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Author: Jonn Lilyea

  • Something you’ll read no where else

    Here’s an AP wire story published in the Washington Times that you can’t find anywhere else. I “yahoo’d” and “googled” it and only found this story in TWT that the number of hungry people in the US has fallen for the first time since 1999 – under a Republican President and a Republican Congress (which seems more than newsworthy to me since I’d always heard that Republicans plan to starve the elderly and schoolchildren).

    The funny part of this is; usually I can find the story under AP’s own banner, but not this time. I wonder why?

  • …but we support the troops.

    Perennial knucklehead Dennis Kucinich is yapping again – recommending that Democrats withdraw funding for the war in Iraq.

    We have to take a whole new approach. We’re spending over $400 billion a year, money that’s also needed for healthcare, for education, for job creation, for seniors. We have to take a new look at this. We need to be a strong country, but strength isn’t only military. Strength is also the economic strength of the people, their chance to have good neighborhoods. We spend more money than all the countries of the world put together for the military.

    Of course, what are all of those seniors and homeless people going to do when they can’t cash their freebies in because buses are being firebombed in downtown Cleveland?

  • Dems try to enforce policy on Iraq

    With nary a moment of military service, Democrats suddenly think they’re commanding generals (the only civilian with “commander” in his title is the President). They want to convince the real generals that they need to buck the administration’s policies in Iraq. Isn’t that tantamount to mutiny? Have the Democrats finally crossed the line and taken up the banner of sedition along with everything else they’ve done to this country?

    From the FNC story;

    “I would hope and expect that we’re going to be given some indication at that hearing that they see the need to change direction,” said Sen. Carl Levin, who will take control of the Senate Armed Services Committee next year.

    Why should Levin think that the uniformed services commanders are going to have different opinions suddenly? They’re the people who’ve been advising Rumsfeld and the President all these years.

    And they’re not going to change their minds just because a whole boatload of people voted. An election doesn’t change the tactical situation – just the political situation. Its clear to me that Democrats haven’t read Von Clauswitz, Tsun Tsu or the Constitution lately.

    “My displeasure with the president, he doesn’t understand the urgency of this,” incoming Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid told The Washington Post. “It’s all victory for him, but I don’t know what that means anymore in Iraq. I do know what we are doing now doesn’t work.”

    Harry Reid is right on both counts – he doesn’t know what victory means since he’s a defeatist crybaby. And what he is indeed doing isn’t working. Talking down the US troops in the media, calling our mission in Iraq wrong-headed isn’t working.

    Maybe Democrats should yank their heads from their fourth-points-of-contact and give our troops a little support with their words and deeds and take away the hope the Islamofacists have won in our last election that we’re going to cut and run. That’s the only reason those thugs have maintained their violence and, well…thuggery. The Democrats have given them their only chance for victory.

    In the end, it’s not the generals who have to be convinced, it’s the President. And given the continuing anti-Bush rhetoric in the past week, they better come up with some better methods instead of their crybaby whining and feet-stomping.

    UPDATE: In response to General John Abzaid’s remark that he is confident that the US military can stabilize Iraq and warning against timetable withdrawals, Carl Levin remarks  reported by FNC;

    “We cannot save the Iraqis from themselves. The only way for Iraqi leaders to squarely face that reality is for President Bush to tell them that the United States will begin a phased redeployment of our forces within four to six months.”

    So Levin is encouraging the commanders to mutiny against their commander-in-chief. Will they purge the ranks until they get some Shinsekis in charge?

    Despite the word from experts, Democrats are pushing forward with their cut and run strategy – surrender at all costs. 2008 is only two years away. When Iraq falls into the abyss of Islamofacism, will the Democrats admit their failures?

  • Bipartisanship update;

    Lil’ Chuckie Schumer (or “That Putz” in NY political parlance) has announced in advance that he’ll bar conservative judges from the Supreme Court. How very bipartisan of Chuckie.

    Without even having a nominee in front of him, without even knowing the record of this fictitious judge, The Putz has passed judgement on his/her worthiness to serve on the Court. I thought Supreme Court judges ruled on the Constitution as it is written, not as it’s interpreted through political and cultural filters.

