What I Would Have Said Yesterday
A brief tour....
***Gas prices continue to tumble, to an average of $2.618 per gallon for regular unleaded, which may be accomplishing what all the President's spinners and all the President's defenders, and even the President himself, have done next to nothing to bring about: convincing the American people that the economy is not in the toilet, but is growing at a Reaganesque clip.
And not a moment too soon.
***Two of the Senate GOP's most embattled incumbents who have been trailing in the polls badly all summer, Rick Santorum and Mike DeWine, have pulled into statistical dead heats with their Donk challengers, Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown.
They say voters don't start paying attention to politics until after Labor Day. They also say that polling "adults" as opposed to "likely voters" renders a poll as useless as a condom vending machine in the Vatican men's room. Perhaps the two are related.
I mean, if John Zogby is having to admit this timely GOP surge, it MUST be significant.
***The House is moving with dispatch to give the President the military tribunal authority already granted him by Article II of the Constitution but which the SCOTUS, in Hamden, re-wrote to claim he didn't. And guess who's standing in the way of the Senate following suit?
There are inescapable reasons why John McCain will never be the Republican nominee for president of the United States. This is just another example.
***There's good news from Iraq, and plenty of it. Meanwhile Democrats are finally starting to say what they've really believed all along: that everybody would have been better off if Saddam Hussein had been left alone and in power.
You tell me which party is more grounded in reality.
***Fussy Russy Feingold doesn't like the redundant term "Islamic fascist":
If you ever wondered what dhimmi-ism looked like, there it is. Feingold doesn't know the first thing about Islam, and is desperate to spread that ignorance far and wide and get credit for it with his hand-picked audience of wannabe overlords. Islam is not "peaceful," it is aggressively imperialistic. Jihad, or "holy war," is the Great Commission of Islam. It is why terrorists call themselves "Islamic fundamentalists." What they seek to do - conquer the world for Allah and impose theocratic dictatorship on all of humanity, just as the "prophet" Mohammed set forth over fourteen centuries ago, which, for non-Muslims, means convert, accept de facto slave status, or die - is the very epitome of "fascism."
How can we fight an enemy if we're too frightened to even accurately identify him? And how would doing so offend "peaceful" Muslims if they're as "peaceful" as Feingold insists they are?
Because Feingold and those of his ilk do not want to fight this enemy. They wish to fight a different enemy instead: the one residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
***Meanwhile, an "offshoot" of that enemy Feingold insists is not Islamic and not fascist and can only be combatted by substituting early 1970s Coca-Cola advertising lyrics to describe them tried to storm our embassy in, of all places, Damascus yesterday with machine guns, grenades, and a car bomb while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" Which means "God is great!"
"I'd like to force the world to bow, in perfect conformity
toward Mecca every evening, or we'll kill you, you see...."
***Gas prices continue to tumble, to an average of $2.618 per gallon for regular unleaded, which may be accomplishing what all the President's spinners and all the President's defenders, and even the President himself, have done next to nothing to bring about: convincing the American people that the economy is not in the toilet, but is growing at a Reaganesque clip.
And not a moment too soon.
***Two of the Senate GOP's most embattled incumbents who have been trailing in the polls badly all summer, Rick Santorum and Mike DeWine, have pulled into statistical dead heats with their Donk challengers, Bob Casey and Sherrod Brown.
They say voters don't start paying attention to politics until after Labor Day. They also say that polling "adults" as opposed to "likely voters" renders a poll as useless as a condom vending machine in the Vatican men's room. Perhaps the two are related.
I mean, if John Zogby is having to admit this timely GOP surge, it MUST be significant.
***The House is moving with dispatch to give the President the military tribunal authority already granted him by Article II of the Constitution but which the SCOTUS, in Hamden, re-wrote to claim he didn't. And guess who's standing in the way of the Senate following suit?
There are inescapable reasons why John McCain will never be the Republican nominee for president of the United States. This is just another example.
***There's good news from Iraq, and plenty of it. Meanwhile Democrats are finally starting to say what they've really believed all along: that everybody would have been better off if Saddam Hussein had been left alone and in power.
You tell me which party is more grounded in reality.
***Fussy Russy Feingold doesn't like the redundant term "Islamic fascist":
Democratic Senator Russ Feingold called on President Bush to refrain from using the phrase "Islamic fascists," saying it was offensive to Muslims and has nothing to do with global terrorists fighting the United States.Let the sheer idiocy of that statement sink in for a few moments.
"We must avoid using misleading and offensive terms that link Islam with those who subvert this great religion or who distort its teachings to justify terrorist activities," Feingold said Tuesday in a speech to the Arab American Institute on Capitol Hill.
The Wisconsin senator, a potential 2008 presidential candidate, said the label "Islamic fascists" makes no sense and doesn't help the U.S. effort to combat terrorism.
"Fascist ideology doesn't have anything to do with the way global terrorist networks think or operate, and it doesn't have anything to do with the overwhelming majority of Muslims around the world who practice the peaceful teachings of Islam," Feingold said.
If you ever wondered what dhimmi-ism looked like, there it is. Feingold doesn't know the first thing about Islam, and is desperate to spread that ignorance far and wide and get credit for it with his hand-picked audience of wannabe overlords. Islam is not "peaceful," it is aggressively imperialistic. Jihad, or "holy war," is the Great Commission of Islam. It is why terrorists call themselves "Islamic fundamentalists." What they seek to do - conquer the world for Allah and impose theocratic dictatorship on all of humanity, just as the "prophet" Mohammed set forth over fourteen centuries ago, which, for non-Muslims, means convert, accept de facto slave status, or die - is the very epitome of "fascism."
How can we fight an enemy if we're too frightened to even accurately identify him? And how would doing so offend "peaceful" Muslims if they're as "peaceful" as Feingold insists they are?
Because Feingold and those of his ilk do not want to fight this enemy. They wish to fight a different enemy instead: the one residing at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
***Meanwhile, an "offshoot" of that enemy Feingold insists is not Islamic and not fascist and can only be combatted by substituting early 1970s Coca-Cola advertising lyrics to describe them tried to storm our embassy in, of all places, Damascus yesterday with machine guns, grenades, and a car bomb while shouting "Allahu Akbar!" Which means "God is great!"
"I'd like to force the world to bow, in perfect conformity
toward Mecca every evening, or we'll kill you, you see...."
posted by JASmius at 6:30 AM
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