Posted on 12/28/2004 12:35:54 AM PST by nanak
While all the television news outlets are presenting their post-mortems on 2004, there are some issues in waiting that are poised to launch us into the New Year face first.
The Feinstein Doctrine
Leaking a portion of the 2005 Democrat Playbook, California Senator Dianne Feinstein will propose to the 109th Congress a constitutional amendment to abolish the Electoral College and replace it with a supposed one-person, one-vote system for electing the president and vice president.
“The Electoral College is an anachronism, and the time has come to bring our democracy into the 21st century. During the founding years of the republic, the Electoral College may have been a suitable system, but today it is flawed and amounts to national elections being decided in several battleground states.’’
While I do find it suspicious that presidential candidates and their supporters know exactly in which state to deploy most of the lawyers on Election Day, the alternative of leaving things as is could only be decried by the side that’s getting better at cheating.
Whether it is stacking the tally with an ever new supply of illegal aliens, convicts, and multiple voters, Democrats are getting better at manipulating a for-the-most-part willing media. Without the Electoral College, presidential candidates would need only campaign in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles: where the money is. One of the unfortunate side effects is the possibility of legislation that will be filtered through Washington, D.C. and three states. Anyone out there like the idea of Hollywood writing FCC regulations?
And let’s be real: who outside of California really cares what Dianne Feinstein thinks anyway?
A Big Non Story
This is a non story to those who know him best.
“Governor Mitt Romney, seeking to quash any questions about his political future said yesterday that he will run for reelection in 2006. Sounding feisty and girding for a campaign, Romney also threw down a challenge to potential Democratic rivals, saying that they should be prepared to face him. He accused them of spreading rumors that he will not run again to help their own fund-raising efforts.” (Frank Phillips and Glen Johnson, Boston Globe, December 23, 2004).
Romney spent the whole summer “fundraising” while now accusing his “rivals” of spreading rumors. If that’s all it takes to make his skin crawl, it’s pretty sad.
A personal observation and accusation: it looks like Massachusetts Republican candidates who ran for office were denied early access to campaign donor lists. What general party donations did come in were greatly withheld by the state party from those candidates, and that undesignated incoming campaign cash was hoarded and diverted to Romney’s war chest.
‘‘Well, I’ve got some news for them: I am going to run again. So come on in, I’m happy to face them. And if they want to think about whether they’re going to face an opponent named Romney in the fall, the answer is, yeah, that’s what they should plan for.”
Like Romney, the Indianapolis Colts were cocky last January. Unlike Romney, the Colts didn’t spit on their fans. Either way, the Colts didn’t make it to February.
Let’s hope for a rousing primary campaign challenge or this clown will muck things up and later run for President….
The Indoctrination Flu
One of the more insidious plots the Democrats use is that of exploitation of their influence over our nation’s students. Now while I don’t think any of us mind our kids being exposed to new ideas in school, the exclusive hard left direction they are sent off in is disturbing at best.
According to CNS, “The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) organized the group of second grade children on December 16th to protest JP Morgan Chase. An RAN press release stated that elementary school children intended to “hand deliver over 700 colorful handmade posters from children around the world asking William B. Harrison, chief executive officer of JP Morgan Chase, to keep his promise and stop lending money to projects that destroy endangered forests and cause global warming.”
While liberal hysterics fail to withstand a mature logical standard, they can be worded in ways that pliable young minds can morph into scientific truth. It’s hard to challenge young minds taught on a daily basis how to correct adults via Nickelodeon and the Cartoon Network, owned in part by socialist-millionaire Ted Turner.
“Today, young rainforest heroes from around the world are reminding JP Morgan Chase that its most important stakeholders are future generations. This is education in action, and these are kids the Earth can count on. These posters represent the wisdom and creativity of a new generation inspired to protect the Earth.” (Tracy Solum, director of “Rainforests in the Classroom” on the Rainforest Action Network website).
