Murtha Madness

First, Democrats have truly gone insane. The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over, expecting different results. Democrats lost the 2002 elections arguably because of Iraq. They lost even bigger in 2004, again arguably because of Iraq. Now they’re determined to lose the 2006 elections because of Iraq.

Second, why couldn’t Murtha have had his epiphany a month ago? It would have yielded huge GOP victories in the November 8 elections.

Third, Jean Schmidt: I’ve written some mean things about her - “Hackett was a much better candidate than the uninspired, RINO Schmidt.” After yesterday’s magnificent performance, I take it all back. Will you marry me, Jean?

Fourth, Michael Moore: Democrats are all up in arms because Murtha was compared to Moore. But Michael Moore is a proud Democrat, and Democrats are proud of him. Senate Democrats trooped to the premier of Fahrenheit 9/11, one Senate Democrat and one House Democrat made cameos in the movie, and Moore was given pride of place next to Jimmuh, the killer-rabbit grappler, at John Kerry’s nominating convention. Democrats can’t have it both ways: If they lie down with Moore, they can expect to get fleas.

Fifth, to the Kos Kidz: Nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah nyah. Your leaders are true cowards. Not only do they want to cut and run from Iraq; they’re too cowardly to say so on the record. Even Senate Republicans have more spine than that.

From an article about the battle in the House last night:

He asked me to send Congress a message: stay the course," Ms. Schmidt said. "He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, Marines never do." She later withdrew the remarks, saying she meant no insult to the Pennsylvania Democrat.

If Schmidt was all that, she would not have withdrawn her remarks.

As this vote was going on last night I was following, but only peripherally. I had just picked up the Batjac release of John Wayne's "McClintok" and that move held priority. ;)

A line from it stands out. As the Indian's chiefs are getting down out of their boxcar, McClintok walks over that greets Puma, the head chief: "Puma, honored enemy!"

Honored enemy. A title that comes from respect for an opponent. Someone who, while on the opposite side, in battle or idea, still acts with passion, rightness, and faith that his cause is the correct one in spite of anything you can do. Win or lose, they believe.

What we saw last night was anything but. Despite passionate sounding calls for withdrawal, and words aplenty spoken in favor to enable that cause, when push came to shove and faced with a chance to show they meant what they had said, the Democrats scurried into the corners and said meekly "Never mind". They proved to all that what they said was not what they believed. They showed with their words nothing but political opportunism, and their cowardice of no conviction.

If what they said didn't matter enough for them to vote for it, why one earth would anyone else believe in the actions they propose?.

No honored enemy, no respect, only contempt and pity.

I think that the House reflects most accurately the sentiments of individual Americans. Reps face election every two years, not six, as in the Senate, and they represent smaller numbers of people. Of course, the wisdom of the founders is in play here.

The Senate passed its despicable timetable resolution, with fashionable Republicans reading elitist media and siding with Democrat defeatist anti-Americanism - even using a Democrat template for the resolution! In the House, the citizens spoke quite clearly, I think.

Can this be a tipping point in the pushback?

Things I would prefer to not hear again:

1. War veteran smeared as a coward/liar etc. by Republicans who have never seen combat.

The military in this nation, thank heaven, is controlled by civilians, not the military, not war veterans. This "chickenhawk" argument is pure sophistry, similar to calling anyone critical of Jesse Jackson or, heaven forbid, Al Sharpton, a racist.

How can one say that it is just peachy to encourage our enemies and stab our troops in the back, which is what Murtha and Democrats are doing, if one has seen combat? This is just what the international terrorists hope for: the weakness of politicians, who seek only domestic power caring nothing for liberty. That sir, exhibits a lack of courage to do the right thing. That, sir is COWARDICE.

If Winston Churchill had abandoned what was right for political gain, fascism would be a far greater power in the world than it is today.

2. The charge "anti-American" or "un-American" thrown around like cheap confetti. Americanism means intelligent discussion and dissent.

Is a political party that has an entrenched core that has sought and obtained donations from abroad, that has made public statements expressing a hatred for military personnel and which detests our history and traditions anti-American? Have you ever spent any time reading posts at Democrat Underground or Daily Kos? That is the core the Democrat Party craves to keep. It is anti-American, and I will continue to say so, even if you consider speaking truth to anti-Americanism impolite.

I am a baby-boomer who lived through the Vietnam era, and liberal Democrats, aided by Walter Cronkite and MSM truth-twisters, turned the Tet victory into defeat and motivated abandoning the Vietnamese to a bloodbath of vengeance. And why did liberal Democrats seek the defeat of America then, in Vietnam? They found political power in the sense of defeat their half-truths created, but which was in calm historical retrospective completely untrue.

The Democrat Part seeks to accrue power to itself without regard for national welfare. If that is not anti-American, what is? It was anti-American forty years ago and it still is. If you couple Democrat Party stabbing-troops-in-the-back with its history of abandoning the national welfare for political power, the truth of core Democrat liberal anti-Americanism is undeniable.

We have to be in their faces, expose them for what they really believe and really are, so the citizens can vote them into oblivion.

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