GET A JOB

Even though this op-ed piece is from the New York Times, I’m not slamming the Times over it. Well, not the Times exclusively, it’s only mirroring the views held by great numbers of the unwashed out there.

The Times is moaning about people who are unemployed, have been unemployed for a long time and their oft-extended benefits are running out. The Times, of course, wants the Feds to pony up another $1 billion a month to extend benefits to these “exhaustees”, while at the same time getting in a tax cut dig:

“A year ago, the aid was extended an extra year by Republican leaders. But now, the G.O.P.'s election-year talk is of a recovery rooted in the tax cuts weighted for affluent America. Tending to the exhaustees clearly mars that message.”

I’ve written before about the unemployed receiving benefits for a year and a half SO FAR, so I won’t bring it up again, even though the Times so cavalierly throws it out like we who are paying for the benefits won’t be just a little perturbed.

Anyway, what I want to know is what are these unemployed doing about getting another job? Yeah, that’s cold and uncaring, but c’mon, hello people, let’s get mildly creative here. If your paper mill has shut down in Berlin, NH and doesn’t look like it’s going to open again, have you ever considered MOVING AWAY FROM THE CLOSED MILL AND LOOKING FOR ANOTHER JOB?!?! Why do you hang outside the closed gates waiting for the doors to magically open again?

Look, what makes this country great is the ability of it’s people to make something of themselves, not the ability of it’s people to sit idle for two years, collecting other people’s hard earned money – that’s Belgium. So how about making some sacrifices? Twelve years ago all I wanted was to live in Southern Vermont, close to my family and have a good job.

No dice.

So, off to North Carolina, made something of myself and moved back closer to home. But, because Vermont STILL wasn’t going to work, (get it? "work"? ha-ha-ha) I moved to New Hampshire. Closer to my family, but not exactly what I wanted. Made some short term large sacrifices and some long term small sacrifices to be my own man.

"JUST SAY BUSH LIED, DAMMIT!"

Hey, everyone – year end really stinks for accountants and I’m no exception. I missed a bunch of good stories over the weekend, but I worked all weekend, too. That being said, here’s a story that jumped out at me today:

MSNBC has an exclusive interview with ex-head weapons inspector, David Kay. The liberal press is going to spin this as a repudiation of President Bush and proof that he lied to get us into Iraq. Check out the first line of the story:

“David Kay, who resigned last week as the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, now says he didn't find stockpiles of WMD — or evidence of a nuclear program well under way in Saddam Hussein's Iraq”

That's pretty much all of the story Big Media will say about this – other than George Bush is a liar. But, look at what David Kay said in the story and how Tommy Brokaw tried to get him to say Bush lied:

“TB: You found evidence of programs that were in place but no weapons.
DK: There were a lot of small activities. Now, in the missile field it’s quite different. There were actually large, purposeful programs going on in that area. But in chemical, biological and nuke, it was rudimentary.”

“TB: David, as you know, a lot of the president’s political critics are going to say, “This is clear evidence that he lied to the American people.”
DK: Well, Tom, if we do that, I think we’re really hurting ourselves. Clearly, the intelligence that we went to war on was inaccurate, wrong. We need to understand why that was. I think if anyone was abused by the intelligence it was the president of the United States rather than the other way around.”

“TB: The president described Iraq as a gathering threat — a gathering danger. Was that an accurate description?
DK: I think that’s a very accurate description.
TB: But an imminent threat to the United States?
DK: Tom, an imminent threat is a political judgment. It’s not a technical judgment. I think Baghdad was actually becoming more dangerous in the last two years than even we realized. Saddam was not controlling the society any longer. In the marketplace of terrorism and of WMD, Iraq well could have been that supplier if the war had not intervened.”

Ah, “imminent” rears it’s ugly head again. How many times will the liberals mention this canard? FOREVER!!!! That’s what liberals do, they say a lie so many times that the maroons out there begin to believe it’s true.

Look, read the story, Kay basically says there is no evidence of stockpiled WMD’s, but Iraq had a disarrayed program, especially in longer range missile and nuclear programs. That’s not what you’re going to hear from Big Media, but that’s what he said.

