Mark A. Kilmer (the weblog)

JF Kerry:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your homework, you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”

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That’s JF Kerry: a classless, clueless little man, and he’s the Democrat’s star campaigner this season.

Read on for Tony Snow’s response and Kerry’s response to Tony . . .

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Carter Wood, posting at the Shopfloor.org (the NAM blog), has a look at the Dick Cheney/”waterboarding” story – a “behind-the-scenes account of how a story starts small and becomes HUGE (and increasingly hysterical).”

WDAY radio host Scott Hennan was relating what his callers tell him about “dunking a terrorist in water” in order to gain valuable intelligence:

Q Would you agree a dunk in water is a no-brainer if it can save lives?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: It’s a no-brainer for me, but for a while there, I was criticized as being the Vice President “for torture.” We don’t torture. That’s not what we’re involved in. We live up to our obligations in international treaties that we’re party to and so forth. But the fact is, you can have a fairly robust interrogation program without torture, and we need to be able to do that.

Suddenly the MSM had the veep advocating waterboarding and other nastiness.

The full story from NAM blog is an excellent example of hysterical perfidy with which our MSM operates in situations like these.

It’s not just our old pal Olbie anymore. From lomanaigh at RedState.com:

Even the “Sports Reporters” can’t help but inject liberal views into their sports. In the parting shots segment this morning, Mike Lupica was able to compare the excuses athletes have for using steroids to the number of reasons Bush came up with to go to war, Bob Ryan waxes paranoia with the Army and Pat Tillman and we get our Canadian host, John Saunders not understanding why we Americans want our 2nd amendment rights in relation to David Stern wanting NBA players to keep their guns at home. I noted Saunder’s little comment a month or so ago about “Reggie Bush doing something for New Orleans that another Bush couldn’t”. Keep to the sports guys, we’ve got plenty of regular news “journalists” giving us their “slant” already.

MSNBC must be salivating over these clowns.

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Do-It-Yourself Impeachment, no joke.
The Citizens’ movement!

The day the nation demands impeachment is almost upon us. On Jan 3rd, sacks and sacks of mail will be sent to congress demanding impeachment via the House of Representative’s own rules. This legal document is as binding as if a State or if the House itself passed the impeachment resolution (H.R. 635).

There’s a little known and rarely used clause of the “Jefferson Manual” in the rules for the House of Representatives which sets forth the various ways in which a president can be impeached. Only the House Judiciary Committee puts together the Articles of Impeachment, but before that happens, someone has to initiate the process.

That’s where we come in. In addition to the State-by-State method, one of the ways to get impeachment going is for individual citizens like you and me to submit a memorial. ImpeachforPeace.org, part of the movement to impeach the president, has created a new memorial based on one which was successful in impeaching a federal official in the past. You can find it on their website as a PDF.

STOP WAITING FOR YOUR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS TO ACT FOR YOU.

You can initiate the impeachment process yourself by downloading the memorial, filling in the relevant information in the blanks (your name, state, etc.), and sending it in. Be a part of history.

http://ImpeachForPeace.org/ImpeachNow.html

I suppose they mean well, and this could make a few people feel very good about themselves, but it is vapor. A complete waste of time. Someone in Congress is going to try to impeach President Bush just like they have every other President.

Here’s an old UPI piece about some Dems demanding the impeachment of President Reagan “for ordering the invasion of Grenada.” And there were others.

Here are former Congressman Henry Gonzalez’s (D-Texas) Articles of Impeachment against the first President Bush.

Here are the Articles of Impeachment against Clinton (Bill).

Here are some Articles of Impeachment against this President Bush.

If Pelosi takes the House, someone will introduce Articles of Impeachment no matter what these fired-up anti-Bushies do.

This Section 603 of the Jefferson’s Manual stuff goes to the House. If they want to do anything with it, they appoint a committee to determine if there’s anything impeachable to it. These fired-up anti-Bushies cannot simply demand that President Bush be impeached, and holding their breath until he is can legally do them no good.

But this band of anti-Bushies is accepting your money. It’s on their site, and they do accept PayPal!

Follow the money.

I wonder if they give you a dKos t-shirt and Halloween mask with each donation.

Below the fold are my show notes from this morning’s Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer. We’re getting closer to the midterm elections, of course, and I have never seen Bob Schieffer behaving in this partisan a manner.

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On Monday, the New York City Board of Health will hold its first hearing to look into banning “artificial trans-fats” in public restaurants. Why? Nanny says so.

That ingredient is artificial trans fatty acids, which are so common that the average American eats 4.7 pounds a year, according to the Food and Drug Administration. City health officials say these so-called trans fats are so unhealthy they belong in the same category as food spoiled by rodent droppings.

Then why doesn’t the rat excrement ban apply? Is there one? What if we have notes from our mothers?

Sunday, October 29, 2006.

Harold Ford carried his day on FOX News Sunday, walking away as a self-described “Jesus-lovin’, gun totin’” kind of guy, and it doesn’t matter that he’d vote for Nancy Pelosi for Speaker and be a part of bringing the larger Dem anti-Bushie machine in power.

Rick Santorum on FNS pointed out that Bob Casey is hiding from the public because “he has nothing to offer.” Wallace’s producers had invited Junior to appear on the show with Rick, but Casey’s peeps, of course, ran away from that.

