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Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert Watch: RESIGN, Mr. Speaker
House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., speaks to reporters regarding the resignation of Rep. Mark Foley, R-Fla., Monday, Oct. 2, 2006, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hastert said Monday that no Republican leaders saw lurid Internet exchanges from Foley to pages and that he would have demanded the Florida Republican’s expulsion if he had known about them.
Matt Drudge: WASHINGTON TIMES ON TUESDAY WILL CALL FOR SPEAKER HASTERT’S RESIGNATION
Editorial titled: ‘Resign, Mr. Speaker’: ‘House Speaker Dennis Hastert must do the only right thing, and resign his speakership at once… Mr. Hastert has forfeited the confidence of the public and his party, and he cannot preside over the necessary coming investigation, an investigation that must examine his own inept performance’… — Washington Times, October 3, 2006…
Washington Times: Resign, Mr. Speaker
The facts of the disgrace of Mark Foley, who was a Republican member of the House from a Florida district until he resigned last week, constitute a disgrace for every Republican member of Congress. Red flags emerged in late 2005, perhaps even earlier, in suggestive and wholly inappropriate e-mail messages to underage congressional pages. His aberrant, predatory — and possibly criminal — behavior was an open secret among the pages who were his prey. The evidence was strong enough long enough ago that the speaker should have relieved Mr. Foley of his committee responsibilities contingent on a full investigation to learn what had taken place, whether any laws had been violated and what action, up to and including prosecution, were warranted by the facts. This never happened.
Read it ALL.
Flap says Hastert has to go.And Bill Frist can resign too.
Graphic Courtesy of Ace and Slublog.
God, the GOP is full of MORONS and do NOT deserve to control the Congress.A good ol’ fashion Republican blood-letting is on the horizon.
Hear that Mr. President?
Technorati Tags: DennisHastert, BillFrist, GOP, RepublicanParty
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The Ryskind Sketchbook: Nags of Our Fathers
The Ryskind Sketchbook: Nags of Our Fathers
The battle for the 8 square mile island lasted about a month. 7,821 Marines were killed on Iwo Jima–5,418 more than died at Pearl Harbor. Americans outnumbered Japanese 5 to 1. If only the Japanese had Nancy Pelosi and Jane Harman to inform us that the War in the Pacific was a failure. Or Dick Durbin and John Murtha to compare Marines to Nazis for using flame throwers, now prohibited under the Geneva conventions or even Harry Reid and Hillary to demand the removal of Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson…
Indeed……
Technorati Tags: RyskindSketchbook, IwoJima, Japan, NancyPelosi
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Global War on Terror Watch: U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist – “Bring Taliban into Afghan Government”
UPDATE: From MKH: From a spokesperson at Frist’s VOLPAC:
The Senator was misquoted. We will have a blog post addressing the AP story very shortly.
Hmm, I’m gonna need a pretty good explanation on this one, but check the VOLPAC blog for updates. I’ll have it up here as soon as I get it, too.
Senator Frist’s Blog post is here and THE MORON did not help himself much.
I’m currently overseas visiting our troops in Afghanistan, but I wanted to take a moment to address an Associated Press story titled, “Frist: Taliban Should Be in Afghan Gov’t.†The story badly distorts my remarks and takes them out of context.
First of all, let me make something clear: The Taliban is a murderous band of terrorists who’ve oppressed the people of Afghanistan with their hateful ideology long enough. America’s overthrow of the Taliban and support for responsible, democratic governance in Afghanistan is a great accomplishment that should not and will not be reversed.
Having discussed the situation with commanders on the ground, I believe that we cannot stabilize Afghanistan purely through military means. Our counter-insurgency strategy must win hearts and minds and persuade moderate Islamists potentially sympathetic to the Taliban to accept the legitimacy of the Afghan national government and democratic political processes.
National reconciliation is a necessary and an urgent priority … but America will never negotiate with terrorists or support their entry into Afghanistan’s government.
Written by Bill Frist, M.D.
