Staffer for McCain Guest-Blogs at Captain’s Quarters
A staffer for Senator John McCain has a guest-blogging entry at Captain’s Quarters, in which he engages in some “straight talk” about North Korea’s nuclear test.
In the post, the staffer for McCain criticizes sitting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, who is running for re-election in New York. The criticism, coming as it does well within 60 days of the election, is a blatant violation of the spirit of McCain’s Incumbency Protection Act, otherwise known as the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act. Thank God for that media exemption, huh, John?
By the way, the entry has caused consternation among lefty bloggers whose idea of clever and biting commentary is to call Captain Ed names like “Special Ed” or “Captain Cubicle.” These bloggers rushed to find an appropriate name for the guest-blogging Senator. The preliminary favorite was “‘I have to use the’ John McCain” — a reference to the fact that McCain’s first name doubles as an appellation for a toilet bowl.
Defending the admittedly unwieldy nickname, lefties cited a lack of sufficient notice. They were quick to point out that, should this guest-blogging stint continue in the future, they expect to refine the name to make it pithier — and perhaps to work in a reference to the “fact” that both McCain and a toilet bowl are full of [fecal matter].
In all seriousness, though, congratulations to Ed are in order. And cheers to McCain for using blogs to communicate more directly with the public.
Kudo’s to McCain for bitch slapping the Left back into their corner. Hillery, Reid, Kerry, Dean, and Pelosi should have shut up instead of standup.
– The Left has been trying to juggle too many balls on this issue for so long they have their balls dangling from the ceiling.
– Clinton and Maggie went ahead, against the advice of people like McCain, who was there thru the entire process, stating loud and clear that a “non-transperant” aggreement would simply never work with a tin-pot dictatorship like the NK.
– They wouldn’t listen, and went ahead anyway.
– Little Kim played the Clinton admin. like a fine violin, but we just kept on giving.
– By the time Bush took over, the deed was done. The Left clamoured for multi-partner talks, so we did. It didn’t work, any better than one on one. Now they’re screeching they would do one on one again, when they’re not busily trying to protect the failed Clinton “legacy”
– It’s profound bullshit.
– Kudo’s to Bush too, for His real move this morning, instead of the usual “talk”, all you’re ever hear from the Dem’s, who simply are un-equiped under any circumstances to deal with our adversaries. Offering Japan full-up missile defense is the first “real” step of American response to the NK threat in 15 years.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 8:30 amI expected the entry at Ed’s to be a joke. If it is, it’s not a very funny one.
Seriously, doesn’t that violate McCain-Feingold, giving away time to McCain like that?
See Dubya (e09cf6) — 10/11/2006 @ 8:31 am“The 1994 crisis came about because the North Koreans were producing weapons-grade plutonium. Under the Agreed Framework, they agreed to shutter the plutonium production facility and put the already produced plutonium under international oversight.
In return, the US promised aide, help building lightwater reactors (which don’t help with bombs) and diplomatic normalization.
That agreement kept the plutonium operation on ice until the end of 2002.
President Bush came to office wanting to pull out of the agreement and did so when evidence surfaced suggesting that the North Koreans were secretly trying to enrich uranium (a separate path to the bomb).
The bomb that went off yesterday was made with plutonium, the same stuff that was off-limits from 1994-2002. In all likelihood some of the same stuff that was on ice from 1994-2002.
To the best of my knowledge, no one thinks the North Koreans are close to having enough uranium to make a nuclear weapon that way. And it’s not even completely clear they were ever trying to enrich uranium.
So Clinton strikes a deal to keep plutonium out of the North Koreans’ hands. The deal keeps the plutonium out of reach for the last six years of Clinton’s term and the first two of Bush’s. Bush pulls out of the deal. Four years later a plutonium bomb explodes.
Clinton’s fault, right?
There’s certainly an argument to be made that you don’t make agreements with parties you don’t trust, like the North Koreans. And perhaps President Bush would have had some leg to stand on if he’d pulled out of the Agreed Framework and replaced it with something better — either force or a better agreement. But he didn’t. He just did nothing for four years. Now we have plutonium, probably uranium and actual bombs. And according to McCain, it’s all Bill Clinton’s fault.”
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Joseph Sechspach (5e7461) — 10/11/2006 @ 8:41 am“For almost six years this policy has been a strange combination of harsh rhetoric and inaction.
President Bush, early in his first term, dubbed North Korea a member of the “axis of evil” and made disparaging remarks about Kim Jong Il. He said he would not tolerate a North Korean nuclear weapons program, but he set no bounds on North Korean actions.”