As we focus on the War on Terror, the battle for the classroom has yet to be waged. It will not be a quick and easy one since most professors feel their tactic is part of a greater cause, and kids now have been led to believe they’re “wise” teachers are always right.
An ugly combination.
Take Five
While CBS allowed Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins to host its “Late Late Show” (a show nobody with a job watches), guest and author Gore Vidal suggested that Bush “resign.” Robbins later proposed, “How about a good, old-fashioned impeachment?” Robbins cited as justification Bill Clinton’s being impeached “for lying about oral sex.”
Excuse me for being so blunt, but THAT’S an example of just how stupid these liberal elites think the rest of the country is. The retort can be summed up quite easily… again.
Bill Clinton lied under oath in a sexual harassment lawsuit of which he was the plaintiff. He also engaged in sexual activities in a federal workplace with a subordinate federal employee and lied about that as well under oath, an offense that anyone else would be probably prosecuted and perhaps jailed for. It has been speculated that Clinton has engaged in sexual activity, consensual and not, and has used the power of the United States government to conceal those activities through lies and witness intimidation.
Both Robbins and Sarandon know that the afore mentioned activities occur on an almost daily basis in their Hollywood neck of the woods, thus their inability to accept that the custom, while routine, is, under certain circumstances, illegal.
Robbins offered this hypothesis: “So it’s more of a high crime and misdemeanor to lie about oral sex than it is to lie about intelligence that forces a country into war?”
Many nations shared the accepted intelligence with a President and later Senator Clinton, John Kerry, numerous Democrats including Madeleine Albright and Sandy Berger, long before George Bush took office. Why Robbins remained silent then with all the inside knowledge he obviously possessed is troubling. Blaming Bush now is simply opportunistic and humorous.
The interview with Vidal was later followed by a “comedy” bit by Sarandon and Robbins in which they displayed Christmas cards they supposedly received from politicians.
“Season’s Gropings” from Arnold Schwarzenegger, “I’m Dreaming of a Really, Really, Really White Christmas” from Rush Limbaugh (mis-pronounced by Sarandon as ‘limbow’), and “Enjoy the Audit” from George and Laura Bush. Can anyone show me one report of a liberal or group that has complained of being politically targeted for an IRS audit? Did any one of these liberals ever come to the defense of one of the many conservative groups targeted by a politically-motivated audit ordered by the Clintons?
Sarandon also asked “Do Republicans ever get in trouble for having sex? It seems like it’s only the Democrats. And religious figures...”
Well, according to ABC News “More Republicans Satisfied With Sex Lives Than Democrats. New ‘Primetime Live’ Sex Survey Reveals That More Republicans (56 Percent) Are Very Satisfied With Their Sex Lives Than Democrats (47 Percent).”
The poll analysis “included a breakdown by many subgroups, including region, age and even political party affiliation, which is the topic of results released” on October 19th.
Of those involved in a committed relationship, who is very satisfied with their relationship?
Republicans -- 87 percent; Democrats -- 76 percent
Who is very satisfied with their sex life?
Republicans -- 56 percent; Democrats -- 47 percent
Maybe that’s some indication of why Bill Clinton’s criminal activities were ignored, condoned, and later excused by liberals like Robbins and Sarandon. Perhaps their sex is as shallow as their politics.
Wouldn’t that explain the tabloids…?
Who Set Up Whom?
Remember that National Guardsman who offered up that sucker punch of a question to Donald Rumsfeld about the lack of armor on vehicles in Iraq that sent the liberals into a temporary state of ecstasy? For those of you who missed out, it turns out the question was given that National Guardsman in advance by a boastful Edward Lee Pitts of the Chattanooga Times Free Press.
Well, on Tuesday night’s “Special Report” Brit Hume brought up information that the mainstream press has apparently been sitting on:. “According to senior Army officers, about 800 of the 830 vehicles in Wilson’s Army regiment, the 278th Calvary, had already been up-armored” when the question was posed during Rumsfeld’s visit with the troops. The remaining vehicles were up-armored within 24 hours of the widely publicized query.