Senator Frist do yourself a favor and retire back to being a heart surgeon. As far as your candidacy for the presidency – save yourself the grief.
YOU DON”T HAVE A CLUE!Captain Ed CRAWLS back for Frist with Frist Didn’t Surrender To The Taliban
So what happened? I think that someone confused “Taliban” with “Taliban supporters” at some point, and whether that was Frist or the reporter will probably remain a point of contention between the two. At any rate, Bill Frist is not calling for the return of the Taliban and an end to democracy in Afghanistan.
And Flap does not buy Ed’s analysis of what the ultimate end game will be in Afghanistan. The end game should be the end of Afghanistan as a safe haven for terrorists that wish to attack the United States. The United States does not have to democratize every country it must subdue. Frist wants to play “hearts and minds.” Flap is more inclined to a more resolute approach.
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist awards a Purple Heart medal to 42-year-old Capt. Jacqueline E. King of Tinton Falls, New Jersey during his visit to Qalat ,the provincial capital of Zabul province of Afghanistan on Monday, Oct. 2, 2006. King suffered burns and other injuries when her Humvee was struck by a suicide bomber’s vehicle in Qalat, southern Afghanistan, June 28. ‘I got blown out of the vehicle and burned and beat up,’ King said. ‘But I’m tough. I got back up. It’s rough. They’re not exactly thrilled to see us here.’
AP: Frist: Taliban should be in Afghan gov’t
U.S. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said Monday that the Afghan war against Taliban guerrillas can never be won militarily and called for efforts to bring the Islamic militia and its supporters into the Afghan government.
The Tennessee Republican said he learned from briefings that Taliban fighters were too numerous and had too much popular support to be defeated on the battlefield.
“You need to bring them into a more transparent type of government,” Frist said during a brief visit to a U.S. and Romanian military base in the southern Taliban stronghold of Qalat. “And if that’s accomplished, we’ll be successful.”
Is Senator Frist out of his FREAKING mind?
First, he is WRONG about the Taliban fighters being too numerous – since Coalition forces have driven most of them out of Afghanistan into refuges on the Pakistani-Afghanistan border.
Second, Senator, we are in a war and naturally Coalition forces may not be popular. But, remember, what the mission is? To prevent an attack on the United States and Western Democracies by Taliban sponsored Al Qaeda terrorists.
Lastly, the Taliban do NOT want to be part of any government. They want to BE the government.
For the life of me, I have not heard more MORONIC statements by a GOP Senate Majority leader. Except maybe the following…….
The top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, Lt. Gen. Karl Eikenberry, told
Pentagon reporters last month that while the Taliban enemy in Afghanistan is not extremely strong, their numbers and influence have grown in some southern sections of the country.The senator said he was warned to expect attacks to increase. There appears to be an “unlimited flow” of Afghans and foreigners “willing to pick up arms and integrate themselves with the Taliban,” he said.
He said the only way to win in places like the volatile southern part of the country is to “assimilate people who call themselves Taliban into a larger, more representative government.”
“Approaching counterinsurgency by winning hearts and minds will ultimately be the answer,” Frist said. “Military versus insurgency one-to-one doesn’t sound like it can be won. It sounds to me … that the Taliban is everywhere.”
Flap agrees wtih Allah and Ace. Perhaps we need to withdraw our troops from Afghanistan and leave the folks there to the Taliban ala Bill Frist. You know win over the “Hearts and Minds.” But…….
This is what happened the last time we ignored the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Senator Frist, the Taliban wish to KILL US. Do you need a fecking lesson?
Stay tuned…….
Blogosphere:
- Ace of Spades HQ
- Mary Katharine Ham
- Slublog
- IMAO
- Stop The ACLU
- Random Commands
- JunkYardBlog
- Daily Pundit
- Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler
- Balloon Juice
- Cary Wesberry
- Say Anything
- RIGHT WING HOWLER » Blog Archive » GOP: NOW THE PARTY OF CUT AND RUN
Technorati Tags: BillFrist, Taliban, Afghanistan, GlobalWaronTerror
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Air America Watch: Sheldon and Anita Drobny Poised to Announce their Takeover of Air America?
