"He can't do that"!!! ........But I can....

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Once again the Princess Speaker of the House is calling “Foul” and claiming that the Vice-President should not be allowed to talk that way about her “Majority” party.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday phoned President Bush to air her complaints over Vice President Dick Cheney's comments that the Congressional Democrats' plan for Iraq would "validate the Al Qaeda strategy."
"I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the Al Qaeda strategy," the vice president told ABC News. "The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit." http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253604,00.html

Seems that the Pelosi was so upset about the Vice-President’s comments that she called the White House looking to talk about this with the President. Unfortunately President Bush was not available to console the “Princess’s” feelings… It’s tough to be in such a high level position such as Pelosi’s and to hear comments that you may not always appreciate. Lets look at some of her comments and the comments of her party and how many of them have changed over time:

"I'm not saying that I am being discriminated against because I am a woman, I'm just saying as the first woman speaker, I have no intention of having less respect for the office I hold than all of the other speakers that have come before me."
Pelosi

"Saddam Hussein has been engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction technology which is a threat to countries in the region and he has made a mockery of the weapons inspection process."Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D, CA), Dec. 16, 1998-Truth!The text of this statement by Nancy Pelosi is posted on her congressional website

"We know that he has stored secret supplies of biological and chemical weapons throughout his country."Al Gore, Sept. 23, 2002-Truth!This and the quote below was part of prepared remarks for a speech in San Francisco to The Commonwealth Club.

"One of the biggest opponents of the federal minimum wage in Samoa is StarKist Tuna, which owns one of the two packing plants that together employ more than 5,000 Samoans, or nearly 75 percent of the island's work force". StarKist's parent company, Del Monte Corp., has headquarters in San Francisco, which is represented by Mrs. Pelosi."

"Not only did the tax cut fail to prevent a recession, as its supporters said it would, it probably made the recession worse," Tom Daschle

"He's (Osama bin Laden) been out in these countries for decades, building schools, building roads, building infrastructure, building day-care facilities, building health-care facilities, and these people are extremely grateful. We haven't done that."
Senator Patty Murry (D)

"I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for."
Howard Dean

"We have a president who stole the presidency through family ties, arrogance and intimidation, employing Republican operatives to exercise the tactics of voter fraud by disenfranchising thousands of blacks, elderly Jews and other minorities."
Barbie Striesand

Donna Brazile, Al Gore's campaign manager, called the Republican Party "the party of the white boys." "A white boy attitude," explained Brazile. She later said of black Republicans Rep. J.C. Watts of Oklahoma and now-Secretary of State Colin Powell that "they'd rather take pictures with black children than feed them."

"You think the RNC could get this many people of color into a single room?" he marvels. "Maybe if they got the hotel staff in there."
Howard Dean

"Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well," said Kerry, a Massachusetts Democrat. "If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq."

"They won’t be able to continue. They won’t be able to do the deployment. They won’t have the equipment, they don’t have the training and they won’t be able to do the work. There’s no question in my mind," Mr. Murtha said.

So if the comments just above by Murtha are true will this not send the message that the Vice-President was talking about? "The Al Qaeda strategy is to break the will of the American people ... try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit."

It may not be “Acceptable” to Pelosi that the Vice-President made this statement about Murtha and her party, but she is playing in the big leagues now and needs to get use to it…

The truth is that by preventing the “Surge” of troops going to Iraq to fight in the war on terrorism, Pelosi, Murtha, and the “Democratic” party are putting our Troops already there more at risk and limiting the support to them. They are not interested in supporting these troops as they claim but rather to ensure they get the votes from their “base”.

Welfare at the Golf Course?...

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Saw this note yesterday in the Washington Times and it shows what the students are being taught and the information provided to them by the school system. I had a talk with several High School students the other day and it was also interesting to hear what they are being taught on the High School level and how it does not always provide both sides of the story.

Campus climate ", only two of the 12 students had ever heard of a major conservative intellectual like Thomas Sowell. "I had also asked the students how many of them had read anything by Friedrich Hayek, a libertarian thinker on political and economic issues who had won the Nobel Prize. Only two had ever read or been assigned a text by Hayek. "But every hand went up when I asked how many students had been required to read a book by Noam Chomsky. Chomsky is a radical whose animus against his own country is so great that he has described the attack on Pearl Harbor as 'a good thing' and warned in his most recent book that the 'American empire' is a threat to 'global survival.'" David Horowitz, from his new book, "Indoctrination U.: The Left's War Against Academic Freedom"
http://www.washingtontimes.com/culture/20070221-102341-4436r.htm

Also came across a article written by Thomas Sowell, who is mentioned in the above text, and it is interesting the way Sowell presents the "Politics of Welfare" in a economic form. I have read several of his books on economics and his editorials are a very good source of information on the economy...

