I thought that I remember the local Republicans bragging about getting this guy elected. I know it is a partisan attack ad but has his shine decreased at all guys? Are you still just as proud? Is he doing a "Heck of a" job?

If you know it is a partisan attack ad, then why do you give it so much importance? Maybe, because your a partisan mudslinging viper who enjoys politics because it tears people into little pieces who haven't even been convicted of a crime.

The DCCC should be ashamed of themselves for the innuendo game they play in this ad. This ad is designed to turn people off from politics.

You should apologize.

Let me summarize. You think that Gary Miller is an honest man? Can you explain why he claimed he was forced to sell his land when there is this video of him begging the city to buy it?

Go ahead and call us vipers instead of dealing with the facts.

Dispute the facts if you can.

You would of course also condemn the RCCC for running negative partisan attack ads too then without qualifying your remarks.

After years of Republicans calling Hillary a lesbian, Chelsy a dog ( Rush Limabaugh), John Kerry a liar about his service in Vietnam, lying by saying Al Gore wants to outlaw cars, calling Barack Obama a Muslim who went to a madrassa, and sticking up for Ann Coulter for John Edwards a f----t, you still have the moral outrage left in you to call me a viper?

Well, to quote the man you love so much, Go F--K yourself.

Also, please be so kind as to click on the link and tell me if the GOP runs the same kind of ads.

Of course coming from the party that attacked Max Cleland for being soft on defense even after he lost three limbs in Vietnam I don't expect any honesty from you.

Locally, your party even attacked Ferial Masry for helping terrorists by being in favor of driver licenses for illegal aliens. Of course, with the typical hypocrisy, her opponent's husband actually voted for it.

I am sure it wasn't race baiting since Ferial Masry is a Muslim woman from the middle east.

I dare you to put down your real name and tell us that you think Gary Miller is an honest man. If you are right you lose nothing. If you are wrong and time proves you wrong, for years we can continue to distrust your ability to judge character, when it comes to that magic R by your heroes names. Since he isn't convicted of anything and your party is so proud of him i can't wait to see you line up behind him.

I'm delighted you agree with me and you think the DCCC attack is just as bad as others you've seen.

I see many positive ads in politics each campaign season too. And, even if all other ads were negative as you write, your proof doesn't support your choice to support this ad.

Now, I think the DCCC and you should apologize, especially in light of your only justification for supporting this ad being the appeal to popularity fallacy.

Kind of odd that "Hillarywatch" didn't condemn the RCCC and their attacks.

Also, odd that they choice a negative blog name. Why not show who you support instead of who you are "watching"?

Unless you support HRC!

I'm a life-long Republican and have been following this story. I'm sorry, but Gary Miller does not reflect well upon the Republican party. I certainly can't defend him. But I don't think the DNC should be firing pot shots either, just get the facts out to the public.

I just watched the YouTube video.

Get rid of that guy! The Republicans should get him to resign and run an Republican to replace him.

May the best person win.

I think it is funny that Hillarywatch won't post their name in the defense of Gary Miller but Katie Teague recognizes Republicans that drag her party down.

I am going to guess that Hillarywatch is a right wing partisan hack that still believes that Fox news is the most balanced name in news and that the WMD's were found.

Unfortunately, I still haven't been able to watch the clip, but I would like to address a few tangential issues brought up. Being injured in war has nothing to do with one's future stance on national security issues. Banned weapons were found in Iraq, including missiles that had a range longer than allowed and traces of chemical weapons inside of warheads. During talk segments, Fox usually has people on from both sides. Yes, it generally turns into talking points vs. talking points, but at least both sides are represented. You can't say that about most other news orgs.

Someone please provide some context that makes that ad less damning than it sounds . . .

As a sidenote, I'm not nearly as opposed to negative advertising as everyone likes to say they are. In part, it's because most people hypocritically say they're opposed. They decry the other side, but give their own a pass. Moreover, if the information is true, it's true. People need to know everything, good and bad. Let the voters decide.

Keep these simple facts in mind:

Negative campaigning are lies, half-truths, innuendos and misrepresentations directed at MY candidate by the scum bucket opposition.

When my side directs those same things at the OTHER candidate, they are nothing more than unvarnished truth, hard-hitting realities, logical implications and accurate portrayals.

I learned this in Political Science 101.

I love it! Bush is crying about Pelosi going to Syria and last week three republican house members went and he did not say a word. It is now being reported that Pelosi has made more progress with the Syrians in 3 hours than Bush has made in six years! Also loved the slap down the Supreme Court gave Bush over greenhouse gases. At his crybaby press conference yesterday Bush should have said what he really wanted to say, "We cannot yet leave Iraq because that would be bad for my friends like Halliburton and Chevron that are making billions off this war, so what if kids are dying, they aren't my kids."

