November 17, 2006

Web Reconnaissance for 11/17/2006

A short recon of what’s out there that might draw your attention.



In the News: (Registration may be required to read some stories)
Democrats Pick Hoyer Over Murtha for Leader “ WaPo - The vote is viewed by many in the party as a repudiation of strong-arm tactics by Speaker-elect Pelosi, a longtime rival of the new leader.” (READ MORE)

Bush compares U.S. wars in Vietnam, Iraq “AP - HANOI, Vietnam - President Bush, on his first visit to a country where America lost a two-decade-long fight against communism, said Friday the Vietnam War's lesson for today's confounding Iraq conflict is that freedom takes time to trump hatred.” (READ MORE)

Edwards Acknowledges Wal-Mart Query “AP - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Thursday that a staff member for former Sen. John Edwards — a vocal critic of the retailer — asked his local Wal-Mart store for help in getting the potential 2008 presidential candidate a Sony PlayStation 3.” (READ MORE)


News From the Front:
2 Gunmen Killed in Iraq After Hijacking “AP - BAGHDAD, Iraq - British ground forces and U.S. military helicopters fought with gunmen on Friday in southern Iraq where four American security contractors and their Austrian co-worker were abducted in a convoy hijacking.” (READ MORE)

3rd Brigade Support Battalion Supports More Than Own in Iraq “KIRKUK — She held back tears explaining why this day meant so much to the more than 2,000 orphans in the Shorish and Chamchamal-Kalar quarters of Kirkuk.” (READ MORE)

Miserable Donuts writes News of Afghanistan “Alokozay Tea at hand (thanks to the World's Greatest Military Contractor™) I'm ready for the News - shall we?” (READ MORE)



On the Web:
Lorie Byrd writing at Townhall.com writes From Moderate to Moonbat in Less Than a Week “The recipe for success consisted of recruiting a slate of moderate to conservative Democrats to run for open and vulnerable seats. In some cases those Democrats actually ran to the right of their Republican opponents. Another element of their strategy was to hide their liberal leaders.” (READ MORE)

Debra J. Saunders writing at Townhall.com writes Return to the Swamp “Nancy Pelosi isn't even speaker of the House yet, and already she is acting like the GOP leaders whom she so handily toppled in last week's election.” (READ MORE)

Oliver North writing at Townhall.com writes Hype and Hope “For a few days after the midterm elections, leaders of the new congressional majority talked as if they really wanted to work with the Bush administration for the common good. But like so much in Washington, it's now clear that was just hype.” (READ MORE)

David Limbaugh writing at Townhall.com writes Bipartisan Senatorial Grandstanding
“How ironic that Bush has been accused of politicizing the war when he has been the one politician who has remained steadfast in attempting to do the right thing regardless of how it would affect his approval ratings in the moment.” (READ MORE)

John Hawkins writes Is The Murtha/Hoyer Election A Harbinger Of Things To Come? “Make no mistake about, with Nancy Pelosi running the show, liberal chairman running the committees, and liberal activists demanding that liberal ideas be moved forward, the Democrats will definitely be pushing a liberal agenda over the next couple of years. However, having a liberal agenda is one thing and getting it through can sometimes be quite another. In this case, replacing the more moderate Steny Hoyer with ‘Abscam John’ Murtha didn't work out so well.” (READ MORE)

Crazy Politico writes Loyalty, Yeah, That's It. “Quick, name the House Majority Leader of the 109th Congress ..... Okay you can't, that's why the vote yesterday for Steny Hoyer over Jack Murtha, wasn't as big a deal as a lot of us have made it out to be. In only one way, that Nancy Pelosi got bucked by 149 members of the House to elect Hoyer not Murtha, is it a big thing. It shows the horrible liberal ogre with warts on her nose that so many worried about during the election isn't all powerful.” (READ MORE)

William Teach writes The Left Doesn’t Like When People Say They Hate The Military “They do hate the military, they just donn't like when you say that. It is actions like San Francisco banning Junior ROTC that prove that they do, along with actions like this:” (READ MORE)

