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Top GOP leaders botched the Foley scandal
UnionLeader.com ^ | October 5, 2006 | Robert Novak

Posted on 10/04/2006 9:26:33 PM PDT by tennmountainman

AFTER IT WAS learned that Rep. Mark Foley had dispatched an inappropriate e-mail message to a 16-year-old male former page, the House Republican leadership was still urging him to seek re-election from his Florida district. He agreed. It was a success that surely will cost the Republicans Foley's seat in Congress and perhaps control of the House for the first time since the 1994 election.

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To: tennmountainman

Let's see...I am in the San Jose area.
Mike Honda is up for reelection. I do not know his opponent.
That is how effective the republican party is in this area.

So, I will not vote or will vote for Mike Honda because of
Foley?

I do not think so. I will vote for the janitor running against Honda. My vote has not changed.

EOM!


41 posted on 10/04/2006 10:23:34 PM PDT by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
I seriously doubt the Foley scandal is going to seriously affect any race outside of his district. Because a voter is repelled by Foley's shenanigans doesn't mean that they will abruptly abandon the GOP and embrace the party of gay marriage and abortion.

Wouldnt be so sure. A bunch of whacko "Values" voters are talking about sitting out the election. That would make a difference in tight races. Right now I think we are going to lose 25-30 seats. The entire GOP leadership is at each others throats and no effective leadership is being offered. A number of candidates are forgoing having Hastert campaign or raise funds for them until this thing clears up. EVeryone's time and effort is going into damage control and no one is talking about our issues. Immigration was the big issue of the year and all congress could do was order a 700 mile fence to cover 2100 mile border. Reminds me of '94.

42 posted on 10/04/2006 10:38:40 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: tennmountainman

You mean registered Democrat Novak?

How about we discuss the FACTS. Foley is a bad guy. He was forced to resign by Republicans. He is being investigated and may end up in jail. However, Democrats sat on the information for almost a year that could of gotten Foley delt with MUCH earlier because they felt it was MORE important to use it as a cheap campaign stunt. Meanwhile, 56 Democrat Congress critters face ethics or ciminal investigation and NOT ONE of themse has been required to do ANYTHING by their party leadership. NOT ONE.

This Foley crap is nothing but nonsense and noise. He resigned. He is under investigation. He will be prosecuted. Meanwhile the REAL important stuff is not being talked about so the Junk Media drama queens can hyperventilate about a complete NON issue and divert attention off the Democrats complete lack of anything that even looks like a sane idea of a plan for our future.

You tax bill, the War on Terrorism, the Border, your kids future, NSA bill pending in front of Congress, Judges, Spending, Jobs and the Economy, ALL the real issues that the next Congress will have to deal with will STILL be here and need a resolution a month from now when NO one even remembers Foley's name.


43 posted on 10/04/2006 10:40:06 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: gb63
The original emailed page was not 16 and had already left the job. The emails are just unwise in wording. Meanwhile, according to Drudge and others, the "kid" who got the IMs may have been over 18. The story is blowing up fast.

There were two other pages interviewed on TV last night. Foley had talked sex with both of them as well almost from the beginning. Others were quoted as having been informally warned about Foley as long ago as '98. I dont think this story is blowing up in the way you seem to think it is.

44 posted on 10/04/2006 10:42:20 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: MNJohnnie
You tax bill, the War on Terrorism, the Border, your kids future, NSA bill pending in front of Congress, Judges, Spending, Jobs and the Economy, ALL the real issues that the next Congress will have to deal with will STILL be here and need a resolution a month from now when NO one even remembers Foley's name.

True but at the rate things are going no one will be talking about those issues between now and the election. You hardly seem them even mentioned here on FR. Its all about how the Dems did this or that to make Hastert look bad.

45 posted on 10/04/2006 10:46:37 PM PDT by Dave S
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To: LibLieSlayer

Yeah!!! Excellent post!


