First Door on the Left

Media Matters for America does a pretty good job of debunking the “Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.”

On another matter, there are some things that simply do not exist in the United States of America. Do not let anybody convince you otherwise. Among these things are:

1. Compassionate Conservative
2. Conservative Christian
3. Gay Republican

Please feel free to add to the list.

Kerry Knocks Bush for His 9/11′Seven Minute Gap’

Sen. John Kerry, appearing today at the Unity convention of minority journalists in Washington, D.C., criticized President Bush’s performance on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, in the most explicit terms yet.

Referring to the moment, now immortalized in Michael Moore’s film “Fahrenheit 9/11,” when Bush chose not to leave a group of school children for seven minutes after being notified of the second plane hitting the World Trade Center, Kerry told the journalists: “Had I been reading to children and had my top aide whispered in my ear that America is under attack, I would have told those kids very nicely and politely that the president of the United States has something that he needs to attend to…and I would have attended to it.”

He also probably would not have gone running off to Louisiana and Nebraska.

It’s time to put the adults in charge again!

Finally, we get the truth from George W. Bush.

Bush Insists His Administration Seeking ‘new Ways to Harm Our Country’

WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of “Bushisms” on Thursday, declaring that his administration will “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.”

Bush misspoke as he delivered a speech at the signing ceremony for a $417 billion defense spending bill.

“Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we,” Bush said. “They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.”

No one in Bush’s audience of military brass or Pentagon chiefs reacted.

That wasn’t one of his “Bushisms.” That was an inadvertent admission of truth. Nobody in the audience reacted because they already knew it.

“Uh, banana?”

Temille Hoffert, left, a supporter of President Bush’s, argues with a supporter of Democrat John Kerry in Davenport, Iowa. (CNN)

She appears to be a rational young lady, doesn’t she?

God bless Howard Dean. He’s sunk his teeth in and he ain’t letting go…

Dean again says politics behind terror alerts

WASHINGTON (CNN) — Former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean asserted again Wednesday that “ample evidence” exists that President Bush was playing politics when he approved raising the terror alert level Sunday — a contention Bush administration and campaign officials deny.

“In the last two days since I made this charge, they’ve been covering their you-know-what’s and trying to come up with additional information,” Dean said on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360.”

Two senior U.S. government sources told CNN Wednesday that intelligence evidence found in Pakistan shows that suspected al Qaeda operatives there “contacted” an individual or individuals in the United States in the past few months.

Dean said he believes that leak was designed “to try to deflect the charge” of political manipulation of the terrorism issue.

“I actually think the Bush administration is scrambling a bit on this one,” the former Vermont governor said.

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In his interview Wednesday on CNN, Dean was unbowed — and unrepentant.

“If it took three weeks for them to get this information, then they’re not doing their job protecting the United States of America,” Dean said, pointing to the fact that Khan was arrested in mid-July.

“There’s one of two possibilities here. One, we need a new president so we can really take care of intelligence needs and the defense of the United States of America against terrorism. Or two, they’re playing politics with their timing of the release of these documents,” Dean said.

Dean said he does not believe “that the threat of terrorism is an empty threat” and that it was appropriate to take security precautions at financial institutions, which according to the information captured from Khan were meticulously surveyed by al Qaeda operatives, sources said.

Pointing to the Bush administration’s admission that the surveillance activity stretched back to before 9/11, Dean said, “We’re still dealing with old stuff.”

America needs more men like Dr. Dean.