This Week's Backside Of The Bell Curve Winner(s)!

Republican Bloggers



Staff meeting at Republican Blogging Headquarters

Exhibit A

brantly.org

Presidential Press Conference

April 29th, 2005

Excellent message why optional retirement savings accounts would be objectionable to the democrats is a mystery to me. They could negotiate the details to satisfy there concerns but they seem determined to prevent a solution to worsening problem.

Exhibit B

Is It Just Me?

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Abortions For Minors: ACLU Endorsed Poor Parenting

The ACLU has decided to champion another immoral cause. A thirteen year old Florida girl is in the center of a court case because she became pregnant and went to a women's center where she "made an informed decision to abort" and was blocked in court by the Florida state Department of Children & Families from the abortion she is seeking. The girl, who is a long time ward of the state, was blocked in court by DCF because of state law which prohibits the department from consenting to an abortion for a minor in any instance. The ACLU has taken up the girls case and is fighting to lift the block on the abortion citing that the girl is being denied her constitution rights to make decisions due to her age.

Exhibit C

blogsforbush.com

Ken Mehlman Calls On Democrats To End Their Obstruction of Social Security Reform

By Matt Margolis at 10:49 AM

Last night, RNC Chairman Ken Mehlman issued the following statement:

"Now that President Bush has set a clear course to permanently strengthening Social Security for future generations, the time for Democrat obstructionism is over. Progressive indexing will make Social Security a better deal for all Americans, and it is now time for Democrats to propose their own strategies if they disagree with President Bush's common sense ideas. It's no longer acceptable for Democrats to play politics with the retirements of American workers by refusing to show up at the negotiating table."

Democrats have said that personal retirement accounts have to be off the table before they will to the table... but that's just not going to work. While Americans agree something needs to be done to fix Social Security, and the Democrats refuse to work with Bush to fix it, guess who looks worse... the Democrats...

Exhibit D

rogerlsimon.com

April 28, 2005

An Open Letter to All Bloggers

Charles Johnson, Marc Danziger and I have been sneaking around over the last few months, trying to turn blogs into a business. We have enlisted some others with names familiar to you with the intention of working in two areas - aggregating blogs to increase corporate advertising and creating our own professional news service.

With respect to advertising, we do not wish to go into competition with Henry Copeland's BlogAds, which we fully support. (Some of us even have them!) We are working on another model that will sell ads en masse, not blog-by-blog. We expect this model to go live within a few weeks.

As for the Blog News Service, a lot of work needs to be done and a lot of questions answered. An editorial board consisting of Glenn Reynolds, PowerLine, Lawrence Kudlow, Hugh Hewitt, Marc Cooper, Wretchard of the Belmont Club and Tim Blair, as well as the founders, is already in place with other bloggers in many countries having signed on as contributors.

This is no way meant to be exclusive. We invite you all to join us. On the advertising end, any blogger -- whether political or not -- is welcome. We would be delighted to place ads on your blog and pay you for them. You may find out more and, we hope, join by simply emailing us at join@pajamasmedia.com.

If you are an advertiser, you may contact us at advertisers@pajamasmedia.com.

UPDATE: Besides, the US, blogs from the following countries have signed up as of now -- UK, Australia, Iraq, Egypt, Israel, Spain, Germany, France, India and Malaysia.

Exhibit E

rightwingnews.com (Scroll down this page for my blog entry on this subject!)

If The False Alarm Had Been Real, There Could Have Been A Lot Of Dead Reporters

Yesterday, W. was evacuated to the White House bunker after a false alarm:

President Bush was rushed to a secure underground White House bunker and Vice President Dick Cheney was whisked outside the compound Wednesday because of a ''radar anomaly'' -- perhaps a flock of birds or pocket of rain -- that was mistaken for a plane flying in restricted airspace."

This is of course the part of the news that everybody focuses on. However, there was another part that I found grimly amusing, although the press core probably won't be getting a lot of chuckles out of it:

Some White House staff members were evacuated from the West Wing. Tour groups were hustled out of the executive mansion and a park across the street from the White House was cleared.

Some parts of the compound, such as the area where the press is housed, were not notified of the threat or moved.

So there may be a plane heading for the White House and they get the President and the Veep to safety, they start getting the White House staff clear, they look out for the tour groups -- but the press? Screw those guys, they're on their own =D

In all seriousness, I guess they really couldn't notify the press because you know, 5 minutes later they'd all be on the air telling the world that they were live at the White House where the President has fled because of a possible terrorist attack! Meanwhile, if there actually were an airplane full of terrorists in the air and they heard that, they'd probably swing the plane around and head for a softer, unprepared, secondary target, which would put a lot more lives at risk.

The Bush Administration and the White House press core should discuss this and come up with some sort of gentleman's agreement to make sure that in the future, this sort of thing doesn't happen again. The White House is a target for terrorists and it could genuinely be under attack at any time. If that were to ever happen, it would be tragic if reporters were injured or killed because the White House couldn't trust them not to risk other lives by immediately blabbing what was happening on the air.

What the hell is a press core?


Exhibit F (Guess what the F stands for! Hint: It's my favorite gerundive.)

freerepublic.com

"This is our heritage,' UDC president says
Posted by JohnPigg

On 04/29/2005 8:13:36 AM PDT · 3 replies · 29+ views

The Decatur daily ^ | 29 April 2005 | Patrice Stewart

Recalling what families and fathers who became fighters went through during the Civil War is important to Kay McCarley. "This is our heritage, and we feel it's important to get the message out, although anything Confederate gets such bad press now," said McCarley, president of Joe Wheeler Chapter No. 291 of United Daughters of the Confederacy. "This is not a racist organization, although many people try to make it out to be," she said. "Slavery may have been a part of the Civil War, but it was so much more than that. "Most of them were just ordinary people," she...

Scared yet?