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  • Montgomery County protest against illegal day labor center

    I’m a resident of Montgomery County, Maryland. You probably know Montgomery County from the incident a few years ago over smoking – they enacted and then retracted a ban on people smoking in their own homes. That’s the kind of goofballs running this haven for yuppies and hippies. They’re also blocking the expansion of facilities for Walter Reed at the Bethesda Naval Hospital installation because it will tie up their traffic. But they care about the troops – uh-uh.

    Well, yesterday there was a stand-off between MoCo residents at a Gaithersburg Day Labor Center funded with County taxpayer dollars. From the Washington Times;

    Separated by a line of police officers, the demonstrators taunted each other, often with profanity-laced insults, from across a street for several hours outside the county-owned center in Derwood beginning at around 8 a.m.

    “This trailer is in better condition than our schools,” said Brad Botwin, director of Help Save Maryland, an offshoot of the Help Save Virginia group that was formed to lobby local officials for tougher enforcement of immigration laws.

    Protesters said they are angry elected officials in Montgomery County are supporting illegal aliens and the contractors who hire them with a new laborer center.

    “I don’t want to do what I’m doing here today, but there are times when the government is corrupt,” said Ken Aldrich, operations director for the Maryland Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.

    They make a good point, actually. The hippies and yuppies in Montogery County have let the Council run slipshod over taxpayers here for years. County income taxes are astronomical yet the coouncil has blocked useful spending on infrastructure while paying for social programs like this day labor center.

    From the Washington Examiner;

    “[Governor] O’Malley has put out a list of pending budget cuts for libraries, schools, care for the elderly and hospitals, but we have money for illegal aliens?,” said Brad Botwin, director of HelpSaveMaryland.com, an anti-illegal immigration group. “How is there money for this but not other things?”

    County officials say they are not concerned about the protest plans.

    “It’s a free country,” county spokesman Patrick Lacefield said. “I think one of the things our recent report showed is that since the newest center opened there have been no incidents of any kind, which is quite in contrast with the inflammatory rhetoric that some folks, including these groups, throw out to try and scare people.”

    The county released a progress report in early July that said center staff tallied 596 daily job placements and 208 new employers using the Gaithersburg center in May.

    Botwin said the figures are unreliable because they were compiled by CASA of Maryland, an immigrant advocacy group that operates the center.

    “There’s nothing that an illegal can do that CASA thinks is wrong,” Botwin said. “There was no independent audit of these statistics.”

    Ah, so as long as the criminals who’ve come here illegally behave themselves, we’ll throw taxpayer dollars at them, huh? That’s the kind of vacant rhetoric we like to hear from our lawmakers.

    Fernando Garavito, who manages the center, said small bands of protesters routinely show up during the week.

    “That is a good thing in this country, that you have freedom of speech,” he said.

    Mr. Garavito said that although the center does not check the immigration status of the immigrants who come looking for work, they all pay taxes, like every other American.

    So even though he doesn’t check their immigration status, he knows they pay taxes? That’s a fairly ignorant thing to say. In fact here’s even more vacuous crap coming from our County Executive, as reported by WTOPnews.com;

    County Executive Isiah “Ike” Leggett supports the day-laborer center and says Montgomery County will not follow in the footsteps of Prince William and Loudoun counties. Those jurisdictions this month passed legislation against giving services to illegal immigrants.

    So this one petty little criminal hiding behind an elected office presumes to speak for the entire county? In the face of protesters to his policy from that same county?

    And of course the Left cloaks the protesters in xenophobic terms – that’s not true. Most of us aren’t anti-immigration – we are anti-illegal immigration. I don’t give a tiny rat’s ass how many jobs in this country are lost to immigrants – as long as the immigrants have a fricken visa.

    And the entire Montgomery County Council should be locked up for aiding and abetting thousands of counts of felonies. And give me a rebate on my taxes.

  • Image vs. substance

    When the Clinton campagn found traction attacking President Bush’s “no new taxes” broken pledge in the 1992 Presidential campaign, they decided that they’d better promise a middleclass tax cut. After that pledge won them the election, the Clinton team turned around and levied the largest tax increase in history on the middleclass. They even made their tax increase retroactive so that people who’d died in the first half of the year had their taxes raised.

