June 29, 2007
Seamus (That's the Dog) (Karen Hanretty)
Thank goodness there’s no YouTube video of Mitt Romney’s dog strapped to the car, or his candidacy might be over.
Under the title “Things I Shouldn’t Admit Publicly” is the fact that when I first heard the story about the Romney family dog taking a road trip on the roof of the family station wagon, I was amused. It sounds like something that might have happened in the small rural town where I grew up — a town I’m sure Bill Press, who expressed his outrage at Romney’s animal recklessness in an earlier post, would never set foot in.
Adding to the hype, PETA — that obnoxiously self-righteous, militant animal rights group that goes around harassing school children by telling them, “Eat veggies, not your friends” — has weighed in with their response to the Clark Griswold-like story of one Massachusetts family’s vacation in 1983. There is probably no organization more out of the mainstream than PETA. > Read More
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What's This Romney Takes a 'Ruff' Vacation (A.B. Stoddard)
A.B. Stoddard analyzes reports this week about a 1983 vacation Mitt Romney took that involved the presidential hopeful strapping his family dog to a cage on top of his station wagon.
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What's This The Process (John Feehery)
The reason the immigration bill went down was the process.
There is a tried and true process that works well and then there is the process used by the Senate in this immigration bill.
The tried and true process starts with committee hearings, followed by committee mark-ups, followed by floor consideration, followed by a conference committee where differences between the House and Senate are worked out.
This process allows the maximum input from the American people and their elected representatives. It allows amendments to be discussed and then voted on. It allows maximum media attention and it allows the members to educate their constituents about both the problems and the proposed solutions. > Read More
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What's This Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade Are in Mortal Peril (Brent Budowsky)
The United States Supreme Court is moving to reverse long-cherished American notions of constitutional law.
The divisions that plague American society have invaded the sanctity of the court, with angry dissents and at times personal criticism among justices that illustrate both the passions and dangers of the debate.
These events escalate a pattern of extreme actions that violate cardinal American ideals on matters including torture, the Geneva Convention, attacks on the Bill of Rights, presidential assertions of authority to violate statutes with non-binding statements, secrecy of unprecedented scope, the inability of Congress to perform its historic function of preventing executive abuse, and now a bitterly divided Supreme Court that threatens values long thought to be part of our national consensus. > Read More
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What's This As The Jim Crow Flies (Bob Franken)
Now for a quote: “Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.”
That of course is the key finding in the 1954 landmark Brown decision, written by the chief justice, Earl Warren.
Now another definition from Webster’s — actually three synonyms — for chutzpah: Nerve, temerity, gall.
Using it in a sentence: “This chief justice, John Roberts, has a lot chutzpah having the nerve, the temerity, the GALL to claim that Brown supports his ruling against the Seattle and Louisville, Ky., school programs, which aim to promote DEsegregation.
It is true. Affirmative action, which is what this is, favors one race over another, as a factor in the struggle to achieve diversity. We claim as a nation that we support the idea of races and ethnic groups living together. > Read More
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What's This Why Lower Income Voters Flock to the Right (Armstrong Williams)
In this video, Armstrong Williams explains why he thinks poor, middle class voters chose George W. Bush in 2004 and why they will be the deciding factor in 2008.
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What's This Mitt Romney’s Cruelty to His Dog (Bill Press)
OK, it may not be the biggest story of the day. But it’s the biggest story to me.
And it may not decide the 2008 election. But it should.
I’m talking about Mitt Romney’s unbelievable cruelty to his dog, as reported by the Boston Globe.
Back in 1983, going off on a family vacation, Mitt loaded his wife and kids in the car, then put the family dog — an Irish setter named Seamus — in a dog carrier on top of the car, and drove from Boston to Ontario, a 12-hour drive, with the dog on top of the car, whipped by the wind and noise, scared to death and crapping all over the place.
What the hell was he thinking? And what were his kids thinking? > Read More
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What's This Meritocracy vs. Bureaucracy (Frank Donatelli)
On a stage last night in Washington, D.C., 10 Democratic presidential candidates took turns criticizing this week’s Supreme Court’s decision banning school districts from using race as a criterion to assign pupils to public schools. Those of you who have been asleep for the last 50 years might have thought this practice was banned by Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, but liberals have resurrected the practice in the name of “diversity.” The Supreme Court quite rightly noted such a reason was not sufficiently compelling to invalidate the Equal Protection Clause of the Constitution, which liberals in other circumstances have held to be sacrosanct. > Read More
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What's This Winners and Losers (John Feehery)
Who are the winners and who are the losers with the collapse of the immigration bill?
Here are the winners:
Talk radio: They became relevant again and have a nice pelt on their wall — the president’s.
Big Labor: They killed the bill from the left, but pinned all the blame on conservatives.
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.): He became famous.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.): She doesn’t have to try to bring this bill up now. She escaped a bullet. > Read More
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What's This June 28, 2007
Giving Cheney his Praise (John Feehery)
In this video, John Feehery backs his support for Dick Cheney, in light of The Washington Post's recent series on the vice president.
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