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Leftists always seem to have a good deal of self-hatred bottled up inside them. Why is that? Case in point:

I know I’m a Jewish lesbian and he’d [Ahmadinejad] probably have me killed. But still, the guy speaks some blunt truths about the Bush Administration that make me swoon…

How could you like a guy who would kill you at the drop of a hat? This is the typical opinion of an anti-Bush lefty who has no concept of what evil actually is. As long as someone is criticizing Bush, they are an ally of the liberal cause.

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His farewell speech:

Normally, I start these things out by saying “My Fellow Americans.” Not doing it this time. If the polls are any indication, I don’t know who more than half of you are anymore. I do know something terrible has happened, and that you’re really not fellow Americans any longer.

I’ll cut right to the chase here: I quit. Now before anyone gets all in lather about me quitting to avoid impeachment, or to avoid prosecution or something, let me assure you: there’s been no breaking of laws or impeachable offenses in this office.

The reason I’m quitting is simple. I’m fed up with you people.

I’m fed up because you have no understanding of what’s really going on in the world. Or of what’s going on in this once-great nation of ours. And the majority of you are too damned lazy to do your homework and figure it out.

Let’s start local. You’ve been sold a bill of goods by politicians and the news media. Polls show that the majority of you think the economy is in the tank. And that’s despite record numbers of homeowners including record numbers of MINORITY homeowners. And while we’re mentioning minorities, I’ll point out that minority business ownership is at an all-time high. Our unemployment rate is as low as it ever was during the Clinton Administration. I’ve mentioned all those things before, but it doesn’t seem to have sunk in.

Despite the shock to our economy of 9/11, the stock market has rebounded to record levels and more Americans than ever are participating in these markets. Meanwhile, all you can do is whine about gas prices, and most of you are too damn stupid to realize that gas prices are high because there’s increased demand in other parts of the world, and because a small handful of noisy idiots are more worried about polar bears and beachfront property than your economic security.

We face real threats in the world. Don’t give me this ~blood for oil” thing. If I was trading blood for oil I would’ve already seized Iraq’s oil fields and let the rest of the country go to hell. And don’t give me this ‘Bush Lied People Died’ crap either. If I was the liar you morons take me for, I could’ve easily had chemical weapons planted in Iraq so they could be ‘discovered.’ Instead, I owned up to the fact that the intelligence was faulty. Let me remind you that the rest of the world thought Saddam had the goods, same as me. Let me also remind you that regime change in Iraq was official US policy before I came into office. Some guy named ‘Clinton’ established that policy. Bet you didn’t know that, did you?

You idiots need to understand that we face a unique enemy. Back during the cold war, there were two major competing political and economic models squaring off. We won that war, but we did so because fundamentally, the Communists wanted to survive, just as we do. We were simply able to outspend and out-tech them.

That’s not the case this time. The soldiers of our new enemy don’t care if they survive. In fact, they want to die. That’d be fine, as long as they weren’t also committed to taking as many of you with them as they can. But they are. They want to kill you. And the bastards are all over the globe.

You should be grateful that they haven’t gotten any more of us here in the United States since September 11. But you’re not. That’s because you’ve got no idea how hard a small number of intelligence, military, law enforcement and homeland security people have worked to make sure of that. When this whole mess started, I warned you that this would be a long and difficult fight. I’m disappointed how many of you
people think a long and difficult fight amounts to a single season of ‘Survivor’.

Instead, you’ve grown impatient. You’re incapable of seeing things through the long lens of history, the way our enemies do. You think that wars should last a few months, a few years, tops.

Making matters worse, you actively support those who help the enemy. Every time you buy the New York Times, every time you send a donation to a cut-and-run Democrat’s political campaign, well, dammit, you might just as well Fedex a grenade launcher to a Jihadist. It amounts to the same thing.

In this day and age, it’s easy enough to find the truth. It’s all over the Internet. It just isn’t on the pages of the New York Times or on NBC News. But even if it were, I doubt you’d be any smarter. Most of you would rather watch American Idol.

I could say more about your expectations that the government will always be there to bail you out, even if you’re too stupid to leave a city that’s below sea level and has a hurricane approaching. I could say more about your insane belief that government, not your own wallet, is where the money comes from. But I’ve come to the conclusion that were I to do so, it would sail right over your heads.