    Retirees saw their meager social security benefits dwindle as the taxable amount went from 50% to 85% – despite the fact that they’d paid income taxes on their social security contributions when it was earned. Married couples saw their taxable income increase 25% as Democrats searched for ways to tax single income families.

    Six years went by with no tax relief for the middleclass. Finally, in 1998, the Clintons gave a $500 per child tax credit. That works out to a whopping $75/year per child per year in the then-lowest tax bracket (15%). So that was it for the Clinton era middleclass tax cuts.

    Now President Bush promised tax cuts in the 2000 campaign, and he got them passed in 2001 – tax cuts that put real money in people’s pockets. People in the lowest bracket got their taxes cut at least 33% when their taxes were slashed from 15% to 10%. Some saw their income taxes disappear completely. Married couples got their taxable incomes decreased 25% over five years.

    Pretax contributions to retirement plans were tripled and quadrupled to amounts that would actually allow people to save enough money for their retirement. IRA contributions will be $6000/year next year. 401k contributions are 20% of annual income plus an over-50 catch up for workers who weren’t able to contribute while they were raising their kids. That’s substance.

    When we were attacked in 1993 by al Qaida, the Clinton crew counter-attacked with lawyers. They approached a war situation with legal solutions – punishing the direct participants but ignoring the base of operations of these animals. As al Qaida attacked US property outside of the US, they used the FBI and CIA to investigate instead of using the USMC to eradicate the threat. Aside from a few missile launches into an asprin factory and some empty tents in Afghanistan, direct military action was avoided. All image, no substance.

    In the 2000 and 2004 election campaigns, we heard so much about  the Democrat candidates having to “reinvent” their campaigns. Al Gore had become more animated and he had to wear brown suits instead of the dark blue to attract voters. John Kerry had to be less “intellectual” (how that was even possible I’ll never know) and more nuanced. Democrats had to hire image consultants while George W. Bush just had to be himself – a guy who is straight-forward and does what he says he’ll do. George Bush hasn’t changed a whit since he was governor of Texas. WHy shoould he? He’s a leader, not a poll follower.

    Democrats had to change their message, while George Bush never budged from what he believed. Even in the recent immigration debate, we all knew it was coming, the President said it was coming. Whether you liked the immigration reform or not, Bush said that was what he believed and we knew what he believed from the get-go. Whe the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were attacked, we all knew what George Bush’s response would be. Even Gaddafi knew – he voluntarily surrendered his weapons of mass destruction before he was next on the list.

    In this campaign, we get watch the spectacle of Democrats trying to get to each others’ Left. They reinvent themselves depending on the audience. Code Pink has put pressure on Hillary to go against our national security – and there [s]he goes off to the Left. John Edwards is trying to use the internet to energize his flailing and faultering campaign, since the internet is jam-packed with Leftist anti-war-at-any-cost whackos and he up-and-announces that the war is just a bumpersticker slogan. To the thunderous applause of the anti-war-at-any-cost crowd.

    Democrats promised to end the war in the last election, ignoring that it’s just not feasible to jerk our troops out of Iraq in the middle of a battle. The anti-war-at-any-cost crowd jumped up and down with glee, until they discovered that Democrats couldn’t end the war. They get giddy every time Democrats make intellectually vacant statements about ending the war, when Harry Reid drags out the cots for an “all-night debate”, when John Murtha calls our troops cold-blooded murderers, when Dick Durbin calls for the closing of Guantanamo.

    The Democrats are even discussing the possibilty of a debate over “gay rights” (whatever gay rights mean) as if any of them are going to stand up and condemn the idea that any candidate might support special rights for people based on their activities in their bedrooms. What will Democrats debate about gays? Everyone knows that anything deviant is fine with Democrats – while folks who believe in God and His Word should be beheaded in public.

    But it’s all theater. It’s meaningless – but Democrats love the theater. They don’t care about substance – just so long as they can feel good about themselves and their vote. Their useless, pointless and meaningless vote.

    Give me a candidate who means what he says, a candidate with whom I don’t necessarily agree 100% of the time, but someone I know will act in the best interest of the country in every situation – without regard for political fallout. I don’t care what color his/her suit is or how much hair he/she has – or what color his/her hair is. I don’t care if he/she is able to discuss the issues involved in our policy with some unknown tyrannt in some dark corner of the Third World, just so long as I know what he/she’d do if that tyrannt decided to kill or imprison some US citizens in their country.

