You can't soar with eagles if you flock with turkeys.
Think of me as existing in the realm of thought, intangible yet visible in the wings of your mind.
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. - Taking a swipe at a potential GOP presidential rival, Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday criticized Fred Thompson for suggesting illegal Cuban immigrants pose a terrorist threat.
"I was appalled when one of the people running for or about to run for the Republican nomination talked about Cuban refugees as potential terrorists," Clinton told Hispanic elected officials. "Apparently he doesn't have a lot of experience in Florida or anywhere else, and doesn't know a lot of Cuban-Americans."
Thompson posted Thursday on his campaign blog saying he had been referring to Cuban spies, not immigrants. "Our national security is too important an issue to let folks twist words around for a one-day headline," Thompson said in his post. "Cuban-Americans are among the staunchest opponents of illegal immigration, and especially so when it's sponsored by the Castro regime."
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This is a typical Hillary demagoguery.She went to a city where Cubans abound and spoke in the true fashion of a charlatan. I did not hear or see the video but I am pretty sure she spoke withthe affectation of a tin can orator atop a soapbox. Notice that Hillary is issuing blanket statements, like she is speaking of gospel truths.This is characteristic of demagogues and rabble rousers talking specifically to a selected audience, telling them what is pleasing to their ears, with utter disregard of truth and nuances of truth.
I find this attitude and mindset of a person running for the White House very disturbing. It is too self-serving, and translated on global scope on which the White House is anchored,Hillary will be looking at the world thru the eyes of a frog in a well looking at the sky. Fred Thomson summed it up succinctly:folks twisting words around for a one day headline.
The Senate majority hasn’t shaken off its euphoria from the last elections. First they act like generals and try to micromanage the war in Iraq and now they try to micromanage the functions of the White House by disrupting the Justice Department.
The minority Republicans are wise to dig in their heels against the whims and fancies of the wannabe generals and Commander-in-Chiefs. The democrats are unwittingly chipping away at the bastion of the executive branch and trying to usurp its functions. White House spokesman is right in asserting the fact that the Justice Secretary works at the pleasure of the president, not the senate. The Justice Secretary has done no wrong, regardless of how much the Senate try to unearth any anomalies in the department.
The sponsor of the resolution for a vote of no confidence, Charles Schumer, is acting like a snake oil salesman trying to grab the limelight, and the Senate did the wise thing when the GOP blocks Gonzales no-confidence vote.
By LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON - Senate Democrats blistered Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday with debate on a "no-confidence" resolution, butPresident Bush and fellow Republicans shrugged it all off as a waste of time.
No one predicted that the resolution would survive its test vote late in the day. But neither did Republicans or Democrats rush to defend Bush's longtime friend after he alienated even the White House's staunchest allies on a host of controversies — from the bungled firings of eight federal prosecutors to the handling of wiretapping authority under the USA Patriot Act.
Many Republican votes against the symbolic resolution apparently sprang from a fear of political retribution, not support of Gonzales.
"There is no confidence in the attorney general on this side of the aisle," said Arlen Specter (news, bio, voting record) of Pennsylvania, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, announcing he would vote for the no-confidence resolution.
The debate itself shook loose another Republican call for new attorney general.
"I have lost confidence in the ability of Attorney General Gonzales to lead the
Department of Justice effectively," Sen. Susan Collins (news, bio, voting record), R-Maine, said in a statement. "I think his continued tenure does not benefit the department or our country."
Other Republicans complained that the Democratic resolution was an effort to pressure Bush into firing Gonzales — an unlikely prospect in light of Bush's strong continued support.
"They can have their votes of no confidence, but it's not going to make the determination about who serves in my government," Bush said in Sofia, Bulgaria, the last stop on a weeklong visit to Europe.
"This process has been drug out a long time," Bush added. "It's political."
The attorney general said he was paying no attention to the rhetoric on Capitol Hill.
"I am not focusing on what the Senate is doing," Gonzales said at a nuclear terrorism conference in Miami. "I am going to be focusing on what the American people expect of the attorney general of the United States and this great Department of Justice."
