When does it end?

In case you haven't read it, I would highly recommend everyone who may stumble upon this blog to read Newt's newsletter for this week. It's heading is "Enough is Enough: While Washington Vacations, a War Rages Here at Home." Sure, I maybe be a little biased towards Newt because I'm a member of DraftNewt.org, but I believe he's hit the bull's eye.

The fight over Immigration has been going on for years now, with the most recent battle fought not too long ago with the "Comprehensive Immigration Bill." The bill had some pros, but many cons to it. But it looks like the defeat of this bill hasn't stopped the ferocity of the battle. Some steps are being made, but a recent shooting of 4 students in New Jersey shows the urgency of which the system must be fixed.

As you may or may not have heard, the criminal identified is an Illegal Aliens. In his newsletter, Speaker Gingrich has called for the President to call a special session of Congress, in which a fix to this problem is solved. Newt proposes that Congress passes a law that requires a real-time identification system by 2008 to identify who is legal and who is not. Part 2 of the bill would require a citizenship test on any who are charged with a felony. If any political division decides not to comply, whether it be state, county, or city, they lose all federal aid. The 4th part would prohibit releasing an illegal alien criminal into the American public. And finally, all who are currently in prison are screened for citizenship status.

The way I look at this, this should be a no-brainer, and could present major problems with anyone who might possibly oppose such legislation. This does not solve illegal immigration, but this is necessary legislation to start us on the right pass. President Bush is already starting on another front, with businesses and penalties for those who knowingly hire illegal immigrants. You hear people on the left complain that there are illegals here that do good. But the kind like these, and many other examples (i.e. New Jersey Bomb Plot), are not those. It's one thing to be breaking the law by being here. But to have the nerve to come in here illegally and kill our own people?

Enough is enough. Support Newt's proposal, and help take these criminals off the street and out of our country. Immigration was part of President Bush's campaign platform. This would be a great way to get on it.

Summer's End

Well, Summertime's about left us. I'm done with my summer activities and look forward to putting up a new blog post either later this week or sometime next week. This has become one busy summer. Hope everyone enjoyed it!

Finally!

Well, as you may have heard by now, it's over. President Bush has finally granted clemency to Scooter Libby. He no longer has to serve the unjust prison sentence for doing nothing, left with only the fine and probation period. Of course, nothing President Bush does is good in the eyes of the Democrats, so here's you a link to all the things many people have said about it. While some in this article are happy about it, it looks like every single Democrat mentioned absolutely abhors it. Whodathunkit? Here it is.

Scooter Libby was convicted of perjury a while back because he made a few questionable statements as to where he heard Valerie Plame's name. That's it. Maybe before the real leaker, Richard Armitage, was revealed, this might have been a serious case of a cover up. But they continued to press on even after finding out who it was that exposed Valerie Plame. But I'm left to wonder a few things.

• The source of the leak may have been known to some officials in 2003. The Special Prosecutor knew when he was assigned that Armitage was the leaker, yet pressed on. Why? Another thing, has Armitage been punished yet for his crimes? I've not heard of anything nor have I found anything yet on the internet.
  
• Also, was Plame a "covert agent?" Looking at the definition here (covert agent is defined at the bottom), I don't think so. Unless my memory is ill-serving, she did not work overseas, and was not working with FBI in counter-terrorism or counter-surveillance. I'm fairly confident that covert and classified are different statuses.
  
• And: Scooter Libby got convicted for perjury for (probably inadvertently) saying the wrong name as to where he heard Plame's name. Plame testified that she was covert. If she does not meet that definition, where's the perjury charge?

There are some other things I'm left to wonder. There are some things I'm unsure of, as I've noted throughout this entry, but I am fairly sure of one thing. Scooter Libby was the wrong person to convict in this case. Is role in the leak was irrelevant and should have never came to trial and he should have never been convicted. But there are others that probably should have.

One more reason...

Want to know why I'll never support Obama? Well, here's yet one more reason to add to the ever-growing list. click here

Surprising Polls

I took a glance at realclearpolitics.com just a few minutes ago and was really quite surprised. President Bush has long been scarred by low poll numbers, but the RCP average has gone up since the last time I remember checking, unless my memory serves me incorrectly. I recall looking and seeing Congress tied with the President at 29%, though it could have 31% or something close to that. But now I can just forget that poll, because things are different now. President Bush is at 32% in the RCP average. And Congress? 25.5%! That's right, Congress is now, on average, listed as 6.5% lower than the President. They claim they were elected to fix things in Washington, but their approval rating is now LOWER than the Republican Congress's approval rating around the time of the election (a Fox News poll from 11/4 - 11/5 showed it with 29%). If Congress continues to waste the money of the people who elected them to rename Post Offices and pass meaningless resolution that they even acknowledge will have no effect on anything, their majority will be short-lived. If Republicans decide to go on the offense and defend the Conservative values that put them there for 12 good years, there is no reason they can't capitalize on this opportunity and regain majority status. Not just for the sake of the Republican Party, but for the sake of America.

