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Maxine Waters on Fox News Sunday (VIDEO)

March 11th, 2007 at 04:47 by MsUnderestimated

I guess Chris just had to go there for his “fair and balanced” time for Fox News Sunday. Alas, I had to as well. But my reasons are different. I want to display liberal lunacy wherever it lies, and there are few greater at this than California Democrat representative, Maxine Waters.

Here’s a portion of the transcript, which can be read in full here:

WALLACE: But by voting against the spending bill, you would be voting against giving the troops body armor, against more funding for veterans and military hospitals.

WATERS: That’s not true. That’s absolutely not true. What you have in this bill is a requirement that the soldiers would be properly trained, they would have the proper equipment, and it basically backs the president up against the wall, and it dares him to use his waiver authority they give him.

Even though the bill says that’s what we need, that’s what we should have, then they say but, Mr. President, you can waive all of that if you want to. And of course, if he waives that, he has to go before the American people. It will make him look bad. That’s one of the bells or the whistles in the bill.

(Oh, so now we really know it’s about the troops, eh, Maxine?)

I think we need a straight bill, vote up or down on the supplemental, and the only thing that I would say is use money in that supplemental to safely exit the soldiers out of Iraq.

WALLACE: Congresswoman — and I want to make it clear that you want to get all troops out of Iraq by the end of the year, but you also make it clear you want to fund it, as you say, to make it safe, to make it thoughtful.

But let’s talk about your policy and what would happen if all U.S. troops are out of Iraq by the end of 2007. Don’t you worry about a possible — it’s been called genocidal blood bath between the Sunnis and the Shia once we’re out of there?

WATERS: Well, let me just say this. And I don’t think there’s any problem with leaving some of our soldiers what we call over the horizon, in Kuwait someplace, to help respond to a major catastrophe of some kind.

But don’t forget, the Sunnis and the Shiites were getting along before we went in with our occupation, and I don’t think that we can use the argument that if we’re not there, it’s going to be a bloodbath, or they can’t manage to do what they were doing prior to our being there.

Much of what is happening …

WALLACE: Well, but, Congresswoman, prior to our being there, Saddam Hussein was in charge. So that was what was keeping the Sunnis and Shia away from each other.

I mean, once we’re out, we’re not going to come back if the Sunni and the Shia start fighting with each other.

WATERS: Well, I don’t think we can say the only way that Iraq can be stabilized is if Saddam Hussein was there. I think that they’re developing new leadership. We have given support to new leadership.

And they have to find a way to get along. I don’t think that we can say that in order for us to leave, we’ve got to somehow make sure that history — years of history of not getting along all of a sudden is changed and that we’re going to have to stay there until it happens.

They are going to have to figure that out. We can support them, but we cannot stay there forever in the middle of this civil war.

C’mon, Maxine… you’re kidding, right? She can’t be serious. Oh, yeah… she can; she’s a Democrat. I personally think that Chris was more stunned and amused than he was thinking about engaging in serious debate with this, er, ah…um…”less mentally-fortunate” person.

While I’m on the subject, Maxine, I want you to read what a recent commenter on my blog had to say about people like you:

…I am in the Army, and have deployed to Iraq. Did I want to leave my family and friends behind…no, but this is my duty, and believe me I am proud to have served. The reason that I am writing this message is because I am sick and tired of folks around the country trying to stick up for me. I am tired of Americans telling other Americans that I want to come home, and that I should not have gone to war in the first place. I am my own person, I voluntered to join the Army. I do not need, nor do I want anyone defending me. Especially, when they do not know me. So, go ahead and protest, I give you that right, but do not use me or my other brothers and sisters in arms to advance your cause. LEAVE US OUT OF IT…. and by the way, most of the soldiers that I have served with believe in this cause, as do I. I believe that I have the authority to speak on these matters as I have served the people of the United States for 14 years…

SSG Carlos Martinez

Folks, people like Maxine Waters just reinforce why we need to ensure a Republican stays in the White House in 2009, and furthers my desires for that Republican to be Fred Thompson.

Watch the interview here.

