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COUNTDOWN (458 DAYS) TO VICTORY '04 -- Operation Iraqi Freedom -- A White House Special Report With the President on his way to Crawford and the Congress getting ready to adjourn for the August recess, we are going to change Countdown for the next week to provide you the In Focus Reports from the White House. These Reports will give you a perspective of where the President stands on the various issues and allow you to defend the President from attacks that are coming from the Democrats and their friends in the media. Please keep calling talk radio and...

SUMMER PLEADING Before leaving town for the summer recess, members of both House caucuses receive binders full of talking points and issue briefings for use during public appearances during their time back home -- but the briefing books House Democrats were sent home with turn out to be mighty slim. Whereas Republicans were sent off to tout the work and achievements of this session, Democrats were instructed to complain about the Bush Administration's prescription drug plan, the war on terrorism, and unemployment and the weak economy. "Don't see how those issues help us," says a Democratic member from a Southern...

YOU HEARD IT HEREIt's unclear how many Republicans will jump into the race for governor of California, but a lot of people are looking. No one Washington seriously expects former Rep. Jack Kemp to enter the race, however. "He hasn't shown an interest to run for anything in his entire career other than from defensive linemen and for his safe House seat," says a Washington insider, who knows Kemp. "He wouldn't run for a leadership post in the House when the party needed him. He wouldn't run for Senator in New York or California, when the party needed him....

The recent comments by Democrat Congressman Charles Rangel of New York that the actions against Uday and Qusay Hussein were illegal were dismissed Wednesday by the White House. On a national television talk show Tuesday, Rangel told host Sean Hannity, "We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody." Rangel was referring to an Executive Order signed by President Ford that prohibits assassination of foreign leaders. When asked by Talon News to comment on Rangel's implication that U.S. troops committed illegal acts, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said, "I don't know what exactly...

     Instead of playing devil’s advocate with Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry, or at least challenging some of his premises, Today co-host Matt Lauer on Wednesday mainly cued Kerry up with leading questions meant to draw out Kerry’s talking points on Iraq and the questions over the credibility of the intelligence cited. And Lauer even helpfully read a long excerpt from a then-upcoming Kerry speech.      Amongst the “questions” posed by Lauer on the July 16 Today:      -- "Do you have a suspicion that Vice President Cheney, Secretary of State Powell had some role to play in this?"     ...

Perhaps hate is too strong a word, but it fits in a headline. I don't dislike and disrespect all the members of my profession, just most of them. Or at bare minimum many of them, numbered in the hundreds of thousands. I have sound reasons for that judgment. But first, I offer one of Aesop's Fables. If the court of public opinion will bear with me, this shortly will become relevant: A scorpion and a frog meet on the bank of a stream and the scorpion asks the frog to carry him across on its back. The frog asks, "How...

Palestinian sources are now saying that their death toll in the 2002 IDF incursion into Jenin, was 52, at least 34 of whom were armed, contradicting earlier Palestinian claims that thousands had died, a study to be released next month says. The study indicates for the first time that Palestinian terror organizations saw themselves as "armed combatants" and not as civilians who died in a deadly massacre. The study's significance is that it uses Palestinian sources to rebut the original Palestinian claims. "The study directly contradicts the baseless charges made by PA leaders, including Saeb Erekat, that Israel had massacred...

A liberal friend of mine recently told me of her concerns about the Bush presidency. I will summarize what she said as they represent the results of the constant din we've been hearing from Democrats under the guidance of the DNC and their leaders. 1. Bush is arrogant for launching a war against Iraq, in opposition to the will of the United Nations. 2. Iraq has no weapons of mass destruction, and it is too small a country anyway to do any harm to the United States. 9/11 was not Iraq's action. 3. Bush lied when he said that Iraq...

Admission on Iraqi nukes is disturbing Friday, July 11, 2003 President Bush, in his State of the Union message this past January, told the American people that Saddam Hussein had accelerated his pursuit of nuclear weapons to an alarming degree: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa," said the president. "Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production. Saddam Hussein has not credibly explained these activities. He clearly has much to hide." As it now turns out, these statements were...