46 posted on 10/04/2006 10:48:58 PM PDT by Howlin (Release the Joe Wilson Niger Report!!!!)
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To: NaughtiusMaximus
I seriously doubt the Foley scandal is going to seriously affect any race outside of his district.

Come on... elections are effected by the rain. You don't think a week of the press screaming 'REPUBLICAN... PEDOPHILE.. LEADERSHIP... KNEW...' isn't going to effect voters?

The GOP will need to balance it with a week worth of press bashing with the new information that the 'page' was 18.. and ABC had the info for over 6 months without properly checking it.

47 posted on 10/04/2006 10:50:49 PM PDT by sten
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To: Mr Ramsbotham
Don't be surprised if within the next few days all of this is forgotten as the Dems and their hacks in the media trot out some new set of allegations.

They're going to have to accuse somebody of M U R D E R to get the MSM's attention off this one.

48 posted on 10/04/2006 10:52:24 PM PDT by Howlin (Release the Joe Wilson Niger Report!!!!)
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To: Mad_Tom_Rackham
Personally, I think it would be helpful if all of the debauchery and corruption in the congress were well known to the electorate.

Why stop at Congress? How about the press, too?

49 posted on 10/04/2006 10:53:18 PM PDT by Howlin (Release the Joe Wilson Niger Report!!!!)
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To: YdontUleaveLibs

I'm not saying anyone, except Foley, has done anything wrong in the present case (and I have no opinion on whether what he did was criminal -- but it was certainly wrong. I have the old-fashioned idea that Congressmen ought to aspire to a level of citizenship higher than "technically not felonious.")

I think that many Republicans will use the Foley case to excuse the Party's poor performance in these elections, when it was coming before Foley got outed anyway. Most districts are not competitive -- but in many which are the Republicans are getting their heads handed to them. Good, competitive candidates like Diana Irey and Mark Kennedy are being starved of resources. Instead the committees threw fortunes into the primaries, to promote internecine fighting among Republicans (and, oddly enough, in every case in support of the more liberal candidate).

It think it's less a conservative/liberal thing, than the committees only wanting to help candidates who will be sure to play the inside game in DC. There is very little daylight between Dems and Reps on most issues. Both of them always go for the federal government and against the individual citizen.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F


50 posted on 10/04/2006 10:54:44 PM PDT by Criminal Number 18F (Build more lampposts... we've got plenty of traitors.)
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To: Dave S
A bunch of whacko "Values" voters are talking about sitting out the election.

Republicans? Tell me it's not that same group of Unappeasables.

51 posted on 10/04/2006 10:55:53 PM PDT by Howlin (Release the Joe Wilson Niger Report!!!!)
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To: Criminal Number 18F

It has been one of the intresting things to observe watching Washington DC in action.

It occured to me last week that the US political scene is as much DC Establishment vrs the American People as it is Republican vrs Democrat.

Just because we won in 2000, many of US Conservative have forgotten that the DC Establishment is still our blood enemy. Politics is not just Democrat vrs Republican, it is also largely a battle of the DC Establishment vrs the American people.

That best indication of that divide is John McCain and the RINO Senators. EVEN when the President is totally right, they always find a way to straddle the issue. To try and be on both sides of the issue to avoid being seen as supporting the President. That is why you hear all the rage on the Left that "the Republican Senate sold us out" to Bush over the Detainee bill . To many people in the DC Establishment it is not so much Republicans vrs Democrats but Old Boy Washington vrs the Hick Newcomers. Observing how most long term Republican politicians act these days make it pretty clear some Republican politicians and operatives are running scared of the DC Political-Media Complex.

