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Looking at the debate on who knew what and with the waterboarding and “torture” Michelle Malkin’s book
In Defense of Internment: The World War II Round-Up and What It Means For America’s War on Terror is looking particularly relevant again.
I would suggest giving it a read. My Amazon review from 2004 is here.
There are quite a few sobering parallels to today.
It has been very interesting watching Mrs. Pelosi plead ignorance then have to back off:
Unlike the pope the other people at the briefings aren’t interested in saving her soul. The Schultz routine is not going to satisfy the monster left that she supported and enabled for all these years.
My gut says the president uses this as a chip, sort of like the AIG bonus stuff. You might remember once the vote took place it died. The president can bring this up at any time and crash and burn this congress. President Obama who as everyone of the left seems to have ignored was only briefly in congress and didn’t have those briefings.
Congressional democrats, particularly leaders, will in my opinion do ANYTHING to avoid this trap.
Finally up early enough to see it!
6:13 a.m. The difference between the two leaders is interesting and everyone notices it.
6:15 a.m. You overreach and have showtrials it will blow up. He doesn’t know the half of it.
6:17 a.m Personally I think the president likes this. I think this gives him power over congressional democrats.
6:23 a.m. Gee they never had a chance until suddenly a major change came to the ticket. Pat mentions seems to remember what actually gave McCain a chance.
6:29 a.m. I’m sorry but seeing that rather statuesque woman talking about going out to play shortly will certainly wake up a certain percentage of the viewing audience.
6:31 a.m. “Honoring” horses? That is going to be a killer lawsuit.
6:32 a.m. Hey they are constantly promoting the Green stuff, lets decide it’s an NBC construct and totally ignore it.
6:34 a.m. The promos for Olberman and Maddow are just hilarious considering the headlines. Apparently this is a problem for Republicans?
6:35 a.m. And then the show comes back on and Gibbs statement and ducking brings the reality. This is unsustainable.
6:40 a.m. Joe hits the nail on the head, you don’t do this while the war is on.
6:43 a.m. FDR and Wilson and Lincoln, Joe is on a roll.
6:45 a.m. Malkin’s book is looking better and better!
6:57 a.m. You know if Blago didn’t exist Willie would have to invent him.
7:01 a.m. Willie who was a judge is saying NC was goign to win everyway. Mika insists that she was discriminated against.
7:02 a.m. Willie won’t answer the Gay Marriage issue. Mika is really hot on this, boy I wish I was up early this week to see it all play out.
7:03 a.m. Pat brings up the Perez c— stuff. Mika points out that people who agree with Hilton are poorly represented by him.
7:05 a.m. Joe: “Some people on the left like to feel morally superior.” It seems this dovetails a lot with the Miss California stuff. This is a great debate.
7:06 a.m. I was very angry and divisive my first year in congress. If you feel yourself getting angry you have to step back and think is his advice. That is a function of experience.
7:16 a.m. What is this wired stuff? This is the Jacksonian side of America.
7:17 a.m. Letter writers figure Mika put a target on herself. Who cares what Perez thinks. She wasn’t shy about hitting Rancic.
7:27 a.m. Hoekstra : “They were for this program before they were against it.”
7:33 a.m. Will this stuff get destroyed? Bureaucracys tend to protect themselves.
7:43 a.m. The democrats running were for this. John Edwards is mentioned.
8:00 a.m. Oh boy more NYT magazine!
8:10 a.m. Gene Robinson is unwilling to take the logical step about war crimes.
8:12 a.m. Gene Robinson: “I’m comfortable with my moral argument but I’m uncomfortable where my legal argument leads me.”
8:14 a.m. The Nixon pardon comes up again. This is going to be the left’s escape clause in the end.
8:28 a.m. The theory is to let the Taliban gain strength to justify taking them down violently? Did I hear that right?
8:58 a.m. What we learned with Pat and Mika were spot on.
Via lgf, Gateway pundit a bit of a danger sign concerning the Ron Paul supporters and the teaparties:
Citing the importance of the taxpayer movement in California, California Republican Party Chairman Ron Nehring today strongly condemned the use of anti-Semitic material used to promote the recent April 15 TEA party in San Mateo County.
“The taxpayer movement is incredibly important for California, and we applaud the success of the tea parties that took place across the state on April 15. Because we remain intensely interested in the growth and success of the mainstream taxpayer movement, we strongly condemn the use of anti-Semitic imagery in the promotion of the recent event in San Mateo County.
Ron Paul has several good points in terms of small government and unnecessary spending, however that doesn’t and can’t justify anti-semitic garbage like this.
I am very pleased that the California GOP jumped on this to hit it. The group in general issued this response:
Anti-semitism is too real, not to mention despicable, to be charged lightly, and Mr. Nehring’s reactionary charge is regrettable. It amounts to an unjustified smear of Dr. Paul and the people who support him.
One irony in this matter cannot be overlooked. A large, growing contingent of Ron Paul supporters has been elected to Republican County Central Committees throughout California. By indirectly smearing them, Mr. Nehring harms his own party.
I would be a lot more convinced of their group’s good intentions if the spot where the cartoon appeared wasn’t suddenly made private. This looks a lot like the disabling of comments on Huff Po whenever a person of the right is sick or dies. Gotta hide the hate.
Like the Larouche groups the Paulians are going to do their best to co-op the tea party movement. If they want to join in tax protests that’s fine, after all they pay taxes just like everybody else. If they want to argue the US spends too much money on foreign wars that is a legitimate debatable issue. The idea that this is a big Jewish conspiracy is not. If the Paulians want to advance an anti-semitic agenda and use the tea party protests as their vehicle, we must respectfully decline their company.
I expect the media to jump on this hard, in fact I am shocked that it already isn’t’ being reported.
