Dingy Harry says war is lost, worried about his base
April 25th, 2007
Dingy Harry’s true colors are showing, although it is difficult to link to AP news articles showing some of the comments since AP changes their posted news articles faster than aspiring lefty bloggers scrub their sites.
I first noted an AP article today, written by Anne Flaherty (latest version, 7:05pm) titled, Cheney criticizes Reid over Iraq Policy sometime before noon, and the same article has morphed so badly since then one would need a compass and a GPS to navigate the myriad of changes made to the same article since then.
The title has since been changed to, Cheney, Reid spar over Iraq Policy, and many more quotes have been added or changed or removed from the original. I gave up after three screen captures of changes. The title actually changed 13 minutes after the first titled article was issued, with the article keeping the same title for the rest of the evening…so far.
Where to begin. Well, in a different AP news article, Dingy Harry was quoted saying,
“No more will Congress turn a blind eye to the Bush administration’s incompetence and dishonesty,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said in a speech in which he accused the president of living in a state of denial about events in Iraq more than four years after the U.S.-led invasion.
Incompetent and dishonest? As incompetent and dishonest as declaring the war lost before all of the soldiers called for in the “surge” have been deployed?
He has been calling for the administration to listen to the generals, yet Dingy cannot even wait to hear General Petreaus’ report on the current situation there before calling defeat.
He doesn’t even have time to listen to his home states soldiers who are getting ready to deploy.
From the article,
“Congress is preparing to deliver a message of surrender just as General Petraeus arrives in Washington this week to brief the commander in chief and members of Congress on the war,” he added. (Ed. from Rep. Jerry Lewis R-Calif)
Also quoting Dingy Harry from the same article,
He likened the president to Lyndon Johnson, saying the former president ordered troop escalations in Vietnam in an attempt “to save his political legacy,” only to watch U.S. casualties climb steadily.
Uh. Note to Harry. LBJ had a D after his name. It was other D’s in his party which demanded troops home from Vietnam, and everyone knows of the bloodbath that ocurred after we left. Perhaps Dingy’s case isn’t made so well by making this comment, which would explain why the quote wasn’t carried in other news articles covering the same event.
The quote above was actually included in earlier versions of Flaherty’s articles, but removed from later versions.
Another little tidbit that hasn’t been reported anywhere else to date is this:
Another provision in the measure would withhold about $850 million in foreign aid funds from the Iraqis if the government does not meet those standards.
That’ll sure show them! …and ensure they will not have the resources to defend themselves from say Syria or Iran.
Then we get to the meat of this whole issue, and why I sense Dingy Harry is signalling caving in.
Reid’s speech blended criticism of Bush, an appeal for patience to the anti-war voters who last fall gave Democrats control, and an attempt to shape the post-veto debate.
“I understand the restlessness that some feel. Many who voted for change in November anticipated dramatic and immediate results in January,” he said.
“But like it or not, George W. Bush is still the commander in chief - and this is his war,” Reid said.
So a plea to his lunatic base who want immediate surrender, the realization that yes, Bush is the Commander-in-Chief, but then he shows his political agenda by suggesting it is only Bush’s war.
More notes to Dingy. If you think that if we just pull out of Iraq that terrorism will simply stop, or that they will not follow us home, you are both foolish and dangerous.
And finally Dingy Harry finished up saying,
Looking beyond Bush’s expected veto, he said, “If the president disagrees, let him come to us with an alternative. Instead of sending us back to square one with a veto, some tough talk and nothing more, let him come to the table in the spirit of bipartisanship that Americans demand and deserve.”
Uh. He has given you an alternative, yet you do not have the patience to see how it might work.
No I didn’t forget about Anne Flaherty’s changing articles. In later versions (about the third or fourth update), Nancypants wanted in on the act so Flaherty included this quote (actually inserted above Dingy Harry’s first quote),
“This isn’t a political issue,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif. “I respect where the president is coming from on this. I wish he would respect where we are coming from, which is a reflection of where the American people are coming from.”
Every American knows where you are coming from Nancy, and it ain’t from the perspective of the troops.
Also included in earlier versions of Flaherty’s article, but removed from or changed in later articles,
Petraeus will try to persuade lawmakers in a private briefing this week to pursue a difference course. As part of the president’s push, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was expected to meet Tuesday with key senators, including members of the Senate Finance Committee, to discuss the funding bill. The topic also likely will be discussed at a policy lunch that Vice President Dick Cheney is having on Capitol Hill.
Radio ads expected to air Tuesday will attack Reid as treating troops like a “political football,” GOP officials said.
According to a transcript, an Iraq veteran identified as Capt. Trip Bellard says, “Senator Reid’s remarks undercut the morale of our soldiers and undermine our troops on the ground.”
Which, in later versions, morphed into,
Petraeus and other top defense officials on Wednesday will try to persuade lawmakers in a private briefing not to set a timetable.
UPDATE: Allahpundit at Hotair has a good post with video of Dingy Harry.
Scammed Silky Pony decides to get scammed again
April 21st, 2007
The Silky Pony is busy spinning his $400.00 haircuts, likely because some journalists, in a flagrant act of journalism, asked a number of Iowa barbers about his $400.00 trim and declared he was nuts.
What is interesting is he is foolishly claiming he didn’t know the cost of the haircut…his campaign just paid the bill. What else are they just paying for?
So one must ask, why did he go back and do it again? Is he that stupid?
Unashamed Shill for infanticide
April 20th, 2007
Edwards shows the other America, one that turns over his campaign to those who favor sucking the brains from partially birthed babies.
His special note to his “supporters”:
My name is Kate Michelman. I was president of NARAL Pro-Choice America for nearly 20 years. I’ve dedicated my adult life to advancing women’s dignity, freedom and equality. Today, I’m angry and alarmed about the future. And I’m ready to fight.
Yesterday, a closely divided Supreme Court voted to allow Congress and state legislators to ban a specific abortion procedure—even if the health of the woman is at grave risk and even if her doctor thinks this procedure is the best one for her particular situation. It is nothing less than the greatest blow to a woman’s right to reproductive freedom since that right was first guaranteed more than 30 years ago.
In yesterday’s opinion, three of the justices again argued that ALL decisions guaranteeing reproductive rights are wrong. And remember, the two Supreme Court Justices nearest to retirement are staunch defenders of women’s rights—just imagine if another Republican president is allowed to replace them. You know as well as I do that the right wing won’t stop at a woman’s right to decide. They’ve painted a bulls eye on a broad range of privacy rights, civil liberties and other basic rights that we take for granted.