The Radio Equalizer (Via Michelle Malkin): TO THE RESCUE?
Apparently riding to the rescue with an eleventh- hour bid for beleaguered liberal talk radio network Air America Radio are controversial co- founders Sheldon and Anita Drobny. Poised to announce their takeover imminently, the Drobnys are said to be acquiring the long- suffering operation for mere pennies on the dollar, the Radio Equalizer has learned.
Other buyout efforts by parties close to the network were said to have failed because of difficulties in putting together the necessary funds. Accepting this bid was seen as a last- ditch way to avoid a complete collapse, which appeared to be just days away (for more on the network’s severe dire straits, watch for an upcoming follow- up to this report).
Sheldon Drobny is an eccentric Democrat Party fundraiser, author and Huffington Post contributor whose past sympathies with the beliefs of Lyndon LaRouche were documented in 2003 by National Review’s Byron York.
And Jerry Springer is gone. What can it all mean?
There is NO market for the crap spewing forth from Air America.
You think?
At least last week Air America was forced to cough up the money to charity from the Gloria Wise rip-off FLAP of last year.
Read more about the Drobny’s here and here.
Background information about the couple is here, here and here.
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Air America Radio Watch: No Bankruptcy for Air America
Air America Watch: Air America to Declare Bankruptcy?
Air America Scandal: Boys & Girls Club Have Voted To Drop Bronx’s Gloria Wise Club
Air America Radio Scandal: Gloria Wise Receives Their Money BACK
Air America Scandal: Friday Update
Air America Scandal: The SHELDON DROBNY Connection
Air America Scandal: Inside Air America, An Investigative Blog Report Part Two
Air America Scandal: Inside Air America, An Investigative Blog Report
Air America Scandal: Where is Evan Montvel-Cohen?
Air America Radio Scandal: MSM Makes an Appearance
Air America Radio Scandal: New York Times Corrects Al Franken Quote
Air America Radio Scandal: NY Times Gets it WRONG; AP LATE
Air America Radio Scandal: New York Times ….FINALLY
Air America Scandal: Al Franken Blows It Off
Air America Radio Scandal: Payroll Checks Delayed
Air America Radio Scandal: New York Times Where Are You?
Air America Scandal: Boys & Girls Club May Vote To Drop Bronx’s Gloria Wise Club Next Month
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Al Qaeda Watch: Video of 9/11 Murderers Pre-9/11
The JAWA Report: Video of 9/11 Murderers
A copy of a videotape depicting a pre-9/11 party attended by the key players in the hijackings has surfaced.
From TimesOnline.co.uk:
It is the first time that a videotape has appeared of Mohammed Atta — who flew an American Airlines plane into the north tower of the World Trade Center — at a training camp in Afghanistan. It fills in a significant gap in the timing of the build-up to the attacks on the United States.Dates on the tape show Atta was filmed on January 18, 2000, together with Ziad Jarrah, the pilot of United Airlines flight 93, which crashed in Pennsylvania after the passengers apparently stormed the flight deck.
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The high quality, unedited film shows Bin Laden addressing his followers at the mud-walled complex near Kandahar. One of the main figures in the September 11 plot, Ramzi Binalshibh, is identifiable in the crowd, as is a bodyguard whose task was to kill Bin Laden with two bullets to the head if he faced capture.
Dating on the tape indicates that the Al-Qaeda leader was filmed on January 8, 2000, 10 days before Atta and Jarrah recorded their wills.
Mohammed Atta is shown in this undated photo originally released by the State of Florida Division of Motor Vehicles Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001. A previously unseen video made by Mohammed Atta, ringleader of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the United States, has been obtained by Britain’s The Sunday Times, the newspaper reported Saturday, Sept. 30, 2006.