ROE v. WADE - 31 YEARS LATER

Today is the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. In the past 31 years, roughly 43 million babies have been killed. So today’s post will be all abortion, all the time.

State Rep. Jessica Farrar of Texas had a NARAL, Planned Parenthood screed in the Houston Chronicle today. She seems to be scared that the United States is teetering on the edge of outlawing abortion.

We should be so lucky.

“On a day with no legal abortions, a battered woman with four children will find out she is six weeks pregnant. She will wonder how to escape her partner, find a job and feed five children with no guarantee of child support. A teenager will be raped at a party. Too scared to tell her parents, she will seek out a back-alley abortion even though she might not live to see her parents again. A college student will find out she is pregnant and drop out of college to work and raise a child. Maybe she will be happy and maybe she won't be happy. Either way, she will have had her choice taken from her.”

Hey Jessica, the cases you mention make up an incredible small number of the 1.2 million abortions that happen every year in the United States. Anyway, what if they all just gave their kids up for adoption? How come you never mentioned adoption in your essay?

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This next was is so disgusting, I don’t even want to comment on it. It’s titled, “We’re Not Sorry, Charlie” and it’s all about NOT feeling badly about killing your child. Just check this out:

“If abortion were connected to actual women--people like my friend Amy Richards, who had an abortion at 18 and a selective reduction last year when she found she was pregnant with triplets, or Nancy Flynn, who was a single mom finishing her BA at Cornell when she had an abortion and who told me she would "never have been able to have the rich life I've had and help my son as much as I have if I'd been the single mother of two children"--perhaps the mounting restrictions wouldn't pass so handily. To paraphrase the late poet Muriel Rukeyser: What if women told the truth about their abortions? Even if the world didn't split open, this paralyzing issue might.”

Oh, by the way, they have a website. Enter only if you're ready. And check out "Beth's" story under New Stories.

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To end on a VERY happy note, I want to direct you to a website called Feminists for Life. I am not a fan of most people who call themselves feminists, but check this out.

“Women who are experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserve unplanned joy” – Patricia Heaton.”

I couldn’t have said it better myself.

THE DEMOCRATS

I was going to quote from the Democrats post-SOTU speech, but it was so boring, I fell asleep. OK, so I didn’t fall asleep, but there was so little to mention that I dropped the idea. OK, so there were a few lines:

"America must be light to the world, not a missle" - Huh?

“The state of our… the union is strong” – what does that say?

“The cost of public colleges went up $600.00 this year” - and the cost of State colleges is President Bush’s fault how?

The Nurse speech was so sappy it came across unbelievable.

STATE OF THE UNION

Live notes from the State of the Union:

Ted Kennedy looks old and bitter.

He included Jerusalem in the list of cities that are suffering terrorist attacks.- he hasn’t forgotten Israel.

“Provisions of the Patriot Act are set to expire next year”, then he received applause from the left. Bush looked directly at them, ignoring the camera, and said, “The terrorist threat will not expire on the same schedule”

“The United States of America will not be intimidated by thugs and assassins.”

NUKE-u-lar

“No one can now doubt the word of America!”

“Our closest allies have been unwavering” – up yours, France!

I was wondering who those three soldiers were the camera’s kept going to – they’re the people from the Time magazine cover.

Dick Cheney looks tired, too. Not bitter, but tired.

Ted-Ball is shaking his head while President Bush lists the evils of Saddam. What is wrong with that man? He must be drunk, again. Hillary stands up, but has her eyes closed.

Was that thirty or so countries the President just listed? But, I thought it was unilateral!?

“America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our country!”

Uh-ho, he mentioned God. What was he thinking?

That’s twice tax relief has gotten a standing ovation – but twice not from the Democrats. What does that say about the Democrats?

Whoops, make that three times – and three times the Democrats are looking at their watches.

"Series of measures" – uh-ho, here comes the spending……

Community Colleges get a standing ovation before he even finishes the sentence. Go Dad!!

“For the sake of job growth, the tax cuts you passed should be permanent!” – before that, he received boos or groans about the tax cuts that were passed already. The Left didn’t want to hear about the taxes that would go back up, “Unless you [they] act”

“While limiting the growth of discretionary spending below four percent” – Praise God!!! (even though it’s still too high)

“I oppose amnesty” – What is this temporary worker program, then?

