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shawa
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 Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 6:31 am Post subject: Helen Thomas Urges 'Courage Transplant' |
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Poor ole Helen. She actually thinks that Dems are turning into right wing conservatives. At least she has taken off the blinders enough to acknowledge that Conservatives ARE THE MAINSTREAM.
http://www.thenewmexicochannel.com/helenthomas/5503508/detail.html
| Quote: | Moderates Abandon Anti-War Critic
Helen Thomas, Hearst White House columnist
POSTED: 3:19 pm MST December 9, 2005
It's about time the "me too" Democrats, particularly those in Congress who vote with the Republicans so often, stand up and be counted.
Too many Democrats are tiptoeing around the major issues facing our nation, afraid to venture out of the mainstream. This is a big mistake at a time when the nation is begging for true leadership.
Democrats with the courage to be leaders could have a field day in pointing out that millions of Americans lack health insurance and that 37 million have fallen below the poverty line. Soon, they will no longer be able to claim that theirs is a caring political party because they won't have evidence that this is true.
Take, for example, the case of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
Instead of endorsing universal health care -- a topic that she knows a lot about -- Clinton is busy co-sponsoring with Sen. Robert Bennett, R-Utah, a law to bar desecration of the flag. Has anyone burned a flag lately?
Clinton is a leading contender for the Democratic presidential nomination, which might explain why she's busy pandering to conservatives instead of staking out a leadership role on more important issues.
The Democrats' lack of political courage has left voters with the choice of Republicans who call themselves that -- and Republicans who call themselves Democrats. The result: The GOP gets a free ride.
President George W. Bush has been politically weakened this year, and the allegations of corruption among the GOP leadership have hurt the party.
Democrats have a golden opportunity to hammer away at the mistakes made by the Bush administration and to support Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., who has made a dramatic and courageous call for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq within six months.
Murtha's colleagues in the House and Senate should rush to embrace him. Instead, many of them have scattered to the winds, carefully parsing out distinctions that they claim prove that they're not like Murtha.
Murtha is a newly minted dove. He was in the Marine Corps for 37 years and had such close ties to the Pentagon brass that some believe he is speaking for many of them in his call to end the war in Iraq.
Murtha argues that we will confront less terrorism if the U.S. ends its occupation of Iraq. He also frets that the U.S. military will be caught in an Iraqi civil war if it stays behind.
To the alarm of the right-leaning Democrats, Murtha has been joined by House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., who has endorsed his plan for a pullout from Iraq within six months. But most House Democrats are taking their marching orders from Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, and Rep. Steny H. Hoyer, D-Md., the second-ranking House Democratic leader, who believe in a go-slow strategy.
It was sad to see Emanuel and his cohorts fail to endorse Murtha. Despite the realization that Congress was sold a bill of goods in endorsing the war, the Emanuel-led Democrats fled when Murtha took a strong stand.
They also put a damper on Howard Dean, chairman of the Democratic National Committee after he said Monday that "the idea we're going to win this war is an idea that unfortunately is just plain wrong."
White House press secretary Scott McClellan said that Dean was advocating that the U.S. "should cut and run and retreat."
Dean changed his tune on Thursday and proposed a "strategic redeployment" of the 160,000 U.S. troops in Iraq over two years. It's possible to imagine the twist marks on his arms, left there by timid Democrats.
On the domestic side, the Democrats should put on a well-lighted marquee the fact that the Republican-controlled Congress plans to save $50 billion over five years by cutting food stamps, by reducing student loans and by slapping new fees on Medicaid recipients and reducing child support enforcement.
So much for compassionate conservativism. |
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PhantomSgt
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| Posted: Sat Dec 10, 2005 7:00 am Post subject: |
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The Hag who writes for the Liberal Rag.
I would yank her Whitehouse credentials in a New York minute.
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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| Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| Helen Thomas is letting her liberal slip show (shudder)! |
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MrJapan
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>,<
Now I am sick (o.O) |
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GM Strong
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Helen is so cute when she gets angry.
 
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wwIIvetsdaughter
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This Helen is the face that can sink a thousand ships!  |
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blue9t3
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We need to dump millions of flyers with her mug on it over Iraq, the terrorists would give up! 
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 12:34 am Post subject: |
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| blue9t3 wrote: | | We need to dump millions of flyers with her mug on it over Iraq, the terrorists would give up! |
Like that picture of her as the 72 virgins. I lost track of it or I'd post here. Somebody did last year. Anybody have it??
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MrJapan
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:17 am Post subject: |
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| GM Strong wrote: | | blue9t3 wrote: | | We need to dump millions of flyers with her mug on it over Iraq, the terrorists would give up! |
Like that picture of her as the 72 virgins. I lost track of it or I'd post here. Somebody did last year. Anybody have it?? |
I bet if we asked parrot, he could make one for us |
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AMOS
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:42 pm Post subject: Anothe Candidate |
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Defintely a candidate for one of those face transplants.
Fugly is the word. That's actually a contraction. |
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GM Strong
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| Posted: Wed Dec 14, 2005 3:58 pm Post subject: Re: Anothe Candidate |
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| AMOS wrote: | Defintely a candidate for one of those face transplants.
Fugly is the word. That's actually a contraction. |
Coyote Ugly too.
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