[OkeyDokeyOkie]

Rep. Jean Schmidt deserves praise, not condemnation. My only problem with Rep. Schmidt is that she allowed herself to be intimidated by the the verbal attacks of Democrats and the near physical attack by Rep. Harold Ford, who had to be restrained by other representatives. Rep. Schmidt did not call Rep. Murtha a coward, she simply quoted a Marine constituent who asked her to remind Rep. Murtha that cowards cut and run, Marines never do, a fact that the retired Marine, Rep. Murtha, had obviously forgotten.

[Buffettfan]

[[Schmidt is that she allowed herself to be intimidated by the the verbal attacks of Democrats and the near physical attack by Rep. Harold Ford, who had to be restrained by other representatives.]]

What was this little sissy Howard Ford going to do? Was he going to go over and beat up a little 60 year old white woman on the floor of the US Senate? He's pathetic. Somebody should have slapped some sense into this little punk right on the spot.

[MinuteGal]

Rep. Jean Schmidt has more equipment than most Republican senators combined.

Jean Schmidt for Seante!

Leni

[Cinnamon Girl]

Does anyone have footage of Ford charging the lectern?

[Cinnamon Girl]

I'm not familiar with the NY Times. Is this essay supposed to be a report or an editorial?

In scheduling the vote, Republicans were trying to embarrass Democratic critics of the war, forcing them to dissociate themselves from a call earlier in the week for a slower but still definite withdrawal. That call came from Representative John P. Murtha, Democrat of Pennsylvania, a Vietnam combat veteran who spent 37 years in the Marines and is one of the most respected military authorities in the House.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Good on her.

[truemiester]

Funny how the Dems are upset over the term coward and not the substance.
Mothra served proudly then became a politician.
Nuff said

[DallasSun]

I strongly disagree. She is shrill and should be ashamed of herself. I am glad President Bush said Murtha has served this country with honour. There is nothing honourable about this woman.

[KenmcG414]

Bravo to Rep.Schmidt, she read a comunique from one of her constituients fighting in Iraq who said it would be cowardice to cut & run. The Dems screamed bloody murder. Yet, "Cut & Run Murtha" read letters from soldiers parents who supported his view of surrender.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks to Zacs Mom, we have collage of the various rat traitors in Congress who hate America and GW more than our real enemies.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared." Cicero, 42 B.C.

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known, and he carries his banners openly. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very hall of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor. He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their garments, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in hearts of men. He rots the soul of a nation. He works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city. He infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A Murderer Is Less To Be Feared." Cicero, 42 B.C.