Democrat party leader declares defeat, refuses to “listen”
April 19th, 2007
So today the jack@ss Dingy Harry Reid has decided to declare defeat in Iraq.
This dumb b@st@rd has been calling for the President to “listen to the generals” in Iraq concerning the action there, yet fails to listen to those same generals when they say they need more funds to conduct the war. Same with the terrorist appeasing nitwit Pelosi.
Is that foul language? You bet your @ss it is!
It pisses me off when an elected leader of this country stabs our soldiers in the back while they are committed to combat…and twists the knife.
Even AP realizes how bad this looks and tries to minimize it by using the headline that his declaration is a “bleak assessment” on the war. What the hell does he know?
Hell no it’s not a “bleak assessment”. It’s an outright declaration of defeat for soldiers currently in combat!
It reminds me of what Little Dick Gephardt said when I was waiting to deploy to the Gulf in 1990…that if Bush decided to authorize force without congressional authorization, they could always cut off funds. Nice. We’ll just throw rocks at them.
Damn Democrats. Spineless since 1950!
It looks like Dingy Harry can not risk further sucess in Iraq with the surge. All of the troops called for in the surge have not even deployed yet, but this dumb ass is already declaring defeat. They cannot even wait to see if “listening to the generals” will work yet, they have to yank the rug out early before it shows too much success.
Michelle Malkin has a huge post with many emails from soldiers currently deployed who are responding to what Dingy Harry has had to say.
Too bad this nitwit will never read or “listen” to them.
UPDATE: It seems Dingy Harry is feeling some heat over his “war is lost” pronouncement.
The first line in the new story:
WASHINGTON - In a bid for party unity, anti-war liberals in the House are reluctant to mount opposition to war spending legislation even if it does not set a firm date for troop withdrawal.
Uh huh.
The measure would be weaker than House Democrats wanted but is advocated by the Senate, where Democrats hold a slimmer majority and many party members oppose setting a firm timetable on the war.
But their party leader already declared the war is lost, so why the reluctance?
And then there is this:
On Thursday, Pelosi, D-Calif., summoned Woolsey, Lee, Waters and several other of the party’s more liberals members to her office to discuss the issue. According to aides and members, concerns were expressed but there were no loud objections to a conference bill that would adopt the Senate’s nonbinding goal.
Which spells serious dissension in the moonbat ranks if this happens.
Will they ever admit it?
April 18th, 2007
Michelle Malkin has a very good post (her weekly column actually) discussing the current coddling culture on today’s campii, and the need for learning self-defense.
Instead of teaching students to defend their beliefs, American educators shield them from vigorous intellectual debate. Instead of encouraging autonomy, our higher institutions of learning stoke passivity and conflict-avoidance.
And as the erosion of intellectual self-defense goes, so goes the erosion of physical self-defense.
Worth reading it all.
The kind of culture Michelle posts about where students are shielded from beliefs or the blocking of ideas being exchanged freely is on stark display at Rhode Island.
So much so that their Student Senate has decided violation of some groups First Amendment rights are needed.
Drive By Media Taking advantage of the Virginia Tech shootings
April 16th, 2007
Many details of today’s shootings at Virginia Tech are here.
What I find truly sad is how fast the drive by media immediately jumped into the more gun control mode. One of the first articles I saw was a pretty one-sided screed at ABC’s blot with Brian Ross and Dana Hughes titled, “Lapse of Federal Law Allows Sale of Large Ammo Clips.”
The nitwits came out with this prior to little facts being known of the shooting.
High capacity ammo clips became widely available for sale when Congress failed to renew a law that banned assault weapons.
It is currently being reported that the shooter used two 9mm handguns.
Not to be out done in the bias department by their colleagues, the ABC News web site carried another article with a helpful and prominently displayed link to vote if you think the shootings are grounds for more gun control.
Brendan Bush writing for Reuters had no problem reporting in an article stating the facts as they were known at the time without the additional bias so one must ask, why the knee-jerk reaction in calling for more gun control?
Could it be because of the gun control nuts blocking legislation a year ago that would have allowed qualified students and others to carry permitted, concealed guns on the same Virginia campus just last year?
Sad.
Michelle has a post up with others noticing the same thing.
Allahpundit at Hotair has a huge post up with lots of links.
UPDATE: ABC News has continued updating all day with more information, which continued to show their bias and scare tactics by mentioning more than once that the shooter may have had large “clips”.
It is unknown at this time if his guns had standard or extended clips,
which, depending on the weapon, can fire as many as 30 shots before the
gun has to be reloaded.
Unfortunately, the quote above is no longer in the story posted to the link above since ABC has been updating the story at the same link while not including previously reported information, including the quote above.
You can still find the poll ABC News started shortly after the shooting incident ended:
There are at least 32 confirmed dead in the shooting at Virginia Tech University, making it the worst campus shooting in American history. Law enforcement officials believe the gunman was firing at least one 9mm semi-automatic pistol.
Do you think this incident is a reason to pass stricter gun control legislation?
Yes. This shows the violence that can occur when someone has access to handguns.
22,219
No. Violent shootings are isolated incidents and it’s irresponsible to link them to gun control.
59,900
I’m not sure. I need more information.
1,654
Total Vote: 83,773
Not a scientific survey.
Why have they taken the quote out which figured in many of their previous postings?
Could it be that Harry Reid has given the signal that new gun control legislation could be a problem for the Democrat party?
No worries. Those in the Drive By Media with an anti-gun agenda can always turn to the Euro-weenies for plenty of one-sided comments in favor of gun control.
Some are even blaming Charlton Heston for what happened at VTech.
Widespread drought, flooding and mass extinctions
April 9th, 2007
What incredible scare tactics!
Check out the excerpt below of the latest email missive from the Edwards for President campaign. The bold in the first paragraph is mine.
Do something NOW or we’ll be extinct! (depending on which nation is affected I guess)
Dear fellow Edwards supporter,
Did you see the new U.N. report this weekend on global warming? If we don’t change course, the world’s top climate scientists are predicting widespread drought, flooding, and mass extinctions affecting just about every nation on the planet—including ours.
