Monsieur Harry Reid
Harry Reid and John Kerry are now threatening our troops on the battlefield with complete abandonment if the president doesn’t follow their orders. This should clear up once and for all any doubt about the level of depravity of Democrat party “leadership.”
Reid may move to cut Iraq war funds
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday he wants to cut off money for the Iraq war next year, making clear for the first time that Democrats are willing to pull out all the stops to end U.S. involvement…
“In the face of the administration’s stubborn unwillingness to change course, the Senate has no choice but to force a change of course,” said Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., who signed on Monday as a co-sponsor of Reid’s proposal with Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis…
In recent weeks, the House and Senate voted separately to finance the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan but set an end date for combat in Iraq. The House proposal orders all combat troops out of Iraq as of Aug. 31, 2008, whereas the Senate orders some troops to leave right away with the nonbinding goal of ending combat by March 31, 2008…
Mindful that they hold a shaky majority in Congress and that neither chamber has enough votes to override a presidential veto, Democrats are already thinking about the next step after Bush rejects their legislation.
Reid said Monday that if that happens, he will join forces with Feingold, one of the party’s most liberal members who has long called to end the war by denying funding for it.
In other words, they’ll spend more weeks on another bill they know will be vetoed, all to send more reassuring love letters to the enemy as they tell our troops they’re failures who don’t deserve support.
We know, of course, it’s not the troops who are the problem–it’s politicians and Washington, DC generals who don’t have the courage to allow our military to do its job. In fact, I agree funding should be cut–to the House and Senate until those poseurs agree to act like adults who actually care about this nation.
Lastly, here’s a message for Harry and Johnny and Russ and all the self-loathing Mal Nars in Congress: You do not even deserve to breathe the same air as these people, who defend our nation and freedom, whom you infantilize, condemn as failures, malign and seek to “cut off.” Watch, look and listen Reid, Kerry and Feingold, and every other self-obsessed coward on Capitol Hill. Look at what makes this nation great, because it certainly is not you:
Tammy, I love every one of your posts but this one is special. Thank you. I’ve just made some phone calls to the White House and my people in Congress.
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Agreed, Asher, this post IS different. It has that “last straw” feel to it. I too will email my Okie congressman tonight. John eFfen Kerry again! What a piece of work.
This is what Joe Biden and Chuck Hagel had to say in a joint statement in December, 2002:
They presented an outline for other issues to be addressed in the Middle East, but the expectation was there at the beginning for a long commitment in Iraq. Why the impatience now? The statement goes on to point out:
The Democrats today are truly despicable. They want to hurt the country and will undercut the troops to do so. How did we get to this point? Bush and the Republicans let us down. The consequences of their ineptitude are mind-boggling.
The troop surge isn’t a change of course? There only appears to be one course change for our “most stalwart supporters of the troops.” Defeat.
Even “my” senior senator, Carl Levin, whose liberal leaning is just a tad shy of Kerry and Kennedy, is on record as saying Democrats will not cut off funding for the troops. If Levin was being truthful, admittedly a rare trait in the U.S. Congress, Reid is playing a game of “trash talk chicken” and once again has shot himself in the foot no matter what happens. If Levin, who appears to be more pragmatic (perhaps even smarter) than Reid, is correct, Reid looks impotent. If Reid forces through military spending cuts, even those opposed to the war (other than the loonies on the very far left) will come calling when their sons, daughters, husbands and wives are placed in even more danger from lack of the means to defend themselves. Cutting funding doesn’t mean every trooper can be hauled out of Iraq overnight, so how many casualties will be attributable to Democrat cravenness?
Looking at Harry Reid’s website you find some interesting stuff. His latest statement today says we cannot afford to fund the Bush policy in Iraq any longer yet on the same website he brags about how he worked to keep military spending up in Nevada. The BRAC Commission recommended closing the Hawthrone Army Depot in Nevada and Reid worked to get that reversed. He brags about getting over 100 million dollars in defense spending for Nevada, yet he is willing to cut off funding for our troops on the front line. What message does this send to the enemies? What message does it send to Iran and N. Korea? I hope the American people get their fill of Nancy Peloser and Harry (Abramoff) Reid in the next two years, or sooner.
Has anyone else noticed how much Harry Reid looks like Lord Voldemort in a suit and tie?