Kerfuffles

Whatever the soon to be released George Bush with Jack Abramoff photographs demonstrate, we can be guaranteed that none of them could possibly be as disgusting as this posed portrait of the fawning first family of American President Bill Clinton appearing in public as toadies of the murderous Arafat.

Referenced at ‘Carnival of the Trackbacks XLVIII‘ from Wizbang and basil’s blog Picnic.

The following “great advice” is from Pat Cleary at Manufacturers’ Blog:

Senate Judiciary Committee To Vote on Alito Nomination

Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to vote on the nomination of Judge Alito to the US Supreme Court. Here’s a link to the full Judiciary Committee. Please phone, fax, or e-mail them and urge them to support his nomination.

Beginning tomorrow, his nomination should go to the floor of the Senate and debate will begin. For most of the past hundred Justices or so, debate is brief and more of a pro-forma exercise. Please click here to urge your Senators to have a quick up-or-down vote on Judge Alito. Even if they don’t support him, they ought to vote their conscience and move on. Delay is a way to postpone the inevitable, and is unfair to Judge Alito and the Constitutional process (anybody remember the Constitution….?) In fact, the latest poll shows that support for Judge Alito actually increased after his hearings, and his supporters now outnumber is opponents by almost 2-to-1.

This is the home stretch. If you care about legal reform, it begins at the top.

At Home With Hillary on the Race-Card Plantation

From “The New York Sun”: Senator Likens House to Slavery, Drawing Rebukes From Some.

Martin Luther King Jr. fought four decades ago to free black Americans from the legacy of slavery. Yesterday, Senator Clinton compared the Republican leadership of the current House of Representatives to the very idea the civil rights leader dedicated his life to fighting.

“When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run - it has been run like a plantation,” she said. “You know what I’m talking about.”

Mrs. Clinton, who was addressing a packed house at the Reverend Al Sharpton’s annual Martin Luther King Day event at Canaan Baptist Church in Harlem, continued: “It has been run in a way so that nobody with a contrary point of view has had a chance to present legislation, to make an argument, to be heard. The Senate’s not that bad, but it’s been difficult. It’s been difficult.”

Later in the afternoon, Mrs. Clinton’s press secretary, Philippe Reines, declined to comment on the senator’s allusion to slavery, but he said she was simply discussing “a top-down system that is fundamentally at odds with how the people’s House should operate.”

Mrs. Clinton’s reference to one of the darkest periods of American history drew applause, but some national political observers said yesterday that they doubt the comparison of mainstream politicians to slave owners will help the senator win broad-based support as she tests the political waters for a possible presidential campaign.

“The use of the term plantation is foolish, and my guess is that she will live to regret this,” a University of Virginia political analyst, Larry Sabato, said. “She’s playing the race card.”

DUH!

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Break the Law Now - Don’t Pay Later!

So what good are the laws? Dympha at “Gates of Vienna” is reporting on the punishment which is just being meted out for the Democrat vandals who slashed more than forty tires of twenty-five Republican vehicles shortly before they were to be used during the 2000 election in Wisconsin. The naughty boys are finally getting their just deserts. Their deserts are most certainly “desserts”, however they are not “just”.

At the same time we hear that Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is now also getting her “just deserts” for her campaign’s illegally spending more than $721,895 of what she was allowed under the law for her 2000 Senate race. Yes, the year 2000 — six years ago!

During the 2000 campaign Hillary Clinton had made a pledge with her GOP opponent, Rep. Rick Lazio, to not accept the large, unregulated donations known as soft money to fund their Senate races.

The wheels of justice have finally given her a big slap on the wrist for a bookkeeping error. Of course, as expected, Hillary bears no responsibility for any crime, as she was the candidate, not the bookkeeper. So what was her punishment for the flagrant flouting of campaign finance law? A $35,000 civil fine and election to the United States Senate for the past six years.

Opinion - StatesmanJournal.com: “Hillary had always condemned soft money, and the Clinton administration had pressed hard for its elimination. But most of her money in the 2000 race was soft — the result of large checks written by people who had who had slept in the Lincoln Bedroom or otherwise been feted at the White House, Camp David, Air Force One, etc.”