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Tracking down info on another thread I found the following. I had to share this gallery of sickening disgrace. It's an 8 page list of portraits of every misguided, half-wit liberal you can image. All presented as "heros". All, in actuality, enemies of a free and moral nation (excepting Lincon and one or two others.)Have your barf bags handy if you choose to view..."Americans Who Tell the Truth A collection of portraits & quotes. Paintings by Robert Shetterly"http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/pgs/portrait_thumbs.html(Links to other gallery pages at the bottom of the page.)

Before the California Assembly adjourned for the summer they approved the biggest budget in California's history. A budget billons deep in red ink.Here is a list of Republican Assemblymen that joined the Democrats and the Wilsonegger gang to pass the Austrian's BigBangBudget 2006-2007. Aghazarian, Greg; Stockton - 26 Daucher, Lynn; Brea - 72 Emmerson, Bill; Redlands - 63 Garcia, Bonnie; Cathedral City - 80 Horton, Shirley; San Diego - 78 Houston, Guy; San Ramon - 15 Plescia, George; San Diego - 75

California Rep. Gallegly reverses retirement, will seek new term Associated Press WASHINGTON - A California congressman has changed his mind about retirement and says he'll seek re-election to an eleventh term. Republican Elton Gallegly made the announcement today. He represents the 24th District, a heavily Republican region that covers most of Ventura County and a portion of Santa Barbara County. On Friday, the 62-year-old Gallegly had announced he wouldn't run again because of unspecified health reasons. However, he'd already filed papers to be a candidate and it was too late to remove his name from the June primary ballot. Only...

by Mark Finkelstein March 8, 2006 Bear with me. It's something of a slow news day. No Matt Lauer offering a 'he-set-me-up' defense for a lefty schoolteacher. Not even a Katie Couric plumping for more post-Katrina public housing. But perhaps, in a small way, an insight into how little hosts on the major morning news shows know about . . . the news. All the shows ran segments this morning about a new book, 'Game of Shadows', by San Francisco Chronicle reporters Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams. With a release timed to coincide with the beginning of the baseball season,...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Barry Bonds used a vast array of performance-enhancing drugs, including steroids and human growth hormone, for at least five seasons beginning in 1998, according to a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters. An excerpt of "Game of Shadows," which provides details of the San Francisco slugger's extensive doping program, appears in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated. Bonds, who testified before a San Francisco federal grand jury looking into steroid use by top athletes, repeatedly has denied using performance-enhancing drugs. Phone messages left by The Associated Press seeking comment from his attorney and...

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons in a massive doping regimen that grew more sophisticated as the years went on, according to Game of Shadows, a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters at the forefront of reporting on the BALCO steroid distribution scandal. (An excerpt of Game of Shadows that details Bonds' steroid use appears exclusively in the March 13 issue of Sports Illustrated, which is available on newsstands beginning on Wednesday. The...

NEW YORK (SI.com) -- Beginning in 1998 with injections in his buttocks of Winstrol, a powerful steroid, Barry Bonds took a wide array of performance-enhancing drugs over at least five seasons in a massive doping regimen that grew more sophisticated as the years went on, according to Game of Shadows, a book written by two San Francisco Chronicle reporters at the forefront of reporting on the BALCO steroid distribution scandal. The authors, Mark Fainaru-Wada and Lance Williams, describe in sometimes day-to-day, drug-by-drug detail how often and how deeply Bonds engaged in the persistent doping. For instance, the authors write that...

Perjury will be explored. U.S. Rep. Tom Davis, a Republican from Virginia, told The Associated Press his House committee will investigate whether baseball slugger Rafael Palmeiro committed perjury when he told Congress earlier this year that he never took steroids. The House Government Reform Committee wants the documents that explain the positive drug test that has put the Baltimore Orioles first baseman on ice for 10 days. Palmeiro has pledged his full cooperation to Congress, and has agreed to release details of the test. That would include the results, dates of the tests and other relevant facts. Palmeiro's the highest-profile...