    It’s nice that Schumer has announced his bias for the world to see – but will the world see? 

  • Murtha; I thought we were above “swiftboating”

    Now I don’t know what public attacks John Murtha is talking about, but he claims he’s being “swiftboated” by fellow Democrats. This, um, term is getting too much use lately. And it’s being used out of context – and apparently any showboating Democrat veteran who stands on the bodies of his dead comrades for political gain uses it to protect themselves from opponents. Any opponents.

    John Kerry was swiftboated; the men he served with in combat came out and told the truth about the lies he’d been telling for years for political gain and to protect himself from anyone finding out the truth. John Kerry could’ve avoided being swiftboated by signing his Form 180 and releasing his military records. Kerry could’ve even taken the Swiftboaters to court (like he threatened to do) and eased the voters minds. But he chose to play the victim and to wring his hands about the unfairness of the questions rather than answering the questions – that’s being swiftboated.

    And now Cut and Run Murtha thinks he can do the same thing. There have been questions about Murtha’s service, too. Questions he’s had to answer – but he hasn’t. This little three paragraph brainfart in the HuffPo doesn’t qualify as an answer, fat boy. All we ever hear about is 31 years of Marine service – most of which was served in Camp Livingroom.

    One year as an Ops weinie doesn’t make you a war hero. 31 years commanding some “special infantry company” (what is a “special infantry company”, anyway? Is it like special olympics?) after dodging the Korean War doesn’t make you a war hero, either.

    Only a chickenshit coward would hide behind a hollow phrase like swiftboating. Stand up and take it like the man you’ve never been, John Murtha.

  • Draining the swamp

    Sister Toldya and Flopping Aces are beating the snot out of Nancy Pelosi this morning. I can’t even try to compete with these two excellent bloggers on this subject. But please read.

  • Bipartisanship my foot

    To celebrate the new spirit of bipartisanship, the Democrats have announced that they will block the President’s nomination of John Bolton to the UN post he’s occupied for 15 months. All of this bluster while the President is meeting with Senate Democrat leaders where Harry Reid says (apparently talking through his hat) “The only way to move forward is through bipartisanship and openness”.

    So this is the definition of bipartisanship? As long as we do everything the way the Democrats want it done, we’re “cooperating”. The next two years are going to be a bawl-fest. I can’t see the President caving on anything – I could be wrong. He’s had his fingers bitten during the last few rounds of “bipartisanship”, I really hope he’s learned his lesson.

    Edited to add; Michele Malkin is “Blogging for Bolton” . Word on the street is that Voinovich has changed his mind and will support Bolton’s nomination. I haven’t been able to confirm that yet, but I’ll keep trying. We need pressure applied to the lamest duck of all – Lincoln Chaffee.

  • So what do they need us for?

    South Korea has proposed a hand slap to punish North Korea for it’s nuclear test last month according to the Wall Street Journal.

    The government announced a halt to subsidies to promote tourist visits to Mt. Kumgang, a mountain in North Korea near the border with the South. These have amounted to about $3 million to $5 million annually in recent years.

    But the South will allow the continuation of two high-profile joint projects along the North-South border: a factory complex in Kaesong and a tourist resort at Mt. Kumgang. South Korea’s new penalties will have little effect on its nearly $1 billion in annual trade with North Korea.

    For the last five years, South Korea, along with the rest of the world has been begging the US to come in and take part in the talks with hair-challenged Jong-Il and now that he’s done something anti-social that he can be punished for, South Korea punks out on US recommendations.

    So what exactly do they need the US for in these talks? My guess is; we’re the money. The other parties are so accustomed to a Democrat Congress or a Democrat President throwing money at the Pacific Rim’s problems that they just can’t get it through their inscrutible minds that President Bush wants them to put up something for a change.

    Let Japan and South Korea (who have invested in their economy without being burdened by defense spending) throw some money in there. They’re the ones who are currently within missile range of Mister Ronery…and apparently South Korea isn’t all that worried. But, I’m sure that now the Democrats think they’re in charge of something, Jimmy Carter will be headed over to give away the farm seein’s how he’s so good at getting us great deals on our national security.