Actually most of McCarthy's time was during the Truman Adm. The final hearings occurred in Ike's 1st term. But the 1st time McCarthy mentioned a list of known communists in the State Dept was 1950 . Do you know the Kennedy family was staunch anti-communists too ;and the Robert F Kennedy served some time as Joe McCarthy's council for the investigative committee ,until he and Roy Cohn had a disagreement ?
Nixon's visit to China was cold realpolitik calculation. He tried to peel China away from the Soviet Union to pave the way for an 'honorable peace'... or was that 'peace with honor' in Vietnam.

Michelle Bachmann is on the intelligence committee? That is both scary and an oxymoron. She is too ignorant for words. If you want a good laugh, look up some of her husband's anti-gay rants on YouTube. It's kind of hilarious when he says offensive things about gays while sounding and acting like Richard Simmons.

She should not be on the Intelligence Committee because of something her husband said that you don't agree with ? How is what her husband said proof of her intelligence ?

Hello again, tom:

She's virulently anti gay and she's married to a gay man. How intelligent is that?

It's not WHAT he said.. It's HOW he said it... He SWISHES. To anybody who pays attention, he's a raging homosexual. To have him be in the anti homosexual business is very funny.

The joke is LOST on the right wing, of course.

excon

He's fathered 5 children with her . How gay can he be ?

Hello again, tom:

Pretty gay... That's the problem with you wingers.. You have NO clue about homosexuality...

excon

As far as their intelligence... she has a Masters of Law( LL.M.)from William & Mary School of Law .Her husband has master's degree from Regent University and a Ph.D. from Union Graduate School in clinical therapy .Together they have provided foster care for 23 children besides raising their 5 children.

Oh I get it... you think it is an Ed Koch-like front to cover up his true gayness.

Hello again, tom:

They're a wonderful family... He's STILL gay, and she's STILL stupid... I don't care what degrees she has... She doesn't understand stuff. She's not only stupid... She's REAL stupid...

Here's just ONE example... She's in a LEADERSHIP role in the country.. She has NO idea that people will BELIEVE her simply because of the position she holds... NOT knowing that, she willingly spread a FALSE rumor about the vaccine for the human papaloma virus. She even SAID that some women she DOESN'T know, told her that after receiving the vaccine, her kids went retarded... Then she announced it to the WORLD on national TV as though it were a FACT.

Now, this is DIFFERENT than two neighbors discussing this over the back fence. This is a LEADER who people FOLLOW...

So, I wonder just HOW many young girls will get the cancer and DIE, who COULD have been cured if NOT for Michelle Bachmann's STUPIDITY!

excon

Hello again, tom:

I don't know about the former mayor's sexual proclivities, but I DO know that closeted gay people marry to cover up their "true gayness"... Apparently, you don't know this. Hmph.. This is simply MORE evidence that the right wing is CLUELESS in these matters.

excon

Don't get hysterical about it . HPV infects as many as 80 percent of all adult women, and yet cervical cancer is relatively rare; it kills about 3,600 women a year in the U.S.(and Gardasil and Cervarix vaccines do not prevent all forms of cervical cancer) .

Yes her facts may have been wrong about the side effects... but she wasn't wrong about making it a public policy priority needing government intervention... or the possibility of crony socialism between Perry and Merck.

And you haven't a clue about Marcus Bachmann's either... is this your own brand of "McCarthyism" ?

Hello again, tom:

You know the joke about the guy who comes out of the john with toilet paper streaming from his shoe.. Everybody get's it EXCEPT the guy...

Here we have ONE group who gets the joke - that's the liberals, and one group who doesn't - that's YOU. Look. I'm NOT going to try to convince you... It'll NEVER happen... After all, you believe that swishy Ted Haggard got himself CURED of the gay. Now he can start another church, and make a little bread...

Bwa, ha ha ha ha.

excon

Hmmm what do they call it when you prejudge someone solely on their physical appearance or mannerisms ?

I don't know. What do you call someone who prejudges people solely based on their political affiliation?

Wow, there's something wrong with this woman.

Hello again, tom:

In terms of homosexuality, they call it ACCURATE.

excon

How many raving queers do you know EX?

Hello again, clete:

How many do I need to know?

excon

I don't think there is a quota, but you were telling us they are somewhat obvious, and I was wondering how many had made themselves obvious to you.