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...said they don't worry that it would pass. "While we're fighting the war on terror, they're throwing mud again the wall to see what sticks, not really understanding who the enemy actually is," said Ron Bonjean, spokesman for House Speaker Dennis Hastert. "It's a political ploy to get attention." Republicans take solace in the fact that the President has a bigger microphone, and is about to enter a season where the nation is focused on the days when he was at his peak...
...knowing it could boost his popularity in a district where 50% of the voters are Republican. Rep. Marian McClure, who occupies the other seat in District 30 and is one of four Republicans vying for the two seats, says that there's no chance this is simply an election ploy. "He is a young man doing his duty to his country, and anyone that knows Mr. Paton knows that there is no other motive," she says. "I believe the voters will respond very positively to Mr. Paton's decision. I do not believe there is any question, at least...
What do they want? Compensation and punitive damages. Plame also wants Administration officials to be held responsible for "shameful conduct." Cynical observers note Plame has a book deal to promote. "This is a ploy," says a Republican lawyer familiar with the defense, "to have their names front and center...
...this was an Ahmadinejad ploy, it might well backfire. The Israeli response has seriously damaged Lebanon economically. The Lebanese patchwork of constituencies that governs the country may now conclude that it can no longer tolerate a heavily armed Hizballah substate in the south. And if it can be proved that Iran instigated the mess, the members of the U.N. Security Council might be nudged toward a tougher stance on the nuclear issue-and the threat of international sanctions, which could have terrible consequences for Iran's oily economy. But it is also clear now that a major consequence of George...
...constructing a new, state-of-the-art, $30 million prison at Guantanamo, where they plan to consolidate many of the camp's maximum-security inmates. Harris argues the camp will be needed for the forseeable future, and that refusing to eat is not a cry for help, but a ploy drawn from the al-Qaeda playbook calculated to attract media attention and force the U.S. government to back down."The will to resist of these detainees is high,' says Harris."They are waging their war, their jihad against America, and we just have to stop them...