With all the momentum of a lead zeppelin.
Senator Russell Feingold was a lonely man yesterday.
Of his seven Democratic colleagues on the Senate Judiciary Committee, only two showed up for the committee’s hearing on Feingold’s call for a censure of President Bush. One of them — Feingold’s fellow Wisconsin Democrat, Herb Kohl — ducked out early without uttering a word.
So Feingold sat amid a sea of empty chairs in the hearing room, withstanding a withering Republican barrage. GOP lawmakers took turns branding Feingold’s resolution ”irresponsible,” ”inappropriate,” ”excessive,” ”perverse,” ”false,” ”surreal,” ”beyond the pale,” and ”destructive.”
”I can only hope that this constitutionally suspect and, I believe, inflammatory attempt to punish the president for leading this war on terror will not weaken his ability to do so,” declared Senator Orrin Hatch, Republican of Utah.
Feingold’s resolution has no chance of passing in the Republican-controlled Congress. Only two Democrats have signed on as cosponsors, and party leaders, fearful of rallying Bush’s supporters with direct attacks on the president, have resisted the GOP’s offers to bring the resolution to the Senate floor.
Via Wizbang, where there’s more.
I just love the Dems. Such a source of wholesome entertainment. That is, except Chappquidick Ted. What an obscene buffoon. He’s rated 18A.
Keep up the good work (morons). LOL!
Bush deserves to be censured. His neo-conservative inspired invasion of Iraq will go down in history as being not materially different to Hitlers’ invasion of Poland. One massive black eye for democracy. The good news is, he used up all his political capital on that fiasco and he’s been abandoned by the wingnut academics and researchers behind the mess.
The xenophobia in the US these days is overwhelming. Republican’s feel they can win an argument these days by shouting louder or insulting their detractors. History will be the judge, but I can’t help but think the Bush administration will go down in history as a mockery.
“We’re now down to the final four. Not college basketball. The number of people who still think President Bush is doing a good job.”
— Jay Leno
Unfortuntely, I have low hopes for the SJC hearing. The similarities to Nixon are incredible.
Looking at the previous comment, I thought April Fools Day was yesterday.
The true genius of George W Bush is how he can turn his opponents incoherent.
Iraq the same as Hitler going into Poland. Riiiiight…..
Completely. Unhinged. You’ve got to admire GWB for having such an ability!
I do agree with the history part. We are all too close to this today, we will not know how this will turn out for decades.
But I’ll offer a contrary view that history may view those deriding Bush today as poorly as the US Civil War era Copperhead Democrats.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copperheads_(politics)
“A main Copperhead political demand was for the quick opening of serious peace negotiations with the Confederacy. They wanted the war to end even if that meant an independent Confederate States of America. They wanted Lincoln and the Republicans ousted from power, seeing the president as a tyrant who was destroying American republican values with his despotic and arbitrary actions.”
All the polls focusing on Bush and his administration are low. There is nothing happening to turn it around. The Democrats didn’t want the Republicans to find an issue which would rally them around Bush. As things stand Republican cohesion is dissolving as the November elections approach.
The Democrat strategy is to let them simmer in the juices of Iraq, Katrina, Immigration, botched drug program, the environment, Ab garib and the Abramoff and Plamegate scandals.
There is no need to distract the people from all these negatives. They are lying low and letting these events stay centre stage.
In any event Feingold’s censure bill was doomed in a Repbulican controlled Senate and House.
This is ad hominem: sorry, anderson. But didn’t anyone tell you that a plural–meaning more than one–noun NEVER has an apostrophe?
Apostrophes are used to denote the possessive, e.g., anderson’s hat, the Republican’s good judgement, the ten monkeys’ (plural) bananas, OR the missing letter(s) in the special compound word called a contraction, e.g., cannot = can’t or Republican’s = (either) Republican is or Republican has, as in “The Republican’s not a fan of Ted” or “The Republican’s been delayed”.
In fairness to you, there are many with whom I agree who need this grammar lesson.
Class dismissed! Have a good day.
