I just couldn’t help but snicker as I read this article about San Franciscans calling themselves mainstream. It reminds me of the George Clinton lyrics to some forgotten song that “a fish don’t know he’s wet”.
Category: Politics
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More gun control – that’s what we need
A recent Metro DC Police Department report announces that 901 of 1126 homocides in the District were committed with firearms. The District has banned firearms outside of residences since 1974. In the same story, the Washington Times cites that Atlanta has 10% fewer gun-related homocides with a less-restrictive gun ownership policy. Ain’t that funny?
As a recent resident of DC, I owned two rifles which stayed inside my home, in compliance with local laws. The law also requires that those firearms must be disassembled – I may or may not have been quite so compliant in that regard.
When we first moved there, one of the most violent and crime-ridden neighborhoods in the country, I announced to all of my neighbors and anyone else in my neighborhood that I owned rifles with large capacity magazines. Although many of those neighbors became the victims of various crimes, I remained untouched by the criminal element for seven years. Coincidence? The only time I was ever assaulted was at the subway station where I couldn’t (and didn’t) have a gun.
Of course, that idiot police chief Ramsey, who never seems to be at fault for anything, blames Virginia and Maryland gun laws for the crimes that plague DC. Everyone knows that criminals will only buy guns legally from gun stores and file the neccessary paperwork and wait the mandatory time period.
Idiots run the District and I don’t see it changing much with Adrian Fenty as Mayor.
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…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?
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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?
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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?Â
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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 180Â 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.
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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.
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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.