Filed under: Economy, Legislative Foolishness, Political Races, Uncategorized
A KFAB poll today had a vote on Senator Hagel speaking out against Sarah Palin being the VP nominee. The results weren’t all that surprising. 83% say that he should keep his mouth shut.
While voting with the Conservative side, he’s received a lot of criticism for the stance he adopted on the invasion and war in Iraq.
He’s also recieved criticism for blocking legislative reform.
- Voted YES on allowing some lobbyist gifts to Congress. (Mar 2006)
- Voted NO on establishing the Senate Office of Public Integrity. (Mar 2006)
- Voted NO on banning “soft money” contributions and restricting issue ads. (Mar 2002)
Of course you can always go to the web-site but check this out. Hindsight is always 20/20.
- Our current Iraq policy is not worthy of soldiers’ sacrifice. (Jul 2007)
- Engage with Iran & Syria; follow Baker-Hamilton. (Jul 2007)
- Internationalize Iraq or we’ll be seen as occupiers. (Jul 2007)
- Open to withdrawal timelines, but look at other issues too. (Jul 2007)
- Bush administration wanted to go to war with Saddam. (Jul 2007)
- No Iraq military solution; focus on political accommodation. (Jul 2007)
- Outcome in Iraq will be determined by the Iraqis. (Jul 2007)
- Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam. (Jul 2007)
- Congress should oppose Bush’s actions, but not impeachable. (Jul 2007)
- Soldiers in Iraq deserve a policy worthy of their sacrifice. (Mar 2007)
- US in “deep trouble” in Iraq. (Sep 2004)
- Iraq took our eye off the ball in Afghanistan. (Aug 2004)
- Voted NO on redeploying non-essential US troops out of Iraq in 9 months. (Dec 2007)
- Voted NO on designating Iran’s Revolutionary Guards as terrorists. (Sep 2007)
- Voted NO on redeploying US troops out of Iraq by March 2008. (Mar 2007)
- Voted NO on redeploying troops out of Iraq by July 2007. (Jun 2006)
- Voted NO on investigating contract awards in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Nov 2005)
- Voted YES on requiring on-budget funding for Iraq, not emergency funding. (Apr 2005)
- Voted YES on $86 billion for military operations in Iraq & Afghanistan. (Oct 2003)
- Voted YES on authorizing use of military force against Iraq. (Oct 2002)
- Voted NO on allowing all necessary force in Kosovo. (May 1999)
- Voted YES on authorizing air strikes in Kosovo. (Mar 1999)
- CIA mischaracterized Iraq WMD & abused intelligence position. (Jul 2004)
- Iraq-al-Qaida contacts, but no complicity or assistance. (Jul 2004)
- CIA knew State of the Union Iraq-Niger connection was false. (Jul 2004)
- Iraq was not reconstituting its nuclear program. (Jul 2004)
- Iraq was not developing its biological weapons program. (Jul 2004)
- Iraq was not developing its chemical weapons program. (Jul 2004)
- Iraq was developing missiles, but not to reach the US. (Jul 2004)
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/Chuck_Hagel.htm
Nebraskans are people who have a long memory.
My wife was saying we need to get rid of the truck because it gets crappy mileage. Well, that would men we’d have to sell the camper, but OK. I was wondering, if we got another vehicle, what would we get? Well we’d have to have something powerful enough to pull the boat, and it would have to get good mileage. On top of that, I’d want something sporty. Well here ya go. I want one.
Filed under: Second Ammendment Rights, Uncategorized | Tags: Gun Rights, Second Ammendment
The Conservative Review newsletter today had an interesting article by Robert Novak. Instead of chopping it up, I’m posting the whole thing. If you are for individual gun ownership, this will make you cringe.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Preparing to hear oral arguments
Tuesday on the extent of gun rights guaranteed by the
Constitution’s Second Amendment, the U.S. Supreme Court
has before it a brief signed by Vice President Cheney
opposing the Bush administration’s stance. Even more
remarkably, Cheney is faithfully reflecting the views
of President George W. Bush.