OK, everyone knows that the first one to use the Nazi reference in an argument is the loser of that argument. History indeed will be the judge. Those in favour, if not direct support of tyranny (and no I don’t mean GWB as the tyrant!) will be seen to be the foolish ones. Specifically, Dippers and Libbers who are on the wrong side of history. Dippers for Castro and Palestinian support. Libbers for Castro and Tamil Tiger support.
Somebody has got to tell the Dems that When trying to balance the scales (the the old Ying/Yang), it’s not the size of the stack that counts – it’s the weight.
anderson – “His neo-conservative inspired invasion of Iraq will go down in history as being not materially different to Hitlers’ invasion of Poland.”
Although I can’t speak with the same authority as you can about what future historians might think – I doubt they will “connect the dots” the same way as you and your LW friends have … of course they will have the benefit of an objective viewpoint.
I do know what history and historians have said about the past. They feel that had any action been taken on the items below – that the invasion on Poland (Sept 1, 1939) could have been avoided.
March 16, 1935 – Adolf Hitler announces German rearmament (violation of the Versailles Treaty).
March 7, 1936 – Germany reoccupies the Rhineland (Treaty of Versailles violation).
February 12, 1938 – German troops enter Austria.
September 29, 1938 – Munich agreement of German, Italian, British and French leaders agree to German demands regarding annexation of Sudetenland (Czechoslovakia). See how easy it is to avoid war – give away something that isn’t yours. The French made the biggest sacrifice … Czechoslovakia was an ally of theirs. BTW: Czechoslovakia had a lot of small arms and munitions plants … history/historians feel that this helped the German “readiness” for war.
Bush – Hitler dot connection … don’t think so. They are more likely to connect LW to LW, Hollywood actors to Hollywood actors, politicians to politicians, inaction to inaction, media to media etc.
RE “[Bush’s] neo-conservative inspired invasion of Iraq will go down in history as being not materially different to Hitlers’ invasion of Poland.” HUH?
COME AGAIN? Hitler’s invasion of Poland took away the democratic rights of the Poles and imposed a whole lot of other terrible burdens on the population–like, Auschwitz and countless other atrocities. Hitler’s invasion of Poland was anti-democratic in the extreme.
The U.S. went to war in Iraq to unseat Saddam Hussein who was a sadistic, despotic, tyrannical, dictator, who had murdered hundreds of thousands of his own people (that alone, whether or not there were WMD, might be enough to justify the U.S. involvement) and to attempt to establish a democracy from which to stem the terrorist threat to the West. There have been elections in Iraq and from what I’ve gathered from commentators who aren’t in the MSM, things have actually improved for the average Iraqi citizen. Women, for one thing, are back at work, and girls are back at school. It’s going to take a L-O-N-G time for things to turn around in Iraq, but at least a beginning has been made.
Check your orbit, anderson; you’re off in outer space somewhere…
steve d wrote:
“The Democrat strategy is to let them simmer in the juices. . .”
The Democrats have a STRATEGY about the Republicans? Gee, I thought their only strategy was self-destruction, using Dean, Pelosi et al as their chosen weapons.
Neo-Communist platitudes, without a hint of specific reference to facts or actual historic events are their norm. It makes them irrelevent in discourse.
They huff and they puff and can’t blow a feather.
Another cockroach has entered the motel. Welcome anderson – join your fellow hard-shelled scurriers – jose, steve d, steve in bc and bigcitylib. And yes, we’re all familiar that in your world view, the nazi Bush neocon is to be blamed for everything, including 911, Iraq, Katrina, MK ultra, HARP chemtrails, etc. The evil bastard.
Off topic, but some might be interested that steve d feels he’s proven that socialists are better at fiscal management than Conservatives. Over at Angry’s blog, he sights the Saskatchewan NDP as a shining example of fiscal prudence resulting in some 12 years of economic prosperity. Knowing that some of you are from Saskatchewan you might want to take a look. It’s good for a laugh.
Irwin Daisy
I was quoting information from the Saskatchewan Government website. So you might want to go there to get more humourous details about how they balanced the books 12 times in a row.