So I quit. I’m going back to Crawford. I’ve got an energy-efficient house down there (Al Gore could only dream) and the capability to be fully se lf-sufficient. No one ever heard of Crawford before I got elected, and as soon as I’m done here pretty much no one will ever hear of it again. Maybe I’ll be lucky enough to die of old age before the last pillars of America fall.

Oh, and by the way, Cheney’s quitting too. That means Pelosi is your new President. You asked for it. Watch what she does carefully, because I still have a glimmer of hope that there’re just enough of you remaining who are smart enough to turn this thing around in 2008.

So that’s it. God bless what’s left of America. Some of you know what I mean. The rest of you, * off.

I found that on Fark.com. It’s dead-on with regards to the economy though - people have no idea how excellently Bush has managed it. But he gets no credit at all. And I agree with Al Gore — most Americans are too busy shopping at the mall and watching American Idol to give two sh*ts about what’s really happening. God save us.

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I and many conservatives frequently malign the Democratic party for having no ideas when it comes to the war on terrorism. Liberals are champing at the bit to tell America what Bush is doing wrong, but they have a precious lack of ideas when it comes to providing alternatives to Bush’s plans.

In that spirit, I caught a clip of Arianna Huffington (of Huffington Post fame) being interviewed on Bill O’Reilly’s show. O’Reilly asked her point-blank what she would do differently in the war on terrorm. She equivocated, and then remarked that we should “redeploy” (read: withdraw) from Iraq. O’Reilly told her that that’s what he’s been reading on every liberal blog and hearing from every liberal politician, he again asked her for just one original idea which deviates from the Bush approach to fighting terrorism. Her response again involved Iraq.

Arianna suggested (and she was serious, watch the clip) that all of America’s forces in Iraq and Afghanistan should be brought home to America to guard our airports and seaports. O’Reilly deemed her plan “Fortress America.”

To me, this remark speaks volumes about the idea vacuum that exists within the Democratic party for fighting terrorism. The list of grievances against Bush’s war against terrorism is long, but when asked for alternatives — nothing. This was a perfect opportunity to shut up Bill O’Reilly and show him that liberals have an alternative, something that is tough on terrorism, yet deviates significantly from the Republican approach. But it wasn’t to be.

Oh, and she also puts her foot in her mouth by saying “so what” to the fact that Saddam persecuted Kurds.

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Liberals say they want to win the war on terror, but let’s look at the facts:

• Most Democrats want to close Guantanamo Bay, where captured terrorists are held
• Almost all Democrats oppose profiline airline passengers, despite the fact that nearly all acts of terrorism (in our present day) are committed by self-professed Muslims
• Most Democrats oppose Bush’s wiretapping programs, both domestic and international, aimed at intercepting and analyzing communication between terrorists
• Many Democrats oppose the war in Afghanistan, even though it was harboring the Taliban before September 11, 2001
• Democrats oppose getting tough on illegal aliens crossing into the United States from Mexico, which could easily allow terrorists to infiltrate the United States (on this one, Bush has been suspect as well)
• The conspiracy that the US government staged the events of September 11, 2001 runs almost exclusively in far-left “progressive” circles
• Most Democrats are opposed to the Patriot Act, which helps authorities track and detain suspected terrorists in a way that wouldn’t otherwise be possible

So my question is: just how do Democrats plan to fight terrorism? They only seem to oppose measures intended to combat terrorism. Where are the ideas from their side of the aisle? It’s all criticism, there is no plan.

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Judge Anna Diggs Taylor today ruled that Bush’s warrantless eavesdropping program, which monitors the international communications of suspected terrorists is unconstitutional. The plaintiff was the ACLU, a frequent foe of Republican and conservative causes. The Bush administration immediately appealed the decision.

While I agree that a balance must be achieved between liberty and security, what the judge ruled against was international wiretaps. This is not the domestic wiretap issue, it’s completely separate.

I’ve heard a lot of interviews from people who track terrorists, and they all comment on how dynamic the nature of the game is. When you intercept a potential communique, there may not be time to obtain a warrant before the opportunity is lost. We just saw in Britain how crucial surveillance is, both domestic and international. We won’t win the war on terrorism without some leverage for the government to track suspected terrorists.

Is the surveillance of international communication too big of an infringement? Are we willing to pay the price of a greater terrorist threat? How should the government conduct its surveillance instead of using warantless wiretaps? These questions need an answer.

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