Rudy Guiliani today said he supports public financing of abortions. I have a feeling Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell will no longer be operating out of the White House if Rudy is elected.

What about public financing of adoptions also?

I don't know, ask your boy Rudy.

What real news org doesn't have people from both sides?

Did you know Fox voters are more Republican that any other demographics including rural people, evangelical Christians etc...

Lighten up Mach. Rudy can't be all bad. His third wife says he has been faithful thus far.

Gary Miller is the new symbol of the Ventura county Republican party. Like him or hate him he is the mascot.

If he'd call for the resignation of Alberto Gonzales I would support him.

How many more people will resign before Gonazales does about this fired US attorneys problem?

Brian:

How come no discussion on Sandy Berger's caper into the National Archives a few year's back. Did you think during a time of war, democrat Sandy Berger helped or hurt our National Security?

How come Scooter Libby get's full court coverage on not outing a CIA agent that Richard Armitage later admitted to have done, yet Democrat Sandy Berger stole classified documents out of the National Archives and that hardly get's a peep of coverage?

Berger pleaded down to a misdemeanor and was fined. Why did Berger remove the documents prior to the 9/11 commission?

Because of the lack of press, we still don't know.

Since we are talking about land deals, what about Harry Reid? He received 1.1 million dollar gain on a land deal and is being actively investigated by the Senate Ethics Committee.

I think it's time this blog write to Chairwoman Barbara Boxer and ask her to fully investigate Harry Reid's land deal. Did he pay capital gains?

The democratic culture of corruption must stop!!!

Barbara Boxer is the Chairwomen of the Senate Ethics Committee?

In 1992, she was part of the House Banking scandal. According to sourcewatch.org, she wrote 143 bad checks totaling $41,417 over a three year period.

Pelosi may have committed a felony by going to Syria. Will any Democrats have the courage to call for this to be investigated? What about Fitzgerald? He has proven willing to investigate crimes that haven't been committed, let's put him on the case.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110009908

Owen

California Senator Dianne Feinstein just resigned from from the Senate Military Construction Appropriations Subcommittee due to potentially explosive links that her husband's military companies have received millions of dollars in war profiteering or as some on the left have called blood money.

In 2003, Feinstein's husband Richard Blum's company Perini received 500 million from the US Army Corp of Engineers in Iraq while she was chairwoman of this committee.

The question is whether Democrats who championed ethics reform will begin to investigate their own mis-dealings.

We need the truth as to why she resigned. These allegations are damaging our faith in government.

Why is the media looking the other way on the Feinstein war profiteering story?

Senator Feinstein voted for billions in appropriations for her husband's companies. Amazing this blog hasn't covered Feinstein's resignation as it has focused so closely on Tom Delay and Jack Abramoff.

Is her resignation from this committee a sign of pending investigations to come?

I can't believe Boxer is the Chairwoman of the Senate Ethics Committee.

One of her big contributors was trial lawyer Milberg & Weiss who was recently indicted for fraud. It is alleged they kicked back funds to plaintiff's who sued corporations....

What I find interesting about Boxer is her 3rd and 4th highest contributors are the University of California and the State of California.

Owen

I think Pelosi should be investigated for this potential crime.

Owen, you are aware that Republicans went with her, she was briefed by the state dept. before she went, and more Republicans are there right now.

So, in summary Owen thinks Condi Rice might be an accomplice to a crime and a whole load of Republicans are also guilty.

Owen, why do you hate Republicans so much? I mean, you wouldn't accuse Nancy Pelosi of committing a crime without throwing the blame at people that were with her, would you? That would be hypocrisy.

You guys know Harry Reid is Mormon right? One of the basic beliefs of the Christian faith is thou shall not bear false witness. When you say is currently being investigated, you do mean last year and was cleared of any wrongdoing, correct?

I am so glad the party of Duke Cunningham/Tom Delay/Noe/Abramoff is jumping on the corruption bandwagon.

Do you guys think Scooter Libby should be in prison?

Do you think nothing happened in the justice dept. firings even though at least 2 people have already resigned?

Do you think it is odd that a JUSTICE DEPT. official resigned and was going to plead the fifth so she didn't implicate herself in any crimes?

Why is it you love Bush more than your country?

Do you think when Sandy Berger lifting classified documents it was a threat to national security?

What was he trying to hide from the 9/11 commission about the Clinton Administration?

I hardly think correcting the form after the controversy broke out is saying you've been cleared. What about the earmark he pushed through for a personal bridge near where he held 160 acres of land.

Clearly, he wanted to push through that bridge, so his own land value would go up.

How can you attack Gary Miller out of one side of your mouth then defend Harry Reid's suspect behavior out of the other.

Why do you love Democrats more than your country?

