Obviously yes, they should have been thrown out yesterday. Will the rest of the population wake up to the truth though? I've found recently that most lemmings are particularly receptive to the celebrating kikes seen during 9/11, once you can get them to believe that, (that fox jews video about israeli spies found here at that time aids in this) they start to question the government letting all those kikes go, and may even come to a place in thier mind where they can envision "throwing them all out". I do though, sincerly hope that we don't throw them too far, I would love to see them held accountable for what they have done. What ever happens, I hope we can all remember that old saying and band together while repeating 'when the ballot fails, the bullet prevails'.

Audio clip of below rant
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/rants/yesonno16-16.m3u

Vote Yes on No
http://www.conspiracypenpal.com/rants/yesonno.htm

"Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost."

--- John Quincy Adams, eldest son of President John Adams and sixth President of the US, 1767-1848

My name is Edgar J. Steele. This is a Nickel Rant.

Mid-term elections are coming. Just say "No" to politics as usual.

Vote against all incumbents.

Vote against all spending bills.

Vote against immigration.

Or ... just stay home and don't vote. Vote yes on No.

Choosing Evil Doesn't Work

Don't try to choose among several bad choices, thinking it smart to choose the lesser of two or more evils. Choosing the lesser of two evils still means choosing evil. In fact, George W. Bush has taught us that choosing the lesser of two evils can mean choosing evil beyond comprehension.

It isn't just Bush, of course. The other two branches of government are equally complicit. The judiciary sits with its arms folded and, when forced, supports the Administration. Congress does nothing but rubber stamp the actions of an Administration that now has gone to an unprecedented level of evil, beyond even the capacity of words to convey.

We don't get to vote on a new President for two years, if ever again. If you think I suggest that possibility lightly, you really have not been paying attention. We never really get to vote on judges at any level.

Congress is a different story, however, and we vote on them in just a few days.

Let me remind you of just a handful of the travesties that this Congress has allowed under George W. Bush:

Endless and Senseless War

After 9-11, which now has been proven conclusively to have been an inside job, Congress voted to delegate to Bush its Constitutionally-mandated war-making power.

Bush then lied us into a war that has cost over 10,000 American and 655,000 Iraqi lives. Despite being proven a liar about weapons of mass destruction, the World Trade Center tragedy, Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, again and again, Bush continues to keep Americans dying there, with the rate of increasing deaths escalating by the day.

Boundless Immigration

Illegal immigration has increased significantly, as Congress purposely fails to stem the tide and actually allows the Administration to hinder efforts of states and individuals to act on their own.

The End of America

Congress allowed Bush to sign a secret treaty that establishes the North American Union, thereby consolidating America, Mexico and Canada and proving why unrestricted illegal immigration is being allowed. Though this single act of treason and high crime spells the end of America, it is of little significance by comparison with other things allowed by this Congress which guarantee the impending end of life as we have known it.

No longer does anybody dispute the fact that the loss of industry and jobs to overseas locations and illegal immigrants is leaving America both impotent and headed for bankruptcy. Even so, oddly enough, Toyota still can make vehicles profitably in America while neither Ford nor General Motors can do the same.

Fiscal and Monetary Insanity

Of course, the incredible military spending now being allowed by Congress, all by itself, seals our fate. Used to be, economists argued over whether to spend on guns or butter, as a euphemism for a presumed inability to fund both the national defense and social programs. Now there is no debate whatsoever as Congress appropriates money for guns, butter and a police state.

The money being spent is borrowed from our children and their children, in the form of debt that we cannot repay. Nor will any of our descendants be able to repay it, thereby guaranteeing that our progeny will toil their entire lives in chains, chains fashioned by our current Congress.

The Special Role of Goldman Sachs

The financial arm of government has been handed over to private companies, led by investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, which now has become America's prime source of government economists and Treasury officials.

Since Congress allowed the Goldman-Sachs takeover, virtually all of America's economic and financial statistics have been altered, as in the case of jobless rates three times that admitted, or simply eliminated, as in the case of the reporting of M3, an obscure term for the most meaningful measure of the amount of money simply being created from debt.

Under Goldman-Sachs, the secret (and illegal) manipulation of financial markets has become routine. The pre-election stock market just hit a new all-time high, despite absolutely nothing good about even the false economic news being released.

Congress sits by as Goldman-Sachs orchestrates the manipulation of gold and silver prices via massive secret selling of futures contracts, thereby ensuring that the American Dollar continues its death-defying act of levitation, despite fundamentals that say it should have crashed and burned long ago.

To help obscure the fact of financial market rigging, Goldman-Sachs ... er, our government ... now has discontinued the Commitment of Traders (COT) report, whereby excessive futures trading used to be apparent.

Here is just one small recent example of what is being done: Gasoline prices, which doubled under Bush (thereby proving that our Middle-Eastern wars of conquest have nothing to do with oil, either), suddenly have subsided just prior to the upcoming election. How did this happen in an era of worldwide increasing demand and decreasing supply? Easy - Goldman-Sachs simply cut exposure of its primary commodity index, the GSCI, to gasoline by two-thirds. Since a great many investors adjust their investments to match the GSCI index (including funds that are required by their charters to track that index exactly), the result was a massive sell off of gasoline futures contracts in just the past few weeks. It is, of course, no coincidence that the greatest declines in pump prices have taken place in so-called "swing states" that are particularly critical to Republicans in the upcoming congressional election.

Bills of No Rights

Aside from allowing Bush to run roughshod over America, Congress actively has participated in our demise by passing bill after bill, each clearly violating the Constitution.

Recall the woefully-misnamed Patriot Acts I and II, whereby so many of our civil liberties were surrendered under the specter of terrorism; terrorism which never has come to the shores of America (remember that 9/11 was an inside job - America's own "Reichstag Fire").

Even the Patriot Acts were not enough for Bush, who long ago ordered the illegal wiretapping of all Americans (and by all, I mean all, because complete records of your telephone calls are being maintained by the NSA). When exposed, Congress simply passed a bill to make it legal.

Despite giving Bush anything he demands, Congress also allows Bush to issue what are called "Signing Statements" along with bills that he signs, whereby he typically claims exemption from the new restrictions being imposed upon the rest of us daily.

Torturing Americans

Torture, which has been illegal since America's founding, was disclosed publicly in the Abu Gharaib prison scandal. Now Congress simply has legalized torture via the Military Commissions Act recently approved. That same act provides that war crimes no longer are crimes if committed by American officials, thereby stamping America forevermore as a rogue nation in the world community.