Today, we’re dedicating April as Global Warming Action Month. We’re unrolling an ambitious two-part action plan to fight global warming by taking action in our local communities, and this is your chance to take the lead. This two-step plan is bigger than any of our local actions so far, but the magnitude of the coming climate crisis requires nothing less.
To learn more and get involved, click here:
http://johnedwards.com/r/9816/877280/
Here’s the outline of our plan:
Step one: Rally with “Step it Up” for national change
On Saturday, April 14th, the John Edwards community will join our allies in the environmental movement as part of the Step it Up 2007 National Day of Climate Action. At rallies across the nation we’ll call on Congress to cut national carbon emissions 80% by the year 2050. (That’s the reduction needed to avoid the worst effects of global warming, according to the latest science, and it’s the reduction John Edwards has called for.)
What bad timing for the Silky Pony. He obviously missed this report from Newsweek by Richard S. Lindzen.
Who is Lindzen? from the article…
Lindzen is the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research has always been funded exclusively by the U.S. government. He receives no funding from any energy companies.
…or this article discussing Bill Gray, who has studied tropical meteorology for more than 40 years.
Who has more credibility?
Sgt. Keith “Matt” Maupin
April 7th, 2007
BATAVIA, Ohio - Yellow ribbons across Sgt. Matt Maupin’s hometown are constant reminders. Fundraising events in his honor draw overflow crowds. Soldiers back home relay details of the ongoing search for him in Iraq.
These are the signs of support and hope that keep Maupin’s parents going three years after he was captured in an insurgent attack on his Army convoy.
Keith Maupin said he took comfort hearing from the father of a military interrogator in Iraq who said detainees are asked if they know anything about his missing son.
“He said, ‘These guys are not going to give up on Matt. Their mission is to stay focused on finding Matt and get all the information they can out of these detainees,’” Keith Maupin said. “That made me feel good.”
The Army won’t confirm that detainees are questioned about Maupin.
“We don’t talk about what we are or aren’t doing,” Lt. Col. Bob Tallman said. “We don’t want to alert the enemy, who may do something to the individual or move him.”
Sgt. Keith Matthew Maupin was always called Matt by his parents, since his father was named Keith. He was a 20-year-old private first class when he was captured April 9, 2004, when his fuel convoy, part of the 724th Transportation Company, was ambushed west of Baghdad.
A week later, the Arab television network Al-Jazeera aired a videotape showing Maupin sitting on the floor surrounded by five masked men holding automatic rifles.
That June, Al-Jazeera aired another tape purporting to show a U.S. soldier being shot. But the dark and grainy tape showed only the back of the victim’s head and not the actual shooting.
The Maupins refuse to believe it was their son, and the Army continues to list him as missing/captured, Tallman said.
More than 1,000 people are expected at a banquet fundraiser Monday, the third anniversary of Maupin’s capture. Some 700 bikers are expected the following Saturday for a motorcycle ride sponsored by Rolling Thunder, a POW-MIA awareness group. A youth baseball tournament in May drew more entries than it could handle, even though games will be played on several fields.
All are raising money for the Matt Maupin Scholarship Fund, seed money for scholarships given by the high schools attended by Cincinnati-area soldiers who died in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Keith Maupin has lost track of the number of briefings he and his former wife, Carolyn, have received from the Pentagon. They’ve been persistent and he thinks the Army is doing its best to find his son.
It doesn’t hurt that the Maupins have met with President Bush and that White House Budget Director Rob Portman used to represent the Maupins’ district in Congress.
“When you can get on the phone and call a three-star general, and he can call Iraq to find out what’s going on, I don’t know how much more they can do for me,” Keith Maupin said.
Portman’s successor, Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt, said she’s been assured that the Army is still aggressively looking for Matt.
“There is as much evidence to point toward him being alive as otherwise,” she said.
As long as the Maupins keep Matt’s name alive, he is alive, they reason.
There’s a yellow ribbon on every parking meter in Batavia, a close-knit, county-seat community east of Cincinnati.
“We won’t let people forget,” Clermont County Commissioner Bob Proud said. “Whenever we see yellow ribbons, we think about Matt and all our warriors. It always reminds me of the sacrifice that Matt and all of our troops have made.”
Keith Maupin now works full time with the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, which Carolyn founded before their son was captured. Carolyn and Keith Maupin, though divorced, have united in their effort to be a touchstone for families who have lost loved ones in the war.
“A lot of people come in here and a lot of people call, and they just want to talk,” Keith Maupin said. “That’s OK by me; that’s what we’re here for.”
The center has sent thousands of packages of snacks, toiletries, sun block, bug spray, games and other things to soldiers in Iraq, putting photos of Matt Maupin in every box. The center helped troops obtain donated computers to send and receive e-mail.
Keith Maupin finds some solace at the Yellow Ribbon Support Center, where he is surrounded by photos, paintings and posters of his son.
“I look at him all the time,” he said. “This is about as close as I can get.”
Can we question her sanity yet? (bumped)
April 6th, 2007
Nancypants decided since she had nothing to do after she and her fellow party members refused to provide a clean funding bill for our troops, she would prance off to Syria to meet with a terrorist supporting dictator and conduct her own foreign policy.
The leftist nitwit wasn’t content doing her own thing just for the U.S., she decided to interfere in another countries foreign policy as well.
Pelosi said she was “very pleased with the reassurances we received from Syrian president [Bashar al-Assad] that he was ready to…engage in negotiations for peace with Israel.” The meeting with Assad, she told reporters, “enabled us to communicate a message from Prime Minister [Ehmud] Olmert that Israel was ready to engage in peace talks as well.”
Problem is, Olmert never authorized her to say anything of the sort.
Trouble was, Olmert denied that he had authorized Pelosi to pass along this conciliatory message. In fact, his office issued a statement saying quite the contrary.
Before conducting peace negotiations, the statement said, “Syria must cease its support of terror, cease its sponsoring of the Hamas and Islamic Jihad organizations, refrain from providing weapons to Hizbollah and bringing about the destabilizing of Lebanon, cease its support of terror in Iraq, and relinquish the strategic ties it is building with the extremist regime in Iran.”
Fool!
Rush had Vice President Cheney on his show today who had a number of very clear comments.
THE VICE PRESIDENT: She’s not entitled to make policy. She, in this particular case, by going to Damascus at this stage it serves to reinforce, if you will, and reward Bashar Assad for his bad behavior. He’s done all kinds of things that are not in the interests of the United States, including allowing Syria to be an area from which attacks are launched against our people inside Iraq. He obviously was heavily involved, right now, in supporting an effort by Hezbollah to try to topple the government in Lebanon. This is a bad actor, and until he changes his behavior he should not be rewarded about visits by the speaker of the House of Representatives.