"Among the many rationales used to defend the welfare state, the most powerful is that it is necessary, in order to take care of the poor and the downtrodden. But the amount of money required to bring every poor person in the country above the official poverty line is a fraction of what is spent by government on the welfare state."

Sowell then shows an example of the "Welfare" system and how our politicians use this system to help them get re-elected. If the system was used to help elevate all those at the poverty level as it was intended, where would we be now? Instead the "Welfare" system has morphed into a system to provide that which is perceived "Needed" to all. Especially those who VOTE...

"If you put San Francisco's golf courses on the open market, in a city with a serious housing shortage and sky high housing prices, chances are good that the land occupied by golf courses would quickly be bid away by those who would build some much-needed housing."
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2007/02/priceless_politics.html

Scott Sayre 2007...

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"We Support the Troops!!"...................... sort of, kinda, in our own little special way...

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The Daily News-Record newspaper out of Harrisonburg Va. had an interesting editorial this week that quotes Big-Boy John Murtha on his plans to effectively shut down the funding of the troops fighting the war on terrorism by attaching "conditions" to spending bills. His hopes are to keep the spending bills from being passed and resulting in cutting the funding for the war in Iraq. Murtha and his buddies have said they want to bring the Troops home. What, when they run out of bullets to defend themselves with???

In an interview yesterday with MoveCongress.org, a Web site for a coalition of anti-war groups, Mr. Murtha explained that by placing conditions on $93.4 billion in new combat funds, he would be able to effectively stop the troops in their tracks. "They won’t be able to continue. They won’t be able to do the deployment. They won’t have the equipment, they don’t have the training and they won’t be able to do the work. There’s no question in my mind," Mr. Murtha said.

Supporters of Rep. Murtha want to attach hundreds of legislative strings to military funding, which will in effect cripple the war effort, but may immunize them from any political fallout.

http://dnronline.com/opinion_details.php?AID=8811&sub=Editorial

46,000,000 Uninsured... or, so...

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The next time your favorite(?) Democrat trots out their famous claim of there being over 46 million uninsured Americans out there here are some of the numbers that make up their claims… And are all of those Americans really legal Americans?…

Investors Business Daily provided some interesting numbers that make up this “reoccurring election talking point” for our democratic friends but ones they don’t seem to mention to often.

45% are uninsured for four months or less…
29% lack coverage for more than a year…
15.9% of the population is “uninsured” by recent numbers…
16.3% of the population were uninsured during “Clinton’s Year” of 1998...
1.4 million more people in 2005 had insurance than the year before…
86% of the growth of uninsured between 1998 and 2003 were immigrants…
26% of the now uninsured are immigrants as compared to 19% in 1994...
40% of the uninsured are under the age of 34 years…
14 million uninsured adults & children are eligible for government coverage…

“Looked at more closely, then, you see that most of the uninsured are young, between jobs, moving to industries that don't offer coverage, or eligible for government programs. True, a gap in coverage can be a problem, and many still have no coverage for long spells.
But fixing these problems requires targeted reforms that make it easier for people to buy insurance on their own, and carry it with them as they change jobs — just like people do with auto insurance or homeowner's insurance."

"It means getting rid of costly state mandates that push up the price of coverage. It means fixing the tax code bias against out-of-pocket spending on health care. It means creating viable high-risk insurance pools for those who can't get coverage for health reasons, and making sure people sign up for available public help"…

So the next time this issue gets dragged out during the next two-year campaign think about who makes up that 46,000,000 and the choices some of the “Uninsured” make…

It reminds me of the 20 year old at work who does not have health insurance for both her and her husband are young and would rather spend their income on “more important stuff”… That and paying off the $6,000 Honeymoon that they put on their credit cards…

http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&status=article&id=256435064456051

Which way you headed, Tim?

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What direction is "Democratic" Governor Tim Kaine going with the Transporation issue? It has been noted that he has been missing at times when he promised to make this issue a "high priority"...

Southwest x Southeast has some interesting points over at his site:

http://southwestbysoutheast.blogspot.com/2007/02/tim-kaine-awol.html

Pretty much "Sums" it up...

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An avid blogger just sent this graphic over saying it would go well with the post prior to this about the "Democratic" Governor who wants to keep the General Fund-Surplus for his projects and not use it for transportation...

Spanky also has a great post about this topic on his blog "Spank That Donkey":

http://spankthatdonkey.squarespace.com/spankthatdonkey2/2007/2/12/bolling-doesnt-let-senate-go-to-potts.html

Which way will the "Brow" go this time?...

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Virginia "Democratic" Governor Tim Kaine needs to step up to the plate and actually get something done with the Transportation plan, which the local media loves to talk about "How the Republicans once again are doing nothing". And it is evident that the "Democratic" Governor has the support of the local media here in the Valley for the "Staunton NewsLeader" seems to have their weekly rant about transportation at least once a week, without calling on the "Democratic" Governor to do something...