Hidden in that same Military Commissions Act is a provision that makes each and every American citizen subject to being seized without a warrant, held without a trial and tortured - simply on the say-so of government officials.

Strip Searching our Children

Just passed by voice vote in the House of Representatives: The Orwellian-named "Student and Teacher Safety Act of 2006," which will allow public school officials to strip search our children without our consent or, even, knowledge. The definitions are loose enough that the term "official" conceivably could include after-hours janitors.

What I find tragically ironic about the proposed invasion of our children's bodies is the fact that, just now, both House members Mark Foley and current Speaker Dennis Hastert have been shown to be molesting young boys in their off hours.

The Smell of Plutonium in the Morning Air

Meanwhile, the American aircraft carrier group Eisenhower steams for the Middle East, due to arrive shortly and join the Enterprise carrier group already on station. The entire Middle East is on a war footing, including a variety of patron states, including Russia.

We're not talking the junior-league sort of genocide being practiced daily by America in Iraq and Israel in Palestine. Both America and Israel now have been proven incapable of winning war by conventional means. Bank on nuclear weapons being used in the upcoming invasion of Iran - small ones at first, but the escalation should be as swift as it will be impressive. Many times have I stated that history will show 9/11 to have been the start of World War III. Now, at last, you will see why.

If you think this merely is bluff on Bush's part, go back and study the ramp up to both Afghanistan and Iraq. We are going into Iran. And we're not coming out, either. At least, not intact, as Iraq increasingly proves. The only war for which George W. Bush has had an effective exit strategy, acerbically pointed out by Bill Maher, was the Viet Nam war.

We Are the Problem

Let's face it: America is broken. Probably beyond repair. World war possibly will come before the election next month. Even so, doing what we've always done in a voting booth is what got us into this mess. Doing it again sure won't fix things.

Vote yes on No

Like it or not - believe it or not - American elections at every level are rigged anyway. Elections always have been crooked here and there at times (the last two presidential elections, for example) and always in some places (Chicago comes to mind). Now, with paperless voting machines, fraud has become easy, endemic and, most importantly, unverifiable. Recounts? Recount what?

So-called third parties have become even more irrelevant in recent times, so don't waste your time on them, except to use one to vote against current officeholders.

So many people do not vote. Fine, if that is your wish. Your vote probably is pointless, anyway. But, if you do vote, then do it with relish. Do it right ... just this once. If everybody voted against incumbents, then the numbers would be too large for even the current Administration to overturn.

Vote yes on No.

Vote against all incumbents,
even those running for different offices.

Vote against all spending bills.

Vote against immigration.

Or ... just stay home and don't vote.

Vote yes on No.

Want to make a statement at the risk of a little jail time? Go into a voting booth and refuse to come out. Take a good book with you to read while the local officials figure out what to do with you. Take the phone numbers of an attorney and a bail bondsman, too.

Don't put extra statements or symbols on your paper ballots - those just get thrown out, so you might just as well stay at home. Don't vote for "Mickey Mouse," yourself or your dog.

Make your vote really count. Vote against everything and everyone. Otherwise, simply don't vote.

Make a real difference this time. Make your voice count for a change. Vote yes on No.

http://goldismoney.info/forums/t73880-they-really-are-going-to-send-agents-to-watch-us.html

22 year old gentleman's idea's posted below. Is he for real?

Contemplating Becoming a Political Leader

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On this my 22nd birthday, I am contemplating becoming a political leader (not a prostituting 'politician') in my home country of America. I see no person or organization around even approximately worthy of political support. I have the requisite intelligence, courage, honesty, morality, energy and authentic empathy to reverse the tide of decay. The "traditionalist", Guenonian, classical, authentically Christian and aristocratic elements of the American polity must be restored and an approximately human set of values reawakened in the face of the current dehumanizing neo-Jacobin world-revolutionary monstrosity posing as America. Unlike most contemporary "hardcore right-wingers", I am not afflicted with any sort of psychological pathology and in fact embody the highest mental and spiritual health. I have already silently assimilated myself into the collapsing American elite through organizations like Phi Beta Kappa. I have the subtlety and tact to emphasize "Traditional" concerns in a balanced way understandable to the average citizen. Chaotic racial dissolution and Trotskyian "multiculturalism" are only effects of a larger civilizational and spiritual breakdown, and I could present the racial and minority problems in a civilized, holistic non-extremist manner. Similarly with the sodomite crisis. I would force organized Freemasonry to clean its house up, become a morally and socially integral force again, or face the consequences. I would crush through all legal, humane means the filthy mobsters, gangsters, drug-racketeers, pornographic abusers of the sex impulse and other assorted nihilistic riffraff infesting the republic and manipulating the lower orders. Foreign governmental and lobbying powers (e.g. Mexico, Israel) would be completely disempowered in accordance with the wise nationalistic policy outlined by George Washington in his Farewell Address. For a person like me, sufficently hypersenstive to feel in my bones the current wholesale cultural, racial, civilizational and moral self-immolation of the West, with the United States of America as the "far-West", it's either fight or flight. For the sake of mere sanity, I must believe the United States is redeemable. From the current grotesque mockery of government and culture, America could redeem itself by becoming the decentralized Western aristocratic republic it was meant to be by its creators. I have no set plan at all, but only a developing impulse... Counsel?

Esoterist

http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?p=162756#post162756

It’s not just the WEST, it’s the world, peoples and nations as a whole feeding the system, entity”, or the negative force slave driving.

I think the Jewish population and the like are at a cross-road. The elites” forging ahead at full speed that the consciousness is awakening within from the abyss; Asia will swallow up they're existing once the WEST reaches a point of insignificance.

Do Jews and the like believe they’re own new creation of people will hold back the paper tiger? On the contrary, the Asia tiger will soon become real life as matter that their existing will vanish like the Mongolians (if it keeps on feeding the tiger)

Will their Conscience rise over HATE? It maybe as reality sets in from the abyss.

We have reached a critical mass in a quasar manner I think the final solution to the Jewish question is now history.

With all of the early hype about Diebold Fraud,
voting scams, and the stealing of the Elections,

Maybe the best thing that King George could do
is simply post-pone the elections indefinately.

Shouldn't we really be focusing on the shifting war in the middle east anyways?

After all, it's now widely known the current electronic voting machines won't be fair, accurate, or true to the voter's intentions.

Best thing to do is just "Pull It"!