Another interesting thing to point out: RCP also shows McCain BEATING Clinton now, on average. Granted, there is only a 0.8% spread, but this is showing the gaining Republican momentum against the undeserving Democrats. Until recently, the only Red win overall on RCP was Rudy vs. Hillary. This has now changed. Rudy not only beats Hillary now, but he also beats Obama, on average. McCain beats not only Hillary now, but also John Edwards. Another sign of Republican gains is the first Romney victory in ANY poll to date against a Democrat. An LA Times/Bloomberg poll gives Mitt Romney a +2% victory against Hillary Clinton.

Seeing these polls give us insight to what could possibly happen. If asked 2 months ago, a large majority of Americans would have said it is impossible for Republicans to win the White House in 2008. These polls suggest that things have changed, and a Republican win is not impossible. It will still be a close battle, but if we stick to our values, the Republicans will have recuperated from what seemed to be a horrible sickness inherited from 2006.

Just a thought...

I don't have my normal laptop anymore and don't get my replacement until the second week of July, so there's probably going to be a temporary pause in updating the podcast. But I continue to do some writing. I was listening to some sound bites from the Democratic Presidential debate the other day, and, though I don't remember the whole quote, one particular thing was from Hillary Clinton..."Bush started this war."
And this is not the first time she's made these comments. And as I hear things such as this, I began to wonder...does Hillary Clinton know about the Constitution? The Dems all too often complain that the Constitution provides a system of checks and balances, but you can't blame President Bush for their lack of understanding that he can't do much at all except head the Executive Branch of the U.S. to enforce the laws and carry out diplomacy. If Hillary Clinton would read the 8th section of the first article of the U.S. Constitution, it plainly states that Congress declares war and makes appropriations for the army and navy and it is the Congress that maintains them. As Commander in Chief, it is President Bush's job to head that Army that the Congress provides. If the Democrats oppose the war so badly, stop it. That's where they can check and balance the President, but they're too scared to because it might hurt them in 2008.
Another interesting thing that I heard was Hillary bashing the President with a "joke" about how the Bush Administration doesn't know what Diplomacy is, occasionally decide to send the Secretary of State or the Vice President to satisfy people. Well...if it's not diplomacy that the Secretary of State, who is responsible for taking care of the foreign affairs and diplomacy issues of the nation, what is? Another point: Has Hillary forgotten the negotiations breakthroughs with the North Koreans? Or the recent meeting with Iran with the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq? Those are just to name a few. You can NOT blame the President if the OTHER end of the agreement falls through. I just wonder...if working on agreements with enemy nations to try to get them to stop their renegade programs isn't diplomacy, what is? This only proves another point: diplomacy doesn't always work.
But what do I know.

~CreepyNerd

Debates & Headlines

Greetings everyone, and welcome to this edition of the Hawks Press. It’s been an action-packed two weeks in the political arena and there’s much to be discussed, which I’ll try to run through today.
First thing I want to talk about is the Republican Presidential debates. If you watched both debates, it was rather easy to tell the difference between the one on MSNBC and Fox News. Even between the types of questions MSNBC asked the Democrats were extremely different from the ones they asked the Republican candidates. Did Tom from Minnesota ask Barak Obama the difference between a Sunni and a Shia muslim? (Could Obama have answered it like Rudy?) There’s no question that the Fox News debate was more reasonable, covered more topics, and didn’t pick on certain candidates. It didn’t try to give all of the glory to one candidate, and it didn’t put certain candidates in an unnecessary pickle.
Also from the Fox News debate, I believe many would agree that Rudy Guiliani killed any chance Ron Paul may or may not of had at getting the Primary Nomination. Rudy was very strong on what he is strong in: National Defense. He is always the first to tell you the many success he had as New York City Mayor and how defense needs an even higher priority to prevent others from going through what he went through.
Another headline that caught my eye was of Jimmy Carter’s remarks attacking Bush, even worse than previous statements from himself and other members of his party. Jimmy Carter called President Bush the worst President in History. To be fair, though, he was talking with regards to foreign policy. I guess Jimmy Carter forgot he was, at one time, President, as well.
To make a quick brush with some other things, the Democrat-controlled Congress failed to cut off war funds. Pro-American Nicolas Sarkozy won the French Presidential election, despite the feeling that a liberal transition was imminent. The Senate has drafted a bipartisan Immigration Reform bill, that may or may not grant the current illegals Amnesty, depending on who you ask. Chuck Schumer and Senate Democrats are yet again wanting to waste more of our tax-payers money by wasting time on a vote of No-Confidence on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales because of a constitutional right of the President to appoint and dismiss U.S. Attorney at his pleasure.
And, surprisingly, that’s not all that’s happened these past weeks. I would like to invite you to send us an email at hawkspress@yahoo.com with anything you might like to tell us or criticize us over. Remember that you can check out transcripts of all of our podcasts at friendsforconservatism.blogspot.com. Thank you for listening this week and be sure to tune in next time and tell your friends about us.

~CreepyNerd