Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s ineffectiveness became clear the day she became Speaker of the House and immediately announced that there would be no impeachment proceedings against President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney.
Guided by politics, she said leading investigations into just how much the Bush administration did – and did wrong – would be divisive. What she didn’t express was her worry that too many Democrats faced elimination from the House if they took on the difficult task of proving who knew what, when.
But Congress is running out of time to finally make the Bush administration own up to its actions for eight years. If Congress isn’t careful, the president who already has issued 171 pardons could also pardon every appointee and employee he has ever had – and their dogs.
President Bush has issued half the number of pardons that Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton did in their two terms.
I know the two individuals who many of us conservatives want to see pardoned: Border Patrol Agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos.
Didn’t they recently get resentenced? If a president interferes during a judicial process, I believe that would be grounds for impeachment. He could still issue a commutation of sentence or pardon within the next two months. I think where the two agents were wrong, was in covering up the shooting. If others can get pardoned for crimes outside the interest of the U.S., I don’t see why these two shouldn’t get pardoned as well for committing “crimes” in the interest of the U.S.
From what I hear, the case for commutation is being considered by the DOJ’s Pardon Attorney.
Q I just want to ask regarding the two border agents — that was in the news again last week. Now that the President is ending his term — calls are renewed for a pardon or a commutation. Is there anything on that you –
MS. PERINO: We never comment on pardons. People who are eligible to apply for a pardon can do so through the pardon attorney at the Department of Justice. And we don’t comment on the deliberations that are underway.
The source also contradicted a report in Tuesday’s Washington Times that Steele and Gingrich were competing for the RNC post.
“There is no fight,” the source said. “This tension between Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich is totally fabricated and, in fact, Gingrich and Steele are working together to create a new strategy for the direction of the GOP.”
In a statement issued by the former House speaker, Gingrich said he was not interested in seeking the post of Republican party chairman.
“A number of people have asked me to consider running for Republican National Committee chair. They have been very flattering, and I am very honored by their support,” he said.
It’s time to bring in new blood. Republicans need a fresh makeover even as we speak of returning back to conservative traditionalism. As much as we decry that “race doesn’t matter”, the face of the Republican Party as seen by the American public is that of the stereotypical “white man’s club”. We need the Palins, the Jindals, to bring style with the substance. What the Democratic Party had in 2008 was a charismatic rock star; what we need is not only a “return” to conservative ideology, but also one wrapped in an attractive delivery system. Someone like Alfonso Rachel in the public eye could also do much to reshape the image of the Republican Party. He is someone who the MTV crowd can relate to on style and delivery.
I prefer Michael Steele as RNC Chair on the most superficial of reasons, as well as on the most substantial: He’s black.
The color of his skin shouldn’t matter. But because the country as a whole is still fixated on race….it matters. Let someone like Michael Steele deliver the post-racial conservative message that it’s the Republican Party that’s been living the message of MLK: That the color of one’s skin doesn’t matter; it’s the content of the character.
Michael Steele has character; and to those to whom it matters, he also has the “right” skin color to deliver the message.
on concerns that Democrats might control both the White House and Congress she said the following:
“Elect us, hold us accountable, and make a judgment and then go from there. But I do tell you that if the Democrats win, and have substantial majorities, Congress of the United States will be more bipartisan,” said Pelosi.
So, elect more and more Democrats to Congress, and there’ll be more bipartisanship?
My favorite posts and articles are ones where political lemmings have an epiphany and realize they’ve been had. I don’t like them because of the pain and/or embarassment the person(s) have, but rather because they’re posts and articles proving that the TRUTH DOES COME OUT. It cannot hide forever.
An open letter to the local daily paper — almost every local daily paper in America:
I remember reading All the President’s Men and thinking: That’s journalism. You do what it takes to get the truth and you lay it before the public, because the public has a right to know.
This housing crisis didn’t come out of nowhere. It was not a vague emanation of the evil Bush administration. It was a direct result of the political decision, back in the late 1990s, to loosen the rules of lending so that home loans would be more accessible to poor people. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac were authorized to approve risky loans.
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These are facts. This financial crisis was completely preventable. The party that blocked any attempt to prevent it was … the Democratic Party. The party that tried to prevent it was … the Republican Party.
Yet when Nancy Pelosi accused the Bush administration and Republican deregulation of causing the crisis, you in the press did not hold her to account for her lie. Instead, you criticized Republicans who took offense at this lie and refused to vote for the bailout!
Cry havoc, and let slip the bears of Wall Street! That’s what the American people want. That’s what (according to many sources) are filling Congressional switchboards with constituent calls at a rate of 1000:1 against supporting the bailout bill (expect some serious variance depending on the member and district). Still, ya gotta hand it to the American people who FINALLY spoke out with one voice! Read the rest of this entry »
“The concern that I have … is that when you start injecting presidential politics into delicate negotiations, then you can actually create more problems rather than less,” Obama told a news conference.
