Posted by
Steve on Friday, March 23, 2007 2:05:02 PM
With the vote on the Iraq war funding, and lots of pork, the House Democrats voted to surrender in 2008. How can they be so stupid? Don't they understand that if we leave Iraq, the terrorists will move in and kill every person that helped us in the last 4 years. But, they don't care about those people who might be killed. They are just concerned with making themselves feel good about stopping a war.
The Republicans played this one smart. They made the Democrats vote for surrender. They made sure that the Democrats had no room to hide and say that it was anything but surrender. That will pay off in the 2008 elections. Any Democrat who voted to surrender will have a hard time explaining their vote to people who are in danger of being killed by terrorists.
The bill is also loaded up with lots of pork. The Democrat party cannot be accused of fiscal responsibility. They cried that the Republicans were spending money like a drunken sailor. That was true. However, the Democrat party is spending money like an entire ship of drunken sailors. This bill should have been about nothing except funding for the troops. The Democrat party loaded it up with farm money and other funds to pay for their pet projects. The funding bill is ridiculous.
The bill will face a tougher fight in the Senate. There are more Senators who are fighting terrorists than there are House members who are fighting terrorists.Also, the Senate rules will make it more difficult for Harry Reid to run roughshod over the Senate like Nancy Pelosi can do over the House.The bill will also be vetoed if it reaches the President's desk.
We need politicians in Washington who understand what is going on in the world. Unfortunately, there are at least 218 people in the House that do not understand what is going on. They would be willing to have Islamo-Fascists come in and take over, rather than fight to preserve our liberty. We will find out how many there are in the Senate that feel like the 218 in the House. All of them should be kicked out of the government as incompetent. Unfortunately, you cannot do that. You have to wait for an election and hope that the people in their districts understand what the stakes are. Unfortunately, the ones in their districts probably get their information from newspapers and broadcast news. If that is the case, they are uninformed about the real stakes.
We need to all understand what is at stake in this war. We have people who have a goal to put us under Islamic law. I for one do not want to live under Islamic law. I care too much for the ones I love to ever want them subjected to Islamic law.