Here are a few examples from the Congressional Record of questionable intersections between Feinstein's legislative duties and her financial interests:

# At a MILCON hearing in 2001, Feinstein interrogated defense officials about the details of constructing specific missile defense systems, which included upgrading the early warning radar system at Cobra Dane radar on Shemya Island, Alaska. In 2003, Perini reported that it had completed a contract to upgrade the Cobra Dane radar system. It has done similar work at Beale Air Force Base in California and in the United Kingdom. URS also bids on missile defense work.

# In the 2002 MILCON hearings, Feinstein questioned an official about details of the U.S. Army's chemical demilitarization program. URS is extensively involved in performing chemical demilitarization work at key disposal sites in the United States.

# At that same hearing, Feinstein asked about the possibility of increasing funding for anti-terrorism-force protection at Army bases. The following year, on March 4, 2003, Feinstein asked why the antiterrorism-force protection funds she had advocated for the year before had not yet been spent. On April 21, 2003, URS announced the award of a $600 million contract to provide, among other services, anti-terrorism-force protection for U.S. Army installations.

# Beginning in 2003, both Perini and URS were awarded a series of open-ended contracts for military construction work around the world, including in Iraq and Afghanistan. Under Feinstein's leadership, MILCON regularly approved specific project "task orders" that were issued to Perini and URS under these contracts.

# At a March 30, 2004, MILCON hearing, Feinstein grilled Maj. Gen. Dean Fox about whether or not the Pentagon intended to prioritize funding the construction of "beddown" maintenance facilities for its new airlifter, the C-17 Globemaster. After being reassured by Fox that these funds would soon be flowing, Feinstein said, "Good, that's what I really wanted to hear. Thank you very much. Appreciate it very much, General." Two years later, URS announced a $42 million award to build a beddown maintenance facility for the C-17 at Hickam Air Base in Hawaii as part of a multibillion dollar contract with the Air Force. Under Feinstein's leadership, MILCON approved the Hickam project.

# In mid-2005, MILCON approved a Pentagon proposal to fund "overhead coverage force protection" in Iraq that would reinforce the roofs of U.S. Army barracks to better withstand mortar rounds. On Oct. 13, 2005, Perini announced the award of a $185 million contract to provide overhead coverage force protection to the Army in Iraq.

In the 2005 MILCON hearings, Feinstein earmarked MILCON legislation with $25 million to increase environmental remediation at closed military bases. Year after year, Feinstein has closely overseen the environmental cleanup and redevelopment of McClellan Air Force Base near Sacramento, frequently requesting that officials add tens of millions of dollars to that project. URS and its joint ventures have earned tens of millions of dollars cleaning up McClellan. And CB Richard Ellis, a real estate company headed by Feinstein's husband Richard Blum, is involved in redeveloping McClellan for the private sector.

This investigation examined thousands of pages of documents, including transcripts of congressional hearings, U.S. Security and Exchange Commission filings, government audits and reports, federal procurement data and corporate press releases. The findings were shared with contracting and ethics experts at several nonpartisan, Washington, D.C.-based government oversight groups. Danielle Brian, executive director of the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit organization that analyzes defense contracts and who examined our evidence says, "The paper trail showing Sen. Feinstein's conflict of interest is irrefutable."

On the face of it, there is nothing objectionable about a senator closely examining proposed appropriations or advocating for missile defense or advancing the cleanup of a toxic military base. Blum profitably divested himself of ownership of both URS and Perini in 2005, ameliorating the conflict of interest. But Feinstein's ethical dilemma arose from the fact that, for five years, the interests of Perini and URS and CB Richard Ellis were inextricably entwined with her leadership of MILCON, which last year approved $16.2 billion for military construction projects.

Melanie Sloan, executive director of Citizens for Responsible Ethics in Washington, remarks, "There are a number of members of Congress with conflicts of interest. [California Republican Congressman John T.] Doolittle, for example, hired his wife as a fundraiser, and she skimmed 15 percent off of all campaign contributions. Others, like [former] Speaker [Dennis] Hastert and Cong. [Ken] Calvert were earmarking federal money for roads to enhance the value of property held by their families.

"But because of the amount of money involved," Sloan continues, "Feinstein's conflict of interest is an order of magnitude greater than those conflicts."

Brian

Could you post a separate thread for the Feinstein military contracts issue? I think people need to know more about this potential scandal...

That every local Republican activist pretty much reads this blog.

The only person to write their real name and their opinion of Gary Miller is Katie Teague.

I dare the rest of you that want to distract from the conversation ( Anyone want to talk about pensions?) if you have the balls to put down your own name and that you think Gary Miller is an honest politician.

In fact, channel your inner cajones and write anything about the guy.

If his own party abandons him and will only use fake names to protect him stick a fork in the guy.

