Last week, Nancy Pelosi’s House Democrats passed legislation requiring President Bush to effectively surrender in Iraq in order to get the funding our troops need to continue fighting and winning.

These Democrats are holding our military hostage — unless they lose.

Senate Majority Leader, Sen. Harry Reid, also promises that our troops will be funded only if the Senate approves the Democrats’ surrender requirements. On Friday, he couldn’t get the 60 votes needed to advance this proposal, but he killed a Republican measure to continue the funding without anti-war strings.

Sen. Harry Reid said the Democrats won’t bother addressing the funding our troops need until next year.

New York’s, Chuck Schumer declared: “The days of a free lunch are over.”

Free lunch!

That’s how Democrats define supporting American soldiers on the battlefield?

“Free lunch”?

As Democrats use our military as pawns, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is directing the Army and Marine Corps to plan to lay off employees and terminate military contracts early next year. Operations at some military bases will shut down. About 100,000 defense department employees100,000 civilian contractors are expected to lose their jobs.

But not to worry, folks: they’re just people involved in the defense of our nation — they make war — so it doesn’t matter to Democrats.

On the other hand, Sen. Harry Reid claims that Gates told him the military will be “fine” without the funds.

Somebody is lying, here!

Now, normally, I can describe the routine treachery of today’s Democrats in service of political expediency.

But they have sunk so low now that, there aren’t any words to describe them.

“The State Department is dropping plans to force diplomats to serve in Iraq because volunteers have filled all 48 vacant positions at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and in outlying provinces, The Associated Press has learned. The department will announce that it is dropping plans for ‘directed assignments’ for Iraq once personnel panels give a formal approval to foreign service officers who signed up for the remaining three open jobs, U.S. officials said Thursday. … The announcement will be major relief for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the department’s senior management, who had struggled to quell a revolt among diplomats who questioned the ethics of ordering unarmed civilians into a war zone under penalty of dismissal.”

Now, I remember one of these diplomats said, “Well, what about our children? What happens to our children?”

Have you ever heard of the troops?

“Well, yeah, but they volunteered.”

That’s right.

They volunteer, and people like you are the ones besmirching them and impugning them!

I don’t hear any compassion for their families and for them. What about their children?

All I hear is they’re Bush puppets or this or that or they’re engaged in a mission that’s unjust and so forth.

But the real thing about this — I guess they did get the volunteers; that’s what the news story says. However, I am not going to let this point go.

These people are the ones who tell us that war is never the answer, never the answer. Diplomacy! You watch the Democrat debate last night or the last one in Philadelphia, the overwhelmingly used word (other than “Bush”), is diplomacy.

Diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy! We gotta be better diplomats, better diplomats. Diplomacy is the way to stop war. Diplomacy is the way to prevent war.

Both statements are false, and these people in the State Department, if they are such huge believers in the concept of diplomacy, shouldn’t they welcome an opportunity to go to Baghdad to the US embassy and show us how Al-Sadr and the remaining lingering shreds of Al-Qaeda over there will respond to nice words?

It’s such a golden opportunity for these people to show us how diplomacy works, and what do they do?

“What about our children? You can’t send us to a war zone!”

Diplomats have been in war zones before.

UNBELIEVABLE…

Eventually, I think, Bush is one of few presidents who has actually sought to transform America’s place in the world — and out of necessity, what with the 9/11 attacks.

He is a president that is attempting to establish a democratic-oriented beachhead in a part of the world where nobody thinks it’s possible.

Now, we’ve had our arguments with him about doing that: “Should that be the priority or should it happen after victory?” Some of us thought, “Yeah, I love the idea,” because his theory is all human beings are the same.

We all have a yearning spirit to be free. We don’t like to be constrained.

I agree with that a hundred percent, but I think focusing on that first rather than achieving victory first may be a strategic blunder.

But if he pulls it off — if this happens, if Iraq becomes what his vision for it is — then historians down the road are going to write tremendous things about Bush and the way he persisted.

Here he is supposedly a lame-duck president, and he is not acting like it at all. He does not portray at any time any of this stuff. The personal attacks, the policy attacks, the opposition to his primary policy of the war on terror, he never betrays that it bothers him personally.

He just keeps plugging away at it — some people say “stubbornly,” or what have you. But at least with Bush in this regard, in this one area of his administration, he has not wavered on it at all.

I’ll tell you, given where the Democrats have been, thank God he hasn’t.

This could have been a disaster, had a lesser president with the same policies caved in the middle of it. We would have already been experiencing more terrorist attacks.

We have had none since 9/11.

“New York governor Eliot Spitzer said at a private fund-raiser that he wants a Democratic-controlled state Senate to legalize gay marriage — a highly divisive and controversial issue — as one of its first priorities in 2009, a witness to the remarks told The Post. Spitzer, a gay-marriage proponent, pledged to help Democrats next November win the three Senate seats they need to gain the majority. ‘One of the first things we’re going to do when [Senate Minority Leader] Malcolm Smith is [majority] leader is gay marriage,’ the witness recounted Spitzer as telling some 60 people who paid up to $10,000 each to attend the event in Greenwich Village Wednesday night.

‘Everybody applauded when he said that,’ said the witness, who was among senators, Democratic activists and lobbyists at a fund-raising event for the Senate Democratic Committee. It was held in the library of the elegant West 13th Street home of HBO’s ‘Oz’ creator Tom Fantana. Two other witnesses, including an elected official, said they couldn’t recall Spitzer’s exact language, but added that the governor suggested a Democratic-controlled state Senate would follow the state Assembly’s action this year in passing, for the first time ever, a gay-marriage bill.”

Resource:

SPITZ VOWS TO PUSH FOR GAY MARRIAGES

So he just had his lunch handed to him on driver’s licenses for illegals, and just had to get rid of the Internet sales tax that he wanted to institute in December.

You’re probably saying, “What does he not get?“

It isn’t that he doesn’t get it, folks, it’s that you don’t matter.

Those driver’s licenses, they’re going to find a way to issue ’em, and he’s going to find a way to raise taxes, and if he wants his gay marriage thing, he’s going to find a way to get it done, doesn’t matter.

You may be able to stop it temporarily, protests and what have you, but these guys, they’re the smartest people in the room.

You don’t understand and the issues are too complex, and therefore your opinions don’t matter on this because you’re just not fully briefed, you’re not sophisticated enough to understand.

Now, this I love.

You don’t see this much.

The Nevada Appeal, Conrad Velin is the columnist.

Who is Conrad Velin?

He’s regional finance director for Sierra Nevada Media Group, which includes the Nevada Appeal.

“Contrary to Reports, the Nation’s Economy is Robust.”

Here’s the concluding paragraph:

“Therefore, folks, despite all the gloom and doom being peddled to us by the mainstream media about this economy, the facts just don’t support the hype. Recent polls show that more than 60 percent of those polled think that this country is heading in the wrong direction, and that President Bush has received poor marks for his handling of the economy. So what is the ‘right direction?’ If these past seven years constitute a poor economy, I’d be very interested in learning what makes for a great economy.”

Well, I can define a great economy for you.

It’s when the Democrats run us into a recession, blame Republicans in the previous administration for it, and then tax the rich. That’s considered a great economy.