A British newspaper claimed it had obtained a copy of a film showing 9/11 hijackers Mohammed Atta and Ziad Jarrah, seen here in an undated photograph released by the US Department of Justice, reading martyrdom wills at Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s headquarters.
These videos tie in the involvement of Atta and Jarrah with Bin Laden and the Afghan Taliban. And the 9/11 conspiracy folks?
Out to lunch……….
Technorati Tags: AlQaeda, MohammedAtta, ZiadJarrah, OsamabinLaden, 9/11
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United States Senate 2006 Election Watch: Election Projection October 2
Current: 55 GOP, 44 DEM, 1 IND
Projected: 52 GOP, 46 DEM, 2 IND
DEM +2, GOP -3, IND +1
Election Projection 2006 has GOP retaining control of the Senate.Arizona Jon Kyl (R)-inc vs Jim Pederson (D) Mod GOP Hold California Dianne Feinstein (D)-inc vs Richard Mountjoy (R) Strong DEM Hold Connecticut Lieberman(I) / Lamont(D) / Schlesinger(R) Mod IND Gain Delaware Tom Carper (D)-inc vs Jan Ting? (R) Strong DEM Hold Florida Bill Nelson (D)-inc vs Katherine Harris? (R) Strong DEM Hold Hawaii Daniel Akaka (D)-inc vs Cynthia Thielen (R) Strong DEM Hold Indiana Richard Lugar (R)-inc (unopposed) Strong GOP Hold Maine Olympia Snowe (R)-inc vs Jean Hay Bright (D) Strong GOP Hold Maryland OPEN: Ben Cardin (D) vs Michael Steele (R) Mod DEM Hold Massachusetts Ted Kennedy (D)-inc vs Kenneth Chase (R) Strong DEM Hold Michigan Debbie Stabenow (D)-inc vs Mike Bouchard (R) Mod DEM Hold Minnesota OPEN: Amy Klobuchar (D) vs Mark Kennedy (R) Mod DEM Hold Mississippi Trent Lott (R)-inc vs Erik Fleming (D) Strong GOP Hold Missouri Jim Talent (R)-inc vs Claire McCaskill (D) Weak GOP Hold Montana Conrad Burns (R)-inc vs Jon Tester (D) Mod DEM Gain Nebraska Ben Nelson (D)-inc vs Peter Ricketts (R) Strong DEM Hold Nevada John Ensign (R)-inc vs Jack Carter (D) Mod GOP Hold New Jersey Robert Menendez (D)-inc vs Tom Kean, Jr. (R) Weak GOP Gain New Mexico Jeff Bingaman (D)-inc vs Allen McCulloch (R) Strong DEM Hold New York Hillary Clinton (D)-inc vs John Spencer (R) Strong DEM Hold North Dakota Kent Conrad (DNL)-inc vs Dwight Grotberg (R) Strong DEM Hold Ohio Mike DeWine (R)-inc vs Sherrod Brown (D) Mod DEM Gain Pennsylvania Rick Santorum (R)-inc vs Bob Casey, Jr. (D) Mod DEM Gain Rhode Island L. Chafee (R)-inc vs S. Whitehouse (D) Weak DEM Gain Tennessee OPEN: Bob Corker (R) vs Harold Ford, Jr. (D) Weak GOP Hold Texas Kay Hutchison (R)-inc vs Barbara Radnofsky (D) Strong GOP Hold Utah Orrin Hatch (R)-inc vs Pete Ashdown (D) Strong GOP Hold Vermont OPEN: Bernie Sanders (I) vs Richard Tarrant (R) Strong IND Hold Virginia George Allen (R)-inc vs James Webb, Jr. (D) Mod GOP Hold Washington Maria Cantwell (D)-inc vs Mike McGavick (R) Mod DEM Hold West Virginia Robert Byrd (D)-inc vs John Raese (R) Strong DEM Hold Wisconsin Herb Kohl (D)-inc vs Robert Lorge (R) Strong DEM Hold Wyoming Craig Thomas (R)-inc vs Dale Groutage (D) Strong GOP Hold BOLD – party turnover
Race ratings: - “Weak” – less than 5%
- “Mod” – 5% to 15%
- “Strong” – greater than 15%
For projected margins of victory, click here
The 2006 Senate RealClearPolitics Poll Averages are here.The real surprise is the New Jersey Senate race that has GOP Tom Kean, Jr. beating incumbent Democrat Robert Menendez.