Medicine? – uh-oh. I see money being spent.

Veto? I didn’t think you could spell that, President Bush. After all, you’ve never used it.

Association Health Plans? The Dems seem to hate it.

Tax credit to buy your own health insurance? I know the Dems hate that!

Catastrophic health insurance 100% deductible? I know I LIKE THAT!!!!!

“A government run health system is the wrong prescription!”

New funding?!? Yuck!!

Steroids?!? You’re talking steroids? Puh-leeze! At least, he’s not asking to spend any money.

Tom Brady looks like he’s still in high school

Abstinence. Still a GREAT message. Thank you, President Bush for bringing it up again.

"What!!! Clinton signed a law defending conservative marriage? I’m not listening!
la-la-la-la-la-la-la!”

“If judges insist on forcing their arbitrary will upon the people, the only alternative left to the people would be the constitutional process. Our Nation must defend the sanctity of marriage.”

“Each individual had dignity and value in God’s sight”

The $300 million dollars for prisoner re-entrance programs sound like a money well spent to me. And I don’t like spending money.

Back to talking about the troops – a safe haven for a well deserving man.

Look at the little girl asleep on her daddy’s shoulder. She tried to stay awake, I saw her before. God help me, I love kids!

"HE'S OUT OF HIS MIND!"

Howard Dean was just on and out of his mind. He came on stage all full of pith and vinegar, rolled up his sleeves and had a breakdown!! He started screaming about where he was off to,

“NOW IT’S ON TO NEW HAMPSHIRE, TOM HARKIN! AND THEN SOUTH CAROLINA! AND ARIZONA", etc. He started screaming in Spanish (no kidding!) He was positively deranged.

Worrisome. It’s no fun to see a man loose his mind, even when he didn’t have all that much of one to start out with.

IOWA

Well, let’s take a deep breath and step back. The Iowa Caucuses are over and the clear winner was John Kerry – KERRY?!? with John Edwards coming in a very strong second and Dean-O a poor, distant third.

How in the Hell did this happen?

Well, a couple of things. The press turned on their boy like the French on stinky cheese. They all of a sudden realized this half-wit was in the lead and that can’t be good when Bush is the Devil. Edwards, the empty suit, ran on the platform that he’s a good guy, not very bright, but a good guy and that’s just right for a lot of Democrats.

But, what about Dean? He’s not out of it yet – not by a long shot. Dick Gephardt, coming in near 10% is going to drop out, so will Dennis “Mr. Twilight-Zone” Kucinich. That leaves a whole bunch of union voters and lefties – who will they go to? Ho-Ho Dean. So, let’s not read too much into this right now.

All I know is my home of New Hampshire will get even more chaotic for the next week.

THIS AND THAT

Lots of fun little stuff this weekend:

The European Union’s top military general said this weekend that the EU could and should take care of their own defense. At first blush, this sounds like an encouraging development; maybe Europe will stop leaning on the United States for their defense and we can withdraw some of our forces home or to areas that need it. This comes almost a years after Donald Rumsfeld hinted that we will start to ignore “old Europe” and concentrate on our real allies, like Poland.

But, when you get into the details, it’s the same old prissy stuff from the people who brought us Cirque de Soleil. In “major crises outside their regions”, Europe envisions this:

“U.S. forces would handle high-intensity operations involving terrorism and weapons of mass destruction while Europeans would concentrate on sustained low-intensity crisis management such as conflict prevention…”

Oh. So when real fighting needs to be done, it will be US troops doing the dying and the Europeans will be handling the cooking.

Thanks.

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Another Catholic Bishop developed a backbone. Bishop Hughes of New Orleans published a letter saying those Catholic legislators who support abortion, cloning, euthanasia, etc. can no longer receive communion. Again, the money quote:

“What, then, is the responsibility of Catholic public officials to translate their moral convictions on the life issues into public policy? Let us first address those issues that admit of no exceptions: abortion, physician-assisted suicide, homicide, the destruction of human embryos in artificial fertilization, stem cell research and cloning. In each of these, the issues are clear-cut. We cannot do what is wrong even for good purposes.”

