"Commander-in-Cheese"...er, "Chief"

Have you seen this show, yet?

Oh brother! If there was ever a shameless attempt to promote a politician and pass it off as entertainment this is certainly it.

I am convinced this show is nothing more than a political campaign ad for Hillary Clinton and it should have a disclaimer at the end: “Paid for by: Friends of Hillary”.

The thin veneer they have put up to attempt to shield the real reason for its existence is, really, VERY thin. One can see behind it in the blink of an eye.






















Geena Davis stars as Hillary. Sorry, couldn’t resist! Geena Davis stars as Mackenzie Allen, the President. She is, we are told in the very first episode, an Independent. However, we have not been told how an “Independent” came to be Vice-President under the incumbent Republican President!

Donald Sutherland, stars as the “Mean Ole Republican” who tries to foil everything the wonderful goddess-like Hillary, I mean Geena, does. Oh, he is just SO mean!

Now, if you know anything, at all, about Sutherland you must know that he is a Canadian, and a “Left Wing Liberal Canadian” at that, and certainly no friend to Republicans! If you dare not believe that… ask him! His vitriol toward Republicans will bowl you over. So, these are his credentials. He can REALLY portray the Mean Spirited Republican in “Over the Top Performances”. And he does!

Still not convinced that this show is nothing more that a Political ad? Well, check this out:

Steve Cohen, one of the writers of this “show” was formerly Hillary’s Communications Director while the Clintons were defiling the White House. If you dig a tiny bit deeper you will learn that none other than Hillary’s current Social Secretary is an “Advisor” to the show! Yep! The surprises just keep on a-coming!

This is truly one of those times when I wish the old FCC "Equal Time Rule" was still in effect. It wouldn’t affect the network, since they do not broadcast, but it sure as heck would affect each of their subscriber stations all over the country.

As it is, I would still urge the GOP to hit up the network for equal time and I would also urge the FEC to look into what this show is doing “60 days before the election”.

“OH”, you say. “Longstreet, why are you so exorcised over a TV show? It’s only make believe”! True enough. But so was the Clinton Administration and we are still paying the price for that in places like the Middle East, and in Korea, and the Balkans, and on and on……

Do yourself a favor… watch something else!

“Longstreet”

Now They Are "Super Storms"... HA!

OK, so now the MSM has taken to referring to Hurricane Wilma as a “Super Storm”.

Gee, I wonder why?

Could it be they NEED a "Super Storm"? I mean, to bolster their "Global Warming" claims. You know... the claims they make that "Global Warming" has caused the water temps, in the oceans, to rise… therefore… spawning more, and meaner, hurricanes… that left-wing-loony claim.

You see, they have decided that "Global Warming" is gospel and they have created a template for their news stories on the weather, which support that “Global Warming Gospel”. It doesn’t matter that it is scientifically wrong. No. You see, the Left is smarter than the rest of us... and they know better, about such things, than you, or I. Therefore we are just "nuts" if we don’t buy into their “sky is falling” propaganda.

Wilma is NOT a "Super Storm”. What Wilma is… is a big, mean, hurricane. She will tear up some parts of the Gulf of Mexico coastline and may, as predicted by the National Weather Service, smash Florida with another hammer blow. But the world will not end!

The Left-Wingers are hoping for another New Orleans type disaster to blame on President Bush and the Republicans. It ain’t gonna happen. Florida will not fold like a cheap suit when it gets hit by this storm. On the other hand... Florida is not the Democrat "Welfare Paradise State" that New Orleans was/is. (Yeah, I know New Orleans isn’t a state! Think of it as a "City State"... as in ancient Greece.)

The left has pushed this Global Warming thing to it’s limits. They tell us that the Polar Ice Caps are melting and that is causing the seas’ water levels to rise. Then, they turn around and tell us the water temp of the oceans is on the rise and that is what is causing the increased frequency of hurricanes.

Something is out of sync here. If, indeed, the Polar Ice Caps are melting, wouldn’t the water temps of the oceans actually drop as that melting ice cools the water… much as putting ice cubes into a glass of tea? If the temperature of the oceans drops, then there will be less hurricanes and those that do form will be less intense than their predecessors because, you see, they need the energy from the warm water to exist and grow strong. They feed off the energy of the warm water.

See, it just doesn’t make sense.

