March 09, 2007
Hit and Run
You know what a sucker punch is? When you get hit - blind sided - on purpose when it's figured you can't really defend yourself.
Well I think that's what the Congress AND the Senate tried to do to My President yesterday.
He's on Air Force 1, on his way to Brazil and they unveil two bills that they say will bring our troops home from Iraq in 2008.
Pelosi put her's out there first. Her bill has a target date of August 2008. And it outlines a series of REQUIREMENTS FOR PRESIDENT BUSH. If he misses one "benchmark" than the withdrawl would begin even earlier.
WTF? That is the boldest thing I have ever HEARD of from Congress and it proves, in my mind, the woman is crazy. Plain and simple. You cannot tie the hands of the President when we are in the middle of a war. Crimany. That woman needs a few lessons in civics....
The reaction from President Bush was a threat of a veto, from Air Force 1. But I sure would have loved to have been a fly on the wall when he heard the details about this one.
THEN - as if one isn't enough - the Senate jumps in with their version. Majority Leader Harry Reid has HIS version of a plan to have troops out of Iraq by the end of March 2008.
The only thing I saw that I could almost sort of agree with was they want to build up the troops in Afghanastan. I agree. That needs to be done. But are they not listening to ANYONE?!?!? We cannot just walk out of Iraq.
Now it has to pass the votes. I'm thinkin' we really need to contact our Reps and let them know just exactly what we think of these bills. But not at their level. Be straight forward, yet polite. Stick to the issue at hand. I plan on writing several letters. And while I'm at it I'm going to let them know, as professionally as possible, what I think of them pulling this kind of crap on the Leader of This Nation WHEN WE ARE AT WAR!!!!
For cryin' out loud. This is just plain out of control......
Posted by Tammi at March 9, 2007 05:36 AM | TrackBackOh please do share with us the responses you get from Durbin and Obama!
Pukes.
Posted by: Raging Mom at March 9, 2007 08:01 AMYeah, that's a brilliant idea. Let's tell all the bad guys how long they have to behave for...then when we go away and things suddenly turn to crap, I wonder how that could have happened?!
Homer Simpson is in the House & Senate. Who would've thunkit?!
Posted by: Lee Ann at March 9, 2007 11:28 AMThe only "power" the Congress has over our troops is the "power of the purse" - they can *Constitutionally* end funding for the war. They are too gutless to stand up for that though, because that would be political suicide and they know it. (Their power and standing comes before all, including their country and anything remotely resembling *principles*).
However, they have NO AUTHORITY under our Constitution to "make" the President do ANYTHING regarding troop movements, numbers, deployment... ANYTHING. The Prez is THE Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces. Our Founding Fathers were brilliant enough to see that ONE Commander is preferable to MANY because, unless he has a multiple personality disorder, he's not gonna spend all his time arguing about what to do next. He's free to LEAD AS HE SEES FIT.
All the Leftards can do is to continue to politicize the war by trying to make people *think* Congress has some authority to rein in the President and our brave warriors, and a helluva job they're doin', eh? Seventeen *non-binding resolutions*? Seventeen??? That do absolutely SQUAT???
Gutless, impotent, defeatists, the lot of them!
Posted by: Wes at March 11, 2007 02:55 AMAnd I too would LOVE to hear the responses from Comrade Turbin and Osama-bama-ramalama-dingdong... ;-)
Posted by: Wes at March 11, 2007 03:02 AM