This weekend on Pundit Review Radio
At 8pm est, we will be asking the question, What are your favorite guilty pleasure websites? The Smoking Gun? Defamer? The Superficial?
At 9pm est, Matt from Blackfive will be joining us as usual for our weekly Someone You Should Know segment. This is where we take a few minutes each week to highlight the heroic actions of the men and women fighting for us around the world.
Matt will be sticking around to talk about last weekends milblogger conference in Washington DC, as well as the current situation with the insurgencies in Iraq and here at home.
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The primary for US Senate in Ohio is heating up. As you may know, we interviewed challenger Bill Pierce last weekend.
As election day approaches, two-term Republican Senator Mike DeWine is reaching out to…the liberal media by joining the chorus of Rumsfeld critics. Nice approach Senator. This is sure to shore up your base.
Like any good challenger would, Bill Pierce is on the attack,
The lessons not learned by DeWine come from the 1962 to 1974 era when politicians in Washington tried micro-managing and second guessing the military. Without a day spent in a military uniform and without membership on the U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services, Senator Mike DeWine has become a critic of the nuances of our War on Terrorism. To make matters worse, he felt compelled to make his views public.
Discussion and disagreement is fine, but the participants must choose their venues carefully. For Mike DeWine to disagree with Rumsfeldâ??s management of the War is all right, but to do so publicly does nothing more than â??aid and abetâ? the enemy â?? a lesson he should have learned from Vietnam. Our enemies look for that public discord and when they find it within the same Party they become heartened even more.
Senator DeWine could not have expected to achieve any strategic military benefit from his public criticism of Rumsfeld, nor could he have expected any change in the direction of the efforts. However, he likely expected that his attack would distance himself from the Administration in a mistaken attempt to make himself appear more attractive to Ohio voters for the November general election should he pass the primary next week. His actions fall clearly within the classification of pandering. To pander for votes at the expense of our efforts to succeed in our War on Terrorism, to aid and abet our enemies, and to further put our troops in harmâ??s way is simply shameful of a sitting United States Senator.
William G. Pierce, P.E.
for Bill and my friends over at Citizen Journal….a movie for the ages, a love story for the new millenium…Chokeback Mountain.
White House scribe asks for the remote
Reporter asks to watch CNN on Air Force One
WASHINGTON (CNN) — It wasn’t the price of gasoline, Darfur or the rebuilding effort in New Orleans that preoccupied the White House press corps Thursday aboard a flight on Air Force One.
It was what channel they could watch on the White House televisions, Fox or CNN.
During a briefing led by White House spokesman Scott McClellan as President Bush was traveling to New Orleans, Louisiana, the Washington Post’s Jim VandeHei asked why the White House televisions always seemed to be tuned to Fox News and if it was possible to have them tuned instead to CNN.
“It’s come to my attention that there’s been requests — this is a serious question — to turn these TVs onto a station other than Fox, and that those have been denied,” VandeHei told McClellan, who is soon to be replaced by former Fox anchor and self-described conservative Tony Snow.
“My question would be, is there a White House policy that all government TVs have to be tuned to Fox?” VandeHei asked.
“Never heard of any such thing,” McClellan responded.
I’m reminded of Hugh Hewitt’s comment upon learning that Tony Snow did indeed take the job of White House press secretary,
Perhaps the best thing about this appointment is the very hostile WH press corps is suddenly confronted by an individual who has already out achieved them in the world of media, which means he knows their tricks and he knows their vanities. There are some smart folks in the WH press room, but there are plenty of pretty faces as well, and they know that Snow is a whole lot smarter than they are.
Michael Ledeen writes about Staff Sgt. Jason C. Ramseyer, a Marine recently klilled by an IED in Iraq. to learn more about this amazing man, click here.
Ledeen is asking two very good questions,
Mr. President: You know, as those Marines know, that the IEDs are coming from Iran. Staff Sgt Ramseyer certainly knew it, as do his men from 3rd Marines. Why are you not ordering the military to act against the sites where the IEDs are being assembled? And why are you not ordering strikes against the terrorist training camps in Iran and in Syria? Is that not legitimate self-defense?
