Time table would undercut troops

From Senator Bond's web site: – U.S. Senator Kit Bond, the Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, today applauded his Senate colleagues for defeating a Democratic proposal that would have set a deadline for withdrawal of troops from Iraq.
“Today the majority of my colleagues voted to support our troops. I am pleased that the Democrats voted down their own non-sensical, non-binding resolution,” said Bond. “A political timetable would have signaled to this enemy that the United States Senate doesn't think the terrorists will have to wait too long and would have undercut the very leaders the Senate confirmed as fit to lead our troops.”
Bond also praised the overwhelming bipartisan approval of two resolutions affirming the support of funding for troops in Iraq. S. Con. Res 20 passed by a vote of 82 – 16 and S. Res. 107 passed with a vote of 96 - 2. Bond stressed that it is critical that the Senate now moves to vote on the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations bill, which will provide funds for our servicemen and women and their families.
“I hope that the Democratic leadership will now allow us to take up the Supplemental War bill that will provide much needed funds for our troops in the field,” said Bond.
Bond pointed out that today’s vote signals the majority in the United States Senate is prepared to give General Patraeus’ plan for a new direction in Iraq a chance for success. Early signs are positive, said Bond. News reports a decrease in violence, including significant decreases in bomb deaths and execution-style slayings since Patraeus changed course in Iraq.
As Vice-Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Bond also emphasized that the overwhelming consensus of the intelligence community is that a precipitous withdrawal from Iraq would be disastrous and would empower al Qaeda. Providing American troops to help the Iraqi’s take control of their government is the best option for a lasting political solution.

What ever happened to ACORN?

Speaking of Federal Attorneys not doing their jobs. What ever happened to the prosecutions of ACORN? The National Legal and Policy Center stated:

"The new 110th Congress convened earlier this month with something it hadn’t had in a dozen years: a Democratic-controlled House and Senate. But amid the party’s hoopla over Nancy Pelosi’s ascent to House Speaker is the reality that its Senate majority is a thin 51-49. That edge is partly the result of a close 2006 race in Missouri, where Democratic challenger Claire McCaskill defeated incumbent Republican Senator Jim Talent. By more than one account her margin of victory in some measure owed to voter fraud. And the likely culprit is an operator long familiar to the American political landscape: the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, or ACORN. Investigative reporting by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Wall Street Journal and other news sources reveals that the nationwide network of Leftist nonprofit groups aggressively played fast and loose with the voter registration process in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas. And Missouri isn’t the only state where ACORN has worked its strange magic. " Click here for more

According to sound evidence ACORN has eroded our citizens right to vote and
nothing is being done about it. It is time for more Federal Prosecutors to be fired.

Wall Street Journal Chastises ‘Rookie’ McCaskill

The national media is keeping a close eye on Claire McCaskill even if the Missouri media will not. The Wall Street Journal took McCaskill to task yesterday for putting Big Labor ahead of national security. Not surprisingly, McCaskill received more than $350,000 from Big Labor political action committees, according to PoliticalMoneyLine. At issue is Democrat attempts to try and impose collective bargaining rights for all 43,000 screeners at the Transportation Security Administration. As The Journal correctly points out in an editorial, Congress expressly denied such organizing ability when it created TSA in 2001 “on the sensible grounds that union work rules would compromise security.” With Republicans stepping up to oppose the measure, McCaskill offered an alternative in which airport screeners would still be forced into collective bargaining, though the TSA head would have the right to put union rules aside in case of "emergency" or "imminent threat." That’s when Republican Sen. Jim DeMint of South Carolina called McCaskill on the carpet: “Mr. DeMint asked on the Senate floor last week if Ms. McCaskill considered the global war on terror to be such an ‘emergency,’ and she said no--but that a hurricane might qualify. We didn't know TSA screened for bad weather,” opined The Journal. “Mr. DeMint also asked if al Qaeda constituted an imminent threat. Ms. McCaskill largely dodged the question, noting instead that denying union rights because of ‘world-wide terror’ was ‘specious reasoning.’ We realize that rookie Senators feel obliged to repay their supporters, but someone more senior should protect Ms. McCaskill from embarrassing herself so publicly.” To read the editorial, go to: http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009751

University City Police & Fire Personnel to Receive Culture Training

Police officers are scheduled to attend a three part series on Bosnian, Asian, and Jewish cultures as it impacts law enforcement agencies. The series began March 6 with lessons on Bosnian culture presented by Eldar Causevic, an adjunct professor from Washington University.
Seeing the value of lessons on cultural diversity, Police Chief Charles Adams invited Fire Chief Olshwanger and his staff to attend future sessions.

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