Doesn’t leave much wiggle room, does it? That’s because THERE IS NO WIGGLE ROOM!!!

I love it.

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Judy Steinberg showed up for husband Ho-Ho in Iowa today. Any odds on her appearance having anything to do the Mel’s Diner? OK, so those odds are off the charts. Anyone figure it’s because people are starting to wonder where this “uninterested party” is? Or why she is so uninterested?

Yeah.

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Surprised by President Bush’s call for space exploration? That’s because he’s lying to you. He wants to get into space for one reason and one reason alone – defense. But, he can’t say that. If he did, Big Media would wet their shorts and be out to destroy him. So, he has to tell a little multi-billion dollar white lie.

And we should be backing him up.

MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY

Some civil rights activists in Dallas have their skirts up over their heads over the Junior ROTC marching in the annual Martin Luther King, Jr. parade:

“Guns don't belong in the parade. It's an insult to Martin Luther King's sacred legacy of nonviolence and peace," said Peter Johnson, a former nonviolence trainer with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.”

In fact, accepting the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King said:

"Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral question of our time – the need for man to overcome oppression and violence. ... Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts."

What Dr. King and his fellow pacifists never fully understand is that it is the very weapons and violence – or, at least the threat of it – they despise so that keep civilization alive so King and his ilk can cry about how guns are so bad. I remember seeing an ad for the Air Force about twenty years ago. It showed the US Seal (Eagle with olive branch and arrows) and an F-15 coming straight at you, low to the ground. It said, "Eyes on the olive branch, arrows at the ready".

Of course, had Dr. King not been killed, I think he would have distanced himself from the civil rights movement as it is in it’s current form. Just this week we got to see how petty and silly the so called “protectors” of Dr. King’s memory are. They protested in Dallas. They accused President Bush of looking for a photo-op as he lay a wreath at King’s grave (of course, had he not done that, he would have been accused of being a racist). In California, union members and civil rights leaders are calling on Safeway to apologize for placing an ad honoring Dr, King because Safeway is currently in a labor dispute of health benefits.

Dr. King, we need you now more than ever.

"I AM STILL RELEVANT HERE!"

It seems our good buddies to the north, seeing recently they have been pushed to the sidelines to the point of apathy by the United States, have decided they want to be part of the “in-crowd” again. The Globe and Mail is reporting that Canada wants to be part of the anti-missile programs for North America.

Yeah, the Canadians.

As justification, Defense Minister David Pratt sent a letter laying out the reasons why the United States should let Canada in and not leave it to the world it cares so little to help protect:

“Mr. Pratt's letter cites the 1940 Ogdensburg Agreement on hemispheric defence, NATO's mutual defence pact and NORAD (the North American Aerospace Defence Command) as examples of Ottawa's and Washington's ability to work together on defence. He singled out NORAD, a continental defence organization that dates to the late 1950s, as the logical forum for co-operation on missile defence.”

So, all the Canadians have are treaties from the 40’s and the 50’s. They’ve done nothing for fifty years to convince the United States that Canada isn’t anything else than a pitiful charity case. Canada is unable to offer any real military reasons to be protected by a defense shield, it can only offer a lot of “used-to’s”.

Even Canadians say as much. A Retired Canadian Colonel, Ralph Annis, wrote an essay on the sad shape of Canada’s Air Force. Listing the number of each aircraft and the poor shape they are in, he confesses Canada’s entire fighter forces are less than the fighter strength on a single U.S. Aircraft Carrier.

Look, Canada has relegated itself into a country to be recognized, but ignored – like Luxemburg or Belize. It shows what countries do when they are protected by the United States and are asked to be responsible for nothing. We are seeing the beginnings of this from South Korea, the country MOST needing US protection.

Sickening.

THE IMMINENT THREAT OF DR. NO

Well, well, well – it seems the past has come back to haunt Ho-Ho again. Back in 1995, he wrote an impassioned letter to President Clinton calling for UNILATERAL action in Bosnia. Yes, unilateral was the exact word he used. Mr. “Unilateral-action-is-bad” was looking for that very same thing in Bosnia.

