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So you would have us abandon our allies in Afghanistan and Iraq in favor of a new version of "fortress America". Never mind that you would also be disheartening our other allies in places like Thailand, The Philippines, and Mali or that you would be abandoning the progress we have made in places like Yemen and Indonesia or Pakistan. It didn't work against the Nazi's and it won't work against the Al Queda's.

Who, precisely, are our allies? Please identify the Iraqi, Filippino or Malian Churchill. To paraphrase Bismarck: we have no permanent friends and no permanent enemies, we only have permanent interests.

These people have been fighting each other for hundreds of years, in terms of Islam, and thousands of years in terms of tribalism. Do we really need to get into the middle of their disputes? Do we really need to ally ourselves with narco-sheikhs in Afghanistan or closet Iranian supporters in Iraq? I think not.

The so-called "Blood for Oil," in my mind, represents a legitimate American interest. If these people cut off our oil, our economy dies and our way of life is affected. Protecting our interest in Middle East oil, in my mind, is our only interest in that region until we develop alternate sources of energy, at which point we can tell the savages who populate that region to go bleep themselves.

So when the moonbats scream "No blood for oil," I say: "Stop driving your Volvo/Saab/Mercedes with the 2 year old 'Kerry/Edwards' bumper sticker on the back, you idiot, and start walking so I can drive to work and pay my taxes."

Ted Kennedy and Harry Reid worked out with Republicans like Arlen Specter, Mel Martinez, Chuck Hagel and John McCain

If these are the best negotiators that the Republican Senate can come up with, why bother?

There's little or no difference between the parties with people like these determining what laws are passed.

Constitution party for me. Screw the republicrats.

So you would have us abandon our allies in Afghanistan and Iraq in favor of a new version of "fortress America".

What's the point of having allies overseas when your own country can't defend its borders?

The Republicans will do the right thing on this issue, or they will get wiped out at the polls. Sorry, that's political reality here in 2006. If the Stupid Party is too dumb to read the tea leaves, they deserve what's coming to them.