If you want evidence of where the gay movement is failing gay people, you only need look at this press release from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF). For once, I basically agree with the Task Force, but find their rhetoric way over the top and counterproductive. It offends those they should be trying to convince.

They fault Pope Benedict XVI for favoring an “‘Instruction’ that gay men should not be ordained as Roman Catholic priests.” That is, the church would “bar even celibate gay men from seminaries” Instead of calling the practice wrong, narrow-minded, unfair or discriminatory, all terms which I would use, NGTLF’s Executive Director Matt Foreman calls it “evil” and accuses the Church of “unbridled hatred” of gay people.

This over-the-top rhetoric obscures the merits of their case. I had to read the release twice before realizing that I basically agreed with the Task Force on this one. It does them no good to call the church evil — or to attack the Church as Foreman does. His screed will not succeed in convincing many people (who do not already have a negative opinion of the Catholic Church) of the extreme nature of this “instruction.”
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NBC/Universal Chief Jeff Zucker dropped the “L” bomb at ’30 Rock’ today….. “Layoffs.”

Zucker Tells NBC Newsers: “There Will Likely Be Layoffs.”

This one has been under my skin since she first started…..

And this one!!! Well, I believe she has a hotline phone to Hell for tips to improve her integrity and objectivity.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Good news folks…. we won’t have to see or hear Senator Camera Hog for a while now that this news has broken….

Newsday.com — They’re Not A Credit To Schumer

WASHINGTON — Two opposition researchers working for Sen. Charles Schumer at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee obtained copies of a confidential credit report on Maryland’s Republican lieutenant governor, prompting calls for their prosecution.

In July, committee research director Katie Barge and Lauren Weiner, a junior staffer, used Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele’s Social Security number to get his credit report, according to a Democratic official familiar with the case.

The committee, which works to elect Democrats to the Senate, has been compiling research on Steele, Maryland’s highest-ranking African-American official, a GOP contender for the U.S. Senate seat to be vacated by Democrat Paul Sarbanes in 2006.

Since Steele is an African-American, I assume that based on the usual LibDem talking point strategy, that Schumer must be a racist, right?

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

With the Senate Judiciary Committee vote to approve the nomination of John Roberts as the next Chief Justice, we once again have proof that Republicans show more respect for their ideological adversaries than do Democrats. Only three of the Committee’s eight Democrats (Vermont’s Patrick Leahy and the two Senators from Wisconsin, Herb Kohl and Russ Feingold) joined all ten Republicans in voting to confirm this good man. Five voted against. This contrasts with the same committee’s unanimous vote twelve years ago to confirm a one-time American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) activist to the Supreme Court.

Yep, all the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1993 voted to confirm Ruth Bader Ginsburg even though her appointment would shift the court to the left. President Clinton tapped her to replace Byron White who, while appointed by President Kennedy, usually voted with the court’s conservative bloc; he wrote the dissenting opinion in Roe. v. Wade.

Even though conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer thinks a Chief Justice Roberts would “move the court only mildly, but most assuredly, to the left,” a majority of Judiciary Committee Democrats voted against this good man. My state’s normally sensible senior Senator, Dianne Feinstein, said “her vote was decided after Roberts refused to fully answer questions from her and other Democrats in his confirmation hearing last week.” Twelve years ago, she didn’t express similar qualms about Ms. Ginsburg’s failure to fully answer questions from Democrats — or Republicans.

Let’s face it, while Democrats and others on the left repeatedly accuse conservatives of intolerance and narrow-mindedness, they, by and large, are far more ideologically hardheaded than are most Republicans and conservatives. Bill Clinton won only 43% of the popular vote in 1992, yet Republican Senators respected his constitutional role in appointing judges — even if his first Supreme Court appointment shifted the court to the left. Today’s Senate Democrats are a much different sort, more concerned with answering to left-wing interest groups than in respecting constitutional principles.

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

UPDATE: Powerline‘s Paul writes, “The Democratic “no” vote on the 18 member Committee exceeds the number of Republican votes, Senate-wide, against Justice Ginsburg.”

