'IBD' Hits Rep. Conyers As 'Islamist' Tool, Hails Rumsfeld as 'Great'

Ohhhhhhh Gee, been a rough week has it.

The conservative business publication, Investor's Business Daily, isn't taking this week's elections results in stride. In a blistering editorial, the newspaper charges that Rep. John Conyers, soon to chair the House Judiciary Committee, is "leading a Democrat jihad to deny law enforcement key terror-fighting tools" and "is in the pocket of Islamists."

Proof for this? Conyers, whose district in Michigan holds a large Arab-Amercian population, has a version of his Web site in Arabic and allegedly "does the bidding of these new constituents and the militant Islamist activists who feed off them." More "evidence": Conyers opposes the Patriot Act and has called for the president's impeachment.

... Donald Rumsfeld, on the other hand, is "a great defense chief and a great man, and deserves a lot better," a Friday editorial noted. He couldn't help it if "chaos is endemic to the Arabic culture, of which Iraq is a part." Rumsfeld's approval rating in a Newsweek poll released Saturday stands at 24% -- seven points less than the president's.

And as for recently defeated Republican Senator Lincoln Chafee: According to IBD, he "thinks defeat at the polls gives him license to spend his remaining weeks in office wrecking U.S. foreign policy. It's a final outrage from a traitor to party and president."

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