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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Did Ford actually have to be restrained from physically attacking the congresswoman?
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This new strategy of going on the attack with strictly the facts this time (unlike the Dems with lies) is working wonders.
Stay out of the gutter, which us Republicans have such a distaste for that it makes us think we need to just let the Dems get away with it all the time, is the way to change this Republic for the better.
It seems to me that it works and it seems to me that there is a 100% of it working (in the long-run.)
Our local NBC affiliate reported on the debate from last night on this evening news. Citing the vote as a "Republican stunt intended to embarrass the Democrats", I wondered what school of journalism the reporter came from.
While it WAS a Republican stunt intended to embarrass the Democrats, and it DID a good job of it, I sent them a letter asking them when was the last time they noted a Democrat STUNT being performed to embarrass the Republicans.
No response.
"They ain't fit to be my town's dogcatcher."
That is an insult to honest, hardworking dogcatchers everywhere.
Please update your poem.
What about that other infamous Liberal Vet, The War criminal who's team slit the throats of Vietnamese civilians, you know, the other Kerry? There's a pattern here folks, the left wing welcomes the worst we had into their ranks and markets them as party "War Heroes."
This gang of thugs wrote the book on Hijacking.
You are right. BUT the reason Hunter's bill has been nicknamed "Murtha's" bill is that it echos in plain english what Murtha suggested (and it's well documented) on Thursday. He said that we should immediately withdraw and redeploy our troops out of Iraq. Friday night he cited a questionable (and probably fictitious) poll claiming 80% of the Iraqis think the US is an army of occupation. THEN, he voted against a resolution which was his expressed opinion. Murtha is not to be trusted any more than another lauded war hero ~ Benedict Arnold.
Actually, I thought the article was the one from last night who charged at Jean Schmidt. It did appear for a while that he might physically assault her.
He was probably in Beirut, Panama, Grenada, and Desert Storm
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"He was probably in Beirut, Panama, Grenada, and Desert Storm"
Thanks.
It seems the dems are more upset by the "dirty trick" the GOP played on them last night...
Than they are about the "dirty trick" Osama Bin Ladin played on us on 9/11....
and on the "dirty tricks" that Saddam have played on millions of people during his life..and one was almost the assassination of a POTUS!
Beautiful!!!!
I just emailed my liberal rep in the House (Kanjorski), thanking him for his "no" vote, and support of the troops and President. I really do appreciate him voting this way; it's about time! (snicker, snicker).
Maybe they think twice before they pull another "Closed Door" secret meeting. Jerks.
Murtha's traitorous behavior now is no different from John Kerry's traitorous behavior during the Vietnam War.
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