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Michael Ramirez on Hugo Chavez
Chávez Looks at His Critics in the Media and Sees the Enemy
“Sound the alarm in the hills, slums and towns to defend our revolution from this new fascist attack,†President Hugo Chávez said in a nationally televised speech this week as his government was under siege by student protests over his decision to take a dissident television network off the air. “We are waiting for you.â€
With such chilling threats of retribution, Mr. Chávez seems prepared to harden his treatment of both the protesters and any media organizations that oppose him, even as the demonstrations ebbed somewhat on Thursday.
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Mitt Romney Watch: Modulating on Immigration?
Is Romney modulating on immigration?
Modulation?
More FLIPS by Mitt:
Illegal aliens mowing his lawn
Scientology book one of his favorites
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Giuliani Notes: South Carolina – Rudy Leads GOP Field in Latest Winthrop University and ETV Poll
Clinton, Giuliani lead in S.C., poll says
Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani lead the races for the 2008 S.C. Democratic and Republican primaries, according to a new poll from Winthrop University and ETV.
The poll also showed Giuliani has more reason for concern. His lead over U.S. Sen. John McCainc of Arizona – 18.6 percent to 14.4 percent – is within the poll’s margin of error.
And Giuliani, whether he’s in first or behind McCain – uncertain given the margin of error – remains in shouting distance of victory in a state where many Republican voters would fall opposite him on social issues.
The GOP NUTS:
And the ISSUES:
A good showing for the Mayor. But, with the McCain campaign on ‘life support” because of the immigration issue, the laying off of McCain staffers in South Carolina and with Fred Thompson’s candidacy what will the polls in South Carolina show in a few weeks?
Stay tuned….
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Republican National Committee Fires Phone Solicitors
The Republican National Committee has fired all of its phone solicitors due to a rebellion over President Bush’s immigration policy.
There has been a sharp decline in contributions from RNC phone solicitations, another fired staffer said, reporting that many former donors flatly refuse to give more money to the national party if Mr. Bush and the Senate Republicans insist on supporting what these angry contributors call “amnesty” for illegal aliens.
“Everyone donor in 50 states we reached has been angry, especially in the last month and a half, and for 99 percent of them immigration is the No. 1 issue,” said the former employee.
And this is a surprise, how?
Watch the 2008 GOP Presidential candidates begin to run aggressively against the Senate Immigration bill and President Bush.
Polling does not support the bill’s passage.
The Senate takes up the bill again next week.
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Illegal Immigration Watch: Rush to Border Judgment
The Illegal Immigration Archive
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Cindy Sheehan Watch: Thanks for the Memories
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Hillary’s War Part Two
Hillary Clinton addresses Code Pink on March 6, 2003 and discusses Iraq, Saddam Hussein and the run up to the Iraq War.
Hillary AGAIN avoids anwering the question raised in Hillary’s War:
Did she read the entire 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before voting to authorize the Iraq War?
The Quote:
“We were thoroughly briefed by the people who wrote that estimate, by the people who supervised its writing, on numerous occasions. And I believe that I received all of the information that was necessary for me to reach a judgment.â€
But Clinton’s response raises more questions: If the vote was the “hardest decision” she has ever made, was a briefing by the people who wrote the estimate sufficient to reach that decision? And if then-Sen. Bob Graham (D) said he decided to vote against the war authorization because he had read the entire NIE report, as Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr. write in the New York Times magazine, then did she really have all the information she needed to reach a judgment?
She won’t answer the question.
Somehow I think Obama will raise it and if not then the GOP nominee.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Rice Warns Iran
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice addresses the media at a Women Leaders conference for Peace and Security in the Middle East in Vienna, 31 May 2007. Rice told Iran to change tactics and freeze uranium enrichment, but Tehran remained defiant ahead of talks on its nuclear programme with the European Union.
Iran covets nuclear weapons and will not voluntarily halt uranium enrichment.
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The Natanz uranium enrichment complex in Natanz is pictured in this January 2, 2006 satellite image.
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Giuliani Notes: Pennsylvania – Rudy Beats Hillary 47% – 43%
The latest Quinnipiac Pennsylvania Poll is out with Mayor Rudy Giuliani beating both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama in general election head to head match-ups.