Electronic voting machines count 80% of the votes cast in America. HACKING DEMOCRACY Premieres on HBO Thursday,
November 2 at 9pm
http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/hackingdemocracy/

Videotape the diebold fraud for future action
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2006/10/30/72956/952

Glitches cited in early voting
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/broward_county/15869924.htm

REPORT: DoD's New, Untested, Secretly Developed Overseas Military Voting Scheme for General Election 'Poses Significant Security Risks'
http://www.bradblog.com/?cat=106

Diebold Continues to Lie About 'Grave National Security Risk' of E-Voting as Democratic Party Keeps Head in Sand
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3687

Orange Co. California Indicts 11 GOP Operatives For Voter Registration Fraud
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3679

CNN's Lou Dobbs: 'It's a Case of Special Interest Over The National Interest' Short video clip Dobbs Talks about (ITA) Fraud
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3673

"Independent Testing Authority" (ITA), a consortium of three private corporations chosen and paid for by the voting machine companies themselves.

Will the Blacks help us throw the jews out?

Though I'm not particularly fond of Rap Music,
the lyrics of this Rap song are Quite Interesting.

9/11 Truth: United Flight 93 - Where's the Boeing 757 ? (5 minute vid)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr-BRjSWxLg&mode=related&search=

This "Aint no house nigger" who sounds like he's hip the the Jew.

Wouldn't it be great if all the races suddenly became "Hip to the JEw"?

Just more Evidence, the Kikes are losing more ground each day.

What The Experts Say About Electronic Voting
http://www.rense.com/general74/expert.htm

Here is a sobering collection of quotes about electronic voting by experts around the country prepared by Kathy Dopps,National Election Data Archive. All of our elected officials should read it, and then take the appropriate actions needed to protect our democracy.

What do the Experts Say??

Only real recounts (cross-checking paper records against official tabulations), not just rereading machine totals, will resolve close elections. October, 2006 The American Statistical Association

http://www.amstat.org/news/StatisticalIssuesInElections.pdf

Computer viruses ... can spread malicious software automatically and invisibly from [Diebold] machine to machine during normal pre- and post-election activity and even careful forensic examination of these records will find nothing amiss anyone who has physical access to a voting machine or to a memory card can install said malicious software in as little as one minute. Some of these problems cannot be remedied without replacing the machine's hardware. Princeton University Computer Scientist Ed Felton

http://itpolicy.princeton.edu/voting/

Technicians or election officials could be producing infected memory cards without any knowledge of what they were doing. We'll never have secure machines if the vendors succeed in keeping the inner workings of their machines secret from the security experts.... Secrecy is not the road to security. The Princeton report describes two attacks: a vote-altering attack and a Denial-of-Service attack Yale University Computer Scientist Dr. Michael Fischer

http://www.verifiedvotingfoundation.org/article.php?id=6387

The current generation of electronic (DRE) voting machines are not secure, do not provide voters with a way to know that their votes are being tabulated correctly, and do not provide a mechanism for effective recounts when errors arise. As such, they represent an unacceptable technical risk, regardless of how people feel about them.? Brigham Young University & University of Utah Computer Scientists (Carter, Windley, Brundvand, Gopalakrishnan, Hanscom, Jones, Lee, Regehr, Seamons, Shirley, Drake)

http://utahcountvotes.org/voting_system_advice.pdf

The basic problem of e-voting can be understood without an in-depth knowledge of computer technology. Here is a helpful analogy: Suppose voters dictated their votes, privately and anonymously, to human scribes, and that the voters were prevented from inspecting the work of the scribes. Few would accept such a system, on simple common-sense grounds. Obviously, the scribes could accidentally or intentionally mis-record the votes with no consequences. Without accountability, a system is simply not trustworthy, whether or not computers are involved. and You don't need a Ph.D. in computer science to understand the basic problem with computerized voting. Computer systems are so complex that no one really knows what goes on inside them. We don't know how to find all the errors in a computer system; we don't know how to make sure that a system is secure or that it hasn't been corrupted (possibly even by its designers); and we don't know how to ensure that the systems in use are running the software they are supposed to be running. Stanford Computer Scientist David Dill

http://www.verifiedvoting.org/article.php?id=5789

Diebold's system is utterly unsecured. The entire cyber-security community is begging them to come back to reality and secure our nation?s voting. Pentagon Cyber-Security Advisor Stephen Spoonamore

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/Technology/story?id=2596705&page=2

We conclude that this voting system [Diebold] is unsuitable for use in a general election. Johns Hopkins University Professor of Computer Science Avi Rubin in a paper presented at the 2004 IEEE Symposium on Security and Privacy.

There are no standards. There is no scientific research ... there's an erosion of voting rights implicit in the inability to trust the technology that we use and if we were another country being analyzed by America, we would conclude that this country is ripe for stealing elections and for fraud.? DeForest Soaries, Former US Election Assistance Commission Chairman 2004-2006 (appointed by Bush)

??Many of the hard drives and apparently all of the motherboards of the voting machines are Made in China.? China is known to be attacking the Dept of Defense, Commerce Dept and other government computers.? The motherboard controls the computer and hiding a malicious program in the boot sector of a hard drive isn?t much of a trick, one has to assume that some or all of the Diebold voting machines are potentially, even probably controlled by China (Security 101).? And ?Diebold is based on Microsoft Windows. No other operating system in the world is as subject to so many viruses, Trojan horses, hack tools, worms, or other attacks..? and ?Diebold has repeatedly used uncertified and untested software and hardware in elections, making a mockery of even the weak certification and testing procedures in place.? And ?Diebold has repeatedly failed to correct known security flaws and software bugs.? and ?It has become easy to determine that a Diebold representative is dissembling. His, or her lips are moving.? Dr. Charles Corry, Colorado Springs, CO, former IEEE (the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) member of the voting system guidelines committee for 4 years (& former Marine corporal) October, 2006

Some believe that computer touch screen machines are the future of electoral systems, but the technology simply fails to pass the test of reliability. As anyone who uses one can attest, computers break down, get viruses, lose information, and corrupt data. We know this to be the case, and so we back-up our files to ensure nothing important is lost. Paper ballots serve as the ultimate back-up for our elections, providing secure and permanent verification of the will of the people....When a vote is cast, a vote should be counted. With paper ballots we will have a record. With paper ballots the fundamental principle of one person, one vote is safe. Democratic Governor Bill Richardson NM

http://utahcountvotes.org/US/GovRichardsonLtr20060301.pdf

Maryland Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R) called for the state to scrap its $106 million electronic voting apparatus and revert to a paper ballot system for the November [2006] election. "When in doubt, go paper, go low-tech," he said. Ehrlich advocated leasing optical scan machines that use paper ballots... Republican Governor Robert Ehrlich MD Washington Post Thursday, September 21, 2006