The Washington Times has a good article on the topic of how the "Democratic" Governor needs to get involved and support the best transportation plan to get something done, if he really does want to get something done with transportation. But maybe the "Democratic" Governor would really rather see a solution to the transportation fail once again only to benefit the Governor and his "Democratic" party in the upcoming elections???

"Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling, a Republican, said Mr. Kaine has been "missing in action" and thinks he and fellow Democrats would rather see talks fail so they can rip Republicans this fall when all 140 seats of the General Assembly are up for election."

Once again it seems the "Democratic" Governor does not want to touch anything from the General fund which has a substantial balance in it from the Tax Increase that was rammed thru by the prior "Democratic" Governor Mark Warner. It appears that the Governor has other plans for our tax money and claims it is needed for teachers, police, human services, and other "Voter blocs". But will this surplus really be used in these areas by the "Democratic" Governor?

Virginia Attorney General Bob McDonnell said:

"He's got to decide whether he wants a significant policy achievement on transportation or have a political achievement in having a bill fail, then blame Republicans," he said. "I think the governor, having made this the top issue, has some moral obligation to work something out."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/metro/20070215-105533-5681r.htm

"GATHERING OF EAGLES"... Eagle Watch ~Virginia~...

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This was forwarded to me by a local Conservative Republican who understands the importance of standing up for what is right.

'Gathering of Eagles' to protect Vietnam Veterans Wall

By C.J. Raven
U.S. Veteran Dispatch
February 07, 2007

"Leftist activists who march to the Pentagon next month will discover that their path won't be as clear as it has been in the past."

"The group, led by Cindy Sheehan, Jane Fonda, Ed Asner and their ilk, plan to gather March 17 at the Vietnam Memorial Wall to begin a march to protest America's involvement in the Iraq war. The date marks the fourth anniversary of the war's beginning."

"This time, however, protestors will see objectors if they spit on Iraqi veterans again, or throw paint on a war memorial. This time, they will encounter a buzz saw of Vietnam veterans and supporters who will gather to protect the Wall, and show their support for U.S. troops. The counter-protestors are calling themselves the Gathering of Eagles."

Please visit the following website for more information and support this effort...

http://www.usvetdsp.com/feb07/eagle.htm

"Plenty of Love"...

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“Liberal political commentator” Donna Brazile had her opinion printed in the Washington Times (Zen?) this past week where she asked “Where is the Love”? in the budget that the President just submitted. Once again she turned it into the same old tired talking points that her “Democratic” party has been spewing for years and yet she fails to note that which has happened over the past 6 years…

“Looking at President Bush's budget for fiscal 2008, I can't help but conclude that the only things he cares about are the war in Iraq and protecting the bank accounts of America's wealthiest citizens. Certainly, the president, who once campaigned as a compassionate conservative, has overlooked the poor, those living on fixed incomes and even the middle-class.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20070211-102910-5643r.htm

Also last week there was an article by Robert Caldwell that answers some of Brazile’s questions and areas that she failed to mention in her statements. Donna, like many of her Liberal friends and media cohorts, loves to harp on how much the war on terrorism has cost and how else that money could have been spent on them instead. This reminds me of a anti-war protester from the “Augusta Coalition for Peace and Justice” who routinely protests in Staunton Virginia by holding a sign with a dollar figure of how much has been spent on the war instead of her favorite “entitlement” program. Like Donna this protester fails to note all that HAS been done for her favorite programs and a very strong economy that supports these programs… “I want a Pony!!!”

“Lest liberals forget, federal spending increased 33 percent from 2001 to 2006. Discretionary spending (excluding Social Security, Medicare and other entitlements) rose by 49 percent over those same five years.
Increases for specific domestic spending categories were positively eye-popping: Medicare, 58 percent; education, 137 percent; veterans' benefits, 56 percent; health research and regulation, 78 percent; highways and mass transit, 28 percent; natural resources and the environment, 28 percent; community and regional development, 342 percent; training, employment and social services, 19 percent; housing and commerce, 58 percent; general government, 34 percent; and energy, an average annual increase of 211 percent.”
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070211/news_lz1e11caldwel.html

Of course Donna falls back on her Democratic parties game plan of “Playing the class warfare card” whenever possible…

“Our government exists to serve the powerless, protect the weak and defend the vulnerable, as well as others. Children, seniors, the poor and those barely making it -- those are the people who need the government's help. Those are the ones it should serve. Not oil tycoons. Not multinational corporations exporting jobs. Not CEOs writing enormous checks to Republican campaign coffers.”

Fact is there is “Plenty of Love” out there and the past 6 years spending has shown that. What Donna needs to understand is that we are fighting a world-wide war on terrorism and that costs money. Money that she would rather spend on entitlement programs which actually makes people less free and more dependant on “Her” government…

Gotta go to work now Donna…
“Hugs & Kisses”
RightsideVA