UPDATE: Ian over at Hotair has the audio clip, and video of the the Democrat party’s number one appeaser, Jimmah Carter praising Nancypants for her trip, as well as an anti-Israel rant.
UPDATE II: You know it’s bad when even USA Today believes your lone-ranger foreign policy trip is bad.
Syria has long meddled destructively in neighboring Lebanon and is widely seen as the bloody hand behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese prime minister Rafik Hariri. Syria has aligned itself with Iran and supports the violently anti-Israel groups Hezbollah and Hamas. It foments violence in Iraq by allowing suicide bombers and jihadists to cross the Syria-Iraq border.
And she wanted to meet with their leader to conduct her own foreign policy? not to mention suggesting policy on behalf of Israel?
No matter that she claimed to have stuck closely to administration positions in her conversations with Assad, smiling photos of Pelosi and the Syrian president convey the unspoken message that while the U.S. president is unwilling to talk with Syria, another wing of the government is. Assad made good use of the moment.
Translation: Bashar used her like the tool she is.
The USA Today opinion raps her knuckles a little, offers some excuses, but as for the whining already starting from the left that everybody does it:
Pelosi said she made the trip because the bipartisan Iraq Study Group urged greater engagement with Syria. That argument is strengthened by the fact that Assad also got visits this week from several House Republicans, who defied White House requests they not go. “I don’t care what the administration says on this,” said Rep. Frank Wolf R-Va. “I want us to be successful in Iraq. I want us to clamp down on Hezbollah.”
But Wolf can travel to Syria virtually undetected. Pelosi has an international profile. That guarantees her heavy media coverage but multiplies the price of a misstep, which she quickly made when she created confusion about how eager Israel is to resume peace talks with Syria. Israel immediately clarified her remarks.
So the ISG made her do it? Did they also say she should muck up Israels foreign policy position? As for Israel “clarifying” any remarks, they didn’t clarify anything, they flat-out said she got it wrong.
As for creating confusion or making missteps, Nancypants did a little more than that according to an article by Robert F. Turner at Opinion Journal. Whoever wrote the opinion at USA Today should have known this, but didn’t mention it.
He makes a good suggestion…perhaps Fitzgerald should poke around a little and determine if Nancypants violated the Logan Act.
I bet the administration will get right on that….
Drive By Media smears honorable veterans
April 5th, 2007
Patterico has a post relating ABC News latest smear of the Swift Boat veterans. The Drive By Media has been studiously ignoring the original charges made by the Swift Boat veterans, while assisting John eFing Kerry by ignoring the fact that he has never released his military record, and carries only his assertions that the charges are false.
It started with the confirmation hearing for Sam Fox with Kerry’s unseemly sniveling over his donation to the Swiftees.
So much for free speech.
The facts are available if the media cared to find them.
Another Michael Yon RUB
April 4th, 2007
I have finally gotten around to linking to Michael Yon’s web site, and will post a link to his RUBS (Raw Unedited Barely Spellchecked) as they are posted. This one is number three.
Here is RUBS 2.
and RUBS 1.
It’s a damn shame what he has to say in three about the lack of media facilities. After 4 years, and plenty of lamenting the lack of positive media coverage, one would think the military would engage.
Political Generals
April 3rd, 2007
What absolute maroons!
AP has another article today on the back and forth of the debate over the Democrat party’s refusal to act responsibly in getting a bill passed to fund the troops with what they need.
The Democrats new plan in a nutshell:
His latest proposal would give the president one year to get troops out, ending funding for combat operations after March 31, 2008, and allowing troops to conduct only counterterrorism operations, train Iraqi forces and provide security for U.S. infrastructure and personnel.
So they will cut off funding for combat (ignoring their nutty base that supposedly just wants the troops home), while leaving plenty of targets in Iraq. Does their base even realize yet this is what they are proposing?
Is it possible these damn fools believe terrorists in Iraq will just stop targeting the troops if they are just conducting “counterterrorism operations, training Iraqi forces and providing security”?
If any of those soldiers are targeted while conducting those non-combat operations, are they allowed to engage in combat and defend themselves?
The reason for conducting combat operations is to target terrorists in Iraq rather than sitting back and allowing them to take potshots at our soldiers whenever they want.
Nuts!
The truth about Gitmo
April 3rd, 2007
Read it all to see what the drive by media has been misleading the American public about, and how disengenuous the appeasers are when talking about Gitmo.
The Drive By Media and the history they want to forget
April 2nd, 2007
For a good example of how the media has been assisting the Democrat party in their attacks on the administration for firing 8 US Attorneys, read Mark Lasswell’s article at OpinionJournal.
Janet Reno had only been on the job for a matter of days when she announced the blanket dismissal of U.S. attorneys in March 1993, and she bungled the job, letting word get out that prosecutors involved in significant investigations would be allowed to complete them. As was noted at the time, this would have meant that an ongoing investigation of the powerful House Democrat and vital Clinton ally, Dan Rostenkowski, by the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, Jay Stephens, would continue uninterrupted.
The White House, or rather Mr. Stephanopoulos, quickly torpedoed that idea. In a press briefing, he announced that among the prosecutors whose resignations had been demanded, “there are at least some people who are in the middle of trials right now who will not be replaced.” Trials, he specified, not investigations. “Interestingly,” a Hartford Courant editorial noted back then, “Miss Reno didn’t explain the impending dismissals. The president’s personal spokesman, George Stephanopoulos, did the fast talking.”
A good read…
Dingy Harry really means it!
April 2nd, 2007
It’s increasingly obvious the Democrat party continues flailing about trying to come up with a way to surrender in Iraq as soon as possible. They seem to recognize Bush is serious about vetoing the pork-laden abominations just passed by the House and Senate.
The latest plan they have for trying to save face with their lunatic base comes from Wisconsin’s resident moonbat, Russ Feingold.
Reid’s new strategy faces an uphill battle because many of his colleagues see yanking funds as a dangerous last resort. The proposal increases the stakes on the debate and marks a new era for the Democratic leadership once reluctant to talk about Congress’ power of the purse.
A few questions.
