Tonight’s response to the President’s State of the Union Address was given by newly elected Sen. Jim Webb of Virginia. Here’s some of the disingenuous things he said:

We are looking for affirmative solutions that will strengthen our nation by freeing us from our dependence on foreign oil, and spurring a wave of entrepreneurial growth in the form of alternate energy programs.

Oh really, Sen. Webb? Since when is taking ANWR part of a sane person’s plan to make America independent of foreign oil? What will America do in the short term until these alternative energy sources are available at a reasonable price? How does putting our biggest natural gas fields off limits make us less dependent on Hugo Chavez’s heating oil? It seems to me that the energy experts have already told us with their investments that these alternatives aren’t all they’re touted to be.

Also, how will Democratic obstruction of building new refineries help eliminate a 30 year bottleneck in the system? Why should Democrats take an ‘alternative energy only’ path to energy independence? By the way, will Sen. Webb write the legislation that makes it illegal for William Delahunt and the Kennedy family from making deals with terrorist sympathizing socialists like Hugo Chavez?

The majority of the nation no longer supports the way this war is being fought; nor does the majority of our military. We need a new direction. Not one step back from the war against international terrorism. Not a precipitous withdrawal that ignores the possibility of further chaos. But an immediate shift toward strong regionally-based diplomacy, a policy that takes our soldiers off the streets of Iraq’s cities, and a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq.

The kindest thing I can say about Sen. Webb is that he’s a bald-faced liar. How dare he say that the majority of our military doesn’t support this war anymore. If the military doesn’t support the war, why are soldiers re-enlisting in record numbers? Sen. Webb just lost his entire credibility by that irresponsible statement. He lost his credibility because he put a higher priority on cheap-shotting the President than on telling the American people the truth.

If Sen. Webb wants to negotiate with the Iranians and Syrians, he should say so directly. He shouldn’t tapdance around that position by saying that we should “shift toward strong regionally-based diplomacy”? Sen. Webb doesn’t say how we pursue “a formula that will in short order allow our combat forces to leave Iraq” without leaving Iraq in chaos. Does he expect the American people to think that we can leave “in short order” without it resulting in chaos?

As I look at Iraq, I recall the words of former general and soon-to-be President Dwight Eisenhower during the dark days of the Korean War, which had fallen into a bloody stalemate. “When comes the end?” asked the General who had commanded our forces in Europe during World War Two. And as soon as he became President, he brought the Korean War to an end.

This is such a phony paragraph because the parallels are nonexistent. President Eisenhower could end the Korean War without worrying about the North Koreans following us home. If President Bush pulled our troops out of Iraq, al Qa’ida would follow us here and kill us.

Tonight we are calling on this President to take similar action, in both areas. If he does, we will join him. If he does not, we will be showing him the way.

I pray that President Bush ignores this idiot. I pray that he tells Sen. Webb where to go. I wouldn’t accept any Democrat’s direction on Iraq other than Sen. Lieberman. Sen. Webb’s mind has been closed for so long on this that he couldn’t even set his hatred of President Bush aside for even the reception that Presidents have for newly elected senators. Even then, he tried showing up President Bush.

Simply put, Sen. Webb has BDS so bad that it’s likely incurable. Sen. Webb isn’t qualified to be a senator, much less to give the Democratic response to the SOTU.

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