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/20/AR2006092001356.html

All three voting systems have significant security and reliability vulnerabilities, which pose a real danger to the integrity of national, state, and local elections. and Few jurisdictions have implemented any of the key countermeasures that could make the least difficult attacks against voting systems much more difficult to execute successfully. The Brennan Center (NYU Law School) Brennan Center experts include statistical consultant, professor University of California at Davis; Electronic Privacy Information Center; professor Stanford University, PhD, Cyber Defense Agency LLC; former CEO of F-Secure PLC; Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and Chair of the California Secretary of State's Voting Systems Technology Assessment and Advisory Board; prof. University of Iowa; PhD NIST; PhD, NIST; prof. MIT; Former Chief Security Officer, Microsoft and eBay Counterpane Internet Security; PhD, formerly of the Computer Science; Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT; prof. University of California at Berkeley; prof. Rice University; Electronic Frontier Foundation

http://www.brennancenter.org/programs/downloads/SecurityExecSum7-3.pdf

It seems that integrity and honesty aren't terribly important at Diebold... and We send people to death row on flimsier and more circumstantial evidence... How much are you willing to pay for secure trustworthy elections? What more would these machines have to do to prove they?re dangerous, whistle Dixie while they miscount our votes Andrew Kantor, technology writer for USAToday, former editor PC Magazine and Internet World.

http://www.usatoday/tech/columnist/andrewkantor/2006-09-29-diebold_x.htm

Kathy Dopp http://utahcountvotes.org/docs/WhatdotheExpertsSay.pdf

Allegra Dengler 60 Judson Avenue Dobbs Ferry, NY 10522 914-693-8023 http://citizensforvotingintegrity.org/ http://www.nyvv.org/

9/11 Truth Is Dying Inside the Liberal and Progressive Movements While Exploding World-Wide
http://www.prisonplanet.com/articles/november2006/091106truthdying.htm

Many in liberal, progressive, truth community pacified by sham re-arranging of the deck chairs, desert movement, dilute focus, as Dean and Pelosi promise to protect Bush from impeachment

Free humans worldwide who have discovered the real truth about 9/11 will never stop until the military industrial complex mass-murderers who carried out the attacks are brought to justice. In major polls, the majority of Americans and the people of the world know that 9/11 was an inside job. State-sponsored terror is the fount of globalist power and must be shattered if humanity has any chance to be free in the future.

The explosive momentum of 9/11 truth for the moment is dimming, but like a fire that is dying, we must re-double our efforts and throw on even more fuel-- that fuel is truth. And the ocean of lies poured out by the controlled-corporate media will never extinguish our flames.

We cannot go back to sleep while the Democratic leadership shares power with the psychopathic terrorists who carried out 9/11.

It took over forty years for 80% of the people to learn that the Kennedy assassination was a black-op; in less than five years, the majority of Americans have learned that 9/11 was the same.

Anyone who runs defense for the perpetrators of 9/11-- Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean or anyone who supports them in their cover-up-- are traitors. Think about it: George Bush and his controllers killed 3,000 Americans, launched an illegal war and then butchered the Bill of Rights. And we're all supposed to go back to sleep now because a bunch of seedy Democrats are in lip-locks, sharing power with Bush?

Wake up America. Both parties are bought and paid for by the same interest, and they are waging war against the people of the world.

We cannot let a bunch of naive, starry-eyed political novest tell us that 9/11 Truth is dead. The point of this article is to let you know that they are trying to kill it. All they want is to feel like they're represented and go back to sleep.

The empty "victory" of the Democrats' sweep of Congress has injected an anesthetic of apathy into the body politic and slowed the momentum of the move to have those responsible for 9/11 and the ensuing mess in Iraq brought to justice. Many people have swallowed the fraud and the 9/11 truth movement is dying.

The mandate of the 9/11 truth movement is to educate the world on the fact that the official story is a fraud and then use closely scrutinized independent investigations to ascertain precisely the guilty parties so that they may be brought up on charges and such a horrific event, including its freedom crippling aftermath, may never be seen again.

Since leading Democrat power-brokers have already completely distanced themselves from investigating even the Iraq WMD scandal, how on earth can we expect them to look into 9/11 and it's ramifications? In that context in what way was Tuesday night a defeat of the Neo-Cons if all it has done is allowed them to escape the consequences of the last six years?

Far from being a victory for the 9/11 and alternative truth community, the mid-term elections seem to have pacified large sections of activists into believing the job has been done when in reality it's only just beginning. This is prompting a kind of desertion and a dilution in focus, which will only spell the end for the 9/11 truth movement as it withers on the vine through the lack of united anger and discontent.

Many on the political left have betrayed themselves as partisan hypocrites for not calling to task Democrats who are openly indicating they will protect Bush from criminal proceedings. The trend is becoming painfully clear as left-leaning websites across the blogosphere revel in associating their power with the newly elected Democrats while poo-pooing problems that were not fixed overnight but have seemingly evaporated into thin air for some just because Democrats were successful.

The talking points of elite sycophants Nancy Pelosi and Howard Dean are reverberating across the political spectrum - no impeachment of Bush, no investigation of Iraq and no independent inquiry into 9/11. Establishment phonies who previously railed against Bush are lining up and following orders.

Nancy Pelosi again repeated her assertion today that impeachment was "off the table," echoing Howard Dean's comments to the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night that, "we're not gonna do that."

The progressive community has put itself to shame by proving they only ever cared about one party and not about America. Bellwether liberal websites like Crooks and Liars are already slavishly drooling over "Speaker Pelosi," even though that position is yet to be voted on. Bush and pro-torture Pelosi (she voted against condemning torture of Iraqis) meanwhile are busy kissing up to each other and scheming on how they can push through Bush's mass amnesty program that his own Republican House rejected.

Do we really expect Pelosi to stand up to the war-hungry Neo-Cons when she personally attacked the Iraqi President for not supporting Israel's absolute butchery and destruction of Lebanon? Memories of liberal excuses for Bill Clinton's Serbian holocaust come flooding back.

Bush has signed into law the framework of a dictatorship under the Military Commissions Act, the updated Patriot Act and other bills, but the Democrats have not uttered a sound to suggest they will attempt to repeal any of this horrendous legislation.

The proto-dictatorship could never have been put in place without the seminal event of 9/11 and it is imperative that the 9/11 truth movement not be pacified by a sham re-arranging of the deck chairs. We must push like never before for a new independent investigation of 9/11 and if Democrats stand in our way they will be considered collaborators and part of the cover-up.

Where's the call to repeal the torture legislation? Where's the call to repeal the Patriot Act? Where's the call to stop the NSA spying on Americans?