Showcasing America's finest, and those who betray them! www.heroesandtraitors.org

And now a journey into America's murky political past for another episode of 'Hypocrites' Diary.' If you've watched the TV news in the last several weeks, you've seen and heard what leading Democrats now have to say about the "unnecessary," "irresponsible" Iraq War perpetuated by alleged liar and warmonger George W. Bush. However, please read on, to see what they had to say in the past about Iraq, Saddam, and Saddam's WMDs: "One way or the other, we are determined to deny Iraq the capacity to develop weapons of mass destruction and the missiles to deliver them. That is our...

"A quick fall of Saddam's regime shows he was never a serous threat, the Iowa senator says."

Can anyone verify this ? Thursday, April 10, 2003 1:32 p.m. EST Katie Couric: 'Hopefully' Saddam Made It to Syria Is perky "Today" show host Katie Couric actually rooting for Saddam Hussein to survive the U.S. military's repeated attempts to take him out? It sure sounded that way during a report she delivered on the fate of the Baghdad Butcher yesterday. While chatting about Saddam with NBC's Pentagon correspondent, Jim Miklaszewski, the multimillion-dollar morning host asked whether U.S. officials had been able to "confirm reports he was taken to Tikrit, and then Mosul, and then hopefully to Syria." Hopefully? Surely...

The Dirty (Near) DozenBy Brian MaherFrontPageMagazine.com | April 7, 2003 The time-honored American tradition, whereby "politics ends at the water's edge," has historically sent a clear message to friend and foe alike that the American people, through their elected representatives, stood full square behind the armed forces and their commander-in-chief during time of war. And while many Democrats have done just that, eleven congressmen, including nine members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), disgracefully voted against a House resolution that offered symbolic support for the troops taking part in Operation Iraqi Freedom. By turning their backs on American forces in...

<p>Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle is taking a beating back home while Sen. John Kerry faces accusations of disloyalty from Republicans, underscoring the pitfalls of criticizing the president while troops are in the field.</p> <p>Democrats, especially those in the early stages of presidential campaigns, have been performing a high-wire act between expressing support for the troops and satisfying their political base with attacks on President Bush.</p>

Massachusetts Senator John F. Kerry wants to be the 2004 Democratic nominee for President. But the American people need to ask themselves a crucial question about him. How can he be taken seriously after breaking his pledge of cooling criticism of the Bush administration during the war with Iraq? As the men and women of our military close in on Baghdad, Kerry ignored his pledge and attacked their commander-in-chief, President Bush. Echoing a phrase from the Bush-bashing, anti-war left, Kerry told a crowd in Peterborough N.H. this week: ''What we need now is not just a regime change in Saddam...

Rooney: It's Just My Opinion New York, March 30, 2003 ...We didn't shock them and we didn't awe them in Baghdad. The phrase makes us look like foolish braggarts. ...We haven't caught Bin Laden so we're transferring the blame for 9/11 to Saddam Hussein...Hussein is a bad man who didn't have anything to do with 9/11....We have stories of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in this country. If we were losing this war, would we...use them? I'm afarid we might. Hussein has chemical and biological weapons. If he is about to lose this war, will he use them? I'm afraid...

Ramsey Clark: Saddam Not Brutal Peace movement leader and human rights activist, former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, defended Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Friday, saying that reports of his brutality were part of a U.S.-backed disinformation campaign. Asked about an eyewitness account of the torture death of an Iraqi dissident who was put in a glass cage and eaten alive by dogs while Saddam and other top leaders watched, Clark told WLIE-NY radio's Mike Siegel, "That's the most absurd story I've heard in a long time." "Propaganda can be pretty vicious," the antiwar activist warned before trashing the torture...

Engulfed by a firestorm of outrage over his comments suggesting that U.S. troops were deliberately killing women and children in Iraq, Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, said Friday that he should have been more careful with his words. "There is no question that if I had a chance to reword that, that I would have done a much better job," the embattled Democrat told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. Appearing Thursday night on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes," Rangel had complained, "I just don't believe that you bomb women and children in order to enforce [the U.N. resolution on...

All arguments against the war--including mine--are moot now. The decision has been made, and our job is not to nurse misgivings but to win in Iraq. Compared to what occurred 62 years ago, the anti-war movement in the United States is scanty and timorous. In 1941, it was of enormous influence. The ''America First'' movement was based in this city, and its rallies featured the hero Charles Lindbergh and Sears Roebuck tycoon retired Gen. Robert Wood, among others. The movement extended throughout the nation and included young John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts. But Dec. 7 brought an end to all...

