{"id":16184,"date":"2009-12-17T13:32:22","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:32:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=16184"},"modified":"2009-12-17T13:32:22","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T18:32:22","slug":"right-on-cue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=16184","title":{"rendered":"Right on cue"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day, I wrote about political leadership, or rather the lack thereof, in the Democrat Party – particular the so-called leaders of the party. Right on cue, they provide us some examples. Pelosi announces, as reported in the Washington Post <\/a>that she won’t stump for a troop surge in Afghanistan;<\/p>\n

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Wednesday, adding that she is finished asking her colleagues to back wars that they do not support. <\/p>\n

“The president’s going to have to make his case,” Pelosi told reporters at a year-end briefing on the legislative session. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You can see the yellow streak running right down her back. Cowardice pure and simple – Pelosi is scared of Code Pink yelling in her hallway and outside her house. We’re supposed to be at war, and she’s hiding behind politics.<\/p>\n

Here’s another example of cowardice; Fox News<\/a> reports that John Conyers doesn’t have the testicular fortitude to admit that the reason the health care bill is failing is because it’s unpopular among regular Americans who don’t live in the Beltway;<\/p>\n

“The insurance lobby is taking over,” Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., was quoted as saying in Roll Call. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No, the American voters are taking over you imbecile. And Mitch McConnel explains why<\/a> voters are so angry;<\/p>\n

this bill has become a political nightmare for them. <\/p>\n

\u201cThey know Americans overwhelmingly oppose it, so they want to get it over with. <\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans are already outraged at the fact that Democrat leaders took their eyes off the ball. Rushing the process on a partisan line makes the situation even worse. <\/p>\n

\u201cAmericans were told the purpose of reform was to reduce the cost of health care. <\/p>\n

\u201cInstead, Democrat leaders produced a $2.5 trillion, 2,074-page monstrosity that vastly expands government, raises taxes, raises premiums, and wrecks Medicare. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd they want to rush this bill through by Christmas \u2014 one of the most significant, far-reaching pieces of legislation in U.S. history. They want to rush it. <\/p>\n

\u201cAnd here\u2019s the most outrageous part: at the end of this rush, they want us to vote on a bill that no one outside the Majority Leader\u2019s conference room has even seen. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s right. The final bill we\u2019ll vote on isn\u2019t even the one we\u2019ve had on the floor. It\u2019s the deal Democrat leaders have been trying to work out in private. “<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh, while health care and the war were popular, Democrats bent over backwards to take credit – and now that they face an angry crowd, it’s “rush, rush, rush” and hand responsibility and culpability off to someone else. McConnell quotes Olympia Snowe’s disappointment with the Democrats’ process, too. I hope she summons the courage to admit her fault in this, too.<\/p>\n

But more than likely, she’ll just collapse into the Democrat camp and sell us down the river to prove that spinelessness isn’t a partisan condition. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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