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Day By Day by Chris Muir July 14, 2008
Day By Day by Chris MuirThe Bill Clinton pardons, Hillary Clinton’s fundraising and now George W. Bush’s Presidential Library scandals are especially egregious examples of PAY TO PLAY politics.But, do American voters expect NO LESS from their pols?
Sadly so, unless they demand Congress change the ridiculous methods the pols find to avoid transparency of corruption.
Which ……. they won’t.
++++++++++In blogging matters, Flap is now home in Thousand Oaks, California after a whirlwind the last two days of World Series of Poker (WSOP), World Poker Tour (WPT) and live play poker in Las Vegas.Yes, Flap won some coin.
Photos will be posted throughout the day.
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Bush Hecklers Mar Independence Day New Citizen Celebration
Vesna Zeljkovic, 20, of Bosnia hugs President Bush following her oath of citizenship during the 46th annual Independence Day celebration and naturalization ceremony at Monticello, the historic home of Thomas Jefferson, in Charlottesville, Va., Friday, July 4, 2008
No class President Bush hecklers went out of their way today to mar the new citizen swearing in celebration at Thomas Jefferson’s historic home.President Bush traveled to the home of Thomas Jefferson Friday to help swear in new U.S. citizens as part of Independence Day celebrations.
“When you raise your hands and take the oath you will complete an incredible journey. This journey has taken you from many different countries and has now made you one people,” Bush said at the naturalization ceremony at historic Monticello in Charlottesville, Virginia.
“From this day forward, the history of the United States will be part of your heritage. The Fourth of July will be a part of your independence day and I will be honored to call you a fellow American.” he said.
Bush was heckled several times, with some people yelling “War criminal!” One man shouted, “This man has brought fascism to our shores!” About nine people were removed from the ceremony.
“Impeach Bush. Impeach Bush. Amend the Constitution,” shouted another protester, prompting both cheers and boos from the audience of about 3,000 people.
What a bunch of crap. They have the right to protest but……there is a time and place.
No class MORONS….
**********Here is something MORE to be proud of as Americans this Independence Day: The largest reenlistment ceremony in the history of the U.S. military took place in the rotunda of the Al Faw Palace in Baghdad, Iraq on July 4, 2008.
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President Bush Asks for End to Offshore Drilling Ban
Political cartoon by Michael RamirezPresident Bush today has called for an end to the offshore oil drilling ban.President Bush, reversing a longstanding position, will call on Congress on Wednesday to end a federal ban on offshore oil drilling, according to White House officials who say Mr. Bush now wants to work with states to determine where drilling should occur.
There really is NO reason to delay new oil and natural gas exploration unless the American people wish to change their lifestyles.
If America had taken these steps ten years ago we would not be having the problems with $4 plus gasoline today. And, who is to blame? Guess who?
The Congressional moratorium was first enacted in 1982, and has been renewed every year since. It prohibits oil and gas leasing on most of the outer continental shelf, 3 miles to 200 miles offshore. Since 1990, it has been supplemented by the first President Bush’s executive order, which directed the Interior Department not to conduct offshore leasing or preleasing activity in areas covered by the legislative ban until 2000. In 1998, President Bill Clinton extended the offshore leasing prohibition until 2012.
It is time for the Democrat controlled Congress to do SOMETHING. The GOP in Congress and now the President have made concrete proposals.
Over to the the Democrats.
Think they will do anything?
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Iran Nuclear Watch: The Red Line
A map locating Iran’s nuclear facilities. Iran has insisted any demands for it to suspend sensitive atomic activities would cross its “red line”, days after world powers submitted a new package aimed at ending the nuclear standoff.
Shocker: Iran says NO it will NOT suspend uranium enrichment.Iran on Tuesday insisted any demands it should suspend sensitive atomic activities would cross its “red line”, days after world powers submitted a new package aimed at ending the nuclear standoff.
“We have said several times that uranium enrichment is Iran’s red line and we must have this technology,” Deputy Foreign Minister Ali Reza Sheikh Attar said, quoted by the state IRNA news agency.
Suspending uranium enrichment — which the West fears could be used to make a nuclear weapon — is the key demand in the deal offered Saturday to Tehran by EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana on behalf of world powers.