<p>Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle says his criticism of President Bush's war policies toward Iraq 48 hours before U.S. troops went into combat was "ill-timed," but he did not retract them.</p> <p>Republican leaders yesterday demanded he apologize to Mr. Bush, U.S. servicemen and women and to his constituents.</p>

Rep. Charlie Rangel (D) - NY on Hannity Show now...

'I just don't believe that you bomb women and children in order to enforce the United Nations Resolution on Iraq,' the Harlem Democrat told Fox News Chaneel's 'Hannity and Colmes' program Thursday night.When challenged on his claim that United States forces were killing Iraqi children, Rangle said sarcastically, 'You're right. They are shooting themselves. They just don't know they are being liberated.'After accusing GI's of what amounts to the commission of war crimes, Rangle then slammed President Bush as unqualified to lead the United States into war with Iraq.

Former U.S. Senator and Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern charged Wednesday that President Bush intends to invade North Korea and Iran after finishing with Iraq."Even now, these wars are being planned by the current administration," McGovern said. "I'm positive, based on conversations with people close to the White House, that plans are in place for the next invasions." McGovern did not disclose who his sources were, and attempts to get a response were not successful before deadline. McGovern was in Milwaukee to speak at the Great Decisions conference Tuesday night, and at the First Unitarian church Wednesday. He noted that...

Rangel Blames Troops For Civilain casuality deaths and sets racial tone for African Americans opposing this War. Let him Know how you Feel about his Anti Troops, Anti Bush, Anti American Support. http://www.house.gov/writerep. Fax at (202) 225-0816 or Email

<p>1. That the soldiers fighting in Iraq were bombing Women and Children!!! When confronted with this he claimed that they weren't bombing themselves!!! Sound's like the garbage we heard a few years ago when we were told that we were 'baby killers'.</p>

SPEARFISH -- Stepping back from comments he made last week that President Bush failed "miserably" in diplomatic efforts to avoid war with Iraq, Sen. Tom Daschle, D-S.D. said Thursday, "My timing wasn't the best."   On March 17, just two days before the U.S.-led coalition's first bombing strike in Baghdad, Daschle said, "I'm saddened, saddened that this president failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're now forced to war."  The remarks drew fire as many charged it was wrong for Daschle to publicly challenge the president on the eve of armed conflict.  Daschle's comments were labeled "divisive and brazen...

I am extremely concerned about the shameful, almost total passivity of Congress during the period of preparations for our military attack on Iraq. (I recognize as exceptions Sen. Robert C. Byrd's noble statement in the Senate [In Brief, March 20] and the belated but vigorous statements of Sen. Thomas A. Daschle [news story, March 18].) Congress's inaction is dangerous precedent in executive-legislative relations. In light of this precedent, future presidents will be tempted to seize virtually dictatorial powers under the title of commander in chief, and nothing in our history rules out the possibility of their yielding to that temptation....

SYRACUSE, N.Y. President Bush's proposed budget for fighting Baghdad does not contain enough money for protecting the United States at home, U.S. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday. Bush is expected to ask Congress for $74.7 billion to pay for the war with Iraq, based on an estimated six months of operations there, and for strengthening counterterrorism efforts at home, lawmakers and aides said Monday. The money measure was dominated by $62.6 billion for the Department of Defense. The bill also is expected to include about $4.2 billion for domestic security programs, such as assistance for police and other emergency...

Democrats are trying hard to make an issue of the cost of the Iraq War. Unlike any war in history, they have said that the White House should have presented an exact accounting prior to the onset of hostilities. Last week, Senate "moderates" got $100 billion set aside from President Bush's proposed tax cut to pay for the war, and it appears that the administration will ask for about that amount in supplemental spending very shortly to deal with war-related expenses. At some level, it is nonsensical to do this kind of analysis. Who can put a dollar value on...

