Republican Terror

SANTA ANA, Calif. -- A California congresswoman said she was briefly denied access to a United Airlines flight last week because her name appeared on a "no fly list" set up after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat who has been a critic of the no-fly list, said her staff had booked her a one-way ticket from Boise, Idaho, to Cincinnati through Denver. But they were prevented from printing her boarding pass online and at an airport kiosk.
[...]
Transportation Security Administration spokeswoman Jennifer Peppin said that for security reasons she couldn't confirm that the name was on the list. But she said that name mix-ups do occur.

"Generally what happens is people have a name that is very similar to someone who is on the no-fly list. It's the airlines' responsibility to do further checking,"

Shenanigans I tell you. just an example of what will happen more often. Epsecially after having been outed for stunts like this. If you think about it. They spend a lot more time bashing Democrats than they do going after terrorist. And not just during this '06 election.

IL-Gov Yes You Can Be Too Negative

When you don't have nobody to choose from you pick the lesser of the two evils. Blago' is not corrupt. His is just very extremely ethically challenged. It took a lot of doings to be the first IL Dem' Gov' in a quarter century. And Topinka, that stunt with Jack Ryan and bringing in Alan Keys will forever be around her neck. Despite the media over looking it and her choosing Jim Edgar to be her transition team head. Ya a lot of people in this state have memories longer than current news articles.

Update: Did not cap this from same noon news but, they have on CLTV too so I got a second chance. There for that one anonymous person I have something including the green party candidate. Don't look like anybody has to worry that a third party will sap many votes, eh.

Do Your Part

This Nov. 7 to help out your old Uncle.

Pumpkins

Man This is very bad.

A Google Bomb

What a nice little google bomb this is. When you serch for waffles, John Kerry's site is number one. Unlike searching on the word failure and getting Bush's bio. There is no why these results explaination.

IL-Gov MSI Scandal, What MSI Scandal...?

Judy Baar Topinka wants ex Gov. Jim Edgar to head up her transitional team if she is elected. Not even trying to hide the fact that if you let a republican back in the Governors mansion it will be back to full blown corruption. What player Blagojevich did, and damn him for being one, will be nothing compared to the mess republicans will make of our state.

Olbermann's Special Comment On Fear Mongers

I bet the terrorist saying "we love your choice of font style" to them right now. Download from veoh to see the whole thing.


The Lyndon Johnson campain ad. Ah no wonder everyone remembers him so fondly.

We Don't Need New Laws For Old "crimes"

I love the idea that the internet is supposed to be a children's playground. The only crap for kids on-line is crap people are trying to sell to kids.

If your a parent you have to be one. You can not defer your job to nameless faceless packets. You have to go on-line your damn self and make a list of sites you found to be safe for your youngin. And be there when they are surfin plus instill some sort of sense of right and wrong in them... oh nevermind that's just too hard. Make some laws that while you're at it. There was this site you didn't like what it said so lets just say it's unsafe for kids.

Government defends 1998 anti-porn law

The plaintiffs, technology experts and even Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy have expressed concerns that the law has already been surpassed by technology and the growth of the Internet. Kennedy noted, for example, that filters can block Web material posted offshore, but the law cannot control what foreigners post online.

"Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak
just because a baby can't chew it."
- Mark Twain

Current Sucks

It's just MTV what 18 or something like that.

A Good Ad For The GOP

New ad for the GOP'ers coming out. It will be list of things like Abramoff, war profiteers, DHS, Foley and stuff. Then the screen goes black and ka-boom ka-boom and ka-boom! Mushroom clouds are sprouting everywhere and as the clouds dissipate you see the words oversight, accountability and investigations spelled out.

GOP losses could spark partisan warfare

WASHINGTON - The White House is bracing for guerrilla warfare on the homefront politically if Republicans lose control of the House, the Senate or both — and with it, the president's ability to shape and dominate the national agenda.
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"If he loses one house here, President Bush will enter the last two years very wounded," said David Gergen, a former White House adviser who served in the administrations of Presidents Nixon, Ford, Reagan and Clinton.

