SOME PICKED UP POLITICAL PIECES AND QUOTES OF THE WEEK
- It didn't take long for the "bipartisan" Immigration Bill to be sabotaged by the Ultra Nationalist wing of the Repubican Party. On Thursday, it appeared that a bill was nearing passage in both houses of Congress that would allow for citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. The legislation would have provided a three-tiered path to legal status (after back taxes, fines, etc are paid), giving preference to those who have been in the country for five years or longer (there would have been no guarantees for those with less than two year's residency). As of Thursday evening everything looked great.
The bill seemed to have support from both Republicans (even the White House) and Democrats (Ted Kennedy and John McCain being the main sponsors), and even some GOP members in the House were optimistic of its passage. So What happened? The House Repubicans (most notably Tom Tancredo of Colorado) are holding up the bill, calling the residency policy "amnesty", while holding out for increased border security (Tancredo supports erecting an armed wall wall, complete with electronic fencing on the Mexican border). What's more, Senate Majority leader Bill Frist, who supported the measure as of Thursday, now suddenly wants votes on GOP amendments (read: POISON PILLS) to the measure. "I see little progess possibe on this bill because of the obstruction by Democrats", Frist was quoted as saying in Saturday's edition of the Boston Globe. So, let me see if I get this straight: Repubicans in both houses, the President, and even the Senate Majority leader were on record as joining Democrats in suport of this bill, yet its prospects appear bleak at this hour? It sounds to me that someone was "gotten to, as they say in the mob.
- The White House continues to insult our intelligence on a near weekly basis regarding the C.I.A. leak scandal. If we are to believe Scoter Libby's recent testimony, he was authorized by the either the President himself, or vice President Cheney (of course he did not specify which one), to leak intelligence regarding "information" about Saddam Hussein's alleged pursuit of uranium from Niger. Of course when Joe Wilson wrote an Op-ed piece in the Times debunking this "information" for the lie that it is, his wife's (Valery Plame) identity as a C.I.A. Operative was mysteriously leaked to Conserative columnist Robert Novack, a point that all involved in the scandal continue to claim that they know nothing about. This begs the obvious question: What is the process by which the White House deems information worthy of being revealed to the press, and who is authrorized to leak such info? Great question indeed. I am sure the actual answer is as creative as the work of fiction that the Bush Administration is offering up as a rationalization for this whole affair. Michael Kranish has a good account of this whole affair in Saturday'sedition of the Boston Globe. It can be viewed here:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/08/white_house_defends_cia_data_leak/
QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
"I saw it crash to the ground, and all of a sudden it was like 9/11, and I saw people run to the car, at least 10 men, and try to pull the crane off."
-Ironworker Mark Elliot describing the accident Monday on Boylston Street in Boston, in which three people died when a construction scaffolding collapsed
"When I got into the batter's box and got two strikes on me, my legs were shaking. I was like, 'Oh my goodness, what's going on?' I was going, 'OK, come on, breathe, do something."
- Red Sox Centerfielder Coco Crisp on his first at-bat in a Red Sox uniform
"I was down, but she was the one saying, 'Hey, don't worry about it. Things could be alot worse'."
- Boston College Hockey forward Chris Collins on his mother's MS diagnosis
"5..4...3...2...1...THEY DID IT, IT'S ALL OVER!!... THE BADGERS HAVE WON THE NATIONAL TITLE."
ESPN Announcer Gary Thorn's call as Wisconson won the Frozen Four Saturday evening
- It didn't take long for the "bipartisan" Immigration Bill to be sabotaged by the Ultra Nationalist wing of the Repubican Party. On Thursday, it appeared that a bill was nearing passage in both houses of Congress that would allow for citizenship for most of the 11 million illegal aliens currently in the United States. The legislation would have provided a three-tiered path to legal status (after back taxes, fines, etc are paid), giving preference to those who have been in the country for five years or longer (there would have been no guarantees for those with less than two year's residency). As of Thursday evening everything looked great.
