issue, but I do not think it will be a top-tier issue come the fall,” he said. Sherry Bebitch Jeffe, a senior scholar at University of Southern California, said that some Republican candidates will be put on the spot by the veto, however. “It could make some moderate Republicans in less-than-comfortably safe districts a little nervous,” she said. “They’ve either got to go along with their president and be questioned, or oppose the president and anger the base.” She said it also hardens for some voters the portrait of the president as “a rigid fundamentalist.” And for those voters who lean Republican but have been uneasy about Bush’s policies, it makes it harder to rejoin the president’s camp, said Washington-based independent analyst Stuart Rothenberg. “It adds to their sense of disappointment or frustration or anger,” he said, calling the image of Bush as anti-science cumulative with the veto, coming on top of Bush’s interference in the Terry Schiavo case, skepticism about global warming, questioning of evolution and opposition to forms of contraception. “Some moderate Republicans just think about things very differently than the president and see the president as too much a prisoner of cultural and religious conservatives, so that when a bill like this is vetoed that can confirm a general sense that this country is headed off on the wrong track,” he said. Some Democrats have already tried to tap into that unease, particularly former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner – the father of a diabetic – who has been getting unexpected standing ovations when he promises “an administration that believes in science.” “I was really stunned,” said Samuel L. Popkin, a professor at University of California San Diego who is an expert on presidential campaigns and was taken aback at the spontaneous reaction to Warner’s science pitch. “Something like this could be more powerful than a gas tax or an energy plan.” Rothenberg said the message definitely could move many voters. But he cautioned: “This is a very religious country and there is a huge chunk of it who doesn’t think this is about science. To them, this is about morality.” Pollster John Zogby has tried to study the matter and called the veto “a huge gamble by the president.” His polls show that this administration “is viewed as anti-science whether it comes to creationism, stem cell research, the environment, global warming, a whole host of issues. Those could be aces in the hole for Democrats.” The problem for Democrats, though, is that more voters will be paying attention to their positions on the war in Iraq. And the cohesion they demonstrate on stem cells is nowhere to be found on the war. This page was created July 20, 2006 Copyright ©2006 The Times Reporter

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (745774)	7/21/2006 1:14:03 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 769670

asian has a saying: skunk considers odor coming from the other party. Those "stupid," "morons," and "idiots." demoRATS are like skunks

To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (745774)	7/21/2006 3:10:22 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 769670

In Spain, anti-Semitism is new leftist trend Spanish Jews knew there were hard times ahead. Prime Minister Zapatero has not disappointed them Ignacio Russell Cano Madrid: Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, Prime Minister of Spain and Secretary General of the Socialist Party, arrived to power at a time nobody expected, not even inside the Party. Keen on populist tirades against the United States "Dickhead Bush" and "Ketchup Queen Kerry", his whole campaign did not bring much attention until the moment Al-Qaeda decided to blow up Madrid trains, killing almost 200 people and bringing to an end Spain's membership of the West. From that moment on, everybody knew nothing would be the same, and Spanish Jews knew there were hard times ahead. Prime Minister Zapatero has not disappointed them. 'Understand Nazis' Although many experts had foretold of the imminent disappearing of European Jews, nobody expected such a virulent explosion of anti-Semitism in Spain, not even under a Leftist government. The first signal came on Monday, 5 December, when during a dinner with the Benarroch family, Zapatero and wife began claiming what Vidal Quadras, member of the European Parliament, described on the radio as "a tirade of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism". By the moment the Benarroch couple had left the table to express their regrets, Zapatero was explaining his lack of surprise about the Holocaust: according to the people present, Zapatero claimed to understand the Nazis. What about Hizbullah? Closing Hizbullah TV was another mission impossible for the man who understands the Nazis. It took more than a year to definitely close the channel connection to the Hispasat satellite, siphoning Latin America with more than a year of hate and Islamist propaganda. In a country with the most anti-Catholic government in its whole history but with a multicultural obsession for Islam, A-Manar TV was part of the 'freedom of press.' The recent clashes with Hizbullah, however, have promoted the longest and hardest diatribes against Israel, forcing Zapatero to loose a cover for what it was long known in Spanish politics: His hate towards Israel, Jews and Zionism. In the third day of such rants, before a gathering of the Socialist Youth Movement and a day before a demonstration against Israel, Zapatero showed at last his true colours: At the closing of the meeting he let the teenagers take pictures of him wearing a Palestinian kaffiyah. Although according to Zapatero, Hizbullah and Israel are the same thing, he offers no words of condemnation for the Party of Allah, spending 100 percent of the time explaining, in a rather twisted way, that Israel should let Hizbullah kill Israelis. Much of the theory belongs to controversial Spanish FM Miguel Angel Moratinos. EU envoy to the Middle East before and sinking in rumours of links to Hamas long before he left, Moratinos arrived to the foreign ministry cleaning the Elcano Institute up, firing the most prestigious experts and bringing in a group of friends of the oppression theory. Since then, amid support for Castro and Chavez and mysterious support to Bolivia in order to bring Evo Morales to power, the Spanish FM has proved he has nothing to envy in terms of anti-Americanism, but nobody ever expected an explosion of anti-Semitism in Spain this big. It seems once more that the Jews are the canary in the mine, and the United States should take note. The commotion caused in the Spanish Jewish community seems to be huge, especially taking in count that after some months of anxiety after his election, some Jews were feeling somewhat safe in Spain. Not anymore. Some people were trying to alert the international community about what was boiling in Spain, but neither the OSCE nor the EUMC ever listened, preferring contacts with anti-Israeli NGOs based on the idea that anti-Semitism has to do with Arabs. Now the Spanish Jews are to pay the price for the international community's inaction, once more. If the United States does not want to see the American embassy in Madrid full of Jews fleeing Spain, President Bush will do well in isolating Spain in the international arena while pressing, and asking European members to press, the new Socialist government of Spain. The American Rep's belonging to Moratino's Caucus of Friends of Spain should be reminded its elections time too. The Sepharad story is clearly over, but nobody expected it would be by accident. If you are thinking about visiting Spain, think it twice. You may not leave easily. ynetnews.com