-Caveat Lector-
Feinstein - the Holy Woman - she cashed in on Ryan being murdered -
remember Jonestown?
And Teddy we forgive him so much - but how can he be so stupid - and
then I remember, he got caught cheating on examination in college was it
- he hired a smart guy to take his test and got caught?
So can still overloot Teddy's rampage - but you know I still remember
when he called Jean Dixon's boos and sent letter advising Hearst and
King features to keep his name and his family's name out of her
column......
Had JFK had some secret service awake on the job, he would still most
likely be here today.....but they too were too busy drinking in the bars
late at night and came to work with hangovers.....the guard was down.
Note the security Clinton and Gore had.....and little Madeline it is
unsafe for her to go out in street ...... some big bad Arab might get
her.
(with Uzi made in Israel?)
So we see Black Panthers loosed upon George Bush and his wife....and Al
Sharpton and Jesse Jackson attempting to loose savages once again on
white America.....
So guess Teddy has finally taken a stand out of fear......afraid of
losing the black vote.
We have to keep white american working overtime to support these
albatross on our backs in and out of government.
As Rap Brown said "Getta Gun"......white male American has taken his
advice, to keep your powder dry - the march to Mt. Nebo has begun.
We need an Attorney General with some guts and who will speak what
others fear to say.
Saba
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Ashcroft assailed for gun views
Sen. Ted Kennedy lashes out at John Ashcroft Wednesday.
Round 1 of the Ashcroft hearings was civil, but there were some heated
moments. NBC's Lisa Myers reports.
MSNBC WASHINGTON, Jan. 17 — Attorney
General-designee John Ashcroft faced a barrage of criticism Wednesday at
his confirmation hearing for his conservative views. The harshest attack
was by Sen. Ted Kennedy, who said Ashcroft "owes an apology" to the
nation for his opposition to gun control.
Click the image to watch the second day of the Ashcroft hearing live on
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KENNEDY, D-MASS., described his former Senate colleague
as "far out of the mainstream," especially in his opposition to gun
controls and for having encouraged Americans to bear arms to protect
themselves against a "tyrannical" government.
"I think this nominee owes an apology to the people of
the United States for that insinuation," Kennedy shouted before the
Senate Judiciary Committee, "talking about our government now being a
source of tyrannical oppression."
A grim-faced Ashcroft sat silently through the tongue
lashing and did not respond afterward.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., pressed Ashcroft on his
anti-abortion views, asking him why he believes there would be no need
to exempt rape victims from a ban on abortion.
Ashcroft did not directly answer and instead said he had
"sought in a number of ways throughout the years to reduce and curtail
the abortion of unborn children" and had voted several times for broad
exemptions.
Asked if he would try to undermine the 1973 Roe vs. Wade
decision legalizing abortion, Ashcroft said the Supreme Court has
clearly demonstrated its unwillingness to revisit the case. He added
that asking the solicitor general that would rank under him to petition
the Supreme Court for a different ruling on abortion would undermine the
Justice Department's standing before the court.
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Feinstein also questioned Ashcroft on why he opposed her
efforts to make several gun crimes subject to racketeering laws, giving
authorities the power to seize the assets of drug and violent gangs.
"I don't believe the Second Amendment to be one that
forbids any regulation of guns," Ashcroft said. He said he opposed
Feinstein's measure after the American Civil Liberties Union and others
cited government abuses of the racketeering laws to seize defendants'
property.
Earlier, Ashcroft was chastised about his comment while
running for president in 1998 that "there are two things you find in the
middle of the road: a moderate and a dead skunk." Ashcroft said the
statement was meant to be a humorous way to emphasize his conservatism.
Ashcroft said that, as attorney general, he would be
willing to compromise with political foes. He recalled that when he led
the National Association of State Attorneys General, "I understood I had
to sacrifice some of my advocacy roles."
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Source: CQ Researcher; John Garraty: The American Nation; Encyclopedia
Britannica.
'LIKELY TO BE CONFIRMED'
While they expressed alarm about Ashcroft's past
rhetoric, Democrats conceded they expect him to win Senate approval.
"You are likely to be confirmed, as we all know," Sen.
Herb Kohl, D-Wis., said as the Senate Judiciary Committee held its
second day of hearings on Ashcroft's nomination.
Nonetheless, Democrats scheduled at least a half-dozen
opponents of Ashcroft to testify on Thursday.
Ashcroft's personal convictions as a deeply religious,
conservative Republican have triggered an outcry of opposition from
civil rights and women's groups not witnessed since Clarence Thomas'
nomination to the Supreme Court a decade ago. Thomas and Ashcroft shared
an office in the 1970s when they were young lawyers for the state of
Missouri.
Ashcroft's hearing is expected to continue at least
Thursday. Senate GOP leader Trent Lott has predicted that all 50 Senate
Republicans will vote for him. So far, Sen. Barbara Boxer of California
is the only Democrat who has said she will vote against him.
