Barbara Boxer Assaulted, Robbed

Earlier today former Senator Barbara Boxer was assaulted in the Jack London Square neighborhood of Oakland. The assailant pushed her in the back, stole her cell phone and jumped in a waiting car. She is thankful that she was not seriously injured."

— Barbara Boxer (@BarbaraBoxer) July 26, 2021

Barbara Boxer fell victim to Biden's crime crisis.

Democrats/Leftists/Marxists have pushed policies that assault law and order. Thugs love it. Of course, crime is rampant. They get away with crime. They face little or no consequences.

The Democrat Cabal ignores it all.

Carly Fiorina, Barbara Boxer, and Donald Trump

If we are to condemn Donald Trump for his remarks about Carly Fiorina's appearance, then we should condemn Fiorina for her remarks about Barbara Boxer's appearance.

Barbara Boxer and Elmo

DEMOCRAT Barbara "say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am'" Boxer accuses Republicans of having a "vendetta against Elmo."

From The Hill:

Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Tuesday that House Republicans want to strip government funding of PBS because they have a "vendetta against Elmo."

Boxer made the comments during a floor speech where she made the case for her bill that would ensure that the president and lawmakers are not paid if a government shutdown occurs.

Boxer said that the cost of four hours of the Iraq war would be enough to keep PBS funded — and the popular fire-red children's character on the air.

Boxer believes that the GOP has more than just a vendetta against Elmo. She added that Republicans hold a "vendetta against healthcare" and a "vendetta against clean energy."

What's with all this vendetta stuff?

Boxer is making no sense.

Republicans have no vendetta against Elmo or Sesame Street.

If PBS lost federal funding, Elmo and Big Bird and Sesame Street wouldn't disappear.

She's unhinged.

David Zucker: Barbara Boxer Apology

We all know that Barbara Boxer wants to be called 'senator.'

In June 2009, Boxer made that very clear while questioning Brigadier General Michael Walsh.

BARBARA BOXER: I would... You know... Do me a favor. Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am'? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. So I'd appreciate it. Yes, thank you.

Wisconsin's own David Zucker once supported Barbara Boxer.

He found it distressing that Boxer hasn't apologized to Brig. Gen. Michael Walsh for "arrogantly insulting an army officer."

Zucker regrets supporting Boxer now and offers a video as his apology.

He writes:

In her debate with Carly Fiorina, the subject was brought up, but Senator Boxer was quite adept at deflecting it — and still without an apology. Let this video be my apology. Every time I see the public record listing my campaign contribution to Boxer — I wince. I mean, we all have things we’ve done in the past that we’re embarrassed about, but I’d rather have my being restricted to stay at least 100 yards away from elementary schools be public knowledge than that $5,000 Boxer campaign contribution.

Call Me Senator from RightChange on Vimeo.

Barbara Boxer, Day Laborers, and Carly Fiorina

This is pathetic.

When you have to hire day laborers to carry signs to protest political opponent Carly Fiorina, as Barbara Boxer's campaign did, I think you've got a problem.

The hired hands stood outside of public broadcasting radio station KPCC in Pasadena. The station was hosting a debate between Boxer and Fiorina.



Boxer isn't generating much enthusiasm if it's necessary to pay people to appear to support her.

Barbara Boxer: Carbon Emissions Leading National Security Threat

Barbara Boxer is watching out for your safety.

Forget about Iran and nukes being a threat to our national security. Radical Islam? North Korea's aggression? No big deal.

According to Boxer, the leading threat we face is that posed by the dreaded carbon dioxide.

Video.


Transcript

BARBARA BOXER: I'm going to put in the record, Madam President, a host of quotes from our national security experts who tell us that carbon pollution leading to climate change will be over the next twenty years the leading cause of conflict putting our troops in harm's way. And that's why we have so many returning veterans who want us to move forward and address this issue.

"Carbon pollution."

Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Boxer: Climategate, E-Mail-Theft-Gate

Barbara "call me 'senator'" Boxer is bent out of shape -- again.

This time it's over the e-mails revealing the alleged manipulation of information about global warming by some in the scientific community.

Boxer doesn't care that the "science" supporting global warming theories has been exposed as fraudulent.

She's outraged over the hacked e-mails that uncovered the Climategate scandal.

Video.


From The Hill:

Leaked e-mails allegedly undermining climate change science should be treated as a criminal matter, Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) said Wednesday afternoon.

Boxer, the top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said that the recently released e-mails, showing scientists allegedly overstating the case for climate change, should be treated as a crime.