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Fred Thompson on Fox News Sunday (VIDEO)

March 11th, 2007 at 04:23 by MsUnderestimated

As I see it, Fred Thompson, former Senator of Tennessee, is our last, best hope in this race for the Presidency in 2008. After you watch this clip, you’ll feel the same way, too. Well, that is unless you’re a liberal bed-wetter, in which case you’ll tuck tail and run - or at least you should, if this man becomes President of the United States. And God willing, he just might should he decide to run. He’s pro-life, against gun control, againts not just gay rights but also any “special rights,” pro STATES’ rights, and pro pardon of Scooter Libby!

Here’s a portion of the full transcript, which can be found here:

WALLACE: You are on the steering committee of the Scooter Libby Defense Fund.

THOMPSON: That’s right.

WALLACE: And you helped raise millions of dollars for his extraordinary legal expenses. Would President Thompson — you like the sound of that probably. Would President Thompson pardon Libby now or would you wait until all of his legal appeals are exhausted?

THOMPSON: I’d do it now.

WALLACE: Because?

THOMPSON: I’d do it now. This is a trial that never would have been brought in any other part of the world. This is a miscarriage of justice.

One man and his wife and 14-year-old and 10-year-old children are bearing the brunt of a political maelstrom here that produced something that never should have come about.

These people knew in the very beginning — the Justice Department, this Justice Department and the special counsel knew in the very beginning that the thing that was creating the controversy, who leaked Valerie Plame’s name, did not constitute a violation of the law.

And then they knew that it — someone did leak the name. And it was Mr. Armitage. It wasn’t Scooter Libby.

But he evidently wasn’t a designated bad guy, so they passed over that and spent the next year drilling in a dry well and finally got some inconsistencies or some failure to remember out of Mr. Libby and made a prosecution out of it and went to trial on a he-said, she-said perjury case and faulty memory, when practically every witness in the trial either had inconsistent statements, told the FBI one thing, told the grand jury something else, inconsistent between the witnesses that were presented at the case, and sometimes both.

And yet at the end of the day, the only person that the jury got an opportunity to pass judgment on was Scooter Libby. It’s not fair. And I would do anything that I could to alleviate that.

And he continues…

WALLACE: We’ve got a couple of minutes left. I’m sure some people are listening to you and saying, “You know what, I like this guy. I would like him to be my presidential candidate.”

You talked about it in terms of the process — you’re going to think about it and decide in your own gut. But there’s got to be more than that. I mean, how do you figure out whether or not there’s interest out there, whether there is support? How are you going to test the waters?

THOMPSON: This day and time, it doesn’t take long to learn what people think. I have never beaten down a lot of doors in my life, but occasionally doors have opened to me, and I had sense enough to see that they were opening, and I would walk through them, and they’ve always turned out well for me.

I’m just going to wait and see what happens, as I say. I’m going to have my own thoughts about what’s necessary to get the job done, be successful in doing it.

I want to see how my colleagues who are on the campaign trail do now, what they say, what they emphasize, what they’re addressing, and how successful they are in doing that, and whether or not they can carry the ball in next November, and mainly whether or not they can reach the American people, inspire the American people to do the tough things that we’re going to need to do.

We’ve got an entitlement program that’s bankrupting us. We’ve got things going on in Thailand, in Indonesia, in places that nobody ever talks about anymore that could impact on us.

We’ve got Chinese government who we’re mutually economically dependent upon right now. But you know, they’re still a totalitarian government that is building up their military tremendously and has 200 missiles pointed toward Taiwan.

Those are all things that are going to have to be dealt with. And the American people, we’ve learned, are going to have to be brought along with the process and with what’s going on — be honest with them and inspire them to do the right thing.

WALLACE: And if you search your soul and if you listen to what they’re all saying and it doesn’t seem to you that they’re catching on, making sense — whatever — then what?

THOMPSON: Well, I’m going to give it serious consideration.

WALLACE: Now, I know you anchor “The Paul Harvey Show” sometimes. Will you come back here and give us the rest of the story?

THOMPSON: That’s kind of like pinch-hitting for Babe Ruth.

WALLACE: Or Lou Gehrig.

THOMPSON: That’s kind of like being compared to Ronald Reagan. You know, I’m getting into some no-win situations here.

WALLACE: Will you come back and tell us the rest of the story?

THOMPSON: Absolutely.

And I’ll be here to record that for you, too. Please, Sen. Thompson, RUN! I need you…we need you…America needs you…the WORLD needs you!

Watch our hopefully-next President here.

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