UPDATE FROM GP: I noted with interest the point that Rush Limbaugh made today. DiFi was voting no on Roberts partially because she wasn’t sure how Roberts was as a husband and a father. Really. So feminism is now decided on whether you are a GOOD husband and father? I thought it was irrelevant to them. Plus, imagine the screams from the LibDems had someone asked Ginsberg if she were a good mother or wife!!! Double-standards never end among our friends from the Anti-Religious Left.

G’Stater at the new New Jersey Blog has some recent updates on two stories that we all equate with the Garden State now.

Golan Cipel (McGreevey’s ‘mistress’)

“Forrester was clearly the stronger of the two candidates on stage tonight. He won the debate on points, but, unfortunately, political debates aren’t won on points — they’re won on perceptions, and expectations. * * * The one memorable line of the night from Doug: “If he’s [Corzine] a tax cutter, then Golan Cipel is a homeland security adviser.”

and

Democrats Corruption Not Confined to Homeland Security Funds.

Towns in legislative districts represented by Trenton’s ruling Democratic Party got nearly 90 percent of $86 million in special state grants the past three years, even though officials proclaimed they had removed politics from the process, a Star-Ledger analysis has found

A review of 10 programs showed state officials repeatedly ignored a carefully crafted application process and instead distributed the money to satisy wishes of key Democratic lawmakers.

The grants helped towns pay for everything from Homeland Security equipment and tourism promotion, to library shelves and ramps for the disabled.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

In a post last week, Bruce linked a gem of the witty (and often wise)
PrismWarden, Tell Me Lies and I’ll Love You Forever, a piece on the difference between gay conservative and gay liberals. Last night, he published a follow-up post, Adolescence Revisted: Part One — Earn It.

In his piece, Robbie puts forward a theory one similar to that I had spelled out in many of my posts on gay marriage, but takes this argument in a direction that might upset many advocates of gay marriage. He says that we need to earn marriage:

Gay liberals want gay marriage right now. They don’t particularly care how they get it, just so long as they get it. When they don’t get it, they tend to throw temper tantrums of enormous proportions. Gay conservatives, on the other hand, realize the importance of how we get it. We know we cannot simply demand it and have it granted through the beatific wave of the magical judicial wand. We must argue for it, persuade for it, and convince others of why we must have it. The method is just as important, if not more so, as the final result.

Some will contend, “But straight people didn’t need to make such arguments for marriage!” Straight marriage (one man to one woman) existed as institution long before the United States came into being, indeed, long before the idea of a constitutional republic was even discussed.

The notion of gay marriage, of two individuals living together in a lifelong monogamous relationship, is a relatively novel idea. Sure, some cultures have recognized such institutions. In the United States, however, until recently, even the staunchest gay rights’ advocates didn’t consider it.

As this blog has done, Robbie looks at the backlash against court-sanctioned gay marriage, noting the numbers of states which have passed “protection of marriage” laws and constitutional amendments. At the same time, too many advocates of gay marriage belittle opponents as “bigoted,” “narrow-minded” or “anti-gay” without taking the time to understand their arguments.

It’s important that, as Robbie puts it, through “ardent, but respectful engagement of the issue,” we make our case. And I will also add, as I’ve said before, we need to talk about marriage as a sacred institution and make clear that we do not just see this as a right to which we are entitled, but a privilege for which we are willing to work. That we understand the obligations of matrimony and are committed to living up to them just as heterosexual couples have done for millennia.

And now that I’ve whet your appetite for Robbie’s post, read the whole thing!

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

In an excellent column on media bias and the coverage of Katrina, Jonah Goldberg has also noticed bias in the coverage of Rita which even your humble blogger missed, but then again, so did the gay media:

The questions raised by unlovely Rita are as painful as they are obvious. Will gays stay behind in disproportionate numbers in this disproportionately gay city? If so, Why? If gay marriage were legalized, could some of this disaster be avoided? Would George W. Bush have responded more quickly if the victims were just a tad less stylish? And, of course: Will the federal government help keep Key West festive?

Why weren’t reporters standing at the ready to caterwaul about the wreckage at their feet? Cher albums and the collected writings of James Wolcott strewn about like beer cans and pizza boxes in an apartment yet to be transformed by the cast of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy.

