Posts Tagged ‘Levin’

15
Feb

The Democrat Burrowers Inside The Bush Presidency

Posted by: Curt @ 11:48 am in The Shadow Warriors

A great section of author Kenneth Timmerman’s new book Shadow Warriors: The Untold Story of Traitors, Saboteurs, and the Party of Surrender is the section about a supposed failing of the Bush administration. That failing being the fact that Bush didn’t purge the CIA and other segments of the government of liberal influences as Clinton did of conservative influences when he came in. Who was at fault for this?

Carl Levin understood that no president could govern effectively without putting his own highly skilled political appointees into key government positions. Although their numbers were small – the congressional “Plum Book” that was published every time a new president came into office listed just 7,000 in the year 2000 – they were critical. These were the men and women who gave direction to the unwieldy federal bureaucracy. Effective political appointees were essential for any president to transform his political vision into action. Without them, a president was like a cork bobbing in the ocean, swept by the wind and the currents. Read the rest of this entry »

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11
Jan

Levin On McCain

Posted by: Curt @ 4:33 pm in Politics

Mark Levin lays into the McCain record today, lest you forget and actually start believing the man is a real conservative legislator:

The McCain domestic record is a disaster. To say he fought spending, most particularly earmarks, is to nibble around the edges and miss the heart of the matter. For starters, consider:

McCain-Feingold — the most brazen frontal assault on political speech since Buckley v. Valeo.

McCain-Kennedy — the most far-reaching amnesty program in American history.

McCain-Lieberman — the most onerous and intrusive attack on American industry — through reporting, regulating, and taxing authority of greenhouse gases — in American history.

McCain-Kennedy-Edwards — the biggest boon to the trial bar since the tobacco settlement, under the rubric of a patients’ bill of rights.

McCain-Reimportantion of Drugs — a significant blow to pharmaceutical research and development, not to mention consumer safety (hey Rudy, pay attention, see link).

And McCain’s stated opposition to the Bush 2001 and 2003 tax cuts was largely based on socialist, class-warfare rhetoric — tax cuts for the rich, not for the middle class. The public record is full of these statements. Today, he recalls only his insistence on accompanying spending cuts.

As chairman of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, McCain was consistently hostile to American enterprise, from media and pharmaceutical companies to technology and energy companies.

McCain also led the Gang of 14, which prevented the Republican leadership in the Senate from mounting a rule change that would have ended the systematic use (actual and threatened) of the filibuster to prevent majority approval of judicial nominees.

Mark also lays into his record on the global war on terror, which includes the continental United States, where McCain helped the ACLU fight for due-process rights of unlawful enemy combatants. He’s called for the closing of Gitmo and bringing those terrorists inside our borders which would, as Fred has pointed out many times, grant them rights they should never have.

But hey, he was indeed a war hero. But he is a war hero we don’t need in the White House.

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