What we should be hearing is repeal, repeal, repeal, but instead it's betrayal, betrayal and more betrayal on the part of the brown nose Democrats. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.

Lest we forget it was Bill Clinton and the Democrats who covered up the truth about the first World Trade Center bombing and the April 1995 Oklahoma City Bombing, both being pre-cursors to what happened on 9/11.

We were called right wing fascists when we opposed Clinton and left wing extremists when we slammed Bush - so now it seems we'll be labeled fascists again simply for standing up for freedom, and not the temporary power monopoly of one political party.

We don't seek to create divisions between the progressive community and the so-called "conspiracy crowd" but unless immediate action is undertaken to ensure Pelosi does not become Speaker of the House nothing whatsoever will have been achieved by Tuesday night.

Liberals need to decide if they are on the side of a political party or the side of America. The first step is to lobby for John Conyers to take the position of speaker. Conyers has at least raised the possibility of investigations into Iraq, illegal domestic spying and ultimately impeachment, while Dean and Pelosi have repeatedly assured Bush and the rest of his criminal cabal that they will be given safe passage.

Tony Soldo outlines the course of action required to truly achieve justice for the hundreds of thousands that have died at the hands of the Bush administration over the last six years, including the victims of 9/11.

"A Resolution , calling for the immediate with-drawing of U.S. troops from Iraq, and the Impeachment of Bush and Cheney, and the trial and prosecution of Bush , Cheney , and Rumsfeld , for war crimes, is completely valid and covered in detail in a document called the United States Constitution."

"In Article II , (the Executive Branch), section 4 , it states ; The President, Vice President, and all Civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from office on Impeachment For, and Conviction of,

[color="Red"]Treason , Bribery, or other High Crimes and Misdemeanors."

"If there is any doubt as to the blatant violation of the rule of law, both Constitutional and International , there can clearly be no defense for Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld, in their role as war criminals, and war profiteers after three years of chaos and mayhem in Iraq."

We also need to encourage Democrats to join Ron Paul's Liberty Committee, so that Republicans and Democrats who actually believe in the bill of rights can come together and roll back Bush's trashing of the Constitution, and not scheme with him to pass legislation that the majority of Americans oppose like mass amnesty for illegals.

If mobbed-up sycophants like Pelosi and Dean block investigations into war criminals then they too should be treated as collaborators and exposed for helping aid the cover-up of the 9/11 attacks and the pre-planned invasion of Iraq under deceitful pretenses.

[color="red"]If America falls for this good cop bad cop theatre again the 9/11 truth movement will wither away and die and Hillary Clinton will simply inherit the unitary decidership that Bush has set up in 2008.

http://www.rense.com/general74/isis.htm

Pelosi - Another Israel
First Zionist Gatekeeper?
By Amiram Barkat
Haaretz.com
11-11-6

Pelosi On Israel

Pelosi is 100% behind Israel, and stated "The creation of the State of Israel is one of the miracles of the twentieth century."

Pelosi overlooks Israel's brutal treatment of the Palestinians, and doesn't mention Israel's massive nuclear, chemical and biological weapons arsenal. Pelosi's view of Muslims versus Americans and Israelis is racist.

Regarding Iran

According to Pelosi, the biggest danger to Israel today comes from Iran, whose nuclear ambitions, though still unproved, also threaten the US.

Her perspective contains the seed of ominous things to come, because, after all, something will have to be done about Iran, right? Yes, and soon.
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0527-23.htm

"If evidence of participation by other nations in Iran's nuclear program is discovered, I will insist that the Administration use, rather than ignore, the evidence in determining how the US deals with that nation or nations on other issues," she said.

Read Her Shocking AIPAC Speech
http://judicial-inc.biz/pdelosi1_aipac.htm

Pelosi's Husband Is An Extremely Wealthy Real Estate Developer

[color="Red"]Is it just me or does his hooked-nose appear to be Freakishly Large?

The Pelosi family has a net worth of over $90 million, mainly from Paul's investments. Paul Pelosi, Italian/Catholic/Crypto, was a New York investment banker turned San Francisco real estate developer. He is president of Financial Leasing Services, a venture-capital company in San Francisco. He is a stock trader with millions in Microsoft, Amazon.com and AT&T.

Relationship to Nancy Pelosi: Husband of nearly 40 years.

Occupation: President of Financial Leasing Services Inc. of San Francisco, specializing in real estate and venture capital investments.

How they met: While a student at Trinity College in Washington, D.C., Nancy D'Alesandro took a class at Georgetown University and met undergraduate Paul Pelosi, a San Francisco native. After they married, Paul and Nancy Pelosi in the mid-1960s returned to San Francisco, where they raised five children.

The role he plays: While Nancy Pelosi has pursued a political life, Paul Pelosi has helped maintain her financial independence, in addition to being what many consider the model political spouse, providing emotional and practical support that has freed his wife to pursue her political interests.

"You cannot have a career in politics as a married woman unless you have incredible support from your mate,'' said Roz Wyman, a long-active Democrat and close friend of the Pelosi family. "Paul's support is immeasurable.''

Quote: "I've made a conscious effort to not be involved or give the appearance of being involved in her political career. People should realize that she's the one.''

