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It must be a stolen election

Listening to Democrats, you’d think that they never really lose elections. No, whenever they appear to lose an election, they are absolutely convinced that there must have been vote fraud involved. After all, the electorate surely wouldn’t reject their big government defeatist and cynical agenda, now would we?

Well, pass the Alka Selzter and the tinfoil hats, because here’s guessing that the Dems are going to get worked into another lather. From the AP:

A recount Wednesday upheld Republican Bob McDonnell’s narrow victory for attorney general in the closest statewide election in modern Virginia history.

Democrat Creigh Deeds demanded the recount after the State Board of Elections certified McDonnell the winner by just 323 votes out of more than 1.9 million cast in the Nov. 8 election — a margin of 0.0166 of a percentage point.

It must be Diebold’s fault…or, at the very least, Bushitlerove McRummyburton’s doing!

You would think that Dems, aka the Glass House Party, wouldn’t level accusations of vote fraud against anyone considering their shameful history:

* 1960 Kennedy over Nixon. Illinois and Texas ballot fraud, proudly admitted by unions and abetted by the Daley machine in Chicago. Heavily GOP districts had ballot boxes disapeear and later found at the bottom of Lake Michigan.

* 2000, multiple cases. Gore bribing homeless with cigs in WI, college students multiple voting in WI, a liberal judge keeping polls open in urban St. Louis where people voted multiple times, Gore getting ambulance chasers to squelch FL military votes while piously calling to “count every vote”, etc.; Maria Cantwell “finding” enough votes in heavily liberal Seattle after seeing how many votes Slade Gorton had through the rest of the state and eking out a narrow win.

* 2002, Tim Johnson over John Thune. Thune goes to bed with a serviceable 1500 – 2000 vote lead, then the last remaining county (which didn’t get counted until 10:00 a.m. the next day) gave Johnson a whopping 92% of their vote, and a 524-vote win. Thune, being no Al Gore, conceded. Dead Indians, lawyers intimidating rural SD voters, a fired Dem worker who had manufactured absentee ballot signatures, etc., all assured that Thune would get shafted. Karma turned out to be a real bitch for the left, though, as Thune deposed the bigger fish Tom Dasshole a mere two years later.

* 2004, multiple cases. In WI, Dem workers slashed tired of vans used for GOP vote bussing, not to mention at least 1200 known cases of invalid addresses used by Dems (story here). Democrook Christine Gregoire lost the vote and the recount to Dino Rossi in the WA governor’s race. As luck would have it, previously “undiscovered” ballots were “suddenly found” in liberal stronghold Seattle. These heretofore unknown ballots had made it through a count and recount before magically appearing. Surprise, surprise…Rossi loses the state by 120 votes.

There are scores of other examples on national, state, and local levels where Dems cheat to win. I’d document more of them, but I need to get to bed to get ready for work, so my paycheck can be pilfered and given to a welfare brood queen in Detroit. In closing, I’ll just say this: The Glass House Party needs to hide its stone collection, wouldn’t you say?

December 21, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Clintonista judge resigns over "Bush spied" non-story

From the Washington comPost:

A federal judge has resigned from the court that oversees government surveillance in intelligence cases in protest of President Bush’s secret authorization of a domestic spying program, according to two sources.

U.S. District Judge James Robertson, one of 11 members of the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, sent a letter to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. late Monday notifying him of his resignation without providing an explanation.

James Robertson sent his resignation to the chief justice.Two associates familiar with his decision said yesterday that Robertson privately expressed deep concern that the warrantless surveillance program authorized by the president in 2001 was legally questionable and may have tainted the FISA court’s work.

Buried in the comPost story is the obligatory disclaimer about what critics say:

Robertson is considered a liberal judge who has often ruled against the Bush administration’s assertions of broad powers in the terrorism fight, most notably in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . Robertson held in that case that the Pentagon’s military commissions for prosecuting terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were illegal and stacked against the detainees.

PowerLine has great info on the Hamdan ruling by Robertson: “A district court judge appointed by President Clinton bent over backwards to find that trial by a military tribunal isn’t good enough for Osama bin Laden’s driver and his fellow al Qaeda members who were captured fighting against us in Afghanistan”. His decision in the Hamdan case was reversed by the unanimous vote of a panel of the D.C. Circuit which included current Chief Justice John Roberts.

Lost amongst the implied adulation heaped on the judge by the comPost is a little background info on the judge. From NewsMax:

The press is breathlessly reporting that U.S. District Judge James Robertson has resigned from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court – “apparently” in a fit of conscience over news that President Bush was using the National Security Agency to monitor the telephone conversations of terrorists.

If the reports are correct, Judge Robertson’s conscience has evolved considerably since the days when he was dismissing one criminal case after another against cronies of Bill Clinton – the man who appointed him to the bench in 1994.

