Posted on 11/22/2005 6:37:25 AM PST by .cnI redruM
The Republican who initiated last week's overwhelming House vote to keep U.S. troops in Iraq said he will do it again if Democrats don't cease their calls for withdrawal.
"If they start this again, we'll call the vote again," said Rep. J.D. Hayworth, Arizona Republican, whom members credited with suggesting holding a vote. "As far as I'm concerned, if they haven't learned from this, if they go back to this cheap talk, I would be more than happy to call for another vote."
Rep. John P. Murtha, Pennsylvania Democrat, said Thursday that the U.S. should start withdrawing from Iraq, but the House voted 403-3 the next day to reject immediate withdrawal. Republicans say the vote both bolstered the troops' mission and recaptured the political momentum on the issue.
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amen!
No. That would involve burning the Reichstag (Congress) and installing Hillary as Fuhrer.
"The Republican leadership did a masterful job of manipulating and distorting Representative Murtha's vote, somewhat similar to what we saw with the administration's manipulation of intelligence with the case they used to justify the war," said Jim Manley, a spokesman for Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, Nevada Democrat.
*ROFLMAO*
If Zarquari is dead and the Democrats voted their conscience, who would they vote for?
[Hayworth] proposed the idea at the House Republican Conference meeting Friday morning.
A Republican aide said the final decision to go ahead was made that afternoon at a meeting, in which top House Republican leaders and committee chairmen decided something had to be done.
"The message out of that meeting was either we play offense or we play defense. And right now we need to play offense," the aide said. "It stopped the momentum the Democrats were trying to generate."
I was writing a note for my son for school this morning and dated it, realizing with a piercing of sadness -it's an anniversary of JFK's assassination. As the morning wore on I thought about this irony: JFK charged: "Ask not what your country can do for you, as what YOU can do for your country" and today's democrats are just oppositional, intoning all the time, "ask what you country has done for lately." Pretty pathetic how far democrats have strayed from the right track.
Finally someone is listening to me. Just as I suggested here on Free Republic the other day: keep calling for these votes until the Dims tremble when one of their moonbat loons escapes and goes running off at the mouth. This would force the Dim leadership (such as it is) to keep their loons in check and force the media to demand responsiblility from the Dims they love.
JD Hayworth for President!
Murtha's cut-and-run speeches are going to sink the DemocRAT party. With this, they have joined al Qaeda and deserted our men/women in the field. They and the MSM have sunk the knife in our backs... and now, will carry it forever.
Hayworth blew it on Paula Zahn's show last night. (CNN)
To paraphrase, Zahn said that a top general (JCOS?) announced Iraq only had 5-700 trained security force members (a DNC point the MSM has been repeating over and over and over).
Hayworth had the perfect opportunity to point out Iraqi Security Forces have many (90?) functional battalions, with just a handful of American advisors in each unit.
He said something like, "Well, this just provides incentive for us to train more Iraqis," then went on about American troop were best trained, etc.
Our Republican politicians need to be better prepared than your average Freeper if they're going to venture into enemy territory. This was one of the few times a Republican congressman was going to have a one-on-one interview on CNN without some dimwit Democrat (besides Zahn) screaming 'Bush lied and you're wrong" during the dee-bate.
Of course, at the end the interview, Zahn did her usual "Republicans are idiots tisk and a sigh" and looked down in disbelief as she went to break. (She learned it from Judy Woodruff).
Paula who? Is she on tv? Oh, she is on CXX at 8:00 PM and how large is her viewing audience? OK, then.
So, is it really lonely watching KNN - by yourself?
Her viewing audience is large enough to affect, over a period of time, many crucial elections in the country. She's on at 7:00 CST, btw. She's on in airports. She's on in restaurants. She's a pretty face that the channel surfer stops and listens to for a few minutes. More people heard that interview than visited FR yesterday.
We can crow all we want about the death of the Lamestream Media, but they're doing a good job of dragging W right now. It only takes three "impressions" of a consistent message to affect the mind of the uninformed viewer. The affects are cumulative, not intantaneous.
They, and the other liberals in the media, also control the much of the news on the internet. I have MSN at home. Everytime I log on, I see headlines bashing Bush, Republicans and conservatives.
Preaching to the choir makes us feel good. But, unlike some other Freepers, I like to know what the enemy is up to and don't take them for granted.
KNN has a lot more impact on public sentiment and voting patterns than FR.
Just because WE don't watch it (I was channel surfing and saw J.D.) doesn't mean undecideds and casual voters don't.
However, ratings are ratings...and KNN IS ON ITS ASS!
If it is true that Rep. Murtha was largely responsible for getting President Clinton to withdraw U. S. combat forces from Somolia, then this important information should be documented and given wide publicity on this website and elsewhere.
No dispute there. We just bought CNN and Fox News for our clients yesterday.
Fox News :30 spots cost 50 percent more. (I always buy Fox...clients love it, too).
But, we CANNOT ignore the LSM. We're talking a three percent swing in elections, either way.
BTW...not a journalist. I'm in advertising. VOO-DOO stuff that works.
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