Races to watch include Chafee in Rhode Island, Talent in Missouri and Corker in Tennessee.
Stay tuned……..
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United States Senate 2006 Election Watch: Election Projections
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Guantanamo Bay Watch: The Inside Story
In this image reviewed by the U.S. Military, an unidentified detainee is escorted by two military guards at Camp Delta, in this June 25, 2005 file photo, at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, in Cuba.
Patterico (Via Powerline): Patterico’s Exclusive Interview with a Man Who Has Spoken to the Terrorists at Guantánamo (Part One: Introduction)
Read the interviews of a Guanatanamo Bay Nurse and his experience with the terrorist detainees imprisoned there.
Stay tuned for the rest in following days:
Part Two: Stashiu arrives at GTMO, and tells us what the terrorists are like.
Part Three: Hunger strikes, suicides and suicide attempts, and mental illness.
Part Four: Treatment of the detainees
Part Five: Stashiu reacts to Big Media pieces about GTMO.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: United States Will Push for Economic Sanctions
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has left on a tour of the Middle East with the looming nuclear crisis with Iran likely to overshadow timid efforts to rekindle the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, analysts say.
Reuters: Iran gives no sign of nuclear suspension yet: Rice
Iran has said nothing so far to suggest it plans to suspend uranium enrichment, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday.
Speaking to reporters as she flew to the Middle East, Rice said the foreign ministers of the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany might meet later this week to discuss Iran’s nuclear program.
In the meantime, the United States is not waiting for the EU or the United Nations Security Council.
NY Sun: U.S. Will Push Banks To Cut All Ties to Iran
Bolstered by a new sanctions bill against Iran, Secretary of State Rice will press Arab foreign ministers tomorrow in Cairo to instruct banks in the region to cut ties to any entities contributing to Iran’s nuclear program, support for terror, or pursuit of advanced conventional weapons.
If the gambit in Cairo succeeds, it will boost American efforts to punish Iran for its defiance of international resolutions on its nuclear program. In the last 18 months, the Bush administration has quietly succeeded in pressing four large European banks, including London-based HSBC, to stop doing business with Iran.
Indeed, when the Treasury Department announced earlier this month that Iran’s Bank Saderat would be barred from American financial markets, three large Japanese banks also cut ties with the bank. Yesterday, the Iranian press announced that talks between Iran and Japan on a $2 billion deal to develop the Azadegan oil field had collapsed.
The Iran Freedom Support Act is here.
Look for Iran to either attempt to manipulate oil markets in time for the November elections or to provoke some kind of conflict. The United States will pursue economic attrition and slowly tighten the screws to the Iran and their allies’ economies.
Stay tuned as Secretary of State Rice tours the Middle East.
Captain Ed has New Iran Policy Toughens Sanctions
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad – The Big LIE
Iran Nuclear Watch: President Bush Signs H.R. 6198 Iran Freedom Support Act
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran – NO Reason to Suspend Uranium Enrichment
Iran Nuclear Watch: European Union and Iran Resume Nuclear Talks But…..
Iran Nuclear Watch: Crunch or Last Chance Iran-EU Talks in Berlin?Iran Nuclear Watch: EU-3 May Begin Nuclear Talks Without the United States
Iran Nuclear Watch: Israel – Iran its “GREATEST THREATâ€
Iran Nuclear Watch: Iran President Ahmadinejad at the United Nations
Iran Nuclear Watch: French President Jacques Chirac Offers Iran Compromise
Iran Nuclear Watch: Israel – A “FEW MONTHS†to Avoid a Nuclear Iran
The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir October 2, 2006