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What Clinton scandal?
NewsMax reports that Republican’s who are going after President Bush don’t
seem to have time to look into one of President Clinton’s most impeachable
offenses and major abuses of power:
Senate Republicans are so busy helping Democrats investigate the Bush
administration that they haven't had time to push for the release of the
unredacted version of Independent Counsel David Barrett's report on
Clinton-era IRS abuses.
A spokesman for Sen. Arlen Specter, who's been leading the investigation
into potential abuses under the Bush administration's terrorist surveillance
program, has yet to return NewsMax.com's call inquiring what Specter has
done to secure the full Barrett Report's release.
The Specter aide admitted that he didn't know what the Barrett Report was.
Released three weeks ago with over 100 pages redacted, the still-sealed
portion of Mr. Barrett's findings is said to detail IRS abuses under the
Clinton administration when the agency was run by Hillary-confidante
Margaret Milner Richardson.
Bayh: Cheney could be in trouble
The
Des Moines Register reports that Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN) fell just
short of calling for the resignation of Vice President Dick Cheney. Bayh was
referencing the leaking of information concerning informing the public that
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson was sent to Niger by his C.I.A. operative
wife:
Indiana Sen. Evan Bayh said in Des Moines on Monday that if Vice President
Dick Cheney urged a subordinate to leak classified information for political
gain, "We've got to get to the bottom of it."
But the Democrat taking steps toward a 2008 presidential nomination bid
stopped short of joining Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard
Dean's call for Cheney's resignation.
"A leak in classified information is against the law, and if he was urging
that, then obviously that would be a very serious thing," Bayh, a member of
the Senate Intelligence Committee, said in an interview. "But I think we've
got to find out what the facts are."
Bayh said that he would decide soon if he would seek the 2008 Democrat
nomination for president.
Cheney accident
The
Washington Post offers a wrap on the Cheney accident and the comic field
day that resulted. Also, a report on David Gregory exhibiting very rude
childish behavior:
It was one of those "everyone's a wise guy" days in Washington yesterday,
thanks to Dick Cheney. Quipping at the vice president's expense was like
shooting fish, or quail -- oh, never mind.
Hillary supports more taxes
Commentary by: Roger Wm. Hughes
Sen. Hillary Clinton once again called for raising taxes in her most recent
e-mail. Clinton opposed the budget cuts proposed by President Bush using her
favorite line, "Once again, the message is ‘you are on your own.’"
In her latest e-mail, Clinton also stated:
George W. Bush wants to produce Social Security "savings" over the next
decade at the expense of widows and orphans, even as he lavishes trillions
of dollars in tax cuts on the wealthy and well-connected.
Clinton and the Democrats can be expected to continue to offer the false
promise that if we just tax the rich enough all of our fiscal problems can
go away. However, past records show that when the taxes are raised on the
rich, those who pay Democrats for tax loopholes pay no taxes. Besides, there
isn’t enough money to fund the federal government if we take all of the
wealthiest Americans' money. So, who are the Democrats kidding?
They are swindling the votes from Americans the same way they have done in
the past. Clearly, this and the theme that Bush is incompetent will be one
of the strong themes of the 2006 election. Hopefully, more Americans now
know that lower taxes result in greater economic growth.
Speaking of the incompetent theme, Clinton used it in the same e-mail
calling for higher taxes:
It's hard to judge which is doing more harm - their calculated proposals
like denying benefits to widows and orphans or their mind-boggling
incompetence. But, one thing's for sure. We can't let America's families
bear the brunt of either their bad ideas or their stunning failures of
execution.
Clinton neglected to mention the failures of her husband's administration to
deal with the flawed financial premise of Social Security. Instead she brags
about the fact that the Democrats stopped the reform of Social Security
under the Bush administration:
We thought the president got the message last year when Congress stopped his
scheme to privatize Social Security. But, when it comes to protecting the
health and well-being of America's families, this administration just
doesn't get the message.
It seems obvious that Hillary Clinton has not been getting any benefit from
her anger management classes.
Liberals vs. Democrats
The question the extremist liberal organization MoveOn.org is putting to
their membership is whether they go after moderate Democrats like Joe
Lieberman. Here is a part of their latest e-mail:
Dear MoveOn member,
This year our top goal is breaking the right-wing Republican stranglehold on
Congress. That is our main focus every day.
It is also part of our work together to hold Democrats to their Party's
highest values on issues like foreign policy, economic prosperity and good
government.
That sometimes means grappling with specific right-wing Democrats who
consistently side with big corporations and right-wing Republicans.
One approach is to support progressive primary challengers to right-wing
Democrats. We think this makes sense but it's a big decision so we wanted to
check with you and other MoveOn members. What do you think? Click below to
let us know.
Allen on top
Sen. George Allen (R-VA) came out on top in the preference poll conducted at
the gathering of the conservative faithful at the CPAC conference in
Washington, D.C. Here are the results:
George Allen: 22%
John McCain: 20%
Rudy Giuliani: 12%
Condoleezza Rice: 10%
Bill Frist: 6%
Tom Tancredo: 5%
Mitt Romney: 5%
Newt Gingrich: 5%
Rick Santorum: 3%
George Pataki: 3%
Undecided: 4%
*All others tested received 1% or less
Gore’s stupidity
Former Vice President Al Gore recently bashed America and President Bush for
being too hard on Arabs. However, Gore failed to check on who was picking up
the tab for his America-bashing speech. It seems that Osama bin Laden’s
relatives were partially covering the cost of Gore’s hate speech. Here's
what NewsMax reports:
The Saudi Arabia seminar that was addressed by former Vice President Al Gore
over the weekend
in a speech that criticized the U.S. for being too tough on Arabs was
sponsored, in part, by Osama bin Laden's family.
On Saturday, the state-run Saudi news outlet Arab News reported that the
Jeddah Economic Forum, where Gore spoke, was funded by "Saudi Arabian
Airlines, the Saudi Binladin Group, Gulf One Investment Bank, Saudi Basic
Industries Corp." and an array of other big companies with ties to the
Middle East.
The Saudi BinLadin Group - which is Saudi Arabia's largest construction
company - is run by Osama bin Laden's brothers and cousins. Jeddah, the site
of the forum attended by Gore, is Osama bin Laden's hometown.
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