"You call it 'Climategate'; I call it 'E-mail-theft-gate,'" she said during a committee meeting. "Whatever it is, the main issue is, Are we facing global warming or are we not? I'm looking at these e-mails, that, even though they were stolen, are now out in the public."

...The e-mails, from scientists at the University of East Anglia, were obtained through hacking.

..."We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not," Boxer said. "Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated.

"This is a crime," Boxer said.

Barbara, Barbara, Barbara.

I don't recall Barbara getting upset about criminal activity related to Sarah Palin's private e-mail account being hacked.

I don't recall anyone on the Left being outraged about that.

I remember that the AP wouldn't cooperate with the federal investigation.

Criminal activity is criminal activity.

Hackers must be held accountable for breaking the law.

While I don't think it's wrong for Boxer to point out that the e-mails were obtained illegally, I think she comes off looking foolish by trying to avoid the explosiveness of the content of the e-mails.

If the hackers had exposed something that advanced the Left's agenda, Boxer wouldn't be calling them thieves. No way. She'd be calling them whistleblowers, heroes.

Obama: African-Americans "More Rooted in American Experience"

I thought Obama was supposed to transcend race. I thought he was deemed "post-racial."

That's quite a load.

When Obama was in Ghana, he was interviewed by CNN's Anderson Cooper.

Obama explained that some Americans are "more fundamentally rooted in the American experience" than others.

Transcript

ANDERSON COOPER: You've met with many African-Americans who decided to move here. They say that there's a sense of coming home. Do you understand that feeling?

OBAMA: Well, you know, I will tell you the first time that I traveled to Africa, I think that there is a special sense for African-Americans of somehow connecting up with a part of yourself that you might not have even been aware was there.

So now obviously for me, it was different because I was directly meeting relatives and learning about a father I didn't know.

But I do think there's a sense for a lot of African-Americans that it's a -- it's a profound, life-changing experience.

The interesting thing, though, is that I've met a lot of white Americans who come to Africa and say, it was a life-changing experience for them too.

COOPER: This is the home where everyone comes from.

OBAMA: Yes, exactly. And there's a powerful sense of tapping into something very elemental about that.

COOPER: You sort of always come back.

OBAMA: Yes, do you.

But I do think that you know, the spirit, particularly of a place like Ghana where you know, for all the difficulties they're still going through, the people are just incredibly open and friendly and welcoming. I think that makes a difference for a lot of people who, you know, maybe African-Americans who feel somehow that they never fully belong.

And the only thing I would say, though, is there's a flipside to this, which is I know an awful lot of African-American who's come to Africa are profoundly moved, but also realize how American they are when they're here, and, you know, recognize that they could never live here.

And that's part of the African-American experience. You are in some ways, you know, connected to this distant land. But, on the other hand, you're about as American as it gets.

In some ways, African-Americans are more fundamentally rooted in the American experience because they don't have a recent immigrant experience to draw on. It's that unique African-American culture that has existed in North America for hundreds of years, long before we actually founded the nation.

What is that?

It's idiotic for Obama to make such a sweeping statement.

He speaks as if all African-Americans share the same background.

They don't.

He speaks as if it's fair to make assumptions based on skin color.

It's not.

Obama's statement sounds racist to me. I hear echoes of the racist statement of Barbara Boxer during last Thursday's Senate hearing.

I don't have a recent immigrant experience to draw on in my family.

I think I should be considered as "fundamentally rooted in the American experience" as any African-American.

Post-racial?

Yeah, right.

Harry Alford: Barbara Boxer and Bigotry 101

Last Friday, John Ziegler interviewed Harry C. Alford, President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce, about the dust-up he had with Barbara Boxer during a Senate hearing on Thursday.

Boxer made racist, condescending comments to Alford and he called her on it.

It's a big story when a U.S. senator is revealed to be a racist.



Transcript

JOHN ZIEGLER: You were not aware before today that she (Barbara Boxer) has had it out in I believe very disrepectful and inappropriate ways with Condoleezza Rice, who's obviously a black woman, and Janice Rogers Brown, who is a black female judge from California, both of whom she voted against, both of whom she lied about, both of whom she disrespected. After you've had this experience with Barbara Boxer, and after what you've learned about her M.O., as you put it, do you believe that Barbara Boxer is a racist?