Democrats plan to undermine public confidence in President George W. Bush by challenging his credibility and raising doubts about America, sources within the party tell Capitol Hill Blue. A multi-pronged attack against Republicans and the President will focus not only on economic issues, but question American values, raise doubts about how this country is viewed by other nations and question the patriotism of Bush and his party. The extensive campaign, developed by senior Democratic consultants and party leaders, was launched last week with attacks on the Bush economic plan by Democratic presidential hopeful Rep. Richard Gephardt. In coming weeks, Democratic...

George Bush Thinks You Are Unpatriotic Dear $, We've seen it over and over again: George W. Bush is using the patriotism of the American people to cloak his right-wing agenda, an agenda that hurts average Americans. They wrap themselves in the flag, dismissing the criticism of their worst policies as unpatriotic. According to Bush and the GOP, you aren't a patriot if you: Think eroding our civil liberties is a cause for concern. Don't support massive tax cuts for the wealthy at the expense of working families. Believe the American people deserve to know whether President Bush misled them...

A lot of silly things have been said about Iraq’s alleged arsenal of weapons of mass destruction, such as that Saddam Hussein could be ready to launch in 45 minutes. But perhaps the silliest of all is the Republicans’ charge that even to ask whether the Bush administration misled the American people is to engage in partisan politics. Note the double standard. It’s politics to point out that a couple of months after the Hussein regime fell no unconventional weapons have been found. But to even wonder whether the war was politically motivated is beyond the pale. “How dare you...

The ladies of "The View" apparently were highly displeased yesterday morning when guest co-host Ann Coulter brought her pal Matt Drudge into the dressing room before the show. The aggrieved television personalities -- who later gave Coulter a hard time on the air for everything from her right-wing political views to her micro-miniskirt -- were "View" regulars Meredith Vieira, Star Jones and Joy Behar.

The MRC's Jessica Anderson took down a hunk of the gabfest at the beginning of the June 25 The View, ABC's daytime show created by Barbara Walters, for whom Coulter was filling in. Meredith Vieira explained: “In your last book you said liberals have been wrong about everything in last half century. You ticked us off over that one, alright. And now in this new bok you say that liberals hate freedom...I want to talk about your politics because in Treason you say, yes, that liberals hate America." Ann Coulter: "Right." Vieira: "Well, it's stupid. What do you mean liberals...

I have reflected a great deal over the years about the need for dialogue and unity among various minority and progressive communities. The presidential primary process is underway, and this is the time when the candidates within the Democratic party work to differentiate themselves from one other. It is important, however, to keep in mind that the end goal for all of us is to elect a Democratic president who will work to provide a decent education for the most underprivileged children, pass tax cuts for the lower and middle classes rather than the wealthy, protect the environment and a...

<p>1) President George W. Bush is a liar.</p> <p>2) Secretary of State Colin Powell is a liar.</p> <p>3) Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is a liar.</p> <p>4) National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice is a liar.</p> <p>To the above facts we might add these: There are no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, none were there when our war against Iraq began, and none will be found unless we plant them there.</p>

On Dennis Prager a seminar caller to guest host David Horowitz revealed a new Democrat propaganda talking point. He called in to disagree with Horowitz on the recall -- despite Horowitz not saying he was against it. The talking point he spewed was about the budget deficit. Here was the crux of it: It was all a conspiracy between Ken Lay and his good friend George Bush. CA had a good economy when Davis took over and Bush and Lay purposely destroyed it via energy scams OK, ludicrous. But, this will be spewed by the left and the like as...

<p>I have replaced this leftist drivel with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices.</p>

<p>I have replaced this leftist drivel with Folger's Crystals. Let's see if anyone notices.</p> <p>Please also see the comments on this thread by the Admin Moderator.</p>

washingtonpost.com All Along, Most Iraqi Relics Were 'Safe and Sound' By William Booth and Guy Gugliotta Washington Post Staff WritersMonday, June 9, 2003; Page A12 BAGHDAD, June 8 -- The world was appalled. One archaeologist described the looting of Iraq's National Museum of Antiquities as "a rape of civilization." Iraqi scholars standing in the sacked galleries of the exhibit halls in April wept on camera as they stood on shards of cuneiform tablets dating back thousands of years. In the first days after Baghdad fell to U.S. forces, condemnation rained down on U.S. military commanders and officials in Washington for...