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10/16 As you listen to Nancy Pelosi promise to clean up what she calls a
"swamp" of congressional problems, remember the following facts from
her record:
1. Pelosi voted three times to make a convicted page sexual predator,
former Congressman Gerry Studds (D-Mass.), chair of a congressional
committee.
2. In 1990, Pelosi voted against censuring Barney Frank for having his
live-in boyfriend run a prostitution ring from Frank's apartment.
3. Pelosi raised no objections when Clinton pardoned Democrat
Congressman Mel Reynolds (Ill.) who had been convicted of felonies
for having had sex with a 16-year-old campaign worker.
The historic Nancy Pelosi is an authentic representative of San
Francisco liberal values and hardly has the record to lecture anyone on
cleaning up the Congress.
http://www.humanevents.com/winningthefuture.php?id=17453
\_ dont care. mess in Iraq is enough for me to not vote
Republican. They really fucked up and must pay the
consequences.
\_ No, I don't think a one-party government is good for America.
\_ The two-party government is decreasingly good at fixing the one-
party problems though. It's like the cloned Jacks from Futurama.
\_ "decreasingly good at"?
\_ fine "increasingly bad at" happy?
\_ I think I'll still settle for a two-party government.
\_ Yes, so stop voting for Dems and Reps and start voting for third
party candidates who actually believe in something. Yes, yes,
they'll never get elected. *Because* people get what they vote
for instead of voting for what they want.
\_ http://csua.org/u/h7s
90% of the country is religious, but 100% of the Senate. Hooray.
And not a one who can vote his or her conscience. Fuckers.
\_ As you read your silly partisan websites, consider this silly
partisan website:
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/gopscorecard.php
\_ Of what crime are you claiming Studds was convicted?
\_ You mean Reynolds?
\_ "It's not about the sex, it's about the lying" |
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| www.humanevents.com/winningthefuture.php?id=17453 Newt Gingrich Posted Oct 09, 2006 Callista and I had a wonderful visit to the Reagan Library on Friday. Mrs Reagan was a wonderful hostess, and more than 700 people came to a talk I gave on President Reagan's lessons in leadership and how they applied to our current problems. Walking through this beautiful library with its stirring pictures and videos of President and Mrs Reagan and with all the reminders of President Reagan's great achievements, I couldn't help but reflect on the gap between what he did and what we are doing in Washington today. Let me share a few of the lessons that leaped out at me on Friday. Lesson #1: How Reagan would have handled North Korea in the short run. It is a memorial to the Reagan commitment to standing up to dictators. After four years of Jimmy Carter's weakness, the world no longer believed America had the strength to stand up for its values and its interests. Twenty-five years ago, in the Gulf of Sidra, American naval aircraft (F-14 fighters) crossed what Qaddafi had called "the line of death." The Libyans challenged us, and we shot down two Libyan fighter planes. We had reasserted freedom of the seas and given the world proof that a new leader was bringing new strength. There is also a display about the 1981 PATCO (Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization) strike, when Reagan fired all the controllers engaged in an illegal strike -- reminding the nation that breaking the law has consequences. They thought their importance to the air traffic control system gave them the power to blackmail America. President Reagan knew that if he caved in to the air traffic controllers, there would be an even bigger test two months later when the postal workers' contract expired. Gorbachev said, years later, that it was the mental toughness Reagan displayed in firing the air traffic controllers that convinced him Reagan meant what he said and would fight if necessary. Compare that experience with the fact that the entire civilized world said in July that it would be "unacceptable" for North Korea to fire missiles. In response, North Korea chose our Independence Day to fire seven missiles. Is it any wonder that North Korea has now tested a nuclear weapon? Reagan would have found a variety of steps to make it extremely expensive for the North Koreans to display contempt for the entire civilized world (remember, in 1986, Reagan ordered an American air strike on Libya for killing two American servicemen in a Berlin nightclub). For President Reagan, "unacceptable" would have meant "unacceptable." Lesson #2: How Reagan would have handled North Korea in the long run. President Reagan entered office in 1981 with a clear vision of allying with Prime Minister Thatcher of Great Britain and Pope John Paul II to defeat the Soviet Empire. Without firing a shot, they worked to strengthen the Solidarity trade union in Poland, increase the resources available to the Polish people and undermine the effectiveness of the Communist dictatorship. Within 11 years of Reagan's inauguration, the Soviet Union