    My ideal candidate would present an image based on substance – not an image based on more images. Given the history of recent candidates of the Democrat Party, I don’t think they’ll meet my litmus test. Lord knows, most of the Republican candidates don’t meet the criteria, either.

  • General Clinton demands OpPlan

    Apparently while I was asleep last night, Hillary Clinton (who acts too much like a man for either me or Elizabeth Edwards) was granted a commission in the Armed Forces and immediately promoted to six-star general (for your information, there has been only one six-star general in our history – George Washington who was promoted to that rank in 1975 – that’s on the test, by the way). But anyway, newly commissioned General Clinton has demanded an operational plan for withdrawal of troops from Iraq. The response from the Pentagon;

    In a stinging rebuke to a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, Undersecretary of Defense Eric Edelman responded to questions Clinton raised in May in which she urged the Pentagon to start planning now for the withdrawal of American forces.

    A copy of Edelman’s response, dated July 16, was obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.

    “Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia,” Edelman wrote.

    He added that “such talk understandably unnerves the very same Iraqi allies we are asking to assume enormous personal risks.”

    Of course, Mr Edelman is right. There’s a contingency plan for every movement the military might make – including the defense of Syracuse, NY from invading multi-tentacled aliens on hover bikes. For Clinton to think [s]he’s getting out ahead of the Pentagon on this one is just laughable. And besides that, it’s none of h[er] business. [S]he just helps the other 99 Senators write checks for the military, [s]he’s not in charge of overseeing the drafting of Operational Planning.

    But, [s]he thinks [s]he has a campaign issue;

    She said Edelman had ducked her questions and “instead made spurious arguments to avoid addressing contingency planning.”

    “Undersecretary Edelman has his priorities backward,” Clinton wrote, calling his claim “outrageous and dangerous.”

    She repeated her request for a briefing – classified if necessary – on the issue of end-of-war planning.

    The senator’s spokesman Philippe Reines said: “We sent a serious letter to the Secretary of Defense, and unacceptably got a political response back.”

    No, you got that backwards, Junior – you sent a political letter and got a serious response back. Considering how leaky the Senate has been lately, I wouldn’t give them the plans to install new soda machines in the E-Ring snack bar.

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  • July; tough month to be a Democrat

    It takes the courage of a lion to be an admitted Democrat this month. Things just seem to be falling about their ears. First, the hopes of seeing Scooter Libby in shackles being led to the Tower dungeon were dashed by the President.

    Then good news starts trickling out of Iraq that al Qaeda is the primary enemy we’re fighting there, in conjuction with Iraqis – both civilian and Army types.

    Now, the Congressional Democrats’ big “sleep-over” turns out to be nothing more than political theater and forces the Democrats to sit down and shut up while the nutroots take up their fight.

    If all of that isn’t embarrassing enough, a judge has now tossed out Valerie Plame’s (sh-h-h-h, be vewy, vewy quiet) lawsuit against the Bush Administration;

    “The alleged means by which defendants chose to rebut Mr. Wilson’s comments and attack his credibility may have been highly unsavory,” [Judge John D.] Bates wrote. “But there can be no serious dispute that the act of rebutting public criticism, such as that levied by Mr. Wilson against the Bush administration’s handling of prewar foreign intelligence, by speaking with members of the press is within the scope of defendants’ duties as high-level Executive Branch officials.”

    D’oh! Of course, any reasonable person could see that all of these things were going to happen to Democrats eventually. They’ve hung their collective hat on intangibles – what with Democrats being idealists and all – and having no firm grasp of reality beyond winning elections.

    They claim they won the Congress on an anti-war platform last Fall. I knew it wasn’t true, most of America knew it wasn’t true. The Democrats have been doing the bidding of their squeakiest wheels – unfortunately, their squeakiest wheels are all turning the opposite direction from the rest of the country. Americans don’t want to lose in the Middle East no matter how much the Democrats want to lose in the Middle East.

