We Won't Get Fooled Again

So Senator Clinton is looking for a campaign song. Well The Who have the perfect fit for her.

Meet the new boss
Same as the old boss

The GOP has had a Dole or a Bush on the ticket in every Presidential election from 1976 thru 2004. The Dems have had a Gore or a Clinton on the ticket in every Presidential election from 1992 thru 2000. This is The United States of America and not the United Kingdom. The lyrics to the song here are 'My Country Tis of Thee' not 'God Save the Queen'. We do not have a royal line from which to elect our POTUS. 2008 Presidential election is going to be the most significant one this country has had in years. People in this country are completely fed up with the folks who have occupied the White House and currently sit in the Congress. So Hillary, you have already got 2 strikes against you.

Some folks probably don't want to read this, but I don't think anybody currently elected to any seat in Congress can be elected in 2008. That takes the list of candidates down quite a bit. On the Dem side you have Edwards, Richardson, and Gravel, and on the GOP side you have Giuliani, Romney, F. Thompson, Gilmore, Huckabee, and T. Thompson. If John Warner wants to retire, then I would just as soon have Gilmore run for Senate as well as the last 2 run for seats in their home states.

I support Fred Thompson because from his written articles, radio addresses, and speeches I get the same kind of feelings that President Reagan sparked. We need to shrink the breadth, width, and depth of how much the Federal Government involves itself in our daily life. That is a sentiment that will bring the independent voter back. We need to get back to this philosophy of governing as soon as possible.

Trent & Diane

Little ditty about Trent and Diane
Two congresscritters™ tearin up the heartland
Trents gonna be a cheap labor star
Diane debutante backseat of Hillarys car

Chorus:
Oh yeah life goes on
Long after the thrill of payback is gone
Oh yeah life goes on
Long after the thrill of payback is gone they walk on

Who is on a roll having a good year in 2007?

The answer is Iran Supreme Leader Khameini. The year started out real bad with a report by Michael Ledeen that suggested Khameini is dead. Turned out to be false, and meanwhile he has been busy supporting the Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, Taliban in Afghanistan, and al Sadr in Iraq. The Hamas have routed the Fatah government in Gaza, aka Hamastan. The Hezbollah have been busy assassinating Lebanese politicians they don’t like. Mookie al Sadr has been given arms support and returned to Iraq after a short stay in Iran. The Taliban in Afghanistan have been receiving arms from Iran to fight NATO forces in Afghanistan. The rest of the time they have been spending on accelerating the process of producing weapons grade uranium, and sending officials to Cuba and Venezuela to work out treaties. The best part of all is that he stays in the shadows, and lets the President of Iran be the flak catcher. He certainly has enjoyed some good news lately. I sure do hope the situation does not continue to be so wonderful for him. The world needs to pull their collective heads out of the sands, and take care of this looming threat on the horizon.

California GOP...what the future GOP will be like.

Mohammad Khatami
Ron Nehring
























The future of the GOP are not from the USA . The California GOP chairman, Ron Nehring, is a protege of Grover Norquist . Grover Norquist has argued for years that Muslims should be a vital part of the Republican party. In a June 2001 article in The American Spectator, he wrote that Muslims are "a faith-based, naturally conservative community," noting, for example, that majorities of Muslims oppose abortion and support school choice. Grover Norquist was a supporter of a Florida college professor, Sami al Arian. Sami was later indicted on conspiracy charges as the alleged head of Palestinian Islamic Jihad in America. As a protege of Norquist does Ron Nehring believe that Muslims who support radical Islamists should be a vital part of the Republican Party? In addition to hiring people to fill some top posts in the party from Australia and Canada he also prefers to hobnob with the former president of Iran instead of attending California GOP fundraisers. Ron Nehring explains as follows: "This trip is part vacation, visiting with family in Germany, and part participating in the St. Gallen Symposium in St. Gallen, Switzerland next week, as I have every year since 2003."

Maybe the California GOP chairman has the party on the right track, but I personally agree more with another Californian, Karen Hanretty, a political commentator and former state GOP party spokeswoman who said "In the nation's most populous state -- which has produced a roster of nationally known veteran political consultants -- "it's insulting but also embarrassing ... to bring people from the outside who don't know the difference between Lodi and Lancaster ... and who can't even vote.''

In case you don't click on the link, the real shock for me was seeing that the Canadian's name is 'Chris Matthews. Chris Matthews was hired as full-time deputy political director, with responsibility for handling campaign operations and information technology for the country's largest state Republican party operation. OUCH!

President Abe Lincoln vs President George W. Bush

We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word may mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men’s labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things ... liberty and tyranny.

There are some jobs in America that Americans won't do and others are willing to do.

