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Democrats: Party of Angry White Men? The good ole (white) boy network by Tom Adkins 03/16/03I accompanied my lovely wife to the Saturday Starbucks klatch. Nice girls. Good coffee. Corporate. All the better. I dutifully slid off into a corner and spotted some discarded newspapers. Hmmmm… New York Times or National Enquirer? I went with the Times because it had a better talking fish story. Really. Just below the fold. A few pages in, I spotted a blurb about Jim Moran (D-VA), the pugilistic congressman with a history of beating his wife, eight-year-old kids, and a series of ethics charges....

Ferguson Calls Moran's Comments 'Offensive and Hurtful' County Board Chairman Paul Ferguson on Saturday distanced the board from comments made by U.S. Rep. Jim Moran, D-8th, but suggested that it wasn’t the board’s place to call on Moran to step down from Congress. Moran has been in hot water over what were perceived to be anti-Jewish comments made during a forum in Reston. The congressman has apologized, and has stepped down from a leadership post he held in Congress. But he said he would not resign. Ferguson said Moran’s comments were “offensive and hurtful,” but beyond that the all-Democratic board...

OUR VIEW THAT Rep. James P. Moran Jr. is unfit to serve in Congress is not new. Last July, citing Mr. Moran's ethical obtuseness, we urged Democrats in Alexandria and surrounding neighborhoods to find another candidate for the fall election. Now, by blaming American Jews for an Iraq policy he opposes, the seven-term congressman has confirmed our opinion about him. House Democratic leaders quickly dissociated themselves from his remark; it will be interesting to see whether they, and Northern Virginia Democrats, will make an effort to find a better candidate to run in 2004.

WASHINGTON (GOPUSA News) -- For the second day in a row, the White House had harsh criticism for a Democrat Congressman's offensive remarks. On Tuesday, Spokesman Ari Fleischer condemned Rep. Jim Moran, Jr. (D-VA) who told a community group that the push for war with Iraq was strongly influenced by American Jews. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq we would not be doing this," Moran said. "The leaders of the Jewish community are influential enough that they could change the direction of where this is going and I think...

<p>WASHINGTON — Six Democratic House members called on Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., not to seek re-election in 2004 in the wake of controversial comments about Jews and the possibility of war with Iraq.</p> <p>Moran's comments are "not merely wrong, offensive and ignorant," the six, all Jewish lawmakers, wrote in a letter Wednesday, "They are grossly irresponsible, and were given at a sensitive time when inflammatory comments -- regardless of outrageous factual flaws -- can unleash unintended and dangerous consequences."</p>

<p>How worried are Democrats on the eve of possible war?</p> <p>NEWSWEEK's Howard Fineman early this month shocked the world with this mind-numbing revelation: President George W. Bush is a born-again Christian. Worse -- he prays. Even more scandalous: He not only reads the Bible, the hayseed believes what it says!</p> <p>Bush, dad-gum-it, is too Christian to be President!</p>

<p>Secretary of State Colin L. Powell yesterday denied that "a small cabal" of pro-Israeli American Jews had masterminded the Bush administration's drive toward war with Iraq.</p> <p>Mr. Powell, in an extraordinary exchange at the beginning of a congressional hearing devoted to foreign-aid spending, became the highest U.S. official to date to enter the incendiary debate that has seen charges of anti-Semitism and dual loyalty among senior U.S. policy-makers and pundits.</p>

It's the Jews' turn. Over the last year, a number of anti-war arguments have taken center stage. It's a war for oil. It's a war to distract from the war on terrorism or the economy. It's a war to boost the president's ratings or to avenge Saddam's attempt to assassinate the elder Bush. And now, it's the Jews. "If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this," Virginia Democratic congressman Jim Moran said the other day. The same week that news came out, Pat Buchanan announced...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi today forced out Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., as regional whip of the mid-Atlantic region for his comments blaming Jews for war in Iraq. But the Democrat hypocrisy continues. Pelosi and company still refuse to criticize or even comment on Rep. Marcy Kaptur's apologia for terrorism, and the pro-Democrat media establishment isn't pressing them one bit. "I have taken this action because Congressman Moran's irresponsible remarks were a serious mistake," Pelosi said. She said Moran has accepted responsibility for his remarks and expressed his "sincere regret." And right on cue, Moran released a statement saying:...