    They’ve wanted a Bush Administration official to frog-march out of court – but, no one has done anything really wrong. Plame wasn’t a covert secret squirrel, so how could anyone go to jail for outing a clerk? No one was fired illegally from their jobs at the Justice Department – no matter how hard Democrats wish stuff, it won’t necessarily come true. This is reality not a fairie tale.

  • Senate Democrats: Victory is not an option

    Yesterday, the Senate Democrats surrendered to the will of the American people, temporarily – pledging to be a yammering pack of goofballs in the Fall, after they’ve rested up from accomplishing nothing this year. From the Wall Street Journal’s David Rogers;

    Senate Democrats abruptly postponed further debate on the Iraq war, betting that time and grass-roots pressure over the August recess will bring them the Republican votes they now lack to begin the withdrawal of U.S. forces.

    I guess hatin’ is hard work for the players. Since they ca’t do the business of the American people, the Democrats are going to let idiots like MoveOn and Code Pink do their job for them according to the Washington Post;

    But Reid’s decision pleased antiwar groups, which have pressed Democrats to bring the war to a close. “I think Senator Reid took an important step toward confronting Republican obstructionism and ending the war,” said Tom Matzzie, a strategist for MoveOn.org.

    Matzzie said his group’s efforts are concentrated on “forcing the entire Republican Party to look over the side of the cliff” at the political consequences of continuing to stand by Bush. Antiwar groups are focused in particular on Senate Republicans up for reelection next year.

    “Ultimately, we end the war by creating a toxic political environment for war supporters like the Republicans in the Senate,” Matzzie said.

    I wonder if Matzzie and the mindless minions of the Left have given a thought to the fact that Congressional Democrats are nearing single-digits in approval rating polls because most Americans don’t like the surrender chatter coming from the Democrats? 

    The Senate [sleepover in-] action took place as a Zogby poll released yesterday showed that 14 percent of likely voters rated Congress’ performance as excellent or good — 20 points below Mr. Bush’s 34 percent and the lowest ever recorded by the pollster.

    Of course not. It’s the Democrats who aren’t listening to the American people inside their echo-chamber. From the Washington Times’ Sean Lengell and Christopher Dolan;

    But Democrats, responding to their anti-war base, vowed to keep applying pressure.

    “We believe that with time, when we come back to this bill as soon as we possibly can, that we’re going to pick up even more support when the American people see who has voted to change course and who did not,” said Sen. Carl Levin, Michigan Democrat who authored the measure.

    Added Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat: “We’re not going to stop until we get to 60.”

    See? “Responding to their base” – not “responding to the American people” or “responding to the terrorist threat” – responding to their base. There’s nothing in this that bolsters our national security or makes our soldiers safer – it’s all pure politics. Politics of the anti-American Left.

    And they can stop calling MoveOn.dorks an anti-war group, by the way. they’re an anti-Bush group that grew out of a Clinton defense group. They’re anti-Republican – it’s just that shallow and pointless.

    So all of that bluster the other night got the Senate Democrats one more surrender vote;

    “At the end of this debate, we’re all a little bit weary, but we’re one vote closer to ending this war,” said Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin, Illinois Democrat. “Many senators who’ve gone home and said they’re opposed to the war voted to continue the war today. They’ll have to answer to the voters.”
     

    Three other Republicans — Sens. Gordon H. Smith of Oregon and Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, critics of the war, and Susan Collins of Maine — voted with 47 Democrats. Miss Collins said she supported providing an up-or-down vote on the measure but did not support the legislation.

    One vote. All of that taxpayer money for 1 stupid vote. From a RINO, no less. If the Democrats are in such a hurry to surrender, they should surrender to common sense for a change.

  • NIE: SSDD

    The latest National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) seems to have all of the anti-war deepthinkers in knotted knickers. The Washington Post acts like this is truly news;

    The White House faced fresh political peril yesterday in the form of a new intelligence assessment that raised sharp questions about the success of its counterterrorism strategy and judgment in making Iraq the focus of that effort.

    Since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, President Bush has been able to deflect criticism of his counterterrorism policy by repeatedly noting the absence of any new domestic attacks and by citing the continuing threat that terrorists in Iraq pose to U.S. interests.