Now, just read the whole thing for Jonah’s broader points on media coverage of Katrina.

HT: Polipundit’s Lorie Byrd

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

Colorado Patriot wrote in to tell me how poorly one of my favorite singers behaved at a concert/fundraiser for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. Not only am I am a fan of Bette Midler’s voice, but I often love her acting as well. In a past post, I mentioned how her “stupid comedy,” Ruthless People, changed my life for the better. I love her (and Lily) in Big Business and delighted in her cameo in Get Shorty. And, of course, I am a fan of Beaches.

At the New York concert, this talented actress and singer said:

I got a letter from the Republican Party the other day. I wrote back, ‘Go fuck yourself’ . . . George Bush is a fan of mine — he came to see me in the Seventies. His coke dealer brought him.

As Colorado Patriot put it, “Truly tasteless considering what the organizers of this event were trying to accomplish.” Exactly.

Boycotting Bette’s work is clearly out of the question; as PrismWarden put it, “Giving up Bette, it’s practically a gay funeral.” Still, Beaches may never again be the same.

As our Pal BoiFromTroy, who edged us out for Wizbang’s Best LGBT Blog, celebrates his second blogiversary today, he also received his one millionth visitor.

Congratulations, Boi!

(Update from GP – I also, reluctantly, share my envious congrats with the Boi. But I’m gonna win the 2005 LGBT Blog Awards this year, dammit!)

(Up-update from GPW — Um, we, Bruce, we’re gonna win it this year.)

Yep, this is a great way to appeal to the 61% of Californians who voted against accepting gay marriage in the state in 2000: Equate Gov. Schwarzenegger, and those same voters indirectly, with the racist policies of the late Alabama Gov. George Wallace.

Commercial Compares Schwarzenegger to Wallace – CBS 5 (San Francisco)

Gay rights activists plan to air a television commercial this week that compares Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s forthcoming veto of a bill that would legalize same-sex marriage in California to the segregationist policies of former Alabama Gov. George Wallace.

Because Lord knows, when ever you oppose any political issue of the Secular Left, you are obviously a racist.

RELATED UPDATE: Chad at Cake Or Death points out that the gay rights groups in Massachusetts now have the LibDem Party all in a twist…..

State Speaker Sal DiMasi (D) “has no realistic choice other than to allow a vote of the legislators inasmuch as the Democratic support of homosexual marriage is destroying his Party in this state.”

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

UP-UPDATE (from GPW): On the day after his second blogiversary, BoifromTroy notes that a Reiner (AKA Meathead) Strategist is Behind the Attacks on the Governator. And he thinks Equality California may be becoming a “fringe-organization in California Politics instead of a useful means to advance gay and lesbian rights in the State.”

Hat Tip: GOP Vixen

“HELP! MOM! THERE ARE LIBERALS UNDER MY BED tells of two brothers who open a lemonade stand. Their plans to save up their hard earned profits to buy a swing set go awry when a Ted Kennedy character taxes away their profits and a pants-suit clad Hillary Clinton look-alike outlaws sugary drinks.”

I hope there is a chapter where the Liberals are so afraid of offending their voters that they allow Al-Qaeda to infiltrate the country. Thank goodness this is only fiction…..

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

Thank goodness that at least one gay organization in the world, OutRage!, actually cares about the real and physical (not imagined) war against our community by the Islamic Fascist governments and terror organizations.

Iran sanctions state violence against gay people
Gay Amir, aged 22, given 100 lashes
Apathy of gay, left and human rights groups condemned

London – 20 September 2005

The bruised and bloodied body of a 22 year old gay Iranian, Amir, bears witness to the brutality of the Ayatollah’s regime.

Amir escaped Iran after the authorities threatened him with execution for being gay – but not before he was subjected to the barbarism of 100 lashes, which left his back covered in huge bloody welts.

A copy of Amir’s story, together with photos of his savage injuries, has been sent to the British LGBT human rights group OutRage! by Iranian LGBT activists (see below).

