TheAnvil

Anvil, you JACKASS! You inspired Boortz! Boortz is more eloquent than you Anvil, you stupid bastard! Bush caves to Democrats....again Neal Boortz (archive) May 21, 2004 If it were not for his fondness for tax cuts, and his pursuit, however flawed, of the ongoing war on terror, I can't for the life of me think of a good reason to vote for George Bush this November. OK .. The Poodle’s name on the ballot would be a fairly good reason .. though I'm not sure reason enough. You've probably heard by now, but George Bush has once again managed the nearly impossible physical feat of handing his head to the Democrats ... again. He gave up; ran for the hills; threw in the towel; bailed. Tragically, didn't really get anything of real value for his craven surrender. He gave the Democrats almost a complete victory. The issue this time is the nomination and confirmation process for federal judges. Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 of the Constitution grants to the president the authority to appoint federal judges “with the Advice and Consent of the Senate.” Every legal scholar not employed by Harvard of the Senate Judiciary Committee will tell you that a majority vote in the Senate would constitute “consent.” The president makes his choice; the nomination goes to the Senate, and the Senate votes. If a majority votes for confirmation, we have a new federal judge. That was then, this is now. When the Democrats lost control of the Senate in the 2002 elections they decided that a simple majority vote would no longer be good enough to confirm a judicial appointee. Over the years leftists have depended on judicial activism and fiat to enact much of their agenda. The future of their anti-individualist, big-government designs depend largely on the left’s ability to keep Constitutionally oriented judges off the federal bench. Since they didn’t have a Senate majority, they needed a new rule. To keep constitutionalists off the bench Daschle and Company decided to change the Constitution to require a super-majority for a judicial confirmation. Sixty votes. No less. Does Article II, Section 2, Clause 2 provide for a super majority in any Senate proceedings? Yes, but just one; the ratification of treaties. So there goes your argument that there is nothing wrong with requiring 60 votes to confirm a judicial nomination. For two years now Daschle and Company have been preventing votes on the floor of the Senate for confirmation of many of Bush's judicial nominees. Never before in our history has a minority party prevented confirmation votes on judicial nominees that had the necessary majority vote waiting for them. Never. The Democrats were showing a crass level of complete disrespect for the Constitution of the United States and for years of Senate tradition. We shouldn't be surprised, though. When it comes to reacquiring their Senate power, it is clear that neither the Constitution nor the successful conclusion to our war against terrorism and the restructuring of Iraq can be allowed to stand in the way. As it turns out, the Constitution gives the president a bit of an out when the Senate is acting up like this. Move on to Clause 3. The president can make recess appointments. This Bush did with two judicial nominees that the Democrats had filibustered, Pryor and Pickering. You must know that this didn't sit too well with Daschle and Company. How dare the President of the United States use a constitutional procedure to prevent them from blocking a confirmation vote? Their response? They proceeded to bring virtually all presidential nominations, even the ones they liked, to a complete standstill. Let's review here. I’m not trying to waste space, but there may be Democrats reading this column. In government schools, we must be careful not to leave them behind when we get into even the most moderately complicated situations. We will call this "back up and repeat essential points" as the "No Liberal Left Behind” style of writing. A. The Democrats modify the Constitution by requiring a super-majority vote for the confirmation of certain judicial nominees. B. The president responds by using the perfect constitutionally legitimate exercise of making a recess appointment. C. The Democrats, outraged at the president's legal use of his Constitutional authority, bring nearly all Senate business to a halt in retaliation. D. The president promises to stop any further recess appointments during this term if the Senators will only do the job they were elected to do. This is leadership? When George W. Bush was sworn in he swore an oath to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Just how are you preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution when you promise to stop using a constitutionally legitimate procedure to prevent political opponents from defying the Constitution.. and for this we get a quick confirmation of about 27 judicial nominees whom the Democrats didn’t object to in the first place? Wow! What a deal! Senate Democrats must be getting a real chuckle out of this in their private gatherings. Time after time they have rolled George Bush. Protectionist trade rules for the steel industry, obscene spending increases for hopeless government schools, even the left’s current political showpiece of the 9/11 Commission hearings. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

These have never worked, but remain some of my off-color favorites.... Is that a keg in those pants, because I'd sure like to tap that ass! If your left leg were Thanksgiving and your right leg were Christmas, could I meet you between the holidays? Honey, I'd like to wrap your legs around my head and wear you like a feed-bag. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

All of my haiku this week are dedicated to billvon: calumniation and tintintabulation rhyme well together if you decide to calumniate TheAnvil he will laugh at you when someone makes you mad as hell and want to kill them calumniate them Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Scares me just looking at it. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

...even if I disagree with him sometimes. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120422,00.html