Ah yes, another day, and more words. To suggest that the POTUS candidate for the party making the most noise to the overt nationalization of a sector of the free market should stay away for fear of appearing “political” is absurd at best. Not only should both candidates be actively involved for what is a substantial interjection of government interference into the markets for the next term, but McCain’s presence was more than mandatory. It is, after all, the GOP coming up with alternatives to the very principles of the government buy out of over leveraged paper, while Obama dutifully followed along on his partisan leash.
What was it Obama said? Don’t be “injecting Presidential politics” into this process? Yet over the past days, it was Obama and the DNC, shouting from the media roof tops that McCain’s very participation in the negotiations was a political stunt…. thereby “injecting Presidential politics”.
As I’ve said elsewhere, whether one believes the nation is on the brink of financial collapse or not, American political leaders, financial leaders, financial legends, and media all claim that is the case, and are all acting as if it is. In response to the crisis, Congressional Democrats-at the urging of the Bush Admin which did not do enough to detect, warn, or prevent the situation, have suggested throwing money at the problem. House Republicans and many Senate Republicans have suggested alternative solutions. So why isn’t anything getting done?
People need to be reminded (apparently) that the Republicans in the House are moot. The Democrats control the House of Representatives-where there is no filibuster rule, and they can pass a bill that throws money at the problem if they want. There are enough Republicans in support of the Democrats’ proposal in the Senate as well. Additionally, President Bush has already endorsed the Democrats’ proposal. Democrats do not need the support of House Republicans to get their way. Read the rest of this entry »
In the past few days-since we’ve been all of a sudden told how dire America’s financial situation has become-I’ve wondered why we didn’t hear about it earlier. The Fed’s been warning about it for years. So has the SEC. So has the Bush Admin. In all those cases, I didn’t pay attention. Economics is boring, and when I hear doom/gloom I just droned out. Then, when everyone went into freakout mode, I wondered why it went from routine complaining to freakout mode? What? Wasn’t Congress watching to make sure agencies were doing their jobs? Where was Congressional oversight? Where was Sen Dod, Congressman Barney Frank? Where was all that oversight the Democrats said they would do when they took Congress?
Well well well…imagine everyone’s surprise when we found out last night that Congressional Democrats tried to use the emergency financial bailout bill to fund illegal voter registration groups as a means of keeping them in power. Gosh, who would ever have imagined such a culture of corruption in the Democrats’ Congress?
Apparently it was not Senator McCain and the infusion of presidential campaign politics into the debate over the financial bailout bill which caused the uproar last night. Nope. It seems the Democrats wanted 20% of any profit made by this grant to go to the very groups that time and time again turn out to be corrupt tools for voter fraud. Both parties have examples of voter fraud, but only one tried to take a financial “Pearl Harbor”, the worst financial crisis in the history of mankind, the biggest crash since the Depression…and use it for partisan advantage.
Senator Lindsey Graham pointed it out last night.
Doubt him? Is he making a partisan claim? Well, here’s the section of the bill: Read the rest of this entry »
While the Dems were dodging the leader of a South American ally, Palin demonstrated the grace and diplomacy of a true POTUS.
Uribe didn’t come asking for much — only that Congress keep its word on an agreement that will drop tariffs on American goods sold in Colombia and help his country develop and prosper as a bulwark of democracy in a battered region.
“We consider that in the coming years if the free-trade agreement were approved . . . the main economic result could be the increase in investments in our country,” Uribe told the Brookings Institution.
“And the more we increase legal investments in our country, the less difficult our task to defeat terrorist groups, to defeat illegal drugs.”
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who arbitrarily iced Colombia’s free trade deal last April, refused to meet Uribe and didn’t acknowledge a White House invitation to an event in his honor. Later, her staff regally complained that Uribe didn’t call her.
Instead of risking being seen as the candidate who tore the DNC officially in two, Hillary’s team caved in during negotiations with Obama’s representative, David Plouffe… agreeing to an incomplete roll call vote.
Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama worked out a convention city deal to limit the divisive roll call for president, a step toward an uneasy alliance of former rivals and their still-bitter supporters.
Many Clinton backers said Monday they were not interested in compromise and wanted a prime-time celebration of Clinton’s nomination fight. Clinton herself said she wouldn’t tell her backers how to vote.
Democratic officials involved in the negotiations said the deal would let a few states cast votes for Clinton before a move to declare Obama the nominee by acclimation.
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The voting could perhaps end with New York, when Clinton herself would call for unanimous nomination of Obama from the convention floor, Democratic officials said. The officials spoke on condition of while the deal was being finalized.
In odd contrast, Pelosi still believes there should be a full roll call. And I have to say, this may be one of the rare moments I agree with the Speaker.