Assets Of Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-CA

· 1600 Atlas Peak Road, Napa, CA
· 235 Twelve Inc.- LLC Common Stock (Now 235 Second Twelve Inc.-LLC)
· 25 Point Lobos, San Francisco, CA - Commercial Property
· 45 Belden Place, San Francisco, CA - Four Story Commercial building
· 723 Mule Ears Court, Norden, CA - Townhome
· 820 Sir Francis Drake Blvd., San Anselmo, CA-Commercial Property
· Access Technology Partners, LP
· Adaytum Software, Inc.-Common Stock
· Advanced Fiber Communications, Public Common Stock
· Agile Software
· Alliance Gaming Corp. - Public Common Stock
· Alter Ego - Common Stock
· Amazon.com - Public Common Stock
· America's Doctors.com - Common Stock
· Aplion.com - Common Stock
· Apogee Networks, Inc. - Common Stock (now evident - common stock)
· Aristotle Publishing, Inc. - Common Stock
· Ashlar, Inc. - Common Stock
· AT&T Public - Common Stock
· Atipa Fund B (See Oculan Corp)
· Attenza, LLC - Common Stock
· Auberge du Soleil, Rutherford, CA - Owns resort hotel
· Avaya - Public Common Stock
· Bank of America, San Francisco
· Bank of America, Washington, DC
· Beacon Education Management - Common Stock
· BF Enterprises - Common Stock
· Borel Estate Company - Owns shopping center
· Briazz - Public Common Stock
· Broadcom Corp. - Public Common Stock
· Broadway Property, San Francisco, CA - Real Estate Option
· Builder's Info. Group - Common Stock (Formerly Netclerk)
· Bullhorn (Formerly Bridgepath LLC - Common Stock)
· Calico Commerce - Public Common Stock
· Chalone Wine Group, Ltd.
· Cierra Photonics - Common Stock
· Cisco Systems, Inc. - Common Stock
· CMGI, Inc. - Common Stocks
· Co-Net (Formerly Simplexis.com) - Common Stock
· Coach, Inc. - Public common stock
· Collab.net - Common Stock
· Collaborative Group - Common Stock
· ComCast - Public Common Stock
· Command Audio - Common Stock
· Commerce One, Inc. - Common Stock
· Congressional Credit Union, Washington, DC
· CopperCom, Inc. - Common Stock
· Covalent Technologies - Common Stock
· Critical Path Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Currenex - Common Stock (Formerly FX Trades)
· Digital Fountain - Common Stock
· Digital Intelligence (Now Picture IQCorp)
· EDI Associates, Mill Valley, CA - Hotel Investment
· Emulex - Public Common Stock
· Engage, Inc. - Common Stock
· Evident - Common Stock (Formerly Apogee)
· Fastnet - Common Stock
· Financial Leasing Services, S.F., CA - Investment company
· Forty-Five Belden Corp., S.F., CA - Investment Company
· Genetope Corp. - Public Common Stock
· Getty Images, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Granite Ventures, LP
· Guru.com - Common Stock (now Unicru)
· IKnowMed Systems, Inc.
· Infospace, Inc. - Public common stock
· Interloci, LLC - Public Common Stock
· Internap Delaware - Common Stock (formerly Internap Network Services)
· Internap Network Services, LLC - Common Stock (Now Internap Delaware)
· Internet Cap. Group - Public Stock
· Intraop, LLC - Common Stock
· Japan Partners - Common Stock (AKA Isochron Data Corp.)
· Jet Blue Air - Public Common Stock
· Johnson & Johnson - Public Common Stock
· Learning Techonolgies, Inc.- Common Stock
· LEG Partners, III, LP - Common Stock
· Liberate Technologies - Public Common Stock
· Lionis Gate Limited Partnership (Cordavalle) - Golf Development Partnership
· [color="Red"]Lucent Techonolgies - Public Common Stock (Formerly Nexabit)
· LuxN, LLC - Common Stock
· McGrath Rentcorp, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Microsoft Corp. - Public Common Stock
· MontaVista, LLC - Common Stock
· Mosher Partners, LP, Sacramento, CA - Real Estate Partnership
· Natelli Communities - Real Estate Partnership
· Nautilus Leasing Services - Container leasing company
· Navis Holdings, LLC - Common Stock
· Net2Phone, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Netcessity - Common Stock
· NetSchools Corp. - Common Stock (Now Plato-Common Stock)
· Niku Corp. - Public Common Stock
· Niman Ranch - Common Stock
· Nine Forty Five Battery, LLC, San Francisco, CA - Real Estate Partnership
· Nine Hundred One Battery, San Francisco, CA - Real Estate Partnership
· Oakwood Homes Corp - Bonds
· Oculan Corp - Common Stock
· Odyssey, LLC - Common stock
· Orlimar, LLC - Common Stock
· Overstock.com - Public Common Stock
· Pacific Island Resources LLC - Common Stock
· Piatti Restaurant Co., Tiburon, CA - Restaurant Opening Company
· Picture IQ Corp. - Common Stock (AKA Digital Intelligence)
· Plato - Common Stock (Formerly Netschools - Common Stock)
· Plumtree Software, Inc. - Common Stock
· Polycom - Public Common Stock
· Potomac Investment Association, Gaithersburg, MD - Real Estate Partnership
· Procure Point - Common Stock
· QIC (Quinton Instrument Company) - Public Common Stock (Now Quinton Cardiology Sys., Inc.)
· QualComm, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Rainmaker Systems, Inc - Common Stock
· Read-Rite Corp, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Ready Router (Now Netcessity)
· Recommender 2 - Common Stock
· Redenvelope - Public Common stock
· REOF V - Real Estate Partnership
· RF Micro Devices, Inc - Public Common Stock
· Robert Half Intl., Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Salesforce.com, LLC - Common Stock
· Salon.com - Public Common Stock
· Shutterfly - Comon Stock
· Skellenger Lane, Rutherford, CA - 8 acre vinyard
· Slam Dunk Networks, Inc.
· Sonus Networks, Inc.-Public Stock
· Speakeasy, Inc. - Common Stock
· Spirian, LLC - Common Stock
· Stoneridge, LLC
· Sun Microsystems - Public Common Stock
· Support Inc. - Common Stock (AKA Support Soft, Inc.)
· TeraOp, LLC - Common Stock
· Thirteen Hundred One Sansome, LLC - Real Estate Partnership
· Tripath Technology, Inc. - Common Stock
· Trivium Systems, Inc - Common Stock
· Trux Gate Associates Ltd, Real Estate Partnership
· Unicru Common Stock (Formerly Guru.com)
· Union Bank of California, San Francisco, CA - savings account
· USA DR - Common Stock
· Vanguard Airlines, Inc - Public Common Stock
· Wells Fargo Bank, San Francisco, CA - Savings account
· Witness Sys, Inc. - Public Common Stock
· Xtreme Spectrum, Inc. - Common Stock
· Yantra Corp - Common Stock
· Yerac Associates - Investments
· Zinfandel Lane, St. Helena, CA

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Contributions Arranged By Type And Recipient

PELOSI, PAUL F
SAN FRANCISCO, CA 94115
FINANCIAL LEASING SERVICES INC

Contributions to Political Committees

PRITZKER, JAY ROBERT
VIA PRITZKER FOR CONGRESS

06/19/1997
1000.00
97032250970

SCHIFF, ADAM
VIA SCHIFF FOR CONGRESS

09/18/2000
1000.00
20036223293

Total Contributions: 2000.00

Financial Leasing Services
235 Montgomery Street Suite 610
San Francisco, CA (California) 94104-2915
Phone: (415) 788-8600
Business Types: Security Brokers & Dealers

Who Is Nancy Pelosi?
http://judicial-inc.biz/pelosi.htm

Alexandra Pelosi

The daughter looks like a Yenta from a Israeli hilltop settlement.

Pelosi's Father

Frank D'Alesandros was a mayor is Baltimore, and the family were Argentine Jews.