disappeared. North Korea is a vicious dictatorship in the middle of a famine. Its policies have shrunk the height of the average North Korean by more than three inches over the last generation through malnutrition. There are more than 200,000 North Koreans imprisoned in concentration camps. It is an evil regime grinding down the lives of its people. A Reaganite strategy would funnel every penny of help and every bit of food aid through a system of private activity consciously designed to undermine the dictatorship. A Reaganite strategy would isolate the government while helping the people. It would seek every angle to get humanitarian aid to the people. Food might be parachuted into the country, delivered from submarines and small boats by clandestine services, shipped in from China and Russia through anti-regime middlemen and delivered in every way possible to divert energy and authority away from the government and toward an alternative organizing system of individuals dedicated to a better, more prosperous life. Just as in Eastern Europe, we would rapidly discover a lot of people willing to subvert the regime for better lives for their families, and we would find the regime beginning to splinter and fragment in the face of opportunities for food, goods and prosperity. Lesson #3: How President Reagan would have dealt with economic success. We are in the midst of declining unemployment, relatively stable prices, declining gasoline prices and near-record stock markets. Yet the elite media is doing everything it can to avoid telling people the good news that Republican policies have worked. He once said, "I knew the economy was improving when the news media quit calling it Reagonomics." Republicans should adopt the Reagan principles of clarity, optimism, cheerfulness and repetition and keep reminding people that cutting taxes to encourage entrepreneurs has worked and that Democratic Rep. Charlie Rangel's promise to raise every tax cut if his party takes over the House (he would become the chairman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee) would be a disaster that would lead to slower growth, less take-home pay and more unemployment. If we do not make the argument, we can hardly expect to win it. Lesson #4: How President Reagan would have dealt with the aftermath of Foley's resignation and the Democrat claim to have moral legitimacy on corruption and sexual behavior. In 1980, then-candidate Reagan used the phrase "there you go again" to communicate to the American people that President Jimmy Carter was lying in attacking the Reagan record. Nancy Pelosi, Teddy Kennedy, Bill Clinton, Barney Frank and other Democrats have no standing to attack Republicans over cleaning up Congress. However, Republicans have to have the nerve to stand up and set the record straight. The 1980 Reagan campaign was a model of insisting on the truth and one that we should use to be crystal clear about who has been tough in stopping sexual predators and who has promoted and protected sexual predators. That is not a debate the San Francisco Democrats can win if we are direct, candid and firm on the facts. Lesson #5: How President Reagan would have convinced the American people that we truly have to worry about weapons of mass destruction and weapons of mass death. President Reagan understood that educating the American people and convincing them that a problem was real and a solution was necessary was at the heart of his job. He knew that, if he could not convince the American people, he could not sustain the support he needed in the Congress. He also knew that Joseph Napolitan was right when he said "you should never underestimate the intelligence of the American people nor overestimate the amount of information they have." When you visit the Reagan Library and look at the actual text of his radio commentaries from the 1970s or the texts of his talks with the American people during his presidency, it is amazing how fact filled and compelling they are. President Reagan was a great educator far more than he was a great communicator. He knew that historic challenges required historic actions and that those actions could only be undertaken by an aroused, informed and mobilized American people. Faced with the current threat of terrorists and dictators who seek nuclear weapons of mass destruction and biological weapons of mass murder, I believe President Reagan would have concluded that the level of education needed was beyond any speech or even set of speeches. I think that, faced with this threat, President Reagan would have called on the Congress to authorize three exercises a year by the Department of Homeland Security. Two of the exercises would involve a simulated nuclear attack on an American city. The third would involve an engineered biological attack on a region. President Reagan would have understood that the experience of a simulated nuclear or biological attack would educate the American people and the American news media in ways that no Presidential speech could rival. Because of his faith in the innate intelligence and wisdom of the American people... |
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