RIGHTWINGSPARKLE

The next debate is on the economy. Liberals love to cite the Clinton years as a model for the economy. Well, guess what? The unemployment rate is right where it was when Clinton was re-elected, at 5.4%. And considering what Bush and this country went through during Bush's first 4 years that is quite an accomplishment.
69% of Americans own their own home, the highest proportion ever.
The final figures for the GDP for the second quarter were announced last week and our economic output grew nearly 5% for the year. That's greater than any 12 month period in the Clinton administration.
Outsourcing is not the problem Kerry wishes it was either. Out of the 1.5 million jobs lost in layoffs this year, less than 1% were sent abroad.
New numbers coming out Friday will also show powerful employment gains. via Tech Central
UPDATE: Ok, Tech was wrong. the employment gains remained the same.

Also, jobless claims drop last week despite hurricane.

The house ethics committee rebuked Majority Leader Tom Delay for questionable conduct. Mr. Delay better learn that just being right voting on the issues isn't enough for us. We expect decent moral behavior as well. Newt Gingrich learned that the hard way.

This from the Washington Times-
"Saddam Hussein's goal throughout the 1990's until the 2003 invasion was to end U.N. sanctions on Iraq, while working covertly to restore the country's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction, a report by the chief weapons inspector says"

This from the The Washington Post-"Saddam made $11 billion in illegal income and eroded the world's toughest economic embargo during his final years as Iraqi's leader...."

Saddam bought off dozens of countries including France (surprise!), Indonesia, China and Russia. But the most outrageous is Benon Sevon, former U.N. official in charge of humanitarian relief.
Imagine! The guy in charge of relief is the one taking kickbacks that allow the Iraqi people to suffer.
I am waiting for the outrage from the leftie community so concerned with humanitarian causes....(I only hear crickets)

We wonder why sanctions don't work? Take a look a the U.N. Imagine if sanctions HAD worked. Maybe Saddam would have allowed inspectors in and we might not have gone to war.

Ironic that the U.N. might well be the reason we went to war.

INDC Journal tells us about an historic vote yesterday in the senate to revamp the structure of the nation's intelligence community especially in counterterrorism. Only 2 senators missed this important vote on national security. Guess who?

Funny late night quote:
"We are learning more and more about John Edwards. He's a multi millionare personal injury attorney. In fact, thats how he's going solve the deficit problem. He's going to go up the steps of the capitol, fake an injury, and collect billions."-Jay Leno