Since when have the members of the Democrat party thought of “yanking funds as a dangerous last resort”? If yanking funds was so dangerous, why did they pass the legislation they did? Was it solely for the pork? What danger are they worried about that is keeping them from immediately yanking funding? Why is it an uphill battle among his own colleagues? Recent news articles suggested the party is in lockstep on the issue, and we were told ad naseum the American public wanted it.
When at any time has the Democrat party been reluctant to talk about their power of the purse? It has been all they have been talking about since before the election last November.
Reid’s latest proposal would give the president one year to get troops out, ending funding for combat operations after March 31, 2008.
This really isn’t much different from what was already considered by the Democrat party and rejected because it did not go far enough in appeasing their base.
Again, if their position to cut and run is supported by a majority of the American public, why not cut off funds immediately?
Reid’s proposal is unlikely to pass. But Democrats say they believe with each passing week — as the violence in Iraq continues and voters grow increasingly tired of the war — they pick up additional support.
Translation: As long as our friends in the drive by media continue to ignore any positive changes resulting from the surge in troops, and highlight any negative, we will gain politically.
The bill to cut off funds for the war would likely be introduced as standalone legislation and would not be tied to the supplemental spending bill, Manley said.
This seems to be nothing more than a way out for the party of appeasers. “Gosh we tried, but that evil Bush vetoed our (separate) bill to cut off funds.”
I am posting the entire AP article below since AP has a habit of changing their posted articles without notice, and without stating what they have changed.
By ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
WASHINGTON - Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (news, bio, voting record) said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement.
Reid’s new strategy faces an uphill battle because many of his colleagues see yanking funds as a dangerous last resort. The proposal increases the stakes on the debate and marks a new era for the Democratic leadership once reluctant to talk about Congress’ power of the purse.
“In the face of the administration’s stubborn unwillingness to change course, the Senate has no choice but to force a change of course,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who signed on Monday as a co-sponsor of Reid’s proposal with Sen. Russ Feingold (news, bio, voting record), D-Wis.
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The move is likely to intensify the Democrats’ rift with the administration, which already contends Democrats are putting troops at risk by setting deadlines.
“It’s time the self-appointed strategists on Capitol Hill understood a very simple concept: You cannot win a war if you tell the enemy you’re going to quit,” Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday at a fundraising luncheon for Sen. Jeff Sessions (news, bio, voting record), R-Ala.
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Also Monday, President Bush conferred by secure videoconference with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on the pace of a nearly seven-week-old security crackdown. Extra troops from both countries are aiming to calm Baghdad and troubled Anbar Province, and some initial improvement has been reported.
Gordon Johndroe, spokesman for Bush’s National Security Council, said the leaders agreed that the effort “must be carried out until lasting success can be achieved.” Al-Maliki repeated his promise to pass legislation seen as key to moving Sunnis and Shiites from battling each other to political compromise.
In recent weeks, the House and Senate voted separately to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but set an end date for combat in Iraq. The House proposal orders all combat troops out of Iraq as of Aug. 31, 2008, whereas the Senate orders some troops to leave right away with the nonbinding goal of ending combat by March 31, 2008.
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The House and Senate are working on a final proposal that can be sent to the president by the end of the month.
Bush has said several times he would veto the measure, and Republicans say they’ll back him. On Monday, 154 House Republicans sent Bush a letter promising to stick with him in opposition to the legislation.
Mindful that they hold a shaky majority in Congress and that neither chamber has enough votes to override a presidential veto, Democrats are already thinking about the next step after Bush rejects their legislation.
Reid said Monday that if that happens, he will join forces with Feingold, one of the party’s most liberal members who has long called to end the war by denying funding for it.
Reid has previously stopped short of embracing Feingold’s position. When asked whether he would ever consider pulling funds for the troops, Reid said Congress would provide troops what they needed to be safe.
Reid’s latest proposal would give the president one year to get troops out, ending funding for combat operations after March 31, 2008.
“If the president vetoes the supplemental appropriations bill and continues to resist changing course in Iraq, I will work to ensure this legislation receives a vote in the Senate in the next work period,” Reid said in a statement.
The White House and congressional Democrats had promised in January to work together when Democrats took over control of Congress. Since then, however, the two sides have found little agreement when it comes to the war. They traded barbs over the weekend and on Monday, when the White House said Democrats were denying the military what it needed to do its job.
“It appears they’re still content to work on a bill that does not have serious plans to fund troops or make Iraq, America and the world more secure, but rather attempts at forcing us into giving up in Iraq without regard to the consequences of failure,” said White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.
Reid’s proposal is unlikely to pass. But Democrats say they believe with each passing week — as the violence in Iraq continues and voters grow increasingly tired of the war — they pick up additional support.
The Senate last week passed its anti-war proposal by a 50-48 vote after winning support from Sens. Chuck Hagel (news, bio, voting record), R-Neb., and Ben Nelson (news, bio, voting record), D-Neb., who just two weeks prior had opposed a similar measure.
Reid spokesman Jim Manley said if legislation to cut off funding for the war fails, Reid will try again with the hopes of getting new supporters. “It is the next in a series of steps to try to ratchet up the pressure to try to get the administration to change its policies,” he said.
The bill to cut off funds for the war would likely be introduced as standalone legislation and would not be tied to the supplemental spending bill, Manley said.
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Associated Press writer Jennifer Loven contributed to this report.
Democrats imaginary friends
March 31st, 2007
Remember Little Dick Gephardt and his imaginary friends? or imaginary friends of other Democrats?
Well after getting another little fundraising note (several over the past two days) from the Edwards campaign, I see David Bonior and the Silky Pony have an imaginary friend of their own.
I just came out of the conference room in our office, where our whole staff has joined the volunteers making calls to beat this midnight fundraising deadline. There’s energy in the air — we’re getting close. I’ve been calling supporters from Michigan, my home state. A woman I spoke with last night put it very well (I’m paraphrasing here):
“All my life I’ve been hoping someone would just come out there and do something about what everyone can see needs to be fixed, things like, health care, poverty, global warming, all this stuff that’s obvious but no one is doing anything about it. Now here’s John Edwards, finally getting the nation to pay attention, finally saying it’s time to do something! So yes, I’ll donate, because I want the whole country to listen up, and this is my way of making that happen.”
We all have different reasons we support this campaign. But whatever our different dreams for this country, we all face the same deadline at 11:59 PM tonight to make it happen. We’re charging hard towards our new $3 million online goal, but we aren’t there yet. If each us just put in a little bit more in the 7 hours we have left, I know we can make it.