They just cannot seem to grasp that Talk Radio, the 'Net and Cable TV News is destroying their cozy little Information monopoly. They cannot seem to grasp that they can no longer be one type of politician in DC and a different one back home in Red State America. Now days people KNOW what Pols did almost as fast the Pols do it. There are no more media gatekeeper to make sure what happens in DC stays in DC


52 posted on 10/04/2006 10:59:13 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: Dave S
Then lets do something about it. Instead of letting the Leftist Noise machine run us, lets run the noise machine. We have our own media now, we do not have to fixate on the garage the Democrat media pumps out like this The President signed the Fence Bill today. The Dow closed at 11850 setting a new all time high and set the bigest closing high ever. People are all ready pretty sick of this Foley crap. Like the coverage of Iraq and Afganistan, Stem Cells, Bush National Guard, Abu Graibe, 0911 Circus Commission, what amounted to about $1 Billion in Free Kerry ads by cheerleader "Journalists" etc etc etc. The Democrat Noise machine grinds away and the American people seem to just go their own way despite the Junk Medias best pro Democrat spin efforts.
53 posted on 10/04/2006 11:04:28 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: Dave S
Reminds me of '94.

This is what happens when "Conservatives" spend way too much time on the Junk Media. Hate to burst the Grim Freepers bubble but the top 10 Conservative Talk Radio hosts talk to way more people ever day the all the Junk Media nightly news broadcasts. Old Conservatives problem is they still do not seem to grasp how the New Media has shattered the Junk Media's gatekeeper hold on information. Heck, if all you listen to is the junk media in 2002 you were convinced the Democrats would hold the Senate and win the House and in 2004 the it was going to be President John Kerry. Listening to the modern US "News" media is the equivalent of tuning into Radio Berlin in 1943 to see how the Allies War effort is going. The Grim Freepers should simply turn it off. Their view of politics is obviously way too influenced by it.

54 posted on 10/04/2006 11:11:06 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: Dave S
Could you please provide your source about the "whacko" "Values" voters?

You miss the story the "wacko" "Values" voters did not cause this mess, so maybe you could point your accusing finger at the people responsible, say like Foley and his circle of friends as well as the liberals who NOW say the Republican leadership should have had a sex patrol following Foley.

I am not staying home I will vote but believe you me your surly misguided comment sure makes me want to reconsider.
55 posted on 10/04/2006 11:13:34 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: Criminal Number 18F
56 Congressional Democrats, including powerhouses Harry Reid, Byron Dorgon and John Murtha are facing serious ethics or criminal investigation. NONE of them have forced to resigned or been removed from important Congressional assignments by their leadership

3 Senior Republicans have been required to resign due to ethics failings.

If the integrity of the Leaders of your country is the fundamental issue for you, pretty clear WHICH side of the divide you should be on Nov 7th.
56 posted on 10/04/2006 11:14:58 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: no dems
Big mistake on your part for posting this. I haven't read the comments yet but I'm sure the Pubbie bots who put party above morality and everything else will crucify you for posting this thread.

Better Freeper Pubbie bots then then fake "Conservative" 'Rat bots

56 Congressional Democrats, including powerhouses Harry Reid, Byron Dorgon and John Murtha are facing serious ethics or criminal investigation. NONE of them have forced to resigned or been removed from important Congressional assignments by their leadership 3 Senior Republicans have been required to resign due to ethics failings. If the integrity of the Leaders of your country is the fundamental issue for you, pretty clear WHICH side of the divide you should be on Nov 7th. Oh but that right. Conservative should just throw away all the accomplishments on the list below. Don't pay any attention to how Democrats are 100% against everything you belive in on every issue. No instead listen to those Freeper Fringers feverishly working to elect Democrats by running around Free Republic all day screaming "HATE THE GOP" propaganda talking points!

On Judges alone the GOP has done far more for people who care about Moral issues then all the screaming pseudo Conservative EVER will. HERE is a list of what Bush and the GOP have got done.

