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5.4.07 @ 12:01AM

ROVE TRAIN
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.'s The Hunt for Karl Rove:

What you failed to mention in the article is that filthy politics is what the voters in America want. Face it folks, in my opinion we had two terms, eight years, of Bill Clinton. There were days when it was difficult to distinguish between a latrine and the Whitehouse and the people love him.

We now have left-wing control of the House and Senate and we have a party that seems to be fighting for the Taliban and Iraq insurgents. And the voters put them in charge. Time to wake up and smell the coffee folks. That's what America wants. After all, in the end, it's votes that count isn't it?

Just look at what Bush has accomplished these past six years. Look at tax cuts, jobs, tax receipts, a record-breaking stock market, no domestic terrorist attacks since 911 and on and on. Now you may not like everything Bush has done, I sure don't, but overall, his approval rating is in the toilet. Why you might ask? Because the voters want the filth. How else can you explain an ultra left wing control of the House and Senate? And it's going to get worse folks. Can you say president Hillary Clinton boys and girls?
-- Jim L
East Sandwich, Massachusetts

R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr. touches on a theme I talked about yesterday:

What we have here is the criminalization of politics. Nothing Rove has done is criminal, but by dragging him before congressional hearings and even better grand juries his political opponents hope that they will catch him in a misstatement that can be prosecuted as perjury.

Actually, though, they mean to do something even better. They hope to do precisely what Richard Cohen acknowledged worked for him, the Liberal's liberal. Cohen said that even if each of the charges (on another matter) could be refuted, nevertheless he was able to discern guilt based upon the ESSENCE of the charges!

I'm a bit surprised that so far I haven't read any columnist taking Cohen to task for such a breathtakingly unfair conclusion, even for a Liberal's liberal.

And he's not alone...one of the more outspoken critics of the Duke lacrosse team, as the charges against them began to fall apart, concluded that even though they weren't individually guilty that somehow as a class of people they were. Privileged white males were simply guilty of racism, no matter what they did or did not do to deserve the charge.

As Cohen explained, it's not a matter of the charges being false, or refutable. What we might call a stinking pile, liberal Democrats smell as a fragrant essence.
-- Gregg Calkins

Democrats seem to be doing a re-make of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations with Karl Rove as "Pip" the orphaned boy who made it big. "Able Magwitch" is Pips benefactor who of course is played by President Bush. And "Jaggers" the lawyer guiding Pip is cast as the Republican Party.

"Estella," Pip's love interest, is played by Chuck Hagel. "Miss Havisham" is played by the Senate. And "Dolge Orlick," the embodiment of evil, is ably played by Senator Leahy. Senator Leahy could also be the star of "The Most Uninspiring Man I Ever Met."
-- Howard Lohmuller
Seabrook, Texas

All these witch-hunts of Republicans would be a lot more enjoyable if Republicans would fight back with the simple truth about the Democrat party.

But they remain gutless, and doubtful of the rightness of their own philosophy, seemingly ever eager to compromise leading to their own downfall. Every Republican that lost their office in the recent elections did so because they lost their principles.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

AL QAEDA'S ARCADIA
Re: Christopher Orlet's Geneva Revisited:

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