Who Was Politicizing Homeland Security?
Who Was Politicizing Homeland Security?
Synopsis:
Dems claim Bush is politicizing Homeland Security.
Dems get it handed to them in the election, in part because voters think Republicans are better on National Security issues.
Homeland Security, as the President wanted it, appears close to passage.
Again, who was playing politics?
*** Update ***
A reader asks why I say only Democrats were playing politics. I say this, because this is what Bush and company have wanted from the get-go. Dems, if they were acting on principle and not because of polls, would continue their opposition. Changing your position because you lost an election is not standing on principle.
Bin Laden May Not be
But we can still hope. And if he is not, this is not a failure on Buhs’s part. He has never claimed he was dead, and he has continued to prosecute the war on terror as if he were still alive. Remember, it was Daschle, in an attempt to keep Bush from proclaiming any success, who wanted to claim that success would be defined as a dead bin Laden. Not Bush.
Daschle said the United States must find ex-Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar and Osama bin Laden and other leaders of the al-Qaida terrorist network, “or we will have failed.”
Fine, Mr. Daschle. You have failed. Bush never claimed, however, that this was a condition of victory, and Bush is the one who has continuously stated that the war on terror was going to last a long time.
Reality Check This is Censorship.
Reality Check
Cancelling a poetry reading by Tom Paulin, someone whose views are beyond the pale, is not.
There is a difference between telling someone you can’t say something and telling them we would rather not fund your opinions or provide you with a forum to espouse your idiocy.
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Football I am still reeling
Football
I am still reeling from the way the Steelers managed to snatch a tie from the jaws of victory against the Falcons on Sunday. Trent Lott and Democrats, you could learn something from this- When you play to not lose, you might just get what you ask for.
I also need some input from everyone. Why is it than when a team gets called for a false start, the official does the hand signal for fales start, and then states:
“Prior to the snap, false start, offense.”
Is there such a thing as a post snap false start? I thought only the offense could false start. Why don;t they just do the hand signal, and then say, “False Start, # 64, five-yard penalty?”
Hunh? Russia’s media expressed has
Russia’s media expressed has shock over a remark by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Russia-EU summit in which he urged a Western reporter asking about the war in Chechnya to come to Moscow and “get circumcised”.
Clearly something has to have been lost in the translation.
“But if you are prepared to become the most radical Islamist and prepared to get circumcised – I invite you to Moscow.
“We have specialists that deal with this problem. I suggest that you do such an operation that nothing grows out of you again,” Mr Putin reportedly said.
Again, hunh? Kinda makes you wish you could listen in on a Bush/Putin conversation. But just out of caution, I am staying the hell out of Moscow.