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The Lunch Counter
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Friday, December 24, 2004
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President Bush Resubmits Pricilla Owen & William Pryor
Moving forward in filling the vacancies in the U.S. Courts, President Bush is resubmitting those who never came out of committee due to the Kennedy blockade via filibuster.
Pricilla Owen, a Texas Supreme Court justice whose nomination to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans has been blocked by Democrats since May 2001 and former Alabama Attorney General William Pryor for the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta.
This is political capital well spent. Watch the dems on the Judiciary Committee have a cow over this move, then they can show us how his nominees are incompetent and racist, if not just an incompetent racist. Some of his nominees represent minorities; black, Hispanic. This won't be perceived by the biased media as having anything to do with 'reaching out.' Create fear of an extreme right-wing cabal, who will "take away" a woman's right to choose. That is what we can expect to see.
There won't be any success story about growing up with nothing, then working hard and making the right decisions to have risin to the top of their field. No, you won't hear that side of the story. That's why I'm here.
Yahoo News, Related Link
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Friday, December 17, 2004
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Thursday, December 16, 2004
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Mary Beth Cahill, campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry, says that she underestimated the effectiveness of the Swift Boat Veterans. This is her CYA move.
The Swift Boat Vets' ads got a lot of attention. From the start, it was Mary Beth Cahill who first came out denouncing them and their ad. That was when the ad only ran in 3 states, with the $150,000 they had. She neglected to 'admit' that it was herself who called attention to this ad, which was then run over and over on the news networks. Well, not all the news networks, only the cable news networks. They were banished from the CBS, NBS, and ABS networks. Never saw the ads there. Maybe if she had not called attention to it like she did, the ad would not have received the national attention it got?
Ms. Cahill would characterize it as her simply underestimating their effectiveness. What she didn't admit was that her strategy of isolating her candidate from them was her first and probably biggest mistake. Kerry never once himself addressed the SBV's claims, nor was he ever asked about it by any media to whom he would speak. Everybody, except Mary, wanted to hear Kerry's response. You know, from the war hero who wanted to be Commander In Chief. He was mute to their claims. His surrogates merely discounted them as a bunch of drunks and some such other form of low-life.
Her second and probably next biggest mistake, was the way she never thought of her democrat constituency and what they might have thought of this strategy. Fact was, some of those vets were democrats. And Sen. Kerry and his 'band of brothers' weren't the only Vietnam Veterans in the country. She presumed, or subsumed, that democrats had no need to know anything more about the Swift Boat Vets, and even less about how the candidate himself feels about them.
This write-off of what became an important issue in the campaign by the Kerry Campaign was IMHO a figurative slap in the face to every democrat who was to the right of moveon.org and the Soros gang, which was a large enough constituency to matter.
You see that the arrogance in the campaign against her opponent was, in a way, spread equally over voters in her own party.
Great Job Mary Beth!
Cahill Admits Underestimating Ads' Impact (AP). AP - The campaign manager for Sen. John Kerry's failed presidential bid said Wednesday she regrets underestimating the impact of an attack advertisement that questioned Kerry's Vietnam War record. [Yahoo! News: Politics]
2:27:14 AM
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Tuesday, December 14, 2004
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The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (California) was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court today in an 8-0 decision.
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that police have authority to arrest people on an accusation that later falls apart, so long as officers had a second, valid reason for the detention.
Does there ever come a time when this Appeals Court is investigated for ? miscarriage of justice? What would you call it when the 9th Circuit, the most overturned Court of Appeals in the nation, keeps on making poor decisions? Who is the policing authority? Wouldn't that be the Supremes themselves?
It's time.
11:07:47 PM
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Monday, December 13, 2004
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Death Penalty For Scott Peterson
Only problem is it was in the state of California, where no one has been executed in over 20 years. Charles Manson is still breathing. When was his case, in the 70's? End result he'll be in solitary for the rest of his natural life. All the death penalty means in California is you are by yourself in a smaller cell. It doesn't mean the state is going to actually do what the legal system says it should do. So what's all the hoopla about the death penalty for him? It's more symbolic than anything else.
He'd probably meet his maker sooner if he was a lifer, where other cons could have a whack at him.
11:48:57 PM
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Friday, December 10, 2004
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The Presidential Election for 2004 may be over, but the campaign against the administration is not. In October, when the job numbers for September came out, the press and other like-minded liberals did all they could to poo poo the economy. (Two, Two, Two Stories in one!) In November, with economic growth doing nothing but maintaining an upward trend, they continue to ignore the facts and distort the truth, ie, the Democrat playbook page 1.
It's not the economy stupid, it's the stupidity stupid.
When no news is bad news. The national news media's politically driven bashing of the economy didn't end on Election Day. It continues in the business news pages and much of the reporting from Wall Street, despite a bullish post-election rally in the financial markets and economic numbers that would make any of our trading partners proud.
8:38:58 AM
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Thursday, December 09, 2004
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Must be a great day today for Sen. Ted Kennedy. Get ready folks because this judicial appointments war is going to get nasty. Get ready to speak up, to your representatives in Washington.
Judge Charles Pickering to Retire (AP). AP - Federal judge Charles Pickering, appointed by President Bush less than a year ago without Congressional approval, said Wednesday he will step down from the bench. [Yahoo! News: Politics]
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004
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The election is over. I'm not beating a dead donkey. There's been a lot of talk about how wrong the exit polls taken on election day were. And we've heard the pollsters being blamed for picking un-representative samples. We haven't heard what I first suspected on November 2, that maybe what we saw was Terry McAuliffe's successful attempt to influence the polls and, in his mind, the election for John Kerry.
There was, you will recall, some un-representative sampling going on that the pollsters wouldn't discover until later that day when the votes began to be counted. Early that day I recall McAuliffe being interviewed by a cable news reporter and he was looking happy like the cat that had just got the mouse. He didn't act surprised that the exit polls were showing his man in a landslide. Instead, he was just happy, basking in the 'I told you so' light of confidence. Nothing wrong with being positive. But looking back, it could have just as easily been just part of the plan; to spike the polls.
There is a precedent of this sort of behavior from McAuliffe himself. Harken back to the debate season. For all three debates, McAuliffe's DNC mass emailed their lists of supporters asking them to participate in online polls, polls that would be used by all the media the following day.
This time, there seems to be a connection between DNC operatives and the pollsters. Enough of a connection to know which precincts were going to be visited by the national pollsters. It just comes down to look as though McAuliffe had something to do with those un-representative samples.
Best thing the Democrat party can do is purge itself from that guy.
reference DNC letter 10/13/04
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