Well said, but the majority aren't being heard because judges never come to a floor vote. The minority is using Senate rules to thwart the majority of the representative body. One of my major beefs with the Republican party is the weak-kneed way in which they operate in the Senate. Trent Lott was a weak majority leader and Frist isn't doing much better. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I'm not a lawyer, but I know they are not supposed to call you that late. I believe the Fair Credit Protection Act is the pertinent reference. I would make a note of every time they call and ask that they keep all future communications on the matter in writing. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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...it irks me. When the hell are conservatives in the Senate and the Executive branch going to stand up and slug it out with these a-holes? This isn't a deal - it's surrender. Bush, Dems Make Deal on Nominees Tuesday, May 18, 2004 WASHINGTON — Breaking a months-long impasse, the White House and Senate Democrats on Tuesday struck a deal allowing Senate confirmation of dozens of President Bush's judicial nominations (search) in exchange for a presidential promise not to bypass the Senate again this year. Under the agreement, Democrats will allow votes on 25 non-controversial appointments to the district and appeals courts. In exchange, Bush agreed not to invoke his constitutional power to make recess appointments (search) while Congress is away, as he has done twice in recent months with judicial nominees. The agreement was reached in a meeting among top Senate Democrats and Republicans as well as Andrew Card, the White House chief of staff. Starting in March, Democrats had halted all judicial nominees until they received a promise from Bush that he wouldn't use his recess appointment power. The Senate starts its Memorial Day recess on Monday. But now that Democrats have been "given that assurance, we're now prepared to work with our Republican colleagues," said Senate Democratic leader Tom Daschle, in confirming the deal. The Senate confirmations of the 20 U.S. District Court judges and the five U.S. Appeals Court judges will come over the next three months, Daschle said. Other judicial nominees will be considered case-by-case, he said. Daschle said he and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., would make an official announcement on the Senate floor later this afternoon. A reporter's call to the White House for comment was not immediately returned. Bush already has used recess appointments to name two Republicans to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals: Charles Pickering (search) — a former chairman of the Mississippi Republican party and father of GOP Rep. Chip Pickering — and William Pryor (search), the former GOP attorney general of Alabama. Democrats were furious at those appointments because they had been successfully blocking Pryor, Pickering, Hispanic lawyer Miguel Estrada (search) and Judges Priscilla Owen (search), Carolyn Kuhl (search) and Janice Rogers Brown (search) from getting confirmation votes. Estrada later withdrew his nomination but the others are still waiting. It takes 60 senators to force a confirmation vote in the Senate, which is split with 51 Republicans, 48 Democrats and one Democratic-leaning independent, Jim Jeffords of Vermont. Owen, Kuhl, Brown and other judicial nominees Democrats found objectionable are not part of the impending deal, Daschle said. White House nominees for positions outside the federal courts also are not part of the deal. Republicans had planned to force a vote on one of the noncontroversial nominees — Marcia Cooke (search), Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's former chief inspector general — on Tuesday, but a deal made that vote unnecessary and Cooke was confirmed in the Senate 96-0. Democrats first threatened to hold up Bush's nominees in March, one month after Bush gave Pryor an almost two-year stint on the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta. The president in January gave Pickering a one-year term on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans. Democrats called Bush's appointments "a flagrant abuse of presidential power" but Republicans said that Bush wouldn't have had to use recess appointments if Democrats hadn't been blocking his nominees. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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Interesting. 1. Different perspectives. Different perspectives are fine. The article questions the intellectual bona fides of anyone who considers the Berg execution revenge for prisoner abuse. Those who do so are obviously anti-American. Disagree with that if you like, but given the lack of response from the Muslim world to executions and torture under the Hussein regime, you'll have a tough time convincing me that cutting a man's head off is 'revenge' for humiliation of any sort. 2. Cognitive dissonance. Islamic extremists killing anyone to further their cause is an unfortunately all to common thing. Cutting of a man's head on videotape is NOT common. The cognitive dissonance argument doesn't hold water. 3. This 'terrorist' adjective evolution to which you refer doesn't hit home with me. We must be reading different newspapers. I've yet to see such. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Odd that he slammed Bush's steel tariff fiasco so eloquently a few months back... Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

A few weeks of 6 egg omelettes and you might not be Portable anymore....I'm surprised you can finish two...

Bashing the LA Times wasn't the point of Prager's article (though it certainly would be easy to do).

