Who’s really the liar?
The fact is that Kerry's full Navy records have never been released, and probably never will, unless someone sues the military for a Freedom of Information Act release. Kerry isn't about to allow that file out, as his discharge papers will show that Kerry got booted out on a bad-conduct discharge due to his post-Viet Nam activities, which Thomas Lipscomb and the New York Sun confirmed two days after the interview. If they are released, his political career is over.
From Justice Scalia's dissent on the death penalty decision:
"The Court thus proclaims itself sole arbiter of our Nation's moral standards--and in the course of discharging that awesome responsibility purports to take guidance from the views of foreign courts and legislatures. Because I do not believe that the meaning of our Eighth Amendment, any more than the meaning of other provisions of our Constitution, should be determined by the subjective views of five Members of this Court and like-minded foreigners, I dissent."
They have lost their freaking minds!!!!!!!
Just when you thought the insano-Democrats couldn’t get any more insane, Senator Robert “sheets” Byrd (D-WV) compared Republicans to Hitler on the Senate floor. Excerpt from the senator’s “speech“:
Hitler’s originality lay in his realization that effective revolutions, in modern conditions, are carried out with, and not against, the power of the State: the correct order of events was first to secure access to that power and then begin his revolution. Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side. Instead, he turned the law inside out and made illegality legal.
The nuclear option is beginning to look increasingly attractive.
The problem with Byrd's argument (among many) is that while he wants to shroud the debate in terms of laws and the constitution what he's really fighting to save is Senate rules. Senate rules aren't laws - for the most part the only ones who give a shit when they are broken or changed is other Senators...
Senator Byrd does know filibusters - he filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
Michelle Malkin profiled some of his finer moments in 2001. In 2003 Byrd took to the floor of the Senate compared the Bush administration to Nazi mass murderer Hermann Goering.
RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman did not let the sun go down on Byrd's offensive extremism --an extremism matched by the Democrats' tactics on judges:
"Senator Byrd's invocation of Hitler's Germany in discussing the duty of U.S. Senators to advise and provide consent on judicial nominees is reprehensible and beyond the pale. While members of the Senate are free to agree and disagree on the issues, this poisonous rhetoric only serves to illustrate the desperation and weakness of Senator Byrd's position."
And how did the MSM cover "Sheets Byrd" comments?
New York Times - No mention of Byrd.
Boston Globe - No mention of Byrd.
L.A. Times - No mention of Byrd.
CNN - No mention of Byrd.
MSNBC - No mention of Byrd.
Fox News - First paragraph mention.
CBS News - Are you kidding?
NBC News - Nope.
ABC News - Byrd's Nazi comparison couldn't bump a NYPD Blue tribute from the rotation.
Not one elected democratic official to date has disavowed Senator Byrd's Hitler comparison. Not even Joe Lieberman. They don't get it. They are out of power, out of ideas, and are morally bankrupt enough not to recognize when one of their own has crossed way over the line and needs to be called on it.
Hearts and Minds
#1
"Our military and the insurgents are fighting for the same thing--the hearts and minds of the people--and that is a battle we are not winning."--Ted Kennedy, Jan. 27
"Thousands of mostly black-clad Iraqis protested Tuesday outside a medical clinic where a suicide car bomber killed 125 people a day earlier, braving the threat of another attack as they waved clenched fists, condemned foreign fighters and chanted 'No to terrorism!' "--Associated Press, March 1
Interestingly, the text of Kennedy's infamous speech seems to have disappeared from his Web site; the above link is to the Yahoo cache. We guess it's a good sign that he no longer stands by the speech, but we'd think more highly of him if he actually owned up to his mistake.
Mary Jo Kopechne could not be reached for comment.
#2
US troops in Iraq have discovered two caches of corpses this week. The dead were victims of the insurgents--terrorists--that Italian Communist journalist Guilana Sgrena can't seem to find the time to say a negative word about.
The victims...well, read for yourself.
Authorities found 26 of the corpses late Tuesday in a field near Rumana, a village about 12 miles east of the western city of Qaim, near the Syrian border, police Capt. Muzahim al-Karbouli and other officials said.
Each of the bodies had been riddled with bullets apparently several days earlier. They were found wearing civilian clothes and one of the dead was a woman, al-Karbouli said.
South of Baghdad in Latifiya, Iraqi troops on Tuesday made another gruesome discovery, finding 15 headless bodies in a building inside an abandoned former army base, Defense Ministry Capt. Sabah Yassin said.
The bodies included 10 men, three women and two children.
Children!
Those animals beheaded children.
Yet if we capture those responsible, if we have the gall to send them to Gitmo, there to await military tribunals or some other justice, we can be sure the ACLU will rise to defend them. The anti-war left, as exemplified by Guilana Sgrena, will embrace them.
Even though they beheaded children.
#3
Questions That Still Haven't Been Answered
1. Did Sandy Berger break top security laws and steal documents with criminal intent?
2. How big a role did Dan Rather actually play in pushing the forged documents, and has he yet publicly admitted they were forged?
3. Who forged the documents in the Rathergate scam, and how did they get into CBS' hands?
4. What did Eason Jordan say at Davos? Where is the videotape we know exists of his remarks?
5. Why is the mainstream liberal media completely ignoring these questions?
#4
If one is an incident, two is a coincidence, and three is a trend, feature this - top news executives at the New York Times, CBS News, and CNN, all toppled in the past two years by scandals that were heightened by pressure from new journalistic outlets. Taken in isolation, the departures of the New York Times’s executive editor, Howell Raines, and his managing editor, Gerald Boyd; the managing editor of the CBS Evening News, Dan Rather, and three other CBS executives; and the executive vice president and chief news executive of CNN, Eason Jordan, would each be big events. Taken together, they suggest a news industry in the midst of a stunning revolution.
