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ELLISON HOLDS PRESS CONFERENCE TO MARK ANNIVERSARY OF NIXON’S RESIGNATION; CALLS FOR CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS ON BUSH
By Michael B. Brodkorb | August 9, 2006
This is just crazy. The DFL Party is so out of touch with average Minnesotans.
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10:30 a.m. NIXON ANNIVERSARY: State Rep. Keith Ellison, the DFL-endorsed candidate for Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, marks the anniversary of President Richard Nixon's resignation by calling for Congressional hearings on the excesses of the Bush administration.
Location: University of Minnesota Law School, main entrance, 229 19th Ave. S., Minneapolis
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August 9th, 2006 at 11:23 am
Wow. The Dems keep finding ways to go further off the deep end.
I just hope that when Republicans move into fill the void in Minnesota politics left by DFLers gone wild, they don’t go all Big Gov on us and force us to vote “lesser of two evils” every election.
I want to vote for something not against something.
August 9th, 2006 at 11:25 am
The Ellisons, Klobuchars and Rowleys of the world are really shining a bright light on just how extreme today’s Democratic Party is.
If this sort of far left extremism is what the DFL is going to offer the voters in November, I think that the Republican Party may end up doing pretty well.
August 9th, 2006 at 11:31 am
Wow, this is so controversial since even members of Nixon’s cabinet have been talking about the Bush administration’s abuse of executive branch power. Prison abuse, misleading the public into war, war crime tribunals, extraordinary renditions (AKA outsourcing torture), wiretapping phones, and instead of vetoing legislation, we have an administration that announces it will not enforce the law.
This sort of authoritarianism would make Stalin proud. I repeat: This is so controversial.
Minnesotans do not share many values with the Bush administration
August 9th, 2006 at 12:30 pm
Lokel, this has nothing to do with Bush, and you know it — he’s not running again. This is all about re-establishing Ellison’s radical bona-fides with the deep pockets and influence of the anti-war anti-Bush left. He’s trying to save his skin.
Calling for hearings into policy differences disguised as `crimes’ in a time of war is disgraceful, and Ellison should pay the price.
August 9th, 2006 at 12:42 pm
Yep. Calling for an investigation of a guy that only 20 some percent of America thinks is doing a good job. This is certain to hurt him in the fall.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Yokel, so I can quote you on supporting the losers and criminals from the Nixon administration?
I hope that in July of 2008 Republicans don’t hold press confrences for the 30th anniversry of Clintons rape of Junita Broaddrick. That would be digging bottom.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
“This sort of authoritarianism would make Stalin proud. I repeat: This is so controversial.”
Stalin killed millions. Stalin was worse then Hitler. I know a lady whose father spent 7 years in one of Stalin’s concentration camps. Yokel, we live in the most free nation in the world. I really wish you whiners on the left would appreciate how nice we have it hear.
August 9th, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Roving, I hope they do an investigation. Bush has done nothing illegeal or unethical. I have no reason to fear an thorough review of everything he has done.
August 9th, 2006 at 2:33 pm
So, lying to congress is now legal?
NEATO!
August 9th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
//Stalin killed millions. Stalin was worse then Hitler. I know a lady whose father spent 7 years in one of Stalin’s concentration camps. Yokel, we live in the most free nation in the world. I really wish you whiners on the left would appreciate how nice we have it hear. //
Second that, Dave. The way the liberals put our country on the same plane as these evil leaders and regimes just shows how distorted a scope through which they see the world.
I believe that we are seeing history in the making this year. Over the next decade, the Independence party or another viable 3rd party, will begin to take half or more of the Democratic party’s vote as real Americans with center-left views search out candidates who are more in line with their values.
August 9th, 2006 at 2:52 pm
Funny how the kook left is lecturing us about Stalin. Many on the left supported Stalin (ie. the Nation magazine) and continue to support agents like Stalin all around the world.
August 9th, 2006 at 3:57 pm
Dave, are you retarded?
You do know that many Nixon folks are the very ones you support in this administration? Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeild are two names that come to mind.
There is not a group that has served in the White House that think this adminstration is doing anything right.
This is nothing new, its just not on your talking points yet. Ellison called for Bush resignation and /or investigations last session. The rest of the country in swinging in the direction that this war was/is not worth it. You 20 percenters keep telling yourselves that the President can survive this.