Pelosi's Israel Connection
http://www.jewishtimes.com/News/6073.stm

Before a packed meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee three years ago, U.S. Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) connected her political support for the Jewish state with her personal life. "My daughter is Catholic. My son-in-law is Jewish," she said. "Last week I celebrated my birthday and my grandchildren -- ages 4 and 6 -- called to sing 'Happy Birthday.' And the surprise, the real gift, was that they sang it in Hebrew."

Now that the Democrats have taken control of the U.S. House of Representatives, the party is expected to install Pelosi, 66, as speaker, making her the first woman to hold the position that is two heartbeats away from the presidency.

Political observers say it's no surprise that the congresswoman from San Francisco considers herself close to the Jews.

The daughter of Thomas D'Alesandro Jr., a former mayor of Baltimore, Pelosi grew up in a Democratic family with Jewish neighbors and friends.

"She likes to say that, growing up in Baltimore, she went to a bar or bat mitzvah every Saturday," Amy Friedkin, a former president of AIPAC and a friend of Pelosi's for 25 years, wrote in an e-mail message to JTA.

Friedkin noted that there's even a soccer field in the Haifa area of Israel named after the lawmaker's family.

While the Republicans had campaigned partly on the premise that support for Israel among Democrats has waned, exit polls from Tuesday's voting show that Democrats won an overwhelming majority of the Jewish vote.

[color="red"]With Pelosi as speaker, Jewish activists and officials are confident that the U.S. Congress will remain strongly pro-Israel.

"I've heard her say numerous times that the single greatest achievement of the 20th century" was the founding of the modern state of Israel, Friedkin wrote. "She has been a great friend of the U.S.-Israel relationship during her entire time in Congress and is deeply committed to strengthening that relationship."

Sam Lauter, a pro-Israel activist in San Francisco, has known Pelosi for nearly 40 years. He was 5 years old when the Pelosis moved into his San Francisco neighborhood, he recalls. The two families lived on the same street.

"She's one of the classiest," most "straightforward people you could ever meet," Lauter said. "She's incredibly loyal."

Lauter said the Pelosis used to attend the first night of the Passover seder at his parents' house.[color="red"] "As far as the Jewish community is concerned, she feels our issues in her soul," he said. To illustrate his point, Lauter told a Pelosi story that has become almost legendary in the Jewish community.

At an AIPAC members luncheon in San Francisco right after the Sept. 11 terror attacks, Pelosi was speaking when an alarm sounded.

"Everybody started getting nervous, scrambling toward the door," Lauter recalled. [color="red"]One person, though, was reading the words of Hatikvah, the Israeli national anthem, above the din. It was Pelosi.

"It actually calmed the crowd," Lauter said. "You could see people actually smiling, saying 'Wow.' " This "wasn't something done purposefully to show everyone that Nancy Pelosi supports the Jewish community," he said. It "actually came from inside her."

Lauter and others say Pelosi will have to draw on that inner strength as speaker, since Lauter predicted that she will hear from those in the Jewish community who argue that Democrats no longer support Israel the way they used to.

Some Republicans, in fact, questioned Pelosi's support for Israel this summer. The congresswoman ended up removing her name as a co-sponsor from a House resolution supporting the Jewish state during its war with Hezbollah because it did not address the protection of civilians.

While Pelosi's aides said she was not going to lend her name to a resolution that did not contain a word she had written, Republicans criticized the move.

"It highlights a real wave within the Democratic Party that wants a more 'evenhanded' approach on these issues, and that wants to view Israel through the same prism as we do Hezbollah," Matt Brooks, the executive director of the [color="red"]Republican Jewish Coalition, said at the time. "Watering down is not acceptable right now."

Brooks could not be reached for comment this week.

For his part, Lauter believes the argument about the Democrats and Pelosi is false.

For instance, he noted Pelosi's quick response to former President Carter's description of Israel's settlement policies as "apartheid" in a forthcoming book.

Pelosi publicly announced that Carter does not speak for the Democratic Party on Israel. Rabbi Doug Kahn, director of the Jewish Community Relations Council in San Francisco, also applauded Pelosi's repudiation of Carter's position.

He has known Pelosi since she started representing his district in 1987. Kahn said his group has always had an excellent working relationship with her. And he praised her passion for issues that relate to equal opportunity, social justice and peace.

Kahn, echoing Lauter's point, said that Pelosi, coming from a city with such a liberal political reputation, will face challenges from the liberal segments of the Democratic Party that have criticized Israeli policies.

But he is confident that Pelosi, as speaker, will be effective in persuading people with a broad range of views on the Middle East, the importance of maintaining bipartisan support for Israel.

When it comes to Israel, "she truly gets it," said Matt Dorf, a consultant to the Democratic National Committee. She gets "Israel's value and asset to U.S. security" and its "importance as the only democracy in the Middle East."

Jewish organizational officials also commend Pelosi's record on Jewish communal issues.

William Daroff, vice president for public policy for the [color="red"]United Jewish Communities, the federation system's umbrella group and a Republican himself, said the lawmaker has helped ensure federal funding of Jewish family service agencies and Jewish hospitals and has supported government programs and policies that Jewish organizations value, such as Medicare and Medicaid.

He also noted that Reva Price, Pelosi's liaison to the Jewish community for a year and a half, came from the [color="red"]Jewish Council for Public Affairs, the umbrella group of local community relations councils. Bringing on board such an insider was "really a masterful stroke," Daroff said.

Price, he added, has done a wonderful job of playing "traffic cop" with Jewish organizations and in making sure that Pelosi's agenda is in tune with that of the Jewish community.

[color="Red"]She's been "a real champion of making sure the Jewish community is well served," Daroff said of the lawmaker. "I'm sure she'll continue to be a champion."

Vote Fraud? How AIPAC Lieberman 'Won'
http://www.rense.com/general74/leib.htm

We may have the clearest evidence of vote fraud coming out of Connecticut with the re-election of Pro-Israel Joe Lieberman as an Independent.
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=95480

Now, how exactly did Lieberman win TWO elections and his two opponents got exactly the SAME number of votes at exactly 448,077 votes each time?!?! "In Connecticut Ned Lamont (Dem.) lost EXACTLY with THE SAME number of votes as did Phil Giordano (Rep.) collected in 2000." Any of you mathematical geniuses want to calculate the odds on that? It is beyond staggering. It is statistically IMPOSSIBLE and could not happen twice in one million years, much less twice in 6 years for one lucky Pro-Israel Jewish Senator.

I think this matter needs to be investigated because it is smoking hot and beyond outrageous.

