Media declared the Prez lame duck and he can't push his agenda with his "sinking" polls. Dems and even some repubs want to believe that. MSM expressed doubts about Hayden's confirmation.
I believe we are on our way to a major Constitutional confrontation on Fourth Amendment guarantees of unreasonable search and seizure. I think this is also going to present a growing impediment to the confirmation of General Hayden - Dianne Feinstein
The Committee must finally take the steps necessary to fix an intelligence system that has broken on President Bush's watch, including not only determining if General Hayden is the right man for the job ahead, but also completing its investigation into the Administration's misuse of Iraq intelligence. - Harry Reid
Earlier this year General Hayden appeared before the Press Club where he said of the program: 'the intrusion into privacy is also limited: only international calls.' . . . It is hard to see however--if the leaks about this program are accurate -- how the only intrusions into Americans' privacy are related to international phone calls as General Hayden said at the National Press Club. - Carl Levin
All the above three dems ended voting for his confirmation.
General Hayden was brought into National Security arena by President Clinton - Greg Kelly kept repeating it on Fox multiple times. Funny, he didn't mention that Hillary Clinton voted against his confirmation.
Feds cut off phone tax after 108 years -> Treasury Department will no longer collect a 3% federal excise tax on long-distance calls and would refund about $15 billion to taxpayers.
Senate confirmed the other following nominations:
Brett M. Kavanaugh (staff secretary to President Bush and onetime aide to Kenneth W. Starr) to a seat on the federal appeals court.
R. David Paulison on Friday as director of FEMA.
Dirk Kempthorne of Idaho was approved for interior secretary.
Robert J. Portman as director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Robert McDowell as New FCC Commissioner (giving the agency a Republican majority)
Congress also voted against Flag-burning & against protesting before military funerals (which Prez will sign tomorow).
LOLOLOL. I don't miss much of the nonsense coming out of Harry Reid's mouth, but that one did get by me. Thank you for the hearty laugh.
Thanks anita,
More to add and President Bush is NOT a lame duck by any definition I can think of. There is still a lot to do and he's going to keep working on it until he leaves office.
Contrary to what the media is saying (the sky is falling, the sky is falling), I believe Republicans will gain seats in both the House and Senate. As people learn what Democrats stand for, and what they don't stand for, it's going to be another win for our side.
First, let me assure that Gen Hayden was NOT brought onto the national intelligence scene by Bill Clinton. What a crock! Gen Hayden has been, dig this, an intelligence officer since the Vietnam war!!!! It's kinda hard for a dope-smoking-but-not-inhaling, fleeing-the-country-to-avoid-the-draft-and-his-national-gaurd-obligations nobody to bring anyone into the national security arena!
BTW, I worked for Gen Hayden at one point. A very intelligent man with vision. While he got his star under the earliest days of the Clinton admin, he really got this rank (BGen) due to an appointment/assignment to an O-8 billet by President George HW Bush.
If you put these three so-called leaders up there to scrutinize you can clearly see that their staff members are doing the writing of their statements. It is too bad for them that they just do not have the staff members read them also. They are not aging well like Strom Thurmond, they seem very confused and keep changing their minds like it is different staff people every day trying to keep up with the psychotic behavior of the Donkey Party. I believe the Democrat Party is becoming more schizophrenic every day, and there is nothing verbally vicious that is off the table for them. They think they are close to victory and that makes them more nutty because they think people will listen to their vicious rhetoric and not be turned off by it. They are delusional, and it is good that they keep thinking that way.