The General Election Nuts:
Rudy – 47%
Hillary – 43 %
Rudy – 45%
Obama – 40%
The GOP Primary NUTS:
Rudy – 28%
McCain – 11%
Thompson – 10%
Romney – 9%
Gingrich – 8%
Favorability:
- 50 – 44 percent for Clinton;
- 53 – 28 percent for Giuliani
- 52 – 40 percent for Gore;
- 44 – 28 percent for McCain;
- 44 – 19 percent for Obama;
- 45 – 26 percent for Edwards;
- 63 percent haven’t heard enough about Thompson to form an opinion;
- For Romney, 62 percent haven’t heard enough to form an opinion.
The Mayor is doing extremely well in Pennyslvania and certainly will put the state in play when he receives the GOP nomination.
Rudy mentioned and played the ELECTABILITY CARD yesterday in California.
Hizzoner is RIGHT.
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Giuliani will speak at the Montoursville High, Pennsylvania commencement
Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani, who consoled Montoursville High students amid tragedy a decade earlier, will give the school’s commencement address Sunday, the school said.
Giuliani wrote a to those in the Class of 1997’s baccalaureate program after 16 students and five chaperones en route to Paris were killed in the crash of TWA Flight 800 on July 17, 1996.
“There was a strong relationship between New York City and Montoursville during that time,” Montoursville Superintendent Dr. Albert J. Cunningham said. “The feelings still run deep.”
Giuliani traveled to Montoursville for an Aug. 17, 1996, memorial service for the Flight 800 victims, and brought the Combined Pipe and Drum Band and New York City Boys’ Choir.
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Missile Defense Watch: Russia’s Putin Blames America for New Arms Race
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin anwers questions during a joint news conference with Luxembourg’s Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker after a meeting at the Senningen Castle in Luxembourg in this May 24, 2007 file photo. Putin said on Thursday Russia’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday was in response to U.S. steps that have upset the strategic balance.
Reuters: Putin says missile test response to U.S. moves
Russia’s test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile on Tuesday was in response to U.S. steps that have sparked an arms race and undermined world security, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday.
An RS-20 booster blasts off from the launching pad in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, in April 2007. Russia has said it has successfully tested a new-generation intercontinental ballistic missile, firing it 6,000 kilometres across the country, news agencies reported. The new RS-24 was designed to replace the RS-18 and RS-20 rockets.
The Quotes:“Our American partners have left the ABM (Anti-Ballistic Missile) Treaty. We have warned them then that we will come out with a response to maintain the strategic balance in the world,” Putin told a news conference.
“We conducted a test of a new strategic ballistic missile with multiple warheads, and of a new cruise missile, and will continue to improve our resources.”
“We are not the initiators of this new round of the arms race,” said Putin. “(Our partners) are stuffing eastern Europe with new weapons. A new base in Bulgaria, another in Romania, a site in Poland, radar in the Czech Republic . . . what are we supposed to do? We cannot just observe all this.”
Crocodile tears from a former, known KGB agent, now the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin. The Russians were going to upgrade their aging and outdated ICBM missile force anyway. So, who is Putin trying to fool?
It sounds to me that he is taking a page out of Ahmadinejad’s media playbook.
The ICBM test proves NOTHING about United States Missile Defense. The system has been under development for over twenty years and is being deployed currently as testing continues. The system will be able to adapt to any technology the Russians devise.
However, Missile Defense does make Russia nervous. Remember the REYKJAVIK, ICELAND summit between Reagan and Gorbachev?
The Soviets wanted America to bargain away SDI, Missile Defense.
So, what does this posturing by Putin mean?
The timing is interesting, considering the G-8 meets next week in Germany.
Also, Russia has not been allied with the United States in halting Iran’s uranium enrichment program and in fact has supported their nuclear program as well as their air defense capability.
Putin announced a few weeks ago that he would step down next year and perhaps this posturing is his legacy or payback to his military and KGB supporters in the government.
But, whatever the motives and machinations of the former Soviet KGB agent, the United States foreign policy and missile defense continues to be governed by the Reagan Policy of
Peace through Strength
“I think both presidents need this summit because before their terms expire they would like to register some positive moments in the bilateral relations to lay the foundation for future contacts,” said Andrei Kortunov, president of the New Eurasia Foundation, a Moscow-based think tank.
“Both leaders are already probably thinking about how they will go down in history, including the way they built relations between the two countries.”
Look for a serious of negotiations to result.
However, the Russia election cycle will begin this Fall and the American one has already begun.
The United States will proceed with their missile defense deployment.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir May 31, 2007