Any wonder why we aren’t seeing Bush in any of the Republican ads (broadcast and print) here in Minnesota? We are at war and he is the leader, why not show the wartime leader supports you?
‘Cause its the kiss of death and even the GOP sychophants know it.
August 9th, 2006 at 4:10 pm
“Dave, are you retarded?”
Why? Is there a John Kerry bumper sticker taped to the back window of my car?
August 9th, 2006 at 4:12 pm
DJZ,
//We are at war and he is the leader//
Thanks for admitting that at least.
Andrew
::This out of context quote has been brought to you by my newly acquired skill, taught to me by all you lefty bloggers::
August 9th, 2006 at 4:18 pm
Ellison should clean up his own act before he calls for the investigation of someone else. Bush lied people died blah blah blah blah blah.
August 9th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
It is bad for the President. Even a Nazi committed to the extermination of the Jew is on message about Bush’s approval rating.
“(CBS) Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad sat down with Mike Wallace in Tehran on Tuesday in a rare, exclusive interview with a Western reporter.”
“You see that his approval rating is dropping every day. Hatred vis-Ã -vis the president is increasing every day around the world. For a ruler, this is the worst message that he could receive. Rulers and heads of government at the end of their office must leave the office holding their heads high.”
August 9th, 2006 at 7:31 pm
I’m so glad Ellison does a press conference at the school where he went to law school…so we can all remember that is when he went by the fake name of Keith Hakim and advocated for Florida to secede from the union so blacks can live there and hate white people. oh yeah, then he became a member of a hate group.
August 9th, 2006 at 8:09 pm
I wonder when Keith Ellison loses his primary next month if he will blame Whitey just like Cynthia McKinney did after losing her primary today.
August 9th, 2006 at 8:40 pm
Dave: // Bush has done nothing illegeal or unethical. I have no reason to fear an thorough review of everything he has done. //
You know what’s interesting? Even though Bush has publicly admitted breaking the law, criminal acts are not needed for impeachment!
Bush has damaged the country by subverting the Constitutional series of checks and balances. By inflating the importance and authority of the executive branch, by deciding in signing statements which laws he will and won’t follow, by breaking treaties made by congress, by gathering warmaking powers to himself, he has committed an impeachable act.
Neato!
August 9th, 2006 at 8:43 pm
Chris: // Bush lied, people died. //
Well put, Chris. Keep it up. This is your mantra now. You will achieve independent thought soon.
August 9th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Brian, I wish you would go on tv and talk on behalf of your party. You don’t even know what the hell you’re talking about. You are the most ignorant person I have ever seen. Where did you get your education anyway man — the University of Tehran? People like you will sink the Democrats like the U.S.S. McGovern this November.
August 9th, 2006 at 10:21 pm
And…what?
Weak effort.
You don’t think that looking into the President’s abuses isn’t justified?
Come on, again.
August 9th, 2006 at 11:40 pm
Just keep chanting, Chris. Bush lied, people died. Several hours a day should do it.
Now, back to impeachment. Back in Britian, impeachment was used by the people to remove unfair judges and to overrule unfair administrators. The standard for impeachment was “high crimes and other misdemeanors”, a phrase of the day.
What does this mean? Is it only criminal acts?
No, according to writings of the founders, “high crimes and misdemeanors” refers to offenses against the state, against society itself. Things like bribery and treason are deliberately included, but these offenses can be things like preventing someone for running from office, unbalancing the separation of powers, keeping secrets for no good reason, etc.
Bush has not only admitted to criminal offenses from the podium (the FISA warrentless wiretaps), but has also inflated the power of the executive branch.
I mean, you wouldn’t like it if Clinton could use the NSA to break into MDE and get his real email address and IP – then track him down, open up his computer, and review all his spam, see who he sent checks to at his banks, at whim… without justifying it, would you Chris?
Say you wrote into “Clinton Haters” blog and made a few supposedly anonymous comments. Do you really think you can’t be tracked down easily? What we depend on is that there is some check and balance – no search without reason.
What I can’t and don’t understand is privacy and freedom from search and seizure – Constitutional rights guaranteed from the beginning – typical bread-and-butter for conservatives – are being shredded without any concern for the future.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:03 am
Brian, thank God for President Bush and Tony Blair. Using intelligence gathering, the two governments uncovered a plot to blow up our airplanes and the American people out of the skies.