Alberto Gonzalez’s Justice Department Investigates Yet Another Republican
This is why Democrats sound so foolish. Both Ashcroft and Gonzalez have consistently prosecuted Republican politicians suspected of breaking the law. The Bush Justice Department prosecuted the heads of Enron and Worldcom and Tyco. They've jailed Duke Cunningham (R-CA) and Jack Abramoff and accepted pleas from two Ohio Republicans.
And again, they are going after the corrupt politicians - this time another Republican, Ted Stevens (R-AK).
Agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service raided the Alaska home of Sen. Ted Stevens (R) yesterday as part of a broad federal investigation of political corruption in the state that has also swept up his son and one of his closest financial backers, officials said.
Stevens, the longest-serving Republican senator in history, is under scrutiny from the Justice Department for his ties to an Alaska energy services company, Veco, whose chief executive pleaded guilty in early May to a bribery scheme involving state lawmakers.
I think conservatives have been nearly unanimous in their non-support for Stevens for some time now. He is our Robert Byrd (D-WV). He is the one who said he would quite the Senate if his "bridge-to-nowhere" was not funded (and it wasn't).
All this, and yet, the Democrats are claiming that 8 US attorneys were fired for political reasons and that the Justice Department is too politicized.
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Hillary Clinton's personal letters to a friend a Princeton were published in the New York Times; I think it was wrong for the letters to be published - just like I thought it was wrong when one of Bush's old confidants admitted to taping conversations with the President and shared that audio with the media. The audio actually made Bush look good. The Times believes these letters (or the small quotes they provide) help Hillary's image, but, in fact, the disdain for people in general should make people pause.
“Sunday was lethargic from the beginning as I wallowed in a morass of general and specific dislike and pity for most people but me especially,” Ms. Rodham reported in a letter postmarked Oct. 3, 1967.
Pity the poor masses. There's more...
“Can you be a misanthrope and still love or enjoy some individuals?” Ms. Rodham wrote in an April 1967 letter. “How about a compassionate misanthrope?”
Wow. But I think the most revealing quote is the one where she openly admits to having multiple personalities that bob and weave for any occasion:
“Since Xmas vacation, I’ve gone through three and a half metamorphoses and am beginning to feel as though there is a smorgasbord of personalities spread before me,” Ms. Rodham wrote to Mr. Peavoy in April 1967. “So far, I’ve used alienated academic, involved pseudo-hippie, educational and social reformer and one-half of withdrawn simplicity.”
She admits to being the chameleon she is. So the question becomes: who will she be AFTER the election?
We all know the answer; Democrats know it and you know it.
Wow. Chuck Schumer Discovered a New Part of the Constitution!
The Democrats are so cool; they just make up the constitution! What brilliance! Charles, you're gonna just love this one.
"Balanced" Supreme Court Clause: Hack left-wing Senators can simply REFUSE to consider the president's Supreme Court nominations because the Court has to maintain a "balance" (i.e. always 5 legislators and 4 constitutional judges).
Charles Schumer describes his new constitutional rule overturning over 200 years of precedence (which, by the way, is longer than Roe v. Wade to those of you in Rio Linda):
“We should reverse the presumption of confirmation,” Senator Charles Schumer
Statements like this make me feel good, however. It only affirms that my political affiliation with the Republican party is simply correct and not based on my personal opinions.
There is simply no justification for this heresy and I defy anyone to make an argument in favor of Schumer's position.
The Trillion Dollar Farm Bill (Democrats, take a bow)
Democrats are doing what they do best! They are going to raise taxes on companies that INSOURCE (i.e. employ Americans in America) to pay for a $1 Trillion Farm Bill over the next decade.
Democrats do not get to complain about the cost of the War on Terror reaching the $500 billion mark over 7 years.
$1 TRILLION! My Lord. They just spend and spend and spend. As much as I hated the unprincipled argument Republicans made that if you vote Democrat it'll be worse.
Looking back, they had a point. Republican overspending looks miserly compared to this.
I have not committed myself to any candidate on the GOP side, but I am leaning toward Fred Thompson.
The blatant hypocrisy and bias of the Washington Post's front page story today can be found in this sentence:
Thompson's work as a lawyer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s is one of the least explored aspects of a career that has taken the Tennessean with the imposing frame and deep voice from early fame as a Watergate lawyer to a Senate career, Hollywood stardom and now the brink of a campaign for president.