“Since it is clearly no longer possible to take action in conjunction with NATO and the United Nations, I have reluctantly concluded that we must take unilateral action.”

Did Dr. No just say that if we can’t get the UN on board, we must act unilaterally? Now that sounds familiar, doesn’t it? Well, not exactly, you see, in Iraq we didn’t act unilaterally, there were a few other countries involved there, i.e., UK, Australia, Poland, etc. Well, whatever, let’s get a comment from the Dean campaign:

“Dean's support for the war in Bosnia is one of several examples he uses to differentiate himself from Democrats who oppose virtually all international intervention. His advisers say his stance has remained consistent over the years: A humanitarian crisis of the scale that occurred in Bosnia should trigger an armed intervention. So, too, would an attack or imminent attack on the United States.

The word "imminent" is key to differentiating Dean's policy from the president's decision to invade Iraq, said Jeremy Ben-Ami, policy director for Dean's campaign.

Bush "sold the war on the basis of an imminent threat to U.S. security, and that has now been shown to be false," Ben-Ami said. Since the threat from Iraq was not imminent, the administration could not properly justify the war, he said.”

Ah, the old “imminent threat” canard. Even the USA Today, hardly a member of BUSHCO, said President Bush never said there was an imminent threat and had the key quote from the 2003 State of the Union address.

But, let’s get beyond that. The Dean campaign said it’s ok to go it alone if the threat is imminent or there is a “humanitarian crisis of the scale that occurred in Bosnia”. What exactly does Dean-O think the mass graves, rape rooms, torture chambers, systematic destruction of the Marsh Arabs, re-education centers for children, gassing civilians, etc. constitute, a Church social? I would think that a humanitarian crisis on that scale should satisfy the Dean requirement for unilateral action. And if this question was posed to them, they would agree and say, “BUT, BUSHCO didn’t say we needed to go in for humanitarian reasons, he said they were a threat to us, so there!!”

It would be another classic case of the motives trumping the outcome, something the liberals have been stuck on since Vietnam. It doesn’t matter that something good is been done, it’s the motive that matters. Dean and his minions sleep well at night because even though the outcome is something Dean would support, he can rail against the Iraq war because the motives were “wrong”.

And he wants to be President.

THE LESBIAN AT HOME

The New York Times had an exposé today of the missing woman who would be first lady, Judy Steinberg Dean. It was full of quotes that show just what a “90’s” woman she is – selfish and self-absorbed:

“I think a lot of couples are like us, where they have two career-couples, and both careers are very important to the individuals," Dr. Steinberg, 50, said in an interview this fall. "Each individual has to do what works for her. What works best for me, and what I'm best at, is being a doctor."

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“I do not intend to drag her around because I think I need her as a prop on the campaign trail," Dr. Dean said last week in Iowa. "If she wanted to do it, it'd be great, but she doesn't want to do it, and therefore if she does do it, it won't be great. I just think she should do what she needs to do for her own happiness and satisfaction."

Super. Just what I’m looking for. But, hey, that’s what makes the world go ‘round.

Now, when I was bringing all of this up at the office, the general consensus was the women to be found “wearing sensible slipper-flats and no makeup or earrings” is actually a lesbian, not that there's anything wrong with that. Giggling and snorting, I agreed.

Then I thought about it.

I bet she is a lesbian. The article points out that:

“Dr. Dean has spent, on average, just four nights a month here in Burlington, for nearly a year.”

And we all know how little Dean-O has spoken about his home life, how he says supporters won’t meet Dr. Steinberg until they get to the White House.

His wife being a lesbian would also explain his signing of the civil union law in Vermont, now wouldn’t it?

GET BACK TO WORK!!!

A fun little story from the paper in and about Congress, The Hill. It seems an unabashedly conservative group, the American Conservative Union, has filed a lawsuit to force the House of Representatives Clerk to enforce a 150 year old rule that requires pay to be withheld from any member of Congress for the days absent not for medical reasons. The target of the lawsuit is House minority leader Dick Gephardt, who has missed 506 votes (over 90%) this year. If enforced, this would mean Dicky would lose about $155,000.00. The ACU also plans to target John Kerry, the Massachusetts Republican, who, by the way, served in Vietnam, for missing 237 votes in the Senate, nearly 60%.

