However, you need to provide reference for the younger generation.
Posted on 05/04/2005 4:43:28 PM PDT by perfect stranger
Liberals have been unusually hysterical the past few weeks. But we're not getting much in the way of details – which is odd because the devil is usually found in the details. As we reviewed vis-a-vis the judiciary in last week's column, whenever liberals won't give you details, it's because the details don't help them.
We keep hearing Tom DeLay's name uttered in angry, accusatory tones, but I still don't know what law he's supposed to have broken. As far as I can tell, DeLay didn't even cheat at golf during that trip to Scotland. But you know what liberals always say: "Where there's nothing, there's fire."
As long as liberals can keep repeating "Tom DeLay" and "ethics violation" in the same sentence and get the media to throw a grade-A hissy fit – and it's so hard to tease that out of the mainstream media when it comes to a Republican – they've got themselves a scandal!
Close your eyes and even now you can hear Aaron Brown saying: "Embattled Rep. Tom DeLay came under fire again today when it was disclosed that his Permanent Record showed he refused to take a nap once while in kindergarten. We turn now live to Wolf Blitzer with former kindergarten teacher Louise Millicuddy in Livingston, Texas. Wolf, could this bombshell spell the end for the combative Tom DeLay?"
How about asking the Democrats – I would recommend asking Rep. Rosa DeLauro this -– to explain precisely which law they believe DeLay broke? People will have already left the building before we get the most basic outline of the allegation. These are the same legal geniuses who looked at dozens of Whitewater-related felony convictions and said, "Crime? What crime?"
DeLay's own constituents seem to like him, unless you include Democrats claiming to be Republicans. Liberals never tire of this trick or imagine that it could ever become any less believable. Turn on talk radio right now and you'll hear some liberal caller claiming to be a lifelong Republican scandalized by the Bush tax cuts – or some other policy that has been a mainstay of the Republican Party for at least a century. The callers are always teachers. (No wonder our kids aren't learning – their teachers are always on the phone with talk-radio shows pretending to be Republicans.)
A ringleader of the DeLay witch-hunt in Texas is Patricia Baig, who took out a full-page advertisement in a Texas newspaper calling for DeLay's resignation. Baig signed her letter, "A Texas Republican for Ethical Reform."
There is no record of Baig ever voting in a Republican primary, belonging to any Republican clubs or contributing to any Republican politicians in Texas or anywhere else.
To the contrary! Baig contributed to the Democrat who ran against DeLay in his last election. She used her maiden name for the ad, calling herself "P.A. Perine (Texas Republican)." She is a substitute teacher.
All of that was duly noted by a New York Times reporter. (If we are good and decent people, conservatives will put that reporter on a 24-hour watch to make sure he isn't killed in the middle of the night.) But liberals think they can fool normal people with their road-to-Damascus "I used to be a Republican" conversion stories. They can't even fool the New York Times!
Baig's entire retort to the absence of any evidence that she is a Republican was to say that lots of Republicans don't vote in Republican primaries or contribute to Republican candidates (which, in her defense, is at least a better excuse than Kevin Phillips'.)
So, like their theories on "global warming," a liberal's claim to be a Republican is a non-disprovable assertion involving a lot of hot air.
Another conservative getting the Emmanuel Goldstein treatment is John Bolton, Bush's nominee to be ambassador to the United Nations. The charge against Bolton consists of the allegation that he is an absolute beast to his co-workers.
Have the Democrats heard about Katie Couric? As the New York Times described it last week: "America's girl next door has morphed into the mercurial diva down the hall. At the first sound of her peremptory voice and clickety stiletto heels, people dart behind doors and douse the lights." (Funny, I do the same thing when I'm watching the "Today" show at home by myself.)
Things have gotten so bad at "Today," sometimes they show that videotape of Katie's lower bowel exam just to lighten things up.
Can't Barbara Boxer do something to protect the staff of NBC's "Today"? They're at least Americans. First they had to live through the horrors of the Bryant Gumbel years, and now this. Also, I can't be completely clear here, because somebody could get killed, but why isn't a certain lamp-throwing junior senator from New York helping them out? Oh wait – I think I know why ...
I repeat: Bolton has been nominated to be ambassador to the United Nations. It's not like it's an important job. Get a grip, people! He's not replacing Paula Abdul on "American Idol."
The U.N. is an organization with thousands of people from all over the world with one thing in common: They badly need to be yelled at, preferably by a guy who looks like Wilford Brimley. When did collegiality with representatives from North Korea and Syria become a pressing national issue?
Why just imagine if Bolton raised his voice in front of Sudan's ambassador, or (gasp!) Burma's! I mean, Myanmar's! (Sorry, military junta that runs Myanmar!)
Democrats are enflamed at the idea of Bolton mistreating representatives of slave-traders and dictators, but won't lift a finger to help the staff of "Today." We used to be a country that cared about ratings genocide.
The only silver lining to the Democrats' efforts to kill Bolton's nomination is that if they succeed, Bush could nominate Ronald Reagan's ambassador to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council instead. (Alan Keyes!) Maybe then we could finally get on with the important work of quitting the U.N. and kicking them out of New York. Isn't it somebody else's turn to host those guys yet?
However, you need to provide reference for the younger generation.
This might be her best yet. Democrats can't be precise because they run a perception machine...even if they could be precise they won't be because it would mean they need to be precise the next time as well.
We must defend Boton & Delay to the last. We must not yield on inch. The libs are demanding we sacrifice our leaders. To do so would be appeasement of the rankest sort.
All who turn their backs on Bolton and Delay must be ousted from office.
I purged mine on the advice of my military recruiter in 1977.
You would not believe what my kindergarden teacher said about me behind my parents back...
There are district level maintained and "confidential records" of your K-12 years you just might want to purge upon attaining legal age status.
For S&Gs, request them now from your old school district.
ROTFLMAO!
They are trying to turn him into Newt Gingrich...at least the Newt Gingrich that the leftist MSM created and made into a boogieman.
Well worth tuning in again. I am content for today.
She sliced and diced what needed to be sliced and diced.
I think Ann Coulter has shown the best way to deal with the leftie loonies. Once you are safe, laugh at them and ridicule them. That gets their goat even more!
Ann has been prominently featured on my "about" page for ever since I made it four years or so ago. She seldom misses the target when she writes.
I'm gonna take a peek at it right now, AFPhys. :-)
BTTT
Oh, Ann, thank you as usual.
You should have been named "Hope" because you bring more of it to us than anyone else does.
i agree, Ann! Another dead-right-on article from the master :o) We LOVE ANN COULTER!
Fully appreciate your tagline.
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