EFFin’ Unsound

I want to talk about local shit. I really do. I want to talk about the budget and other legislative happenings. I want to keep making fun of Sharkansky’s obsessive questioning of why McKay won’t tell us things he’s legally obligated to shut up about. But the righties keep talking about the war and they keep being crazy. So thanks for my third Iraq post in 4 days, Lou Guzzo. I hope you can sleep at night.

Shame on the Democratic Party! With its vote to defy the President’s authority as commander in chief and to withdraw its support for American troops and their mission in Iraq, the Democrats have also tried to destroy our role as the world’s peacemaker and our mission to bring freedom and democratic government to oppressed people.

I don’t know why it’s so difficult to understand that the president can only command the troops as far as Congress lets him. I don’t understand how the people using their Constitutional authority, “To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces” is some crazy breach of the Constitution.

As a thought experiment, imagine if the president decided to use the army to administer elections in Florida. He wouldn’t be able to because of the Posse Comitatus act, passed by Congress. Yet nobody says that act was a usurpation of some magic inherent authority the president always has for ever.

The howling Democrats, led by their new standard bearer, Big Momma Nancy Pelosi, have also delivered a loud slap to the memories of their own Democratic Presidents of the past — Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, and John F. Kennedy — all of whom pursued Teddy Roosevelt’s philosophy to “speak softly but carry a big stick.”

And for James Madison whose efforts to take Canada totally would have worked if not for Nancy Pelosi. Seriously, Wilson and Kennedy did use the military too brashly.

If the present congressional members of the Democratic Party had been in charge in the early and middle years of the 20^th Century, the United States might have succumbed to Germany in both the First and Second World Wars and the old Soviet Union might have been in a position to fire nuclear missiles at the U.S. from Cuba.

Yes, if only there had been Democrats in Congress back then. The Kaiser, who couldn’t get past France, was going to totally show up at our shores without an army exhausted in any way. Christ. And of course if President Bush was president back then, we’d all be speaking some horrible combination of German and Russian. Except in the South East where only the Cockroaches could survive.

President Bush has promised to veto the Democrats’ ill-advised bill to set an early deadline for American troops to pull out of Iraq — an action that would signal to the Muslim extremists and even to the moderates in Islamic nations that the U.S. is ripe for the taking by the Neo-Nazi Muslim fanatics.

Wait, a bill in Congress would let moderate Muslims know that they could take America over and make us Nazi Germany? I’m so confused.

It is believed that the Democratic Congress does not have enough votes to override a presidential veto. But, even so, the damage is already great. The Demos’ signal to retreat from Iraq — and eventually from Afghanistan, as well — has indicated to our enemies in the terrorist camp that the U,S. is vulnerable from within.

Many of the Democrats who voted for this did so in an effort to get us focused on Afghanistan. And leaving Iraq is much better than an Arab Dien Bien Phu.

Thus, veto or no veto, the ground has been laid for a repeat of the Democrats’ fiasco in withdrawing financial and moral support from our military forces in Vietnam and forcing an eventual withdrawal and retreat from a war we should have won. As a result, all of Vietnam was lost and that entire nation rendered totally Communist. Could the same thing happen in Iraq, with Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden, and the international terrorists in command?

It would be silly to say that maybe we shouldn’t have invaded those countries in the first place, right? I mean maybe, maybe, maybe if President Bush had been winning the war in some sense, a case could be made that we should stay. But come on.

The present growing calamity can be blamed in large measure to two factors: The first was the Democrats’ refusal to support a sitting President in time of war, and the second was the news media’s brainwashing of the American public with their vicious hate-Bush campaign — a campaign that led to Democratic victories at the polls last November.

Those 4 years when the Democrats couldn’t do anything about Iraq, just their saying bad things was enough to fuck the whole effort up. Oh, and by the way the most Americans who think Iraq is fucked up, you’ve been brainwashed. But don’t ever blame the president for his own failure. Thank God for old media stalwarts like Guzzo.

One must hope that, for America’s sake, its future, and its security, someone like a Senator Joe Lieberman, will rise out of the political morass and revolutionize the Socialist-Liberal Democratic Party so that it will once more support the nation’s historic role as a defender of freedom and liberty around the world.

First, in fairness to Guzzo, the serial comma makes up for like 2% of the batshit crazy. Second, thinking Lieberman is the man to save the Democratic Party is like thinking that Bernie Sanders will be the voice of reason in the Republican Party. But third, the best way to lead is by example, and what better example of freedom and liberty than doing what the people just asked for?

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