Abortion & Traditional Values

1. Banned Partial Birth Abortion — by far the most significant roll-back of abortion on demand since Roe v. Wade.
2. Reversed Clinton's move to strike Reagan's anti-abortion Mexico Policy.
> 3. By Executive Order (EO), reversed Clinton's policy of not requiring parental consent for abortions under the Medical Privacy Act.
4. By EO, prohibited federal funds for international family planning groups that provide abortions and related services.
5. Upheld the ban on abortions at military hospitals.
6. Made $33 million available for abstinence education programs in 2004.
7. Supports the Defense of Marriage Act — and a Constitutional amendment saying marriage is between one man and one woman.
8. Requires states to conduct criminal background checks on prospective foster and adoptive parents.
9. Requires districts to let students transfer out of dangerous schools.
10. Requires schools to have a zero-tolerance policy for classroom disruption (reintroducing discipline into classrooms).
11. Signed the Teacher Protection Act, which protects teachers from lawsuits related to student discipline.
12. Expanded the role of faith-based and community organizations in after-school programs.

Budget, Taxes & Economy

1. Signed two income tax cuts, one of which was the largest dollar-value tax cut in world history.
2. Supports permanent elimination of the death tax.
3. Turned around an inherited economy that was in recession, and deeply shocked as a result of the 9/11 attacks.
4. Is seeking legislation to amend the Constitution to give the president line-item veto authority.
5. In process of permanently eliminating IRS marriage penalty.
6. Increased small business incentives to expand and to hire new people.
7. Initiated discussion on privatizing Social Security and individual investment accounts.
8. Killed Clinton's "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement; rules would have shut down every home business in America.
9. Passed tough new laws to hold corporate criminals to account as a result of corporate scandals.
10. Reduced taxes on dividends and capital gains.
11. Signed trade promotion authority.
12. Reduced and is working to ultimately eliminate the estate tax for family farms and ranches.
13. Fight Europe's ban on importing biotech crops from the United States.
14. Exempt food from unilateral trade sanctions and embargoes.
15. Provided $20 million to states to help people with disabilities work from home.
16. Created a fund to encourage technologies that help the disabled.
17. Increased the annual contribution limit on Education IRA's from $500 to $2,000 per child.
18. Make permanent the $5,000 adoption tax credit and provide $1 billion over five years to increase the credit to $10,000.
19. Grant a complete tax exemption for prepaid or college tuition savings plans. 20. Reduced H1B visas from a high of 195,000 per year to 66,000 per year.

Character & Conduct as President

1. Changed the tone in the White House, restoring HONOR and DIGNITY to the presidency. \
2. Has reintroduced the mention of God and faith into public discourse.
3. Handled himself with enormous courage, dignity, grace, determination, and leadership in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 hijackings and anthrax attacks. He almost single-handedly held this country together during those searing days:

* Just three days after the attacks, in his address at the National Cathedral, the President reassured the nation when he said: "War has been waged against us by stealth and deceit and murder. This nation is peaceful, but fierce when stirred to anger. This conflict was begun on the timing and terms of others. It will end in a way, and at an hour, of our choosing."

* On Friday, September 14, 2001, President Bush visited Ground Zero. Standing on a crushed and burned fire engine atop the smoldering pile at Ground Zero, he put his arm around a retired firefighter who had volunteered to help, and began speaking to the crowd. Rescue workers shouted that they could not hear him. Someone handed him a small American flag and bullhorn. The President spontaneously shouted: "I can hear you. The rest of the world hears you. And the people who knocked these buildings down will hear all of us soon." The crowd roared with cheers and chants of "USA! USA! USA!" Then he raised that American flag and rallied a nation:

Education & Employment Training

1. Signed the No Child Left Behind Act, delivering the most dramatic education reforms in a generation (challenging the soft bigotry of low expectations). The very liberal California Teachers union is currently running radio ads against the accountability provisions of this Act.
2. Announced "Jobs for the 21st Century," a comprehensive plan to better prepare workers for jobs in the new millennium by strengthening post-secondary education and job training, and by improving high school education.
3. Is working to provide vouchers to low-income students in persistently failing schools to help with costs of attending private schools. (Blocked in the Senate.)
4. Requires annual reading and math tests in grades three through eight.
5. Requires states to participate in the National Assessment of Education Progress, or an equivalent program, to establish a national benchmark for academic performance.
6. Requires school-by-school accountability report cards.
7. Established a $2.4 billion fund to help states implement teacher accountability systems.
8. Increased funding for the Troops-to-Teachers program, which recruits former military personnel to to become teachers.