A few day ago, one of the major wire services ran a story on the hurricanes this season and they interviewed Dr. William Gray, of the University of Colorado, a world renown climatologist. In the interview, in the wire services article, was a paragraph in which Dr. Gray puts the lie to the Global Warming Theory causing more frequent, and more intense, hurricanes. He said it simply is not so. I happened to read that article on the Internet. The next day the article was reprinted in my local “regional” newspaper and… you guessed it, that paragraph was left out of the article printed in the paper. Do you see the pattern here?

We have got to stop being swayed by a bunch of people who have learned how to make a living off grants, from the U.S. Government, to continue their “study” of Global Warming.

Next time somebody mentions, to you, the earth is getting warmer and the temperature of the sea is warmer than it used to be, be sure and exclaim, that you certainly hope so! Then remind them it should be getting warmer as we are still in the process of coming out of the last Ice Age! ..............


“Longstreet”

Misunderstanding??? Aw, Come On Now...

Well, which is it? Does Harriet Miers support the "Griswold vs. Connecticut" decision upon which the "Roe vs. Wade" decision was founded, or, was she simply misunderstood by Senator Arlen Specter?

There was a story circulating late yesterday (Tuesday 10-18-05), which said, basically, it was all a big misunderstanding.

Senator Specter’s spokesperson is said to have written to the Press saying that Senator Specter THOUGHT Ms. Miers had agreed with "Griswold v. Connecticut" and there was a right to privacy in the Constitution. Then, the spokesperson wrote that after Senator Specter’s comments to the Press, he (the Senator) received a phone call from Ms. Miers, herself, to say that he (The Senator) had misunderstood her and that she had, in fact, taken no position on Griswold and the right to privacy issue. The Senator’s spokesperson now says the Senator accepts Ms. Miers statement that he had misunderstood what she said.

Ok, so what DID she say? What DID she mean?

This whole nomination fiasco is a mess! A total, irredeemable mess.

Conservatives are only digging in deeper. Especially when such mismanagement of the nominee is so obvious as the incident described above was/is.

So far, nothing Ms. Miers has said, or done, or the Whitehouse has said, or done, has caused Social Conservatives to move one whit towards offering their support for this nominee. Folks, It ain’t gonna happen!

We have a stalemate here. The White House will not back down and neither will we.

Again I say, the White House had better wake up. Republican elections are won, and lost, as a result of what the base of the Republican Party does. And Conservatives ARE the base of the Republican Party. (I know I began the sentence with an "article"...but, it's my blog, darnit!)

Our conservatism is based on principles and on core beliefs and we are not going to compromise.

If the White House comes to it’s senses and withdraws this nomination, we will be satisfied… for the moment. We want a KNOWN Conservative as the nominee and we WANT the fight, with the Democrats, which will ensue. How hard is that to understand?

Then.. we want the spending cut and more tax cuts. See, we’re not so hard to understand!

Having said all the above… we have warned the White House, and we have warned the Republican National Committee. We will cut off the money. We can do that… and we will. These are not idle threats. Conservatives are hopping mad.

Someone said recently, that we “conservatives are conservative by principle and Republican by practice. Practice will change faster than principle”. No truer words were spoken.

Again, I ask the President to withdraw the name of Ms. Miers as the nominee to the Supreme Court. In the meantime, I’m not holding my breath.

“Longstreet”

Save the Babies! Vote No on Miers!

Any leeway I might have been considering for the Harriet Miers nomination, as a Justice on the Supreme Court, has now vanished.

News reports claim that Senator Arlen Spector, of Pennsylvania, told the press yesterday, that she feels the "Griswold vs. Connecticut" case was rightly decided.

In the event you don’t know, or can’t bring it to mind just now, the "Griswold vs. Connecticut" case was the case decided back in 1965 by the US Supreme Court. It established the foundation for the “Roe vs. Wade” decision by the Court, which has caused the death of so many American babies.

That statement, if true, just put the cork in the bottle for her nomination. By noon today it will be all over the Internet and with the lightening speed at which the MSM moves, it will probably make it onto their air, and pages, by late this evening and early tomorrow. Pitiful.

And so we have another backhanded slap at Republican Conservatives. Making "on demand abortions" illegal is a part of the platform of the “Conservative Movement”, as the MSM has taken to calling us.

