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The Senator is Moving to a new address!

2004-09-27T06:21:00.000-07:00

Dear Constituents,

I am pleased to announce that I am moving to a new location. I hope all of you will follow me to my new personal corner of the blogosphere.

My new site is located at: http://www.senatorpundit.com

For those of you who have blogrolled me, please change your bookmarks if you do not mind.

The new site isn't completely functional yet, but it will be by the end of this week. Comments are up and running, but my blogroll links do not yet work. I am working on that.

Many thanks to the beautiful and talented Tanya of Red Sugar Muse for the design. Her site is great, and everyone should check it out. Her link is: http://www.redsugar.com/muse/

Anyway, I look forward to seeing you at my new digs!

Your faithful servant,

Senator

Putting the Justice Department on the Case

2004-08-26T06:26:00.000-07:00

Yesterday evening, I read a brief headline on The Drudge Report. The gist of the headline was that Jean Francois Kerry, along with several of his liberal friends in the United States Congress, had contacted the United States Justice Department to ask for an investigation into "illegal coordination" between the Bush Campaign and the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Now many people will comment on the hypocritical nature of this request coming from the Democrats. But I think there is a much more salient, and much more subtle point to be made here.

Over the past several weeks, the John Ashcroft's Justice Department has been very visible. Why? Because they have recently had a series of arrests/indictments of individuals/organizations located in the United States who are actively engaged in terrorist cells. In other words, the Justice Department is kicking butt domestically on the war on terror.

In fact, the press conferences have been so frequent, that many on the left (Yes, Josh Marshall and Oliver Willis, I'm talking to you) have made an issue of "questioning the timing/motivation" behind all of the public attention that the Justice Department has been receiving.

But even as the Justice Department continues to kick butt, the left has been making a seperate critique on the War on Terror: That Bush needlessly and recklessly diverted precious resources away from the War on Terror when he made the decision to commit troops to the liberation of Iraq.

Which leaves us with an interesting question: Isn't the request that the Democrats/Kerry have made to have the Justice Department investigate "criminal wrongdoing" in the Swift Boat ads a diversion of resources away from the War on Terror? After all, what would most Americans rather see: a federal prosecutor busting Al Qaeda cells in the US, or that same prosecutor assigned to investigate why Republican contributors are inclined to support an anti-Kerry group?

What conclusion, then can one draw from this episode?

That in their desperate pursuit for power, the liberals are more than willing to weaken the Justice Departments anti-terrorism efforts by diverting precious resources.

And they wonder why Americans don't trust them on National Security matters.

I yield the floor.

Top Ten Things Kerry said during the Swift Vets Call.....

2004-08-24T06:20:00.000-07:00

A good friend of this blog, Ace of Spades HQ, has a great take on today's Kerry/Swift Boat Vet phone call in his post entitled "Calling the SwiftVets: John Forbes Kerry's First Diplomatic Test". Essentially, Ace calls upon Kerry to use his self-proclaimed extreme diplomatic skills to smooth this dispute over.

Unbeknownst to Ace, however, the Senator was present for this historic call, and had the opportunity to listen to Kerry's negotiating skills first hand. As the following list will reveal, I was left unimpressed.

I present to you, then, the top ten things John Kerry said when calling the Swift Vets.

10. Failure to pull those ads will result in my going "Jenjis Caan" on you.

9. I must admit...those ads do have a certain "je ne sais quoi" about them."

8. It's not like you can get anywhere in life by lying about and maliciously smearing others!

7. Do you know who I am???!!!

6. No really. Do you know who I am? I've told so many stories I can't really remember.

5. Look..pull the ads and I'll get you a sweet deal on the ketchup concession for the next VFW convention.

4. Do you treasure your family? 'Cause I know some guys from Cambodia who owe me a "favor"....wait...why are you laughing?

3. Cowards don't bring hamsters back from the brink of death! Especially when said hamster is under heavy VC fire that no one else remembers!