Captain Ed writes All Eyes On Harman And Hastings “Nancy Pelosi managed to lose a major battle and a good portion of her prestige as Speaker before she even ascends to the position. Yesterday her caucus rebuffed her attempt to purge her longtime partner in caucus leadership, Steny Hoyer, based on personal animosities going back to the 2001 caucus leadership race -- which she won. Now the new Speaker may have to reconsider her other notorious exile threat, Jane Harman:” (READ MORE)

Jay Tea writes Those pesky Jews “You know, I think that the world would be a much tidier and peaceful place if it wasn't for those annoying Jews. Especially the ones in Israel. For example, this morning's Boston Globe has an editorial about poor, beknighted Lebanon. The country has been used and abused over the years, treated as a vassal state by Syria and used as a proxy by both Syria and Iran against Israel. The local franchise of the Syrian/Iranian axis, Hezbollah, has fecklessly and fearlessly launched attack after attack against Israel, then run and hid to leave the Lebanese to face the inevitable reprisals.” (READ MORE)

Uncle Jimbo writing at Blackfive writes Protesting Nothing at the School of the Americas “A staple of the protest festival circuit for the left is the former School of the Americas (SOA) at Ft. Benning, GA. This is a place where the evil Reagan regime used to import innocent farm boys from Central America and brainwashed them into cold-blooded killers sent back to run death squads and assist the spread of US imperialism. That may sound over the top, but it could easily have come from any of the folks who headline these protestapaloozas. They could not be further from the truth, but they zealously bemoan the horrors committed by students of this training ground for slaughter.” (READ MORE)

Greyhawk writes The Ballad of John and Nancy “In November, 2005, the White House was prepared to release an updated National Strategy for Victory in Iraq, spelling strategies for accomplishing short, medium, and long-term goals in the political, economic, and military/security ‘tracks’ to that victory. The finished product could hardly be deemed an overly positive look at the situation ‘on the ground.’ In fact, it includes a sobering ‘laundry list’ of the challenges faced and frankly acknowledges that victory will take years. The document as a whole would be an attempt to explain to Americans exactly how ‘victory’ in Iraq was defined, and the plan for achieving it.” (READ MORE)

Paul Mirengoff of Power Line writes Stupid once more, Part Two “Yesterday I argued that certain highly criticized Republican personnel decisions (particularly those involving Trent Lott and Mel Martinez), though not necessarily correct, are not unreasonable and do not signify that the party has become stupid. Hugh Hewitt not only agrees but goes further, stating that ‘both [Martinez and Lott] have the potential to be huge wins for the GOP, especially given Lott's command of Senate procedure.’ However, another very perceptive conservative, Jim Geraghty, strongly disagrees.” (READ MORE)

Jules Crittenden writes Right-Wing Nutcases in Liberal Beantown “So, what's it like to be a conservative in bluest Beantown? It's great. Like the 101st at Bastogne, we're not beseiged. We're fighting in all directions. Gov. Mitt Romney has been capitalizing on this marvelous situation, tossing around Massachusetts jokes in Iowa and South Carolina, casting himself as a David who's doing battle with Democratic Goliaths. And that's almost true...” (READ MORE)

Shrink Wrapped writes Peace Fantasies “There is a curious disconnect in the War news which seems to suggest that the struggle between wishful fantasy and reality is being lost on a daily basis. The history of warfare has shown that wars only end when one side wins and the other side loses. In situations where neither side emerges as a clear winner, peace is merely an interregnum before the next outbreak of open hostilities. Such ambiguous outcomes give rise to 30 years wars and 100 years wars. The Cold War lasted for 40 years because neither side was willing to engage in a full scale war which would have destroyed both (MAD) and neither was willing to surrender until the Soviets recognized that their failing system, based on totalitarianism and empire, was no longer tenable.” (READ MORE)

Dadmanly writes Mommy State Logic “Time for yet more Mommy State logic from Democrats. I want to elaborate on an earlier post in which I mention illegal immigration, and tie the issue more closely to the minimum wage. Democrats remain bereft of any real ideas for Iraq -- their ‘ideas’ and plans day by day diverge between two simple positions, redeploy (run) or do pretty much what the US military has been doing.” (READ MORE)

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