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Feb

17

The House Has Its Day — The Senate Tries To Run & Hide Today

Posted By: 'Okie' | 9:10 am — 2/17/2007 | 2 Comments See comments below:

Yesterday the House of Representatives sent a strong message to the world — that the people of the United States that they represent are not up to the task of bringing stability to Baghdad, that we are just not willing to pay the cost. A good bet that ours will never be called by future Americans one of The Greatest Generations. More likely The Most Childish Generation, we are the Baby Boomers after all, and the moniker sticks like super glue. We’ll be caterwauling to the grave, no doubt. Over at the Victory Caucus they put yesterday’s vote into this perspective:

So the House vote is over , and the Democrats have had their day and their defeatist, non-binding resolution. So what do we do now?

We begin organizing in earnest to ensure that in November 2008, voters will have a slate of strong candidates who believe in Victory.

This will be a long and serious effort, but it starts now. We have established a team within the site that will focus on identifying strong candidates — veterans, ideally — as well as teams devoted to identifying White Flag Republicans and their antimatter opposites, the Blue Dog Democrats. These three groups will be at the forefront of our efforts to identify the districts where we can do the most good: whether that is to replace a defeatist Democrat with a new Republican victory candidate — or to help a Blue Dog Democrat who is strong on the war take down a White Flag Republican. Here, party comes second: victory — and country — come first.

So today the Senate meets in a rare Saturday session, (playin’ havoc with their golf I’m sure), and Democrat Senate leader Harry (never met a shady land deal or a filibuster that he didn’t like) Reid is demanding that there be an up-or-down vote on the Senate’s Democrat non-binding (useless) resolution against the troop “surge”. Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell thinks that Reid’s dreams of cloture are a bit premature.

Republicans wanted senators to be able to vote on a proposal by Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., that would promise not to cut off funds for troops in combat.

“That remains a demand of Senate Republicans,” said Republican leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. “We think it’s fundamentally fair and totally relevant to the issue at hand.”

So, on and on it goes in D.C. A lot of bluster and bullsh_t accomplishing absolutely nothin’ — nothin’ that is except for the demoralization of our troops in wartime. That’s somethin’ that the Dems, the Progressives and the anti-war nutroots are real proud of. It’s a cryin’ shame — actually, it’s just shame, period.

17 Republicans shamed themselves yesterday and are now probably looking at their LAST two years in office. Two Democrats honored themselves and those serving to protect the freedoms that they enjoy. Go to the caucus and see what you can do to support the war effort — to support the concept of and help to ensure “Victory” in our war against Radical Islam. (db)

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  • DAve

    What I don’t understand is how peopple can’t see clearly that this is just Vietnam II: send the troops and then leave ‘m hanging.

    IN FACT it looks to me like the idea is just to send the bravest and/or most patriotic Americans overseas to get killed off generation after generation- leaving who here???

  • OkieBoy

    So DAve, if this is Vietnam II would you grant that if we just pull out and leave the Iraqis to themselves, that total chaos will ensue and hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of Iraqis will be killed in a sectarian purge — just like what happened in Vietnam and Cambodia after we left and cut off funding to So. Vietnam?

    Not to mention that Iran would start rolling up the Middle East under a new Shia caliphate — controlling an enormous percentage of the world’s oil supply. No, this is not just a “war for oil”, but you have to be pretty naive not to understand that the West must keep oil flowing from that area of the world or our modern economies will collapse. That is a condition too horrible to contemplate, let alone allow to happen on our watch.

    You also don’t seem to have any comprehension of what an all “volunteer” military means. Our soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines are all professional warriors — they entered into their service knowing what that means and willing to pay the price of their commitment. It is an intense dishonor to the patriotism and bravery of our troops to infantilize them.

    IN FACT it looks to me like the idea is just to send the bravest and/or most patriotic Americans overseas to get killed off generation after generation- leaving who here???

    Sorry DAve, that makes no sense.