The push and the “fix” by President Bush and other inside the beltway politicians for a plan to get cheap foreign laborers into the USA legally is the most odious part of the CIR. This is worse to me than the ‘path to citizenship’ components of the bill. Rich Lowry of NRO wrote a piece about this:

“A core element of the American creed has always been a belief in the dignity of labor — at least until now. Supporters of a guest-worker program for Mexican laborers say that "there are jobs that no Americans will do." This is an argument that is a step away from suggesting that there are jobs that Americans shouldn't do.

President George Bush, a strong supporter of the guest-worker program, has long said that "family values don't stop at the Rio Grande." We are supposed to believe, however, that the work ethic does stop there — it is only south of it that people can be found who are willing to work in construction, landscaping and agricultural jobs. So, without importing those people into our labor market, these jobs would go unfilled, disrupting the economy (and creating an epidemic of unkempt lawns in Southern California).”

I sense that many rank and file Democrats are mostly concerned with the guest-worker program part of the CIR. If the Republicans who oppose CIR for other reasons will remain united with the Democrats on the guest-worker part, then this bill should remain DEAD.

President Fred Thompson – Veto or Sign It?

Pat Toomey has written an interesting idea over at NRO If you don’t bother to read the article, the basic premise: “Veto or Sign It” poses hypothetical Democratic bills to the candidates and asks if they would veto or sign them.

I would like to run with that idea on a question that I have about Fred Thompson.

President Fred Thompson, a Democratic bill comes to your desk that removes enhanced law enforcement investigatory tools allowed by the US Patriot Act. Veto or Sign It?

Let me add that I do support Fred Thompson for POTUS. Fred is the conservative political outsider who also has some Washington insider experience from being an attorney during the Nixon Watergate hearings to serving in the US Senate. Fred has written some excellent essays at Townhall.com from where I can get an understanding of his position about the important issues the USA faces. Fred has given some excellent stump speeches that also make clear where he stands. From my research on Fred Thompson there is only one instance that really bothers me. What really bothers me is why Sen. Fred Thompson voted with Sen. Russ Feingold on a “poison pill” amendment that Sen. Feingold introduced to kill the US Patriot Act. I don’t know why Fred voted this way, and it troubles me because I truly believe that the enhanced law enforcement investigatory tools that the US Patriot Act have provided are the reason there has been no successful terrorist attack in the US since 9/11/01. Maybe somebody else has done better research than I, and they can provide me with answers that will give me comfort.

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 107^th Congress - 1^st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On Passage of the Bill (S.1510 )

Vote Number: 302 Vote Date: October 11, 2001, 11:43 PM

Required For Majority: ½ Vote Result: Bill Passed

Measure Number: S. 1510

Measure Title: A bill to deter and punish terrorist acts in the United States and around the world, to enhance law enforcement investigatory tools, and for other purposes.

Vote Counts: YEAs 96

NAYs 1 Feingold (D-WI)

Not Voting – 3 Domenici (R-NM) Helms (R-NC) Thurmond (R-SC)

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 107^th Congress - 1^st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate

Vote Summary

Question: On the Motion to Table (Motion to Table Feingold Amdt. No. 1900 )

Vote Number: 300 Vote Date: October 11, 2001, 10:28 PM

Required For Majority: ½ Vote Result: Motion to Table Agreed to

Amendment Number: S.Amdt. 1900 to S. 1510

Statement of Purpose: To limit the roving wiretap authority under FISA.

Vote Counts: YEAs 90

NAYs 7 Cantwell (D-WA) Corzine (D-NJ) Feingold (D-WI)

Levin (D-MI) Specter (R-PA) Thompson (R-TN) Wellstone (D-MN)

Not Voting – 3 Domenici (R-NM) Helms (R-NC) Thurmond (R-SC)

Not anti-immigration-Not a xenophobe

I am anti pool of cheap labor and future Democratic voter pool. For me the US borders are the responsibility of US law enforcement agents to keep them secure. USCIS immigration agents are supposed to do their work in US embassies that are located in foreign countries. I do not have a problem with increasing the workforce of the USCIS personnel so that they can do a better job of managing legal immigration, but that has absolutely nothing to do with the US borders getting secured. The US needs a leader like Abraham Lincoln or Teddy Roosevelt today. Too many politicians today will choose money over the well being of US citizens. We already have laws in place to secure the borders. We need to enforce them. We need additional laws to end the institution of some businesses to go out and get cheap illegal alien laborers. We need political parties to stop projecting an underclass culture of victims from whom they garner votes. Every US citizen is responsible for his own 'pursuit of happiness.' The government cannot solve all of your problems.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Abraham Lincoln

"No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we require him to obey it.""Obedience to the law is demanded as a right; not asked as a favor."
Third Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1903

"There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."
Letter, Oyster Bay, NY, September 1, 1903

Teddy Roosevelt

It is not about this Bill in Congress or that Bill. The problem for the United States right now is that we desperately need a leader.