So, once again, I call upon the Conservative Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to vote against her nomination and I urge all Conservative Republicans, in the US Senate, to vote against her. I would remind the senators, this vote will be watched very closely and note will be taken of how you vote on this nomination. There will be a reckoning. In 2006, and again in 2008. That is not a threat. That is a promise.

As a group, the Republican Conservatives are tired of being the “Screwee” and will now become the “Screwer”.

As far as the President is concerned, he has one choice, and one choice only, and that is... to pull the Miers nomination. If he can’t do that... our support for any plans he may have, for the reminder of his administration, will have to go forward, if they can, without our support.

Ms. Miers still has a chance to redeem herself. She can simply thank the President, graciously, for the nomination, but ask to have her name withdrawn… “for the good of the country”. This is the only acceptable decision she can make at this point. This awful nomination has been allowed to go too far into the process and there is no way she can get out of this thing unhurt, untainted, for life. But she must fall on her sword… the sooner the better.

The Conservative Republicans will have a fight on their hands. Her statement about “Griswold” will have secured the Democrat vote for her on the Senate Judiciary Committee. It will take a “NO” vote from every Republican member of that Committee to vote down this nomination. But it must be stopped. It must be!

Write your Senators and ask them to vote "NO" on the Miers nomination and ask the President to withdraw her name from consideration. The lives of many more babies depend on this vote.

“Longstreet”

Tiger by the Tail !

Well, it appears the Iraqi Electorate has put the American Electorate to shame by turning out to vote. And… no one was trying to blow us up!

At this writing, the results are not in, but it seems sure that the Iraqis will vote to confirm their new Constitution. They will have chosen Democracy.

The next question is… whether they can keep it. My first, and strongest, reaction to the question of whether the Iraqis can maintain a Democracy in the Middle East is… not a chance!

Well, there is a chance… if the US stays there and acts as Democracy’s protector. Then Iraq will have a chance. Otherwise… I’m back to my first reaction.

Look, Iran is just waiting for the US to pull out. When we eventually do leave Iraq, we’ll be going out the front door as the Iranians are coming in the back door. Actually, they’re already slipping across the border, in droves, and engaging our troops in battle. For some reason, the western press doesn’t want to identify them as Iranians, but rather “insurgents”.

On the western side of Iraq, in Syria, they are doing much the same thing as Iran is doing. We have warned Syria, repeatedly, to cease and desist and they have not. So, at some point in the future we will have to take the Syrian government down.

So, back away, a few paces, and look at the big picture... and it is clear that the only hope the Iraqis have of maintaining a free democratic country is one, if the US remains in Iraq indefinitely… and two, if the US takes out both Iran, and Syria, and sets up democratic governments in those countries as well.

You begin to see the problem.

Now having said all this, about Iraq, I can’t help but feel the same applies to Afghanistan as well. As soon as US troops leave, the Taliban, or whomever, will reappear and overthrow the government and set up another of those "Islamofacist" regimes, much as they had before we arrived.

If you begin to feel that I am pessimistic about the Middle East, you’re right.

I have said many times… you cannot give a nation freedom. You cannot give a race of people freedom. They must win it, through struggle, for it to have enough value for them to defend it. You would think we would have learned that lesson here in America. But, alas, we haven’t.

We have an expression here, in the South: “I didn’t take you to raise!” It simply means I’ll help you, but… I will not be your lifetime defender, protector, and provider. But that is exactly where we are headed, in my estimation, in Iraq and in Afghanistan. If you give a people freedom, you have, indeed, “taken them to raise”. You will forever be seen as the “Nanny” for that people, race, or nation. THAT is why I am so dead set against “Nation Building”. We have bought Iraq and Afghanistan and we have paid for them with our treasure... and our blood.

If we leave those two countries, it will be only a matter of time until we will have to return and chase off the bad guys again. And the cycle will be repeated until we no longer answer their calls for their “Nanny”. (You can see why I would never have had a career in the diplomatic service!)

So, what to do? Well, it seems, to me, we have two choices, nether of which is very palatable. We can stay… forever. Or, we can leave and let the “bad guys” have both countries… as we did in Vietnam. We truly have a "Tiger by the Tail".

God help the President who decides to do either.

“Longstreet”

Riot in Ohio

What happened in Ohio, on Saturday October 15th, was despicable. Riots never solve anything.

There is no excuse for the looting, the burning, the stoning of emergency vehicles, the totally irrational behavior, and mob mentality, demonstrated by the Black people rioting over the Nazi’s planned, and city approved, activity.

