Laesch Out?
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He terminated his fundraising committee on the 11th.
That’s contrary to everything else I’ve been hearing. Interesting.
Update: Now there is a July report. I guess he’s still in. Strange. Not surprising, but strange.
July 2007
The Brownshirts are Lynching
In general the entire bit is rather humorous for two reasons:
A) Incoherent
B) Obnoxious
The radical homosexual movement has bought the rope, and they’re swarming all over Washington, hooting, shrieking, ready to lynch Dr. James Holsinger, President Bush’s nominee for Surgeon General.
They learned something about Dr. Holsinger that is so vile, so contemptible, so obscene that they can’t allow him to be confirmed by the Senate. They found out — are you ready for this? — that he’s a Christian!
And it gets worse. Holsinger also believes homosexuals engage in acts that are unhealthy and dangerous, and he said so publicly way back in 1991!
The radical homosexual movement believes that if such a man becomes Surgeon General, the sun, moon, and stars will fall from the sky.
As usual, the news media have joined the lynch party. ABC has already launched an attack on Holsinger, taking quotes out of context, omitting the major argument of his paper, setting him up for the Odd Squad.
According to ABC, university professor Eli Coleman said of Dr. Holsinger’s paper: “I can’t imagine that any scientific journal would be able to publish this material because of its very narrow views of homosexuality.”
“In fact,” ABC said, wagging its magisterial finger, “if one of his students handed the paper in, Coleman would give it a failing grade.”
Professor Coleman is probably right. No medical journal “would be able to publish this material” because the Brown Shirts of the radical homosexual rights movement would storm their offices and terrorize them, just as they stormed the American Psychiatric Association meetings in the early 70’s and terrorized the cowering doctors until they removed homosexuality from the list of mental disorders.
And we’re all familiar with the current practice of professors failing college students if they don’t parrot the university’s politically correct ideology.
But let’s get one thing straight: for the most part, Dr. Holsinger’s article summarizes scholarly studies — published in learned journals — that document the injuries, diseases, and deaths that result from homosexual practices.
Dr. Coleman knows this. He doesn’t want YOU to find out. That’s why he’s so terrified of Surgeon General Holsinger.
It’s a bit hard to tell who is being demonized, but I think it’s safe to say there is a mixed metaphor in there with professors and the radical homosexual movement being both Nazis and the Klan.
Let me explain why this is so offensive if you haven’t figured it out already. Gays and Lesbians were victims in the Holocaust. Imagine calling Jews Brownshirts?
Petey flipped his lid sometime probably well before he became an undercover homosexual investigator, but he seems to have raised the decibel level on his offensiveness in the last few months.
A Wuss
This guy:
Is suggesting this guy:
Is a wuss and sounds like a wimp
DC is full of silly, silly people.
Bureaucracy is a Key Element of any Democracy
Speaking of cats and dogs, David makes a key point about Shimkus’ view on bureaucracy is telling and points towards Chris Hayes’ article on the value of bureaucracy in democratic government.
After all, what could be a more absurd example of mindless red tape than a midnight drive to a hospital to obtain…a supervisor’s signature? But the moral of the Comey story specifically, and of the failures of the Bush Administration more broadly, is the sublime value of bureaucracy. Not only is governance of any kind impossible without it; so too are the checks and balances of a constitutional republic. Red tape is what binds those in power to the mast of the law, what stands in the way of government by whim. That’s why an Administration hostile to any checks and balances has sought to reconstitute the federal civil service as just another lever in its machine.
Bureaucracy in a democracy is primarily bound by the law. We’ve spent the time since World War II building up bureaucratic responsiveness to democratic influences–most notably the Administrative Procedures Act that nearly all, if not all states, have copied.
When bureaucracy ‘doesn’t work’ it’s not generally some inherent flaw in bureaucracy itself, but the rules under which they work designed by Congress to make the bureaucracy responsive to them and the public as a whole. That’s a good thing. It means they are following the law. Efficiency is a goal to certainly make very important, but not efficiency to sacrifice democratic responsiveness.