Now, the rules also state that the rule is no longer practical. But, it does show the absolute apathy Gephardt has for his constituents. Can you imagine missing nine out of every ten days at work and still just collecting a paycheck, unscathed? The ACU admit it’s just trying to hurt Gephardt, but why? Dean-O is the frontrunner, why not go after him?

Because Gephardt is a much better candidate for President and much harder to beat. Dick has some very leftist, pinko ideas, but he would be much stronger as a candidate for President because he is a much saner person. He is the kind of person people would feel they could vote for. So, The ACU attacked, pointing out his weaknesses. Very pragmatic.

It’s also fun to see the right use the judiciary to hurt the left, since we’ve been on the receiving side for so long.

ABORTION NEWS

Just a quickie post on the goings on this weekend concerning the American Holocaust – Abortion:

Bishop Raymond Burke of the Diocese of Lacrosse laid it all out on the line in black and white. He issued a decree saying that any Catholic politician whose public position is “pro-choice” may not receive communion until they publicly renounce that position and, even though he didn’t say so, go to confession. He followed that up with a letter to the faithful calling upon them to support pro-life candidates and explained it all scriptural and canonically. The money phrase:

“Recall the words of Pope John Paul II on the mission of the lay faithful in the Church and in the world: "The inviolability of the person which is a reflection of the absolute inviolability of God, finds its primary and fundamental expression in the inviolability of human life. Above all, the common outcry, which is justly made on behalf of human rights -- for example, the right to health, to home, to work, to family, to culture -- is false and illusory if the right to life, the most basic and fundamental right and the condition of all other personal rights, is not defended with maximum determination" (Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation "Christifideles Laici," "The Vocation and Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World" [December 30, 1988], n. 38b). “

No matter how much work you do for the poor, etc. it’s all for naught if you support abortion.

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In Florida, a state appeals court has denied Gov. Bush’s call for a guardian for the fetus of a severely retarded pregnant woman. Gov. Bush called for a guardian after another guardian was appointed for the girl and Gov. Bush thought the girl might be forced into an abortion. It was a loosing battle, except it won the war by tying the case up in the courts long enough for the girl to give birth.

Jeb Bush has come out as one of the most ardent defenders of life in this country and I salute him for it. Them Bush brothers rock!!

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Wesley Clark spent this weekend trying to back peddle on his abortion rights until birth statements made to Joe McQuaid of the Union Leader. Clark’s minder said that all he said was that he wouldn’t discuss timing, but the Union Leader printed a transcript of the discussion and it’s clearly obvious Clark DID say he supported abortions up the point of birth.

WE ALL BOW TO JONAH

The big news this week, if you’re a thinking man, is President Bush’s immigration proposal. I didn’t have the time I wanted to put into this, so I kind of hung back and let the bomb go off.

Bombs is more like it.

My buddies at the National Review just about had a collective breakdown. The normal, den mother Katherine Lopez said she leaped out of her chair, Derb went off in classic Derb fashion and even the stolid Ramesh was less than pleased. People wrote into the regular corner contributors claiming this was the last straw and they would NEVER vote for George Bush now.

About what I expected.

Then my MAN Jonah stepped in.

He had a beautiful essay on the issue and introduced a voice of reason into the debate, not a small feat from a man who quotes The Simpson’s regularly. His basic take was this:

The illegal immigrants here are here to stay – there is no way, politically, socially, whatevery to kick them all out.

Accepting that, now what? Ignore them? Accept them? What?

Jonah also points out a salient fact about George Bush – President Bush has inherited a lot of problems. He has inherited terrorist threats, Medicare problems, immigration problems, etc. and for each of these, Bush has stepped up to the plate and offered a solution. We may not like all of the solutions (Medicare), loved some of them (terror) and just started on others, but he has never shirked them.

So, please check out Jonah – he has once again showed the world why he rules!!!! I have to admit, I agree with him and not just because he is the large editor, I mean editor-at-large for my favorite bi-weekly and blog in the world.