The government position filed with the Supreme Court by
U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement stunned gun advocates
by opposing the breadth of an appellate court affirmation
of individual ownership rights. The Justice Department,
not the vice president, is out of order. But if Bush
agrees with Cheney, why did the president not simply order
Clement to revise his brief? The answers: disorganization
and weakness in the eighth year of his presidency.
Consequently, a Republican administration finds itself
aligned against the most popular tenet of social con-
servatism: gun rights that enjoy much wider support than
opposition to abortion or gay marriage. Promises in two
presidential elections are abandoned, and Bush finds
himself left of Democratic presidential candidate Sen.
Barack Obama.
The 1976 District of Columbia statute prohibiting owner-
ship of all functional firearms a year ago was called
unconstitutional in violation of the Second Amendment
in an opinion by Senior Judge Laurence Silberman, a
conservative who has served on the D.C. Circuit Court
for 22 years. It was assumed Bush would fight Washington
Mayor Adrian Fenty’s appeal.
The president and his senior staff were stunned to learn,
on the day it was issued, that Clement’s petition called
on the high court to return the case to the appeals court.
The solicitor general argued that Silberman’s opinion
supporting individual gun rights was so broad that it
would endanger existing federal gun control laws such as
the bar on owning machine guns. The president could have
ordered a revised brief by Clement. But under congress-
ional Democratic pressure to keep hands off the Justice
Department, Bush did not act.
Cheney did join 55 senators and 250 House members in
signing a brief supporting the Silberman ruling. While
this unprecedented vice presidential intervention was
widely interpreted as a dramatic breakaway from the
White House, longtime associates could not believe
Cheney would defy the president. In fact, he did not.
Bush approved what Cheney did in his constitutional
legislative branch role as president of the Senate.
That has not lessened puzzlement over Clement, a 41-
year-old conservative Washington lawyer who clerked
for Silberman and later for Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia. Clement has tried to explain his
course to the White House by claiming he feared
Justice Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court’s current
swing vote, would join a liberal majority on gun
rights if forced to rule on Silberman’s opinion.
The more plausible explanation for Clement’s stance
is that he could not resist opposition to individual
gun rights by career lawyers in the Justice Department’s
Criminal Division (who clashed with the Office of
Legal Counsel in a heated internal struggle). Newly
installed Attorney General Michael Mukasey, a neophyte
at Justice, was unaware of the conflict and learned
about Clement’s position only after it had been locked
in.
Time to clean house at Justice? I think so.
Filed under: Legislative Foolishness, Uncategorized | Tags: Bad Law, Nebraska, Property Rights, Smoking
The nanny society has finally come to Nebraska. The Legislature saw fit and the Governor signed the state-wide smoking ban. I don’t think they care that the implementation of this act is another step in the direction of removing property rights from the individual.
Please understand, I don’t smoke. I used too a long time ago and i still enjoy a cigar now and then. What angers me is the thought of some individual or group getting the government to tell someone what they an or cannot do with their property.
One more step in that direction is a bill that my own senator introduced and is now his priority bill. It is LB 810. The statement of intent specifically states that “a retailer who serves alcoholic liquor to an adult who is noticeably intoxicated, is liable for resulting death, injury, or damage if the retailer was reckless or negligent.”
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OK, I admit it. I’m tired after pushing snow all Tuesday night and not staying up to watch the cat-fight between Obama and the Queen Witch. As far as the Media was concerned, from what I did watch and heard after, there was no other primary going on.
Oh, wait, that’s not entirely true. They did say something about McCain, their anointed prince who just happens to be a Republican, and Huckabee, who is making strides to keep the evil Mormon, Romney, to low numbers.
My big question is “where are the true conservatives who could have run?” I guess I’ll never know.