Remember when Speaker Pelosi (D) told Larry King that she-the Speaker of the House-is not a Washington insider? Sure ya do. If not, this will jog your memory, and if so….well, then file it under, “You’ve got to be friggin kidding me?!!!” Me, I couldn’t decide if it was A for Arrogance, D for Dumbass, or what?
Well, the 3rd in line to sit in the Oval Office with a red phone in front of her…the one person in the world who takes power if a choked pretzel and a heartattack have their way somehow….is AT IT AGAIN
Lady, if you’re 3rd in line….you damn well BETTER be an insider, and not some fish flipper from Seattle or just another pothead in Denver for the DNC convention.
His photos reflect his passion. U.S. Congressman Walter Jones R-NC has a picture gallery at his official website. Displayed prominently are dozens of images of the congressman alongside uniformed U.S. military personnel and concerned veterans. Among them, scenes of his opening dedication of a memorial to fallen solders stand out in the context of the newest House controversy.
Constitutional lawyer Bruce Fein wrote in an op-ed for the San Francisco Chronicle that a poster (seen in the video below) kept on the wall in the hallway next to the Congressman’s office had been removed. That poster had displayed the photos of U.S. Marines from Camp Lejeune, based in his district. All of them had been killed in Iraq. Jones has claimed that it was a memorial to those Marines.
Why remove it? The Congressman (a Republican) is against the success in Iraq).
The official reason given by the House was that it violated policy on advocacy material.
The Speaker of the House, Rep Nancy Pelosi (D) believes that it’s wrong to advocate, honor, and pay tribute to fallen American Marines.
How’s that sit with you Marines?
Curt, you’re a former Marine. Does this make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside?
How about you Marines-or people from any service-who have served in Iraq? Do you feel more or less supported by the Democratic Party’s Congress….the Congress that keeps funding your operations, but protesting the funding, threatening to cut off your food, fuel, and ammunition, and claims to “SUPPORT” you?
People of the world, Americans, friends, neighbors, divided citizenry…we are but days away from the Democratic National Committee Convention in Denver, and the most important issue remains a centerpoint of disagreement between all of us.
It’s 3am.
The phone rings.
It’s the red phone.
Russian military forces have invaded a place called South Ossetia in support of Abkhazani seperatists
Georgian military forces that have recently returned home after fighting side by side with American troops in Iraq are racing to the front, but most have been overwhelmed.
Villages are being burned
Men and boys are being seperated out, forced to watch their wives and sisters be raped before they themselves are executed
America and NATO allies told Georgian officials that they’d come to Georgia’s aid if attacked
Who will pick it up the phone?
Who will answer it?
The Democratic Congress’ leadership is on recess and busy with book tours
The DNC is confused after having just published a platform that promises to support Georgia
The Democratic Party base that was so fervently anti-war for years is silently refusing to recognize let alone oppose the atrocities
Senator Obama is on vacation in Hawaii
Senator McCain, however, saw this coming, and has led the pack in calls for international diplomacy, condemnation, and resolve. He’s sent his friends as envoys to the American ally, and he’s been monitoring the situation closely.
Who will pick up the phone? That’s irrelevant because John McCain was already on it-even at 3am.
….Um, anyone from the RNC looking for an ad writer the answer is YES, I am available.
Hard Right Those sandals better not be Birkenstocks…. BTW, my previous post is awaiting moderation for an edit. I was in brass knuckle mode whe I wrote it so keep that in...
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blast Hard Right Now maybe you aren’t a moonbat blast and I’m wrong about you well, I wanted to be sure what you meant by “moonbat” so I googled the definition and had...
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sanjay But as Newsbusters notes, much of the MSM is still in its “sky is falling” mode….at least until Bush is out of office. Nope. Don’t even need to have the MSM to...
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MataHarley blast, I tend to think that conversations with different people in the US is just like learning another language. Some of us are especially adept at expressing our thoughts...
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SoCal Chris Hope this works! It’s not the entire video of the event, but at least some!! Sarah Palin in Savannah: http://community.adn.com/mini_ apps/vmix/player.php?ID=245...
Hard Right I will never understand why “moderates” have problems with strong, intelligent, women with religious values. I know a fair number of men think Sarah is...
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stix1972 It was amazing to see here in St Louis after her debate with the Gaffemeister. The place was packed and there was many young females (college age girls) in attendance. She is...
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blast Curt, I missed this post the other day, I am glad you featured it - a fantastic story about a truly remarkable Marine. Maj. Douglas A. Zembiec is guarding the streets of heaven...
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Scott Malensek Yeah, I’m the dem, and no, they never let me forget it. Back OT….did Pres-elect Obama call anyone in Iraq, Afghanistan, etc? No? Well...
BTW, my previous post is awaiting moderation for an edit. I was in brass knuckle mode whe I wrote it so keep that in...