What chump wrote this?
All her life she was hoping someone would do something about global warming? Really? She must be about 10 to 15 years old then since it wasn’t much of an issue even when the Gorifice was still the VP.
As for poverty or health care, the Democrat party has had over 40 years to deal with poverty, and one could make the case that rather than raising people up out of poverty, they have enabled it.
Health care is spoken about within the Democrat party with the same fear-mongering as global warming. Granted health care is expensive, and there are problems with some people not having adequate health care, but the Democrat party will continue harping on this until universal health care run by a massive government bureaucracy is in place.
Democrats….using fear and scare tactics to raise funds. No surprise there.
Blazing Saddles anyone?
March 27th, 2007
Remember in Blazing Saddles how the townfolk built a fake town so the bad men would shoot up the fake town and not the real one?
Maybe that is what Pryor is thinking with his screwy plan of keeping a withdrawal (retreat) of forces from Iraq a secret….build a fake city in Iraq with cardboard cut-outs of US troops and tanks.
Can Pryor be so stupid as to suggest AQ would not even notice?
He certainly does admit what many have been saying for some time, and the defeatocrats have been ignoring:
“My strong preference would be to have a classified plan and a classified timetable that should be shared with Congress,” Pryor said yesterday. A public deadline would tip off the enemy, “who might just bide their time and wait for us to leave,” he said. “Then you’d have chaos and mayhem and instability.”
Pryor tries to make the case that those in the Senate can keep secrets:
Pryor said a classified plan would be provided by the president, shepherded by Senate committees and ultimately shared with Congress and Iraqi leaders. He is confident that the plan would remain secret, because Congress is entrusted with secrets “all the time.”
Just over the past 4 years the New York Times, LA Times and WaPo have splashed on their front pages classified programs run by the US government, which were then severly compromised following the leaks. Programs that were likely entrusted to members of the Senate. Leaks on programs such as reviewing banking transactions, covert emergency surveillance, secret prisons.
This “secret” plan would be no different. The nutroots would not be satisfied, and as soon as some defeatocrat was offended by some slight issue, leaks of the plan would start showing up on the front pages of the Drive By media.
UPDATE: Allahpundit over at Hotair has a post, with lots of links. Check it out.
…and there will be no questions…
March 26th, 2007
It’s doubtful any reporter from the Drive By media would ask any hard hitting follow-up questions of the Seahag and still have a job two hours later, but once in decade would be nice.
She is commenting on the eight US Attorney’s recently fired by President Bush, for not pursuing certain cases with any vigor. She’s excusing why the Clenis fired all 93 when he first came into office suggesting it was his prerogative, yet ignoring the same prerogative that the President currently has.
“I think one of the hallmarks of our democracy is we have a devotion to the rule of law,” Clinton said.
Uh huh. Devotion as in knowing how to obstruct of justice, suborn perjury, perjury and running the clock out on the statute of limitations to name a few.
She admits if she were installed in the Oval office, she would replace all 93 like Bubba did so as to have attorney’s from her own party, yet accuses Bush of firing 8 because of politics.
Rules for thee but not for me.
March 26th, 2007
And some wonder why the law banning guns in D.C. was recently overturned.
Why do we not hear more of this Democrat party staffer taking a loaded gun into a Senate office building? What federal laws were broken? What are the Capitol Police doing about this?
The staffer didn’t have a license to carry it, the gun was unregistered, as was the ammunition, yet we are only told he has been arrested.
Michelle Malkin has a good post on this, with a reader who emailed with some very good questions. Will we ever hear these put to Senator Webb by the Drive By media?
Allahpundit has another good post with plenty of links, and an update by Bryan with some reasonable questions.
UPDATE: Although not saying much, Webb is saying he didn’t give his gun to his staffer. I cannot imagine a Republican being allowed to get away with saying so little after such a serious offense. The Drive By media would be hounding the Republican constantly, demanding to know how soon the staffer would be fired, and if the Republican themselves would demand charges be brought, followed by a multi-part series of how guns are the root of all evil.
UPDATE II: Michelle Malkin also has an update.
Australian terrorist pleads guilty
March 26th, 2007
There is an article in the Sidney Morning Herald that Drudge is headlining about jihadi David Hicks pleading guilty. Reading the article though wouldn’t tell you what or why he pleaded guilty.
The first paragraph states he pleaded guilty, doesn’t say for what, then goes into a lengthy whine about his two of his lawyers being booted out of court, and how the process is so unfair.
He was unrecognisable from old photographs of him, although the extra weight has made him resemble his father.
Uh…we are told ad naseum that those at Gitmo are being mistreated, abused or tortured, yet this guy is gaining weight?
His father said:
“He just wants to get back to a normal life, and he knows that John Howard and the Government is frightened that he will do something when he gets back. What the hell is he going to do, he did nothing in Afghanistan.
“His main aim is to come back to Australia, see his kids, and settle down.”
Perhaps he should have thought of his kids before he went running off around the world playing jihadi in Kosovo, Pakistan and Afghanistan.
UPDATE: The AP version here contains a good deal more detail, which likely was available to the Sidney Morning Herald, but for some reason, the SMH chose to ignore those details and whine about the process instead.
From the AP article:
It says Hicks, armed with grenades and an assault rifle, spent weeks trying to join the battle in Afghanistan alongside the Taliban against invading U.S. forces and their Northern Alliance allies, but the Taliban’s lines collapsed barely two hours after he reached the front. Hicks’ menial assignments along the way included guarding a tank, it said.
All of which was just ignored by the SMH, and suggests his father refuses to face reality when he was claiming his son “did nothing in Afghanistan”. Perhaps if little sonny had visited some of his intentions on his father’s neighbors, he might feel a little differently about little Davey doing nothing.
Democrats helping our troops
March 24th, 2007
Excuse me if I don’t jump up and cheer.
A freshman moonbat from New Hampshire was the designated excuse maker in the Democrat party weekly radio address, defending their plan for cut and run from Iraq.
“With our vote this week, we’re helping our troops, protecting our veterans, and fighting to end the waste, fraud and abuse,” said Hodes, delivering the Democrats’ weekly radio address. “After four years of a failed policy, Democrats are insisting on a new direction in Iraq and a real plan that holds the Iraqi people accountable for their own country.”
