Posted on 11/15/2005 5:30:28 PM PST by RWR8189
Pathetic.
One expected no better of the Senate Democrats, who want to get out of Iraq as soon as possible, or sooner than possible--most of them don't really care--and who want to embarrass president Bush. But couldn't the Senate Republicans have stood and fought against passing an irresponsible resolution suggesting that Americans want to get out of Iraq more than we want to win?
The Republican leadership may have figured they didn't have the votes to defeat the Democratic proposal without giving their members a weaker alternative to vote for. But better to lose such a vote by a small margin than to go on record voting for a resolution that sends a signal of irresolution and weakness at precisely the time when a message of strength is most needed. After all, in precisely a month, the Iraqis will vote for their first government under the new constitution, and one thing they must weigh in their calculations is whether they can count on U.S. staying power in the fight against the terrorists. With today's vote in the Senate, the Republican leadership, apparently working hand in glove with White House staff, showed itself today to be tactically myopic and politically timid.
One hopes Republicans in the House will show more spine. One trusts that President Bush will not bend in any way to these winds of worry. One hopes that a year from now this vote is simply remembered as a minor hiccup on the way to success and victory in Iraq. But one doesn't win a war by showing weakness. And one doesn't win a political fight by half capitulating to one's opponents, and, in effect, accepting the premises of their critique.
All honor to the 13 Republican senators who stood up against the me-too, we-want-to-get-out-as-well-but-not-quite-as-quickly, Republican leadership: Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter. Let's hope their colleagues reconsider and join their ranks in the near future.
--William Kristol
With this kind of sh$t going on almost weekly, my opinion is that 2006 is looking bleaker.
http://varifrank.com/archives/2005/11/notonefreakindi.php
Not.One.Freakin.Dime
Is there any victory secured by the United States Armed Services that cannot be stolen and turned into defeat at the hands of the cowards in the Congress?
......Senator Warner, does it occur to you that the Iraqis are working their asses off to take control of their country? Does it occur to you that they are dying every day in their country? Does it occur to you that up till now the official view of this country is that THEY ARE ALREADY SOVERIEGN, BUT THANKS TO YOU AND YOUR HEADLINE OXYGEN SUCKING BLATHER, THEY THINK THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN A FRAUD? Yes, our men and women are dying, but so are theirs. How condescending can you be to people who have struggled in the front line of the war on terror to say such an asinine thing?
...Harry Reid said this today that the President needed to “take the training wheels off the Iraqi government”. I’m not an Iraqi, I’m an American and there is nothing I have ever heard uttered by a member of my government that has made me angrier than that statement. Training wheels? Are the Iraqis babies? People who have taken on the burden of Saddam and the Tikriti clan, outright genocide to have a hack politician from Nevada call them babies? You should be censored for that Senator. The Iraqis aren’t a burden on this country, they are a godsend, they are our allies, they passed the ‘global test’ they are the emerging third world we all hope to help, and you COWARDS cant wait to beat feet out of their at the earliest opportunity.
...The President needs to go to war on the Senate. He comes back; he calls the republican leadership into his office; he shows them the pen. You know the pen I mean too, the veto pen. He tells them “ Kiss my ass if you think I’m signing a goddamned thing for anyone at anytime. We’ll just sit here for the next three years and we’ll see which of you figures out that the Executive branch actually means something in this government”.
I'm standing with the President on this one, and I don’t much care if we lose the Senate at this point, because as far as I cant tell, we already have. These pinheads can sit in the minority for awhile for all I care.
Not one dime you jackasses, not one freakin’ dime.
Of course, Billy Boy was a me too Republican on the Kosovo war.....though in that case peacenik Republicans (such as Rush, Delay, and Ollie North) were antiwar while Kristol and McCain toed the Clinton line. Heck, I remember that Kristol even angrily ruminated about rejoining the Democratic party! Now, the Democrats are the peaceniks and the Republicans are the pro-warriors. All that in less than ten years!
George Allen voted for this?
Pathetic!
Wow. Allen didn't join the nays? Bad news. Someone remind him of why Kilgore lost the Governor's race.
Thanks. I didn't understand his point either. Perhaps CBart95 agrees with sellout senators.
Bunning, Burr, Chambliss, Coburn, DeMint, Graham, Inhofe, Isakson, Kyl, McCain, Sessions, Thune, and Vitter.
Not sure why Linds and McCain jumped on board, but I'll take it. Sessions as ALWAYS in the right position.
I no longer want to hear Allen's name mentioned in the same sentence of Reagan or even Bush. This is at least the third time he's stabbed us in the back about THE most important issue- THE WOT.
1) Cindy Sheehan
2) McCain Terrorist protection
3) Warner White flag waving amendment.
He's a poll watcher. Pure and simple. He doesn't have the backbone to be president.
I don't think that's the case.
Instead, didn't Graham sponsor a bill that would eliminate the appeals of detainees declared to be "illegal combatants"?
McCain voted against the GOP absurdist Warner amendment which adopted a lot of the leftist anti-American cut and run logic--only not so fast. I am not a McCain fan, but I welcome his correct "nay" vote on this.
Who is left to vote for in 2008? Gingrich? I hope Mike Pence considers a run because he is all we have
Many American voters refuse to vote for a wacky lib so perhaps a new political party in America is in order.
Excellent post, right to the core of things.
What's going on? Bill Kristol is finally writing as a true conservative and the GOP Senators minus RINOS have sold us down the river? Did I wake up in a parallel universe this morning?
Sessions is admirable. He was blocked for the Appeals Court by the democrat @#$%^&*(. So, he ran for the Senate and won, and is on the very same Judiciary Committee. Those good for nothings must recognize their sin every day they see him. Without a word, that is real revenge.
ROLTLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!
Yea, right...
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