In light of today's vote to move ahead with legislation to destroy America, I'd like to offer the public service of identifying available domain names which some of you may find useful.

All of the URLs below are available as of this moment. I personally prefer to reserve domain names at GoDaddy, but leave it to each of you to use the management tool of your choice.

The easiest move is to go to GoDaddy and reserve the domain there; it takes about 2 minutes.

SenatorNoMore.com

RecallTheSenate.com

MySenatorSucks.com

IHateTheSenate.com

IHateMySenator.com

SenatorTraitor.com

TreasonousWeasel.com

TreasonousWeasels.com

SenatorDickwad.com

BurnDownTheSenate.com

DefundTheRNC.com

DefundTheGOP.com

KillTheRNC.com

KillTheGOP.com

StarveTheGOP.com

SlimeTheSlime.com

SenateScum.com

TheSenateSucks.com

OnARail.com

Grab 'em while the grabbin' is good. But most importantly - USE 'EM!

Giuliani Slams Clinton Over Terrorism
AP via excite news

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (AP) - Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani on Tuesday accused former President Clinton of not responding forcefully enough to the 1993 World Trade Center bombing or later terrorist attacks.

“The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond,” Giuliani said. “(Osama) bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.”

Read more.

(via The Ward View)

Ronald Reagan once said, ” “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party, the party left me.”

I know how you feel President Reagan.  Unfortunately, it’s the party you helped build to a majority that has left me.    Today’s vote sealed the deal.

And quite frankly, we should have learned our lesson from the amnesty you pushed in the 80s.  But we didn’t.

Immigration Bill Advances in Senate
AP via Breitbart.com

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.

President Bush said the bill offered a “historic opportunity for Congress to act,” and appeared optimistic about its passage by week’s end.

Read more.

You’re not listening Mr. President.  Neither are the GOP Senators who voted for amnesty.

And yes, Mr. President, it’s amnesty.  Look it up.

Don’t get me wrong.  I’ll still support Republican candidates.

When they earn my support.

You had my support Mr. President.

You lost me at ¡Hola!

Build the fence.  Enforce the laws on the book.

And then get back to me.

(via The Ward View)

Steven Silver review’s Harry Turtledove’s In At The Death, the apparently final novel in the Timeline-191 series:

Settling Accounts: In at the Death is the last scheduled novel in Harry Turtledove’s massive series following the relations between the United States of America and the Confederate States of America after the South won its independence in 1862. Beginning with How Few Remain, Turtledove has chronicles more than sixty years of activity, with the current book covering the final years of the second Great War, 1944-1945.

It became quite clear during the course of the previous novel, The Grapple, that the United States would finally achieve a victory over the Confederacy, although how that victory would be achieved was left up in the air. Furthermore, with the two countries racing to develop nuclear weapons, the Confederacy could still pull off a coup if their research paid dividends before the US research did. When Turtledove does begin to have his characters use nuclear weapons, he does so in surprising ways.

The majority of the novel is focused on the closing months of the war, but Turtledove spends a considerable amount of time dealing with the aftermath, as some characters are released from the military and others find an unexpected future waiting for them. In some cases, Turtledove seems to be tying together loose ends he has left in the series, perhaps most notably when Cincinnatus Driver visits Covington or Flora Blackford discusses politics with her Democratic brother, David.

Perhaps most poignant is the fate that awaits Jefferson Pinkard, the commandant of the camps the Confederacy used to exterminate the Confederate Black population. While Pinkard was a reasonably likable character when he was first introduced in The Great War: American Front, by In at the Death, he may be the most changed character in the series. While he is clearly representative of the men and monsters who were tried at Nuremberg, the comparison between his character when doing duty at the Sloss Steel Works and his fate in In at the Death almost makes him a tragic figure.

(…)

In at the Death forms an excellent coda to this massive series of eleven novels. Turtledove provides suitable denouements for all of his characters and allows them to get just nostalgic enough for the lives they once led and the characters who did not make it through to the end of the book without getting maudlin. At the same time, Turtledove does not sugar coat the difficulties facing the characters, or North America, in the aftermath of the fourth major war in eighty years.

The book will be out on July 31st., and I’m definitely looking forward to it.

(via Below The Beltway)

“You know, I’ve heard all the rhetoric – you’ve heard it, too – about how this is amnesty. Amnesty means that you’ve got to pay a price for having been here illegally, and this bill does that.”

– President George W. Bush, June 26, 2007.

See it here.

WH Spokesman Tony Snow had to clarify that Bush had mispoke.

A MUST watch report.

(via Virginia Virtucon)

Fairfax County Republican candidate for Commonwealth’s Attorney Patrick McDade will be stop by Too Conservative on 7:00PM ET on Thursday.

Please leave questions for him in this thread.

