From the Washington Post today:
“Most in Poll Want War Funding Cut; Bush’s Approval Rating Ties All-Time Low.”
So the liberals out there keep running this poll ruse.
You see, Democrats? The public wants you to cut off the funds, it says here.
I mean, if the public wants the funds to be cut, why haven’t you guys done it?
If it’s so obvious, according to these polls, how come all of your resolutions here have failed?
We’re about liberty. We are about country. We are about faith. We are about loyalty to our troops on the battlefield. We are about winning wars. We are about sending whatever reinforcements and resources our soldiers need to defeat the terrorists or our enemies anywhere they appear on the battlefield. We are about, as conservatives, limited government and individual liberty, free, genuinely free, political speech. The freedom to exercise your religion, your private property rights, the right to keep most of what you earn.
This is who we are.
This is what we believe.
This used to be our movement.
These are things that Harry Reid, Tom Harkin, Nancy Pelosi, and the rest of the Democrats work day and night to diminish. The left is about seizing and keeping power. They are about undermining the traditions and institutions that have made the country great. That would include the Constitution, which they dismiss as a living and breathing document, to be interpreted by activist judges at the behest of liberal trial lawyers. They want the Constitution to bend and shape to accommodate where they happen to be in a given year, in a given month, on a given day.
We know who they are.
They are John Kerry, who was celebrated when he lied about our soldiers in Vietnam in testimony before a Senate committee, who met with the enemy while still in the military, and who has spent most of his career smearing the military and undermining them.
It’s about Jack Murtha, who is now the subject of a lawsuit for calling our brave Marines murderers of innocent civilians before any facts were known, and he did it at a press conference, not the floor of the House, just to make sure the entire world would hear it.
It’s about Dick Durbin, the number-two Democrat in the Senate, who actually compared our soldiers to Nazis, to Stalin’s assassins, and to Pol Pot’s killers.
It’s about Ted Kennedy, who compared our military to Saddam Hussein’s henchmen. What he said was, during Abu Ghraib, “No difference, just under new management, the US military.”
It’s about Harry Reid, who declared the war lost, while brave men and women are on the battlefield winning the war against the terrorists.
These are the leaders and the voices of the Democrat opposition.
I am sick and tired, getting up every day and looking at the news and listening to Democrats about how this is wrong and that’s bad, everything is going to hell in a hand basket. Every day is a crisis. We’re going to die of global warming. We’re going to die of too much coffee. They scare us, they are doom and gloom apocalyptic pessimists, and Americans are sick and tired of this abuse of our military and our country.
“They wage war on President Bush with more fervor and more energy, more passion, more desire, than they join the war on genuine enemies of this country.” — Rush Limbaugh
One day Harry Reid is going to have to answer to the people, he will, as do all of these politicians. They’re just temporary inhabitants of these public offices, and when they abuse their offices, as Reid does every day, it eventually catches up with them. Ask Tom Foley. Ask Tom Daschle.
The Democrat Party cannot survive on the basis of its ideas. Liberalism cannot triumph openly in the arena of ideas. It can only triumph by destroying, via character assassination and other things, its opponents. They don’t dare come join us in the arena of ideas for open debate on issues. And if they do, it will soon descend into personal assaults and attacks.
If you want to see what the country would be like with today’s liberals in charge, not the JFK liberals and Democrats, but today’s liberals, take a look at Michigan. They had a government shutdown or close to it for a few hours over budget problems, and the governor up there came up with the last-minute solution to solve the problem. The last thing the state of Michigan needs is a tax increase, and they got one, a sizeable, healthy tax increase. It’s just going to continue to stifle economic activity throughout the state of Michigan.
I feel for you people, I really do. I use to live in this liberal mecca.
But you know something? You people in Michigan, you are great patriots, you are doing something very valuable and you need to take pride in your own suffering and pain, because what you are doing is demonstrating to the rest of the country, the other 49 states, what will happen to this country if people like Jennifer Granholm and the Democrats and your legislature up there get control of the United States government and the Department of Treasury. So while I know it’s tough and I know you’re irritated, I know you’ve got to be spitting, fuming, mad up there, understand that you are providing a visible laboratory; you are doing a great service. Please don’t leave the state just yet, especially going into the election next year. Your suffering, your poverty will be a dynamic example for people like me to illustrate for the rest of the country just what will happen if today’s modern liberals end up in total control of the US government.
A Marine Corps sergeant has accused Jack Murtha…” 16-term — that means 32 years, “…congressman from Pennsylvania, of falsely accusing him of cold-blooded murder and war crimes in connection with the deaths of Iraqi citizens. The Justice Department wanted the case dismissed because Murtha was acting in his official role as a lawmaker. Assistant U.S. Attorney John F. Henault said the comments were made as part of the debate over the war in Iraq. U.S. District Judge Rosemary M. Collyer said the congressman might be right, but said she won’t know for sure unless Murtha explains himself. She did not set a date for Murtha’s testimony but said she would also require him to turn over documents related to his comments. Collyer said she was troubled by the idea the lawmakers are immune from lawsuits regardless of what they say to advance their political careers.”
Congress does realize, they recognize no limits in its demand for executive branch officials, documents for testimony, but there is a fine line to walk here. Where did Murtha make these comments? On television? He has been critical of the troops on TV. Whether or not he called them murderers on TV, I don’t know. He did at a Capitol Hill press conference, not on the floor of the House, which is where traditional legislative business takes place.
Now, I don’t think those comments outside the floor of the House are protected under the speech and debate clause because, among other things, his lies about these soldiers had nothing to do with his legitimate legislative responsibilities. So that’s how I look at this. What was he doing at a Capitol Hill press conference or on television being critical and assuming the reports of murderous behavior on the part of our troops, what legislative engagement was he behaving in there? If the comments that Murtha were made were made on the floor of the House, regardless how defaming they were, they would be protected. If they were made on TV or in a press conference, but related legitimately to a legislative function, they would be protected. But it appears neither of those circumstances applies here. But really, it doesn’t matter how this turns out. It doesn’t matter because it doesn’t matter where he said it.
Fact is, he said it. What does it matter where he said it?
As far as the American people are concerned, as far as the US military and its personnel are concerned, as far as the morale of the troops is concerned, what does it matter where he called them murderers? In fact, to me it’s even more detestable that would do it from the floor of the House. It’s even more irresponsible that he would do it from the floor of the House. But wherever he did it, he still did it, he still said it. And the defense is, “Well, he can say anything he wants on the floor of the House.” We understand it, but he still said it. Nobody has to make up or twist or take out of context what Jack Murtha said. Now we’ve got a judge that wants to talk to him about this and a judge who says she’s troubled by the idea lawmakers are immune from lawsuits regardless of what they say to advance their political careers.
But, look, it’s clear that they are.
If you allowed tort lawyers to sue everybody on the floor of the House, only Republicans would be sued, and there’s a reason for that rule.
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There’s news about unemployment, and guess what? Reuters, the headline: “Jobless Claims Make Surprise Fall.” Surprise fall! “The number of laid-off workers filing claims for unemployment benefits fell to the lowest level in seven weeks, an unexpected sign of improvement in the jobs market. The decline came as a surprise to economists who had been forecasting a rise in claims around six…” Every time (every time!) economic news comes out either it’s the AP or Reuters, and their “experts” are always surprised and wrong. They loved the little fall in August that “signaled a recession” coming. I’m going to tell you people something. This is journalist malpractice. I think it’s just a template. How in the world can anybody who does their job responsibly continually be surprised?
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