What's Behind The "Get Rummy" Movement?

The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin ^ | 4/18/2006 | Self

[Berlin_Freeper]

The Democrats make the worst kind of politics (The politics of Treason) because quite honestly they are the worst kinds of people.

Pew Poll:

In a benchmark survey, the Pew Research Center found that the ranks of self-identified Democrats include:

- 36 percent of those with less than a high school education, the most solidly Democratic group by education.

- 39 percent of those making less than $20,000 a year, the most Democratic income group.

And another recent Pew Poll found:

Republicans tend to be better off than Democrats, and that is one explanation for the happiness gap. But when the researchers controlled for household income, Republicans at all income levels were happier than Democrats at those same income levels.

As for ideology, conservative Republicans were happier than conservative Democrats, and moderate to liberal Republicans were happier than comparable Democrats.


So what we know as documented about the Democrats is that they really are LOSERS. They are the lazy, do-nothing, create-nothing, build-nothing, achieve-nothing, have-nothing slackers in life. Except when it comes to politics, then they are full busy with being hysterical crapheads insisting that they have all the answers. Funny they have nothing else in life and are miserable but THEY have all the answers for how to run America.

Only a loud mouth do-nothing fool calls himself a Democrat. And these days only a treasonous fool at that.

Let's be honest.

[sgtbono2002]

That pretty much sums it up these Generals are idiots and traitors.

If they cannot see the harm they have done they are truly stupid.

[mo]

IMHO,from the ex-general perspective, its the cash..Bunch of weapons programs approved by the Clinton DOD...the best gig for a former star in retirement is as a "consultant" to the weapons system developer. Oft-times leads to a cushy retirement. Rummy canceled a bunch of weapons programs..in effect canceling out a bunch of retirements. IMHO...the cash trail tells the story.

[lentulusgracchus]

Great cartoon!

I'm going to disagree a little bit.

First, I don't think there is a real convergence of interest between the Democrats and the jihadis. The latter are crazy, and the former.......well, um, let me start over.

Okay, try this. The Dems want Bush out, the jihadis want the Dems in because the jihadis (correctly) think the Dems will be the same bunch of dipwads the terrorists ran circles around in the 1990's. The jihadis have a real weakness in their logic, however.

The fecklessness of the Dems in the '90's was almost entirely a function of DIRTXPOTUS's own criminality, which required him to instruct Jamie Gorelick and other tools and stooges to erect his infamous "Chinese Wall," the "wall" that Clinton needed to protect himself from impeachment, removal from office, and any subsequent indictment and consequent need to show his hand by defecting to China -- revealing in brilliant limelight his longstanding relationship with Chinese PLA intelligence officers.

Without a criminal like Clinton (or SheBat the Other Clinton) at the head of the party, the jihadis have no friend in the Democratic Party outside the gradually antisemitizing "liberal," pro-Pali wing of the Party.

If a moderate or centrist Democrat like Lieberman or Joe Biden, or even Charlie Schumer or Russ Feingold or Frank Lautenberg comes to the White House, the benefit to the jihadis of having a Democrat in charge of foreign and military policy suddenly becomes attenuated or disappears completely if it's Lieberman.

It is only the tactical convergence of the jihadis' and the Left Wing Democrats' need for a Bush failure and bloodbath in Iraq and Afghanistan that puts them all on the same side of the fence, temporarily.

The generals are a little stickier. Some of their talking reflects professional differences with the strategy of "I want to do Iraq on the cheap" (which I think was Dubya's strategy originally, not Rumsfeld's -- it sounds more like Bush than Rumsfeld, forget that Rumsfeld actually said it: it was his boss's policy!), and some of it arguably reflects Army careerism and a growing politicization (by the Clintons) of the top ranks in the military. The Clintons played political games with both the military and the Civil Service with their "change agent" stuff and initiatives like "don't ask don't tell": they sought to politicize the military and Civil Service both, because they wanted to build a small base of political operators (think Joe Wilson, Dick Clarke) within the Civil Service and the armed services.

