From Citizen Outreach:

By: Chuck Muth

ANOTHER SIGN OF WEAKNESS IN IRAQ

I can’t remember which movie it was from, but I recall John Wayne once saying something along the lines of, “Never apologize, son. It’s a sign of weakness.” With that in mind, catch this from today’s Associated Press:

“An American sniper was removed from Iraq after he used a copy of the Quran for target practice, the military said Sunday, a day after a U.S. commander held a formal ceremony apologizing to Sunni tribal leaders. . . . ‘I come before you here seeking your forgiveness,’ Maj. Gen. Jeffrey Hammond was quoted as saying at the ceremony.”

When the United States military apologizes in a war zone for a highly-trained sniper shooting a BOOK, maybe it IS time to bring the troops home. This PC crap is infuriating.

FROM THE PARTY OF FAMILY VALUES

“Vito Fossella, R-N.Y., has admitted fathering a 3-year-old daughter with a woman outside his marriage, WABC reported today. He disclosed the existence of the child and a ‘relationship’ with the girl’s mother today, amid fallout from his arrest for driving under the influence last week in suburban Washington.”

- CongressDaily, 5/8/08

SHARP WAKE UP CALL

“The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana’s Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November.”

- Newt Gingrich, 5/6/08

SCARED STRAIGHT?

“If there is such a thing as a useful election defeat, then Tuesday’s Republican loss in a special House election in Mississippi would qualify. Maybe this thumping in a heretofore safe GOP seat will finally scare the Members straight, or at least less crooked.”

- Wall Street Journal editorial, 5/15/08

SOME FOLKS JUST NEVER LEARN

“Minority Leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Sunday that House Republican campaign chief Rep. Tom Cole (Okla.) will remain in his post despite three recent special election losses in conservative-leaning districts.”

- The Hill, 5/18/08

OINK-OINK SAY THE PIGGIES

“(A)n angry (Rep. Paul) Ryan (R-Wis.) last Wednesday delivered unscripted remarks on the House floor as the farm bill neared passage: ‘This bill is an absence of leadership. This bill shows we are not leading.’ . . . A majority of both Senate and House Republicans voted for a bill that raises spending 44 percent above last year’s, dooming chances to sustain President Bush’s promised veto. GOP leaders were divided, with Bush sounding an uncertain trumpet. Today’s Republican Party—divided, drifting, demoralized—is epitomized by the farm bill.”

- Columnist Robert Novak

DOING THE SAME OL’ THING

“Since the 2006 elections, Republicans have done absolutely nothing to redefine themselves. We can’t even get behind an earmark moratorium bill.”

- Rep. John Shadegg (R-Arizona)

LOSING STREAK INTACT

“(T)his week, as the Republicans suffered another loss in a special congressional election, continuing a losing streak that began in 2006, (Rep. John) Shadegg (R-Ariz.) said the party lost its way because it lost its principles. He pointed a finger directly at earmarks, line items inserted into spending bills that direct federal agencies to spend a specific amount on a specific program favored by a member of Congress.”

- Arizona Republic, 5/17/08

LOUSY LONG-TERM STRATEGY

“Winning for the sake of winning is an excellent short-term tactic, but a lousy long-term strategy. Just look at the consequences of the 2006 congressional elections, when the GOP lost control of both houses of Congress. A Republican majority is only as useful as the policies that majority produces. When those policies look a lot like Democratic ones, the base rightly questions why it should keep Republicans in power. As the party gears up for elections in the fall, it ought to look closely at the losses suffered under a political strategy devoid of principle. Otherwise, it can look forward to a bad case of déjà vu.”

- Pat Toomey of Club for Growth

RAISING THE BARR

“If (former George Republican Rep. Bob) Barr wins the Libertarian Party nomination, he would likely appear on some 45 state ballots and could tip some close races to the Democrats. . . . Still, Republicans claim they aren’t concerned by Mr. Barr’s possible appearance on all those state ballots. But they should be.”

- John Fund, Political Diary, 5/15/08

FALSELY ACCUSED

“The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services erroneously labeled 3,051 innocent people as child abusers by placing them on the state’s official list.”

- WorldNetDaily, 5/15/08

CANNON FODDER

Seems my old buddy Congressman Chris Cannon, the Utah Huckster, almost got taken out in a primary challenge at the Utah GOP convention recently. Jason Chaffetz pulled in 59 percent of the convention vote compared to the incumbent garnering just 41 percent. In Utah, a candidate who obtains 60 percent of the convention vote gets the party’s nomination. Now the pair will move on to a full-blown primary election.

In addition to being a deadbeat businessman, Cannon is also the chief purveyor of amnesty for illegal immigrants. His loss to Chaffetz would be every American’s gain. For more information on the challenger, or to contribute to his campaign, click HERE

THE UNION LABEL

The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) suffered a stinging rebuke when nearly 47% of the nurses at three St. Rose Dominican hospitals in Nevada voted to join a rival union this week. It wasn¹t enough to decertify the SEIU - 50% was necessary – but with nearly half of the members voting against the union, this shows quite a widespread dissatisfaction with the SEIU.

The Dept. of Labor (DOL) has announced that it is changing the requirements for internal financial disclosures of unions requiring more details on finances and spending. Read more HERE on The Union Label.

TELE-COMMIES

“Earthlink’s announcement that it was throwing in the towel on an ambitious plan to bring public Wi-Fi to the entire city of Philadelphia marks the end of a glorious, but doomed experiment. The promoters of free municipal Wi-Fi hoped that optimistic techno-utopianism would somehow trump engineering and economic realities. They were, of course, wrong.” Read the full story HERE

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