Wednesday, February 20, 2008

That's Right...and a GREAT comment by Pati about this NYTimes/McCain scandal..WELL worth reading, folks!


10 comments:

nanc said...

this reminds me of a bumper sticker on one of the kid's bumpers at school, but i cannot for the life of me remember what it is...something about repubs working their tails off because millions on welfare depend on us!

Z said...

Good one, nanc.
My friend Mike made up "GIVE PREEMPTION A CHANCE" about this Iraq war. I love that.
This just cracked me UP!

IT'S FROM MY FRIEND PRISCILLA...THANKS, PRIS!

nanc said...

the only bumper stickers i've ever put on any of our vehicles:

"my child is an honor roll student at...."

and

"marriage, one man, one woman"

but, my new car...pop says "NO"! and i have to allow him his way every now and again.

Anonymous said...

The New Left believes that their Great Society imparts both rights and duties upon America's citizens. Evidently they mean Rights for Democrats (welfare) and Duties for Republicans (to work).

Anonymous said...

Z,
didn't know where to put this but I thought it interesting: I was reading teh Post article on the whole McCain, supposed scandal...and I recognized the name of the ONLY named source as someone they tried to use to smear him a few months ago...he's a former, yep as in possibly disgruntled, strategist of McCain's..he was in the first article saying the stuff wasn't true about the consideration to switch to the Dem party..but perhaps that coming to light, that HE was playing games like that with McCain's career, is why he was fired? In any case, I also find it interesting that the Times was supposedly investigating this affair claim at the same time they ENDORSED McCain...guess their endorsement didn't have the desired affect of knocking McCain out of the running, so now they're going all out with a claim that leaves a mark no matter HOW UNTRUE or BASELESS...anyway.Here's the info I'm talking about:



http://www.gopusa.com/news/2008/february/0221_mccain_denies1.shtml

NOTE, the source in the fourth paragraph break down: his name is John Weaver, and it says he split with McCain last year...where have you heard that name before??? Well, you might recall several pieces a month or so ago alleging that McCain was contemplating going to the Dem side of the aisle and the ONLY one listed who wasn't a really far left wing loon, was none other than John Weaver...


http://www.thedailyacts.com/Republicans/62/mccain-continues-to-deny-abandonment-rumors.html
first three paragraphs....
McLEAN, VA -- Almost six years after the rumors first surfaced, and despite repeated and firm denials, Senator John McCain (R-AZ) is still batting down rumors that he toyed with the idea of abandoning the Republicans in 2001. After George W. Bush was inaugurated as the forty-third President, McCain, who had lost a hard-fought primary race to Bush, allegedly approached Democratic leaders about leaving his party. According to Bob Cusack, writing for The Hill, just months before Jim Jeffords (I-VT) left the Republican Party in 2001, throwing control of the Senate into Democratic hands, McCain's chief political strategist, John Weaver, floated the idea to ex-Rep. Tom Downey.

Both Downey and former Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD) claimed in interviews with The Hill that after Weaver approached Downey with the idea, discussions with McCain went on for almost two months. At the time in early 2001, the Democrats were actively courting Republicans to cross to the other side of the aisle, and had reached out specifically to Jeffords and then-Senator Lincoln Chaffe of Rhode Island., According to Downey he and Weaver were having lunch together during that time when Weaver inquired as to why the Democrats had not similarly approached McCain. "You're really wondering?" Downey is reported to have asked. “The calls will be made. Who do you want?”

Or so the story goes.

Weaver denies Downey's version of events, and claims that the discussion they had that day has been mischaracterized: “We certainly didn’t discuss in any detail about the senator’s political plans and any discussion about party-switchers, generically, would have been limited to the idle gossip which was all around the city about the [Democrats’] aggressive approach about getting any GOP senator to switch in order to gain the majority. Nothing more or less than that.”


I don't have to wonder either WHY Weaver was let go, because if, in fact, he was doing this all behind McCain's back and McCain found out..arguably he'd be furious! But also, it strikes me as a LITTLE TOO COINCIDENTAL that these things HIT the media both with WEAVER as a SOURCE or someone who's been interviewed. So what if he's trying to 'play it off here'...by this time he'd been let go by McCain...and this story is 7 yrs old, it seems a little coincidental that on things involving Weaver we're hearing all of this stuff...scroched earth???? I think it's at least a possiblity. And when you combine that with the whole fact that the Times endorsed McCain at the same time it was investigating OTHER alleged behavior sourced back to this 'FORMER' employee...it's doesn't look like either their endorsement or their 'investigating' are above the smell test.

Pati

Brooke said...

LOVE the bumper sticker!

I missed what happened with McLame. I'll have to check that out.

Papa Frank said...

Love the sticker. Some of us have to work hard not only for a living but to create and maintain a decent American society. When talking about making money from hard work we should not count childbirth labor which seems to be the only work that some do to get paid. This sentiment is not popular but that does not make it any less true.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

It's funny that the only people who claim John McCain approached John Kerry about being his running mate are:

- a disgruntled ex-McCain staffer
- John Kerry
- the left-wing media

Credible sources all, yes?

The truth is, John Kerry approached McCain, not the other way around.

It's sort of like Michael Moore working intensely in Ralph Nader's campaign in 2000, and then pissing on his Green Party credentials when he saw an opportunity to make money off of Al Gore losing.

With this election as ever, the most informed citizens are those that don't follow the media at all.

Like me.

(((Thought Criminal))) said...

Go rent the "Manufacturing Dissent" DVD at Blockbuster to see Michael Moore deconstructed into the sham leftist he actually is.

Z said...

I've Googled the documentary I saw twice on CSPAN exposing Michael Moore's lies one after the other; written and produced by a guy whose first name I believe was Ken and who went to school with Moore. I thought it was CHASING MICHAEL MOORE, but I"ll be darned if I can find it...I can't understand it. That was quite an exposee (if it's okay to use a French term, Mr. B?!)

Frank Family...good point about getting paid for child labor. I'm with you.