    But this line of defense seemed to unravel a bit yesterday with the release of a new National Intelligence Estimate that concludes that al-Qaeda “has protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability” by reestablishing a haven in Pakistan and reconstituting its top leadership. The report also notes that al-Qaeda has been able “to recruit and indoctrinate operatives, including for Homeland attacks,” by associating itself with an Iraqi subsidiary.

    Anyone shocked? Nope, me neither. Terrorists will continue to regenerate as long as there’s a chance they can get their enemies to let them have the run of the world. The Left and the anti-war-at-any-cost crowd give them hope for that chance. But anyone who is surprised that terrorists are still trying to terrorize need to go back and read the dictionary definition of terrorist.

    From Washington Times’ Bill Gertz;

    “Although we have discovered only a handful of individuals in the United States with ties to al Qaeda senior leadership since 9/11, we judge that al Qaeda will intensify its efforts to put operatives here,” the report stated.

    Retired Vice Adm. Michael McConnell, the director of national intelligence whose office produced the NIE, said the United States will face a “persistent and evolving terrorist threat” in the next three years.

    What a waste of Bill Gertz’ talents – that “bug duh” moment. As long as  it’s possible that the US Left divides the country for purely policitical reasons, the terrorist threat will always evolve to take advantage of their naivete`.

    Contrast these two views from the Gertz story;

    “It is deeply troubling that more that nearly six years after 9/11, al Qaeda maintains a safe haven, an intact leadership and the capability to plan further attacks,” said Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois Democrat and 2008 presidential candidate. “It is time to act to correct those mistakes, and the first step is to get out of Iraq, because you can’t win a war when you’re on the wrong battlefield.”

    House Minority Leader John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, said the NIE shows that the United States must keep up the fight against terrorists.

    “Retreat is not a ‘new way forward’ when the safety and security of future generations of Americans are at stake,” Mr. Boehner said.

    Instead of deciding that fighting harder and more united is the answer young Barack decides that getting out is the answer. That’s just cowardly…and partisan. AT least we have John Boehner to call them wimps to their faces.

    Meanwhile, my new buddy Robin at Chickenhawk Express delivers deadly blows to that [d]ick Clarke’s “analysis” of the NIE.

  • Political theater; employing the unemployable

    Last night, while no one watched or cared, I guess the Senate tried to pull an all-night exercise in insanity – voting on the same measure again-and-again each time, amazingly, having the same result. Of course the Washington Post thought it was really good and important stuff;

    Earlier in the day, Reid had ordered cots to be set up in a ceremonial room off the Senate floor, and reporters were alerted when the beds, along with pillows, were delivered in the afternoon.

    The office of Senate Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.) dispatched interns to buy toothpaste, toothbrushes and deodorant for delivery to GOP leadership offices, with a note offering the “supplies for your sleepless night.” It added: “Help us bring an end to this war.”

    “Will the all-night session change any votes? I hope so,” said Reid. “Because it will focus attention on the obstructionism of the Republicans.”

    Not “it will end terrorism in our time” or even “we’re going to show those terrorists we mean business”, but rather “it will focus attention on the obstructionism of Republicans” – because, as we know, those Republicans are a dangerous bunch. They’re capable of killing millions of Americans while they sleep if it weren’t for the brave souls of the Democrat Party frantically waving their white flags in front of TV cameras.

    Sean Lengell from the Washington Times reports that;

    Some Democrats left the session temporarily to attend a candlelight antiwar rally across from the Capitol.

    Majority Leader Harry Reid said the unusual session was necessary because Republicans refused to agree to a simple majority to pass the bill and were intent on filibustering an amendment that called for pulling most troops out of Iraq by April 30.

    “If Republicans insist on blocking change of course in Iraq, we have no alternative but to keep them in session to have them explain their obstruction,” the Nevada Democrat said. “Republicans will need to choose whether they want to protect the president or protect our troops.”

    Yeah, if the Republicans insist on making Congress keep its word to wait until September, the Democrats will make them stay up all night. If Harry Reid cared a whit for the troops, he’d shut his chickenshit mouth for a minute and let them do their jobs.

    And all the while the grotesque hags of Tickled Pink and the assorted malcontents of the Left stood outside and chanted like the screeching harpies they are. From the Post, again;

    The group VoteVets.org called in Iraq and Afghanistan war veterans to spend the night in the Senate gallery. MoveOn.org organized “counter-filibusters” in which protesters outside Senate offices and in other public places read firsthand accounts from Iraq war veterans and military families. “We’ll send a clear message to senators and the media that this isn’t about partisan games — it’s about people’s lives,” the group said.