Whoever gave a hint that McCain was remotely conservative was on drugs. He’s for amnesty for Illegals, higher gas taxes, and squelching free speech. If he gets in, there has been a lot of talk that the “fairness Doctrine” will return to broadcast media.
Huckabee; the only thing conservative about him is the fact that he Evangelicals like him. Oh yes, he’s a proponent of the Fair Tax, but that doesn’t clear him from raising taxes in Arkansas.
Romney; probably the most conservative of the bunch, but being burdened with the fact He’s a Mormon has only inflamed the religious right in calling him a non-Christian and a cultist. He also has to bear the weight of giving the people of Massachusetts, an already highly taxed populace, the burden of state health care. I guess they deserve that since they keep sending Kennedy and Kerry back to the Senate.
But, is this the end of our country? No! Hopefully, there will be a resurgence of the revolution that occurred when the Contract with America was introduced. That worked for a short time, but as we’ve seen, there was no suit brought against the Republican Party for Breach of Contract.
What we are going to see in the next two years will be, my prediction, increased cost of fuel. The war on terrorism will silently go away, the US will pull out of Iraq with the Mullahs taking over in an ensuing blood-bath, more attacks on Israel, signing of the Kyoto treaty, cost increase of everything (more inflation), more gun control, not-so-free- health-care, an amnesty bill that passes, looser borders between Mexico and the US, MedicAid and MediCare for Illegals, in-state tuition for Illegals, the return of the Fairness Doctrine, more political correctness, higher Muslim immigration, oh, and a sky-rocketing tax rate causing the economy to plummet.
Didn’t McCain say something about Reagan and this was the 21st century?
Filed under: Uncategorized
How can I put it? I have this headache and it won’t go away and it only gets better when I stop banging my head on the wall.
When I see something like this video, it starts all over again. It makes my want to borrow Cartman’s line. “screw you guys, I’m going home!”
Other than that, the world is fine. I’ll be taking my meds and going back to bed!
Filed under: Uncategorized
I unsubscribed to Washington Post and New York Times. I got to the point that the people who write comments are most of the problem our country has now. I’ve never seen or read a plethora of leftist garbage that these losers propound.
This country has become a kindergarten of whiners and momma’s boys (and girls) who want to be “taken care of”. They want free health care, minimum income, and permission to do whatever they want morally and spiritually.
Whatever happened to the call Kennedy made for self sacrifice and service? Granted, there are those who have chosen to follow that call forty years later. They have volunteered for the military, the Peace Corp, and other organizations not necessarily connected with the government. These are the people who actually carry the torch of freedom and independence.
Please let those people know that you appreciate their service. Write to them and if they have email, let them know you care.
Filed under: Uncategorized
It’s going to be -2 tonight. I’m freezing my butt off due to this global warming crap. I just hope the furnace don’t go out again.
From the news coverage, all the Democrats are saying that their opponents are crooked and unelectable. They are so intent on tearing each other down that they aren’t paying attention to the real world. If Obama loses to Hillary, will he vote for a Republican? Anyway, it’s a thought.
What about if Obama wins? Who will Hillary vote for? Could you imagine her backing Romney? I could see her going for McCain since he’s closer to the left than any of the others. He was in the military so that would be a turn off for her.
I can’t see Edwards gaining anywhere. He’s consistently come in third in this dance and the only thing he really has is the arrogance to claim he will force the Congress to go on Social Security and give up it’s perks. Yeh, like that’s really going to happen.
The Republicans aren’t in much better shape. There are a few things that if packaged right could be a great candidate. Take the Fair Tax which Huckabee backs, Border and Immigration Control that several back, Romney’s business sense, and a few other items, give that to Condi Rice and just dare the wackos to compete with that. Of course, trying to get Dr. Rice to run would be the stumbling block but wouldn’t she be great?
Think of the possibilities. She’s a strong, intelligent, woman, who is conservative, and can express herself well. She would trump Hillary and Obama.
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