HARRY ALFORD: I do. She certainly is -- more than just a racist. You know, there are people who have racial animus, and there are old-timers, and there are people who grew up this way; but you can deal with that. You know, you know how to deal with it and you can still respect one another. But the way she does it, she does it in a very evil-spirited way to hurt people. She uses it as a fear and that is the worst kind of...

ZIEGLER: Why do you think that things got sideways between you and Barbara Boxer yesterday?

ALFORD: Well, you know, I know of her. Of course, I know her. I know she's obnoxious and I know she can be caustic and all that, but it never occurred to me that her persona is reeking with racial animus. And it really took me by surprise when she started doing this I'm saying to myself, 'This is Bigotry 101. And it stinks.'

ZIEGLER: When she said, 'You don't know when I came,' how did you interpret that?

ALFORD: That you're a dumb little Negro and you don't know a thing. You don't have the brains to know where I come from. You can't read. You can't research. I mean that's how... that's her thought. She didn't prepare for her opponent because she totally assumed, that because of the color of my skin, that I'm going to be some little ignorant jigaboo up there.

These remarks are incredible, yet Alford is being ignored by the mainstream media.

Noel Sheppard, NewsBusters, points out, "[A]ccording to LexisNexis, not one major media outlet other than FNC thought it was at all newsworthy that Harry Alford called Boxer 'God-awful' for pitting the opinions of other black organizations against his."

Not one.

That really is amazing.

If Boxer were a Republican, the lib media would be drooling all over this.

It's a terrible double standard in reporting.

Worse than that double standard, of course, is how disgracefully Boxer treated Alford.

Harry C. Alford: "It Was Vile Jim Crow"

Scott Baker and Liz Stephans of The B-Cast interviewed Harry C. Alford. They discussed his run-in with Barbara Boxer.

Barbara Boxer and Harry C. Alford (Video)

Harry C. Alford took Barbara Boxer to school when she played race politics.



From The Hill:

The President and CEO of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC) tore into Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.) Thursday for what he said were "condescending" and "God awful" racial statements at a hearing.

NBCC head Harry C. Alford took strong exception to Boxer having referenced an NAACP report favoring climate change legislation during a hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, of which Boxer is the chairwoman.

"Madam chair, that is condescending to me," Alford said. "I'm the National Black Chamber of Commerce, and you're trying to put up some other black group to pit against me."

Boxer defended including the report, however, saying the report reflects a "diversity" of support behind climate change legislation facing the Senate.

"If this gentleman were here, he would be proud he's being quoted," Boxer said in defense of the NAACP support.

Alford, however, struck back against Boxer, accusing her of "getting racial" in the climate change debate.

"All that's condescending, and I don't like it. It's racial. I take offense to it. As an African-American and a veteran of this country, I take offense to that," he said. "You're quoting some other black man — why don't you quote some other Asian or some other… You're getting racial here."

"You're speaking on behalf of the black community?" Alford asked. "Why are you doing the colored people association's study with the black Chamber of Commerce?"

He finally concluded:

"We've been looking at energy policy since 1996. And we are referring to the experts, regardless of their color. And for someone to tell me, an African-American, college-education veteran of the United States Army, that I must contend with some other "black group" and put aside everything else in here — This has NOTHING to do with the NAACP, and really has nothing to do with the National Black Chamber of Commerce. We're talking about energy. And that — that road the chair went down, I think is God awful."

I applaud Alford for calling Boxer on her condescension.

Barbara Boxer: CALL ME "SENATOR"

Don't call Barbara Boxer "ma'am." You'll be sorry.

Brigadier General Michael Walsh made that mistake when he was being questioned by Boxer.

Walsh uttered the unthinkable. He called Boxer the M-word and proceeded to answer her question. She interrupted Walsh, chastising him.

BARBARA BOXER: I would... You know... Do me a favor. Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am'? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. So I'd appreciate it. Yes, thank you.

Oh, good grief.

That rebuke was completely uncalled for. Walsh was not being disrespectful in any way.

Boxer made a fool of herself. She didn't have to work too hard to do that.



(h/t Charlie Sykes, Hot Air)

Obama, Geithner, and "Complete Confidence"

UPDATE: Geithner Caves on AIG Bonuses, Defends Liddy
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This AIG thing is really turning into a mess for the Democrats.

Questions about Barack Obama's confidence in Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner are swirling.

From the New York Times:

The White House and Treasury have been besieged by questions about why Mr. Geithner did not know sooner about the bonus payments due this month, and whether he could have done more to stop them, prompting White House officials to assert President Obama’s continued confidence in Mr. Geithner.

