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The scheming in Washington as President Bush prepares for his second term is easily explained. It's the insurgents versus the Washington establishment, and the insurgents are winning. ... In the eyes of the establishment, the Bush tactics, the Bush agenda, and Mr. Bush himself are over the top. The president is girding for battle. He's aiming to consolidate control of his administration, drive out recalcitrant (read: establishment) elements, and make the permanent government heel, especially at the CIA and State Department. He's kept his White House staff intact, from political adviser Karl Rove to speechwriter Mike Gerson to budget chief Josh Bolten, as a kind of headquarters cadre. The White House aides who've departed, such as national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and counsel Alberto Gonzales, were dispatched to take over Cabinet agencies.
I've been smiling since I read that sentence... can't seem to stop, heh. "One tux a term" - lol!
Time to take the Gov't away from the self-serving InCivil Servants who were not elected. Bush has both constitutional requirements and campaign promises to keep. Neither moonbats nor careerists nor gloom of hand-wringers shall stay this President from his appointed mission.
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It's a good article. Lousy title, however. I love the second term agenda: true tax and social security reform to make us richer, stronger, more productive and self-reliant; take the fight overseas to the enemies of freedom and liberty.
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Under CLINTONISM, Republicans = Americans, Rightists, Fascists and Capitalists to destroy now; Democrats = DITTO to destroy later.Clintonism> The GOP-RIght exists minorilly, unique, and outcast from America's Communist- and LeftSocialist Majority, i.e. is a militant/rogue fraction of America's normal National COmmunism whom must be controlled or destroyed.
Dubya, like Radical Islam, within the context of anti-American Clintonism can thus be argued as being a COMMUNIST-CONTROLLED "FASCIST", MERC, AND ANTI-AMERICAN AMERICAN "INSURGENT".
Iff the "JFK Game", and Kerry's recent remarks this past week about how Dubya and the GOP are imposing FASCISM on America is any measure, looks like Dubya remains a marked man - if controversial resignation doesn't get him, PC political assassination will. LeftBloggers and Leftperts are proclaiming that 9-11 was a conspiracy by the GOP-RIght and America for global domination; whereas RIGHTWINGNEWS > LeftBloggies on militant DEMOCRATIC
UNDERGROUND.COM are claiming that Dubya may be responsible for a "hit" on his own father Bush 1 vv the plane crash. The FAILED/ANGRY LEFT> Bush and America are both heroes, andor mistaken, as well as "ROGUES" whom INEVITABLY MUST BE DESTROYED ITSELF, espec after Rogue-ish America destroys Rogue-ish Radical Islam first. The ONLY ones that can't be destroyed or considered "EXPENDABLE" are the super-PC Clintons; Communism, i.e AMERICA-/WORLD-SAVING REGULATION AND GLOBAL INTEGRATION; and Mackinder's=Socialism's
"World Island", aka EURASIA, the "Mother of the World", specifically RUSSIA-CHINA. The Failed Left> is mere, wierd and mysterious, PC=Politically Deniable, dialectic COINCIDENCE amongst coincidences, NOT CONSPIRACY OR THIRD-PARTY/TERTIARY ALIBIS, mysteries and riddles wrapped around enigmas, chaos, paradoxes, and hyperdoxes, as honest injun as America is a mere SUPER-POWER JUST LIKE RUSSIA-CHINA STILL ARE! The Left claims RUSSIA, CHINA, and ASIA will take over from America btwn 2030- 2050, but the Left weirdly and mysteriously doesn't and won't say HOW? or WHY? "ONLY IN AMERICA CAN SOCIALISM/OWG WORK" = "AMERICA IS A ROGUE THAT MUST BE DESTROYED" = "AMERICANS DON'T WANT TO BE GOVERNED BY AMERICANS" = "AMERICANS ARE ASIANS",...........@!? ITS COMMUNISM, PEOPLE, ITS WAR - THE LEFT IS IN "FINAL CONFLICT" MODE BUT DOESN'T WANT AMERICA OR AMERICANS TO KNOW OR BELIEVE IT!
When the nation is under attack, citizens normally rally together. Differences are set aside to pursue common goals. The days after 9/11 provided many such moments. Neighbor joined neighbor. Republicans and Democrats buried politics temporarily. Even rival nations joined Americans in their grief. But more than three years later on Capitol Hill, a pair of powerful Republican lawmakers still don't seem to grasp that spirit. Last Saturday, they stood in the way of reforming the nation's broken intelligence system - obstructing a plan endorsed by just about every major player in Washington to address weaknesses that contributed to the 9/11 attacks. Today, because of their stubbornness, the nation remains more vulnerable to terrorism than it could be.
Barely anyone argues that the splintered intelligence system isn't flawed. Fifteen disparate agencies follow their own agendas. No one is in charge. This jumble is overseen by eight congressional committees. And 80% of the budget is controlled by the Pentagon (news - web sites), even though the war on terrorism increases the need for non-military intelligence. All 10 members of the bipartisan 9/11 Commission, which studied the failings that led to 9/11, endorsed the same fix: a single, director with authority over all of the intelligence agencies and their budgets.
The common-sense changes won support even among usually vehement foes. In the Senate, the GOP majority joined Democrats to approve the overhaul, 96 to 2. President Bush endorsed the plan. Groups of 9/11 families plied the corridors of the Capitol to lobby for it. A majority of House members support it, according to several analysts, who say the plan would have passed had it gotten to a vote. But that didn't happen.
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no agenda in the way this op/ed article was written, nosirree. Why is illegal alien DL's not a valid issue? Why are Hunter's concerns not worth addressing? His committee's control of the pentagon budget would hardly be dented by this minor chg - that's a canard to attack him. USA Today's no source for serious news
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11/23/2004 10:04 Comments ||
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Here is a pretty solid rebuttal to this MSM propaganda from the WSJ:(may have to register)
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/bminiter/?id=110005931
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I listened to Hunter on Fox. His point was the Washington bureaucracy was going to be inserted between the satellite gathering and the user - the troops on the ground as in Iraq. I know back in Gulf One, the data was piped that way and the Pentagon spent the next 10 years to make the data as directly accessible by the boys fighting the battle. The natural tendency of bureaucracies is to accumulate power and control, all too often of the expense of the users in the fields [a matter of an FBI agent and the people in Washington concerning Arabs taking flight lessons comes to mind]. Rep. Hunter wanted the bill to be structured to insure that nothing would get between the satellite sensors and the users.
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11/23/2004 10:55 Comments ||
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"leaving nation at risk", eh? We'd be less at risk if we razed the CIA entirely.
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Any chance of a well deserved "barf alert" on this title? Hunter and Sensenbrenner are trying to de-bs the 9/11 Commission -- commissioners who are all retreads/retards. 9/11 Commission is the problem not the solution, just as Woolsey.
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should be "ask Woolsey"
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