Mr. Prager's article is pretty well written and mirrors my views in many respects. No link. Here it is: The news media and Nick Berg Dennis Prager May 18, 2004 For those who still doubt that ideology guides most of the world's major news media, the reporting of the Islamic ritual murder of Nick Berg provided textbook examples of an almost universally leftist bias. News media have essentially become propaganda organs for anti-Americanism. We have already seen the hysteria over the Abu Ghraib abuses, with the daily running of photos on front pages and the continued news and editorial preoccupation that greatly damage the war effort. (If German prisoners in World War II had been stripped naked and humiliated to get information to save American lives, would any major American paper have published the photos during the war?) On the day The New York Times reported the savage murder of Berg -- in the most subdued fashion of any major paper in America (just one column on the front page, with a photo, the smallest of three front-page photos, at the bottom of the column) -- its lead editorial was yet another in a series denouncing the Bush administration for prison abuses in Iraq. Now, the Berg murder provides further evidence of how a leftist worldview determines the way news is presented, namely the media's depiction of it as "revenge for America's Iraqi prison abuses." The vast majority of the world's news media are so anti-American and so morally confused that they reported the claims of anti-American butchers as if they were facts. Nick Berg's murderers said their butchery was revenge for American abuses in the Abu Ghraib prison, and the world's press dutifully published this as if it were a fact (or even worse, as if it were an understandable, though admittedly extreme, act of revenge). Here are examples of the headlines -- not subheads -- in major American newspapers: "American beheaded in revenge for abuses" -- The Atlanta Journal-Constitution "Grisly Vengeance" -- The Hartford Courant "Militants avenge abuse with taped beheading" -- The Des Moines Register "Vengeance on Video" -- The Arizona Republic "With a Vengeance" -- Newsday (Long Island) Lest their readers be distracted from the real evil in Iraq -- the American treatment of Iraqi prisoners -- some newspapers actually conflated that with the Berg murder in their headline: "Amid prison inquiry, revenge" -- Minneapolis Star Tribune "U.S. civilian beheaded in Iraq; abuse responsibility in dispute" -- The Providence Journal On the other hand, the few non-liberal newspapers in America had very different headlines, making no mention of the "revenge" claim: "Terrorists Behead American" -- The New York Sun "Pure Evil" -- New York Daily News "Savages" -- New York Post "Bastards" -- Philadelphia Daily News Perhaps the starkest example of the pronounced leftist impact on news reporting is the difference between the headlines in Canada's two major national newspapers. The headline in the liberal Globe and Mail was "Murderous revenge: U.S. hostage dies in wake of Iraq prison abuse." The headline in the conservative National Post was "Al-Qaeda Beheads American." Even its subhead had no connection with the supposed vengeance: "Businessman was in Iraq to help build antennas." Furthermore, the National Post devoted all six of its columns to the headline and the story, while The Globe and Mail devoted four columns and reserved its biggest print headline to "Oil at $40 worsens the 'pain.'" Revenge? Islamists slaughtering innocents is never revenge. Was the slaughter of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan "revenge"? The terrorists called Berg's murder "revenge" in order to justify their savagery and because they know that the world press is so malleable and so anti-American that it will print their lie. Finally, Nick Berg was slaughtered, not beheaded. The world's news media distorted the nature of the savagery inflicted by Islamic "militants" on a young American man who went to Iraq to help Muslims. While he was indeed literally beheaded, that word does not accurately convey what was done to him. Nick Berg was slaughtered in the way an animal is. People who are beheaded have their heads chopped off. Nick Berg's head was cut off. This huge difference was completely missed by the media. Why? Because "slaughter" implies moral judgment, while "beheading" does not. Just as "terrorist" implies moral judgment, and therefore "militant" is preferred. The media's attempt to be morally neutral frequently leads to distortions of fact. The bottom line is that the United States of America is fighting the world's news media as well as Islamic totalitarianism. Until we understand that, we have no chance of winning. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

I like caviar, but can't imagine putting it in an omelette. Fois gras next perhaps? Ugh. No thanks. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

You've finally stumbled upon a tax the lefties WON'T like!

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This is dumb. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,120160,00.html Marriage, being a concept defined by most religions worldwide, has no business being intruded upon by any government. Perhaps if gay couples experience the evils of a marriage-tax penalty it will swing some left-wingers in the right direction on the issue.... Edited to add: HE IS STILL 9 GOOGLEPLEX TIMES BETTER THAN sKERRY. Didn't want to give any lefties delusions of grandeur. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

Ahhhh so now any time you slam Trent Lott for CCC membership in the same era may we raise the hypocrisy flag with your consent?

Anyone caught eating this deserves an assbeating of monumental proportions... http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040517/ap_on_fe_st/_1000_omelet_3 Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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I jumped Kapowsin once and really loved it there. The view is utterly fantastic and something to be experienced by all. The Farringtons are such nice people - it really is a shame they have such a loser to deal with. Hope this rumor ISN'T true. Vinny the Anvil Post Traumatic Didn't Make The Lakers Syndrome is REAL JACKASS POWER!!!!!!

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