ONE WEASEL TO THE NEXT

Today's stop on President Bush's European glad handing tour: Germany.  President Bush flew into an air base in Germany and met with German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.  The agenda?  Same as it's always been....Germany isn't sending any troops to Iraq.....and other assorted nonsense.  Schroeder will smile and pretend to be nice, but make no mistake: he harbors no real love for George W. Bush and the United States of America.

In fact ... Schroeder owes his very election to his very public dislike of Bush. He made his feelings on Bush the focus of his re-election campaign.  He said what he said and he meant it at the time, so it stands to reason that nothing has changed.  Bush plays nice, shake hands, slaps backs and acts like a gentlemen, but the reality is that Schroeder, Chirac and others desperately want to see Bush and the U.S. weakened and eventually replaced by the European Union in the court of world affairs.  They feel that the era of American dominance is or should be over, and they're eager to help that along as best they can.

Like France, Germany favored the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein.  They don't like it one bit that the U.S., Great Britain and Australia, among others, removed him by force.  In fact, records seem to show that the countries most opposed to the invasion were the ones getting the richest off of Saddam's largess.

It makes for nice photo opportunities, but Bush's efforts will provide some photo ops, and little else.

CAVING INTO IRAN

President Bush has articulated the American position that Iran will not be allowed to possess a nuclear warhead.  The media has taken this to mean that we are going to invade Iran to stop it from happening, but Bush says that's not the case.  He wants other countries to apply pressure on Iran to make them understand it's not in their best interests to pursue nukes.

So what do the Axis of Weasels want to do?  But of course...they want to reward Iran and play the blackmail game.  The Euro-weenies want to give Iran some stuff in exchange for abandoning a program to develop nuclear weapons.  They're talking about selling them an Airbus jet, or some such thing. 

You don't have to be a foreign policy expert to see where this will go.  Give Iran a few nifty jumbo jets to abandon their nuke program and other nations will take notice.  How long, for instance, do you think it will be before Pakistan announces that they're going to proceed with a reformed nuclear program ... then sit back and wait for their goodies from the West? North Korea?  How much will we have to give them?  Then, as sure as night follows day, these countries will cool their heels for a few years and then crank those nuke programs up once again.  Then they'll sit back to see what type of largess they can extract from the West to stop the programs yet again.

This is appeasement, and appeasement breeds resent.  Clinton was an appeaser.  That's why we're facing what we are in North Korea right now (That and Jimmy Carter's irresponsible freelancing).

I guess we're just going to have to leave this one up to Israel.  

GOP CAVES ON BUDGET CUTS

The media is aflutter today about George Bush's "Hit List."  This would be the president's proposal in his new budget for fiscal year 2006 to cut or eliminate 154 programs.  You would expect the Democrats to be screaming bloody murder.  However, the latest lawmakers to be squealing at the trough include Republicans.  That's too bad. 

Scaling back Medicaid?  The Republican governors are jumping up and down.  Ending vocational subsidies in Pennsylvania?  A GOP member of the house will have none of it.  Killing a $2 million program to teach people about the underground railroad?  A Republican member of the Senate opposes it.

The Republican Party used to be the party of low taxes and limited government.  No more.  It is now the party of big government, and the record of the last several years bears this out.  We are rapidly reaching a point that when it comes to domestic policy, there isn't much difference between either party.

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READING ASSIGNMENTS

I'll  include a link to Taranto's Best of the Web column from yesterday .. I want you to read the opening bit about Hillary being at the top of the list of those most likely to be the next president of the United States.

Here's why I don't particularly like to use wireless networks.

If you're a parent, Michelle Malkin talks about a new fad that is all the rage: self-mutilation.  Seriously...check it out.  You should stay up on these things.

Is Social Security reform a good idea?  Dr. Walter E. Williams says absolutely, and he looks at the history of the program.  It should come as no surprise that the lies and deceit have been going on for years.

The man who recorded George Bush's telephone conversations when he was governor may go down as one of Washington's most ruthless confidantes.  Linda Chavez takes a look at the rat's excuses.

According to a poll, the majority of people in foreign countries don't support President Bush''s push for freedom and democracy.  Hardly a surprise...the American Revolution would not be possible today.

See if this logic escapes you: it's wrong for the United States to free 25 million people from the grip of a ruthless dictator, but it's perfectly alright to sell arms to China.  Nice going, European Union.

Legendary Watergate reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein promise to reveal the identity of "Deep Throat" when that person dies.  Jonah Goldberg says it's likely no such person exists, and they made the whole thing up.

Which is worse, what Larry Summers said about women and math and science or what Ward Churchill said smearing the victims of 9/11?  Ben Shapiro explains that naturally, the liberals are most concerned about Summers' comments.

John Podhoretz looks at Ariel Sharon's decision to evacuate Jewish settlers from Gaza, and talks about what it all means.

Le Weasel French President Jacques Chirac is said to have snubbed President Bush by speaking French at a dinner.  Looks like the press is following the actions of the slug a little too closely.

You have to wonder about the press in Great Britain when their top story is that the Queen will not be attending the wedding of Prince Charles.  Who cares?  Apparently they do.

This story came in with the hot air stories we called for in the last Boortz Blast newsletter. While it's not on topic, being a cold air story rather than a hot air story, it is pretty freakin' funny. So enjoy.

Oh, is this sweet. A San Francisco man's SUV burns up when he flicks a cigarette out the window and it blows back in and sets the car on fire.

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