Old Arkansas media hand Paul Greenberg has long had Robertson’s number. In a 1999 column for Jewish World Review, Greenberg described the honorable judge as “one of the more prejudiced Clintonoids on the bench.”

As Accuracy in Media noted in 2000, Judge Roberston’s conscience wasn’t particularly troubled by the crimes committed by one-time Clinton Deputy Attorney General Webb Hubbell.

In two cases involving Hubbell, AIM reported, “Judge James Robertson threw out a tax charge and another for lying to federal investigators. Appellate courts overruled in both cases, and Hubbell then plead guilty to felonies in each case.”
Judge Robertson’s conscience also seemed to go AWOL when it came to the case of Archie Schaffer, an executive with Tyson Chicken – the company that had showered Mr. Clinton with campaign contributions and helped steer Mrs. Clinton to her commodities market killing.

Critics said Judge Robertson was merely returning the favor on behalf of the man who appointed him, when – as CNN reported in 1998, he “threw out the jury conviction of Tyson Foods executive Archie Schaffer for providing gifts to former Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy.”

Robertson had “granted a motion by Schaffer to overturn the verdict which found him guilty of giving Espy tickets to President Bill Clinton’s first inaugural dinner and gifts at a birthday party for the firm’s chief executive, Don Tyson.”

In the context of his past performance on the bench, Judge Robertson’s media fans will surely understand why some of us aren’t buying their claims that he stormed off the FISA court in a fit of outrage over perceived law breaking.

The Gateway Pundit has even more information on how this Clintonista is a judicial activist for leftist causes.

Funny how Clintonistas get intermittent and unpredictable fits of conscience, and even funnier how said fits coincide with agendas!

As for the comPost: Nope…no liberal media bias!

December 21, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

"The Left’s privacy hypocrites"

This goes beyond the “Bush spying” hullaballoo, so I’m not beating a dead horse here. From Michelle:

Allow me to sum up the homeland security strategy of America’s do-nothing brigade, led by the armchair generals at The New York Times and ACLU headquarters:

First, bar law enforcement at all levels from taking race, ethnicity, national origin and religion into account when assessing radical Islamic terror threats. (But continue to allow the use of those factors to ensure “diversity” in public-college admissions, contracting, and police- and fire-department hiring.)

Second, institute the “Eenie-meenie-miny-moe” random-search program at all subways, railways and bus stations. (If Atta had been subjected to this policy, he would have certainly…still carried out his mission! – Ed.)

Third, open the borders, sabotage all immigration enforcement efforts and scream “Racist” at any law-abiding American who protests.

Fourth, sue. Sue. Sue.

Fifth, yell “Connect the dots!” while rebuilding and strengthening the walls that prevent information-sharing between the CIA, State Department, Justice Department, the Department of Homeland Security and other key government agencies. (Also, put said wall’s erector on the 9/11 Commission and prohibit her from being questioned about her complicity! – Ed.)

Sixth, hang the white flag and declare victory. (France always forgets the second part of this equation! – Ed.)

Seventh, sit back and wait to blame the president for failing to take aggressive, preventative measures when the next terrorist attack hits.

Repeat.

The hindsight hypocrisy of the civil-liberties absolutists never ceases to amaze. And their selective outrage over privacy violations never ceases to aggravate. Last Friday, The New York Times splashed classified information about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of international communications between suspected al Qaeda operatives and their contacts all over the front page in a naked attempt to sabotage the Patriot Act. This Tuesday, the newspaper continued to stir fears of “spying on all innocent Americans” by recycling old ACLU complaints about FBI monitoring of radical environmental groups, antiwar activists and some Muslim leaders and groups.

Alarmists in the Beltway want investigations (though not of the leakers who fed the Times its story). The civil-liberties sky is falling, they say, and never have Americans been subjected to such invasive snooping. (“We want to know who’s violating our rights…but we don’t want to know who broke the law by leaking classified information to us to report to the world!” – Ed.)

Funny enough, another story about unprecedented domestic spying measures broke a week before the Times’ stunt. But neither the Times nor the ACLU nor the Democratic Party leadership had a peep to say about the reported infringements on Americans’ civil liberties. Sen. Charles Schumer (by the way, Chuck, how’s that apology to Lt. Gov. Michael Steele over his stolen credit report coming along?) did not rush to the cameras to call the alleged privacy breach “shocking.” Sen. Robert Byrd did not awake from his slumber to decry the adoption of “the thuggish practices of our enemies.” The indignant New York Times editorial board did not call for heads to roll.

That’s because the targets of the spy scandal that didn’t make the front-page headlines were politically incorrect right-wing extremists.

According to the McCurtain Daily Gazette, in the days after the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing, the U.S. government used a spy satellite to gather intelligence on a white separatist compound in Oklahoma. The paper obtained a Secret Service log showing that on May 2, 1995, two weeks after the April 19 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building that killed 168 people, the FBI was trying to locate suspects for questioning.