“Before hand we worked on questions to ask Rumsfeld about the appalling lack of armor their vehicles going into combat have. While waiting for the VIP, I went and found the Sgt. in charge of the microphone for the question and answer session and made sure he knew to get my guys out of the crowd.” (From an e-mail later sent to Chattanooga Times Free Press editors by reporter Pitts).
So much for just reporting and not creating the news. It’s even to the point where reporters violate basic journalistic ethics and openly brag about it without consequence—as long, that is, as they’re taking swings at the Bush Administration.
Then again, I’m only a simple web columnist. Who am I to tell THEM how to do their jobs…?
They Make It So Easy
As if the Oil-For-Food scandal isn’t enough, our beloved United Nations has another rather sticky issue to address.
In what Robbins and Sarandon would probably consider a private matter, recently discovered homemade porn videos filmed by a UN logistics expert in the Democratic Republic of Congo have sparked a sex scandal that I dare sanctimonious liberals to compare to Abu Ghraib.
The perv in question was… French!
The poetic justice of being lectured on morality by the French before the war, one of whom now turns out to be a slimy pig is, well, quite satisfying.
The suspect turned his bedroom into a studio for videotaping and photographing sex sessions with young girls. The bed was reportedly surrounded by mirrors, complete with a hidden camera he could operate from the bed with a remote control. He was nabbed in a police sting operation before he could rape a 12-year-old girl. Three home-made porn videos and more than 50 photographs were found.
According to reports, investigations have already turned up 150 accusations of sexual misconduct (68 allegations in the town of Bunia alone) by UN staff and peacekeepers, despite the UN’s official policy of “zero-tolerance”.
According to the Times of London, “victims spoke of incidents of rape, as well as ‘rape disguised as prostitution’ where a girl was raped and then given money or food afterwards to give the appearance of a transaction having taken place. Three civilian UN staff have already been suspended. A man who worked for the UN’s investigative arm in Kinshasa has resigned after being accused of consorting with a prostitute. The Frenchman with the homemade pornography accused of pedophilia was sent back to France in October and is in jail facing charges of sexually assaulting a minor.”
Nothing from the big networks on this, but are we really surprised? After all, it’s all about sex.
I kinda look forward to this one playing out… next year
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For the first one, I think that had the election gone as the election in 2000, there would be more of a push. However, since the President won convincingly in both categories, there isnt a chance in HE_L_L that it will pass....
And the left tries to decry the right for "mucking about" with the Constitution? She should be laughed out of office.
BTW, George W. Bush would have comfortable won his re-election bid. In 2000, we would still have had to endure COUNTLESS county by county recounts since Albert Gore Junior's lead was only 0.53% more of the certified vote (which did NOT include all absentee ballots, since some states were not in contention).
California Senator Dianne Feinstein will propose... to abolish the Electoral College...
"The Electoral College is an anachronism, and the time has come to bring our democracy into the 21st century."
Says Her.
The REAL time has come, to stuff a sock in her mouth until she renounces allegiance to whatever 'democracy' she's pledging to and applies for citizenship to the REPUBLIC of the United States of America.
One thing is true; MITT ROMNEY's White House dream is doomed.
Hey Difi! We don't HAVE a democracy, we have a representative republic. Look it up.
Do you suppose we could use this confession/testimony of DiFink as evidence she is NOT an American--and Deport her to CUBA where she belongs?
France would be a good deportation destination!
Let's keep FIRMLY in mind that DiFi and the Clintons are related by marriage....and share abortionist Marxist-Leninist anti-gun doctrines....and Hillary is on the prowl....and the Electoral College is a MAJOR and CONSTITUTIONAL roadblock to wholesale vote fraud--now at the highest risk level we've ever seen, thanks to Soros/MoveOn....
ping to me
The Electoral College ain't goin' nowhere as long as TX, CA and NY are not the only three states in the Union.
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