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because of his numerous "open the floodgates" immigration proposals, among other
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MY, HOW PRESIDENTIAL
"Did the training wheels fall off?"
- John Kerry on news reports that President Bush had a biking accident over the
weekend, 5/23/04
AL GORE'S HOT AIR FLICK
"Although Gore has admitted some of the scenarios in the film ("The Day After
Tomorrow") are implausible, it nonetheless serves what he sees as the noble
purpose of indoctrinating the public with a Kyoto-like polemic. . . . NewsMax
has interviewed climatologist Patrick Michaels, long a critic of the 'global
warming' theory, who says liberal politicians and left-wing groups see 'The Day
After Tomorrow' as the movie that will make John Kerry president of the United
States."
- NewsMax.com, 5/24/04
TERRORISTS TARGET ANTI-BUSH TART
"Madonna has axed three gigs in Israel - after terrorists threatened to kill her
and her kids. The singer was terrified by a blitz of poison-pen letters."
- The Sun (UK), 5/24/04
DUMBING DOWN FREEDOM
"The best bulwark against tyranny is a population that knows the benefits of
freedom, as the Iraqi Kurds do. Don't make the mistake of turning Iraq into a
dysfunctional public school, where the smart guys get held down to the low
standards of the misfits, and in the end they all get the same social promotion
anyway."
- Columnist Mark Steyn
AN UNUSUALLY BAD LIAR
"A few years ago Michael Moore, who's now promoting an anti-President Bush movie
entitled Fahrenheit 9/11, announced he'd gotten the goods on me, indeed hung me
out to dry on my own words. It was in his first bestselling book, Stupid White
Men. Moore wrote he'd once been 'forced' to listen to my comments on a TV chat
show, The McLaughlin Group. I had whined 'on and on about the sorry state of
American education,' Moore said, and wound up by bellowing: 'These kids don't
even know what The Iliad and The Odyssey are!'
"Moore's interest was piqued, so the next day he said he called me. 'Fred,' he
quoted himself as saying, 'tell me what The Iliad and The Odyssey are.' I
started 'hemming and hawing,' Moore wrote. And then I said, according to Moore:
'Well, they're . . . uh . . . you know . . . uh . . . okay, fine, you got me--I
don't know what they're about. Happy now?' He'd smoked me out as a fraud, or
maybe worse.
"The only problem is none of this is true. It never happened. Moore is a liar.
He made it up."
- Fred Barnes, The Weekly Standard, 5/31/04
MEOW (COUGH!)
"What the national media promoted as the roar of a new liberal lion turned out
to be the quiet whimper of a sickly kitten."
- Tim Graham of the Media Research Center on the ongoing failure of the liberal
Air America radio network
GAME, SET, MATCH ON JUDGES
"After two years of mortal combat, grandstanding, character assassination and
frequent recourse to the filibuster, Senate Democrats and the Bush White House
have made a deal to allow 25 of the president's judicial nominees to be
confirmed. Seven more, including two who were appointed while Congress was in
recess, must wait, and the president has agreed not to make any more recess
appointments until the end of his term.
"Democrat Charles E. Schumer of New York, a fierce partisan on the judiciary
committee, claimed victory, saying 'The White House waved the white flag here.'
. . . By letting some nominees go through...while continuing to block the ones
they most do not want to see on the bench, the Democrats have deprived the
Republicans of an issue in the upcoming campaign. Having given Mr. Bush most of
what he wanted, they cannot now be painted as obstructionists. No wonder Mr.
Schumer is so happy."
- The Berkshire Eagle, 5/20/04
LET'S MAKE A (LOUSY) DEAL
"If it were not for his fondness for tax cuts, and his pursuit, however flawed,
of the ongoing war on terror, I can't for the life of me think of a good reason
to vote for George Bush this November. OK...(John Kerry's) name on the ballot
would be a fairly good reason...though I'm not sure reason enough.
"You've probably heard by now, but George Bush has once again managed the nearly
impossible physical feat of handing his head to the Democrats...again. He gave
up; ran for the hills; threw in the towel; bailed. Tragically, didn't really get
anything of real value for his craven surrender. He gave the Democrats almost a
complete victory. The issue this time is the nomination and confirmation
process for federal judges.
"...When George W. Bush was sworn in he swore an oath to 'preserve, protect and
defend the Constitution of the United States.' Just how are you preserving,
protecting and defending the Constitution when you promise to stop using a
constitutionally legitimate procedure (recess appointments) to prevent political
opponents from defying the Constitution...and for this we get a quick
confirmation of about 27 judicial nominees whom the Democrats didn't object to
in the first place? Wow! What a deal!"
- Talk show host Neal Boortz, TownHall.com, 5/21/04
HYPOCRITE ALERT
Here's what my congress-critter, Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.), has to say on
his website about the Medicare prescription drug cards he voted AGAINST last
fall: "A new study released by the General Accounting Office (GAO) shows
prescription drug discount cards provide only minimal savings at best. These
cards have been included in Medicare plans passed by the House and Senate and
promoted by President Bush and congressional Republicans as an important source
of drug discounts. GAO found that the cards in fact provide little help for
seniors."
Translation: Dutch hates these cards...mostly because they are a Republican
idea.
So naturally, with the cards about to hit mailboxes of grateful senior citizens
in a couple weeks, Dutch is sending out - at taxpayer expense, of course - a
six-page summary of the plan's benefits, a discount card Q&A plus "a few phone
numbers and websites that can help answer your questions." In other words, "I
voted against you getting these cards, but now that you're going to get them
anyway I'm going to try to get some credit for them."
I suspect Dutch isn't the only two-faced hypocrite around the country trying to
get away with this political scam. Be on watch and call 'em on it.
THE SPEECH POLICE
"Sean Hannity, the talk-show host who is second only to Rush Limbaugh in
popularity, warns that conservatives who applaud crackdowns on indecency should
beware that liberals will also try to use a revitalized FCC to bring back
restrictions on political speech. 'I predict a backlash by liberals against free
speech that will lead to calls for a new Fairness Doctrine mandating equal time,
all in an effort to silence their critics,' he told the New Media Seminar (over
the weekend).
"...As much as indecency is a legitimate public concern, there are ways to limit
the impact of the FCC standards that will remain a fact of life through more
industry self-restraint and public shaming of the worst shock programming. But
we must also guard against another indecency: the danger that the FCC could pose
to free and unfettered political speech. Let's not let the controversy over
Janet Jackson's breast or Bono's use of the F-word completely distract us from
that debate."
- John Fund On the Trail, 5/24/04
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