“He more than has the president’s complete confidence,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff. As angry as the president is at the news about A.I.G., which he learned Thursday, Mr. Emanuel said, “his main priority is getting the financial system stabilized, and he believes this is a big distraction in that effort.”

Yeah. Incompetence often is a big distraction, Rahm.

From an AP analysis, written by Laurie Kellman:

"The president has complete confidence" in Geithner, [White House press secretary Robert] Gibbs said.

Both Emanuel and Gibbs used "complete confidence." What a coincidence!

Is Obama satisfied that Geithner informed him of the impending bonus payments in a timely fashion?

"Yes, the president is satisfied," Gibbs replied.

Those, of course, are statements that wouldn't need to be made if Geithner's status were clear. Not just a president's confidence, but his "complete confidence" can be a well-worn political signal that the subject should start circulating a resume.

AIG is the demonized insurance giant now 80 percent owned by the government after getting $170 billion in federal bailout funds to pay money it owed to U.S. and foreign banks. Geithner told senior White House officials about the bonuses last Thursday and they in turn told Obama the same day, according to a timetable provided by the White House.

Geithner sent a flurry of letters to lawmakers Tuesday night on measures he's taking—including bringing in Attorney General Eric Holder—to try to recover as much of the bonuses as possible.

For the time being, Geithner, formerly president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, remains a key player in the gargantuan task of slowing the worst economic downturn since the 1930s.

But his future could soon be as murky as the economy's. His short tenure has been shaky at a time when the new president and the Democratic-led Congress are trying to project confidence to the markets and the nation.

When asked, Democrats issued statements of support for Geithner that ranged from concise to vague, but none called for his resignation.

Resignation?

It seems the lib media are frustrated with Geithner. First, they had to excuse his tax evasion. But they were sold on his brilliance and they wanted to give Obama anyone he wanted. Now, Geithner is revealed to be clueless and sloppy and not at all the man they made him out to be.

Regarding this AIG mess, Mark Levin made an interesting point on his radio show Tuesday. He said that this is a Democrat scandal.

After playing clips of Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid, Barbara Boxer, and Barney Frank criticizing AIG and calling for the return of the bonuses, Levin noted that they all supported and voted for the stimulus bill that includes Chris Dodd's amendment assuring the bonuses would be paid.

The lib media are missing in action. They have failed to blame Dodd for sticking this amendment in the stimulus bill. The lib media aren't noting the utter hypocrisy of Dodd and other Dems now running around threatening to enact a law to tax the bonuses in order to regain the money if it's not returned to the government voluntarily.

The bonuses were paid because they were protected under the stimulus bill.

Levin points out that not a single Republican House member voted for the bill. Nearly all Dem House members voted for it. Every Senate single Dem voted for it and three Republicans -- Arlen Specter, Olympia Snowe, and Susan Collins. It was overwhelmingly a Dem creation.

The Dems voted to award the AIG bonuses.

Most importantly, Barack Obama signed the bill. HE SIGNED IT. He signed it with great fanfare in Denver.

Weird that Obama's outraged over the bill that he insisted had to be passed so quickly.

He should be held accountable for failing to veto it. It's that simple.

The bonuses account for just 1/1000 of the bailout, yet they are the lightning rod du jour. Naturally, the Democrats are exploiting that, waging class warfare, and feigning outrage because they see it as a politically smart move.

But the fact is this AIG bonus thing is their baby.

In terms of accountability, remember that Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold both voted for the stimulus bill. They voted FOR the AIG bonuses.

The Dems have been in power for just two months and look how royally they've managed to screw up already.

Quite an accomplishment.
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Read Lawrence Kudlow: The AIG Outrage

[A]s for the $165 million or so in AIG bonus payments, the Obama administration -- including the president, Treasury man Tim Geithner, and economic adviser Larry Summers -- knew all about them many months ago. They were undoubtedly informed of this during the White House transition.

So there’s no big surprise. Nobody should be shocked. But President Obama is doing his best play-acting ever. He knows full well that the nationwide outcry against federal bailouts and takeovers is only going to get worse on his watch. His poll numbers are already falling, and this AIG episode is going to pull them down more.

...And what is Treasury man Geithner’s role in all this? He appears to be the biggest bungler in what has become a massive bungling. My CNBC friend and colleague Charlie Gasparino thinks Geithner can’t survive this. I am inclined to agree.

Anti-Life Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer is a pro-abortion radical.