Investigators zeroed in on the compound in nearby Elohim City. “Satellite assets have been tasked to provide intelligence concerning the compound,” the document said, according to the Gazette and Associate Press. The Gazette noted that “America’s spy-satellite program is jointly under the control of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Targeting decisions are classified; however, persons familiar with the project say any domestic use of these satellites is barred by agreements between the CIA and DoD.” Photoreconnaissance satellites that gather intelligence from space usually target hostile governments and foreign terrorists. “The domestic use of a military satellite for domestic spying is a violation of DoD and CIA regulations regarding the proper use of top-secret national security satellites,” the Gazette reported.

But with the exception of a brief Associated Press recap, the story received absolutely no mainstream-media attention. No civil-liberties circus. No White House press-corps pandemonium.

The left believes the government should do whatever it takes to fight terrorists — but only when the terrorists look like Timothy McVeigh. If you’re on the MCI Friends and Family plan of Osama bin Laden and Abu Zubaydah, you’re home free.

The left really wonders why no one takes them seriously on defense matters, too!

December 21, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

We lived in a police state under Carter

Hat tip to Mike’s America for this bit. Excerpt:

Feature the new line of political attack the left is launching against the White House. It is criticizing the Bush administration for authorizing the government to listen in on telephone and email conversations between America and places such as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria. And the Democratic Party, in the latest evidence of the bubble-like separation from reality in which the party lives, is working itself into a lather from which it is going to take weeks to recover, if it can recover at all.
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Reasonable people may differ over the correct place to draw the line between civil liberties and national security in wartime, but this strikes us as a pretty clear-cut case. The Fourth Amendment states, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”

At issue is whether the listening in on overseas phone conversations is, in a time of war, “unreasonable.” A person is now subject to a warrantless search when boarding an airplane, entering the New York subway system, or even entering the building that houses the office of the New York Civil Liberties Union. Why should an international phone call be inviolate?

Beyond the Fourth Amendment, the law that is said to restrict the Bush administration’s activities is the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978. But, contrary to what you may read in some other newspapers, that law does not require that all such surveillance be authorized by a court. The law provides at least two special exceptions to the requirement of a court order. As FISA has been integrated into Title 50 of the U.S. Code, Chapter 36, Subchapter I, Section 1802, one such provision is helpfully headed, “Electronic surveillance authorization without court order.”

This “without court order” was so clear that even President Carter, a Democrat not known for his vigilance in the war on terror, issued an executive order on May 23, 1979, stating, “Pursuant to Section 102(a)(1) of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1802(a)), the Attorney General is authorized to approve electronic surveillance to acquire foreign intelligence information without a court order.” He said, “without a court order.”
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America is in a war with Islamic extremists who are trying to defeat our country. “Two of the terrorist hijackers who flew a jet into the Pentagon, Nawaf al Hamzi and Khalid al Mihdhar, communicated while they were in the United States to other members of al Qaeda who were overseas,” Mr. Bush said in his radio address. “But we didn’t know they were here, until it was too late.” The president said the activities he authorized by the National Security Agency “make it more likely that killers like these 9/11 hijackers will be identified and located in time.”
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The majority of Americans, we’re confident, are grateful to Mr. Bush for setting the listening in motion and hope it succeeds in preventing another attack like the one on September 11, 2001. If this listening were not happening, it’d be a scandal. You don’t even need a wiretap to predict that the same partisan Democrats who are now denouncing the president for supposedly infringing on civil liberties would be denouncing him for failing to take the steps necessary to protect us.

As Michelle Malkin points out, now Baghdad Jim McDermott (Seattle Moonbat formerly on the…I’m not kidding…House Ethics Committee) is complaining about the wiretapping. Considering he had an illegally intercepted and illegally recorded call from Rep. John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) years ago and was fined $60k for it, this qualifies as another degree of gall, doesn’t it? More selective outrage, I suppose.

I’ve documented where Clinton did this kind of spying, too, and even for non-security reasons. It’s not until a Republican president does it to stop Islamofascists from destroying the country that the practice becomes abhorrent to the left.

If we don’t do it, and an attack happens, then Bush gets castigated for not preventing the attack. If we do it and no attacks happen, then Bush gets castigated for being a dictator, much like Carter and Clinton were similarly criticized. Oh, wait…Carter and Clinton weren’t similarly criticized, were they? Then drink your glass of STFU and let the man do his freakin’ job, willya?

Like the piece says, reasonable people can differ over the correct place to draw the line between civil liberties and national security in wartime. Fair enough. However, the disgusting hypocrisy displayed by the left (not to mention their heinous politicization of our security and defense) clearly excludes them from the “reasonable people” category, doesn’t it?

December 21, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Kerry’s take on taxes

This is from one of my newly blogrolled sites, It’s All George Bush’s Fault:

December 21, 2005 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment