I’ve had my share of disagreements with Sen. McCain but not about fighting the jihadists in Iraq and elsewhere. This audio should explain why I’m thankful he’s on our side.

Technorati Tags: John McCain, Harry Reid, Iraq War, Military, Election 2008

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

Believe it or not, that’s what Howard Dean said:

The head of the Democratic Party said Wednesday that the best way to get presidential candidates to talk frankly about issues is to lock out the media.

During the Mortgage Bankers Association conference, a banker expressed frustration with candidates who only talk in sound bites and wondered how that could be changed. Howard Dean, once a presidential candidate, offered a simple solution.

“I suggest you have candidates in to meetings like this and bar the press,” Dean said.

This actually makes alot of sense from one perspective. It makes sense from the standpoint that Democrats rarely reveal who they are during campaigns. It’s only after they’re elected that they show their true colors. (continue reading post »)

That’s the pathetic prediction by House and Senate Democrats heading into the votes legislating defeat in Iraq. The AP is describing this as “a historic confrontation with Bush.” That’s spin of the worst kind. Let me apply some truth in advertising principles to what’s really happening. This is historic in the sense that, for the first time in American history, the House and Senate will be legislating defeat.

The House vote scheduled Wednesday comes as the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and other defense officials try to convince lawmakers that a timetable would push Iraq into chaos. But Democrats said they were undeterred, guaranteeing a historic confrontation with Bush.

“For the first time, the president will have to be accountable for this war in Iraq,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, (D-CA), said Tuesday. “And he does not want to face that reality.”

What’s ironic about Ms. Pelosi’s statement is that, should they shut off funds to our troops, they’ll be blamed for America’s defeat. It wouldn’t be that Republicans declared defeat.

By following Gen. George Soros’ marching orders, Ms. Pelosi will give southerners all the reason they need to defeat all the Democratic freshmen that ran to the right of the Soros Brigade. (continue reading post »)

On CNN’s Situation Room Monday, D-Sen. Harry Reid said in an interview that he knows better than GEN Petraeus about what’s going on in Iraq and made no pretense in hiding his arrogance:

REID: General Petraeus has said that only 20 percent of the war can be won militarily. He’s the man on the ground there now. He said 80 percent of the war has to be won diplomatically, economically and politically. I agree with General Petraeus. Now, that is clear and I certainly believe that.

Q: But, sir, General Petraeus has not said the war is lost.

REID: General — General Petraeus has said the war cannot be won militarily. He said that. And President Bush is doing nothing economically. He is doing nothing diplomatically. He is not doing even the minimal requested by the Iraq Study Group.

So I — I stick with General Petraeus. I have no doubt that the war cannot be won militarily, and that’s what I said last Thursday and I stick with that.

Q: Arlen Specter said: “For men and women who are over in Iraq to have somebody of Senator Reid’s stature say that the war is lost, it is just very, very demoralizing and not necessary.” Is there something to that, an 18- and 19-year-old person in the service in Iraq who is serving, risking their lives, in some cases losing their life, hearing somebody like you back in Washington saying that they’re fighting for a lost cause?

REID: General Petraeus has told them that.

Q: How has he said that?

REID: He said the war can’t be won militarily. He said that. I mean he said it. He’s the commander on the ground there. Are they critical of him?

Q: But, sir, there’s a difference between that and saying the war is lost, don’t you think?

REID: Well, I — as I said, maybe it’s a choice of words. I mean General Petraeus has said the war cannot be won militarily. Doesn’t every soldier going there know that he’s said that? I think so.

Q: ..(The President) also said that General Petraeus is going to….make it clear to you that there is progress going on in Iraq, that the so-called surge is working. Will you believe him when he says that?

REID: (laugh) No! I don’t believe him, because it’s not happening. All you have to do is look at the facts. The factors are this has been going on for three months. American deaths are at the highest they’ve been in two years.

To say a war is lost because it is violent is as blind as saying Iraqis don’t want democracy badly enough because they’re being targeted by terrorists. If anything, the war has been prolonged because of big mouthed ignoramuses like Reid, Ted Kennedy and John Kerry telling Iraqis to “take off their training wheels” and that its’ time for “Iraqis to start spilling some of their own blood.” A soldier collecting lessons learned from the successful mission in Anbar Province, Iraq wrote me and said this: (continue reading post »)

I have been a little curious lately about the Iraq war stance democrats and liberals have taken lately. Basically, they are going to force the President to use his veto power and then keep sending the President funding bills that include pork barrel spending or a timetable for withdrawal. Trust me, folks, a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq is like sending al Qaida an invitation to make the next pre-9/11 Afghanistan. Only this time the resistance will be weaker and the death toll will be much higher during the takeover. I am sure most people that would argue with me on that fact are going to say that I am merely using Conservative talking points. That is not the case here; it is the truth.

I am very perturbed by the fact that the current anti-Operation Iraqi Freedom battle cry is that the United States does not need to be in Iraq and, more recently, that the military has failed in Iraq or that the military can no longer sustain this operation. I find the latter statement to be a complete falsehood. The US Armed Forces contained the reach of the Soviets for many years only giving up ground where it did not make sense to fight or because of actions like this current Congress is trying to take (de-funding the war). Did the US military need to go in to Bosnia and help stop genocide? The short answer is, no. The long answer is yes, because, those people were deprived of their liberty. The Iraqi people for years were deprived of their liberty. We liberated Kuwait when Saddam Hussein deprived Kuwaitis of their liberty. A by-product of liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein is violence from terrorists. This violence must be stopped, contained, or destroyed before a withdrawal from Iraq can be considered.

I completely understand that the reason the US gave to the world was that Saddam Hussein was a madman with weapons of mass destruction. We definitely had 50% of that justification for war pegged. However, the hoards of WMDs have not turned up, yet. There have been batches of this and that chemical or biological agent found but the intelligence failure pre-OIF is now a widely accepted conclusion. However, WMDs are not the reason we are still in Iraq today. (continue reading post »)

Bottom Line Up Front: Joe Biden is guilty of treason. That’s the bottom line.

Yesterday on the floor of the Senate, Democrat Joe Biden from Delaware gave this inflammatory speech insulting the President and the mission in Iraq.

As an Army wife, I’m moved to not only a state of disbelief that this sort of damaging rhetoric could possibly be coming from the United States Senate rather than an al-Qaeda propaganda tape, but a deep sadness that the Democratic Party has become another enemy of this great nation.

This surpasses anything I’ve heard Harry Reid publicly say and I cannot recall any speech with more venom and recklessness towards America except coming from former al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Musab al-Zarqawi when he was threatening to cut off the heads of all infidels. Biden has become America’s infidel.

He referred to the surge, the reinforcement of troops as a “siege”. He couldn’t pronounce the name of the Iraqi Prime Minister. He embarrassed his position as Senator and as far as I’m concerned, he is not fit to serve in any capacity of public service.

Jesus said anyone who calls his brother a fool is in danger of hell fire, but Joe Biden is a fool. He is no brother, no friend of America, no friend of mine or my husband’s, or any of our military comrades. But King Solomon, one of the wisest men who ever lived, wrote “The wise inherit honor, but God holds fools up to shame.”

Fool.

Keep the “It’s time to support the troops” speech to yourself. You are the enemy of our troops, Senator Biden.

Make no mistake about it: this is a full throttled propaganda campaign by the Democrats that is as deceitful, as disgraceful and as dangerous as al-Qaeda’s

Cross-posted @: Bottom Line Up Front

I’m disappointed that ABC has dumped Tokyo Rosie.

I would have rather kept Rosie on The View IF ABC had hired a woman (or lesbian, tranny, hermaphrodite, etc.) WITH A BRAIN to expose Rosie and ridicule the female invertebrates who silently acquiesced to her profound retardation.

Couldn’t ABC find ONE real woman to laugh, ridicule, and insult Rosie and the other stupid women with charm, wit, and intellect – or does Barbara Walters’ contract prohibit anyone smarter than a box of Crayolas on the show?

So much for the mainscream media…

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Clark Baker is a senior contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org. He is an author, filmaker, father and retired LAPD officer. You may read more of his work here and here.

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Based on this AP article, I certainly can’t accuse this Democrat of being a pacifist. What I can do, though, is say that the AP sat on the article long enough:

A man accused of threatening a Nevada Republican Party official with a rifle was arrested Tuesday in a vehicle in which police found swords, knives, a shotgun, shells and a flare gun, authorities said. Matthew Hunter Kramer, 31, did not resist officers who arrested him on a warrant issued after the April 3 confrontation at state Republican Party offices in Las Vegas. It wasn’t clear why he was not arrested earlier.

Zachary Moyle, executive director of the state GOP, told The Associated Press on Tuesday that Kramer invited him to look at something in the trunk of his Mercedes before pulling out a rifle, pointing it at his face and warning that he would be back if President Bush vetoed an emergency war spending bill being considered by Congress.

The first thing I’d ask Kramer is if he’s related to Jim Webb. I’d doubt it since he’s willing to take responsibility for his actions but it’s worth asking. Another thing I’d ask him is why he’d be so upset that he’d shoot somebody if President Bush vetoes the emergency war supplemental. Would it be because he wants the troops to get the supplies they need? Somehow I doubt that but….

Kramer also removed photos of Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney from the wall of the office and threatened to harm staff members, Moyle said. Kramer left his cell phone number with office staff before leaving, police said.

This is one of the most bizarre articles I’ve ever read. Why would Mr. Kramer leave his cell phone number after he’d committed a variety of felonies?

Finally, why the AP first reported on this incident now when the crime was committed 3 weeks ago? Isn’t that just a bit odd?

Technorati Tags: Matthew Hunter Kramer, Democrats, James Webb, Gun Violence

Cross-posted at LetFreedomRingBlog

ABC’s Jake Tapper is reporting that Miss America Nancy Pelosi will miss Gen. Petraeus’ briefing on Iraq tomorrow:

ABC News has learned, however, that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., will not attend the briefing.

“She can’t make the briefing tomorrow,” a Democratic aide told ABC News Tuesday evening. “But she spoke with the general via phone today at some length.” A Pelosi aide said the speaker on Tuesday requested a one-on-one meeting with Petraeus but that could not be worked out. He said their phone conversation lasted 30 minutes.

Last week, House Democratic leaders were criticized by their Republican counterparts when they initially declined an invitation from Petraeus to brief House members on the status of the war due to “scheduling conflicts.”

What type of scheduling conflicts would prevent Ms. Pelosi from learning the truth about what’s happening in Iraq? Is it that she can’t miss her Botox treatment? Or is it that she’s making a surprise trip to Iran with Tom Lantos? Or is it that she simply doesn’t care about what’s happening with Iraq because she’s gotten her marching orders from Gen. George Soros?

Only her facelift technician knows for sure. (continue reading post »)

According to this article in the Politico, several Democrats are backing away from Harry Reid’s statement that we can’t win the war in Iraq. In fact, Jim Manley, Reid’s spokesman, is singing a different tune:

Jim Manley, Reid’s spokesman, said earlier that the “war is lost” comment was not in Reid’s prepared text for the news conference last Thursday. But from now on, Manley said, the senator will “couch it more”: The mission in Iraq is not working and must be changed.

I’ll guarantee that Reid sees the firestorm he created with his statement. Now he’s backpedaling in a major damage control effort. The Washington definition of a gaffe is saying what you really believe in an unguarded moment. If you go to that ‘dictionary’ for the definition of a ‘major gaffe’, the only thing you’ll find is a YouTube clip of Reid’s disparaging, anti-military statements. Now he’s getting ‘help’ from his Senate colleagues:

“I understand what he was trying to say,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), although she acknowledged that Reid’s comments had caused a political problem for Democrats. “I think it was more a problem of tone rather than of substance.”

DiFi, it isn’t a matter of tone. It’s purely a matter of substance. He said what he said and it’s obvious that he meant it. Let’s put that horrible statement in context. Let’s remember that he’s got to say what the Insane Left tells him to say if he hopes that they’ll keep funding Senate campaigns. Let’s also remember that Reid is the idiot that rejoiced at killing the Patriot Act: (continue reading post »)