    Yeah, it’s not about partisan games is it MoveOn.dorks – wasn’t it Move On that led the charge against Lieberman because he disagreed with their BDS-driven agenda?

    No mention, however, of the group Vets for Freedom who made the rounds of Congress all day yesterday urging Congress to wait until September like they promised. I wonder why? Probably because they wore boring tan polo shirts instead of garish pink boas and they didn’t chant mindless drivel or wave idiot signs.

    This was pure political theater – it was so Democrats could prove to their tiny minority of “anti-war at any price” crowd that Democrats are listening to their squeakiest wheels.

    Anyone for a minute think that Joe Six-pack gives a tiny rat’s ass that a hundred pampered people and their pampered staffs stayed awake one night? Nope the only people who care are the breathless hundreds who blogged all night about this non-event.

  • Living in the 60s; divided we fall

    OK, there was something familiar in the political climate that I couldn’t quite put my finger on – until I read this story from the Politico’s Mike Allen;

    Sen. John Edwards plans to warn later this week that the nation’s schools have become segregated by race and income, and he will propose measures to diversify both inner-city and middle-class schools.

    It feels like the 60s again, doesn’t it? Yesterday Edwards, the prettiest Democrat candidate, was talking about a “poverty tour” and today it’s busing and desegregating schools. The other candidates (and Edwards included) are all “against the war” (whatever that means today), they’re all for raising taxes “on the rich” (whoever that is these days). All of the broke-dick, big-government Liberal issues that brought on the malaise of the 70s are rearing their heads – as if history never happened.

    It doesn’t help that the media are all in on it and the old hippies who are now “journalists” play the game. Like this syncophantic piece from the Washington Post;

    “A lot of Americans think of people who are struggling as people who don’t want to work, and that’s nonsense. We need to make sure the country understands that,” the Democratic former senator from North Carolina said.

    On the second day of an eight-state tour of impoverished communities in the South and Midwest, Edwards tried to connect his presidential campaign with the legacy of King and Robert F. Kennedy and the issue they tried to publicize in the 1960s: poverty. The four-day tour will end in Prestonsburg, Ky., where Kennedy concluded a tour of Appalachia in 1968.

    So, the guy with $400 haircuts and $1/2 million dollar part-time jobs carries the mantle of King and RFK now. I can just see King and Kennedy standing at the gates of Heaven with baseball bats waiting for Edwards’ arrival – and this Perry Bacon, Junior from the Washington Post.

    “We still have two public school systems in this country,” Edwards said. “They’re not segregated just based on race. They’re segregated, to a large extent, based on economics, which has racial implications.”

    The result is, Edwards continued, “if you live in a wealthy suburban area, the odds are very high that your child will get a very good public school education. If you live in the inner city or if you live in a poor rural area, the odds of that go down dramatically. And I think there are very specific things we can do to not only improve the quality of the education in those areas but also to improve the quality of our schools at large.”

    Funny how Federal programs and robbing the American taxpayers of their earnings is always the solution – until the big-government program fails and then the answer is always more money. That’s how we ended up with a 70% tax bracket in the 70s.

    Edwards, and the Democrats as a whole, act as if there is no possiblity for economic mobility in this country. They act as if we’re born to a station in life and that’s where we remain – as if this is 18th century France. The opportunities exist – everywhere in this country. granted there are people who don’t take advantage of those opportunities, but how is it my responsibility to pay for others’ bad choices?

    If I were one of those inner-city or rural teachers, I’d be pissed at Edwards. How dare he say that those teachers aren’t interested in teaching kids until they get more Federal money? So where’s the outrage? Edwards called all of you inner-city and rural school teachers greedy, heartless capitalists. Yeah, I can just hear the howls of rage – hypocrites.

    And this “Two Americas” crap is played out. Edwards is just playing two sides against each other. Ronald Reagan brought America together, and now Edwards is trying to tear us apart like Johnson, Nixon and Carter did. We beat the Nazis and the Soviet Union when we all pulled together. How are we going to defeat Islamofacism with the Democrats pulling us apart?