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US Reps resist urge to run away
So, the U.S. House of Representatives votes almost unanimously to NOT pull out our troops and run away like Arthur and his kaniggits in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
But it didn’t happen right away. When forced to “put up or shut up, the Dems acted in predictable fashion, trying to block the vote and avoid being held accountable for their appeasement suggestions. Captain Ed captured their machinations in a C-SPAN play-by-play:
8:52 – The House finally voted to continue to the actual point, despite the vote from every single Democrat to run away from it. If nothing else does it, this shows the Democrats as political cowards as well as military incompetents. Why should we trust the leadership of the military to a group of people who run away from merely taking a vote?9:00 – Rep Lantos wants “serious debate”, and he wants an interminable filibuster. That’s ridiculous. Murtha has been screaming for withdrawal for eighteen months, and we held a national election on the issue.
9:05 – Hyde and Weldon speak at length about the honor of Jack Murtha. That might make for great comity in the House, but let’s get a grip, OK? Jack Murtha has a great record of service, without a doubt. That doesn’t make his demands honorable.
9:07 – Murtha gets up to speak and tells a great, self-deprecating story about Jimmy Carter and Tip O’Neill.
9:12 – “I didn’t say anything about the President.” Excuse me, but he did make the chickenhawk argument yesterday about the Vice President. Calling him a “good friend” doesn’t cut it today, nor does his sudden discovery of the merits of civilian control of military policy.
9:16 – Intelligence was “wrong”. Possibly and maybe probably. I’d say that until we see a regime change in Syria we won’t know for sure. But if it was “wrong”, it was wrong, not a Bush lie, especiallt since it preceded his administration.
9:24 – The First Mate comments that both sides sound like blowhards. She’s right. She says that whether one agrees with going into Iraq or not and whether or not WMD was found isn’t the point any longer. We need to complete the mission now that we started it; we cannot afford to leave it unfinished. Al-Qaeda is in Iraq now, unarguably. Withdrawing in the face of their fire is retreat. We will not be safer by leaving them there.
9:25 – Rep Bill Young agrees with the FM. “Who do we negotiate with? Saddam Hussein? al-Zarqawi?”
10:12 – Sam Johnson wrapped up the debate well, and the best part came when he asked for an additional three minutes to complete his remarks. The Speaker asked for any objections, and several Democrats hooted out “Objection!” However, when the Speaker asked for whomever objected to stand up for his objection — not one of them would stand up to Sam Johnson.
10:35 – 403-3, the idea of immediate withdrawal gets hooted down. In another Profile in Courage, six Democrats voted “present”.
What a joke. The Republicans made the right move — instead of debating the issue through the media, they took the Democratic demands and introduced it as a resolution for debate where rhetoric actually counts, and where both sides get equal time. In the Democratic world, that equates to something vaguely unfair. They tried to hide behind a procedural block, and when that didn’t work, they screamed and hollered in support of the idea of withdrawal — and then promptly voted against it when it counted.
Does this mean we’ve heard the last of the Monday-morning quarterbacking that the Left has been engaging for the past several months?
Sure, and monkeys might fly outta my butt.
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UPDATE: Tom over at Real Clear Politics offered a good perspective on the cowardly nature of this Democrat vote:
Wanting to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq doesn’t make you a coward. What does make you a coward is when you truly believe we should get our troops out of Iraq immediately, you have a chance to vote for doing exactly that, and you choose not to because you fear the political consequences of being on record revealing your position to the public. This was not a vote on some obscure provision of the budget, it was the most supremely important subject on which members of Congress have the privilege and duty to vote.
Posted by FullMetalPatriot
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
12th gen. American, Constitutionalist, Harley-riding Texan, gun owner & NRA member, blogger, illustrator, Florida Gator alumnus. #TCOT