How Lieberman 'Beat' Anti-War Candidate Lamont In Connecticut

From James Morris

AIPAC and NeoCon (War for Israel) Policy [color="Red"](good 2 min clip)
Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Rf16XjbOUs

ISRAELI SPY RING PROBE WIDENS
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/11/187362.php

Stephen Sniegoski wrote:

Jim,

The Lieberman victory is extremely significant. He now has great national importance as an "independent" and he retains his seniority in the Democratic Party. He can blackmail the Democrats to get what he wants; and the pro-Zionist Senate leadership wants to give in to him. Obviously, David Duke could not command such power if he were in Lieberman's position.

Reasons For Victory

Popularity because of Name Recognition Unfortunately, Lieberman, as an independent, was ahead of Lamont in the polls from the time he lost the primary to Lamont. Lieberman did get 48 percent of the primary vote. That was the official reason why Lieberman chose to run.

Zionist Money And Support

Also Lieberman received extensive support from billionaire New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/
2003328796_joe2 9.html?syndicationfiltered=rss

It is possible that others of Bloomberg's ilk might have provided substantial financial support for Lieberman?

Weak Candidate

The Republicans ran a weak candidate, as you pointed out. Exit polls showed Lieberman winning with more than two-thirds of the Republican vote and one-third of the Democrats.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/nyregion/09conn.html

Seniority And Pork

From the get-go Harry Reid supposedly promised Lieberman that he would retain his seniority. Lieberman stated he would retain his seniority. Running the Committee on Homeland Security he can hand out money to Connecticut big wigs. Lamont would be in an important possible and could not bring in nearly as much pork.
Http://www.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2006/aug/18/ct_sen_courant_says_ dems_might_drop_joe

Lamont Got Virtually No Help From The National Democratic Party

Lamont has received almost no money from the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC) and only token contributions from Senate Democrats' political action committees. The only support has been nominal. http://www.hillnews.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Campaign/110106_lamont.html

Ties to Israel nothing new for Senate's next majority leader
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1162378483246&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

As a young lawyer struggling to make a living in Las Vegas, Harry Reid never failed to buy Israel bonds to benefit the United Jewish Appeal.

"I'd say, 'Harry, you can't afford to give that much,' " close friend Neil Galatz recalls. "He'd say, 'I can't afford not to.' "

Reid, 67, is not Jewish, but his wife, Landra, was born Jewish. The couple converted to Mormonism shortly after they were married more than 40 years ago.

They raised their five children as Mormons but Galatz and others say Reid is fully aware that if they had lived in a different time and place - say, Nazi Germany in the 1940s - the family could have been targeted because of its Jewish roots.

Those close to Reid say it's this realization that has prompted the Democratic senator's longtime support for Israel.

As the newly elected majority leader in the US Senate, Reid will play an instrumental role in crafting US policy in the Middle East. Friends and political observers are confident his position on Israel won't change.

Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-Nev.), who is Jewish, can attest to this. Berkley has known Reid for more than 30 years, having walked precincts for Reid when Berkley was a high school senior and Reid was running for Nevada state assembly.

"We have been close friends and political allies, as well, ever since," she says.

Berkley describes her colleague as quiet, thoughtful, intelligent and tough.

"This is a man that was raised in Searchlight, Nevada, in a home that had a dirt floor and no indoor plumbing," she says. "He is the very embodiment of the ideals of America: that it doesn't matter where you're from, you can rise to become one of the most powerful people in this country."

Berkley remembers Reid attending dinners in Las Vegas where he bought Israel Bonds not because he had to, but because he wanted to.

"He had a passion and a commitment not only to the Jewish community, but to the survival of the State of Israel," she says.

Reid helped start Nevada's first Jewish political action committee in the 1980s, she recalls.

He's "always been part and parcel of our community," says Art Marshall, a past president of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas and a close friend of Reid's. "He's a good guy."

Marshall notes that Mike O'Callaghan, one of Reid's mentors who later became Nevada governor, was himself very involved in the Jewish community. Following O'Callaghan's example, Reid was actively involved in helping Jews leave the Soviet Union in the 1980s.

Meyer Bodoff, president of the Jewish Federation of Las Vegas, also praises Reid. Bodoff says the federation gave Reid its highest honor two years ago, an award that has been given out only three times.

Bodoff lauded Reid for helping the federation receive its first federal grant for a retirement community. He also praised his support for Israel.

Galatz, a Las Vegas lawyer, has known Reid since the early days of their careers, when the two lawyers used to try personal injury cases against each other. When Reid first ran for Senate in the 1980s, Galatz served as his finance campaign chairman.

Galatz describes Reid, a former boxer and runner, as a "workaholic" with a "good heart."

Reid has a healthy respect for Judaism and likes to honor his wife's past, Galatz says: When his mother-in-law was still alive, Reid and his wife would light Shabbat candles on Friday nights, and the couple still has a mezuzah on the front door of its home.

As Senate majority leader, Reid may face pressure from Arab organizations and other political groups to stop supporting Israel, arguing that it would ease other crises in the Middle East, Galatz says. While that concerns him, Galatz is confident Reid will use his skill as a consensus builder to secure Israel's future and be a successful majority leader.

"This is not a guy who's going to force his will on people and make earth-shattering speeches," Galatz says. "What he is going to do is work effectively with the senators by trying to meld together opinion and consensus. This is one hell of a strong point in a U.S. senator."

But political journalist and commentator David Broder contends that Reid's oratorical skill, or lack thereof, could end up hurting him.

"As minority leader, Reid was remarkably effective in keeping the Democratic caucus united, but far less successful as a public spokesman for his party," Broder wrote in a recent Washington Post column. "His partisan comments were often too sharp, his television appearances less than commanding. In his new role, he will be far more exposed, and his flaws more conspicuous."

But Reid knows how to use those perceived flaws to his advantage, says Las Vegas Mayor Oscar Goodman, who has known Reid for more than 40 years.

Reid's unassuming demeanor may make people think he's a pushover, but that's far from true, Goodman says: "When you do business with him, he's hard as nails."

That's exactly what the pro-Israel community has come to count on.

In May 2005, before a meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Reid told of his recent trip to the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem. There, Reid said, he and his wife learned the fate of her father's family, the Goldfarbs.

Landra's father, Israel Goldfarb, immigrated from Ukraine to the United States in the early 1900s, but family members who remained in Europe weren't so lucky: Seven of them were killed by the Nazis, and their names are listed in Yad Vashem's book of martyrs and heroes.

Reid told the group of what a "difficult yet moving and inspiring moment" that had been. And on one particular point, the consensus-builder vowed to give no ground.

"The people of Israel have a right to live in peace," he said. "On this point there can never be any compromise."