Democrats rush to surrender

Yesterday, the Democrats, who’ve proved that the only thing they’ll fight for is surrender, squeaked out a 218 – 212 vote victory over common sense. If they’d spent as much time trying to figure out a successful way of winning this war against terror as they spend trying to surrender to the jihadists, we might have already won this war.

With Code Pink’s shock troops safely behind bars, Nancy Pelosi announced;

“Proudly, this new Congress voted to bring an end to the war in Iraq and took a giant step in that direction,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said after the bill passed by a 218-212 vote. 

I’m glad they did it proudly, because that’s way they’ll be sent home next year. Now that they’ve pandered to the fickle whims of their most vocal supporters instead of the American people, when this war ends successfully (despite Democrats’ best efforts to the contrary) the American people are going to remember who tried to dick over the troops.

And then good ol’ Geoge Bush, the one I voted for twice, not the one who’s been caving in lately, found his cajones again;

Within minutes of passage, Bush denounced the bill as “an act of political theater” and an abdication of responsibility, sternly repeating his pledge to veto it.

“These Democrats believe that the longer they can delay funding for our troops, the more likely they are to force me to accept restrictions on our commanders, an artificial timetable for withdrawal, and their pet spending projects. This is not going to happen,” the president said. “The Democrats have sent their message. Now it’s time to send their money.”

Which is exactly right. The Democrats, suffering from the Bush Derangement Syndrome, have completely neglected the fact that is a real shooting war, and a bunch of fat old bags dressed in garish pink feather boas shouldn’t be running our foreign policy.

More on the President’s reaction from Crotchety Old Bastard.

So what did Code Pink’s antics get us? According to the DC Examiner;

The $124 billion House legislation would pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year but would require that combat troops come home from Iraq before September 2008 – or earlier if the Iraqi government did not meet certain requirements. Democrats said it was time to heed the mandate of their election sweep last November, which gave them control of Congress.

“The American people have lost faith in the president’s conduct of this war,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. “The American people see the reality of the war, the president does not.”

It’s the Murtha Slow Bleed Plan in drag. And the usual Nancy Pelosi hyperbole. I suggest that Democrats didn’t see last weekend that more anti-anti-war protesters showed up in DC than anti-war protesters. And that’s the reality of American support for the winning of this war that Democrats refuse to see.

Curt at Flopping Aces reminds us of the swamp draining pledge Democrats just won’t keep.

Greyhawk at Mudville Gazette’s MilBlogs describes the impact on our forces from this ill-conceived brainfart legislation.

Sidebar; In researching this, I discovered that I probably haven’t been paying attention as well as I should. It seems that the commander of Combined Forces in Afghanistan, LTG Karl Eikenberry was my very first platoon leader back when I was a fuzz-faced private E-2 with five jumps. Who’d athunk it back then. Jeez, I’m old. Rock on, sir! 

Category: Politics, Terror War