She's so extreme that she finds a benign resolution to honor the Pope and welcome him to America to be a threat to her staunch supporters, the pro-abortion contingent.

From The Crypt:

While Pope Benedict XVI's historic visit to Washington received wall to wall coverage, Sen. Barbara Boxer briefly held up a Senate resolution welcoming the pontiff because she objected to language about how the pope values "each and every human life."

The measure later cleared the Senate Thursday afternoon after the sponsor of the resolution, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kan.), dropped the reference to "human life" because some Democrats saw it as a reference to abortion. According to Republican aides, Brownback, a devout Catholic, did not want a high profile fight over the resolution, which was adopted on a voice vote. In fact, Brownback blackberried his staff from the Pope's mass at Nationals Park to direct them to drop the references to human life.

A copy of the original resolution can be found here.

...Three Senate Republican aides involved in the issue say that Boxer objected to the "life" language, which Democrats see as an implicit reference to the Catholic church's opposition to abortion. Senate Democratic leadership offices declined to comment but referred questions to Boxer's office, which has not responded to Politico's inquiries this morning.

UPDATE: Boxer's spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz has written The Crypt to say "we are very pleased we were able to reach an agreement with Senator Brownback to remove the political language and pass this resolution welcoming Pope Benedict."

"Senator Brownback also agreed to remove the political language referencing religious expression on public buildings," Ravitz said in an email.

That last clause that Brownback stripped can be found on the top of page two of the resolution linked above.

From FOX News:

The offending language: "Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life."

A Boxer aide pointed specifically to the last 10 words of that sentence, saying it points directly to "pro-life" language. Boxer, with the support of a number of her Democratic and Republican colleagues, held up the bill for three days, trying to find a compromise.

One senior Republican leadership aide told FOX News, "What's the problem with this? Does Sen. Boxer not value life? It speaks directly to the message the Pope delivered when he arrived here."

From the Papal mass this morning, FOX News has learned, Brownback e-mailed his staff to strike the offending language.

Now, the resolution, which was just approved by unanimous consent, reads: "Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable."

This was so stupid of Boxer on a number of counts.

I don't think valuing life is political or partisan. Are Dems afraid to admit to the value of each and every life? They sure are.

I see nothing wrong with "Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life."

Brownback didn't specify the unborn or embryos. He didn't define life. All he said was "each and every human life." Big deal.

I don't know why Boxer is satisfied with striking "each and every human life" but leaving in "the weak and vulnerable."

The unborn certainly are weak and vulnerable.

In sum, Boxer comes off like a nut.

Cornyn Amdt. No. 2934

The U.S. Senate voted to condemn MoveOn.org for its despicable ad attacking General David Petraeus.

The ad appeared in the New York Times, on Monday September 10. That Lefty rag even printed the Lefty group's shameful smear at a bargain rate.

The Senate amendment's statement of purpose:

To express the sense of the Senate that General David H. Petraeus, Commanding General, Multi-National Force-Iraq, deserves the full support of the Senate and strongly condemn personal attacks on the honor and integrity of General Petraeus and all members of the United States Armed Forces.

How hard can it be to vote to express support for the U.S. Armed Forces?

For politicians indebted to the hard Left MoveOn, it's too hard to do.

View the Roll Call Vote.

Wisconsin senators split on the amendment. Russ Feingold voted against it. Obviously, he's not maverick enough to bite the hand that feeds him. Herb Kohl voted for it. He can afford to upset MoveOn.org. He's nobody's senator. Unlike Feingold, he doesn't need MoveOn, so he could show some decency.

Those voting in support of MoveOn's despicable ad slamming Petraeus were the usual suspects:

Akaka (D-HI)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Levin (D-MI)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Biden (D-DE), Cantwell (D-WA), and Obama (D-IL) didn't vote.

The spin being put on the resolution really is laughable.

According to the lib media, it was a stunt meant to turn the screws on Democrat presidential candidates.

WASHINGTON -- Republicans on Thursday tried to turn a controversial anti-war newspaper ad against Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama after neither voted to condemn it.

The Senate voted 72-25 to pass a resolution condemning a MoveOn.org ad that referred to Gen. David Petraeus, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, as "Gen. Betray Us." The liberal group's full-page ad appeared last week in The New York Times.

Clinton voted against the measure; Obama did not vote.

Among the presidential hopefuls, Republicans Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Sam Brownback of Kansas voted for the resolution sponsored by Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas. Democratic Sen. Chris Dodd of Connecticut voted against it.

