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

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (748211)	8/24/2006 7:45:16 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

only liberals would go to the MSNBC site. The NRA site says Bush was right by a 99.9% margin

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (748211)	8/24/2006 7:46:18 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

PMSBC Misleading idiotic question, no doubt answered by unemployed riff raff like yourself, loser.

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (748211)	8/24/2006 7:58:47 PM
From: PROLIFE	Respond to of 769670

Jeeni Criscenzo, Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives 49th California District seat currently held by Republican nominee Darrell Issa, wrote in a blog entry earlier this month from Amman, Jordan of her support for the so-called insurgency in Iraq. Criscenzo went to Amman with leaders of the anti-American group Code Pink and Sixties activist Tom Hayden to conspire with a group of anti-American Iraqi parliamentarians. On August 6, writing in her campaign Web site blog which is linked on the Daily Kos blog, Criscenzo said, "It is important to distinguish between the militia, or death squads and the resistance, particularly when considering the amnesty aspects of the Reconciliation Plan crafted in Cairo last month. Over 95% of the Iraqi people oppose the presence of the U.S. troops in their country and consider the people the U.S. call "insurgents" to be patriotic freedom fighters -- no different that (sic) how we look at the people who fought in our Revolutionary War. Heroic titles go to the victors and if justice is to ever come to the people of Iraq, the people we call insurgents will have to be recognized as the ones who are actually defending their homeland."

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (748211)	8/24/2006 7:59:58 PM
From: PROLIFE	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

WASHINGTON, Aug. 22 — The federal judge who ruled last week that President Bush’s eavesdropping program was unconstitutional is a trustee and an officer of a group that has given at least $125,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union in Michigan, a watchdog group said Tuesday. The group, Judicial Watch, a conservative organization here that found the connection, said the link posed a possible conflict for the judge, Anna Taylor Diggs, and called for further investigation. “The system relies on judges to exercise good judgment, and we need more information and more explanation about what the court’s involvement was in support of the A.C.L.U.,” said Tom Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, which gained attention in the 1990’s for ethics accusations against President Bill Clinton. Three legal ethicists interviewed said although Judge Taylor’s role as a trustee for a supporter of the civil liberties group would not necessarily disqualify her from hearing the case, she should have probably disclosed the connection in court to avoid any appearance of a conflict. “It certainly would have been prudent” to notify the parties in the case, including the Justice Department, about the issue, said Steven Lubet, a law professor at Northwestern University and an author of “Judicial Conduct and Ethics.” “I don’t think there’s a clear answer as to whether she should have disqualified herself,” Professor Lubet said. “But at a minimum, she should have disclosed it.” In a case brought by the national organization of the A.C.L.U. and its Michigan chapter, among others, Judge Taylor ruled that the surveillance by the National Security Agency without warrants that was approved after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks violated the Constitution and a 1978 surveillance law. The Justice Department moved immediately to appeal Judge Taylor’s ruling.

To: Proud Deplorable who wrote (748211)	8/25/2006 12:43:20 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

Conflict of interest? U.S. District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor, who last week ruled that the government's warrantless wiretapping program was unconstitutional, serves as a secretary and trustee for a foundation that donated funds to the American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan, a plaintiff in the case, ACLU et al. v. National Security Agency. The independent government watchdog Judicial Watch said it discovered the potential conflict of interest after reviewing Judge Diggs Taylor's financial-disclosure statements, available on Judicial Watch's Web site, www.judicialwatch.org. According to her 2003 and 2004 financial-disclosure statements, Judge Diggs Taylor served as secretary and trustee for the Community Foundation for Southeastern Michigan (CFSEM). She was re-elected to that position in June. The official CFSEM Web site states that the foundation made a "recent grant" of $45,000 over two years to the ACLU of Michigan, a plaintiff in the wiretapping case. Judge Diggs Taylor, a 1979 appointee of President Carter, sided with the ACLU of Michigan in her recent decision. According to the CFSEM Web site, "The Foundation's trustees make all funding decisions at meetings held on a quarterly basis." "This potential conflict of interest merits serious investigation," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.