View the photos of Amir:
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging1
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging2
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging3
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging4
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging5
http://www.outrage.org.uk/imagezoom.asp?file=Iranian_gay_flogging6

“This is a further example of the violent homophobia of the Iran’s Islamic fundamentalist regime,” said Brett Lock of OutRage!

OutRage! is appalled that large sections of liberal and left opinion in the West shows little concern regarding the murderous brutality of the clerical fascist regime in Tehran.

“We deplore the gullibility of many gay, left and human rights groups concerning the abuse of LGBT human rights in Iran.

“Too many are willing to believe the smears and slurs of the Iranian government and state-approved newspapers like Qods.

“When two young men were executed for same-sex acts in the Iranian city of Mashad in July, some left and human rights organisations accepted at face value claims by the state-controlled media that the youths were hanged for rape.

“Similar gullibility has been shown by some left-wingers. They have long swallowed Iran’s homophobic propaganda.

“Believing the stories in Iran’s state-sanctioned media is like accepting the news as reported by the press in Franco’s Spain or Pinochet’s Chile.

“Where are the left-wing campaigns in western countries to support the freedom struggles of Iranian LGBTs, women, democrats, socialists and workers?

Answer: They are accusing the popularly-elected, and re-elected leaders of their own democracies of being the “real terrorists” and so wound up in their own self-absorbed panties about the semantics of civil unions versus marriage to care.

Welcome to readers from Best of the Web and Roger L. Simon!

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

UPDATE (from GPW): Commenting on Bruce’s post, the Anchoress explains, “The condition is this: In order to be offended by images of torture, the torturers have to be U.S. Troops, serving under a CIC who has an R after his name.” Read the whole thing.

Every year, the Human Rights Campaign (you know, that “bi-partisan” gay organization) issues a report card on corporate America’s treatment of their GLBT employees. The report ranks companies on seven criteria:

1. Include “sexual orientation” in the non-discrimination policy…
2. Include “gender identity and/or expression” in the non-discrimination policy…
3. Offer health insurance coverage to employees’ same-sex domestic partners company-wide…
4. Officially recognize and support a GLBT employee resource group…
5. Offer diversity training that includes sexual orientation and/or gender identity in the workplace…
6. Engage in respectful and appropriate marketing to the GLBT community…
7. Do NOT engage in corporate actions that undermine the goal of equal rights for GLBT people…

In 2005, 101 companies scored a perfect 100% on the index.

I am pleased to say, I work for one of those companies.

Full press release can be found here.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

I guess today is Middle Eastern Day at GP? Here’s an interesting posting from The Big Pharaoh’s trip to Egypt.

Meeting Egypt’s Gays

Gays in Egypt have to take maximum care because sometimes the authorities here leave the corrupt businessmen and the criminals and arrest homosexuals instead. “We try to stay close to each other, we don’t usually open up to those we don’t know” I was told.

Amazingly, the guys were well aware of what’s happening around the world. They were aware of the same sex marriage debate that’s going on in the U.S and other countries, and they unanimously expressed their disapproval towards gay marriage and gay foster parents. See, that’s the irony. Religion plays a huge role in the definition of the personality of any Egyptians no matter how observant he/she is. Even though those guys are gay, they know that as far as religion is concerned they are committing a sin, and so legal sex marriage is something that shouldn’t be even considered.

-Bruce (GayPatriot)

One of the great voices of conscience of the last century has fallen silent. Simon Wiesenthal, a survivor of five Nazi death camps who spent the better part of the past six decades tracking down Nazi war criminals and speaking out for tolerance, died in his sleep early this morning at his home in Vienna. He was 96.

Calling Wiesenthal “the conscience of the Holocaust,” Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder of the LA-based Simon Wiesenthal Center, added:

When the Holocaust ended in 1945 and the whole world went home to forget, he alone remained behind to remember. He did not forget. He became the permanent representative of the victims, determined to bring the perpetrators of the history’s greatest crime to justice. There was no press conference and no president or Prime Minister or world leader announced his appointment. He just took the job. It was a job no one else wanted.

