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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14267)	9/5/2007 2:58:06 PM
From: DizzyG	Respond to of 224729

You mean greedy Democrats, right Kenneth? Senate: 2005 Top 25 Rank Name Minimum Net Worth Maximum Net Worth 1 Herb Kohl (D-Wis) $219,098,029 $234,549,004 2 John Kerry (D-Mass) $165,741,511 $235,262,100 3 Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa) $78,150,023 $101,579,003 4 Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif) $43,341,462 $98,630,021 5 Lincoln D. Chafee (R-RI) $41,153,105 $64,096,019 6 Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) $38,198,170 $90,733,019 7 John McCain (R-Ariz) $20,571,136 $32,043,011 8 Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass) $19,189,049 $93,043,004 9 Elizabeth Dole (R-NC) $13,508,152 $49,829,007 10 Gordon H. Smith (R-Ore) $12,994,660 $62,261,641 11 Bill Frist (R-Tenn) $11,667,041 $41,735,006 12 Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn) $11,542,483 $43,639,427 13 Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) $11,488,475 $47,410,001 14 Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) $10,080,005 $50,200,000 15 Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) $8,780,208 $37,243,002 16 Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala) $8,413,018 $30,095,003 17 Olympia J Snowe (R-Maine) $7,975,068 $31,935,000 18 Johnny Isakson (R-Ga) $7,676,099 $21,689,003 19 Ben Nelson (D-Neb) $6,654,059 $18,943,003 20 Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) $4,867,072 $10,010,001 21 John W. Warner (R-Va) $4,858,197 $7,186,148 22 Mark Dayton (D-Minn) $4,446,429 $13,082,001 23 Evan Bayh (D-Ind) $2,854,035 $6,361,000 24 Robert F. Bennett (R-Utah) $2,696,045 $8,855,002 25 Judd Gregg (R-NH) $2,552,087 $9,221,001 opensecrets.org Wow, 12 of the top 25 are "Greedy" Democrats. I thought this was the party for the "little guy" Looks like this DNC talking point needs a little refining. :) Diz-

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14267)	9/5/2007 3:05:52 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224729

GAO must be filled with defeatist Democrats. US military in Iraq has far more credibility than bureaucrats in WashDC. >Military Officials in Iraq Fault GAO Report By Karen DeYoung and Ann Scott Tyson Washington Post Staff Writers Wednesday, September 5, 2007 A bleak portrait of the political and security situation in Iraq released yesterday by the Government Accountability Office sparked sharp protests from the top U.S. military command in Baghdad, whose officials described it as flawed and "factually incorrect." The controversy followed last-minute changes made in the final draft of the report after the Defense Department maintained that its conclusions were too harsh and insisted that some of the information it contained -- such as the extent of a fall in the number of Iraqi army units capable of operating without U.S. assistance -- should not appear in the final, unclassified version. The GAO rejected several changes proposed by the Pentagon and concluded that Iraq had failed to meet all but two of nine security goals Congress had set as part of a list of 18 benchmarks of progress. But grades for two of the seven unmet security benchmarks -- the elimination of havens for militia forces and the deployment of three Iraqi army brigades to assist the U.S. security plan in Baghdad -- were recast to reflect progress. Two other benchmarks, one political and one economic, were also described as "partially met." The report, published days before the Bush administration's own progress report on Iraq, said that only one of eight political goals -- safeguarding minority rights in the Iraqi parliament -- had been met. It found little if any substantive movement on key legislation, including measures to clarify the distribution of oil revenue, schedule provincial elections and change de-Baathification laws. Comptroller General David Walker, who heads the GAO, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee yesterday that "the least progress has been made on the political front." Fifteen of 37 cabinet ministers have "withdrawn support" for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, and serious problems remain in other ministries, Walker said. Democratic leaders jumped on the GAO's conclusions to bolster their calls for a new strategy in Iraq, and Republican leaders dismissed the report as dated and politically insignificant. "Today's GAO report confirms that the president's Iraq strategy is simply not working," said Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.). House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (Mo.) said Pentagon officials had told Republican leaders that the GAO had relied on outdated information. Because the agency was told simply to assess whether the benchmarks had been met, the GAO was set up to deliver a negative report, Blunt said. He added that lawmakers were far more interested in the assessment coming next week from Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, and Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker.<

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (14267)	9/5/2007 3:11:03 PM
From: JakeStraw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224729

Kenneth uses Preparation-H as lip balm since he talks out of his a$$ so much!