Jerry Falwell writing in the Conservative Voice online:
While I am a strong supporter of the State of Israel and dearly love the Jewish people and believe them to be the chosen people of God, I continue to stand on the foundational biblical principle that all people — Baptists, Methodists, Pentecostals, Jews, Muslims, etc. — must believe in the Lord Jesus Christ in order to enter heaven.
If you saw “The Aristocrats,” you’ll appreciate this joke that I discovered via Charlie at the Garnet Donkey, a blog published by Democrats at Swarthmore College that gives me hope for the future of my party:
I have found a humorous piece that more than anything I’ve ever read, which clarifies and accentuates the amazing hypocrisy of the Republicans. It’s much funnier than anything I could come up with on the funniest day of my life with an automatic comedy machine. If you have seen the documentary “The Aristocrats,” or know the joke behind it, you will absolutely love this. If you haven’t, you will love it anyway. I present to you Buzzflash.com contributer “The Walrus”’s “The Aristocrats: A Political Act.” Git ‘r’ done after the jump.
His approval rating should not be this high:
Public opinion of President Bush hit a new low, with concerns about the war in Iraq driving his approval rating down to 36 percent, according to a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll out Monday.
Only 38 percent said they believe the nearly 3-year-old war was going well for the United States, down from 46 percent in January, while 60 percent said they believed the war was going poorly. And 57 percent said they believe the March 2003 invasion of Iraq was a mistake, near September’s record high of 59 percent in the same poll.
“This is a White House, according to insiders, that is physically and emotionally exhausted, battered by scandal and drained by political setbacks,” the Washington Post reports today.
It’s obvious that the Bush team has bungled just about every issue that has popped up since they were reelected. But let’s not forget that their first term was one long fiasco too. (No other president has taken the country to war based on a whimsey, just for starters.)
The job of running the country is difficult, even for competent people:
“By the time you get to year six, there’s never a break . . . and you get tired,” said Ed Rollins, who served five years in President Ronald Reagan’s White House. “There’s always a crisis. It wears you down. This has been a White House that hasn’t really had much change at all. There is a fatigue factor that builds up. You sometimes don’t see the crisis approaching. You’re not as on guard as you once were.”
So now they’re tired and screwing up but unwilling to leave Dear Leader’s side. This sounds like Mr. Bush is a cult leader surrounded by selflessly devoted acolytes.
But isn’t it a danger to our national security to have people who are mentally diminished running the government? If they are too tired to perform at peak, they should put the good of the country ahead of the perceived good of the president and resign.
Let’s face it. Even if Bush Co. found bin Laden, they’d probably still blow it, just as they are with Zacarias Moussaoui.
“In all the years I’ve been on the bench, I’ve never seen such an egregious violation of the court’s rule on witnesses,” U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema said…
Brinkema said a lawyer for the Federal Aviation Administration had violated the rule by reading the transcript of the first day of the trial and discussing the case with several potential witnesses who were due to be called by both the prosecution and the defense…
The defense already had requested a mistrial following an error by the government during the questioning of an FBI witness.
“This is the second significant error by the government affecting the constitutional rights of this defendant,” Brinkema said. “More importantly, it affects the integrity of the criminal justice system of the United States.”
Sen. Barak Obama (D-Ill.) got some great ones off at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington Saturday night.
At the Gridiron Club dinner, with President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney a few seats away, Obama delivered the Democratic response to an audience of hundreds of journalists and dignitaries Saturday evening…
“The truth is, I’m terrified to be here,” Obama said at the beginning of his remarks. “Not because you’re such a tough audience, but because they’re serving drinks and I’m standing about 30 yards from the vice president.”
“Mr. Vice President, I know you came here expecting to be a target, which, it turns out, may prove easier for you than shooting at one,” Obama said. “But I do want to thank you. For years, we Democrats have succeeded in doing little more than shooting ourselves in the foot.
“You’ve taught us a valuable lesson,” Obama added. “Aim higher.”
Even Bush took a shot, so to speak, at Cheney.
…the president said with a laugh, adding that the media blew the incident out of proportion. “Good Lord, you’d thought he shot somebody or something.”
The tea leaves seem to indicate that Rep. Katherine Harris will drop out of the race to unseat Florida Democratic senator, Bill Nelson, this week. This move seems to have the pudgy fingerprints of the White House politbureau all over it.
Rep. Katherine Harris fueled already rampant speculation about the status of her campaign for the U.S. Senate when she released a statement Saturday promising a “major announcement” about her future this week.
The Longboat Key Republican’s campaign is barely stumbling along after revelations that she took thousands in illegal contributions from a defense contractor who bribed a California congressman.
And while she has had little to say about the matter, many others are talking, including Republicans worried about losing the Senate race and Democrats emboldened by the financial and political woes confronting Harris.
It didn’t help when rumors circulated last week that Harris might not stay in the race.
In her statement, Harris acknowledged all the speculation, notifying Republican activists at a meeting in Memphis that she was canceling her scheduled appearance there Saturday night “as I prayerfully prepare with my family, friends and advisors to finalize the strategy for a major announcement next week concerning my candidacy for the U.S. Senate.”
Harris continued: “I will continue to look to our founding fathers, who pursued their vision with integrity and perseverance, to discern the best course of action for the state of Florida and our nation.”
If she drops out, who will take her place? One name we’ve heard floated about is Rep. Mark Foley, a notoriously homophobic closeted gay Republican members of the U.S. House. That would certainly liven up the campaign.
Trump’s renaming of Lake Ontario has created a litmus test —
Yield, and rename it Lake America, at Donald Trump’s behest,
Like Google and Apple, which already capitulated,
Changing the name just like Dear Leader stipulated,
But there’s one defiant holdout — the original mapping site, Mapquest.