Schumer seemed subdued as he sat opposite Liddy Dole on FNS, but he perked up when Wallace and Dole tangled at the end.

On TW, Steph pledged allegiance to the efficacy of the generic polls and wanted to talk Foley. John Boehner said that there are 435 individual races and the Democrats had their problems as well.

Steph next spoke to Michael J. Fox, who said that his movement opposes human cloning and egg farms and they support adult stem cell research. The only thing he differs with Steele and Talent on is experimentation using embryonic stem cells, which scientists tell him have the most promise. He did not explain why the awful commercials, though. Importantly, Fox explained that the medication he takes which allows him to communicate also causes tremors like the ones Rush Limbaugh discussed.

Jack Murtha and Duncan Hunter did not appear together on FTN. Murtha went first, and he cited opinion polls as proof that we should get out of Iraq. He’s toned down his rhetoric, obviously coached as the election nears.

Hunter went next and said that we should follow the three points that we always use when establishing Democracies: stand up the government, stand up a military to defend that government, then leave. The first we’ve done and we’re progressing with the second.

Schieffer attacked Ken Mehlman about that Tennessee ad with the Playboy Bunny. Howard Dean said that the Dems would not impeach the President, and that such talk was a Republican “scare tactic.”

Chuck Rangel and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen appeared at the same time on LE, each from a different location. Blitzer wanted Ros-Lehtinen to go on record as supporting Don Rumsfeld, and she did. Rangel said that tax increases would not be “off the table” should he become chairman of the House Ways and Mans Committee.

Read the show-by-show review over at RedState.com.

Perhaps soon. In Britain.

For Sunday, October 29, 2006

Meet the Press (NBC): Host Tim Russert will have one of his studio “debates”; this one, at this point, very important: Democrat Representative Ben Cardin vs. Lieutenant Governor Michael Steele. If Cardin doesn’t show up, I assume Steele will debate Russert.

FOX News Sunday (FNS): Host Chris Wallace will profile two “hot” Senate races, with Senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania and Tenessee’s Harold “In Your Face” Ford, Jr. Then he talks to Senate campaign chairs Chuckie Schumer and Liddy Dole, who will discuss the happy dinner together they’ve been planning for the better part of a month. [Another report has Arnold of California and George Allen on this show.]

Face the Nation (CBS): Host Bob Schieffer will talk to Jack Murtha and Duncan Hunter, hopefully at the same time. Hunter, a Vietnam veteren with a son serving in Iraq, is the perfect representative to stuff a sock in Murtha’s ambitious mouth.

After hearing from those two, Schieffer sneaks in Ken Mehlman and Howard Dean, who will not appear together because Dean refuses to be so easily refuted.

This Week (ABC): Host George Stephanopoulos will talk to House Majority Leader John Boehner about “Iraq, Foley, and whether Republicans can hold the House.” The he talks with Michael J. Fox, who wants us to pity him and vote Dem.

Late Edition (CNN): Host Wolf Blitzer talks to Chuck Rangel and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Lugar and Biden, and his usual cast of thousands.
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If anyone is blogging Steele vs. Cardin (MTP) in detail, please let me know. Other than that, Hunter vs. Murtha, if they appear together, appears to be the highlight.

I’ll review the shows tomorrow at RedState.com.

We might finally know why Ed Rendell’s Chief of Staff flew John Estey gambling lobbyist Richard Gmerek to Pittsburgh last year at State expense (partially reimbursed) on a State airplane: to see the antique rock band The Rolling Stones. Here’s Gar Joseph from the Philadelphia Daily News:

Turns out Estey’s and Gmerek’s night in Pittsburgh coincided with a stop by the Rolling Stones on their “Bigger Bang” tour. A tour sponsored by Ameriquest Mortgage, one of Gmerek’s clients.

Gimme shelter!

The Swann campaign has flight logs showing the state plane left Harrisburg at 3:34 the afternoon of the concert. It returned from Pittsburgh the following morning at 11:31. That didn’t allow much time for business meetings.

Unless the meeting involved some Puerto Rican girls who were dyin’ to meet them.

Rendell spokesman Kate Philips insisted the trip was official business. When asked if Estey had seen the Stones, Philips said what he does in his personal time is “none of my or your business.”

This answer left us high and dry. But even the devil gets sympathy, so we’re not sure how it impacts the campaign. If the Daily News Keystone Poll next week shows Swann gaining ground, Rendell may need an emotional rescue.

Hey Kate, if Ed’s assistant and the gambling lobbyist flew to Pittsburgh to see the Stones on our airplane, it is completely our business.

And with all of Gar’s cutesy Rolling Stones references, I’m nonplussed that he missed the obvious. It’s Tumbling Dice: “You know you know the duece is still wild.”

The Democrat challenging Senator George Allen (R-Virginia) in Virginia, Jim Webb, is a pornographer.

Erick at Redstate observes:

In case you missed the Drudge headlines, Jim Webb had been exposed as a true perv — writing some seriously disgusting stuff in his books that take a turn toward NAMBLA level activities — complete with fathers doing things with their sons. It’s vomiting.

James Webb is a twisted pervert, and I’m sickened that he once tried to affiliate himself with the GOP. (Until Chuckie gave him an opportunity to run as a sleazebag.)