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– Just keep trying to paper over Clinton’s negligent policies Joseph, and shifting the blame to Bush, the universal response of a party that’s more interested in protecting “Legacies”, instead of dealing with the problems at hand. “Stay the course” on self-image protection, in terms Bush would use. I’m sure that refusal to deal with the real problems, and play the ego game, will go over well with the electorate.
– Could Bush have done more. Well after the horse is out of the barn, what else could he have done. I can just imagine the Left, and their lap dog media’s response, to any real aggressive move by Bush in the NK, until this latest round of in your face by the Koreans. The ink would have been burning the paper it was printed on. “Bush, the cowboy is at it again”. “Bush turns huis back on negotiations, and go’s to war again”.
– Your side doesn’t even want to use the available tools to fight terrorism. Now you want to ankle bite Bush for NOT being tough enough. Do you ever take the time to even listen to your own counter-purpose screeching.
– As I said. Profound Bullshit.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 8:56 amJohn does NOT double as an appellation for a toilet bowl. Jon does. The additional letter, being silent, is yet full of meaning.
This is rather personal for me. Suffice it to say that I share an attribute with the Senator.
Amphipolis (fdbc48) — 10/11/2006 @ 9:17 amIt’s good to see the Captain give McCain space to show he doesn’t really know the differencew between the plutonium issue and the uranium issue.
Oh wait … maybe he does know the issue and is just playing the righties for a bunch of gullible fools.
The Agreed Framework froze plutonium, Bush baled on it freeing up NK to develop a plutonium based nuke and now NK apparently has a plutonium nuke.
But using McCainsian logic … Bush succeeded and Clinton failed.
Macswain (76d8da) — 10/11/2006 @ 9:35 amMacswain – We’ll leave it to your side to carry on the important work of propping up the “Clinton legacy”, work your party is uniquely suited for, while our side deals with the real problems as usual. No one will be surprised, especially the voters.
– That will give you ample time to figure out pithy response’s to deal with Clinton’s dalliance’s. Things like moistening his cigars in Monika’s “essense”, while all of this was going on. You have a lot of revising to do, so you need to get busy. Don’t worry about America. It’s in good hands, and you have important issues to deal with like “image”.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 9:46 amIn all seriousness, though, McCain is using blogs to to advance the cause of John McCain. The only cause he truly gives a crap about.
Stephen Macklin (fc20a6) — 10/11/2006 @ 9:53 am– Agreed Stephen. Dogs bark, politicians campaign. Oh the humanities….
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 9:57 amBBH,
I challenge McCain on plutonium vs. uranium and what was actually being achieved under the Agreed Framework (No Nuke) vs. Bush’s disengagement policy (plutonium nuke(s)) and your response is …
Monica.
This type of thinking exemplifies exactly why righties are dangerous to the America and the world.
Macswain (76d8da) — 10/11/2006 @ 10:08 am– No Macswain. In spite of your normal “Left deflection” motivations, the point of my post is “Clinton Legacy revision”, and it’s dire importance to the work of the Democrats, because that’s about all you have in your empty wagon of workable idea’s.
– The Nk’s take another dangerous step toward toppling any semblance of stability on the asian continent, and your side is obssessing over protecting the image of your feckless leader, rather than accepting that neither Administration has chossen the right responses over the past 15 years. You can readily accept the truth of that as far as Bush’s preoccupation with the WOT, a war you refuse to even acknowledge, much less deal with, but you can’t accept any truthiness concerning your beloved diddler.
– No one gets to have it both ways, even the “Teflon Left”.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 10:17 am– BTW – For the edification of Macswain and others, my political affiliation is “Independent-Classic Liberal”.
– I would venture to guess that FDR, Truman, and Kennedy, among others, are looking down from that great caucus in the sky, and just shaking their heads at what’s become of the Democratic party, now hi-jacked by, of all things, a young turk soft-Marxist gaggle of robots, spawned from the inner sanctums of poly-sci lefy-wing class-rooms over the past 30 years. A party thats become so out of the mainstream anti-American, proto-Fascist Socialistic, that they can’t even win elections against the Republicans. Simply amazing. But also highly distressing, because right now we have real problems to face. Things that are a great deal more important than whether Clinton/appeasement, or Bush/aggression is to blame for anything.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 11:07 amBBH, re #11: “The Nk’s take another dangerous step toward toppling any semblance of stability on the asian continent, and your side is obssessing over protecting the image of your feckless leader, rather than accepting that neither Administration has chossen the right responses over the past 15 years.” I would challenge that; the only people i’ve seen invoking Clinton are conservatives castigating his policies.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 10/11/2006 @ 11:50 amAs to the general subject at hand — I’m really uncertain that either Bush or Clinton can be held to have caused the problem; I think there was no set of levers available which would have been successful, save the destruction of the North Korean regime (and there simply hasn’t been the political will for that).