Environment & Energy

1. Killed the Kyoto Global Warming Treaty.
2. Submitted a comprehensive Energy Plan (awaits Congressional action). The plan works to develop cleaner technology, produce more natural gas here at home, make America less dependent on foreign sources of energy, improve national grid, etc.
3. Established a $10 million grant program to promote private conservation initiatives.
4. Significantly eased field-testing controls of genetically engineered crops.
5. Changed parts of the Forestry Management Act to allow necessary cleanup of the national forests in order to reduce fire danger.
6. Part of national forests cleanup: Restricted judicial challenges (based on the Endangered Species Act and other challenges), and removed the need for an Environmental Impact Statement before removing fuels/logging to reduce fire danger.
7. Killed Clinton's CO2 rules that were choking off all of the electricity surplus to California.
8. Provided matching grants for state programs that help private landowners protect rare species.

Defense & Foreign Policy

1. Successfully executed two wars in the aftermath of 9/11/01: Afghanistan and Iraq. 50 million people who had lived under tyrannical regimes now live in freedom.
2. Saddam Hussein is now in prison. His two murderous sons are dead. All but a handful of the regime's senior members were killed or captured.
3. Leader by leader and member by member, al Qaida is being hunted down in dozens of countries around the world. Of the senior al Qaida leaders, operational managers, and key facilitators the U.S. Government has been tracking, nearly two-thirds have been taken into custody or killed. The detentions or deaths of senior al Qaida leaders, including Khalid Shaykh Muhammad, the mastermind of 9/11, and Muhammad Atef, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command until his death in late 2001, have been important in the War on Terror.
4. Disarmed Libya of its chemical, nuclear and biological WMD's without bribes or bloodshed.
5. Continues to execute the War On Terror, getting worldwide cooperation to track funds/terrorists. Has cut off much of the terrorists' funding, and captured or killed many key leaders of the al Qaeda network.
6. Initiated a comprehensive review of our military, which was completed just prior to 9/11/01, and which accurately reported that ASYMMETRICAL WARFARE capabilities were critical in the 21st Century.
7. Killed the old US/Soviet Union ABM Treaty that was preventing the U.S. from deploying our ABM defenses.
8. Has been one of the strongest, if not THE strongest friend Israel has ever hand in the U.S. presidency.
9. Part of the coalition for an Israeli/Palestinian "Roadmap to Peace," along with Great Britain, Russia and the EU.
10. Pushed through THREE raises for our military. Increased military pay by more than $1 billion a year.
11. Signed the LARGEST nuclear arms reduction in world history with Russia.
12. Started withdrawing our troops from Bosnia, and has announced withdrawal of our troops from Germany and the Korean DMZ.
13. Prohibited putting U.S. troops under U.N. command.
14. Paid back UN dues only in return for reforms and reduction of U.S. share of the costs.
15. Earmarked at least 20 percent of the Defense procurement budget for next-generation weaponry.
16. Increased defense research and development spending by at least $20 billion from fiscal 2002 to 2006.
17. Ordered a comprehensive review of military weapons and strategy.
18. Ordered a review of overseas deployments.
19. Ordered renovation of military housing. The military has already upgraded about 10 percent of its inventory and expects to modernize 76,000 additional homes this year.
20. Is working to tighten restrictions on military-technology exports. 21. Brought back our EP-3 intel plane and crew from China without any bribes or bloodshed.
21. Pushed thru Congress the 1st Military Death benefit raise in decades. Rasied the grant for survivors of military personal killed in the line of duty from a pitful $10,000 to over $100,000. Globalization & Internationalism