Helping our troops by cutting off funding for what they need.
Protecting our veterans? By providing funding we should have always had?
Waste, fraud and abuse? Like funding for spinach farmers (see here) included in a funding bill for the military?
The only direction these nitwits want for our military is to the exit, and they couldn’t give a damn less about the Iraqi people.
UPDATE: The Examiner has a good follow-up on the amount of pork in the “emergency” war funding bill. More like an emergency pork bill, which now includes $100 million for each parties convention.
Damn disgusting considering the total budget for medical research for Gulf War veterans was $5 million.
“Congress will have to make the choice between booze and balloons or bullets and body armor,” John Hart, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., told The Examiner on Monday.
I doubt this statement would cause Congress to even think twice.
“Maybe this is what Democrats mean by ‘phased redeployment’,” Hart said.
Supporting the troops…in the spinach field.
March 23rd, 2007
Michelle Malkin has a very good post up about the House Democrat bill being passed to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, it is loaded up with all kinds of pork since Nancypants had to bribe a number of her party members to get them to support passage.
Truly disgusting that support for our military in combat is contingent on how much pork some Congressman can bring back to the district.
Jammiewearingfool has some good comments from President Bush.
Allahpundit at Hotair has video of the President’s comments.
The pork in the Senate version is worth reproducing for posterity.
$1.5 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers for recovery along the coast, including funding for Hawaii for an April 2006 flood;
$850 million for Department of Homeland Security grants ($625M for rail/transit grants, $190M for port security grants, and $35M for urban area security grants);
$660 million for the procurement of an explosives detection system for the Transportation Security Administration;
$640 million for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program;
$425 million for education grants for rural areas;
$388.9 million for a backlog of Department of Transportation projects;
$165.9 million (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region) for fisheries disaster relief;
$75 million for salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
$48 million in disaster construction money for NASA;
$25 million for grants through the Safe and Drug Free Schools program;
$25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant;
$24 million to sugar beet producers;
$22.8 million for geothermal research and development;
$20 million for reimbursements to Nevada for “insect damage;”
$12 million for Forest Service money requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget
$3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol;
$3 million for sugar cane; and
Allows the transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.
and the House version:
$500 million for emergency wildfires suppression; the Forest Service currently has $831 million for this purpose;
$400 million for rural schools;
$283 million for the Milk Income Loss Contract program;
$120 million to compensate for the effects of Hurricane Katrina on the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries;
$100 million for citrus assistance;
$74 million for peanut storage costs;
$60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath River region in California and Oregon;
$50 million for asbestos mitigation at the U.S. Capitol Plant;
$48 million in salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
$35 million for NASA risk mitigation projects in Gulf Coast;
$25 million for spinach growers;
$25 million for livestock;
$20 million for Emergency Conservation Program for farmland damaged by freezing temperatures;
$16 million for security upgrades to House of Representatives office buildings;
$10 million for the International Boundary and Water Commission for the Rio Grande Flood Control System Rehabilitation project;
$6.4 million for House of Representative’s Salaries and Expenses Account for business continuity and disaster recovery expenses;
$5 million for losses suffered by aquaculture businesses including breeding, rearing, or transporting live fish as a result of viral hemorrhagic septicemia;
$4 million for the Office of Women’s Health at the Food and Drug Administration; and
A minimum wage increase, which is the subject of separate legislation.
Small town America and their veterans
March 20th, 2007
Below are some pictures showing how a small town in America treats those who have given all in their service to this country.
The flags shown are the actual flags that were draped over the service members casket, provided for the display by the service members family.
The city is Bottineau, nestled in the foothills of the Turtle Mountains in north central North Dakota. The 2000 census counted 2,336 people living there. As a young boy, I remember walking for hours all over town selling Poppies for the annual Poppy Day, and selling many, many poppies.
Back in the 1980’s, one of Bottineau’s veterans, Gordon Kittleson, a veteran of World War II, traveled out west and saw a similar display, and brought the idea back to Bottineau starting in 1988.
The original display was of 13 veterans flags displayed at the local cemetery, representing the original 13 colonies.
Over the years, the local VFW post worked to put up the flags on special occasions such as Memorial Day. With so many veterans getting older, the event getting bigger and needing more help, the event has essentially turned into a community effort now, with many members turning out to assist in replacing the old, wooden nameplates with new metal plates. Each plate is 2 feet long, and carries the service members name and branch of service.
VFW members and their families, schoolkids, volunteer firemen, Otter Tail Power company, North Central Electric Power company, and many other volunteers start at 6am gathering the flags at the local VFW, and transporting them to where they will be installed at the veterans name plate and displayed, usually finishing putting them up by 7:15am.
That evening, all flags are then taken down and returned to the VFW post.
The intention this year is to have everything ready for putting up 377 flags in time for Memorial Day 2007. Those 377 flags represent 377 military members from Bottineau County who are now deceased.
Donations to help these veterans honor their fallen comrades can be sent to:
VFW Flag Fund
c/o Lloyd Awalt
1025 Main Street
Bottineau, ND 58318
Please consider donating!
The original 13 flags.
Another view of the cemetery in later years with more flags displayed. Note the chair in the lower left with the POW/MIA emblem. Ceremonies were added to recognize and remember POW/MIA’s.
A view of Main street with many of the flags displayed. Other flags are displayed on other streets throughout the city.
Another view, further north on Main street.
This community doesn’t stop at displays of patriotism, they put their concern for those currently serving into action. Several Bottineau County residents have been deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, and the local community turned out to support them, led by a Mother whose Son was deployed for the first Gulf War.
Since the War on Terror started, they gathered and shipped several hundred pounds of care packages to those deployed, and continue to support those deployed.
I didn’t really want to take away any from what this great community does to honor veterans, but it is in such contrast to what a few people in other parts of the country think, and I decided the comments below needed to be included.
Given what has happened recently in Oregon, with a soldier being burned in effigy, and the attacks on the military recruiting station in Milwaukee, I thought it would be appropriate to show how one small town in America treats its veterans. Those in Oregon and Milwaukee could learn a lot.
Democrat Party Budget Priorities
March 16th, 2007
I haven’t posted anything in the past few days since I was out of town reviewing medical research projects for veterans.
There were more than 30 projects to review totalling roughly $17 million. Those in the Democrat party who are so concerned about veterans provided $5 million. After the various entities take their administrative cuts, about $3.8 million will be left over to fund those projects. Each of these were serious research projects that would have directly affected veterans, and those still serving.