Democrats said it was only fair that senators give Gonzales an official up-or-down vote, especially after five GOP senators had called for the attorney general's resignation and many more had publicly criticized him.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., one of the resolution's sponsors, said any attorney general should uphold the law rather than the president's political priorities.
"The attorney general has not lived up to this standard, and he has lost our confidence," Feinstein said on the Senate floor.
So-called "no-confidence" votes on members of the executive branch are rare, in part because the Constitution mandates the separation of powers. The only way Congress can remove a presidential appointee is through impeachment.
Majority Democrats toned down the language in the one-sentence resolution to attract more support from Republicans.
"It is the sense of the Senate that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales no longer holds the confidence of the Senate and of the American people," read the measure, sponsored by Sens. Chuck Schumer of New York and Feinstein.
Sixty votes were required Monday to bring the resolution to a formal debate.
Republicans protested the measure on constitutional grounds. There was scarcely any defense of Gonzales himself.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (news, bio, voting record) called the debate a waste of time.
"It will have no impact on the tenure of the attorney general," McConnell, R-Ky., told reporters on a conference call.
Sen. Orrin Hatch (news, bio, voting record), R-Utah, did not defend Gonzales. He said the resolution failed constitutional and procedural tests and he took issue even with the notion that it accurately represented both houses of Congress or public sentiment.
"This joint resolution amounts to sound and fury, it signifies nothing," Hatch said on the Senate floor.
A broad immigration bill to legalize millions of people in the U.S. unlawfully suffered a stunning setback in the Senate Thursday, costing President Bush perhaps his best opportunity to win a top domestic priority. The bipartisan compromise championed by the president failed a crucial test when it could not attract even a simple majority for an effort to speed its passage.
Supporters could muster only 45 votes to limit debate and speed the bill to final passage, 15 short of what was needed on the procedural maneuver. Fifty senators voted against cutting off debate.
Most Republicans voted to block Democrats' efforts to advance the measure.
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Congress is spinning its wheels on this legislation. By all accounts, this bill is bipartisan and to top is all, is Dubya’s pet project. Despite Sen. Kennedy spearheading the passage of the bill, it did not make the grade. One would think that the Democrats are in the minority.
Proponents of the bill assert that we are a nation of immigrants. It is true, but the logic does not apply to the legislation in question. The more than 12 million undocumented residents are not immigrants, period
I have a surefire way to make congress stop spinning their wheels. ENFORCE the current laws of the land, and everything will fall into their right places.
A new biography’s unflattering portrayal of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton as someone who “camouflages” her real self for political gain is starting to attract attention — and not for the salacious stories most books recount about the Clintons.
“A Woman in Charge,” by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Carl Bernstein, gives scant attention to the tense days the former First Lady spent in the White House when Bill Clinton was sneaking around with his intern, Monica Lewinsky. Instead, the former Washington Post reporter, who helped blow the lid off Watergate, attempts to portray Hillary Clinton as someone who is willing to rewrite her own history to advance the political career she put on hold when she moved to Arkansas with her college sweetheart who would later become president.
“This is a woman who led a camouflaged life and continues to,” Bernstein told TODAY host Matt Lauer on Friday in an exclusive interview. “This book takes away that camouflage.” The book, which he called the first “real biography” of Hillary Clinton, will be available on June 5.
To tell the story of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s journey from a humble childhood marked by abuse at home to the White House, and later the U.S. Senate, Bernstein talked to about 200 close friends and advisers to the Clintons. Bernstein said he learned a lot about Hillary Clinton, including steps she took to try to silence the various women linked to her husband throughout his political career.
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I have long harbored this gut feeling that there is something phony about Hillary R. Clinton in the way she talks to her audience. It appears that she takes on the stance of an actor, tailoring her rhetoric to what is pleasing to the specific audience, making her sound like a tin can orator – irritatingly loud and without substance. I could not quite articulate an adequate description of this Hillary character, until now that Carl Bernstein said so in his book, i.e. - inauthentic. She is patently artificial in her ideas and corresponding words, so much so that she appears flip-flopping on important issues. Naturally when there is no solid foundation for ideas, the substance expressed in words keep changing like the colors of a chameleon. I would not entrust the onus of the White House to this unstable character.
