OPERATION HOLSINGER
Re: Mark Tooley’s Can a
Methodist Be U.S. Surgeon General:
The Looney Left is at it again. Democratic senators react to the
nomination of Dr. James Holsinger as U.S. Surgeon General much as a
patient reacts to a tap to the patella — with a knee jerk
reaction. Dr. Holisinger’s beliefs have nothing to do with his
abilities as a doctor or the U.S. Surgeon General. I have never
asked any physician who has treated me for a position check on
religion or politics. The doctor’s beliefs beyond medicine are of
little interest to me as long as competent and complete medical
care is rendered. Are Dr. Holisinger’s religious positions at all
relevant to the medical advice he will offer the nation? His views
on homosexuality are scientific: two male parts do not naturally
fit together. The fact that he agrees with the moral positions of
his church is not at all germane to his abilities to serve his
nation. Further, the position of Surgeon General is largely
symbolic. As the old wag goes, to the victor goes the spoils.
Despite the current troubles that the GOP is facing (has brought
upon itself), they did win the White House; President Bush has the
right to appoint competent people to vacant positions. The Senate
has the right and responsibility to advise on these appointments.
Sadly, once again, many senators confuse giving advice with mud
slinging.
— Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York
SCOUTING NEW JERSEY
Re: Hal G.P. Colebatch’s The Pope
and the Boy Scouts:
Thank you, Mr. Colebatch, for reporting on the Pope’s tribute to
the Boy Scout. It brought to mind an editorial in yesterday’s
New Jersey Star Ledger which insisted that New Jersey’s
Civil Unions law didn’t go far enough, and that “gay marriage” was
necessary to ensure civil rights to homosexuals. That in turn
recalled the New Jersey State Supreme Court’s decision in 2006 that
ordered the State Assembly to craft legislation providing for civil
unions. This is the same supreme court that earlier had
inexplicably and unanimously ascertained that the Boy Scouts were a
“public accommodation,” in an effort to force the Boy Scouts to
accept a homosexual scout master. Fortunately the U.S. Supreme
Court in a 5 to 4 decision ( the usual suspects, Breyer, Ginsburg,
Souter and Stevens dissenting) slapped down the New Jersey court,
which has proven itself to be little more than an outcome-based
liberal advocacy group. I imagine that I won’t be seeing anything
about the Pope and the Boy Scouts in the [Red] Star
Ledger.
— Paul DeSisto
Cedar Grove, New Jersey
LOSING A TWO-FRONT WAR
Re: Jeffrey Lord’s Lizard
Listing:
In this piece, Jeffrey Lord touches upon George Bush’s other
war: the one against the bureaucracy.
The Plame business was the highest profile battle of this
conflict — a conflict which has been covered almost not at all by
the media.
Bush has tried to wrest some the power from the bureaucrats —
and that is the ultimate government no-no.
The standard scenario calls for an administration to be voted
in, strut and fret its way around Washington for four or eight
years — and then go away (often with many of its component parts
being absorbed into the bureaucracy).
Meanwhile, the “pros” work along, running things pretty much as
they want to no matter what noises come out of the White House.
Bush tried to change this — and, perhaps, battling both
terrorists and bureaucrats is just too much.
— Bill Naegele
Albuquerque, New Mexico
While Republican Presidents in general have not been as ruthless as
the Dems when taking over the Executive Branch from the Dems, the
Bush Administration has led the list in not only not ousting the
Dems that they could, but in holding over and re-appointing Clinton
partisans within the government. There was the retention of the
Director of the CIA, for starters. There is Maura Harty at State
that Powell, and now Rice, keep promoting despite one fiasco after
another, and obvious undermining of administration policy edicts.
There is Paul Bremmer, who was the initial official on the ground
to screw up post-invasion Iraq.
There is the edict by Bush himself that no member of the Clinton
White House team would be charged for the vandalism at the White
House on their way out. There is the faint-hearted prosecution and
mild pat on the wrist received by Sandy “Socks” Berger, while a
Bush prosecutor insures serious prison time for law enforcement
officers trying to enforce our laws against ILLEGAL aliens. On top
of that, Bush won’t even roll up his sleeves and fight the Dems for
his judicial nominees.
I could go on and on, but the bottom line is that Bush, and some
other GOP presidents, are not serious about partisan politics. They
treat it very much as a gentleman’s diversion at their men’s club,
subject to all the niceties that one would find at the Harvard Club
or the Skull and Bones Society. To the left, partisan politics goes
beyond a blood sport to full-scale blood feuds, and they darn well
are going to treat it as such each and every time. The most recent
proof lies in the actions and tactics of the Congress, now that
both Houses are in Democrat control. Contrast that with the way
that business was run under the direction of Trent Lott, or Dr.
Frist, or Speaker Dennis Hastert, or various chairman of standing
committees of the two Houses of Congress.
When the GOP really gets serious, and efficient, and vicious
about partisan politics like the Dems, then some of this SP vs.
T-warrior stuff will ease up. But then that is the identical same
problem between the PC war fighting that the administration insists
on in Iraq versus the deadly serious and completely vicious, no
rules fighting from the Islamic Jihadists. This difference of war
fighting methodology has, I figure, cost us about double the KIA
and WIA and years of combat than were necessary. The moral to the
story for me is that, if you are going to do something, do it
right, or don’t do it at all.
At least George Bush has done one thing right. He has alienated
and split apart what was left of the Reagan coalition, to the point
where many of us patriotic American conservatives would not object
too strenuously if the Dem controlled Congress were to start an
impeachment investigation. They wouldn’t go through to conviction
because they might then get Dick Cheney, and that would drive them
completely round the bend.