If numbers make you laugh there are lots there. You can even download them and save them to laugh at whenever you feel blue.
steve d; what job with the Dippers do you do?
Anderson . That’s exactly what was said about Ronald Reagan during his time. He was called every foul name & portrayed by the MSM as an idiot. People of a liberal hue cheered as he was shot. They made it seem like he was a cowboy too.
Gee I wonder what happened to Communism in the Russia? OH yeah it a guy named Reagan, in conjunction with a Pope & the British PM that sundered there Empire. With barely a shot. People have no clue that little Grenada was the first Country taken back from the Communists from 1918 on. Korea was only half liberated. It was there first retreat.
This war was inevitable the moment those planes where hijacked & flown into the WTC & 3000 where murdered. Not to mention the horror on those planes. It would not have mattered who was President.
History rarely reflects the periods real evaluation of any ruler. The MSM made sure of that.
In 50 years we will know if Bush was perceptive to a real threat to America by invading Iraq, or perhaps by then we will all experience the joy’s of diminutive. In either case this has been brewing since the hijackings of the seventies. It started at the 1968 Olympics & has escalated since in violence. Already the pattern can be discerned of a growing threat. After the hostage takeover by Iran, we where at war & did not know it. The first bombing of the WTC , should have set off alarms.
I an just pointing this out to show you Anderson that what becomes apparent years latter. Already had its genesis years before. I ask you. How do you fight a world International ring of terrorists with a Religious agenda to rule the world under Sharia law? Under one absolute ruler known as a Caliph. Where those that are not Muslim are sub human, Women especially.
This lib left alliance with these Jihadists is obscene & shows just how desperate the left is. How totalitarian there aims are in the end, & anti Semitic when it comes to Jews. Very selective these Libs.
jema54
I don’t work for the Dippers. I work for no man. I am completely independent. Markets work for me and taxes are low for market men. Conservatives are going to be good for market men, but then so were the Liberals. So I am in no ones pocket. I call em as I sees em.
I love the internet, it keeps me out of trouble and informed. I would have to say, after the wheel, the internet is mans’ greatest invention.
Huggybear you said it best. Rev; your comment reminded me of a Calgary Sun Columnist Ian Robinson last week who wrote about an ‘Incompetent’ president heaped with abuse. No it’s not about the current President. Good one. (http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Columnists/Robinson_Ian/2006/03/26/1506134.html)
Great comments on this thread and the other one about the U.N. Elisabeth, Defense Guy, Al, et al.
I really wonder what it’s going to take to erase the superior attitude, the smugness coming from those who think Canada and the U.N. members are without ulterior motives and therefore Bush invaded Iraq illegally. I’d like to say history will show this was a just war, but will we be allowed books or internet access under Communist and/or Islamic rule?
I think history will remember the Oil for Food scandal at the UN & , the sleazy Countries that participated in this monstrous cash grab. They where the ones who where the most against the Invasion of this Jihadist safe house. They have no high moral horse. Koffi Amman took that from the greedy socialist & liberal crooks.
The leaders of these Nations have a lot to be called to account for. The Eurabian state of France in particular. When it ordered UN troops t stay in compounds while almost a million people where butchered. They could have mitigated or stopped it. I talked to one soldier who still has nightmares hearing the screams inside the UN bases. No one was admitted either for any reason even while being killed at there walls. Its a shameful indictment on the whole human race.
The UN & its commanders especially. The only one who tried ( a French Canadian ) , ended up having a break down after he was punished for being a human being & trying to stop murder.
Frankly the UN is useless & run by the worst elements on the Planet. When you have Iran & Libya overlooking human rights , you know the weasel has entered the hen house.
For reasons of financial gain, they would keep doing business with a Monster, who was working for there destruction. The UN has become the political correct house of horrors. Rwanda should dispel any lingering doubt that this Organization is humane in any way. Or even cares about peace. The so called peacekeepers raping children has put pained to that.
All that they stood for has been compromised beyond recovery. I think the Anglo Nations & those who love liberty should create there own world body. To hell latterly, with these totalitarian greedy baboons.
Its a jackass like FEINGOLD who should be censured he should also be removed from office as well