Which group did the most harm yesterday? You decide. The answer is elementary. The Nazis did not break the law, the black rioters did. It’s as simple as that. Yes, IT IS.

We claim we’re a nation of laws and we cannot tolerate the mob action from a group of people who don’t like the law.

I am no fan of the Nazis or any white supremacist group . I denied them access to the airwaves assigned my broadcast station many times because I was not a common carrier and had the constitutional right to allow anyone I wanted, or deny any one I wanted, access to airtime. I have other reasons for disagreeing with the white supremists, and what they stand for. Deep, abiding, reasons.

But that is beside the point. The US Constitution gives citizens of this country the right to peacefully assemble. By all reports that was what the Nazis were doing Saturday with, I might add, a legal permit, issued by the city, for their exercise.

It may have been poor judgment on the part of the city to issue that permit, but they did.

One other thing: It is accepted practice, among anarchists of the world, when protesting some event they do not favor, and doing so cloaked in the camouflage of a mob, always burn down the other fellows property. Not your own! Someone needs to explain this to the black community. It seems they always burn down their own homes, and businesses when rioting. That just shows how little discipline, and reason, there was among those rioters and it demonstrates their irrationality. It was raw emotion.

What happened Saturday will serve no good purpose for the black community of that Ohio town. Not a bit. It sure as heck did not create good will among the white community. It did create fear, disgust, and more hatred.

When any group of people act like undisciplined children, they will be treated as such.

The riot in Ohio was disgusting, it was destructive, and it served only to set the black community there back a few more decades.

“Longstreet”

Purge the Republican Party in 2006 and 2008

There is no breakup of the Conservative Movement within the Republican Party. There is a fight within the Republican Party.

Like so many other Conservative Republicans today, I am so very tired of expending time, and energy, to fight for conservative positions and have those positions placed in jeopardy by the man who is supposed to be the leader of the party. That is why we, the Conservative Republicans, feel betrayed.

I have said before I am not a "Compassionate Conservative". What I am is… a Social Conservative, and, a Fiscal Conservative… and just for good measure you may hang “paleo” on to the front of Conservative.

I am also a realist. And some would say an ideologue. The latter may well be true. I find myself in the company of a few million like-minded Republicans in this country of ours. And we are furious. The fury has not subsided… not one whit, since the President made known his nomination of Harriet Miers to be the next Supreme Court Justice.

I have asked the President to withdraw her name. I have asked Ms. Miers to withdraw her name. I have asked my Senators to vote no on confirming her and I have written every Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee and asked them to vote no on recommending her to the full Senate for a confirmation vote.

How this will all play out, I have no idea. I lay claim to no special knowledge on the inside game in Washington. But some things seem abundantly clear. First, the president will not withdraw her name. There is a "slim to none" chance that Ms. Miers will withdraw her name... or ask the President to withdraw it. There is no chance that we will learn anything productive, or revealing, from the Senate Judiciary hearings. And finally, judging from the stunning weakness the Senate Republicans have demonstrated so often in the recent past, I have no expectation they will do anything other than vote to confirm Ms. Miers.

In future, we “Conservative” Republicans should be suspicious of a Republican Candidate for President who would seek to dilute the word “Conservative” in any way. “Compassionate Conservative” apparently means “Liberal” Republican. At least that is the way it appears. The President’s track record of enlarging government and spending money like a "drunken Democrat" does nothing but underscore that understanding.

I would remind the President, as others in the blogoshere have done, that his father lost his second term because he did not listen to the conservatives in the Republican Party. Had he listened, he would have understood that when he said “No new taxes” we believed him. When he raised taxes anyway, we felt lied to and... we abandoned him. Now, George, the second, has, it seems, done the same thing. We will abandon him, too.

Unlike Democrats we Conservatives have ideals and ideas. We know that those ideas have consequences. Add to that formula, reason, and you have a party platform we do not have to apologize for… to anyone. One doesn’t need to lay claim to the word “compassionate” as a Conservative.

We have come to a parting of the ways in the Republican Party. We must now be about the business of replacing the “RINOS” and the “Compassionate Conservatives” remaining within our ranks.

Call it a purge if you will. If that’s what it takes to reclaim our party, then so be it. 2006 is fast approaching and we have work to do. Let’s be about it!

“Longstreet”