So with that in mind, check out what Greyhawk over at Mudvillegazette has been finding in the budget.
$59,000,000 for medical research projects ranging from cancer to diabetes to gynecological disease. As important as this research may be, there is no mention as to why these programs should receive money from the Department of Defense. One program which weighs heavily on taxpayers in this category is $1.35 million for the “Obesity in the Military Research Program.”
He’s got more here, here and here.
It’s nice to see the democrat priorities are to fund vegetables and fish.
UPDATE: Greyhawk continues to follow the Democrat party loading up the bill with pork, and links to a Porkbusters site providing good detail on said pork.
I believe the original request was for $90 billion. Since the original request, Nancypants and her gang have been bribing other Democrat party apparatchiks in trying to convince them to vote for her bill. With all of the bribes added in, it has now bloated to $124 billion.
AP continues to beat the drums for Pelosi and her goons. The free propaganda starts here, then updated here, and then tag teamed here and finally ends (at the time of this post anyway) here.
But then as I show here, AP has never had any problem and doing what they can to help the Democrat party cause, even if it means extensive revision after getting a few phone calls from leaders of the cause.
Earlier today, one of Yahoo’s AP articles (where all of these have been at the top all day) was titled, Senators OK Iraq war bill with troop deadline leading one to think the Senate passed a bill with a deadline. Reading the article though shows it was only voted out of committee….and with the courage of their convictions, on a voice vote.
The earlier AP article headlined above, clearly stated the attempt at getting it voted out of committee. The headline now links to the AP tag team article.
Hotair has some more on the arm-twisting here.
Another little note from the Edwards Campaign
March 10th, 2007
Tonight I again received another little note from the Edwards Campaign.
Again he is trying to incite his nutty base by citing Ann Coulter’s remarks at the CPAC conference, only now he is trying to claim she was referring to Senator Edwards and the gay community.
What she actually said:
“I’d say something about John Edwards, but if you say ‘faggot’ you have to go to rehab.”
What Edwards campaign email now says she said:
And Fox was only too happy to give Ann Coulter a platform to spew more hate a few days after her bigoted attack on Senator Edwards and the gay community.
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Hillary’s primer
March 9th, 2007
Amanda Carpenter over at Human Events has an article on Hillary’s long locked away thesis. Reading through the article is interesting in that you can see how Alinsky greatly influenced Hillary. I agree that Hillary has emulated his tactics in her politics, particularly in creating an enemy that could be attacked no matter how valid the enemy.
Vast Right Wing Conspiracy anyone?
What’s also interesting, but not included in any article I have read on this yet, is that Hillary and Alinsky had the need to be radical in their tactics in Chicago in the 60’s. Since the Chicago Democrat party political machine ran Chicago for many years, why did they have to be radical?
Oh, but it’s different
March 9th, 2007
Patrick Goodenough over at CNS News has an article (complete with screen captures) looking at the hypocracy of the left in their outrage over the comments by Ann Coulter at CPAC.
Considering how rabid some of the sites listed are, I cannot say I’m surprised.
Wednesday already?
March 9th, 2007
Catching up on some posts since some server issues set the content here back by three days…all fixed now.
Ann has a great column once again discussing Libby’s verdict, and the double standard that Republicans are held to.
SHOOTING ELEPHANTS IN A BARREL.
Keep in mind the difference between how Republicans are treated by the left, and a few of the issues America had to put up with from the previous administration.
Whitewater
Cattlegate
Nannygate
Travelgate
Gennifer Flowers
Filegate from the FBI
Vince Foster and the obstruction of the investigation after
Whitewater billing records
Paula Jones
Campaign phone calls from a federal building
Turning the Lincoln bedroom into a Motel 6
White House coffees
Donations from convicted drug and weapons dealers
Buddhist Temple fundraising
Web Hubbell hush money
Lippogate
Chinese commiegate - which could have any number of subcategories
the Lewinsky affair
Perjury and jobs for Lewinsky
Kathleen Willey
Selling Military Technology to the Chinese
Jaunita Broaddrick
Millions of missing Emails, obstruction
Vandalizing the White House
Looting the White House
Clinton’s Pardon’s, and those selling pardons
Considering the Chinese could not even get a rocket off the ground before Bubba’s giving them the technology, consider how far they have advanced using our missile technology when they shot a satellite out of space.
David Obey, Moonbat-Wisconsin
March 9th, 2007
David Obey,a lonely representative from the north woods of Wisconsin has long been way out in left field. Over the years in reading various news articles in which he has been mentioned, I’ve noticed some considerable hostility from him, sometimes on such mundane things.
Michelle Malkin has video and a transcript of his latest meltdown. What caused this latest blown gasket?
Tina Richards, identified as a military mom decided to ask questions about the supplemental bill, and whether Obey will vote to cut off funds.
Question: If she truly was a military mom, is this the liberal way of supporting the troops?
Anger management anyone?
UPDATE: Hotair has a post up as well, with a good comment from McCain. I doubt the Democrat party can comprehend it though.
True heroes, and then there’s politicans
March 7th, 2007
Here is something not seen often enough in the drive by media. Three Fort Campbell, KY soldiers were awarded the Silver Star for risking their lives repeatedly in Iraq to save their fellow soldiers. They are members of the 1st Battalion, 506th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division.
These soldiers were not enjoying obscene amenities as the Washington Post’s whiny liberal William Arkin would have you believe, but engaged in brutal combat if the awards to other members of the unit are any evidence:
Schloesser also awarded 14 Bronze Stars with Valor to other unit members during the same ceremony. In all, nearly 200 awards were given to the Band of Brothers Soldiers, including 87 Purple Hearts and 91 Army Commendation Medals with Valor.
Then, as if Arkin’s comments are not enough after reading about true heroes, I received an email from Edwards campaign for President at an address I rarely give out, shown below.
It certainly didn’t take him long to politicize this. Both links seem to default to the front page on his campaign site, and manually typing the URL again defaults to the main page.
Is it too harsh to say he’s politicizing this?
Not when a search of his web site returns zero results for Walter Reed.
…and he’s a significant proponent of national health care…
Ed. There are some formatting issues with the email from Edwards as it was cut and pasted as it appeared, what is posted below did not include his picture that appeared in the original email.
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No results found for: Walter Reed.
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