The package offers Iran talks on a package of technological and economic incentives, so long as Tehran suspends uranium enrichment.
As Flap has been writing about for years now. Iran WILL NOT voluntarily suspend uranium enrichment. So, the choice is clear to the West:
1. Allow Iran to become a nuclear weapons possessing country
2. Militarily destroy Iran’s nuclear weapon producing capacity
3. Embargo Iran and sanction them so severely that they are “forced” to forego uranium enrichment.
Apparently the EU and United States are not serious – even yet!
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Britain to Increase Iran Sanctions
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Bush Lied and People Died – Well Not So Fast Part 2
ANOTHER Bush never lied to us opinion piece.
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This may sound like ancient history, but it matters. After Sept. 11, President Bush did not want to risk allowing Hussein, who had twice invaded neighboring nations, murdered more than 1 million Iraqis and stood in violation of 16 U.N. Security Council resolutions, to remain in possession of what he believed were stocks of chemical and biological warheads and a nuclear weapons program. By glossing over this history, the Democrats’ lies-led-to-war narrative provides false comfort in a world of significant dangers.
You don’t say.
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Britain to Increase Iran Sanctions
US President George W. Bush holds talks with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at No. 10 Downing Street. Brown announced new troops for Afghanistan and tougher sanctions on Iran, delighting Bush
After talking with President Bush, U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown has agreed to tighter sanctions against Iran.“Our message today to the Iranian people is that you do not have to pursue the path of confrontation,†he said during a press conference with Mr. Bush.
“Today, Britain will urge Europe and — Europe will agree — to take further sanctions against Iran,†Mr. Brown said.
Specifically, he said, the sanctions would be designed to freeze the assets of Iran’s biggest bank, Bank Melli.
“We will take action today that will freeze the overseas assets of the biggest bank in Iran, the Melli bank, and secondly, action will start today for a new phase of sanctions on oil and gas,†he said, without elaborating.
For his part, President Bush refused to rule out any action in Iran, saying “all options†were on the table — a formula he has used that has been interpreted as not precluding military strikes.
Mr. Brown said that Britain would “do everything possible to maintain the dialogue†with Iran over its nuclear program. “But we are also clear that if Iran continues to ignore United Nations resolutions and continues to ignore our offers of partnership, we have no choice but to intensify sanctions.â€
YAWN. Another sign that Britain and the United States are “PUNTING” this issue to the next President.
And, in a shocker:A Q Khan may have sold small bomb design
The West has been weak to crack down on nuclear proliferation and what a surprise that Iran may have received advanced uranium enrichment technology and blueprints for an advanced nuclear weapon from the A Q Khan network.
“These would have been ideal for two of Khan’s other major customers, Iran and North Korea,” wrote Albright, now president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security. “They both faced struggles in building a nuclear warhead small enough to fit atop their ballistic missiles, and these designs were for a warhead that would fit.”
NOT
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Iran Nuclear Watch: Ahmadinejad Taunts Bush
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, clinches his fist, as he delivers a speech in a public gathering at the city of Shahr-E- Kord, some 330 miles (550 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, June 11, 2008. Ahmadinejad said Wednesday that U.S. President George W. Bush’s era ‘has come to an end’ and he has failed in his goals to attack Iran and stop its nuclear program
Iran President Ahmadinejad is correct in taunting President Bush. President Bush has done NOTHING but talk about Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon.“It’s Bush’s dream to harm Iran’s nation,” Ahmadinejad
said today during a televised speech in the western Iranian city
of Shahre Kord. “You thought you would be able to do something
but your term came to an end and you will not be capable of
harming even 1 centimeter of Iran’s sacred land.”Iran won’t stop its nuclear work, Ahmadinejad stressed.
“You think that you can force the Iranian nation to back
down from its legitimate rights through threats and pressures,”
Iran’s state-run Islamic Republic News Agency cited Ahmadinejad
as saying today in another speech, in the western town of Sefid
Dasht. He added, “The Iranian nation will not retreat even 1
inch.”The European Union who is threatened directly by Iran continues to insist on negotiations and China and Russia, Iran’s oil business partners, block the United Nations Security Council.
So, there will be either a military intervention by Israel and the United States or Iran will achieve its goal of becoming a nuclear weapon possessing country.
Flap cannot believe that President George W. Bush “punted” on this issue.