HOWARD THE LEPER?

Let me opine a little on why Howard Dean is where he is now and why the press is starting to attack him:

A lot of you should sit down because of what I’m about to say, but the press, especially Big Media, hate George Bush. I know, I know, a shocking revelation, but it’s true. They can’t abide the thought that this Texas hick is President. So, in early 2003 when a maverick from Vermont started saying all of the things the press loved to hear, that Bush is evil, The war in Iraq was a war for oil to feed the military-industrial complex, that Halliburton ruled everything, that the fork ran away with the spoon, etc., the press ate it up. They couldn’t get enough of this guy!! And with the war seemingly bogging down, the economy tanked, the press thought Dean would be a shoe in for President and what a President!!! An old fashioned liberal, the Ted Kennedy they always wanted.

Then everything went wrong.

The economy started to take off. Saddam was caught like a rat. Medicare reform passed. Poll numbers went up.

All of a sudden, George Bush looked like a strong candidate and the media looked at their chosen one. He was saying stuff like, well, like what a crazy, out of touch, liberal freak would be saying at any Phish concert, but he was saying these things to the world.

And then they knew fear.

This moroon was going to get the nomination because James and Terry wanted a quick nomination in 2004 and loaded the primaries up front. What was the press to do?

They turned on their Golden Boy like, well, a bunch of Democrats on Robert Casey at the ’92 convention. The press are running like a bunch of girls in a horror movie and doing everything they can to torpedo this sure looser.

And I love it.

OH, WHERE HAVE ALL THE LIBERALS GONE?

Wonderful article over at The American Thinker about abortion and how it’s realigned American politics. Richard Baehr’s premise, which he readily admits he stole from James Taranto over at The Wall Street Journal (as I did), is that the 40 or so million babies who were NOT born over the past thirty years were tomorrows liberals.

The premise makes perfect sense once you start to think about it. Who were getting abortions all this time? Was it conservative, church-going women who would raise their kids to be the same or was it liberal, “I gotta be me” women who would raise their kids in that vein? Was it disproportionately white or black (92% for Gore) women? Right. Liberals have managed to thin their ranks by killing their children. That helps explain the surprising conservativeness of today’s college students. Today’s college kids are much more conservative than in the past and that has confused a lot of sociologists and professors.

As Mr. Baehr points out, the first “abortion babies” started to hit the college and the voting booth in 1991. And because the number of abortions each year grew to a reality-bending nearly 1.5 million in the mid-90’s, the number of “missing” liberals will continue to grow until 2013, just in time for social security to start to go into the red. So, we should expect to see some desperation on the left’s part over the next couple of years.

This is the weak silver lining on the cloud of abortion, but it in no way ameliorates the horror of “a woman’s right to choose”. Given a choice (ha-ha – get it? “choice”?), I would have sacrificed this burgeoning conservativeness of our young people to have stopped the murder of 40 million Americans, no question. But, to the liberals, I ask them to remember the old proverb:

“You reap what you sew” and it surely is a Grim Reaper.

HOWARD A LIAR? - SAY IT ISN'T SO!

Remember Howard Dean had a huge online “vote” to decide if he should opt-out of the public campaign financing he was so enamored with last spring? According to the press release on his website, it was an overwhelming 85-15 percent vote to opt-out. Being a man of the little guy, the one who always listens to the people, Howard opted out.

Liar – and we knew it at the time.

Today’s Washington Post has a little ditty on the “campaign embeds” – those reporters who follow a campaign around on it’s endless stops. The very first two paragraphs goes like this:

“Marc Ambinder says he spent so many hours with Howard Dean that he knew a month in advance that the candidate would pass up federal funding and raise the campaign cash himself.

You build enough trust with the candidate and his staff that they begin to act normally around you, even though you're a member of the press," the ABC News producer says.”

What?!?!? How could Marc know how all of those people would vote?!? It couldn’t be that Howard just had the dumb vote for show, all the while knowing what he was going to do, one way or the other, could it?

No, of course not.