Having lost 89 relatives in the Holocaust, Wiesenthal brought over 1,100 Nazi war criminals to justice and devoted his life to fighting prejudice and promoting tolerance. He understood that “there is no freedom without justice.”

Born in Bucacz in what is now Ukraine, Wiesenthal, trained as an architect, was forced to work in a bedspring factory after the Nazi-Soviet non-aggression pact of 1939. The Nazis arrested him when they took over his town in 1941. While imprisoned in one camp, Wiesenthal was taken to the besdside of a dying Nazi soldier who had asked him, as a Jew, for forgiveness for participating in the murder of two hundred Jews in a town in Ukraine. After the war, Wiesenthal posed this soldier’s question to a number of leading theologians, writers and other prominent individuals: how would they repond to this request? Could they forgive him? He published their replies in his book, The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness. (I highly, **highly** recommend this book.)

You can read more about this great man here. The Simon Wiesenthal Center, “an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action,” was founded in 1977 and inspired The Museum of Tolerance in 1993. In memory of Simon Wiesenthal, please join me in supporting these institutions.

George Santayana wrote, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Wiesenthal well understood the wisdom of those words and devoted his life to the pursuit of justice, the promotion of tolerance, teaching us all the lesson of the Holocaust so that mankind would not repeat the horrors of the Nazi era. As a tribute to this great man, remembering the past, let us strive to understand our neighbors and learn to tolerate difference in our fellow man.

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

I had intended to blog yesterday on a National Review fundraiser I attended Saturday night in Studio City, but decided to delay my post until after I had attended a gay party in the heart of West Hollywood later in the afternoon. And in contrasting my reception at these two gatherings, one where I was openly gay among conservative, the second where I was openly conservative among gays, I experienced nearly exactly the same thing I had when I attended two such events back to back last fall.

This time, however, I actually had a good discussion of gays and the GOP with one guy at the gay party. I had quite a blast at the NR shindig Saturday. The hostess (a former liberal and fan of the magazine) told me that she had never seen so many straight people at her place at one time. She regularly socializes with gay men. More evidence that conservatives are not so narrow as our critics (and some readers of this blog) claim.

I met a number of writers and editors whose columns (and Corner “chatter) I enjoy and got to talk to Peter Robinson, newly installed as a trustee of Dartmouth and author of the wonderful book, How Reagan Changed My Life (which I bought when I visited the Reagan library with Bruce). Jonah Goldberg was much taller than I imagined and most gregarious. A Lord of the Rings fan like me, he is, alas, not so keen (as I) on The Silmarillion.

Ramesh Ponnuru proved to be an excellent conversationalist, well-read and familiar with the details of legislation in this Congress (and past Congresses). K-Lo (i.e., Kathryn Jean Lopez), witty and smart, informed me that my Athena reads the Corner. And even though he once considered running for Mayor of New York, Rich Lowry looks like he’s still a student at America’s finest state university.

I introduced myself to each by indicating the blog (with which most were familiar). Kate O’Beirne was the only one who raised an eyebrow when I identified myself as gay. And that may have been because I reminded her of an exchange we had at the Cato Institute in the mid-90s (which she did not remember as well as I–if she remembered it all).
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Like many Americans, I had hoped that Angela Merkel’s Christian Democrats (CDU) would win a convincing victory in yesterday’s elections in Germany and replace the anti-American government of the Social Democrats‘ (SPD) Gerhard Schröder. And while we are disappointed by the returns yesterday in which neither coalition (CDU and Free Democrats (FPD) or the SPD and Green Party) received a majority of seats in the Bundestag, I realized how little the result matters in terms of the current geopolitical situation.

To be sure, President Bush’s hand would be strengthened if a CDU/FDP government emerges. And if Chancellor Gerhard Schröder should be replaced, Jacques Chirac will have lost his largest (& strongest) ally in his project to create a European bloc to counter the United States. Whichever government emerges, President Bush’s foreign policy will remain the same. Germany is no longer as relevant as it once was.

Twenty-two years ago, however, the German election really mattered. After Helmut Schmidt, the last serious SPD Chancellor, lost a vote of confidence in the Bundestag on October 1, 1982, the CDU’s Helmut Kohl became Chancellor. As his party faced the March 6, 1983 elections, there was a growing movement against the deployment of Pershing II missiles, a deployment essential to President Reagan’s Cold War strategy.