1. Challenged the United Nations to live up to their responsibilities and not become another League of Nations (in other words, showed the UN to be completely irrelevant).
2. Killed U.S. involvement in the International Criminal Court.
3. Told the United Nations we weren't interested in their plans for gun control (i.e., the International Ban on Small Arms Trafficking Treaty).
* 4. The only President since the founding of the UN to essentially tell that organization it is irrelevant. He said: "The conduct of the Iraqi regime is a threat to the authority of the United Nations, and a threat to peace. Iraq has answered a decade of UN demands with a decade of defiance. All the world now faces a test, and the United Nations a difficult and defining moment. Are Security Council resolutions to be honored and enforced, or cast aside without consequence? Will the United Nations serve the purpose of its founding, or will it be irrelevant?" We all know the outcome and the answer.
5. Told the Congress and the world, "America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country."

Government Reform

1. Improved government efficiency by putting hundreds of thousands of jobs put up for bid. This weakens public-sector unions and cuts undeserved pay raises.
2. Initiated review of all federal agencies with the goal of eliminating federal jobs (completed September 2003) in an effort to reduce the size of the federal government while increasing private sector jobs.
3. Led the most extensive reorganization the Federal bureaucracy in over 50 years: After 9/11, condensed 20+ overlapping agencies and their intelligence sectors into one agency, the Department of Homeland Security.
* 4. Ordered each agency to draft a five-year plan to restructure itself, with fewer managers.
5. Converted federal service contracts to performance-based contracts wherever possible so that the contractor has measurable performance goals.

Health

1. Strengthen the National Health Service Corps to put more physicians in the neediest areas, and make its scholarship funds tax-free.
2. Double the research budget of the National Institutes of Health.
3. Signed Medicare Reform, which includes: * A 10-year privatization option. * Prescription drug benefits: Prior to this reform, Medicare paid for extended hospital stays for ulcer surgery, for example, at a cost of about $28,000 per patient. Yet Medicare would not pay for the drugs that eliminate the cause of most ulcers, drugs that cost about $500 a year. Now, drug coverage under Medicare will allow seniors to replace more expensive surgeries and hospitalizations with less expensive prescription medicine. * More health care choices: As President Bush stated, "…when seniors have the ability to make choices, health care plans within Medicare will have to compete for their business by offering higher quality service [at lower cost]. For the seniors of America, more choices and more control will mean better health care. These are the kinds of health care options we give to the members of Congress and federal employees. What's good for members of Congress is also good for seniors.
* New Health Savings Accounts: Effective January 1, 2004, Americans can set aside up to $4,500 every year, tax free, to save for medical expenses. Depending on your tax bracket, that means you'll save between 10 to 35 percent on any costs covered by money in your account. Every year, the money not spent would stay in the account and gain interest tax-free, just like an IRA. These accounts will be good for small business owners, and employees. More businesses can focus on covering workers for major medical problems, such as hospitalization for an injury or illness. At the same time, employees and their families will use these accounts to cover doctors visits, or lab tests, or other smaller costs. Some employers will contribute to employee health accounts. This will help more American families get the health care they need at the price they can afford.

