CNN reports on the “appeasement” line of President Bush speaking to the Israeli legislature claiming that such tactics are the same “foolish delusion” which allowed the Nazi occupation of Poland. 

“Some seem to believe we should negotiate with terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along,” said Bush, in what White House aides privately acknowledged was a reference to calls by Obama and other Democrats for the U.S. president to sit down for talks with leaders like Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 
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The only Republican freshman senator in 2006 is now in need of a bounce back from a near $80 million net worth loss.  Sen. Bob Corker and all other members of Congress are required to file their 2007 financial statements this week.  Seniority in Congress is indeed valuable.

 
(h/t Whites Creek via Tennviews)

From www.hillaryclinton.com:

Tennessee Automatic Delegate Vicky Harwell announced her support for Hillary Clinton today. Harwell, of Pulaski, is president of the Tennessee Federation of Democratic Women.

 

“Hillary’s decisive victory in West Virginia is the latest evidence that she is the strongest candidate to take on John McCain and win back the White House,” Harwell said. “Hillary has the plans, leadership and experience to deliver real results as President.”

Disregarding the pleas of the most-senior member of the Tennessee State Senate, the longest serving Lieutenant Governor who appointed both Democrats and Republicans to chair Senate Committees, Senate Speaker Ron Ramsey (R-Blountville) continued his legislative maneuvering to place activist judges to the Tennessee Appellate and Supreme Courts.

A week ago, Speaker Ramsey claimed he would use a bill as “leverage” to make the changes necessary to upend the Judicial Selection Commission so that Ramsey’s activist judges can be appointed to state courts, allowing the commission and nearly sixty other state agencies to “sunset” costing time and money as departments must “wind down” and then start back up again as expected.

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From the DNC: 

Reverend John Hagee today apologized for his offensive comments about Catholics. Despite spending a year courting Hagee’s endorsement and refusing to distance himself from the controversial pastor, John McCain reportedly played no role in the apology. McCain has repeatedly refused to publicly denounce Hagee’s discriminatory comments about women, African-Americans, America Muslims or LGBT Americans or renounce Hagee’s endorsement.

 

“Now that Reverend Hagee is apologizing for his anti-Catholic comments, does John McCain think that Hagee should also apologize for his other comments? If so will he have the courage to say so publicly? said Democratic National Committee Communications Director Karen Finney. “Unless John McCain’s idea of being a new kind of Republican includes cozying up to radicals who compare women to dogs, hold racially insensitive fundraisers and call one of the worst natural disasters in our country’s history God’s punishment, he should renounce John Hagee’s endorsement immediately. Given John McCain’s history of putting political calculations ahead of his principles, we’re not holding our breath.”
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