So the generals are a more complicated subject, and I'll leave sussing out their "motives" whatever they are to people who are closer to the senior brass and know the politics involved.

But in no way do I think the retired generals' overall politics or careerist strategies embrace the defeat of the United States Army and Marine Corps in Iraq or Afghanistan. I won't buy for a minute that the jihadis are in any way responsible for what these officers say or think.

[Laverne]

This picture is worth a 1000 words; very good.

[toomanygrasshoppers]

Ping

[johnny7]

That cartoon is perfect!

[libs_kma]

later read bump

[johnny7]

That's one of the best I've seen.

Years ago, I remember one of Carter when the mini-series 'Shogun' was on the tube... 1980 I believe... and during the nightmarish end of his administration. Forgot the cartoonist(MacNelly?) ... but it had Carter as a Samurai with the word... 'Sho Nuff' emblazoned across it.

Priceless!

[RoadTest]

The Wall Street Journal has a good lead editorial on this subject in Monday's (April 17) paper.

[Khurkris]

Very good...heh heh heh.

[Humble Servant]

"Too bad a landscape view doesn't permit the communist manipulating both the jihadists and the Democrats."

Great. I agree about the Dems, but I'm intersted to know if you think the Commies really manipulate the Jihadists. My percpetion has always been that they and the Euro-Socialists form alliances with forces like this, in the catastrophically mistaken belief that they can evade or control the damage to themselves from the fascists they cozy up to against the Capitalist pigs who made everything they have. (Like Stalin and the Nazis). Fill me in if you can educate me here.

FABULOUS CARTOON!!

[Carry_Okie]

Ever since the 1930s it's been well known that certain elements of the "capitalist class," what was then known as the Popular Front, were behind the communist movement. Recall the source of the gold used to finance Lenin. Here is a little quote written in 1938 from Homage to Catalonia, by George Orwell:

In reality, it was the Communists above all others who prevented revolution in Spain. Later, when the Right Wing forces were in full control, the Communists showed themselves willing to go a great deal further than the Liberals in hunting down revolutionary leaders.

[Snip]

Between the Communists and those who claim to stand to the Left of them there is a real difference. The Communists hold that Fascism can be beaten by alliance with sections of the capitalist class (the Popular Front); their opponents hold that this maneuver simply gives Fascism new breeding-grounds. The question has got to be settled; to make the wrong decision may be to land ourselves in for centuries of semi-slavery.

It is that same "capitalist class" who have used their tax-exempt "charitable" foundations buy political influence and finance actions in Federal courts that consolidate energy dependency in their oil, usually produced in unstable dictatorships, principally in Arabia. Their favorite weapon has been environmental treaties established and held at the UN used to generate regulations designed to preclude competing sources of energy, whether coal, nuclear, or domestic hydrocarbons.

About that, I wrote a book.

[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Clearly a great cartoon, but I also disagree that the loonie jihadists hold up the Democrats as puppets. They certainly support them though.

It's more like the Democrats unlocking the backdoor to the jihadists. Flow and sympathy goes the other way.

Also, much of the criticism by Democrat sponsored generals of Rumsfeld is really over Bush policies that have resulted in this on-going entanglement in Iraq -- which prevents us from taking action on Syria, Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, or the Southern Invasion of the U.S.

[mass55th]

"Thanks. I've already gotten two hate letters over it at the paper!"

You need to add a Chuck Hagel puppet to the General.

[Preachin']

This is the democrats way of making the war look bad without actually having say it.

[bert]

.....What's Behind The "Get Rummy" Movement?...

The Get W Movement

[cartoonistx]

I would have included all of the nuance and perspective you have in your post but I only have a 6" X 4" panel on the editorial page!

[cartoonistx]

If my space was larger I would have put a network anchor in between the general and the donkey!