Homeland Security, Border Enforcement & Immigration

1. *See Government Reform above. Under President Bush's leadership, America has made an unprecedented commitment to homeland security.
2. Has CONSTRUCTION in process on the first 10 ABM silos in Alaska so that America will have a defense against North Korean nukes. Has ordered national and theater ballistic missile defenses to be deployed by 2004.
3. Announced a 9.7% increase in government-wide homeland security funding in his FY 2005 budget, nearly tripling the FY 2001 levels (excluding the Department of Defense and Project BioShield).
4. Before DHS was created, there were inspectors from three different agencies of the Federal Government and Border Patrol officers protecting our borders. Through DHS, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) now consolidates all border activities into a single agency to create "one face at the border." This not only better secures the borders of the United States, but it also eliminates many of the inefficiencies that occurred under the old system. With over 18,000 CBP inspectors and 11,000 Border Patrol agents, CBP has 29,000 uniformed officers on our borders.
5. The Border Patrol is continuing installation of monitoring devices along the borders to detect illegal activity.
6. Launched Operation Tarmac to investigate businesses and workers in the secure areas of domestic airports and ensure immigration law compliance. Since 9/11, DHS has audited 3,640 businesses, examined 259,037 employee records, arrested 1,030 unauthorized workers, and participated in the criminal indictment of 774 individuals.
7. Since September 11, 2001, the Coast Guard has conducted more than 124,000 port security patrols, 13,000 air patrols, boarded more than 92,000 vessels, interdicted over 14,000 individuals attempting to enter the United States illegally, and created and maintained more than 90 Maritime Security Zones.
8. Announced the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), an internet-based system that is improving America's ability to track and monitor foreign students and exchange visitors. Over 870,000 students are registered in SEVIS. Of 285 completed field investigations, 71 aliens were arrested.
9. This week, the US-VISIT program began to digitally collect biometric identifiers to record the entry and exit of aliens who travel into the U.S on a visa. Together with the standard information, this new program will confirm compliance with visa and immigration policies.
10. Eliminated INS bureaucratic redundancies and lack of accountability. 11. Split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two agencies: one to protect the border and interior, the other to deal with naturalization.
12. Signed the workplace verification bill to prevent hiring of illegal aliens.
13. Established a six-month deadline for processing immigration applications.
14. Information regarding nearly 100% of all containerized cargo is carefully screened by DHS before it arrives in the United States. Higher risk shipments are physically inspected for terrorist weapons and contraband prior to being released from the port of entry. Advanced technologies are being deployed to identify warning signs of chemical, biological, or radiological attacks. Since September 11, 2001, hundreds of thousands of first responders across America have been trained to recognize and respond to the effects of a WMD attack.

Judiciary & Tort Reform

1. Is urging federal liability reform to eliminate frivolous lawsuits.
2. Killed the liberal ABA's unconstitutional role in vetting federal judges. The Senate is supposed to advise and consent, not the ABA.
3. Is nominating strong, conservative judges to the judiciary.
4. Supports class action reform bill which limits lawyer fees so that more settlement money goes to victims.

Politics


1. His leadership resulted in Republican gains in the House and Senate, solidifying Republican control of both houses of Congress and the presidency.

2. Signed an EO enforcing the Supreme Court's Beck decision regarding union dues being used for political campaigns against individual's wishes.


3.Has prosecuted 527 corrupt Union bosses in an effort to reform the rampant corruption in the Labor Unions.

Second Amendment


1. Ordered Attorney General Ashcroft to formally notify the Supreme Court that the OFFICIAL U.S. government position on the 2nd Amendment is that it supports INDIVIDUAL rights to own firearms, and is NOT a Leftist-imagined "collective" right.
2. Signed TWO bills into law that arm our pilots with handguns in the cockpit.
3. Currently pushing for full immunity from lawsuits for our national gun manufacturers. 4. *See Globalization & Internationalism.

