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Bush: I Am Not A Crook January 26, 2006 Email this Print this Blog this Washington, DC - At today's news conference, President Bush was asked whether his explanation about his domestic spying program was comparable to President Nixon's assertion that, "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." This quote from President Nixon in 1977 first resurfaced in a Democratic National Committee web video that was released on January 6, 2006. "Democrats believe that we should spy on terrorists and aggressively fight the War on Terror," said Democratic National Committee Press Secretary Josh Earnest. "We...

Dear Senators, The Senate must reject President Bush's attempt to reward right-wing special interests by nominating Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court of the United States. Alito's record as an ideological activist would make his confirmation a threat to civil rights protections, reproductive and privacy rights, environmental protections, religious liberty, and laws safeguarding workers. I urge you to vote not to confirm Samuel Alito to a lifetime position on the Supreme Court of the United States.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) took its campaign equating factory-farm animals to Holocaust victims to the streets of Los Angeles this week with a protest in front of the Simon Wiesenthal Center Tuesday at noon (see story on page 12). The protest speaks to PETA’s well-earned reputation for disordered priorities and its utter lack of sensitivity in promoting its cause, whatever the merits of that cause are. For the record, I am all for treating animals ethically and humanely. But PETA’s exploitative campaign that expropriates photographs of starving victims of the Holocaust in Nazi concentration camps and...

NANCY PELOSI, the Democratic leader in the House, sounded like an Old Testament prophet recently when she denounced the Republican budget for its "injustice and immorality" and urged her colleagues to cast their no votes "as an act of worship" during this religious season. This, apparently, is what the Democrats had in mind when they vowed after President Bush's re-election to reclaim religious voters for their party. In the House, they set up a Democratic Faith Working Group. Senator Harry Reid, the minority leader, created a Web site called Word to the Faithful. And Democratic officials began holding conferences with...

You may or may not believe in Santa Claus, but we suspect you don't think it was Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer who delivered that 8.7% rise in holiday sales over last year, as reported this week by MasterCard. Though the economy has grown steadily through the year, the Democrats have tried to throw soot on the growth story by constantly saying that median incomes are falling. Judging by these holiday sales, somebody must have money. We suspect it is not possible for "the rich" by themselves to cause sales of flat-screen TVs, laptop computers, digital cameras and other electronics to...

by Mark Finkelstein December 26, 2005 - 19:37 Anyone who thought Hardball with Chris Matthews couldn't get any more antagonistic to the Bush administration should have checked out the show with Norah O'Donnell substituting tonight. Not that Matthews is exactly Mr. Fair & Balanced, but Norah didn't even bother to nod in the direction of even-handedness. Her first panel, comprised of two lawyers, were in to discuss the Plame matter. Both fell over each other in agreeing that it was absolutely inescapable that Karl Rove would be indicted. Even that wasn't quite enough to satisfy Norah, as she avidly inquired...

'Leaky' Leahy Leads Push for Spy Probe Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy is leading the push by Senate Democrats to investigate the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance operation, saying over the weekend that the probe should be expanded to include allegations that the National Security Agency gained access to some of the country's main telephone arteries. "As far as Congressional investigations are concerned," Leahy told the New York Times on Christmas Day, "these new revelations can only multiply and intensify the growing list of questions and concerns about the warrantless surveillance of Americans." The Vermont Democrat's aggressive posture comes despite his own...

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney has called for "strong and robust" presidential powers, saying executive authority was eroded during the Watergate and Vietnam eras. Some lawmakers objected that President Bush's decision to spy on Americans to foil terrorists showed he was flexing more muscle than the Constitution allows. At the same time, a Michigan congressman called for an impeachment inquiry. The revelations of Bush's four-year-old order approving domestic surveillance without court warrants has spurred a fiery debate over the balance of power between the White House, Congress and the judiciary. "I believe in a strong, robust executive authority and...

Mark Finkelstein December 20, 2005 - 19:40 Chris Matthews might be off tonight, but with Andrea Mitchell sitting in, the hysterical anti-Bush beat goes on at Hardball. Mitchell interviewed a panel in which far-left Jonathan Alter was 'balanced' by the politically-androgynous David Gergen. When Alter surmised that the impeachment of President Bush is a real possibility in light of the NSA surveillance matter, Mitchell, rather than bursting into laughter, asked Gergen with a straight face: "Are we headed toward a constitutional crisis?" Gergen didn't seem to think so, but, ever the suck-up, later bent over backwards to congratulate Alter on...

