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Blinders Come Off

By James Plummer on 10.4.05 @ 12:01AM

MIERS TO THE COURT
Re: Discussion at AmSpecBlog:

From what I'm gathering on the blog, no one is very happy over this latest Bush nomination. I'm beginning to think that she is a compromise candidate in exchange for Roberts' confirmation. Bush seems to be happy keeping the status quo (5-4) on the bench but then again, maybe we're in for a pleasant surprise. I say this from past experiences where we thought we had a good conservative nominee and ended up with a closet liberal. Maybe this time we have a born again conservative candidate who has seem the error of the liberal mindset and will help bring the bench back to what it was intended to be. Could it be George has blown it or is this one of the shrewdest political moves he has ever pulled? Whatever the case may be, it promises to be interesting.
-- Pete Chagnon

President Bush had a chance to change history for the better. Instead, he chose a poorly qualified political pal who contributed to Al Gore's 1988 campaign, spent money on Bentsen, and never served as a judge or legal scholar.

Bush's presidential career will be summed up as: giving the store away in education to please Ten Kennedy, passing an ill-defined and unlimited-cost Medicare prescription benefit shoring up the sagging career of Senator Specter paving the path of Hurricane Katrina with gold -- our gold, and wrecking the U.S. Supreme Court just as effectively as daddy Bush.

I trust we can elect a genuine conservative president in 2008, one who will undo the damage of the two Bush administrations. Conservative financial support for more Dukakis clones will be unlikely.
-- Gregory L. Jackson, Ph.D.
Glendale, Arizona

Let's give G.W. a second chance -- defeat Harriet Miers and let him choose a known conservative such as Judge Janice Rogers Brown and then "go for broke!"
-- Ken Wyman

PRESSING OUR LUCK
Re: Jed Babbin's Role Reversal:

Jed Babbin's piece is amazing. He hit the nail right on the head (though wrong on the Supreme Court nominee -- only time will tell if it was a good choice or not). Bush and the Republican Party must take on the mainstream media. Slowly but surely people are recognizing the utter biased coverage by the media against this president and Republican Party. I constantly challenge leaders of the Chicago Tribune regarding columns, news reporting and the Tribune's participation in the ACLU lawsuit to release more Abu Ghraib photos. While I have cancelled my subscription and am campaigning people I know to do the same (to some success), I still monitor the paper at work and on the web.

The Republican Party and Bush administration have to realize that people are willing to take on the MSM. I am actively doing so in any way I can and seek more opportunities to do so. It's not that MSM is so biased to the Dems that riles me, it's that it's become more anti-U.S. The media must be challenged. Tim Russert must be challenged. David Gregory must be challenged. Terry Moran must be challenged, and so on and so on. Even Joe Scarborough, a conservative who in the past I have admired. Recently on his show a series of "facts" flashed on the screen. One item implied that FEMA denied the Red Cross access to New Orleans when in fact and according to the Red Cross, it was Louisiana that denied Red Cross access. I called Mr. Scarborough on this saying that even though he may not control what information is flashed on the screen, during his show he is responsible. Never heard from him. It seems he is more interested in being accepted by his MSM "friends" than reporting the truth.
-- John Dyslin
Streamwood, Illinois

I had never thought of the MSM as a political party, but the shoe does fit in many ways. Fact it fits so well, that considering the new mood at the FEC why isn't there and investigation vis a vis McCain-Feingold?

But you know, I don't have a lot of concern for their long term effects. Here is the reason why:

Knight-Ridder

New York Times Company

Hearst

Hollinger Intl

Letter to the Editor

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