But, he did.
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Bush Lied and People Died – Well Not So Fast
The mantra from the Anti-War LEFT has been Bush Lied and People Died. But, did President Bush lie?
Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, set out to provide the official foundation for what has become not only a thriving business but, more important, an article of faith among millions of Americans. And in releasing a committee report Thursday, he claimed to have accomplished his mission, though he did not use the L-word.
“In making the case for war, the administration repeatedly presented intelligence as fact when it was unsubstantiated, contradicted or even nonexistent,” he said.
There’s no question that the administration, and particularly Vice President Cheney, spoke with too much certainty at times and failed to anticipate or prepare the American people for the enormous undertaking in Iraq.
Key graphs from Senator Rockefeller’s report:
- On Iraq’s nuclear weapons program? The president’s statements “were generally substantiated by intelligence community estimates.”
- On biological weapons, production capability and those infamous mobile laboratories? The president’s statements “were substantiated by intelligence information.”
- On chemical weapons, then? “Substantiated by intelligence information.”
- On weapons of mass destruction overall (a separate section of the intelligence committee report)? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.” Delivery vehicles such as ballistic missiles? “Generally substantiated by available intelligence.” Unmanned aerial vehicles that could be used to deliver WMDs? “Generally substantiated by intelligence information.”
- But statements regarding Iraq’s support for terrorist groups other than al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.” Statements that Iraq provided safe haven for Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and other terrorists with ties to al-Qaeda “were substantiated by the intelligence assessments,” and statements regarding Iraq’s contacts with al-Qaeda “were substantiated by intelligence information.”
So, Democrat Senator Jay Rockefeller’s report essentially vindicates President Bush as to the LIED part. But, why does the LEFT and Democrat politicians continue to use the mantra?
Why, for partisan political advantage – as they have all along.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir May 28, 2008
The GOP was looking up with the “battle” between Hillary and Obama but then Scott McClellan blasts President Bush in his new book.
Great timing for the GOP – not.
This will be a tough election year for the GOP. But, there is still hope that the Democrats with Howard Dean will manage to screw up the Presidential election.
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John McCain Watch: Bush Scaling Back Fundraising?
Senator John McCain and presumptive GOP nominee for President and President Bush are to embark on a fundraising tour after the Memorial Day holiday. The Politico is all too happy to denigrate the Bush effort to augment the McCain campaign’s coffers.
President Bush is scaling back next week’s fundraising swings for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) at the request of the campaign, which wants the events closed to the press, POLITICO has learned.
The change — in both Arizona and Utah — is part of McCain’s delicate effort to find the balance between embracing an unpopular president and taking advantage of his huge continuing draw with well-heeled Republicans.
The Arizona event, which was to be at the Phoenix Convention Center, was the first time Bush was to have appeared with McCain since their White House meeting in March.
A McCain aide said: “The McCain campaign has a policy that fundraising events are closed press. In keeping with that policy, the campaign requested the event be moved to a private home.â€
On Tuesday, the president was to appear with McCain at the Phoenix Convention Center at a McCain for President and Republican National Committee Victory Reception.
And on Wednesday, Bush was to appear at Salt Lake City’s Grand America Hotel with former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney at a McCain for President and Republican National Committee Victory Reception (followed by a more exclusive dinner at the Romneys’ Park City home).
Now, both of the public events will be at private residences.
Big deal.
Most GOP fundraising events are closed to the press and isn’t this the real reason why the Politico reports this? They are pissed that they will NOT be let into the event.
Or is it that the Politico (in the tank for Mitt Romney since the primary season) is trying to tie McCain’s reluctance to embrace President Bush with his unpopularity? Why would McCain even bother with President Bush if he thought he would be a negative to the campaign?
There are many reasons why a fundraising tour with the President for the McCain campaign would be private. The biggest – being security. The second would be the reluctance of donors to be followed and hounded by the press or Code Pinko demonstrators. A third, is the reporting publicly the names of the donors and the photos of their wives and family on the internet a few minutes after they attend – their security.
The idea behind fundraising is to raise funds for campaign advertising. This is what President Bush will do for John McCain and the national GOP. Unfortunately for the Politico there will be NO show or circus.
McCain is not hiding an unpopular President as the Politico implies.