Surgeon Generals Carmona and Koop Hate America
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I’m sure the usual suspects will dismiss this as they have every other effort of this administration to tamper with science in the bureaucracy, but it’s becoming clear this administration is the worst in modern times. It has no respect for the rule of law, it has no respect for reality, and it has no integrity.
Carmona is the American dream
The Radicals of Northbrook
Concerned Kirk thinks the election is going to be about immigration:
The same was true for Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). In the six parades he attended on July 4 and in individual meetings, he found that the only topic that could compare with immigration in intensity was a spat between statehouse Democrats.
“There was an overwhelming desire throughout the district to secure our borders before any immigration reform proposals move forward,” Kirk said.
Iraq Veteran Denied Entry to Kirk Event Despite Buying Ticket
North Suburban Residents Rally Outside Chamber of Commerce Event Highlighting Costs of Iraq War
Northbrook, Illinois – Citizens of Congressman Mark Kirk’s district (IL – 10) today were rallying outside a luncheon where the Congressman was the slated keynote speaker when Iraq veteran Josh Lansdale was denied entry by event organizers despite having previously purchased a ticket online. When Lansdale, the Iraq Summer campaign’s Illinois Veterans Organizer, identified himself as a member of AAEI, he was told his name was not on the list even after producing his order confirmation for the ticket. He was told the event was sold out and he could not purchase a second ticket, but organizers continued selling tickets to other people at the door.
Lansdale approached Congressman Kirk as he arrived, identified himself as an Iraq war veteran and asked Congressman Kirk to explain his position on the Iraq war. Congressman Kirk replied, “Have fun in Washington.”
Lansdale tried to approach Congressman Kirk as he left the event to try once again to get an answer to his question, but he was blocked by Congressman Kirk’s aides.
“Congressman Kirk should be focused on bringing the troops home from Iraq, not disrespecting Iraq veterans and ducking war opponents,” said Lansdale. “He should not underestimate the opposition to his continued support for the President’s failed Iraq policy. Congressman Kirk needs to be a leader and have the courage to stand up to the President, not blindly follow his failed policy of endless war. If Congressman Kirk is going to try and hide from everyone who’s calling for an end to the war in Iraq, he’s going to be a pretty lonely guy.”
Congressman Kirk was scheduled to speak about needed funds for local infrastructure improvements. Outside the event local activists, including Northbrook Chamber of Commerce member David Borris, made sure the facts were known about how the cost of the Iraq War is holding up domestic spending initiatives that could help American businesses. The non-partisan Congressional Research Service released a report this week revealing that President Bush’s escalation is costing U.S. taxpayers $12 billion per month.
“It is outrageous that our Congressman continues to support this reckless war while urgent priorities are left unattended to here at home,” said the local business owner Borris. “He is either unaware of the lives, dollars and American prestige that this tragic mistake has cost, or he simply does not care. Either way, he has a responsibility to represent the over 65% of the voters who want a real plan to bring our troops home.”
Matt Lowry, a Lake Forest teacher, added, “How effective can Congressman Kirk be at bringing funds to the district when $441 billion is spent on this reckless war in Iraq?”
Today’s rally was coordinated by the “Iraq Summer Campaign” a nationwide campaign organized by Americans Against Escalation in Iraq, which has dispatched nearly 100 organizers to the home states and districts of Republican Senators and Representatives who have opposed setting a timeline to end the war in Iraq. The program is modeled on the “Freedom Summer” civil rights project. Organizers are in fifteen states from Nevada to Maine, a total of 40 congressional districts.
Americans Against Escalation in Iraq is a major, multi-million dollar national campaign to oppose the President’s escalation of the Iraq war and work for the safe, responsible redeployment of American troops out of Iraq. AAEI’s broad coalition is made up of SEIU, MoveOn.org Political Action, Center for American Progress Action Fund, USAction, Win Without War, Vote Vets, Campaign for America’s Future, USSA, Working Assets, Americans United for Change, Campus Progress Action, and American citizens across the country.
Concerned Kirk Runs Away
I probably would too with the number of video bloggers, but this isn’t an isolated incident with Republicans avoiding any discussion of the war.
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You see Mark Kirk is very concerned. So concerned, he doesn’t do anything about it except continuing to vote with rightwing Republicans on just about every issue including the war.
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