Posted on 11/19/2005 6:01:56 PM PST by Nasty McPhilthy
I was on the air last night when the House Republicans decided it was time to pull the liberals’ punk card. In a brilliant conservative stratagem that revealed to America just how spineless the Democratic Party has become, only three left-wingers voted for an immediate surrender to al Qaeda in Iraq. Those were the only three Democrats to vote for capitulation to Osama. It was a classic case of "put up or shut up." The Dems shut up.
None of the three was Rep. John Murtha, whose transparent stunt the day before in calling for the United States to lay down in arms, retreat, surrender and then negotiate with al Qaeda, blew up in the Dems’ faces for all the world to see. Murtha himself refused to vote for his own cowardly demand.
The theatrics were laughable. Rep. Harold E. Ford Jr. of Tennessee, feeling like a tough guy, charged Republican Rep. Jean Schmidt when, at the podium, she told the House of a call she had just received from a Marine colonel who said only cowards cut and run, and that Marines never do.
Ford, being a violent, intolerant liberal wanting to beat up a woman, tipped his hand very nicely. Now we all know how he feels about that whole disgusting freedom-of-speech thing. Of course, had that Marine colonel been at the podium, Ford would have known better than to charge the Leatherneck, which would have instantly resulted in Ford’s graphic demise. The wannabe bully of women made many wonder if he has assaulted and intimidated women before last night’s thwarted attack. I found it fascinating how Ford was vehemently defending a liberal colonel’s opinion but attacked the opposing opinion of a conservative colonel.
As my previous column on Murtha shot to #1 on Google when the words "Murtha" and "traitor" were typed in, I was receiving hundreds of emails from irate liberals furious with a Marine willing to express an opinion different from their own; the opinion that victory and killing terrorists wherever we find them is far more desirable that retreat, surrender and negotiation with an enemy that has killed more than 5,000 Americans in four years. Death wishes and threats of extreme violence were part and parcel of some of the emails from the peace-loving liberals. One woman expressed how sad she was that my name isn’t on the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, aka "The Wall." (I am not a Vietnam vet.) A fellow from Honolulu threatened to come to Denver to beat me senseless. He hasn’t shown up yet. Most liberals wrote to say I have no right to my opinion; they feel the 1 st Amendment applies only to Americans who share their opinion. And nearly all who wrote to express their hatred and intolerance said that a decorated combat veteran must never be challenged on his beliefs. Odd how they ignored my status in that very genre.
I wonder where the liberals got the notion that liberal veterans must be granted a free pass for life and never be held accountable for the words and actions after military service. Curious how liberals do not feel the same about conservative veterans. In reality, no veteran should be given such a pass. Past deeds should have nothing to do with current and future deeds and words.
Speaking of not backing up one’s bravado, what does it say about Murtha, a retired Marine Reserve colonel, when one day he demands in an embarrassing tirade that the Marines immediately retreat and surrender to al Qaeda, an act he demanded be followed by formal negotiations with al Qaeda, and the next day he refuses to vote for his own demands? Such a lack of intestinal fortitude is almost unheard of in Marines, who have a 230-year history of backing up their words with actions. The enemy bodies forming a trail of destruction from Tripoli, Belleau Wood and Iwo Jima to Khe Sanh and Fallujah attest to that fact.
I also received many emails from enraged Marines who want the traitor’s name stricken from the Corps’ rolls. World War II vets wrote and called into my show to express with crystal clarity their extreme anger with Murtha’s insistence that retreat, surrender and negotiation with terrorists was America’s best option. When America’s "greatest generation" goes off on Murtha and the target of their anger insults and degrades them for disagreeing with his plan for surrender, it tells me that there are still many Americans out there who understand what is at stake in this war on terror. And it tells me that we still have a chance to defeat al Qaeda, despite millions of Americans’ totally unsupported belief that retreat and surrender and negotiating with terrorists is a sound battle plan.
Friday night, the Democrats in the House of Representatives exposed their hypocrisy and unwillingness to act upon their self-proclaimed credo. The world now sees them for what they truly are, and that may be the best news for America in quite some time.
Bob Newman
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For about 1/10th of one second, they did. Now they're yammering on and on and on and ON about how Republicans "pulled a dirty trick" on them.
And these yahoos think they're fit to lead this nation. Pfft! They ain't fit to be my town's dogcatcher.
"Ford, being a violent, intolerant liberal wanting to beat up a woman, tipped his hand very nicely. "
Ford seems a little light in the loafers to me, I am guessing Schmidt could have knocked him out. "Jean gonna knock you out!" (sung to the tune of Mama gonna knock you out by L.L. Cool J.)
ummmm....that's an insult to town dogcatchers everywhere..
LOL! They don't even SEE their hypocrisy!
Sorry, once the horse is out of the barn for all to see, no one is going to believe their "big 10 inch" stories any more. (not that any of us ever did to begin with)
ummmm....that's an insult to town dogcatchers everywhere..
A thousand humble apologies to those who practice that noble profession. :o)
Touché. (Zat's French ju no.)
Curious to know which war Newman saw combat in.
The Dems thought they were going to get to play this "Vietnam Vet says PULL OUT" story through the weekend and all next week. From the MSM, it sounded like this guy was the military conscious of the Congress. When he speaks, Presidents listen.
Now, I've been a political junkie since the good old days of impeachment, and Thursday was the first time I've ever even heard of the guy.
Glad to see someone on our side finally take the initiative to knock the chip off of the Dems shoulders.
Hoorah!
LOL...:)
Newman was with me on the USS Okinawa in 1980 when he was with RECON, and he served for another 15 or 16 years afterwards.
I have met him back then, and we have occasionally wrote since.
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They are running out of room in their mouth for all the forked tounges. It also gets dificult to keep your story straight when you are telling so many tales.
** Curious to know which war Newman saw combat in. ***
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From http://www.geoscopegroup.com/BOB_NEWMAN.doc
"Mr. Newman is a decorated, retired parachute- and combatant-diver qualified United States Marine with extensive, global operational experience in reconnaissance, special operations, counterterrorism, counterguerrilla warfare, and survival, and is a ground combat veteran of the Gulf War."
*****None of the three was Rep. John Murtha, whose transparent stunt the day before in calling for the United States to lay down in arms, retreat, surrender and then negotiate with al Qaeda,****
That was a stunt?
How stupid can you be to make a statement like that and then claim you were just kidding?It was just a stunt.
hey man you better wake up this war is no fricking joke for your Senatorial Bullshit..
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When it comes to pulling congressional stunts,
We can see who are champs and who are the runts.
Team captains like Reid and those other fool wusses
Are like Nagin in N'awlins: they missed their own busses.
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By the time they discover that they're in a rout,
The game is all over, the team bus has pulled out.
So their players are outraged, Pelosi is pissed,
The only Marine that they like has been thoroughly dissed.
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And while Republican players are smirking and gloating,
Second-string Kerry decries Murtha's Swift-boating,
A stunt that got John boy kicked out of the game,
By proving his play stats were doctored and lame.
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It hurts to admit it, but here's the straight skinny:
One honest Dem player is Cynthia McKinney,
Who true to her heart, which is Red to the core,
Voted boldly but badly to cut and run from this war.
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While her timorous teammates who trash-talked so loud,
When faced with the game play, got lost in the crowd.
The Dems' rookie captains are showing fatigue;
Will their fans ever see they're playing out of their league?
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Russ Vaughn is the Poet Laureate of The American Thinker
Gee, I'm surprised to hear this. At DU, they're declaring the vote a victory for them. They're crowing about how their guys stood up to the Republicans after the vote.
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