2. You want to bring it on? Anytime you want to go "garcon a garcon" you know where to find me.

1. Please? Pretty Please? Pretty Pretty Please with a Cherry on top? I'll be your best friend! Puh-leeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzzzeeeeee???

I yield the floor.

The Defenders of the 1st Amendment Strike Again!

2004-08-20T06:19:00.000-07:00

Mr. President,

I take the floor today to urge my constituents to do something important. This is truly an "ask not what the Senator can do for you; ask what you can do for the Senator" moment.

And what I ask is simply this: First, watch the newest adby the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.

Second, make a donation to the Swift Boat Vets. The Senator personally contributed $50 this afternoon.

The impetus for my decision? The sense of outrage I felt all day as I read about the Kerry campaign's attempts to suppress the publishing of the Swift Vets book, Unfit For Command , as well as my disgust at the hypocracy that would lead the Kerry campaign to attempt to get the FEC to ban the latest Swift Boat ad.

I have to keep this entry short, but I have an observation about the actual FEC filing that I will make later. While you wait to read more of the Senator's rhetorical brilliance, go watch that video. Make a contribution. E-mail the link to all your friends and family.

I yield the floor.

Posting will be light, and entries will be short....

2004-08-18T06:17:00.001-07:00

For the next couple of days. I am moving to a new hosting service, and I have acquired a new domain. The new web-site design is nearing completion, but since I may not be importing my archives from this site to the new one, I don't want to post some of the entries I have been thinking about, as I want some good material to use to break the new site in with.

I will post a referral link when I get the new place up and running. It shouldn't be too long now.

In the meantime, I will probably add a few quick entries so that all 3 of my devoted constituents (you know who you are!) can rest easy knowing that their elected representative is still on the job.

Finally, if you left me a comment to an earlier post, I have gone in and responded to all of them, so feel free to check to see if I answered your questions.

Posting will be light, and entries will be short....

2004-08-18T06:17:00.000-07:00

It's Friday the 13th....and My Birthday!

2004-08-13T06:16:00.000-07:00

It's not easy having your birthday fall on Friday the 13th, but so far so good!

Actually, I've been pretty lucky already. The Hurricane forced the cancellation of some of the Senatrix's flights, so we will get to spend some quality time celebrating the arrival of my 30th year. I hope you folks down in Florida are riding it out ok. Having lived through Andrew, I know how rough these storms can be.

Posting will probably be light today and tomorrow, as this blog is the one little secret I keep from the 'Trix, and with her around I will be hard pressed to sneak a few entries in. Plus, she got me an ipod as my present, so I'm sure that will keep me busy too!

But I'm not complaining. Tonight it's steak and wine with my gal and my friends, and tomorrow a rare weekend on the town. All in all, not too shabby.

Catch y'all soon. And remember: don't trust anyone over 30!

You know your Country has honored you.....

2004-08-12T06:16:00.000-07:00

When you get your own Stamp!!!!

Many thanks to Dr. Rusty Shackleford for creating the Senator's own, personal stamp and placing it on the Politburo Diktat site.

Everyone should go over there and view the Commissar's ever-growing Stamp Collection.

As for me....I'm just a bill. A bill named Senator Phil.

In hindsight, clues that Gov. McGreevey was gay

2004-08-12T06:11:00.000-07:00

10. Constantly referred to Kerry/Edwards as a "Fabulous" ticket.

9. Introduced legislation seeking to install "glory holes" in all Turnpike rest stops.

8. Was disappointed to learn "The Sopranos" wasn't about underage chior boys.

7. State Government email address: barrymanilow@NJ.gov

6. Crashed the state government computer system by refreshing Andrew Sullivan's site 10 times a minute.

5. Favorite Campaign Photo Op- The Vaseline production plant in Newark.

4. First governor to relocate Governor's Mansion to Key West

3. Favorite Saturday Night Live Cast Member: Chris Kattan. Favorite Character: Mango.

2. Advocated changing state anthem to "anything by Cher".

1. Said his favorite basketball team was the "New Jersey Fishnets".