Coyote Gulch

Monday, August 22, 2005

Assassinate Chavez?
Pat Robertson is advocating the assassination of Hugo Chavez, according to Media Matters. Shameful.
Blogs for Bush: "If you missed President Bush's remarks today in Salt Lake City, I have posted them in the extended entry."
Josh Marshall: "After the 2004 primaries, fractious Democrats were impressively united in the great offensive to unseat George W. Bush. The party remained fairly monolithic earlier this year, thanks mainly to its widespread loathing for Bush's Social Security plan. But lately solidarity has again given way to a familiar brand of infighting."
Bull Moose: "Senator Frist's apostasy on the stem cell issue has not received the attention it deserves. Frist's move could presage a real donnybrook within the GOP in '08. A significant number of pro-lifers have broken with the party line and the President will be put in a difficult position to veto the legislation liberalizing funding for research. It appears that the social conservative influence over at least part of the party is waning."
Political Wire: "While in Iowa, Sen. Sam Brownback (R-KS) said 'he's close to deciding on a 2008 presidential bid,' the Des Moines Register reports. Said Brownback: 'I came to meet Iowans and to do warm-up laps while I decide on the 2008 presidential race.'"
Political Wire: "Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson (R) said he is 'considering a run for the White House in 2008 as an extension of his mission to improve the nation's health care,' reports the Detroit Free Press. Thompson was elected four times as governor of Wisconsin before joining President Bush's cabinet in 2001."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
5:57:52 PM

Peacock on Abbey
New West is running a short interview with Doug Peacock. Peacock was the inspiration for George Hayduke from Edward Abbey's Monkey Wrench Gang, required reading for the Coyote Gulch offspring.
Quoting Peacock on Abbey, "The world needs an Ed Abbey now, too. When he died, I'd have figured that there would be a hundred Abbey's out there by now, but there's not. I have to credit Ed for being this eternally cranky sonofabitch. There were no sacred cows. He offended everyone, and in such a funny way. I have to say, if he saw the current state of the environmental movement today, he'd roll over in his grave. The movement is pussy whipped. It's emasculated. Afraid of the administration, of corporate donors. They want a cordial relationship with agencies. There's never been a more anti-life time in our history than now with the Bush administration. Anti-wildlife, anti-human-life. Ed cared about freedom and liberty. They weren't just empty words to him. He was coming more and more to the conclusion that wilderness was the only thing worth saving. There's no one around now that has that same kind of moral and physical presence."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
12:27:57 PM

Immigration
Congressman Tancredo was in Austin, Minnesota recently speaking about immigration issues, according to the Austin Daily Herald. From the article, "Ken Dalager traveled to Albert Lea Tuesday afternoon with a group from Austin concerned about illegal immigration in local communities. 'The people that go to the trouble of getting citizenship, I don't think they're much trouble,' Dalager said. 'The others slip in undercover and just kind of do things how they want to do them.' Congressmen Gil Gut-knecht, R-Minn., and Tom Tancredo, R-Colo., who is chairman of the 70-member bipartisan House Immigration Reform Caucus, spoke to Dalager and 100 others during a luncheon Tuesday afternoon at the Albert Lea Elks Club."
Thanks to Coyote Gulch reader Owen Burnett for the link.
Iraq the Model: "The latest news coming from the National Assembly and the constitution drafting committee indicate that no agreement has been reached so far and probably the different blocks are now farther from reaching an agreement than they were a week ago. The difference now is that they already asked for an extra week chance to get over their differences but they obviously failed in doing that and asking for further time will be unjustified and even if it's legal it won't be accepted by the people."
Category: 2008 Presidential Election
6:36:52 AM