Hang Right Politics

Posted by Kathy on November 8th, 2007 in Uncategorized

Jim Geraghty - Things are looking up for Republicans in 2008. Here’s why. He certainly has a point, actually several.

Erick at Redstate reports that Blue Dog Democrats have a problem on their hands. Voting for a tax increase at this point in time is not very bright since the one thing we can glean from the election results this year is that voters across the country said NO to new taxes - both in NJ and in Oregon - the bluest of the blue. So will the blue dogs become lemmings? Yup.

Courtesy of PJM, here’s a dear john letter to Al-Qaeda. There’s no more love for you, Al Q:

“I ask you and whoever is behind you to review the way you behave because the Jihadi groups are acting very badly towards those who think differently from the way they do,” said Uthman in the letter.

“I aks you to stop the armed operations in the Arab countries, to guarantee the security of Muslims and to retract your threats toward the West, to take away from them the terrorism card used by some Western governments to hate Islam and Muslims,” he said.

Read the whole thing. Apparently he thinks the jihad brings more pain to Arab countries than it achieves. An army must convince it’s opponent that war is not worth the cost in order to prevail. If this letter is any indication, it looks like they’re convinced. This letter is an ‘I told you not to attack America, now look what happened!” Don’t tell Harry Reid. It will spoil his whole day.

Put down those Freedom Fries and go have a nice glass of bordeaux - the French are back! Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery - and so far Canada, France, and Germany have traded in their liberal ruling class. If we go the way of France (that’s what Kerry would have us do) we’ll re-elect a conservative next fall. We won’t hear much about that in the press… Bienvenue Sarkozy, et bonne chance avec les miserables le media.

Michael Yon has a message of thanks from the Iraqis. Go here and get your feel good moment for the day. You won’t see this on the MSM as it really goes against the ‘they want us out’ meme.

Fred Thompson’s web page gets more hits than Obama’s. (Nobody looks at Hillary more often than they have to, even her supporters.)

At last, The American Spectator has an explanation for why liberals consider themselves moral in spite of multiple lies and evident inconsistencies in ethics:

This is about the repeated, documented, casual lies — the ability to say one thing in private and the exact opposite in public, not only without batting an eye, but with an almost frightening intensity of insistence that it is the accusers who are out of line no matter how objectively accurate their accusations.

It is in that frame of mind that Bill Clinton not only did not have sex with that woman, but that he did not rent out the Lincoln Bedroom, did not repeatedly get too cozy with shady Asian money men, did not fight welfare reform and then claim credit for it, did not endorse ideas for entitlement reform and then kill the same ideas, did not…oh, this list is too long to bother with.

And Hillary Clinton has a whole list of her own “did nots,” also amply documented to the contrary; the only problem it seems is that sometimes not even she can keep up with her own contradictions, as was shown in her bizarre attempt last week both to endorse and to deny endorsing New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer’s wacky idea to provide driver’s licenses to people known to be illegal immigrants.

Now this is not to say that the political left has a monopoly on extremely indefensible lack of ethics — witness a fair number of jailed and indicted Republican congressmen — but, from where we conservatives sit, it is the shamelessness of the double standards on the left that rankles. Forgive the slight admitted overgeneralization, but: When our guys get caught, they often (or usually) hang their heads. When their guys get caught in hypocrisy or worse, they just brazen it out. (Witness Rep. William “Cold Cash” Jefferson.)

So it is that a host of Democratic senators, including Pat Leahy, could repeatedly say that presidential nominations, especially for judges, should never be filibustered to death — and even to, in the case of many of them, endorse a sliding scale rule weakening all filibusters, on legislation as well as on nominations — but then turn around and break 214 years of tradition (and arguably violate the Constitution as well) by repeatedly filibustering Republican judicial nominations, yes, to death. (And yes, by the longstandng standards of the Senate, filibustering judicial nominations to death is indeed cheating.)

So it is that liberal senators can take positions diametrically opposed to their own earlier positions about when Supreme Court precedent can and can’t be broken. So it is that they can whine that conservatives “question [their] patriotism” even when the alleged questioning is only, at worst, by supposed inference, but then turn around and directly and repeatedly use the word “unpatriotic” to describe conservatives.

This is a positive step in understanding our friends on the other side of the aisle.. or something like that. Read the whole thing.

Lots of things to feel positive about. Now go have a good day.