Obama, Clinton and Dodd voted for an alternative resolution offered minutes earlier by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. That resolution condemned political attack ads, including those that questioned the patriotism of Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., and former Sen. Max Cleland, D-Ga., both Vietnam veterans. It failed 50-47.

McCain and Brownback did not support Boxer's measure. Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., also a presidential candidate, did not vote on either resolution.

I think it was a legitimate resolution. I don't think it was game.

It gave senators the opportunity to clarify where they stand on the matter and go on the record.

Obama thought it was best to evade the issue rather than condemn the attack.

Obama, who appeared in Atlanta with R&B artist Usher and former NBA forward Dominique Wilkins, defended his decision not to vote, calling the resolution the "kind of game-playing that the American people are tired of."

He said it was wrong to waste time "debating about a newspaper ad" when young men and women are dying in Iraq and veterans are not receiving needed services.

I disagree.

It's not a waste of time to show support for the military.

Obama's refusal to vote reflected the "kind of game-playing that the American people are tired of."

Biden, too, took the easy way out and didn't vote.

Hillary Clinton and Chris Dodd, on the other hand, determined that it would be a mistake to anger the fringe Left group.

Clinton is definitely in MoveOn's pocket. With Norman Hsu out of the picture, I guess she needs to make up some slack and can't afford to alienate the far Left loons.

Before the vote, during his press conference, I think President Bush spoke for many, many Americans when he gave his reaction to the ad and the Democrats' failure to condemn it.

Q What is your reaction to the MoveOn.org ad that mocked General Petraeus as General "Betrayus," and said that he cooked the books on Iraq? And secondly, would you like to see Democrats, including presidential candidates, repudiate that ad?

THE PRESIDENT: I thought the ad was disgusting. I felt like the ad was an attack not only on General Petraeus, but on the U.S. military. And I was disappointed that not more leaders in the Democrat Party spoke out strongly against that kind of ad. And that leads me to come to this conclusion: that most Democrats are afraid of irritating a left-wing group like MoveOn.org -- or more afraid of irritating them than they are of irritating the United States military. That was a sorry deal. It's one thing to attack me; it's another thing to attack somebody like General Petraeus.

Very well said.

The 25 cowardly Democrats who voted in support of MoveOn.org may have scored points with the Left-wing group and its radical followers, but I think they lost far more than they gained.

Batty Barbara Boxer

Barbara Boxer doesn't seem able to control herself at hearings.

The woman flips out, says irresponsible things, and verges on being downright abusive.

She's the female version of Russ Feingold.

Two gems from Boxer yesterday:

BOXER: Please, General, I ask you, please, don't do what you did in '04 when you painted a rosy scenario in an op-ed piece, turned out to be wrong, like you did in '05 when you told us, and we believed you, that the Iraqis were just about there, they were going to take over their own defense. And please consider that others could be right. The Brits, General Casey, controller general, Lee Hamilton and Tom Kean, who just wrote in an op-ed piece that our presence in Iraq is recruiting terrorists for Al-Qaeda. Listen to the Iraqi people; the American people; the majority of the Congress.

BOXER: I get letter after letter asking me how long we'll be in Iraq. I tell them it depends on who the president is and how many votes there are in the Congress to change course -- and as for my own views, I tell them this war is the biggest foreign policy mistake ever. It took our eye off defeating the terrorists led by Osama Bin Laden who killed our people six years ago today; the greatest mistake because it strained our military, our National Guard. In California, gentlemen, we are short 50% in our equipment to respond to an earthquake, and the secretary of the army said we'd be in trouble if there was a major earthquake. The greatest mistake because we've lost so many of our own and so many are wounded who we will be dealing with for years and years. It breaks our hearts, all of our hearts. The biggest mistake, because we've lost the support of the world -- when we had the whole world in our hand after 9/11.

First, "the whole world" was NOT "in our hand after 9/11."

Second, the Islamic extremist world is reveling in her words and those of her Democrat colleagues.

Barbara Boxer's Impeachment Fever

Barbara Boxer is a disgrace.

She's unhinged.

Drudge posted a link to audio of her talking on the Ed Schultz Show.

The woman is wacky.

She's yapping about impeachment and John Dean. It's just weird.

"I've always said that you need to keep [impeachment] on the table and you need to look at these things because now people are dying because of this administration. And, you know, that's the truth…

"This is as close as we’ve ever come to a dictatorship."

That's right. Bush is a dictator.

Boxer is not the only loon talking like that.

Months ago, Eleanor Clift said, "What we have in this country is a dictator who's ineffective."

