Kerry’s Dishonorable Discharge On Memorial Day

Showing no shame, John Kerry chose to play politics on Memorial Day, attacking President Bush while in Virginia:

Democrat John Kerry ventured in to Republican leaning Virginia on Monday with a Memorial Day pitch targeting military families and a charge that President Bush “didn’t learn the lessons of our generation in Vietnam.”
Kerry joined Virginia Gov. Mark Warner for a Memorial Day parade in Portsmouth, home to naval shipyards and other big military installations, and later promised he could get American troops home from Iraq sooner than Bush would.
“I believe I can lead us out of Iraq effectively by accomplishing goals we need to accomplish but without putting our troops at greater risk,” he said.

No shame, no honor, no respect.
John Kerry has taken a day of remembrance and taken advantage of the grief and mourning of veterans, the families of veterans, and all Americans.
Kerry saw it fit to attack Bush on Iraq, and promising “he could get American troops home from Iraq sooner than Bush would.” Which is interesting since he already said this past week he’d send 40,000 troops over to Iraq.
Kerry also regurgitated the false claim that Bush has ignored the needs of veterans. Kerry has claimed Bush has cut the VA budget, even though it has never been cut and actually increased funding by 40%.
John Kerry, who never misses an opportunity to remind everyone he’s a Vietnam Veteran, dishonored all Veterans by turning Memorial Day into a campaign event for himself.
Once again, I am shocked, appalled, and ashamed of my senator.

Polling Report

I hope that everyone enjoys their Memorial Day – remember the veterans, but also have a good time. Relax, take it easy.
Tomorrow its back to work and back into the political trenches. You don’t think our Democratic friends haven’t been spending the last three days re-sharpening their knives for us, do ya?
Rasmussen shows a bit of a jump for President Bush over the past few days since he gave the War College speech. Still tight in the Rasmussen poll, but its interesting that when President Bush gets out there front and center he does better, while whenever Kerry gets in the news, nothing happens.
Trouble in Ohio for President Bush? Thats the conventional wisdom – and there have been a couple polls to indicate this. The latest poll, however, shows President Bush up by 6 over Kerry in a three-way matchup. I think its interesting that the larger the number of people polled, the better the President does. Does the smaller polling numbers, which tend to indicate trouble for President Bush, actually indicate trouble, or manufactured bad news to hurt the President? We report, you decide.
How is the President’s political base doing? Well, the latest poll in Alabama has President Bush up by 19 percentage points – President Bush won that State by 15 percentage points in 2000. How about John Kerry’s political base? Well, New York went for Gore by 25 percentage points, latest poll there indicates Kerry solidly ahead – but by 19 percentage points; this is what I’ve seen all year…President Bush doing remarkably better in his base than Kerry is doing in his. What it shows is that people who voted for President Bush in 2000 are even more likely to vote for him in 2004 – while Gore’s voters are still waiting for a reason to support Kerry.
They wont get one.
The summer political doldrums are upon us, good people – for the next three months, don’t pay too much attention to the polls, but the polls taken in the Spring give us every reason to be optimistic.
Hat Tip: Real Clear Politics

World War Two Memorial

I just wanted to share with all of the Blogs for Bush community some reflections I have from yesterday, May 29th, the date we dedicated the national World War Two memorial in Washington DC.
I don’t know how many know this, but at the same time that the national memorial was dedicated in DC, World War Two vets, and their families, who could not gather in DC got together in cities and towns across the nation to mark the event. The event I attended was in a small town called Pahrump in Nevada – about 60 miles northwest of Las Vegas. I attended with my WWII vet father, George C. Noonan, my fiance, her mother and her father – also a World War Two vet named Joseph Wilinski. In attendance in this small, out-of-the-way town were about 60 veterans of the war, and about 500 people all told.
It was, good people, the most touching and moving event I’ve ever attended.

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The Jobs Just Keep Coming

Seems like we’ve been saying this a lot recently, but once again things continue to look great for the economy:

The Labor Department may report Friday that U.S. companies added 225,000 workers to their payrolls last month, fueled by an economy that’s raced ahead at the fastest clip since 1984, economists said.
The projected increase would bring to almost 850,000 the number of jobs created since March, for the best three months of job creation since the year 2000. The Labor Department may also report the unemployment rate held at 5.6 percent.
Separate reports from the Institute for Supply Management are forecast to show manufacturing and the service industry expanded this month. A report from the Commerce Department is projected to show that construction spending rose in April.
“It’s hard to say the economy is slowing if you get payrolls growing more than 200,000 and an ISM index above 60,” Robert Mellman, an economist at J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. in New York, said. “The economy is doing just fine.”

Other reports expected to come out this week may show that productivity is up, from an estimated 3.5 percent. First-time claims for unemployment insurance probably fell to 335,000 from 344,000 the previous week.
I blame the Bush tax cuts.

Definition of ‘Broke’

I’m watching Rep. Nancy Pelosi on Meet The Press (shudder) and she keeps using the phrase that Sec. Powell used – “If you break it, you fix it.”
Does anyone find it odd that most Democrats think that a country on its way to being a stable democracy is “broke” but a ruthless terrorizing dictator is “fixed”?
One has to question what is the most important thing here for them – scoring a political victory or spreading freedom and securing the world.