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Illegal immigration’s bastard child

Hat tip to Doug Tennapel:

Full cartoon here.

April 25, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

Reid catching "Daschle Syndrome"?

Tom Daschle was once a darling in South Dakota. However, after his rise to the top of his party’s leadership (a party that was hostile to the ways of South Dakotans), the folks back home seemed to think that Dasshole was more of a DC kind of guy and less of a South Dakota fellow. As such, Dasshole was given the George McGovern treatment and given the heave-ho out of South Dakota…and the United States Senate.

Perhaps Harry Reid has caught Dasshole’s disease? From the Las Vegas Sun:

Home not so sweet

As Reid’s power grows in D.C., his support slides in NV

Sen. Harry Reid, once a fairly obscure conservative Democrat from the small state of Nevada, is all the buzz inside the Beltway lately – unfortunately for him, it’s the Washington and not the Las Vegas Beltway.

Reid is praised by his party’s national grass-roots activists for his forceful opposition to the Republican agenda and ability to keep Senate Democrats unified. His opponents concede – occasionally with close-fisted frustration – that he consistently bests his counterpart, Sen. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn.
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But Reid’s national stature among activist Democrats, concentrated on the blue-state coasts, carries risks for him at home, analysts say. His consistent opposition to President Bush and his need to mollify the liberals in his party is costing him in Nevada, where polls show he has lost support since becoming minority leader.
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The respect of MoveOn.org’s Matzzie, one of the more influential voices in liberal Washington, may be the ultimate gauge of Reid’s standing among activist Democratic circles these days.
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But it is the adulation of people like Matzzie that also endangers Reid at home. “Absolutely it hurts him at home,” said Eric Herzik, a UNR political scientist. “He has to take up the cause of the most liberal wing of the party.”

Reid is a liberal in a red state, a state that Bush won twice. Some say that Reid won’t run for re-election in 2010, so he can afford to be as liberal as he wants to be. Dasshole didn’t have that luxury.

April 25, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment

One woman’s treason is another woman’s Pulitzer

From RCP:

Mary McCarthy, special assistant to President Clinton and senior director of intelligence in his White House, has been fired by the CIA.

McCarthy allegedly told The Washington Post our NATO allies were secretly letting the CIA operate bases on their soil for the interrogation of terror suspects. Apparently, McCarthy failed several polygraph tests, after which she confessed.

If true, she was faithless to her oath, betrayed the trust of her country, damaged America’s ties to foreign intelligence agencies and governments, and broke the law. The Justice Department is investigating whether McCarthy violated the Espionage Act.

Yet, while she may be headed for criminal prosecution and prison, the Post reporter to whom she leaked intelligence on the secret sites, Dana Priest, just won a Pulitzer Prize for revealing the existence of these sites.

Actually, the EU’s investigation disputes the existence of these sites. Believe what you wish.

(Sidebar about McCarthy: she was appointed by another compromiser of national security…Sandy Burglar, er, Berger! Does this story get better or what?)

Many avenues of the MSM refer to Ms. McCarthy (a DNC- and Kerry-donor) as a “whistleblower”, in order to give her treason a positive connotation. This whole McCarthy affair shows the left’s hypocrisy:

Revealing the name of a well-known non-covert CIA desk jockey who recommended her hubby for a public jaunt to Niger (and then lied about it) is a violation of the law and an unconscienable act of malevolence; but…

Sharing classified national intelligence with an MSM outlet, in direct violation of the law and her oath of office and compromising our war on terror, is an act of heroism and courage and should be applauded?

Thanks for telling us which side you’re on, liberals…and as usual, it’s not America’s!

April 25, 2006 Posted by crushliberalism | Uncategorized | Leave a Comment