Boxer's comments, of course, belong on the Wall of Shame, but she's so over the top here I felt Boxer's extremism deserved to be highlighted in a post as well.

She's gone off the deep end. Truly.

Conservative Talk Radio: The Legislative Fix

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer are scheming to muzzle free speech by targeting conservative talk radio.

At least that's what Sen. James Inhofe is charging.

Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barbara Boxer say they never talked about a "legislative fix" to the "far right-wing extremists" that make up conservative talk radio.

Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., said Thursday on John Ziegler's evening radio show on KFI in L.A. that he overheard Clinton, D-N.Y., and Boxer, D-Calif., saying they want legislation to control conservative radio talk shows.

"I was going over to vote the other day and I was walking with two very liberal gals that didn’t pay any attention to me being with them. They were outraged by something you said or Rush Limbaugh or somebody said that upset them," Inhofe told Ziegler. "They said, ‘we have got to do something about this, these are nothing but far-right wing extremists. We’ve got to have a balance, there’s got to be a legislative fix to this.’"

He added: "As we got off the elevator, I said, ‘you gals don’t understand. This is market-driven and there’s no market for your liberal trite.’"

This has become a "he said, she said, she said."

Both Boxer and Clinton claim that Inhofe is delusional.

Boxer spokeswoman Natalie Ravitz told FOXNews.com that conversation "never happened."

"Senator Boxer told me that either her friend Senator Inhofe needs new glasses or he needs to have his hearing checked, because that conversation never happened," Ravitz said in an e-mail.

"Jim Inhofe is wrong," added Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines. "This supposed conversation never happened, not in his presence or anywhere else."

Could Inhofe be that screwed up?

Does he take Ambien and it affected his perception of reality?

I think it's far more likely that Clinton and Boxer are lying.

Is it a stretch to believe that these two libs spoke about talk radio as a thorn in the Democrat Party's side?

I think it's easy to imagine Clinton and Boxer babbling about castrating conservatives.

The Islamic State of Iraq

How many times have you heard Democrats say that Iraq is a distraction from the War on Terror?

That's been their mantra -- We're bogged down in a civil war in Iraq. We don't belong there. We should be going after al Qaeda terrorists.

Russ Feingold says it all the time.

In December 2005, Feingold blogged:

I opposed the Iraq war from the start because it was a distraction from what should be our top priority - fighting the terrorist networks that threaten us.

Speaking to Lindsay Graham on CNN, Barbara Boxer said:

“Lindsey, just be careful what you say. The bottom line here is that the losers are the ones who have engineered this war, made a huge mistake — Dick Cheney we’re in the last throes, the war will last six months — and all of you who have supported this escalation and have turned us away from fighting al Qaeda into putting us in the middle of a civil war.”

And it's not just Dems. Republicans say it, too.

Many of the Republican presidential candidates are quick to blame President Bush and his administration for missteps in Iraq and their impact on the War on Terror.

They say that we shouldn't be fighting in Iraq because the enemy isn't there.

If that's the case, I'd like them to explain al Qaeda's claim that they captured American troops in Iraq and are holding them hostage.

BAGHDAD -- An al-Qaida front group announced Sunday it had captured American soldiers in a deadly attack the day before, as thousands of U.S. troops searched insurgent areas south of Baghdad for their three missing comrades.

The statement came on one of the deadliest days in the country in recent weeks, with at least 124 people killed or found dead. A suicide truck bomb tore through the offices of a Kurdish political party in northern Iraq, killing 50 people, and a car bombing in a crowded Baghdad market killed another 17.

Troops surrounded the town of Youssifiyah and told residents over loudspeakers to stay inside, residents said. They then methodically searched the houses, focusing on possible secret chambers under the floors where the soldiers might be hidden, residents said. The soldiers marked each searched house with a white piece of cloth.

Soldiers also searched cars entering and leaving the town, writing "searched" on the side of each vehicle they had inspected. Several people were arrested, witnesses said.

The Islamic State in Iraq offered no proof for its claim that it was behind the attack Saturday in Mahmoudiya that also killed four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi translator. But the Sunni area known as the "triangle of death" is a longtime al-Qaida stronghold.

If the claim proves true, it would mark one of the most brazen attacks by the umbrella Sunni insurgent group against U.S. forces here.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, spokesman for the U.S. military, said 4,000 U.S. troops backed by aircraft and intelligence units were scouring the farming area as the military made "every effort available to find our missing soldiers."

