Law School Conservative

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

With renewed confidence after the whole Gonzales debacle last week, Congress once again pushes to get someone else to say what they want to hear. After interrogating Gonzales, guilty of nothing more than having a public relations team so bad that it couldn’t make Mother Teresa look good, they now turn their proverbial sights to the Pentagon, to ask questions about the tragic death of Pat Tillman in Afghanistan (back when the democrats still liked war) and the rescue of PFC Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

The situation is this, the Army thought there may have been a predator drone flying overhead. They looked to see if this was true and found nothing. The hope was to get video evidence and clear up a friendly fire accident. Again, they found nothing.

Congress now seems to think that the Army doesn’t know what its talking about and is SURE there was a drone there, and that the military is hiding it. Now, after however many admissions of responsibility, why would the Army hide this video? It can either prove them right and show that Tillman’s death was a result of a screw up, or prove them wrong and prove it was the Taliban.

Now as for Jessica Lynch, I don’t know what they are getting at. There is a tape of the whole rescue, and this evidently has more to do with Lynch’s portrayal as a “Rambo” than anything else. For the record, Lynch was on a gurney the whole time, and the most she did was hold a “thumbs up” sign.

So, off to watch this hearing, and see what exactly Congress thinks they know that the Army doesn’t.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

President Bush today defended Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Like I posted before, I don’t believe the Attorney General was getting fair treatment in his testimony on the hill. After seeing the testimony, I frankly don’t think he deserves to go. More on my reasons later.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

CNN’s Ruben Navarrette, on how Alberto Gonzales is not getting a fair treatment from Democrats.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

The Attorney General is testifying.

In a classic example of the democrats taking an opportunity to brew a hurricane in a glass of water, they are exploiting a mistake in handling the publicity surrounding a perfectly legal use of executive power, and using their bully pulpit to make President Bush look bad.

In the end, they’re gonna look like fools.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

John Lillpop at the Conservative Voice provides this commentary on how democrats are being quite two faced about the so-called “culture of corruption”

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

$24 billion in pork projects. Including $74 million for a peanut storage facility (?) and $25 million to grow spinach.

President Bush and Senator McCain have both expressed their distaste for these projects.

I’m sure the folks at Citizens Against Government Waste have something to say (Here it is, in the NY times).

Its getting vetoed anyway, I hope.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

Seems like Senator Fienstein got herself in some hot water.

She has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee, after it came out that her husband, owner of two defense contracting firms, profited from billion dollar appropriations approved by her committee.

Here’s Rush Limbaugh’s view.

I apologize for the lack of mainstream media sources on this post, but for some reason, they seem to not want to report this (a google news search only brought up opinion pieces). Wonder how they would have treated this same scandal had DiFi been one of the ones with an “R” after her name.

By: Carlos S. Ramirez

Looks like the Commander-in-Chief will be showing Congress a thing or two about setting war policy.

Congress, in its usual abuse of commerce clause and spending clause powers, decided to set a timetable for troop withdrawal when it approved the war spending bill.

Time for POTUS to break out the veto seal and show Congress that career military men and women should be setting policy for Iraq, not Harry Ried, DiFi (Diane Fienstein), Chucky Schumer, Nancy Pelosi and John Murtha.