Neither Clinton nor Bush can claim to have followed a successful policy, but it’s not clear to me that either of them had any options which were capable of success.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 10/11/2006 @ 11:51 am– Um. yes. I think I said that, several times in several ways.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 12:01 pmaphrael – See immediate response’s of Dem leaders, even before the drive-by press could rush “Clinton legacy defensive-measures” into print. Damn press conference video’s.They take the fun out of revisionism, don’t they though.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 12:06 pmBBH: I can’t remember the last time I watched a press conference video from either side of the aisle; i’d much rather read printed words than watch video. Printed words take less time.
Have there been Democrats trying to protect Clinton’s legacy? Probably. I haven’t seen it; what i’ve seen is Democrats attacking Bush’s legacy and Republicans attacking Clinton’s legacy.
I’ve seen surprisingly few people aside from the gents at Winds of Change, and President Bush in his news conference (broadcast on my npr station) this morning, talking about what we should do now.
aphrael (e0cdc9) — 10/11/2006 @ 12:20 pm-Yes aphreal – THAT is the nexus of the prob now isn’t it. Both Ceasers fiddle while Rome burns,
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 12:23 pm– FOX is showing coverage of the Heliocopter that hit a highrise in on 72nd in NY. Early reports are saying “not a terror” attack. Peole said to be trapped in burning building.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 12:31 pmI’m thoroughly unimpressed with the blogging skills of politicians. Usually, they never take advatange of the blog medium to discuss substantive issues (point to a politician’s/candidate’s “blog” that does this). When they do (like McCain on North Korea), they NEVER seem to link to outside sources to back up their claims. The result is simply a “talking points” press release that happens to be posted on a blog instead of a PR e-mail list. Lame.
Where are the politicians talking about the budget, and LINKING to the sources that show what we are really spending (and on what)? Why don’t they LINK to sites that show campaign finance disclosures that prove that their opponents are in the pocket of special insterests? Why don’t they LINK to sites that prove that they sponsored or opposed certain forms of legislation or policies (or that their opponents took the opposite view)?
What sets blogging apart is the ability to link to outside sources that allow and help readers to make up their own minds about what they are reading. If politicians don’t take advantage of this – they are just blowing off gas in my opinion.
Justin Levine (20f2b5) — 10/11/2006 @ 1:25 pm– I was wondering how long it would take a dem to blame this on Bush and viola:
Charley Rangle (D-NY) is on TV now holding forth about how poorly, in so may words, this reflects on the so-called “improvements” in homeland defense.
– Another Democrat, abusing a tragic event, to oppotunistically do Left-wing talking points.
-Hhe also launched into the usually spin on the economy, ignoring the burning building in the video behind him. Way to go Dem’s. score another one for “power-deficiency syndrome”.
– Cavuto finally backed him up a little by closing the interview with “Charley, only you could work those comments into this situation”.
– Reports from fairly good sources are now saying it was a plane owned by Yankee’s pitcher Cory Lidle, and that he and his passengers all died.
Big Bang Hunter (9562fb) — 10/11/2006 @ 1:58 pmThe timeline:
PRESIDENT REAGAN
Mid-1980s: First signs of North Korea nuclear program detected by US intelligence. [Link]
1986: North Korea produces plutonium in reactor. [Link]
PRESIDENT GEORGE H. W. BUSH
1991: US begins talks with North Korea to end to nuclear program. [Link]
1992: North Korea has separated an estimated 0-10kg of weapons-grade plutonium, enough for 1 to 2 bombs.
PRESIDENT CLINTON
1993: North Korea announces it will leave nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty; US prepares to attack nuclear sites. [Link, Link]
1994: Clinton Administration reaches Agreed Framework, North Korea freezes nuclear production for the next eight years. [Link]
August 1998: North Korea tests medium-range “Taep’o-dong-1″ missile. [Link]
December 1998: North Korea warns they will test another missile, but pressure from US dissuades them. [Link]
September 1999: Pyongyang agrees to long-range missile moratorium. [Link]
October 2000: Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is highest ranking US official to ever meet with Kim Jong Il.
PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
March 6, 2001: Secretary of State Colin Powell says the administration will “pick up where President Clinton left off.” [Link]
March 7, 2001: President Bush undercuts Powell, declares negotiations will take on a different tone. [Link]
January 2002: Bush labels North Korea a member of the “Axis of Evil.” [Link]
March 2003: United States invades Iraq. [Link]
April 2003: North Korea withdraws from the Non-Proliferation Treaty; soon thereafter, they restart their reactor. [Link]
April 2005: North Korea appears to unload nuclear reactor with up to another 15 kg of weapons-grade plutonium. [Link]
September 19, 2005: In six-party talks North Korea agrees to abandon its nuclear program in exchange for incentives package. [Link]
September 19, 2005: US labels bank that provides financial support for North Korean Government Agencies as “money laundering concern.” Bank freezes North Korean assets; causes collapse of September 2005 agreement. [Link]
June 2006: North Korea is believed to have now produced enough plutonium for 4 to 13 nuclear bombs. [Link]
July 2006: North Korea tests missiles: one medium-range and five short-range. Medium-range “Taep’o-dong-2 fails. [Link]
October 3, 2006: Kim Jong Il announces North Korea plans to test nuclear weapons.
October 4, 2006: North Korea asserts that nuclear test is a measure to “bolstering its nuclear deterrent as a self-defense measure.” [Link]
Mid-2008: If North Korea unloads another batch of fuel, it may have enough nuclear material for 8 to 17 nuclear bombs. [Link]
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Go there for the links.
Seth Edenbaum (5e7461) — 10/11/2006 @ 3:55 pmKa-boom!…
What has changed? North Korea claimed to have the fissile material a while ago — and nothing was done. They claimed that they had the know-how to build atomic bombs — and nothing was done. The only change that I can see is that they backed up thei…
Common Sense Political Thought (819604) — 10/11/2006 @ 4:25 pmI’m feeling very confused. This is the second time in a week or so I’ve found myself agreeing with Aphrael. 😉 I agree that I think Clinton’s approach to N. Korea was bad but that Bush’s position (which, from what I can understand was the direct opposite) hasn’t been any better. I keep trying to decide exactly what would have been (and would be) an effective policy for dealing with N. Korea & I just keep coming back to either (a) bombing the sites that we know are where they are building weapons or (b) assassinating Kim Jong-Il. Of course, I don’t think either of these courses will be taken because both are crazy, but we are dealing with a crazy situation, aren’t we?
sharon (dfeb10) — 10/11/2006 @ 7:11 pmSharon:
How about this? North Korea is China’s proxy. We have South Korea, Japan and Taiwan as ours. North Korea messes us around because China wants it to mess us around. We cannot mess back because China is the biggest holder of our Treasury Notes. If we want a solution to the North Korea problem, South Korea unites with North Korea at our expense (trillions of dollars given the economic disparity between the two countries), China reunites with Taiwan again at our expense (trillions of dollars to relocate the Taiwanese who don’t want to live under totalitarian rule) and Japan stays disarmed and nothing more than the department store of the Pacific. Global economy.
nk (8214ee) — 10/11/2006 @ 7:24 pmI still can’t figure out what bush’s position was. Clinton made some deals, and gave Korea some attention. What did bush do?
actus (10527e) — 10/11/2006 @ 7:48 pmI can’t tell you how dissapointed in the Captain I am. McCain has done more to damage freedom of speech than almost any other congresscritter. He is beneath contempt.
CTD (dcc694) — 10/11/2006 @ 7:52 pmI’ll make it easy for ya –
North Korea did not separate a gram of plutonium while Bill Clinton was in office.
North Korea has completed plutonium based nukes since Bush bailed on the Agreed Framework.
No nukes vs. nukes.
Only an idiot could not understand which approach was more successful. Bush needs to end the silly pissing match of not engaging in bilateral talks and hating all-things-Clinton and get us back to a nuke-free North Korea.
Oh … my bad … a greater nuclear danger to America means more $$$$ for bogus missile defense and greater exploitation of the politics of fear.
Macswain (5b310d) — 10/11/2006 @ 11:15 pmNo Mac. it means that is time to stop paying extortion to every dictator that makes a demand of us. NK adds nothing to the well being of the world and cares nothing for their own people. it is time to stop supporting extortionist and make them become productive citizens of the world and not leaches that suck the blood of productive nations
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