DOUBLE STANDARD?
January 16 — NBC's Lisa Myers takes a close look at the life of George
W. Bush's controversial nominee for attorney general.
The toughest grilling of Ashcroft on Tuesday was over
civil rights. The panel's top Democrat, Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont,
demanded to know whether "this Ashcroft standard" on a nominee's beliefs
should apply to Ashcroft himself.
At issue was Ashcroft's opposition to Bill Lann Lee as
head of the Justice Department's civil rights division under President
Clinton and Clinton's nomination of Surgeon General David Satcher.
While Ashcroft gave Lee high marks professionally, he
said at the time that Lee's beliefs "limit his capacity to have the
balanced view of making judgments that will be necessary for the person
who runs the division."
In other words, Leahy said, Ashcroft had the same
questions for Lee and Satcher that Democrats now have for Ashcroft: Will
he be able to enforce laws with which he disagrees?
Ashcroft characterized his differences with Lee and
Satcher as policy issues. He said he voted against Lee because of
"serious concerns about his willingness to enforce" the Supreme Court's
Adarand decision limiting preferences for minority companies in awarding
government contracts.
Satcher, Ashcroft said, had backed AIDS studies in Africa
that withheld treatment from some pregnant women with HIV to test the
effect of a new approach.
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coverage "You disagreed with his ethical choices and
values?" Leahy asked.
"It was a shortfall in his adherence to the values of
American medical authorities," Ashcroft replied.
Ashcroft said no part of the Justice Department he wants
to head is more important than the civil rights division. He said he had
appointed more blacks to Missouri courts than any previous governor and
had voted as a senator for 26 of 27 black nominees to the federal bench.
Of the one black nominee whom he opposed — Missouri
Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White, who is set to testify Thursday —
Ashcroft said, "I simply came to the overwhelming conclusion that Judge
White should not be given lifetime tenure as a U.S. District Court
judge."
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Ashcroft tried to assure his former colleagues he could
uphold laws he disagrees with, noting that while Missouri's attorney
general he insisted on protecting the privacy of women who had abortions
and opposed distributing religious publications in public schools.
"My primary personal belief is that the law is supreme,
that I don't place myself above the law, that I shouldn't place myself
above the law," he said. "So it would violate my beliefs to do it."
Ashcroft said he accepts the landmark abortion ruling in
Roe vs. Wade "as the settled law of the land. The Supreme Court's
decisions on this have been multiple, recent and emphatic."
NBC POLL: PUBLIC SPLIT
An NBC News-Wall Street Journal poll released Tuesday
found people evenly split on Ashcroft serving as the next attorney
general, with 45 percent opposed and 44 percent in favor. Eleven percent
said they didn't know. The survey of 1,018 adults was conducted from
Saturday to Monday; the margin of error was 3.1 percent.
Four other hearings Wednesday
OTHER BUSH PICKS
Ashcroft's hearing kicked off a busy week of Senate
confirmation hearings for a number of Cabinet nominees. Also facing
senators Wednesday were Colin Powell, nominated to be secretary of
state; Christine Todd Whitman, nominated to head the EPA; Paul O'Neill,
nominated to be treasury secretary; and Mel Martinez, nominated to head
the housing department.
Cabinet confirmationsSenate hearing schedule:•Attorney
general: Judiciary Committee continues John Ashcroft hearings
Wednesday.•Secretary of state: Foreign Relations Committee begins
hearings Wednesday for Colin Powell. •Treasury: Finance Committee
begins hearings Wednesday for Paul O'Neill. •EPA: Environment and
Public Works Committee holds one-day hearing Wednesday for Christine
Todd Whitman. •Interior: Energy and Natural Resources Committee open
hearings Thursday for Gale Norton. •Energy: Energy and Natural
Resources Committee opens hearings Thursday for Spencer Abraham.
•Agriculture: Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee begins
hearings Thursday for Ann Veneman. •Veteran Affairs: Veteran Affairs
Committee opens hearings Thursday for Anthony Principi. Their hearings
are not expected to be controversial, but strong opposition exists to
Interior Secretary-designate Gale Norton, whose hearing begins Thursday.
In other transition news, Bush has asked CIA Director
George Tenet to stay on for an an "undetermined period of time" and
Tenet had agreed, a Bush spokesman said Tuesday.
Bush "will decide at a later period" exactly how long
Tenet will stay, the spokesman said.
Several Democrats and Republicans had urged Bush to
retain Tenet, a Democrat, in an effort to take the spy agency out of the
political arena. Bush's father, former President Bush, once headed the
CIA and has called for a less-political approach.
In the only other major post to be filled, the U.N.
ambassador, could go to former Republican presidential candidate
Elizabeth Dole. Republican sources say she is on a short list but it was
unclear whether Dole would accept the job if it was offered.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this
report.
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