The bill seemed to have support from both Republicans (even the White House) and Democrats (Ted Kennedy and John McCain being the main sponsors), and even some GOP members in the House were optimistic of its passage. So What happened? The House Repubicans (most notably Tom Tancredo of Colorado) are holding up the bill, calling the residency policy "amnesty", while holding out for increased border security (Tancredo supports erecting an armed wall wall, complete with electronic fencing on the Mexican border). What's more, Senate Majority leader Bill Frist, who supported the measure as of Thursday, now suddenly wants votes on GOP amendments (read: POISON PILLS) to the measure. "I see little progess possibe on this bill because of the obstruction by Democrats", Frist was quoted as saying in Saturday's edition of the Boston Globe. So, let me see if I get this straight: Repubicans in both houses, the President, and even the Senate Majority leader were on record as joining Democrats in suport of this bill, yet its prospects appear bleak at this hour? It sounds to me that someone was "gotten to, as they say in the mob.
- The White House continues to insult our intelligence on a near weekly basis regarding the C.I.A. leak scandal. If we are to believe Scoter Libby's recent testimony, he was authorized by the either the President himself, or vice President Cheney (of course he did not specify which one), to leak intelligence regarding "information" about Saddam Hussein's alleged pursuit of uranium from Niger. Of course when Joe Wilson wrote an Op-ed piece in the Times debunking this "information" for the lie that it is, his wife's (Valery Plame) identity as a C.I.A. Operative was mysteriously leaked to Conserative columnist Robert Novack, a point that all involved in the scandal continue to claim that they know nothing about. This begs the obvious question: What is the process by which the White House deems information worthy of being revealed to the press, and who is authrorized to leak such info? Great question indeed. I am sure the actual answer is as creative as the work of fiction that the Bush Administration is offering up as a rationalization for this whole affair. Michael Kranish has a good account of this whole affair in Saturday'sedition of the Boston Globe. It can be viewed here:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2006/04/08/white_house_defends_cia_data_leak/
QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
"I saw it crash to the ground, and all of a sudden it was like 9/11, and I saw people run to the car, at least 10 men, and try to pull the crane off."
-Ironworker Mark Elliot describing the accident Monday on Boylston Street in Boston, in which three people died when a construction scaffolding collapsed
"When I got into the batter's box and got two strikes on me, my legs were shaking. I was like, 'Oh my goodness, what's going on?' I was going, 'OK, come on, breathe, do something."
- Red Sox Centerfielder Coco Crisp on his first at-bat in a Red Sox uniform
"I was down, but she was the one saying, 'Hey, don't worry about it. Things could be alot worse'."
- Boston College Hockey forward Chris Collins on his mother's MS diagnosis
"5..4...3...2...1...THEY DID IT, IT'S ALL OVER!!... THE BADGERS HAVE WON THE NATIONAL TITLE."
ESPN Announcer Gary Thorn's call as Wisconson won the Frozen Four Saturday evening
posted by smialek316 at 1:38 PM
4 Comments:
Saddam Hussein's pursuit of Niger uranium wasn't alleged - it was fact. Joe Wilson never debunked anything because as the Senate Intelligence Committee showed, he is the liar - "Ambassador Wilson has offered a version of events that was inaccurate" - of this whole mess. Also Valerie Plame's identity wasn't secret, or leaked.
You forgot to mention...
Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone.
JFK was shot by one single bullet which hung in mid air for two sconds.
Ronald Reagan had no knowledge of the deals with the Contras.
You forgot the best one of all Smokin..."Iraq has weapons of Mass Destruction"...I think the weapons must be hiding on the same golf course as the killer of Nicole Brown Simpson, and Ronald Goldman
No, Matt and Smokin' Steve - Iraq's N/B/C weapons were hidden in plain site, as a careful reading of David Kay's report(a careful reading which only a few have done) winds up proving. Some were destroyed in US preassault airstrikes and others were moved to Syria before the war - Liveshot Kerry and the MSM wound up inadvertantly proving this point in late 2004 when they started screaming about weapons disappearing from the Al QaQaa depot - weapons that had disappeared before the US advanced, moved to dispersal and hiding as any military force does preparing for combat.
And Smokin' Steve - Lee Harvey Oswald did indeed act alone, as all the real evidence winds up proving it - and that bullet didn't hang in midair for two seconds; that's just conspriacy theorist fabrication, as is your cheapshot about Reagan and those "deals" to rip off the Ayatollahs and thus help fund Nicaraguan freedom fighters.
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