First, the statement is probably true. I don't know much about Thompson's career as a lawyer. But there is another presidential candidate, who is actually in the race, who worked as a lawyer at the Rose Law firm, that we know NOTHING about! She was a governor's wife, first lady for eight years, a two-term US senator and is the Democratic front runner for president. When will we be graced with an in depth report of her career as a lawyer?
The answer is never.
And look at the cases the writer chose to list in the first part of the article that makes the front page:
Before he was elected as a tough-on-crime U.S. senator from Tennessee or played a New York prosecutor on TV's "Law and Order," Fred Dalton Thompson worked as a lawyer who argued against the government's authority to regulate drug paraphernalia or to search a boat packed with 14 tons of marijuana.
Once, two decades ago, he urged that more witnesses refuse to testify before grand juries by invoking their constitutional right against self-incrimination, boasting that "I start on the assumption that my client will not testify." And over the years, lawsuits he filed helped a state worker win reinstatement to her job while exposing a parole bribery scheme and won money for the family of a Marine pilot killed by a helicopter blade when the family could not sue the Defense Department.
Thompson's work as a lawyer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s is one of the least explored aspects of a career that has taken the Tennessean with the imposing frame and deep voice from early fame as a Watergate lawyer to a Senate career, Hollywood stardom and now the brink of a campaign for president.
His work representing white-collar criminals, drug defendants and lawsuit victims has given Thompson an affinity with one of the Republican Party's perennial targets, trial lawyers, and he carries that connection with him even today as he prepares to seek the GOP presidential nomination. It also helped shape a view on lawsuit reform that has frequently put him at odds with his own party.
The MOST IMPORTANT part of Thompson's legal career and what lead him to Hollywood is that he BROUGHT DOWN the Governor of Tennessee as a prosecutor! He then went on to play himself in a movie about the case. My goodness. Is it so hard to simply write an article about facts and not spin it in this yarn trying to put him at odds with the base.
There's something going on behind the scenes; the Democrats know he's a threat and the media is trying its best by keeping mum on Hil and writing hit pieces on Thompson.
Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s aides, including one of his closest advisers, improperly used the State Police to gather information about the governor’s chief rival, Joseph L. Bruno, the State Senate majority leader, in an effort to plant a negative story about Mr. Bruno and damage him politically, according to a report on Monday by the attorney general’s office.
Hmmm. Using the POLICE to dig up dirt on your political opponent? Will there be an outrage? Of course not! This is a Democrat. This is the last you'll hear of it.
Dare I admit that Cindy knows more about history than most Democrats?
"The Democrats are the party of slavery and were the party that started every war in the 20th century, except the other Bush debacle. The Federal Reserve, permanent federal income taxes, not one but two World Wars, Japanese concentration camps, and not one but two atom bombs dropped on the innocent citizens of Japan – all brought to us via the Democrats." - Cindy Sheehan
Hmmm. I have to marinate on this statement before I comment on it.
I honestly believe in about ten years, Americans in white collar jobs other than sales will spend half of their work week working from home. The CNN article lists how we are currently configured in the Federal Government. I work every Thursday from home, and my hours are 6;30 - 3:00pm with 2-3 at the gym (since I eat lunch at my desk).
Employees at the Seattle office of the U.S. Government Accountability Office know that they have to put in 80 hours of work every two weeks.
Some employers understand that your working at the expense of everything else in your life isn't good for you ... or for them.
But they can configure those hours pretty much how they'd like, with the exception of the one day a week their managers require all employees to be at the office at the same time.
Plus, they can work from home for some of the week, or they can work compressed weeks so that they can take every fifth or 10th day off and still log their 80 hours.
Those policies are why that GAO office is among the recipients of the Alfred P. Sloan awards for excellence in workplace flexibility given by the Families and Work Institute (FWI) every
The key to working from home is planning your work for that/those days. Generally, I like to do most of my writing during Thursdays (memos, get caught up on emails, return phone calls, and do any PowerPoint/project type work. They key is not to make your home into an office, but to bring home appropriate work. If you begin to keep files at home and set up a complete satellite office, what happens is 1) you begin to work all the time and 2) you really don't want to ever go into the office.
Since I have my work scheduled the way I do, it's conducive for me to go into the office to get the things done I cannot at home because all I'll use at home is my laptop and perhaps one or two files.