<p>The resolution was shelved until tomorrow's formal House session, after Representative Paul C. Demakis, a Back Bay Democrat, objected to its broad language. The proposed resolution would have the House saying that it ''commends and supports the efforts and leadership of the President,'' against an Iraqi leader who violated United Nations' resolutions and states that the war in Iraq is ''lawful and fully authorized by the Congress.''</p>

<p>Democrats remain so bitterly divided over the U.S. war in Iraq that some of the party's advisers privately fear it could damage its prospects in the 2004 presidential election.</p> <p>President Bush's offensive to disarm and topple Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein is supported by 70 percent of Americans, while the Democrats are embroiled in a messy, partywide fight over what to do in Iraq.</p>

WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEIR OFFICERS! Theme from Democrat national committee? Four days ago the Democrat national committee sent out a bulletin to their minions that the mantra for the following day was (We support our troops not BUSH!!) The next day thousands of Democrat robots at a dozen different anti-defense rallies chants the phrase just as their party organizers ordered them to. Today David Horowitz (An independent journalist, discussed on Fox news*) that he had documented that placards saying (WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS WHEN THEY SHOOT THEIR OFFICERS) (David has a photo of the same on...

The Democratic National Committee sent out a fundraising appeal last week asking members to rally behind Sen. Tom Daschle and his comments about President Bush. You'll recall that last Monday Daschle ridiculed the Bush administration's failed diplomacy in Iraq and blamed any American war deaths on Bush's failure. The DNC, citing the media and public uproar over Daschle's comments, asked donors for any size donation to show their support for the Democratic Party and its leadership. Apparently there's not much interest. Early estimates indicate that the DNC will raise less than $50,000 from the mass mailing. The Republican National Committee,...

<p>With the war now under way, criticism of the war and of President Bush and other administration leaders risks spilling over from being a question of appropriateness to becoming a question of patriotism. This should not occur in a country that values freedom and fights for it as America does, with freedom of speech tops on the list.</p>

<p>Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle's bitter attack on President Bush's handling of the Iraq conflict, just as U.S. forces were heading into war, hit a new low in partisan politics.</p> <p>Playing politics domestically was once off-limits when our country was poised to plunge into battle. By publicly supporting your president, your nation and your military — even when you privately disagreed with their actions — you helped foster a unified front, prevent delays or distractions that could cost lives and contribute to getting the troops back that much sooner.</p>

<p>Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard A. Gephardt yesterday said he disagrees with Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's assertion that the war with Iraq was the result of President Bush's diplomatic failures.</p> <p>"Tom Daschle is a great friend of mine, and he has every right to state his views as he sees them. I don't agree with him here," Mr. Gephardt said on "Fox News Sunday."</p>

Daschle received poor reviews from all but the toughest anti-war Democrats for saying that President Bush had ''failed so miserably at diplomacy'' to provoke combat with Iraq. Two leading Democratic presidential hopefuls--Sen. Joseph Lieberman and Rep. Richard Gephardt--were quick to disassociate themselves from Daschle

March 21 — Only hours after President Bush sent his calling card into the heart of Baghdad, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein (or his body double) appeared on television as if to taunt Bush that he missed. So began the latest chapter in the Bush family enterprise to track down and kill the man who has been their nemesis for more than a decade.< snip >Daschle is again in the crossfire for criticizing Bush’s failure to resolve the impasse over Iraq with diplomacy. The White House slapped down Daschle and implied he was unpatriotic. “France has a better chance of getting...

What you will find below is not a rant from the Iraq Ministry of Propaganda, or the wailings of a tenured professor at one of our institutions of "higher learning." Rather, it is a statement by a Member of Congress, who represents a moderate district equally divided among Republicans and Democrats. Read it and be enraged. Congressman Maurice D. Hinchey Representing New York's 22th Congressional District March 22, 2003 Dear Friends, We are witnesses to a watershed moment in the history of the American republic. It is too soon to know how this will turn out, but it is very...

"[The Republicans] try to convey that image of the Democrats as weak on defense. I don't think we should take that. There is no party position on the war, much to the dismay of our grassroots constituents." — House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, earlier this week. Talk about a weak defense. Voters who worry that the Democratic party is not sufficiently serious about national-security concerns are not going to be reassured by the knowledge that the Democratic party takes no position on the war. (ANWR, they care enough about to take a position. Prescription drugs. Miguel Estrada. The war?...