"He will have the capacity to say no to Democratic legislation, but he won't have the capacity to say yes to his own legislation," said Gergen, who teaches at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government.

Democratic victories essentially could block Bush's remaining agenda and usher in a period of intense partisan bickering over nearly every measure to come before Congress.

Loss of either chamber also could subject his administration to endless congressional inquiries and investigations.

Must protect the power base screw the country... some more.

Sure I Did It But That Don't Make You Right For Talking About It

Candidate linked to letter lambastes foe

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. - A Republican congressional candidate whose campaign is being investigated for sending intimidating letters to Hispanic voters lashed out at his Democratic rival, saying she was fueling the uproar over the mailings.
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"There has been no crime committed so why is there a criminal investigation three weeks prior to a very important election?" Nguyen asked. "What is going on? Who is fueling this investigation?"

Nguyen, a Vietnamese immigrant who has made illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign, said he would stay in the race despite calls from the state GOP and others to quit.

"I'm innocent," Nguyen said. "I'm not going to quit this race; I'm going to win this race."

What the hell is with republicans!?! I did it,yes but I am not guilty because of the timing of this revelation of what it is I did. Hmm why would people bring up an illegal stunt you did to influence the election just before the election. Lets all scratch our collective heads over that.

Feh

Ah,hahahahah! A very Funny Chi'Trib Story

From Chicago Tribune online. The Trib' also endorses Juby Topinka for Governor of IL. That in it's self is funny.

Liberals gone absolutely wild!

Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow and historian at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University: Tribune Media Services
Published October 20, 2006


Why do Republicans drive leftists so crazy these days? Liberal Democrats are beginning to sound like rowdy students on spring break, shrieking and exhibiting themselves on camera.

Consider some of the recent rabid outbursts by once sober old-guard politicians. West Virginia Sen. Jay Rockefeller insists that the world would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still running Iraq. Crotchety Congressman John Murtha of Pennsylvania rushed to announce that our Marines were guilty of killing Iraqis in "cold blood" before they were tried. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin has compared our interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to Nazis, while Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said our soldiers have "terrorized" Iraqi women and children.

Then there is the constant anger from Democratic ex-presidents. It used to be that out-of-office chief executives kept relatively hush. Presidents Ford and the elder Bush--both voted out of office--did not bray when President Clinton had his trials, personal and otherwise.

Not so now with Presidents Carter and Clinton. They repeatedly harp on the sins of the current administration. By now, everyone has seen clips of Clinton losing his temper (complete with finger-wagging) and lashing out at the "right-wingers" on TV. He lectures on political extremism, even as one of his wife's staff members slandered Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) by saying he broke under torture while a prisoner of war in Hanoi. And even at 82, Jimmy Carter almost daily carps over Bush's foreign policy.

Do not forget the unhinged billionaire leftist philanthropists. Ted Turner said he resented President Bush asking Americans, after Sept. 11, 2001, to take sides in our war against Islamic terrorists. George Soros claimed that Bush improved on Nazi propaganda methods.

The frustration with Bush & Co. has driven a few in the media almost to the point of clinical madness. In 2004, a clueless Dan Rather imploded by airing clearly forged memos that called into question Bush's National Guard service--with the result that he was eased out by an embarrassed CBS News. More recently, Keith Olbermann, the foaming news head on the struggling cable channel MSNBC, keeps his ratings low with uncontrollable rants about Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld pushing a "new fascism."

On college campuses, the old leftist intolerance of unwelcome free speech is back with a fury. A guest spokesman for the Minutemen immigration reform group was shouted down at a recent Columbia University lecture. Earlier, Harvard's liberal president Lawrence Summers was forced out after timidly questioning academic orthodoxy about the role of women in science and engineering.

What sends liberal criticism over the edge into pathological hysteria?

