Landscape-Altering Vote Last Night

self ^ | 11/19/05 | LS

[yldstrk]

Don't forget the a$$kicking five minute talk by Repu blican Trent stating that there is no turning back from fighting the rephensible and evil ideology of the islamists who want to annihilate the Western world.

[Reily]

I doubt the historical accuracy of this statement

"As Patton said, "I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French division behind me!"

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Patton was a franco-phile ! (Was fluent in French and a admirer of French military culture & customs. The French historically are the cowards we like to think them to be ! Usually French historical military problems stem from bad civilian & military leadership, terrible tactics, and usually inadequate equipment.)

I think the quote was in reference to the Russians...and I beleive Patton stole the quote from the commander of the Polish 1st Armored division.

[TruthShallSetYouFree]

Murtha didn't vote for withdrawal. Interesting.

[jch10]

Allen Boyd-D Florida, is my democrat representative. I'll be watching to hear why he didn't vote.

[SE Mom]

Superb piece!

[Reily]

'The French historically are the cowards we like to ...' = 'The French historically are NOT the cowards we like to ...'

Gee... I need a editor to go over my postings !

[MizSterious]

Love your take on this. It adds a lot to my, much simpler, take--"we forced them to go on record, and when push came to shove, they didn't have the 'nads to put their votes where their big, overactive mouths were."

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

As I said last night, the leadership's move was a huge morale boost for the GOP in Congress. It put the Dems in their place. It reasserted GOP dominance in the House and gave our troops a huge vote of confidence.

If they could only do something like this in the Senate.

[KeyLargo]

John Murtha, Jr. - Democrat - U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania. Implicated in the Abscam sting, in which FBI agents impersonating Arab businessmen offered bribes to political figures; Murtha was cited as an unindicted co-conspirator

[Dems_R_Losers]

Credit my friend, Rep. Ron Lewis of Kentucky, with one of the key lines of the night: "How do you withdraw from a war on terror?" This needs to be repeated over and over and over. America must be re-introduced to the fact that the terrorists declared war on us, not the other way around, and that we must finish it. There IS no withdrawal from this war - only victory or defeat.

[bert]

......but they have the Dems fully on the run.....

The Rat EJ Dione had a column this morning "Support for the war in Iraq is rapidly eroding"

I wonder if running it today was an editorial joke by the publisher.

[ken5050]

I'm goning to piggyback onboth your comments..This all bodes well for the GOP...The wacko left wing of the Dems will not be happy with how they caved, and after Alito is confirmed without a filabuster, and then starts to change the direction of the SC in several key upcoming votes, they will go nuts...Then after the GOP makes small gains in Congress in the 2006 election, they will go apeshit..their "rationale" will be that the Dems would have done better if only they had attacted Buish even harder, supported Murtha's resolution, and filabustered Alito..They will then caputre the Dem primaries, and push the party so far to the left that McGovern will look like a moderate..

[Jolly Green]

Spineless Bill Frist should do exactly the same thing in the Senate as Hastert & Company did in the house

Except for the part where they lit out of town early yesterday and won't be back for two weeks. This will all be ancient history by the time they return.

This SHOULD be a wake-up call for Democrats in the Senate. If the house closest to the people doesn't have the guts to vote against the war, the Dems certainly don't have the broad-based support they think they have.

A lot of spineless senators are going to here from me at their home offices this weekend.

[skinkinthegrass]

Before Congressman Billybob jumps in with what I know will be an astute analysis, I'll get my two cents in on last night's vote. I consider it to be potentially a landscape-altering vote...My take on this is that if correctly played, last night's vote possibly could cost the Dems up to 30 seats in the House in 2006. This could very well be as significant as the vote in 1900 "for" continuing to fight the Filipino Insurrection and to keep McKinley in the White House. You heard it here first. We'll see if Frist and the Senate have the same cajones or political insight that the House members have.

Thanks, for "your" astute analysis...and Congressman Billybob's comments/"What If the French Had Pulled a 'Murtha' in 1781?".

[bert]

.....The left is complaining about pre war intelligence being manipulated but they didn't even read said intelligence reports? .....

Are you advocating a leak of classified congressional information?

[billhilly]

During the aftermath of last night's vote, I made the observtion that President Bush's poll numbers would not be possible without his supporters failing him. You expect your enemies to do all they can to hurt you, but not your friends. I also suggested that last nights action may just serve as the catalyst forthose fair weather republicans and independents to return to the fray. Maybe we needed to see some fight in our party instead of the usual rolling over like an eager puppy anytime a democrat insults us.

[BunnySlippers]

Good post.

[chiller]

My Senator Kyl said yesterday that Sen. Warner, et al, basically jumped the gun by not taking this resolution to conference where sounder minds would have prevailed. The feeble brained Sen. from Virginia had intended something different than what he got, but made the Senate and Republican Senators in particular make the President look bad....fwiw.

Word is that McConnell and Kyl will move to Senate leadership when Frist moves out. The sooner the better.

Hugh Hewitt noted that Frist's first order of business in the new year is asbestos legislation, so you're concern that most R Senators don't get it is a valid concern.

[cynicom]

Billy Bob gets tiresome.

[Grampa Dave]

Jimmy, the link below has who voted and how, who didn't vote, and who was awol. Thanks to Nutmeg for finding and posting this last night.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2005/roll608.xml