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Hillary Clinton gave a speech at a “Woman for Hillary” breakfast in Miami yesterday, and said after 8 years of Bush the White House will need some major house cleaning. “After eight years of the Bush administration, we are going to be shocked by what we find,” the former first lady said. “Somebody said to me the other day if there was ever a time for a woman president it’s now because we’re going to have to do a lot of cleaning.” “Grab your buckets, grab your brooms,” Clinton said. “We’re going to have to do a clean sweep because there has been a culture of cronyism, corruption, and incompetence.” The crowd of about 1000 ladies and their daughters applauded loudly even after paying $100 a plate for their breakfast. Clinton told the crowd that Bush has squandered the budget surplus that President Clinton built up, and Bush has ruined the reputation of the U.S.A. around the world. She was critical of Bush’s attempts at diplomacy. “It is important to be both smart and tough,” Clinton said. “I have no illusions about how hard this job is. I have seen it closely. It is always hard, and after President Bush and Vice President Cheney, it is really going to be hard.” I remember in the other Clinton Presidency there was plenty of cronyism, and corruption, and even some incompetence. Does this mean Hillary wants to clean out Bush’s mess so she will have room for her mess? If we really want to “clean house,” it would be better to start from scratch, and get all these “inside the beltway” clowns out of Washington D.C. But that’s not likely. At least Hillary’s campaign is entertaining at times.
Alan Cosgrove

Sam Brownback has a new book coming out on July 3rd called, “From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of Faith and Compassion.” In the book he writes that he used to have “hatred for Bill and Hillary” because of their politics. Brownback writes, “I thought, I hate them for what they are doing to the country and I feel justified in hating them for it.” In the mid nighties Brownback had some life changing moments. During 1995 he was close to getting a divorce because he had worked so hard on the conservative agenda that fueled the Republican takeover of the House in 1994, that he had neglected his wife. Also during 1995 he had a bout with cancer and surgery to remove malignant melanoma from his right side. After that he gave it all up to God to take over. “One night I got down on my knees and said ‘OK, Lord, that’s it. I give up. It’s all Yours,'” Brownback writes in his book. After that he realized you shouldn’t hate anyone regardless of what they do. He even wanted to apologize to Hillary after his new outlook on life. He said he saw her in a crowd one day during a Senate prayer breakfast and, “realized that those thoughts of hatred were wrong. I apologized to her for them. I don’t know what she thought, but I believe it made a difference.” My guess is she thought he was a bit crazy, I know that would be my first thought. The reason he doesn’t know what she thought was, because he apologized during the middle of a speech half way across the room. Now that’s sincerity. With these type of mental issues flowing around in his brain, is he really qualified to be President? Why did he hate the First Lady? She didn’t make policy. And just because someone has different ideas about how to run this country is it really sane to hate them? I am glad to see that Jesus has calmed his hatred for Democrats. With these type of deep seeded feelings, the chance of anything remotely resembling bipartisanship during a Brownback administration seems highly unlikely. He needs to talk to a therapist about this stuff.
Alan Cosgrove

Mitt Romney was in Pittsburgh and brought up old family trips with his family and dog. It all started with a story in the Boston Globe called The Making of Mitt Romney. In that story they write about the Romney family going on vacation from Boston to his parents’ cottage on the Canadian shores of Lake Huron. As the story in the Globe goes, “Before beginning the drive, Mitt Romney put Seamus, the family’s hulking Irish setter, in a dog carrier and attached it to the station wagon’s roof rack. He’d built a windshield for the carrier, to make the ride more comfortable for the dog.” On one occasion the dog pooped on the roof giving Romny’s five boys an unexpected rare pit stop during the 12 hour drive. Because he stopped and washed off the poop, the Globe feels that was, “a tiny preview of a trait he would grow famous for in business: emotion-free crisis management.” That’s right, normal people would have panicked when the dog poops on the roof, wait a minute, normal people don’t put their dogs on the roof of their car for 12 hour drives.
While in Pittsburgh Romney cheered the failure of the immigration bill. “People-one, Washington politicians-zero,” Romney told reporters. “I think the failure of this bill is related to the Washington politicians’ failure to connect with the American people.” He was there to attend a fundraiser. He also spoke briefly about Iraq, saying, “We very much hope the troop surge works.” Romney seems to think it still to early to tell if our current policy in Iraq is a failure.
Alan Cosgrove

In the past week Rudy Giuliani has had a sting of bad news. Fred Thompson hasn’t even announced and he is eating into Giuliani’s poll lead. His South Carolina chairman, Thomas Ravenel, had to step down because he was indited on federal cocaine charges. Ravenel’s father Arthur Ravenel still works for Giuliani. Last week Giuliani was criticized for not attending meetings of the Iraq Study Group, a bi-partisans group that has promoted troop reductions in Iraq. He quit the panel after two months because it was hard to focus on “a bipartisan, nonpolitical resolution.” Instead of attending meetings during the two months he was a part of the group, Giuliani was on paid speaking engagements. New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg quit the Republican party last week opening a door for him to run as an independent. Some polls from New York suggest that Bloomberg is the best candidate from New York. A childhood friend of Giuliani, Monsignor Alan Placa, a Catholic priest, was just suspended from the church because of child abuse charges. Placa works on Giuliani’s security team. Last week former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christie Todd Whitman said that New York city was repeatable told that the rescuers needed breathing protection during the 9/11 rescue and recovery time. Whitman testified on Capitol Hill this past Monday. Over 80% of the people involved in the rescue operations have suffered some sort of lung damage. And Giuliani is basically running as the mayor that stood strong during that time. The Democratic National Commitee said it best with this response to Giuliani, “Rudy’s arrogance has gotten the best of him. How can a man who failed to prepare New York City for a second attack after the first one, who sent firefighters and emergency workers into Ground Zero without respirators and quit the Iraq Study Group to raise money keep America safe?”
Giuliani tried to take the attention off all his problems in a speech before Regent University on Tuesday. He told the crowd at this conservative Christian collage, that was founded by televangelists Pat Robertson, that the Democrats are naive and weak when it comes to terrorist. He tried to place blame for 9/11 on President Bill Clinton. “Islamic terrorists killed more than 500 Americans before Sept. 11. Many people think the first attack on America was on Sept. 11, 2001. It was not. It was in 1993,” said Giuliani. When Bill Clinton treated the first bombing of the World Trade Center as a criminal act it was a “big mistake,” according to Giuliani. Those guys were terrorist, and Clinton only “emboldened” the terrorist to commit more terrorist crimes. “The United States government, then President Clinton, did not respond,” Giuliani said. “bin Laden declared war on us. We didn’t hear it.” He realizes that it is easier to see this with hindsight, “but now is now, and there is no reason to go back into denial, and that is essentially what the Democratic candidates for president want to do: they want to go back, to put the country in reverse to the 1990s.” This is funny, because last September during a stop in Florida Giuliani said, “The idea of trying to cast blame on President Clinton is just wrong for many, many reasons, not the least of which is I don’t think he deserves it. I don’t think President Bush deserves it. The people who deserve blame for Sept. 11, I think we should remind ourselves, are the terrorists — the Islamic fanatics — who came here and killed us and want to come here again and do it.” I can’t wait until Fred Thompson jumps in so we can be over this clown.
Alan Cosgrove