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SHOCKED! OUTRAGED!! APPALLED!!! Those were
SHOCKED!
OUTRAGED!!
APPALLED!!!
Those were the reactions from Margaret Carlsonand the rest of the demagogo-pundits in the national media last week when Karl Rove stated matter-of-factly that the American people think Republicans will handle the war on terrorism better than Democrats.
Crass!!
How Partisan!!!
Exploiting 9/11 for Political Gain!!!
The latest ABC news/ WaPo poll shows that when asked the question “Which political party, the (Democrats) or the (Republicans), do you trust to do a better job…?”
Handling national defense and the military budget: Democrats- 27%, Republicans- 63%
Handling the U.S. campaign against terrorism: Democrats- 23%, Republicans- 62%
Washington, where scandals are created by observing facts and telling the truth.
Al Sharpton was just on
Al Sharpton was just on Hannity and Colmes. The vapid delivery and insipid nature of his comments nearly caused my brains to leak out my ears. However, I did learn that the good Rev. Al has set up a legal action for Enron employees, and good ole Johnny Cochran will be leading the charge. Yeehaw!! Superbowl schmooperbowl. If the prospect of those two clogging up our legal system for months and getting daily coverage on the cable networks doesn’t get you motivated to pay your cable bill for a couple of months, nothing will.
I will leave it up to Will Warren to come up with words that rhyme with 401k and acquit.
In an unrelated note, Colmes hinted that the detainees at Camp X-Ray might be suffering cruel punishment because you can’t get good bagels in Cuba.
The Chicago Tribune on Enron
The Chicago Tribune on Enron and Campaign Finance Reform:
They gave to some 71 senators and 188 House members. They gave some $600,000 to George W. Bush. And the Bush administration has plenty of top officials with Enron ties–including Army Secretary Thomas White, a former company executive; chief economic adviser Lawrence Lindsey, a former consultant; and political adviser Karl Rove, who owned a lot of Enron stock.
By now, though, former chairman Kenneth Lay must be wondering why he bothered.
The company stood to make a lot of money from the Kyoto treaty on carbon dioxide emissions, but the president rejected it. Enron lobbied Congress to change the tax laws so its foreign subsidiaries could conceal their debts, and Congress refused. Lindsey, asked to do an analysis of the damage that an Enron bankruptcy would do to the economy, concluded it was nothing to worry about.
And when the meltdown finally began, all the people who had gotten help from Enron turned a deaf ear to its pleas for help. Lay phoned Commerce Secretary Donald Evans to ask for help in preventing a downgrade of Enron’s bond rating. Evans recalls, “I listened to him and told him thank you very much.”
U.S. Forces and Allies Storm
U.S. Forces and Allies Storm Afghan Hospital, Killing 6
That is how you handle terrorist Islamo-fascist thugs. You send them to meet Allah. The world is a better and safer place already.
Drudge is reporting that Terry
Hamid Karzi ‘Gets it.” Too
Hamid Karzi ‘Gets it.” Too bad he is busy rebuilding Afghanistan, and not doing something really important, like writing op-eds in the U.K. or for the NY Times. Check out this exchange with Peter Jennings:
JENNINGS Do you think that the prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba should be classified as prisoners of war?
KARZAI They’re terrorists. They have not been captured in a regular war. They were there to kill Afghan people. They did kill Afghan people, positively. They destroyed my country.
We’re not at war with them … I would not classify them as prisoners of war, but I would treat them nicely, properly.
JENNINGS Would you treat them under the, under the rules and regulations of the Geneva Convention?
KARZAI I would treat them, I would treat them … within the framework of that Convention, but I would treat them nicely. They’re not prisoners of war. They’re terrorists.
JENNINGS Are you aware of the prisoners being held at Sheburgen who were fighting with the Taliban and are now in custody largely of the Northern Alliance? And do you think you have the authority and the strength to do something about that from the government’s point of view in Kabul?
KARZAI Yes, surely. Definitely.
JENNINGS And what do you think should be done?
KARZAI Well, we will provide them [with] … better living conditions and give them the rights that they should have of prisoners in that prison … Whether they will believe it or not is depending upon the situation of terrorists or collaborators …