Had the CDU/FDP coalition then lost, the Bundestag would likely not have voted that November to deploy these missiles. The Gipper’s hand would have been weakened and the Berlin Wall likely would not have fallen in 1989.

In 1983, the Germany election was significant. While the position of the United States would certainly be strengthened by the success of Ms. Merkel, it won’t be weakened should Schröder somehow manage to cling to power.
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Over at PrismWarden, Robbie offers some insight into the recent debate between Christopher Hitchens and George Galloway. Hitchens shares his thoughts on the debate here (HT: Powerline), but I found Robbie’s post a better read. As an outside observer, he provides a most unique perspective.

Robbie noted that:

Galloway’s entire argument, it seemed, was that Christopher Hitchens opposed intervention in Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, thus supporting it now nullifies anything to be said on the topic. Similarly, Galloway’s answer against the present war on terror seems to rest entirely on the realpolitik practices of the U.S. and Britain during the 1970′s and 1980s. We helped create the situation, you see.

To oppose these various regimes now makes us hypocrites.

Indeed, Robbie finds that “For many on the Left, hypocrisy is quite possibly the greatest crime one can ever possibly commit.” Thus, instead of engaging supporters of the war (or indeed, advocates of any argument they oppose), liberals are all to eager to nitpick at the hypocrisies (or alleged hypocrisies) of conservatives rather than address the merits of their arguments. Recall, the ruckus a few months back over the supposed hypocrisy of Jeff Gannon? As if the hypocrisy of a reporter for a two-bit news organization who happened to get a White House press pass somehow merited national attention.

Anyway, I think Robbie’s right on the money about many on the left. They’re all to eager to dwell on our hypocrisy (or supposed hypocrisy) as if it absolves them of the responsibility of making real arguments. He has more to say on this topic — and says it in a manner that is fun to read — so just read the whole thing!

-Dan (AKA GayPatriotWest): GayPatriotWest@aol.com

After returning yesterday evening from an afternoon & evening of socializing and entertainment, I logged on to find another whopper from the master of the whopper, the man who joins Democrats Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson (Democrats as well) as the only presidents re-elected without winning a majority of the popular vote:

It’s like when they issued the evacuation order. . . . That affects poor people differently. A lot of them in New Orleans didn’t have cars. A lot of them who had cars had kinfolk they had to take care of. They didn’t have cars, so they couldn’t take them out.

Yep, while interviewed on ABC’s This Week by his former acolyte George Stephanopolous, Bill Clinton spoke those words. The former president forgot to mention that it was the Democratic Mayor of New Orleans who let his city’s fleet of buses sit idle and so failed to evacuate the less fortunate residents of the Crescent City.

Perhaps, Clinton was upset that many of those affected the hurricane liked the president’s speech last Thursday. Even the woman who managed his designated successor’s presidential campaign was proud of the president and the plan he put forward.

Clinton didn’t just take issue with Mr. Bush’s handling of Hurricane Katrina. He also faulted him for the war in Iraq and other issues. And while I was busying socializing, browsing for books and watching the pleasant flick, Just Like Heaven, a few bloggers weighed in on Mr. Clinton’s lack of class. They pointed out how his criticisms of his successor were at odds with his past statements, made both while he was in office and after he left. This blogger does a good job of fisking the former president’s interview with his one-time aide. (HT: Polipundit’s Lorie Byrd.)

Powerline claims we are entering “uncharted waters” for until now, “former Presidents of both parties have stayed out of politics and have avoided criticizing their successors.” Lorie Byrd has two posts on the topic (calling him a “No-Class Slime” and providing great links here). At National Review Online’s the Corner, K-Lo says Clinton’s working on the “MoveOn crowd for Hill.”
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Apparently, this book is not only one of Chairman Dean’s favorites, but it’s also been seen on the nightstands of Arianna Huffington, Michael Moore, Barbara Boxer, Nancy Pelosi, Chuck Schumer, Harry Reid and Dick Durbin.