I actually vote for or against Senator Feinstein.

Why are these recent revelations about Senator Feinstein being swept under the rug on this blog renowned for uncovering malfeasance?

Let's see, senior Senator for California in the US Senate potentially steering military contracts during a time of war or some guy no one's ever heard of except political junkies who pay attention to Orange county city council meetings.

I think the public would want to know more about Senator Feinstein who is actually on their local ballot in Ventura County.

I am not going to bother answering questions from people that say Pelosi is a felon one minute and when people point out that Republicans were with her and are going without her won't comment.

You Pelosi attackers are hypocrites. If Pelosi is a felon then just say it. But if she is you also need to say that a bunch of Republicans are committing the same crime. You have to admit that George Bush's administration helped to commit the crime.

I know that you people are trained to talk off subject on their talking points but your random Pelosi attacks are clear partisan knife fights.

You have choices:
Answer the question, be a bunch of eunuchs or shut up.

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/30/syria-hypocrisy/

Did you even read the Journal article? "Of course, not all congressional travel to, or communications with representatives of, foreign nations is unlawful. A purely fact-finding trip that involves looking around, visiting American military bases or talking with U.S. diplomats is not a problem."

Pelosi going is distinguished in two ways from the other members. First, her position as the Speaker of the House gives her visit a decidedly different character. Second, she was attempting to institute her own foreign policy, as opposed to that of Bush. Foreign policy is the domain of the executive branch. What about your care and concern for the separation of powers? In fact, she was so eager that she even decided to create a new foreign policy for Israel, I'm sure you've read about Olmert's opinion on the issue.

Here's an editorial from USA Today on the issue, it's shorter than the Journal's.

news.yahoo.com/s/usatoday/20070406/cm_usatoday/pelosistepsoutofbounds

I agree we should leave all foreign policy to the executive branch. Bush has done a great job and will continue to do so!

Actually, can we impeach him yet?

Owen, rate the level of competence of the Bush team on a scale of 1-10.

I think he is a bad mix between the ineptness of Carter and the criminality of Nixon.

Have you guys heard of three strikes? maybe we should apply it on going to Syria since you are trying to avoid real topics with manufactured distractions alleging wrong doing.

Did you know Arlen Specter a Republican leaders supported by The White House has been to Syria 16 times!

Arrest him!

By the way, anyone yet put down their name next to a sentence that says " Congressman Gary Miller is an honorable and trustworthy man" ?

I am waiting.

Tom Delay has equated the way Democrats went after him with the way that Hitler used the big lie to go after Jewish people.

Owen, you going to condemn that one or try to changer the topic?

I'm not Delay's spokesman. You didn't give a reference for that quote, but a site about cats that look like Hitler. Classy. I don't have to apologize for everything that a Republican does. Should you apologize for all Democrats' actions. I'm not a touchy-feely 90's kind of guy. There are much more important issues than dealing with what someone might have said that may have hurt somebody's feelings. For example, how about the fact that policies supported by most Democrats, or at least the most vocal ones, would allow for Arabs to continue what Hitler started. Besides, I doubt you sincerely care. You're just trying to play some tedious and boring game.

Donna Brazile on This Week:

"Somehow or other in this whole dispute we've forgotten the fact that Speaker [Newt] Gingrich went to the Middle East and blasted the Clinton administration when he had that position, and Speaker Hastert told the Columbian military that they could deal directly with the Republican-controlled congress and bypass the Clinton administration. Look, they may dislike the messenger---in this case Nancy Pelosi---but she went over there and she articulated the president's message to Assad to close the border, stop undermining Lebanon, and start talking to Israel."

Owen, I expect you to attempt a citizens arrest.

Here is the article:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/4/9/16328/46367

Do you mean a tedious boring game like avoiding talking about Gary Miller and instead talking about Pelosi, Feinstein and any other distractions you want to throw around. Hmm...Problem with powerful women?

Just say it.

Gary Miller has done nothing to arouse suspicion and is an all around honest man.

If that is hard how about the first part. Has he done anything fishy?

By the way, they are called Kitlers.

So, I guess Tom Delay misses the hammer which is Owen's attack? You can't even say what he said is silly?

I already spoke about Gary Miller earlier in the thread. It was M Fillmore who turned the conversation away from him and onto Pelosi. Why is everything race and gender? I like Thatcher and Condi, Pelosi's just wrong on the issues. This thread has nothing to do with Delay, you brought it up out of nowhere to play some sort of dumb game. I'm not interested. And let's see, who belittles the Holocaust more: Delay who talks about people in power lying about their opponents, or you, who posts a site about "cute little kitlers?"

I think you missed the point. I was being sarcastic about The Adolf Hitler cats whereas Tom Delay was serious.

I will be more careful next time w/ sarcasm.