Here are today's interesting items.
+When you consider his poor attendance record, you have to ask if Senator Kerry or Edwards would show up for a special session of Congress if called by the President. Frankly, if I were George W., I would call it to find out. If K&E failed to show, it would be a major campaign issue and point.
Would Kerry Show Up for Special Session of Congress? Republican Asks
(CNSNews.com) - House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) says President Bush was right to endorse some of the key recommendations of the 9/11 panel; and DeLay also dismissed Sen. John Kerry's comments about calling Congress into special session as "opportunistic bluster." "That's pretty tough talk from a guy who has fewer days at work this year than he has houses," DeLay said in a press release. "He's not been around here during our regular session; what makes anyone think he'll be here for a special session?" On Monday, Sen. Kerry urged President Bush to call Congress back into session to enact the 9/11 panel's recommendations. "If the president had a sense of urgency about this director of intelligence and about the needs to strengthen America, he would call the Congress back and get the job done now," Kerry said. "The time to act is now, not later." Kerry said if Bush were to call a special session, he (Kerry) would return to Washington to vote "when necessary." DeLay, in his press release, pointed to Sen. Kerry's record in the 1980s and 1990s: "He voted 38 times to cut defense spending, against higher pay for our troops, and proposed a $45 billion cut in intelligence spending," DeLay said. "Maybe we're better off when he's vacationing than actually working after all."
+Several of the more ridiculous members of the House, including many members of the House Black Caucus, are calling for UN monitoring of the November Elections.
This is ridiculous for two reasons. First, being known as a corrupt organization, there would be many questions about any effort to monitor anything by the U.N. Second, it is just silly. Congressional democrats are just being silly, looking for airtime, and try to disrupt the elections.
Any member of Congress who speaks to this issue on the floor should have their words "taken down." It is an embarrassment to the constiuents of the Congressmen.
Full article from the Cybercast News Service -->House Democrats Urge UN Supervision of Presidential Election -- 08/02/2004
+Today's items from the Kerry Spot on National Review Online.
MORRIS ON KERRY'S CONVENTION
Dick Morris gives Kerry a poor grade in the New York Post:
Kerry compounded the problem by venturing no information about his public career in the Senate for the past two decades. He did nothing to refute three months of negative ads labeling him as an ultra-liberal, big spender. He did not tell us what the Kerry Bill was or the Kerry Amendment or the Kerry hearings. As far as we know, there wasn't any.
Voters don't want a lieutenant for president. They want a commander-in-chief. After all, why did Cleland lose despite his heroism? Why did draft dodger Clinton beat war hero Bob Kerrey in 1992 primaries? Why didn't Bob Dole win in 1996?
Voters want a president with brains, not just guts, and all they saw was a warrior telling his old tales on Thursday night. And it wasn't enough.
TERROR WARNINGS AND POLITICS
So far, there hasn't been much claim of vindication for Howard Dean, based on the news from the Times and Post stories stating that much of the intelligence found on the al-Qaeda punk caught last week is several years old.
The non-fringe Democrats seem to recognize that Dean's allegations that recent terror warnings are all political theater is the equivalent of playing with fire. First, even if the information is old, they only caught the guy who had the information last week. This surveillance information may not be new to al-Qaeda, but their interest in these buildings is news to us. Second, what politician would be willing to stake his career - or life - on the notion that because al-Qaeda hasn’t bombed or attacked these sites yet, they never will? Just what were McLaughlin, Ridge, Mueller, Bush & Co. to do? Say, “Ladies and gentlemen, we know al-Qaeda operatives were looking at these buildings as targets, but the information seems dated, so there’s no reason for concern?” You warn the local cops, you warn the public, you warn the occupants of the buildings, and then you try to move forward with a localized Orange Alert.
Maybe I’m less head-in-the-sand than the average citizen, but I’d rather have the information as a member of the public. Better this than a generic, nationwide shift to Orange with vaguely worded warnings.
Last night on Chris Matthews, guests Andrea Mitchell of NBC, Thomas Oliphant of the Boston Globe and Pat Buchanan of MSNBC agreed that Kerry needed to distance himself from Dean’s comments, and that if the perception was that the Democrats didn’t believe the warnings and accused the president of lying, and then there was an attack on one of those sites, it would cost the party politically for years.
Note: When asked about Dean's remarks, Senator Kerry quickly disavowed any knowledge of the governor;s remarks and distanced himself from them so face, you would think he was running away.
PATAKI: DEAN'S AN EMBARRASSMENT
New York Gov. George Pataki is not known as a fire-breathing conservative. So when he brings out the rhetorical big guns, it's a signal that it's safe for the GOP moderates to lock and load. From his CNN appearance:
PATAKI: “Judy, I think Howard Dean is an embarrassment. I mean, he almost makes Michael Moore look objective in how he analyzes these situations, and the American people got to know him during the campaign and rejected him. The sad part is that his policies and his warped beliefs are having a significant impact on Senator Kerry's policies. Senator Kerry talked about being tough in the war on terror, but he essentially adopted the Dean line when he had to do it to get through at the Democratic primaries."
I'll bet that this is not the last we see of Howard Dean's statement.
Seems like everybody is, again, running away from the kooky comments of Dr. Dean.
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