National / World Politics 18 Feb 2007 08:30 am
In the News February 18
As usual, this post will try to bring you important information you may not catch in the main stream media.
Please report broken links to me when you see them
Please spend some time reading this Powerlineblog article about Iran supplying the terrorists in Iraq with new more deadly weapons (complete with a slide picture show from Iraq).
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Here is a Washington Post article in defense of Scooter Libby, by Victoria Toensing. You may remember her as a legal talking head on TV during the OJ Simpson trial, but she’s a Washington attorney who served in the Reagan Administration. This is a good review of the silliness of the terrible injustice that is being heaped on a good man.
Click here to find a companion piece from the WashPost to the Scooter Libby article above. Powerlineblog dug out the Special Counsel’s press conference in OCT 2005 at the beginning of this mess.
It is difficult to square the implication of Fitzgerald’s comments at the press conference that Libby was guilty of misconduct in blowing Valerie Plame’s “classified” agency status with the fact that the disclosure of her relationship to the agency was apparently not illegal.
Tedious, but important stuff here folks. Powerlineblog It’s a good read every day, I only bring you the great stuff.
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Under the “if it wasn’t so serious it would be funny” heading – I need to start a Hugo Watch. The man was never the brightest bulb in Venezuelian chandelier, but his re-election last year has emboldened him beyond all reason. He’s nationalizing everything that creates anything, and solving his 18% inflation problem by – get this…
The President for Life of Venezuela has just announced he’s reissuing the bolivar (currently traded at about 2,500 to one dollar US) and while reissuing he’s ordering that they just lop off three digits. Presto, Hugo says the new exchange rate is now 2.5 bolivars to one dollar US. Yep, he’s just going to make new money in 2008 and that will, “simplify transactions, improve efficiency, generate confidence and rein in inflation.” Ok, hands up for those who thinks THAT’s gonna work…
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Take this link to a 
site you should bookmark. Kurdistan (northern Iraq) is promoting itself as an emerging market and thanking the USA for freeing them from the grip of Saddam. Keep an eye on the Kurds.
good stuff
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I’m speechless on what’s happening in our national legislative bodies this weekend. Shame on them. Senator McCain did not vote, he was in Davenport yesterday – hope to get a report from there. I’m not interested in his candidacy.
Steve King, District 5, Iowa – has been eloquent talking about us falling to propaganda artists just like Vietnam. Shame on us. I’m looking for a quote from King where he quotes a US soldier he met in Iraq. It goes something like this: We have what we need to do the job here; pray that the American people don’t lose their will – We Soldiers will not lose ours…
Here is another quote from the Congressional record this weekend.
The Romans understood, and they were the most successful long-term military legions in history all the time up to that point and maybe in all of history. They had to know their enemy, and they had to persevere, and that is where that term came, nosce hostem, know thine enemy.
[and he ended with...]
This day on this floor of the United States Congress will live in infamy, and I pray it may not be a precedent for the future of America and for our national destiny. Mr. Speaker, I would make another point, and that is I have decided I will follow General Petraeus, and you have decided you will follow General Pelosi.
Rep. Steve King, District 5, Iowa – keep an eye on him.
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Locally, I wrote a letter to the editor on the “fair share” bill on the floor of the house next week. The Editor of the Journal came out on the correct side of that topic in a well written piece today – I will link mine here and his here. I believe there could be some problem accessing those links after 14 days so I will try to wander back here and check.
PLEASE consider writing your legislator if you live in Iowa.
You can see Muscatine’s Representative’s email address in my letter to the editor. He could be the deciding vote!
Other bills sumbitted by the Iowa House (if you’re not too afraid yet…)
sex education in elementary school
charges for taking and returning water from rivers
weakening current drunk driving laws
and I’ve heard a rumor about a bill to dismantle the electoral college… still trying to sort some of this out – stay tuned.
