Wednesday, January 03, 2007
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Sheehanites Shout Down Dems at Presser Not Being Sufficiently Sheehan-y
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
4:30 PM
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If this is what a triumphant new Democratic majority press conference looks like, I can't wait to see this big four-day party Pelosi thinks she's gonna throw for herself.
Iraq war protesters broke up a press conference by House Democrats on Wednesday with chants to bring American troops home from Iraq.
Chanting "de-escalate, investigate, troops home now," the protesters disrupted a briefing aimed at outlining priority goals when Democrats take over the House and Senate on Thursday...
"We didn't put you in power to work with the people that have been murdering hundreds of thousands of people since they have been in power," Sheehan said. "We put you in power to be opposition to them finally and we're the ones who put them in power."
It was a presser about lobbying reform. Presumably, Sheehan would like a little more "truth to power" in the discussion of accountability and transparency in earmarks. So, she brought it, baby. And, Democratic leadership was forced to, err, redeploy in the face of her vicious, barely-rhyming chants:
Rep. Rahm Emanuel, D-Ill., cut the press conference short when protests drowned out his voice through a dozen microphones set up to record his comments. Emanuel said Democrats would go back to the caucus room and return later. Check out the spine on those guys, huh? Emanuel later stated that to stand and fight the Sheehanites for rhetorical ground would merely have served as a valuable recruiting tool for Daily Kos. Heh, looks like the Blue Dogs-- elected because Emanuel was smart enough to recruit them against the wishes of the Sheehanites in the first place-- are gonna have a ton of fun in the new Congress.
We have tiffs aplenty in the Republican Party and conservative movement, but sheesh, the Democrat Gatorade bath is turning into cold shower quicker than I thought it would. And, so deliciously publicy.
Praise Allah, for he will surely have video.
Update: Video of the exciting Dem infighting, here.
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"I think Cindy just needs a date at this point. Any takers to shut her up? "
Ewww. Just.... Ewwww.
I wouldn't hit it
Not even with my ex-husband's....um, well, you know. |
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I love it, the Dems mollycoddled this walking disaster of a woman, and here she is feeling glorifying entitlement and wants results from her liberal buddies in office asap.
I think Cindy just needs a date at this point. Any takers to shut her up? |
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She was loved by the left when she was bashing the right. It will be really interesting to see how much they love her now. |
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You hit the nail on the head!
Elsewhere today on this and various other sites, Robert Novak wonders about the votes of Democrats who ran as "Pro-life" once the bill to authorize federal funding for stem cell research comes up.
The Schadenfreude factor these next two years looks to be good. Hey Dems! You promised everybody the effing moon! Don't be so surprised when you are called on it. |
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The Dems won on Nov 7th because their "messengers" appealed to the largest number of voters. They planned it that way. Where more moderate messengers were required, they recruited them. If a little-more-to-the-left was in order, not a problem. Whatever message needed to be sent, the Dems had just the right messenger.
It was a good strategy that worked well for the election, but the election is over and it's time to deliver to the people who elected them. Unfortunately, the people who elected them have very divergent political interests.
Ms. Sheehan is a good example of what could lie ahead for the Dems. They loved, sympathized with and even encouraged Cindy's continued attacks on President Bush. She pushed the anti-war agenda many of them favored, but couldn't publicly embrace. Whether the Dems agreed with Cindy's political views or not wasn't important. She made President Bush and his administration look bad, which made the Dems feel good.
Cindy is now demanding payment for the anti-war vote and other political interest groups that supported the Dems are likely to do the same. If Mr. Emanuel's reaction at the press conference is any indication, the Dems don't yet have a plan for satisfying the divergent political interest groups they reached out to during the campaign. They better come up with one soon because 2008 will be here before they know it.
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as vile as Cindy Sheehan. Its never been about her son, its been about her. She's a disgusting piece of garbage.
However, what do the democrats expect ? The chickens are coming home to roost. On the upside, I don't think you'll see troop withdrawal until after the 2008 elections- if a democrat is elected, we'll be abandoning the Iraqis come the inaguration. |
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Will Rodgers said it best, "I don't belong to an organized political party, I'm a Democrat." The Democrats can trace most of their present problems to the 1964 Democratic Convention. Up untill that time, the Democratic Party was controlled by a coalition of country club liberals, labor union officials from the rust belt, white, southern political power brokers and big city political machine hacks. At the 1964 convention, it was time to put up or shut up on the issue of civil rights. Specifically the credentialing of the Mississippi Delegation. That year, Mississippi had two delegations trying to be seated, the Freedom Democrats and the Regualars. The Dems showed a lack of fortitude with a compromise that pleased no one and only compounded their problems. In 1968, the Democratic Convention was a zoo to put it mildly. It was then that the Democratic party tried to be all things to all people. The result of that fiasco occured in 1972. It was the infamous George McGovern "Children's Crusade". Since that time, the Democrats has ceased to be a party of reason. Mob rule and a lack of civility pretty much mark all of their functions and actions. This is what happens when you lose not only your soul, but moral compass as well. The party of Roosevelt and Truman is dead, never to be resurrected again. |
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After seeing the Dems "cut and rn" to their caucus room, I have a prediction.
