03.28.07
Presidential politics
The Senate is famous for having self-aggrandizing schmucks- they all want to be president, and for a simple example, just look at how the 100 (almost in toto) want to micromanage the war.
Now, some are making their decisions based on their own political futures. But let’s be honest- there isn’t a single member of congress, house or senate, that has a chance of being president right now. And that is even more pointed on the GOP side.
If these people, men and women, want to direct the war, they should resign their posts in congress and run for the presidency. All 535 of them.
The Constitution is very clear on who is the Commander in Chief. And it is very clear on what powers the Congress has. This is a political….
I really try to be nice and civil on this site, but it’s time for some brutal truth. This vote, in the House and the Senate, is almost entirely party-line, and it is a political blow-job that the Dems are giving to the Code Pink, the Cindy Sheehan, the DailyKos wing of their constituency.
I am sick and tired of people that wake up in the morning, and go to bed at night, thinking that America is wrong. Always, all the time. America is always wrong. I don’t know why these people continue to think this way. It’s sad, and it’s…. look- I have a good life, but there are many many things that I don’t like about it. I do not wake up and lay down in misery. It would drive me nuts, which is what it has done, on the left. These friggin people are crazy.
The good thing for the left is that I didn’t pursue a career in politics. A few youthful indescressions made that impossible, and I’m not sure I’d want to do it anyway, now.
But I would not be a nice and cute as this administration is.
If you protest on The Mall, that’s fine. If you protest at congressional offices, that’s fine too. I am a firm believer in the freedom of speech, and the first amendment (unlike McCain and Feingold).
As has happened lately- if you attack a military recruitment office… well buddy, guess what. You aren’t a protester anymore. You are an insurgent in the US. You have committed treason against your country, and I’d ship your dumb ass off to Gitmo as soon as I could find you. You have, from within, attacked a military installation. Time for you to join Akbar and Muhammed in the glorious climes of Cuba.
This country is, thanks to the ridiculous media, talked itself into a suicide pact. And I just won’t stand for it. Most of the people of this country are so, to-the-bone stupid, that a normal conversation can’t even occur anymore. The lack of critical thinking has been so dumbed down, thanks to liberal schools and liberal media, that it’s impossible for most morons in this country to have a good discussion of issues.
The very idea. THE VERY IDEA !!! The very idea that Tom Tancredo or Hillary Clinton think they can run for president is just scary. The very idea that Ross Perot hurt two elections… the very idea that Pat Buchanan thought he could. Or Pat Robertson. Or Barack Obama. Or…
Where are the serious minds ? Where are the serious thinkers, who have examined these issues, and have knowledge, experience, and history of both fore- and hindsight gone ?
One of the reasons I like Fred Thompson is because he’s actually done something.
Chuck Schumer wants to be the first Jewish president. Chuckie ran for the NY house when he was 22. He’s been a politician his entire….. HIS…. ENTIRE…. DAMN…. LIFE !!!!
Hillary has never done anything at all, besides be married to a scumbag.
Pat Leahy- what scourge of humanity- talks about how… “When I was a prosecutor back in the 60’s, I did…” That was 1/2 a century ago. So we really need to listen to his ideas of modern America ?
Ted Kennedy. Robert Byrd. These guys, together, have served almost 100 years in the Senate. Do they not have any new ideas ? I know we have some of that on the GOP side also, but at least I smell a whiff of integrity and polity there. I don’t see that on the Dem side.
Jay Rockefeller has been a Senator for 25 years. And he’s the junior senator to a former Klan member. That’s just a stain on the now-almost-completely-paved West Virginia.
I do not always vote Democrat. When I lived in Arkansas, as I recall, I often voted for Democrats for the House. Not so much for the Senate, but I’d have to think harder about it.
And I have often been disappointed with my choices. My first presidential vote was for GHW Bush. Not thrilled about that. I voted for Tim Hutchinson. Not pleased with that either.
More later.