Generals: You tell us that you foresaw many of the difficulties in Iraq. Yet you led your troops into combat, and only afterwards condemned the military strategy that you ordered your men and women to carry out. How do you explain that to the widows and orphans and injured? If you were so smart, why didn’t you oppose the strategy when it might have mattered? Why didn’t you speak out THEN? Indeed, why didn’t you resign and speak out publicly, instead of waiting until now, when you come off as political opportunists?
There are no shortages of politicians making fools of themselves over the issue of “big oil” and gas prices. None more so than the California queens of counterproductivity, Barbara Boxer and Nancy Pelosi.
Going a Short Way to Make a Point
By Dana Milbank
Gas prices have gone above $3 a gallon again, and that means it’s time for another round of congressional finger-pointing.
“Since George Bush and Dick Cheney took over as president and vice president, gas prices have doubled!” charged Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), standing at an Exxon station on Capitol Hill where regular unleaded hit $3.10. “They are too cozy with the oil industry.”
She then hopped in a waiting Chrysler LHS (18 mpg) — even though her Senate office was only a block away.
Read the whole article here.
Nancy Pelosi’s deep thoughts on oil prices,
We have two oilmen in the White House…. The logical … follow-up from that is $3-a-gallon gasoline. There is no accident. It is a cause and effect…. a cause and effect.
Where have you been, Mr. President? The … middle class squeeze is on, competition in our country is effected by the price of … energy and of oil … and all of a sudden you take a trip outside of Washington, see that the fact that the public is … outraged about this, come home and make a speech. Let’s see that matched in your budget, let’s see that matched in your policy, let’s see that matched in your separating yourself from your … patron, Big Oil. Cut yourself off from that anvil that is holding … your party down and this country down. Instead of coming to Washington and throwing your Republican colleagues under the wheels of the train, which they mightily deserve for being a rubber stamp for your obscene, corrupt policy of ripping off the American people.
Thank you all very much.
HT: The New Editor
Kennedy faces fight on Cape Wind
Key lawmakers oppose his bid to block project
WASHINGTON — As record oil prices turn attention to the need for renewable fuels, momentum is building in Congress to buck Senator Edward M. Kennedy’s bid to block the proposed Cape Cod wind energy project, potentially reviving efforts to construct the sprawling windmill farm in Nantucket Sound.
The chairman and the top Democrat on the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee said yesterday that when the bill Kennedy backs that would effectively halt the wind farm comes up for a vote in the Senate, they will object on procedural grounds. They say they’ll argue that a renewable energy project shouldn’t be lumped in with a bill governing the Coast Guard.
Meanwhile, a group of rank-and-file House members, worried about the political ramifications of rejecting alternative energy sources while motorists pay $3 a gallon at the gas station, have persuaded House leaders to sidetrack the entire bill for at least several weeks, even though it was slated for action this week. The delay could give supporters of the wind farm time to make their case to members of Congress.
”Are we going to be for developing alternative energy or not?” said Representative Charles Bass, a New Hampshire Republican who helped persuade House leaders to table the bill until at least mid-May. ”The longer you delay it, the longer there is for people to examine the issue, and to determine what’s going on here.”
The efforts to move the wind farm forward occur amid growing attention to Kennedy’s role in the secret, behind-the-scenes maneuvering to stop it. Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, the senator who inserted the wind-farm provision into the Coast Guard bill, has acknowledged discussing the matter privately with the Massachusetts Democrat.
Environmental groups have launched an aggressive advertising and lobbying campaign to persuade Democrats to abandon Kennedy and back a promising source of renewable energy. If the wind farm becomes a reality, advocates say, it could provide three-fourths of the Cape and Islands’ energy needs and could set an example for the nation.
The maneuver to stop the wind farm ”is clearly a backroom deal, and they’re going to get called publicly on it,” said John Passacantando, executive director of Greenpeace USA. ”The Democrats are going to kill the first big offshore wind farm in the United States because of their relationship with Ted Kennedy.”