Posted on 07/01/2005 5:01:13 PM PDT by Libloather
Margaret Carlson: Do You know Where Your Flag Is?
Margaret Carlson
Fri Jul 1,11:45 AM ET
Do you know where your flag is? It's being waved in the House of Representatives in lieu of doing any work on, say, gas prices, stem cell research, global warming (fossil fuel emissions still voluntary). Health care reform? Why bother with a doctor when you can have Bill First diagnose your illness from the floor of the Senate.
Members so fearful of being called unpatriotic get closer and closer to passing the amendment to protect the flag from desecration. It takes guts to protect the constitution from being desecrated by a frivolous amendment.
It's not frivolous to worry about casting a vote against the amendment. Bush I and II used flag burning successfully against those two well-known squishy soft, pro-flag desecrating Massachusetts Democrats who both served in the military. It's the vote the right wing loves to force, knowing a member who votes against it will have to spend a lot of time and money pushing back against the inevitable ad which suggests a lack of patriotism. You can just hear Hillary Clinton to upstate New Yorkers: "I do TOO love my country."
No one could call the soldiers at Fort Bragg unpatriotic which allows them to behave appropriately. It's why they didn't do their "hooahs" when the president repeated things we all know to be untrue. Dragging up 9/11 to justify the war in Iraq is an insult to everyone's intelligence. Congress would have given the same speech 10 standing ovations. Not so the corporals in that gymnasium. They know the insurgency is alive and thriving. It's killing their buddies.
You can see why conservative might like a break from their regular red meat diet of railing against the morning after pill, gay marriage and lesbian puppets on public TV. But dredging up this old chestnut is shameful.
Even Newt Gingrich thinks the Republican majority has lost its way warning them that when "you're in the minority, you fight. When you're in the majority, you have to govern." If congress wants to celebrate the 4th with something patriotic, they should try doing their jobs.
I kinda like that war for oil idea...
Margaret Carlson and Hillary -- separated by a pillow, maybe.
There's nothing wrong with Margaret that a few years at Gitmo couldn't fix. She's just swell! Or was that swill?
She could be Al Franken's sister in that picture.
Just another beyond tiresome libbie.
wanger? I like it, I'm going to start using it.
Ms. Carlson, it is you who is an insult to our intelligence.
"...when the president repeated things we all know to be untrue." You haven't been listening to the members of yoiur own party, have you? Many of them thought at one time that what President Bush said was true. The difference is, this isn't your boy Clinton in office, it's a Republican president instead.
Shut up, and go away.
Does anybody read Time any more? The last time I saw one was in the dentist's office.
While liberals rail against conservatives....
Dentist's office? A well-deserved reputation for inflicting pain....
Nice picture, commie.
I haven't seen the speech, but I think the lack of 'hooahs' had to be more a matter of decorum than of disagreement with the president. I hardly think that would be an appropriate response when 9/11 is mentioned. But I suspect that from Ms. Carlson's point of view, the military is full of animals who should be celebrating any reason at all to go and kill brown-skinned Muslims. It's hard to believe that people actually pay her to write this stuff.
These libs all carry the same disease....so they all look, speak, and write the same way about the same things. It's that sameness that causes you to experience almost instantaneous boredom when you get two sentences into their work.
I agree. Even if our tag lines are totally opposed :)
yes, the soldiers at Ft Bragg were ordered not to erupt in applause , etc during Prez's speech. perhaps if ms Carlson had done her homework as a reporter, she might have know that and not "repeated things we all know to be untrue."
When Frist has some time, I'd suggest he do an autopsy on her, preferably by vivisection.
I also agree.
I wouldn't expect someone who could eat corn-on-the-cob through a picket fence to know where anybody's flag is.
No, thinking you can persuade readers into believing an argument that sounds like "just because you bought and paid for something doesn't mean you own it" insults everyone's intelligence.
Margaret,
My flag will drape over my coffin when I pass away. I earned on by serving my country. Margaret, please take this opprutunity and serve your country, by leaving it permanently.
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