Six months ago, Congress authorized a war against Saddam Hussein. Today the legislators will continue debating a resolution to support that war. Strange, no? Democrats are complaining about the “partisanship” of Republicans who force them to declare themselves. They want to keep their options open – like Tom Daschle, who votes for the war and then denounces it, who says he supports the troop but who opposes the job that those troops are doing. Nor is Daschle the only Democrat playing a double game. Nancy Pelosi, the Democrats’ leader in the House, also claims to “support the troops.” But in...

<p>Eleven House Democrats yesterday voted against a resolution supporting U.S. troops and President Bush's leadership as their commander in chief, saying they couldn't approve a war or a president they disagree with.</p> <p>"I, for one, will not be forced to praise the president's reckless decision when what I want to do is praise the troops," said Rep. Jim McDermott, Washington Democrat, who voted "no."</p>

<p>Remember back in December, when Rep. Charles Rangel of New York proposed reinstating the draft? His stated rationale, as we noted, was egalitarian: "A disproportionate number of the poor and members of minority groups make up the enlisted ranks of the military," he told CNN. Forcing the affluent to serve would establish a principle of "shared sacrifice."</p>

<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) In the war against terrorism, the Bush administration has failed to balance the scales of liberty and security, former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno told a packed audience Monday night at Brown University.</p> <p>After watching President Bush's address, Reno said, ''We will not solve the world's problems by might.''</p>

<p>The Democratic National Committee is asking party members to defend Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle's criticism of the way President Bush has handled the Iraq crisis even as U.S.-led forces invade the country.</p> <p>In the hours before and after the president's order Wednesday night to begin the war to topple Saddam Hussein's regime, the DNC sent e-mails to its grass-roots activists that said "Democratic leaders are standing up to Bush; Make sure you stand up for them!" "Republicans will stop at nothing to gain a political advantage from this military conflict," said an e-mail yesterday.</p>

Senator forgot his own record when pinning war on Bush To be able to say "I told you so," antiwar protesters and Bush critics need for the war in Iraq to go badly. A lot of civilian deaths would be a windfall for people who wanted to let Hans Blix and his hapless weapons inspectors stay in Saddam Hussein's Iraq forever. Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle blamed the war on Bush and said even one death would be too many. Daschle said Bush had "failed so miserably at diplomacy that we're forced to war." He said he was saddened "that...

FrontPageMagazine.com | March 21, 2003 PONTEFICATIONS WITH WAR ONLY HOURS AWAY, THREE DEMOCRATIC “Progressive Caucus” members of Congress on Wednesday via television hookup addressed the European Union Parliament and shared Left-eyed views with their fellow socialists across the Atlantic. Rep. Dennis Kucinich (D.-Ohio) preached that President George W. Bush’s “case for war is a sham” based on “untrue, unfounded and disproven allegations.” This presidential aspirant, whose loony Leftist eccentricities this column recently documented, wants America disarmed and our Department of Defense renamed “the Department of Peace.” “We [who advocate no war against Saddam Hussein] are severely punished inside the borders...

<p>March 21, 2003 -- The winds of war blowing across Iraq yesterday helped clear away some thick political fog here in America - revealing things about the Democratic Party that sure weren't pretty.</p> <p>Indeed, while the Iraq war has highlighted the courage and fortitude of this nation's leaders and soldiers, Democrats (particularly those eyeing the presidency in '04) have been making even the French seem forthcoming.</p>

C-SPAN Schedule From the C-SPAN website: Representative Conyers was recently part of a lawsuit challenging President Bush's power to attack Iraq without a declaration of war from Congress and has participated in several anti-war protests. Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) will be on C-SPAN Washington Journal from 9:00 to 9:30 (About 12 minutes late getting started).

Rep. Pete Stark, D-Calif., likens President Bush to a terrorist and genocidal Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein. "I think unleashing 3,000 smart bombs against the city of Baghdad in the first several days of the war ... to me, if those were unleashed against the San Francisco Bay Area, I would call that an act of extreme terrorism," Stark, a longtime appeasement activist and one of the most left-wing Democrats in Congress, told the San Francisco Chronicle on Tuesday. Responding to reports that U.S. forces planned to fire as many as 3,000 laser- and satellite-guided missiles on Iraq in the first...