The whole Wilson-Plame-Libby case is much more of interest to political insiders and groupies than to most of us except for one thing – it was and is part of the essential hard-left Democrat strategy for the attempted impeachment of President Bush. Now, thankfully, with both the President and the Vice President fighting back on the other front, the ridiculous charge that Bush lied, the whole strategy seems to be going up in flames. I wrote a week ago that the Libby case was an abomination and only served to warn us never to give any information to an FBI...

November 18, 2005 Will Democratic Charges That Bush 'Lied' Lead To His Impeachment? By Mort Kondracke The 2006 election is shaping up to be a bitterly fought referendum on President Bush - to the point where, if Democrats win, they just might impeach him. The "I-word" so far is mainly tossed around in the left-wing blogosphere: Barbra Streisand is calling for impeachment on her Web site, for example, as is an unofficial "progressive" site called Democrats.com. But Democratic accusations that Bush lied to get the United States into the Iraq war would seem to lead logically to demands for his...

In a sequence just too smooth to be coincidence, each of the late afternoon news shows had at least one Democratic Moonbat on hand to applaud Reid's Senate coup of earlier in the day and to restate every wretched lie the Moonbats have been reciting since last November. Bush lied. No WMDs. Known faulty intel. Bush lied troops died. We are losing in Iraq. Libby lied. Most corrupt White House since Andrew Johnson. Bush dodged military service. Cheney lied. More indictments are coming from Fitzgerald. Bush and Cheney eat live kittens in the White House. Haliburton has a secret pill...

ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- The Senate Democratic leader said Sunday that presidential adviser Karl Rove should resign because of his role in exposing an undercover CIA officer, and a veteran Republican senator said President Bush needs "new blood" in his White House. Rove has not been charged, but he continues to be investigated in the CIA leaks case that brought the indictment and resignation Friday of I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, an adviser to Bush and the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney. Prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald has not made a decision on whether Rove gave false testimony during his four...

Dear xxxxxx, Worried about the future of Virginia and our nation? Fed up with the steady stream of stories about misplaced priorities and corruption coming out of Washington? Looking for a way to get your voice heard? Now is your chance. Democrat Tim Kaine, your candidate for Governor, and Democrats all across the state like Leslie Byrne and Creigh Deeds need your help. The election is just three weeks away. Virginia Democrats have put their faith in a positive vision, and now you have captured the momentum. This is no time to be sitting on the sidelines. For the next...

Democrats have discovered the tool which they believe will finally wrest control of both Congress and the White House from GOP hands in the next few years - and they may very well turn out to be right. Scandalmongering. Just a few short years ago, Dems were complaining about the politics of personal destruction, with friendly pollsters reminding at regular intervals that the public was suffering from "scandal fatigue." But Democrats and their media friends are fatigued no longer. With Tom DeLay forced to step down over bogus charges of "money laundering," Bill Frist under investigation for the sale of...

THE PLOT AGAINST TOM DeLAYWhat Did Shadow Party Operative Robert Borosage Know, and When Did He Know It? We all know that Tom DeLay is being framed (and, if you don't know, you can start your remedial education by reading this post by NRO blogger Stephen Spruiell and this one by Captain Ed; you can also bone up on crooked prosecutor Ronnie Earle in this Wall Street Journal editorial).What we need to find out now is how the Democrats managed to pull it off and who did the dirty work behind the scenes. Framing a national political leader is...

Rev. Jim Wallis says hurricane exposed 'social disaster' of poverty | The Rev. Jim Wallis has been advising the Democrats to make poverty their central issue for years, but he says now they're starting to pay attention because Hurricane Katrina exposed disparities in New Orleans to a shocked nation. "Sometimes it takes a natural disaster to expose a social disaster," Wallis said. "The waves of Katrina washed away cities and people, but they may also wash away our public denial of how many people in the country are poor." Wallis, the editor of Sojourners magazine and author of "God's Politics:...

Whatever the shortcomings of the Bush administration, the Federal Emergency Management Agency and other federal agencies in responding to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans, it's now clear to any fair-minded observer that the major responsibility for the failure to adequately prepare, to order a mandatory evacuation earlier and to respond to those left behind belongs to local authorities, specifically New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco. Predictably, partisan Democrats, media liberals and pathological Bush-haters have ignored or downplayed Nagin's and Blanco's culpability and focused their attacks on President Bush. Their strategy is transparent. It's...

People For American Way Seeks $1 Million to 'Save' the Supreme Court Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2005 6:58 p.m. EDT In a desperate last-ditch effort to thwart President Bush’s nomination of John Roberts as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, People For the American Way is seeking $1 million in contributions to "save” the Court. The left-wing organization, co-founded by TV producer Norman Lear, has sent out an e-mail letter to potential contributors, signed by the group’s president Ralph G. Neas. "The battle we knew we would face is here,” the letter begins. "With John Roberts nominated for Chief Justice and...