Saturday, August 4, 2007

This Week's Liberal Follies

  • Congressional Democrats are under fire for questionable voting methods in the House. Now the matter will be looked at by the House Ethics Committee - which is controlled by Democrats. How likely are the HEC Democrats to condemn their colleagues?
  • John Edwards scathingly criticized other presidential candidates for accepting money from Rupert Murdoch's corporation and then stated that he (Edwards) would never accept money from Murdoch. Of course then it came out that Edwards had received money for a book deal from one of Murdoch's corporations. Those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones...
  • Barack Obama managed to offend Pakistanis by saying that if elected president he would withdraw troops from Iraq and attack Pakistan if the Pakistanis did not effectively fight terror in their own country. I thought Obama was more politically savvy than to say something like that.
  • Some Democrats are complaining that the tragic bridge collapse in Minneapolis was the fault of Republicans because Republicans refused to devote enough funds to maintaing roads. How crass is it to turn a tagedy into a partisan name-calling bash?
  • Barack Obama also denounced the use of nuclear weapons to combat terrorism.

Can anyone add to this list?

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The moaning and groaning over proposed changes to FISA comes to mind. Nancy Pelosi is leading the liberals in an attempt to aid the enemy and undermine the safety of all US citizens by continuing to not allow the US to monitor calls from one foreign source to a foreign destination that pass through the US telecommunications system.

I read some posts basically contending that they don't want the Bush administration reading their emails and monitoring their calls.

I hope that changes in FISA are made to allow us to monitor foreign communications that pass through the US telecommunications system.