Read more about the "Islamic State of Iraq" here.

The New York Times reports:

The Islamic State of Iraq posted its claims of responsibility on jihadist Web sites on Sunday. “Clashes between your brothers in the Islamic State of Iraq and a Crusaders’ patrol in Mahmudiya, southern Baghdad province, has led to the killing and arresting of several of them,” the message said.

If history is any measure, the chances of the Americans surviving capture would be slim. The organization has claimed responsibility for numerous killings of prisoners.

Last June, insurgents captured two American soldiers during a surprise attack near Yusufiya. After a four-day search by 8,000 American and Iraqi troops, the soldiers’ bodies were found about three miles from the site of their kidnapping. They had been tortured, and insurgents had booby-trapped the road leading to the bodies.

The Mujahedeen Shura Council, an umbrella insurgent group that was a precursor to the Islamic State of Iraq and included Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia, claimed responsibility for those killings.

Al Qaeda is in Iraq, and actively seeking to harm our military personnel.

If this incident proves anything, it's that the War on Terror is being fought in Iraq.

While we face a number of difficult challenges in Iraq, it's flat out false to say that al Qaeda isn't among them.

It's idiotic to say that Iraq is nothing more than a distraction and not part of the War on Terror.

Gore's Personal Energy Ethics Pledge Lapse

Yesterday when Al Gore returned to Capitol Hill and pontificated about global warming, he balked at taking a Personal Energy Ethics Pledge.

Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma merely asked Gore to personally commit to the sort of lifestyle that he's pushing on others. Gore refused and Barbara Boxer flipped out.



Read how the lib media are covering Gore's stunning hypocrisy.

From The New York Times:

In the House, there was little debate about the underlying science; the atmosphere was more that of a college lecture hall than a legislative give-and-take. But in the Senate, James M. Inhofe of Oklahoma, the ranking Republican on the Environment and Public Works Committee, set a pugilistic tone, challenging Mr. Gore’s analysis of the dangers of climate change from hurricanes and melting ice in Antarctica.

“It is my perspective that your global warming alarmist pronouncements are now and have always been filled with inaccuracies and misleading statements,” Mr. Inhofe said.

Beneath the carefully groomed surface of the House and Senate committees’ scripted production, a rift was evident. Republican committee leaders, including Mr. Barton in the House, and Mr. Inhofe in the Senate, seemed somewhat isolated from their rank-and-file colleagues, who appeared more receptive to Mr. Gore’s message and the scientific consensus on climate change. Even J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois, the former House speaker, seemed to accept the scientific consensus.

So Inhofe took a "pugilistic tone."

He's "isolated" because he wouldn't buy into the hysterics of the alleged consensus on the environmental doomsday scenario.

And what was Gore's tone? His usual dull, boring, monotonous drone?

...Waving his finger at some 40 House members, [Gore] said, “A day will come when our children and grandchildren will look back and they’ll ask one of two questions.”

Either, he said, “they will ask: what in God’s name were they doing?” or “they may look back and say: how did they find the uncommon moral courage to rise above politics and redeem the promise of American democracy?”

Yeah, our children and grandchildren should ask: what in God's name was Gore doing by devouring massive amounts of energy, flying all over the world, living in an enormous mansion?

They may look back and say: how did Gore find the uncommon moral weakness to sink so low and be so selfish and disingenuous?

On the Senate side, Mr. Inhofe quickly hit an issue that some of Mr. Gore’s critics have sounded in recent weeks — the size and energy-consuming properties of his new home in Tennessee. Mr. Inhofe sought to exact a pledge from Mr. Gore to cut electricity use so that his home outside Nashville used no more than the average American home in a year.

This triggered a jousting match with both Mr. Gore and Senator Barbara Boxer of California, the committee chairwoman, which ended when Ms. Boxer made a tart reference to the change in power in the Senate. “You’re not making the rules,” she told Mr. Inhofe.

Mr. Gore then said he pays extra to use wind-generated electricity at the home; Mr. Inhofe took that response as a rejection of the pledge.

Boxer is such a joke with her "tart reference."

When faced with Gore's obvious hypocrisy, Boxer deflected Inhofe's challenge by yapping about Dem power.

She's as heavy-handed as Gore is heavy.

The fact is Gore is all talk -- hysterical, misleading, inaccurate talk.

And he most definitely does not walk the walk.

Why should he? There's no controlling legal authority.

Let's face it. Emperor Gore has no clothes.

(Yuck!)