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When it comes to investigating Dems, the MSM is all Moveon.org. But when a Republican is potentially in the crosshairs, the liberal media suddenly goes Eliot Ness . . . Take the New York Times editorial of this morning, Mr. Rove Gets Out of Town, which amounts to an extended plea to Democrats to investigate Karl Rove on matters sundry. Huffs the Times:The American public needs to understand the full story of how this White House — with Mr. Rove pulling many of the strings — has spent the last six and a half years improperly and dangerously politicizing the...

What follows is a reposting of a mailing I sent to my private email list on June 24, 2006.  I don’t feel a need to explain myself, but I wrote this right after someone sent me pictures of the mutilated bodies of two young American Soldiers.  Since the original posting, this letter has made a few laps around the net and been posted in many different places.  I can’t even tell you where else because, except for a few Freepers, no one ever asked me if they could repost it.  Other than to my private email list, I originally...

Jimmy Carter, you’re the father of the Islamic Nazi movement. You threw the Shah under the bus, welcomed the Ayatollah home and then lacked the spine to confront the terrorists when they took our embassy and our people hostage. You’re the Runner-in-Chief. Bill Clinton, you played “ring around the Lewinsky” while the terrorists were at war with us. You got us into a fight with them in Somalia, and then you ran from it. Your weak-willed responses embolden the killers. Each time you failed to respond adequately they grew bolder, until 9/11. John Kerry, dishonesty is your most prominent attribute....

In 1994 Sen. Pat "Leaky" Leahy co-wrote a law that forced telecommunications carriers to build convenient wiretap features into their networks enabling the kind of telephone records collection now at the heart of the controversy over the National Security Agency's terrorist surveillance operation. In recent days Leahy has called the NSA's actions troubling and potentially illegal - saying they show that the Bush administration is treating Americans like terrorists. "'The secret collection of phone call records of tens of millions of Americans?" he exclaimed after USA Today blew the lid off the program last week. "Are you telling me that...

See for example this thread first. When Democrats begin to scoff that lobbyist Jack Abramoff proves 'pubbies corrupt then lets interrupt "What about Pat Leahy?" (cough, cough)

While national Democrats are calling the Jack Abramoff lobbying imbroglio a "Republican scandal," top Vermont Democrat, Sen. Pat Leahy, is being labeled an "Abramoff Democrat" by home state critics. The Vermont Guardian has uncovered thousands of dollars in contributions to Leahy by lawfirms linked to Abramoff - though the senator's spokesman says that any suggestion of a relationship to the disgraced Republican is ridiculous. "It’s preposterous to even think that Jack Abramoff would do anything to support a progressive Democratic leader like Patrick Leahy," Ed Pagano, Leahy’s chief of staff, told the paper. However, the Guardian says it has discovered...

This is U.S. Appeals Court Judge Maryanne Trump Barry, a Clinton appointee who gave a glowing endorsement of her colleague, Sam Alito, earlier today, along with six other judges from the appeals court who appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee to support Alito. Chuck Schumer walked out before the judges started to speak. Teddy Kennedy showed up late, stayed for 10 minutes, then left. Pat Leahy put on a dour face for a short time, and also bailed... if Judge Barry were a screeching liberal moaning about Alito's threat to the female populace, the Dems would have been all ears--and...

Investigate the Senate for CIA Leak November 9, 2005 Download Windows Media PlayerListen to Rush Conduct Broadcast Excellence BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to talk about this latest CIA leak investigation, because something's going on here, folks, and I don't like it. As you know, about this time yesterday Senator Frist and Congressman Hastert sent out a letter demanding a bicameral investigation into the latest CIA leak (story) that resulted in a story in the Washington Post last Wednesday about these black sites, these so-called black prisons, these prisons that nobody knows about where we're housing these Al-Qaeda terrorists...

How often do you read a statement from a politician and think, “That speaks for me”? That seldom, huh? Anyway, I felt this way when reading an excerpt from a letter sent by Sen. Mitch McConnell to the Louisville Courier-Journal: “Why is it that whenever a Democrat speaks before a religious audience, he is ‘reaching out,’ but when a Republican does it, he is ‘divisive’? . . . I can recall many instances of Democrats visiting churches over the years, not just to speak on a policy matter but even to outright plea for votes. Either I’ve missed the angry...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- As a vote draws near for the confirmation of White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales to succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft, Democrats in the Senate floated the idea of mounting a filibuster to the nomination. Talk of a possible filibuster drew quick rebuke from Gonzales supporters. RNC Deputy Communications Director Danny Diaz commented on a potential Democrat filibuster of Judge Alberto Gonzales' nomination. Gonzales would succeed Attorney General John Ashcroft. "Democrats should understand that filibustering America's first Hispanic nominee for attorney general is neither good policy nor good politics." Diaz said. "Numerous Senators on both sides of...

"I was extremely disappointed to learn today that the president intends to begin the new Congress by resubmitting extremist judicial nominees," Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said in a statement. The judges that President Bush has nominated are mainstream Americans. You want know what is extreme, it is when liberals judges decided for example that partial birth abortion is a fundamental right. The vast majority of the electorate are opposed to partial birth abortion. A recent poll showed that ¾ in red states opposed such abortions, 2/3 in swing states opposed such abortions, and 55% in blue states opposed...

I know we're all supposed to be talking about John Edwards now, but could we go back to Vice President Cheney and Patrick Leahy for just a second? I mean, do you know Pat Leahy? I'm just kidding, but only sort of. Three years ago, I did a piece on Senator Leahy, when he became chairman of the Judiciary Committee. It is a consensus — certainly among Republicans — that he is the nastiest man in the Senate. Many Republicans would rather be locked in a freezer with Ted Kennedy or Chris Dodd than have a pleasant handshake in a...

The United States Senate's goofiest member, Vermont's Patrick Leahy, grandstanded this way in today's Appropriations Committee hearing featuring Donald Rumsfeld: "Mr. Secretary you have said you're sorry, and the president has said he's sorry. Everybody's said they're sorry about the Iraqi prison scandal. It is actually the first time in this long, protracted and rather strange policy I have heard any administration official express regret about any mistake. So let me tell you a few things I am sorry about. I am sorry that someone in the administration gave currency to a fraud to quote George Will by putting in...

I guess I'm bored at work.... Anyway some of my fav. all time are Dana Rohrabacher (riot--a mini b1 Bob) Bob Dornan(nobody does crazy catholic conservative like B1), Alan Simpson (Dick Cheney's bud--just a decent guy) and Fred Thompson (despite blowing the Clinton investigation-- he has a helluva presence, seems like a good old boy). some of the Worst= Tom Daschle is the anti-christ. Pat Leahy, Charles Schumer and Hillary are a troica of treason. Pete Stark is an obscure hateful jackoff. Anybody else have best/worsts... let em Fly!!

VT. POL KOS 9/11 HERO MEDALS By VINCENT MORRIS SEN. LEAHYKills bill. April 12, 2002 -- WASHINGTON - A Vermont senator has single-handedly killed a plan to honor the cops and firefighters who gave their lives on 9/11 with special presidential medals, The Post has learned. Sen. Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the Judiciary Committee, pulled the plug on legislation to bestow the "Presidential Medal of Valor" on public-safety workers who perished in the terror attacks. The new medal, which is the nation's highest public-safety award, was created about a year ago, and the 9/11 heroes were set...