Is it that George W. Bush is a polarizing figure, not just in terms of his Iraq policy, but also because of his Christian Texan demeanor?

Or is the current left-wing savagery also a legacy of the tribal 1960s, when out-of-power protesters felt that expressions of speaking bluntly, even crudely, were at least preferable to "artificial" cultural restraint? Why should graying veterans of the barricades, then, remain "polite" when their country's less sophisticated red-state yokels are taking it in the wrong direction?

The Democrats have not elected congressional majorities in 12 years, and they've occupied the White House in only eight of the last 26 years. The left's current unruliness seems a way of scapegoating others for a more elemental frustration: that they can't gain a national majority based on their core beliefs. More entitlements, higher taxes to pay for them, gay marriage, de facto quotas in affirmative action, open borders, abortion on demand, and radical secularism--these liberal issues don't tend to resonate with most Americans.

To compensate, leftist pundits, billionaire philanthropists and politicians, from current officeholders to ex-presidents, work to ensure that isolated moments of Republican ineptness (President Bush strutting on a carrier deck in his flight suit) and wrongdoing (repulsive e-mails from a perverted congressman, Mark Foley) blare out as the only issues of the day. This distracting drumbeat, not their own agenda, is the only strategy for success in the next election.

True, reactionaries in the 1990s expressed a Neanderthal hatred of Bill Clinton. But now shouting leftists have lowered the bar. The danger, of course, is that by emulating the rhetoric of a Cindy Sheehan or Michael Moore, the feral Democrats--when they come back into power again as tamed leaders who must govern--will have created Frankensteins. And, as we know, such monsters always turn on their creators.

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E-mail: author@victorhanson.com



Copyright © 2006, Chicago Tribune

No Really We Care About Lots Of Stuff

Evangelicos want to do something about Darfur, have a talk with Bush about it. Well I got to say nope I don't buy it.

Huey

Everything that happens is just an attempt to influence the elections. Why is everybody out to get at those poor republican's power and control.

Countdown Special Comment 10/18/2006

Bush or should we now say North American Strong Man George W. Bush, Military Commission Act. Keith Olbermann has a special comment on it




Gonna miss that after he get declared an enemy of the Peoples Republic of America... sigh

Dems Can't Stand Up To Repubofasists Hmm

What if they grew some?



Now that there no chance of winning a war that should never have been. And with proof that nothing has been done to keep us safe. Maybe there will be some, some what kinda signs of ball and or spine growth eh.

NRCC in Illinois

Oh my they came to Illinois several times. They are not supporting gubernatoriall candidate Judy Topinka. Tribune played it off as she was campaining down state and made it look like it was her choice.




Ok what who? Nancy Pelosi is only an evil figure in wingnuts' minds. And she ain't running for office in Illinois.




Roskam and his peeps paid for this one but just the same. What's with bringing up Teddy?

Links: Tammy Duckworth(D) Melissa Bean(D) Nancy Pelosi(D) Rod Blagojevich(D) Peter Roskam(R) Judy Topinka(R) David McSweeney(R)

Hmm Like I Said

Gonna go after the gay folk in their ranks. But then being a gay republican is like being a bla... Anything but a white male republican. You know they don't like you but ya still hang around them. Why?

IL-Governors Race 51% Dissapproval

According to a Tribune/WGN-TV poll, have to register to see story. Nobody really likes either candidate. Lets see now

Rod Blagojevich (D)

• Plays the game
• Guilty by associating with people under investigating

Judy Baar Topinka (R)

• There was nobody else running
• Alan Keys

If he can survive the game and people talk about what he has done for Illinois then maybe... But a lot of this is long rooted stuff that goes deep back in the years when this was a long time republican governors only but, a very blue as they say state. I think it's sad when everybody thinks it has to be business as usual. Even sadder when it seems it has to be brought to light and attached squarely on the shoulders of the Democrat Gov. right now, laugh.