everyone is talking, and posting, and blogging about karl rove...so what's one more.
i heard rush limbaugh talking about the judicial nominations and about how Bush is going to make a decision based upon how he wants his legacy to play out.
i think i know a legacy that his administration has already established. adding another peg to that board is the rove debacle. no i think this is pretty much a disaster. wait...catastrophe.
we are so lucky to have our government, and our way of life. what we are not fortunate to have is people being able to put other people in danger. Knowingly or not, rove knew about her. whether or not he knowingly exposed her, he knew. that's where we messed up. when someone like rove is able to be so close to such a high post as the President, and have so much say as an advisor...that's where we messed up. unfortunately the person that appoints those people are no better. so are we any better? thank God for 4 year, and 2 term limits!!!
Here's one way to begin changing the legacy that already exists...fire rove. keep your own words. don't hide behind a situation you created to wait until the manipulated outcome arrives. show your people you CAN do the right thing.
Where does the country go from here? Barack Obama in 2008.
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Gee, the left is quick to invoke the principle of innocent till proven guilty with child molesters, why not here?
Here's what should happen. If Karl Rove is charged with a crime, he should be suspended. If he is convicted, he should be fired. Of course, it is at the President's discretion to fire him if he is proven to have leaked information. Nothing has yet been proven. The Democrats and their ilk are always whining about fairness, that's fair, isn't it?
Let's take a look at some of the people who are demanding Mr. Rove's resignation.
Barbara Boxer, during the House bank scandal of 1992, wrote 143 worthless checks in 39 months on the House bank. That prompted Boxer to tell the Sacramento Bee that "I didn't pay enough attention to my personal checking account" She took the Barby doll defense -- "Math is hard!" The bad checks totaled $41,417 - or an average of $289.63 for each of her worthless checks. She didn't resign. She ran for the Senate.
Senator Chris Dodd and Ted Kennedy would go out for a fun night in Washington to a place called La Brasserie, and they were notorious for making waitress sandwiches. That's either Dodd or Kennedy on the bottom, waitress in the middle, and either Dodd or Kennedy on the top. Dodd hasn't resigned.
Ted Kennedy KILLED A WOMAN! He hasn't resigned.
Homosexual Congressman Barney Frank fixed traffic tickets for his lover, who was running a gay prostitution business out of Frank's apartment. Frank didn't resign.
Senator Robert Byrd was a recruiter for the Ku Klux Klan. He recruited 150 people into that terrorist organization. Byrd says he never did anything violent, but can he swear the same about the 150 people he recruited? He surely has blood on his hands. Byrd won't resign.
Senator Joe Biden was forced to drop his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 because he had plagiarized from British pol Neil Kinnock. Biden is still in the Senate.
Bill Clinton lied under oath. He was impeached. Arkansas lifted his law license. But he did not resign.
That's just off the top of my head. I'm sure I could find more if I did a bit of research. If you are a liberal, all sins are forgiven. If you are a conservative, you are savaged at the slightest misstep.
don't worry friends. i think the lone ranger is actually the bitter chairman of the Nevada young republicans. check him out here
I just checked out the lone ranger's blog. It's full of all sorts of things you would expect from a broadcaster/journalist: namely he doesn't seem to be able to formulate his own thoughts but is really good at repeating what he overheard (I can say this with some authenticity. I dated a journalist in college.).
First of all, how insecure do you have to be (particularly at his age?!?) not to allow people to respond to your points of view? Also, why is it that if you are a liberal Democrat (as I am, just left of center, really) that you’re automatically branded as an “America hater”? But that’s another posting.
I especially found the posting about the scrubbing of the space shuttle launch particularly entertaining. As an artist (and someone who considers himself pretty intelligent) I always take pity on those that only see the world in strict black and white and seem incapable of connecting the intellectual and artistic dots. I mean, the tiles are CERAMIC!!! And the windows may be plastic but we're not talking about soda-bottle plastic here. We're talking about industrial-grade, flatten-your-ass-to-the-ground plastic windshields. They,um, kind of have to be able TO RESIST THE VACUUM OF SPACE!!! (that sounded better when I shouted it at my computer screen.) My grandparents owned a ceramics shop before my grandfather died. I thought everyone knew how easily CERAMICS broke! (Oh. Perhaps lone ranger went to a strict Jesus school where art and science classes were considered frivolous and dangerous to the faith.) We weren't allowed to walk from front to back of the store without our hands in our pockets!
Perhaps lone ranger can't understand. Perhaps he simply lacks the imagination to appreciate why we should continue funding the space program. For some reason you never seem to be able to use the reason "because it's there" on a conservative. They have to have hard numbers and be convinced. I'll use an example from my own area of expertise. It's become very fashionable of late for music educators to have to explain the possible extrinsic benefits (i.e.: justify their existence) of music in the classroon. Yes it builds character. Yes it builds teamwork skills. But you can substitute baseball or hockey or quiz bowl for music in any of those statements. The one thing that you can't actually say to a board of education is that since time immemorial humans have been driven to create music. It's just something we do and is part of what makes us human. Dismissing music - and the arts in general - on grounds that it provides no external benefits demonstrates a remarkable lack of true spirituality and, to an extent, humanity, regardless of your political affiliation.
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