WASHINGTON - Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., was forced out of his party leadership post Friday after a furor over his remarks about the role of American Jews in a possible war with Iraq. Moran stepped down from his position as regional whip at the insistence of Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi of California. In a statement, Pelosi said she spoke to Moran on Friday and he agreed to accept responsibility and give up his post. "I have taken this action because Congressman Moran's irresponsible remarks were a serious mistake," Pelosi said. "As I said earlier this week, his comments were not...

Rep Moran, who made extremely anti-semetic remarks about the Jews and Israel pressuring the President to war with Iraq, has resigned his leadership committee seat!!!!

A NIGHTHORSE IN THE RACERepublicans in the Senate have asked Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell about his re-election plans in 2004. The former Democrat, who crossed over to the good guys back in 1995, has not made it clear whether he will or will not run for another term. Republicans hope he will, if only to scare off prospective Democrats who might have eyes on a potentially winnable seat for them. Rep. Mark Udall has said that he would be interested in running for that seat, and some Democrats in the Rocky Mountain State remain convinced that former Sen. Gary...

Ex-Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., said Wednesday that the media's reaction to anti-Semitic comments by Virginia Congressman Jim Moran is relatively mild compared to the firestorm that greeted his own comments last December praising Sen. Strom Thurmond's 1948 Dixiecrat presidential run. "Clearly, there is a double standard," Lott told nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity. "It was observed this very morning at my breakfast table that my remarks were interpreted to mean one thing but that Moran's remarks were clear in what he said." Last week Rep. Moran told a Reston, Va., audience, "If it were not for...

<p>We've come a long way from the days when the managing editor on the first newspaper I worked on leaned over my desk and told me: "Be careful when you write about Jews. They can be very sensitive. I've made it a practice never to type the keys j, e, and w in succession."</p>

<p>March 14, 2003 -- CONSERVATIVES brought down Trent Lott. Will liberals take out Jim Moran?</p> <p>Republicans deemed it unacceptable for a key elected figure in their party to espouse segregationist views. Will Democrats deem it unacceptable for an unimportant elected figure in their party to espouse anti-Semitic views?</p>

Representative Jim Moran's notions of Jewish war-mongering are so patently offensive, so deeply pernicious, that they almost seem like residual ooze from another era in history. But this is not ancient history; the Virginia Democrat spoke his inflammatory words just last week. And he is not the only one talking this way these days. Addressing an anti-war audience in a Washington suburb on March 3, Moran argued that America "would not be doing this" — gearing up for war with Iraq — "if it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq." As...

J'Accuse, Sort Of You never know where you're going to find anti-Semitic propaganda. By Michael Kinsley Posted Wednesday, March 12, 2003, at 10:14 AM PT Rep. James P. Moran of Virginia, already a locally famous foot-in-mouther, went national last week by declaring at an anti-war rally that "if it was not for the strong support of the Jewish community," the war against Iraq would not be happening. He said that Jewish "leaders" are "influential enough" to reverse the policy "and I think they should." The thunderous rush of politicians of all stripes to denounce Moran's remarks as complete nonsense might...

Congress: DeLay Against Road Map, Moran Against Jewish Influence U.S. Republican House leader Rep. Tom DeLay is against the American "Road Map" plan. The plan calls for a Palestinian state within two years. Speaking with a delegation of Jewish leaders from the Orthodox Union last night, DeLay said that the State of Israel has "every right to reject proposals that will undercut her fundamental ability to defend herself." He had scathing words for the Quartet that is pushing the Road Map, saying it is "comprised of countries whose popularity with Arab dictators is more important to them than the...

Republicans have seized on the assertion of Rep. James P. Moran (D-Va) that Jews are determining American policy toward Iraq as a new weapon in the GOP's long-term effort to attract traditionally Democratic Jewish voters and doners. House Majority Leader Tome DeLay (R-Tx) told a group of more than 150 Orthodox Jewish leaders from around the country yesterday that the Democratic Party "appears to countenance remarks like those made by Representative Moran in the past few weeks"

Rep. James Moran Jr., D-Va., and Adolf Hitler have more in common than you might expect. As reported in “Moran: Jewish influence behind war,” (CT, March 11) as well as many national newspapers, Moran told a group of 120 churchgoers that “If it were not for the strong support of the Jewish community for this war with Iraq, we would not be doing this.” Not so long ago there was another national leader who decided all his countries ills stemmed from the Jews; this man was also responsible for World War II. Some might defend Moran and say he did...