— Ken Shreve
An ex-denizen of Washington D.C. that is delighted to have
escaped.
Jeffery, has done another good job of explaining the truth about
the SP Federal government. My dad worked for them for 28 years. And
I can tell you that he is right. My dad refused to go for GS16-18
for the exact same reasons that Jeff mentioned in the article. He
would be a sacrificial lamb
with the next president (Clinton).
— Joseph D’Ambrosia
ICE GREEN
Re: Peter Hannaford’s Ms. Henny
Penny in Concert:
I am guessing that Pontiff Al has never considered just why
Greenland was named Greenland. The earth has been having climate
changes forever, it goes in cycles. Remember a little more than 20
years ago the message was an ICE AGE is coming. Since that did not
happen they needed more money so “global warming” was born.
Anyone that watches “Deadliest Catch” can see just how cold the
Bering Sea is and how much ice is forming than in the last few
years.
I did not even turn my A/C on until the first of June and last
year it had been on more than a month by June. Wake up people the
sky is not really falling. Keep the politicians out of your
pockets.
— Elaine Kyle
Cut & Shoot, Texas
Wonderful reporting on the spooky Al Gore and his acolytes. Does
this mean they are going to give up trashing suites at posh
hotels?
Ever the quibbler — I believe all Henny Penny did was hang out
with Ducky Lucky and Turkey-Lurkey. It was Chicken Little who was
terrified when a piece of blue fencing material came at her —
leading her to spread the word that the sky was falling.
Poor Al Gore has never been quite right since he got hit by all
those hanging chads.
— Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California
Whilst contemplating the enrichment of Chinese light bulb
manufacturers by last weekend’s musical fol-de-rol, I wondered if
Al the Senator’s Son was letting his friends at the Buddhist temple
in for a taste…a regional distributorship at the least, I would
think.
— Reid Bogie
Waterbury, Connecticut
I was in Rio last week, not for that God Forsaken “event,”
and observed the hypocrisy that is nearly sufficient to cause
terminal teeth-gnashing — seven or eight top-of-the-line big, new
Mercedes V-8 sedans designated as “VIP” vehicles for “Live
Earth.”
Not a Prius in sight. Nor a three-cylinder Geo, for that
matter…
But they did have a couple vans for lugging gear that they
claimed were powered by Diesel “Biofuel.”
And if they were even semi-sincere, wouldn’t those VIPs
car-pool? Or grab a bus? Like, Rio has the all-time greatest bus
system in the world!
But seven or eight of those Mercedes Gas Guzzlers seemed a tad
excessive.
— frost
BRITAIN’S NEW WAVE
Re: R. Emmett Tyrrell, Jr.’s A Taste of
Britishness:
We could only wish such a wave of patriotism would sweep over
American Democrats and the cut and run American public, but sadly
in a country that since World War II has become content with losing
wars that may be asking too much.
— Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina
In writing “[Gordon] Brown seems to have little in common with the
bubble-headed socialists, pacifists, vegetarians, and other zanies
who founded his [Labour] party,” you failed to mention the
pederasts. Do try to be more inclusive next time.
— Dan Martin
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CALLING RON PAUL
Re: Doug Bandow’s Free At
Last:
Yes, taxation is killing the American dream, fueling
mega-government while depriving citizens of a normal life while
they are in tax slavery. But the IRS is only the right hand of the
mega-government/taxation monster that is killing America. How could
you write such an article without talking about the left hand of
the monster that is killing America — The Federal Reserve System?
Basically, the FRS is the money-printing monster that is fueling
the out-of-control growth of government and the mega-
warfare/welfare state. The “print-on-demand” money system fuels
government to do any damn foolishness they want — bomb the hell
out of any country of their choosing, build bridges to nowhere in
Alaska ETC.!!! The FRS amounts to giving government an unlimited
checking account. It is the number one cause of the growth of the
size/power/scope of the Federal monster — yet you and so few
others ever talk about this primary cause of our demise — WHY?
WHY? WHY?
I don’t like the Spectator. I see it as just another
pseudo conservative rag that covers its Marxist/socialist/fascist
agenda with “conservative” rhetoric. Your article was typical in
that it talked of symptoms without ever discussing the root cause.
Fact is, I think that is the Spectator’s primary
function…. to fool and derail true constitutionalists into
thinking your neo-con, George Bush agenda is true conservatism, a
co-intel neutralization mechanism/project. The Spectator’s
goal seems to be to continue leading this country down into
“conservative” fascist hell.
Seriously, why are YOU part of this ruse to fool and enslave us
into this post-constitutional, twilight Republic? If you truly
wanted a Constitutional America of limited Federal government and
maximum personal freedom with minimal taxation, you and the
Spectator would be pushing the campaign of Ron Paul to the max.
Your mega-silence of him speaks volumes of what and where your true
agenda lies. In a fascist system, a few elitists benefit at the
expense of the many, and I can only guess that is why the
Spectator and yourself push the kind of “conservative”
agenda that you do. However, this agenda is eventually
self-destroying and then what will you have? I fear for America the
economic fascist hell that is before us.
— TC
Again — DON’T PUT ME ON ANY E-MAIL LIST!!!!
POST SCRIPTUM
Re: Lisa Fabrizio’s Lex
Orandi:
Excellent news! Pactum serva.
— Kitty Myers
Painted Post, New York
