Quotes of Note that reflect what conservatives think. Or are up against.
Telling the Truth, Teachers and Anger
John Stossel recently featured a segment on teachers, their mighty unions and how no matter how much money we throw at the schools, the children's test scores keep going down. Seems Stossel made the teachers' unions very mad, as the bitter truth often does.
From Townhall.com Stossel's response.
By John Stossel
Teachers unions are mad at me because I hosted an ABC News TV special titled "Stupid in America." But when they criticize my "bias and ignorance," I don't hear them refute the points listed in the show. They don't refute them because they can't.
RINO Alert
Lincoln Chafee is considered a doddering fool by most Republicans and more, he is anything but loyal to the conservative cause. A RINO is a Republican In Name Only and for sure, while we can understand Russ Feingold's move to censure the President as being good for Feingold's presidential ambitions, to have a member of the President's own party embrace this silly notion speaks volumes about Chafee.
As an aside, we hear Chafee either won't run again or will not be supported by one dime of GOP support.
THE RINO KING
"Wisconsin Sen. Russ Feingold's (D-Wis.) resolution to censure President Bush for what he called 'illegal wiretapping' drew sharp denunciations from the White House and Senate Republicans on Monday ... One liberal GOP senator, Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, offered some praise for Feingold, saying the resolution would be 'positive' if it fueled debate over the legality of some policies in the war on terrorism."
- Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 3/14/06
A Little FDR Wisdom
When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on. — Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Well Worth Remembering
Wars are not easy things and they are seldom won with peace restored as quickly as we'd like. Many are frustrated with the slowness of Iraq to form a permanent government but best to remember, as quoted from the NY Post:
The members of Iraq's political class have chosen hope - chosen to fight their battles at the bargaining table rather than in the streets. By doing so, they are, in fact, offering an example of what democratic institutions are intended to do. They are supposed to replace armed conflict with political negotiation conducted by those who might otherwise take up weapons to get their way.
This Is Scary
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
You're being too hard on Chaffee. What he said was very noncommittal, and echoes what Bush himself said last week when he demanded that Congress express their concern in action through legislation as opposed to bickering. This tendancy to damn any Republican who isn't in lockstep with the administration is contrary to the individualistic traditions of the GOP and those who think that we should all follow the party line just because it's the party line are the real RINOs. It's a big tent, and it has room for Chaffee. Or at least it should.
Dave
2 - Pat Fish
It is rumored that Chafee has Alzenheimer's.
I don't like him with or without Alzenheimers but this might be why he won't run again.