Posted on 07/30/2007 6:13:37 PM PDT by SandRat
From the Gavel -- At a House Armed Services Committee Hearing on Iraq Legislation this morning, Kansas Congresswoman Nancy Boyda apparently heard as much good news as she could stand.
So she did the old cut-and-run by walking out (as The Gavel explains, "She is responding in part to General Jack Keane, who testified before the Committee but left before Rep. Boyda’s remarks, and was reportedly one of the architects of the escalation policy"; there should probably be a "from" before the second mention of Keane's name):
"I was certainly hoping that General Keane would be able to be here as well. Let me say thank you very much for your testimony so much, Mr. Korb, and I just will make some statements more for the record based on what I heard mainly General Keane. As many of us, there was only so much that you could take until we, in fact, had to leave the room for a while, and so I think I am back and maybe can articulate some things that after so much of the frustration of having to listen to what we listened to."
"But let me just first say that the description of Iraq as if some way or another that it’s a place that I might take the family for a vacation, things are going so well, those kinds of comments will in fact show up in the media and further divide this country instead of saying here’s the reality of the problem and people, we have to come together and deal with the reality of this issue."
Note that she:
Is almost certainly mischaracterizing the general's testimony -- unless someone can find Iraq described by the general as a suitable family vacation destination (good luck). Is afraid of positive news becoming known (this would appear to be a smoke signal to Old Media to ignore this testimony). Is, in effect, calling an multi-star general a liar, even though he was likely under oath. By walking out on a general's testimony, is showing that SHE is more interested in keeping opinion on Iraq divided than getting at the truth. But she supports the troops. (/sarcasm)
Let's visit her campaign web site's home page, shall we? Going to the last paragraph:
Now our challenge is to turn the promise of our campaign into action in Congress. Kansans cast their ballots on Election Day to end the era of one-party rule, so I am working every day in Washington to replace partisanship with leadership.
Nancy Boyda's (possibly contrived?) hearing cut-and-run act was surely not an example of leadership.
From a Google cache of her "issues" page during her 2006 campaign (click on "Foreign Policy" to see the text; backup stored here in case Ms. Boyda has Google cache scrubbed):
"Stay the course" is a political slogan, not a military strategy.
The administration must establish a responsible, realistic plan for dealing with the insurgency and a timeline during which the Iraqi citizens must establish a viable government for themselves.
So the administration has refined its plan, and a general comes in to explain how it's going, in part to see if it meets Ms. Boyda's "responsible, realistic" criteria. Apparently, Boyda's definitions of "responsible" and "realistic" never encompassed "improving the situation in Iraq"; in fact, it seems that she can't even handle the idea that the situation might be improving. Her expressed fears that good news might actually be reported would seem to betray a wish on her part that the mission fail, and her belief that good news testified to by a multi-star general, probably under oath, shouldn't get out.
In light of her veiled plea to Old Media to ignore Keane's testimony, will be interesting indeed to see how Old Media will play the testimony and Ms. Boyda's snit fit, or whether it will bother to cover either.
—Tom Blumer is a CPA based in Mason, Ohio and a contributing editor to NewsBusters
The Democrats are deeply invested in defeat. They require it. They will accept nothing else.
I am headed to her page now. Thanks for the tip, SandRat.
Liberal media is the enemy of America.
Destroy it.
Don’t confuse me with the facts, I’m invested in defeat and I won’t stand still for anything more!
To Nancy Boyda, “Welcome to the war on terror, Mrs. InstantMilitaryExpert.”
HA...what a creep...the surge is going to well...she can’t stand it...so she runs out like a kid...man oh man are there any adults on the rat side...
I am having difficulty finding an email address...can anyone provide one for her? If I go to her web page, it makes me put in information so only people in her state can contact her, I guess...
No dice. I am guessing they already...er...put it “under construction” and removed the links in advance of the email they are sure to get.
Yet this drama queen has the audacity to call Gen. Keane a liar, a man who has made it his life's mission to protect her vain little a$$ and millions like her from things that go bump in the night.
We can’t all have class.
A man who lived by 3 simple little words; Duty, Honor, Country.
Wait, wait, I know just what’s going to happen to this woman because of this!
Absolutely nothing.
Kansas ping.
Kansas ping.
This woman would give Cindy Sheehan a run for the money in the “Global Warming Has Shrunk My Brain” category. She is an ambitious scheming leftist with an even more ambitious leftist husband. They both bolted the Republican party when they calculated that Dennis Moore and Katherine Sebelius had made the Kansas Waters friendly to her species of parisite.
She is a running lackey dog syncophant for Nancy Pelosi, but follows orders when told to vote the conservative line on matters where her vote doesn’t count - all the better to fool the stupid peasants of Kansas.
If Jim Ryun hadn’t ignored his district, we would never have been visited by this pestilence. But, I for one,will work diligently to see that her tenure in Washington ends in 2008.
That's far too "un-nuanced" for them. They will never get it.
Centurion316, can you dig up an email on her and freepmail it to me? If you send her something as a resident, it might kick back a return address...:)
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