Traditional Values, Compassion & Volunteerism

1. Endorses and promotes "The Responsibility Era." President Bush often speaks of the necessity of personal responsibility and civic volunteerism. He said, "In a compassionate society, people respect one another and take responsibility for the decisions they make in life. My hope is to change the culture from one that has said, if it feels good, do it; if you've got a problem, blame somebody else — to one in which every single American understands that he or she is responsible for the decisions that you make; you're responsible for loving your children with all your heart and all your soul; you're responsible for being involved with the quality of the education of your children; you're responsible for making sure the community in which you live is safe; you're responsible for loving your neighbor, just like you would like to be loved yourself."
2. Started the USA Freedom Corps, the most comprehensive clearinghouse of volunteer opportunities ever offered. For the first time in history, Americans can enter geographic information about where they want to get involved, such as state or zip code, as well as areas of interest ranging from education to the environment, and they can access volunteer opportunities offered by more than 50,000 organizations across the country and around the world.
3. Established the The White House Office and the Centers for the Faith-Based and Community Initiative — located in seven Federal agencies. The faith-based initiative supports the essential work of these important organizations. The goal is to make sure that grassroots leaders can compete on an equal footing for federal dollars, receive greater private support, and face fewer bureaucratic barriers. Work focuses on at-risk youth, ex-offenders, the homeless and hungry, substance abusers, those with HIV/AIDS, and welfare-to-work families.
4. The White House released a guidebook fully describing the Administration's belief that faith-based groups have a Constitutionally-protected right to maintain their religious identity through hiring — even when Federal funds are involved.
5. Issued an EO implementing the Supreme Court's Olmstead ruling, which requires moving disabled people from institutions to community-based facilities when possible.
6. Increased funding for low-interest loan programs to help people with disabilities purchase devices to assist them.
7. Revised the Department of Housing and Urban Development's Section 8 rent subsidies to disabled people, permitting them to use up to a year's worth of vouchers to finance down payments on homes. HUD has started pilot programs in 11 states.
8. Committed US funds to purchase medicine for millions of men, women and children now suffering with AIDS in Africa.
9. Heeding the words of our own Declaration of Independence, the president laid out the non-negotiable demands of human dignity for all people everywhere. On January 29, 2002, he said, "No nation owns these aspirations, and no nation is exempt from them. We have no intention of imposing our culture. But America will always stand firm for the non-negotiable demands of human dignity." As stated by the President, they are a virtual manifesto of conservative principles:

* Equal Justice
* Freedom of Speech
* Limited Government Power
* Private Property Rights
* Religious Tolerance
* Respect for Women
* Rule of Law List authored by Freeper Southack

57 posted on 10/04/2006 11:30:22 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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To: tennmountainman
Scandal, scandal, scandal! "They botched the scandal!!" I'm sick of the drive-by mentality. This pointing fingers at the leadership. Of course Hastert and company are flailing -- this is now an unbearable awkward situation.

What happened? There was some odd behavior by one member, and they should have dropped everything and given all their attention to it??

58 posted on 10/04/2006 11:30:59 PM PDT by NutCrackerBoy
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To: Criminal Number 18F

Bravo


59 posted on 10/04/2006 11:32:52 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: no dems
Yeah, it would be a real Conservative and moral thing to vote to enact this.

The Democrat Party's 2006 Contract on America

Raise Taxes.

Unconditionally Surrender the War on Terror.

Create programs to appease North Korea and Iran by actively aiding them in developing nuclear weapons.

Double federal spending from it all ready grotesquely too high level in the name of "Security".

Repeal the Fence bill, the Detainee bill The NSA Bill and the Patriot Act

Pass a REAL total Illegals Amnesty

Release all the Terrorists from Gitmo

Legalize Gay Marriage

Provide mass Federal Funding to Stem Cells, Global Warming and other junk science Socialists propaganda

Create a new massive useless Federal Bureaucracy, on the lines of NASA, dedicated to crating hundreds of billions of dollars in pork barrel spending opportunities in the name of "USA Energy Independence"

Reinstall the Federal Regulator burden dismantled since Ronald Reagan stated dismantling the mess in 1981.

Create a National Socialized single payer "health care" plan modeled on Cuba's system

Reimplemented the Fairness Doctrine to destroy talk radio

Pass a new Campaign Finance Law to eliminate any opportunity of Democrats ever losing Congress again.

Make Abortion on Demand for any female at any time no matter how young. Pass Federal Legislation to undo the gains the Pro Life movement has made at the State level since 2000

Pass new "Voters Rights" legislation that will made wide spread Voter fraud even easier then the 1993 Motor Voter laws did.

Block anything the President trys to do no matter what it is.

The Democrats have been very clear what their agenda is. Too bad Conservatives are too busy screaming endlessly at their own side to wake up to the coming disaster.

60 posted on 10/04/2006 11:43:30 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Say Leftists. How many Nazis did killing Nazis in WW2 create? or Samurai? or Fascists?)
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