Posted on 02/21/2007 6:48:05 AM PST by .cnI redruM
The Democrats will do John Murtha’s bidding. He owns them. It’s over. The House of Representatives will vote to defund the Iraq War, Mitch McConnell will have to fight a battle royal to prevent that sentiment from carrying the senate.
There are those who would ask if I’m from Planet Murtha and they may even wonder if I’ve responsibly redeployed my common sense to Okinawa. When the new congress organized, Murtha was elected dog that runs behind Steny Hoyer. He should be the man whose view stays the same every day.
This would hold true; except for one small thing. Murtha espouses the only fully-developed system of beliefs currently in circulation amongst The American Left. I’m not claiming these are admirable beliefs; I don’t even credit them with being particularly intelligent ones. It’s just that there is a ‘there’ there.
Murtha came out against the war almost as early as Howard Dean and has stayed against the war. He may or may not have a small mind, but his consistency on this issue is no mere hobgoblin. It has morphed into a troll and it lies in wait beneath that bridge known as The House Armed Services Committee. President Bush will have to surge across that bridge, at some point, and Murtha will pounce.
While Murtha won’t get elected to anything more powerful than a seat in The House of Representatives, he will dictate the Optempo of the 2008 Democratic Primary. Even now, in early 2007, he already has. Murtha has outlined a platform that will cut the Iraq War off without exposing his party to the public choice of cutting the funding off.
Murtha will oversee the $93 billion supplemental spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan that the House will consider in mid-March. And he wants to impose new restrictions on how the president can deploy combat forces from the United States to Iraq, allow combat veterans to have at least one year stateside before returning to the frontlines and prevent the Pentagon from keeping soldiers and Marines already in Iraq in uniform after their enlistments expire.
“This vote will limit the options of the president and should stop the surge,” Murtha predicted of next month’s floor fight over the wartime supplemental appropriation. “We’re trying to force redeployment [of troops outside Iraq], not by taking money away but by redirecting it.”
This would cause unmitigated disasters throughout the Middle East, and ultimately bring war back home to the United States, as the emboldened Mujihadeen crossed our borders with the same ease that they crossed Russian lines in Afghanistan. But no one in The Democratic Party can point that out without getting hammered like Joe Liebermann or Joe Biden.
The Murtha Faction demands this willful blindness from anyone who wants a chance at The Democratic Party nomination in 2008. When this faction demands, the candidates pander. John Edwards has gone from voting pro-war in 2002, to issuing a statement claiming Israel was the most dangerous nation in the world. It’s nice to know John CAIRs.
Not to be outdone, Barack Oprahbama has called American combat deaths in Iraq “wasted lives.” He scurried back from that one, as soon as it crossed his lips, but somewhere in the background, Murtha wears the same smug grin as the Cheshire Cat. John Murtha must love it when Obama reminds audiences that he didn’t vote to go to Iraq, Hillary and Edwards did.
Hillary not only voted for the war, she also vocally supported it. She essentially used her husband’s old “push-off strategy” and made Howard Dean her own personal Sistah Soljah. For a time, that worked. Now she’s trying to get left of John Murtha. He’ll let her get past him for a small fee.
So Jack Murtha won’t run for President. He won’t even attempt Speaker of The House. But, why should he? He has the power and holds the door keys. All war money goes through him and because of that, so does the road to the 2008 Democratic Presidential nomination.
Mort Kondrake laments this sad state of affairs.
”It's unfortunately clear that the Democratic Party lacks any candidate representing the foreign-policy toughness of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Kennedy or Lyndon Johnson. But do its candidates want to follow in the footsteps of Carter and Kerry?”
Mort can complain all he wants. He’ll be lucky if he gets to talk to John Murtha’s hand, rather than just one of its fingers. Murtha has survived scandal, strife and a large, unhealthy dose of his own pugnacious stupidity to get where he is today.
He won’t play nicely to make Hillary Rodham Clinton’s life more pleasant. Nor will he conveniently vanish for the sake of Harry Reid. He’d rather eat a bug than back down. George W. Bush will find that getting rid of Saddam Hussein and Muqtada al Sadr was easy compared to killing the head louse known as John Murtha.
He's all three, redruM, and more.
Hey, lily and red!
What do you call..."one massive ball of phlegm?"
Awad of mucous?
Big Bird will never be the same to me.
; )
Is that the answer you were looking for? Cuz I know you don't have a photo of that.
LOL!
I think Murtha is a rabid anti-Shi'ite.
So you think he'd actually favor a strike vs. Iran?
Former-hawk Murtha would probably only favor a strike on Iran if there were a "good excuse" for nuking Iran. It would be too much trouble, otherwise, to take power away from the Shi'ites in Iran.
The Sunnis already controlled the Shi'ites in Iraq.
Did Murtha support removing Saddam during the Gulf War? I don't remember.
Aha, but the differance was Benedict Arnold was a real hero to this nation first. Look at how much of the nation is within our borders because of him, his victories, and his expenditure of his personal fortune that the CONGRESS would not re-imburse him for. That is the differance, murtha did not invest his personal fortune for this nation, just took all he could.
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