In today’s Washington Post, Sally Quinn writes of supposed rumblings of a movement in the GOP to get rid of Vice-President Dick Cheney

The big question right now among Republicans is how to remove Vice President Cheney from office. Even before this week’s blockbuster series in The Post, discontent in Republican ranks was rising.

As the reputed architect of the war in Iraq, Cheney is viewed as toxic, and as the administration’s leading proponent of an attack on Iran, he is seen as dangerous. As long as he remains vice president, according to this thinking, he has the potential to drag down every member of the party — including the presidential nominee — in next year’s elections.

Removing a sitting vice president is not easy, but this may be the moment. I remember Barry Goldwater sitting in my parents’ living room in 1973, in the last days of Watergate, debating whether to lead a group of senior Republicans to the White House to tell President Nixon he had to go. His hesitation was that he felt loyalty to the president and the party. But in the end he felt a greater loyalty to his country, and he went to the White House.

Today, another group of party elders, led by Sen. John Warner of Virginia, could well do the same. They could act out of concern for our country’s plummeting reputation throughout the world, particularly in the Middle East.

Upon further reading, it’s clear that this is basically just Quinn’s fantasy, and not supported by any real evidence.

Take, for example, her speculation of the supposed Golden Boy to replace Cheney as Veep:

That leaves Fred Thompson. Everybody loves Fred. He has the healing qualities of Gerald Ford and the movie-star appeal of Ronald Reagan. He is relatively moderate on social issues. He has a reputation as a peacemaker and a compromiser. And he has a good sense of humor.

He could be just the partner to bring out Bush’s better nature — or at least be a sensible voice of reason. I could easily imagine him telling the president, “For God’s sake, do not push that button!” — a command I have a hard time hearing Cheney give.

Not only that, Thompson would give the Republicans a platform for running for the presidency — and the president a way out of Iraq without looking like he’s backing down. Bush would be left in better shape on the war and be able to concentrate on AIDS and the environment in hopes of salvaging his legacy.

How exactly is it that Fred Thompson, who supports the war, would be the man who would get the GOP out of Iraq ? Unless you’re looking for an “only Nixon could go to China” scenario, I don’t see it happening. Thompson has given no evidence that he thinks withdrawal is a good idea.

James Joyner sums it up well:

This has to be the dumbest thing I’ve seen from a major journalist in quite some time.

And that is saying alot.

Dan Riehl on the Republicans and Democrats:

At the risk of being politically incorrect, is it really worth voting in an election when D stands for Dumb-ass and R stands for retarded? Perhaps not. I could always do something constructive like go fishing on election day. I can’t think of a time when I have been more disenchanted with America’s political class and that is saying something, as I basically distrust them to start.

You and me both Dan.

H/T: Brendan Loy

The caption that came along with this photo:

Taking six years to build and costing around half a billion euros, the massive undertaking will connect Berlin’s inland harbor with the ports along the Rhine river. At the center of the project is Europe’s longest water bridge measuring in just shy of a kilometer at 918 meters. The huge tub to transport ships over the Elbe took 24,000 metric tons of steel and 68,000 cubic meters of concrete to build.

The water bridge will enable river barges to avoid a lengthy and sometimes unreliable passage along the Elbe. Shipping can often come to a halt on the stretch if the river’s water mark falls to unacceptably low levels.

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(via The Morning Brew)

Help Save Manassas will have it’s next membership meeting tomorrow night (June 27th) at Manassas City Hall. At 7PM there will be open discussion, and the meeting will come to order at 7:30PM. If you want to be engaged in the local efforts to reduce the numbers of illegal aliens in our community, or just want to learn more about the issue, please consider attending. (more…)

(via BLACK VELVET BRUCE LI)

Hillary! raised $2 million from Indian-Americans yesterday.  Many of those in attendance were upset about Barrack Hussein Obama’s campaign “circulating a memo that described Clinton as a Democrat representing Punjab and detailing her ties to Indian firms that specialize in outsourcing.”

I guess that they forgot Hillary!’s own racial slur comment regarding Indian-Americans.

Fred Thompson has increased his lead over Rudy Giuliani in this week’s Rasmussen Reports survey of likely Republican primary voters.  (Rasmussen actually called my home with this poll last week, but we only got it on voicemail so we did not participate.)  Although Fred drops to 27% from last week’s 28%, Rudy drops from 27% to 23%.  Thus, Fred is now up by 4% as opposed to last week’s 1% and the previous week’s tie with Rudy.  This definitely marks a trend.

Now we also have evidence that Fred is moving up in the General Election match-up, too.  While Rudy leads Barrack Hussein Obama by 3% – 44%-41% — Fred is coming up strong and only trails Obama by 2% — 43%-41%.  Not a bad position to be in without having even declared his candidacy.  It will be interesting to see the numbers of Fred vs. Hillary! once that match-up has been polled (especially since Hillary! has the highest number of voters who say they would never vote for her — 46% — and Fred has the lowest number who would never vote for him — 31%.