'I'M INTO GOD AND STUFF"

Last week, Howard Dean said that he was going to introduce more religion into his stump speeches. This came as quite a shock to a lot of us, because this is the man who chastised the South for making election all about, "...race, guns, God and gays” and who showed the Religious convictions so strong he left the Episcopal Church over a bike path.

Obviously, a focus group told him that his secular image was hurting him, so he found that old time religion. He also is an idiot.

On Friday, Howard was spouting off about religion when he said this:

"If you know much about the Bible — which I do — to see and be in a place where Christ was and understand the intimate history of what was going on 2,000 years ago is an exceptional experience," he said.

Asked his favorite New Testament book, Dr. Dean named Job, adding: "But I don't like the way it ends." "Some would argue, you know, in some of the books of the New Testament, the ending of the Book of Job is different," he said. "I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's one book where there's a more optimistic ending, which we believe was tacked on later."

You can’t make this stuff up!! He pats himself on the back by saying he knows a lot about the Bible and then says the Book of Job is in the New Testament. It took him and his staff of religious scholars OVER AN HOUR to realize Job is in the Old Testament. After that personal revelation, Dean scurried back to the reporters and said he “misspoke” and his favorite New Testament book was any of the Gospels.

I can just imagine him running back yelling, “My favorite New Testament book is any of those things near the end of the Bible, you know, with the red words and stuff?”

Imagine the firestorm of abuse if George Bush ever said something so stupid – Al Franken or Michael Moore would write a whole book about it. But, because it’s Dean, we get loyal Democrats unphased by the moronic comments.

"DEAN FOR PRESIDENT, I MEAN... WHAT A TEMPER! YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I MEAN" - THE NEW YORK TIMES

Bernie Goldberg say the media bias shows itself in what the media says and often, what they don’t say. In a puff piece disguised as tough reporting, the New York Times yesterday proved Goldberg’s theory in a story on Howard Dean’s temper called As the Race Turns Hot, What About Dean’s Collar?

The Times interviewed seven or eight people, none of which who had anything negative to say about Ho-Ho-‘s temper. In fact, all but one of them were referred to as “political allies” or “longtime friends” or worked for the Dean campaign. The lone interviewee who could possibly be considered an opponent hadn’t even been exposed to Dean’s temper:

“I never experienced his temper, but there are those who say he does have quite a temper," said John H. Bloomer Jr., a Republican who is minority leader of the Vermont Senate. "If anything, he's done well in controlling his thin skin in this campaign."

Great. The Times' attempt to be fair and balanced was in itself proof of bias. They may as well have interviewed me or a coffee farmer in Brazil. Look, Dean’s temper is not in question, he admits he has one, so why even bother to interview someone who hasn’t been at the brunt of it? They should have interviewed Bill Doyle, the Republican legislator who was brunt of Dean’s “finger in the chest” tirade.

The Times had one small paragraph in the article that could be construed as casting Dean in a poor light. It brought up the finger-in-the-chest incident, slamming his fists on the table during a meeting and calling Republicans cockroaches. But that was the only paragraph. Throughout the rest of the story we got things like this:

"Howard gets angry," said one longtime friend, Thomas R. Hudspeth, a professor at the University of Vermont. "He doesn't suffer people being unfair or duplicitous.

“Friends and former employees of Dr. Dean say his temper can indeed flare, although of greater concern to campaign aides is the occasional crisis created by his speaking too quickly on the issues.”

"What people are responding to is that I believe in what I'm doing and it's not calculated," he [Dean] said, “That's a quality you can't fake.”

“Susan Allen, his press secretary when he was governor, says that what some may read as temper is often nothing more than eagerness to get things done.

"He's a doctor," Ms. Allen said. "He sees a problem, he diagnoses the problem, and he prescribes a fix. And then he moves on to the next problem. It can come across as annoyance, I guess. He also doesn't suffer fools."

“Dr. Dean himself said: "I don't hold a grudge, although I try to sometimes. In the end, it's more trouble than it's worth to keep one.”

Please. The article is positively sickening. They Times spent almost all of the 1,500 word article saying Dean has a temper because he cares too much. It’s free campaign advertising like this that shows the bias of Big Media and the shortcomings of campaign finance reform.

I’m disgusted.