Rosie will invite Cindy to appear on "The View" |
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"It's funny how most activists are pacifists.”
Craig Bruce
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For the inevitable biopic: She looks like Peppermint Patty from the Peanuts comic strip, but I'm thinking Glenn Close for the role. I mean, she did it once in "Fatal Attraction", and she could deliver Cindy's line "I WILL NOT BE IGNORED!"
Hide the kids' bunny rabbit, Rahm! |
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just making sure Jimmah got a tax-payer funded platform to spew his theories about how much America sucks in the present.....
"Very early on, we came to the conclusion that we didn't want this to just be a retrospective. We wanted it to be a forward-looking conference that could be used to generate policy advice for contemporary policy-makers. So many of the issues of the Carter administration also are relevant today that it just makes sense," Maltese said.
SOMEBODY HOLD MY HAIR, here comes lunch>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
I have someone who is attending for me so I can blog it.....or maybe YOU will, HAMster..
How about them DAWGS???? Rough driving up here in Northern Virginia with GEORGIA stickers all over the car after that Bowl game, eh????
seejanemom
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I must say that even though I am a conservativc, I despise everything about Allah Pundit so I'll avoid the video, thank you very much.
As to Cindy, she has been standing on the dead carcass of her hero son long enough, all so she can relive her Sixties hippy, Vietnam peacenik experiences. Casey volunteered for service, he was proud of his service in Iraq and he and his father had nothing in common with Cindy, so enough of the sympathy for a Red Star Mother.
As to Rahm I am happy to see this shoved in his anti-war, liberal, anti-America pie hole. |
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THIS IS THE ONLY WAY I KNEW TO GET THIS TO YOU---IF YOU EVEN SEE THIS AT ALL........I include it the whole thing because it requires registration to view.
Love, seejanemom
Anaphylactic shock comes to Athens:
Carter conference to host political leaders
By Lee Shearer | lee.shearer@onlineathens.com | Story updated at 10:09 PM on Monday, January 1, 2007
A conference marking the 30th anniversary of the inauguration of Jimmy Carter as president won't just shed light on history, but will make history, organizers at the University of Georgia hope.
"The Carter Presidency: Lessons for the 21st Century," scheduled Jan. 19-21 at the Georgia Center for Continuing Education and Athens' Classic Center, will bring not just nationally prominent scholars and journalists to campus, but also many high officials of the Carter administration of 1977-81, beginning with Carter himself...
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Besides the former president from Plains, others scheduled to participate in the conference are former first lady Rosalynn Carter; former Vice President Walter Mondale and his wife, Joan; U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer; former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Carter's top foreign policy adviser; former Senate Majority Leader and Tennessee Sen. Howard Baker; Stuart Eizenstat, Carter's chief domestic policy adviser; former CIA Director Stansfield Turner and former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin.
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The conference begins Jan. 19 with a 7:55 a.m. welcome and introduction of Mondale. The conference's first roundtable discussion centers on the vice president's office, strengthened under Carter, said director John Maltese, a professor in UGA's School of Public and International Affairs.
Much of the first day will be given over to scholarly papers and academic papers on aspects of the Carter presidency.
But the second day, the actual historical players will take the limelight, participating in discussions on foreign and domestic issues and crises during the Carter presidency.
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And Carter told conference planners from the beginning he wanted not just a reunion, but a critical analysis of his presidency, Pharr said - so the scholars attending will include prominent critics as well as defenders of his presidency.
"Very early on, we came to the conclusion that we didn't want this to just be a retrospective. We wanted it to be a forward-looking conference that could be used to generate policy advice for contemporary policy-makers. So many of the issues of the Carter administration also are relevant today that it just makes sense," Maltese said.
Issues Carter faced that still are with us 30 years later include Islamic fundamentalism, human rights issues, energy conservation, inflation and conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, Maltese said. "I am looking forward to a robust discussion of these issues among former members of my administration, Republicans who sometimes supported and opposed our policies, historians, policy experts, journalists and others," said Carter in a prepared statement when the conference was announced.
"It's a great opportunity for the Carter people to have a reunion, just on a personal level," said Loch Johnson, a UGA political science professor who helped plan the conference.
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