''We are the President''

News that Speaker Hankey Pelosi is once again usurping the Executive's privilege to conduct foreign policy, and travel to Syria for a merde- à -merde brought several things to mind.  One can't help these momentary flashes any more than one can avert eyes when the braless girl at the Kwikee-Mart bends over.  I'm something of a history junky, so thoughts like oh,  P-38 Lightnings just happen. It's hard not to think of House Speaker Jim Wright when I hear Pelosi's name. No, not the raw graft so much as the incredible sense of self entitlement that allows them to assume Executive prerogatives        Congressional NeoComs interfere in Reagan Administration dealings with Danial Ortega.   I certainly hope they don't chopoff their heads.  The obligatory, and endless eulogizing would be worse thangetting them back. Whoops.  Sorry, that girl bent over again.  Must cleanse mind.

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I certainly understand why the American left gets so agitated over Ann Coulter. She is to democrats what lye soap is to dirt, a particularly harsh cleanser.· But I've never understood the animus I know exists among some conservatives.· I can only conclude that her candid assessments activate recessive Rodney King genes causing a condition known as "Dodoitis".· Many confuse it with "Lindsay Graham Disease."  They are quite different. Ann retains a childlike clarity of vision which allows her to see things in black and white, an ability most adults lose after reading I'm Ok, You're Ok. Take this week's essay.· I refuse to parse the inane allegations the Democrats are making, to point out that Clinton's wholesale firing of Republican U.S. attorneys was worse, or to mention that some of these U.S. attorneys should have been fired a long time ago (Carol Lam). Bush should say: "We did it, it was political, and there's nothing you can do about it." The Dodo couldn't do that..

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Okay, Pat Tillman's death was caused, not by Taliban, but "friendly fire." Friendly fire, to use an entirely appropriate football analogy, is· when during the frenzy a pulling guard backs into his own quarterback and knocks him down, except the consequences are a good deal more severe than losing 8 yards. In the history of warfare, the number of deaths caused by misdirected artillery, battle axe, or hurled rock are, well, greater than one. Nobody knows. My dad was killed by a German mortar round at he Bulge, but who's to say it was German, and not one with USA stamped on it?· Did my mother want to know, do you think? Is Mrs. Tillman more complete now? Do we really want a homicide investigation into every battlefield casualty? Can the revelation that our Unknown Soldiers hated Wilson, or Roosevelt, and wanted to come home be far behind? Oops, sorry, they were Democrat icons. Never mind that slip. During the Vietnam war era, which script anti-American groups like A.N.S.W.E.R are still refining, Carole Burnett inaugurated that concept in her role as Peg Mullen in Friendly Fire. I mention this because, in one of those refinements to the script, the left have substituted "fratricide" for "friendly fire."· The two are not analogous.· Marxist school teachers like Michael I. Niman at Buffalo State U., with the flick of a wrist, have made that transmogrification. Tillman was murdered.· Why?· Because he was collaborating with Noam Chomsky, another, more famous, hardcore America hating Marxist school teacher. Here's who Pat Tillman was. An American professional football player who turned down a multi-million dollar contract extension to serve his country. He was killed in action. That he, like everyone who has ever served (me included) questioned the sanity of his superiors, or the skill of Army cooks, is beside the point. He is a role model in the truest sense, and any nation that wants to preseve itself requires ideals like this to prevail. That explains the microscopic attention being payed by turds like Nimen.

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The National Journal has released the 2006 Liberal/Conservative congressional vote rankings.  I suggest you bookmark the site.  In fact, I'll include the site in my links a bit later.  Last night Brit Hume noted that Barack Obama was the most liberal of all Democrat presidential nominees.  I don't know where FOX got this score           Who has her '04 & '05 rankings? of 78.8 for Hillary when my quick perusal shows her the most conservative of the liberal wannabes, believe it or not. That aside, it's easy to see why Obama Rama is the darling of the far left.  Only Durbin, Boxer, Kennedy, Leahy, Harkin, Murray, Reed and Mikulski wax him on the liberal slope.  The real enticement is the lack of any record a republican can use against him, or or so they hoped.

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In his book The Weather Makers, Tim Flannery puts aside his essential optimism for long enough to write: "If humans pursue a business-as-usual course for the first half of this century, I believe the collapse of civilisation due to climate change becomes inevitable."-    ' 'We should be scared stiff''' "I think people forget that the whole world is going to be affected," he goes on. "Climate change will affect China and the US." Indeed, Lovelock envisages that the Chinese people will press to live in a newly lush Siberia before the century is out. "No wonder Putin is arming like mad. In fact, Putin is one of the more far-sighted of global leaders." In the US, even now, distinguished academics are contemplating moving north, Lovelock says. "I gave a talk at Stanford [the Californian Ivy League university] a few months ago. Professors, including Nobel prize winners, were coming up to me asking where in Canada they should buy real estate because they believed me when I said much of the US will be uninhabitable."

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